Re: [Wikimedia-l] Partnership policy - Wikimédia France
Hi Anne-Laure, really grateful to read this document, I think that the direction is correct and it may be a good approach to the creation of a portfolio of services. Anyway any service is a combination of people, processes and tools. Some indications can be extracted from this document but a real good evolution could be to think about processes and tools behind these services and may be also about the profile of people that can take them in charge. Thank you for sharing On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Anne-Laure Prévost annelaure.prev...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi everyone, Wikimédia France has recently issued its partnership policy : you can find it on Meta both in French [1] and in English [2]. The objective of such a policy is to help communicate our vision of partnerships and share it with future partners and stakeholders. It includes our service offering (which is almost finalized) to clarify our scope of activity. If you have any questions/remarks or your own example of such a policy, please feel free to get in touch ! Regards, Anne-Laure [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Démarche_partenariale [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Démarche_partenariale/en *Anne-Laure Prévost* CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES / SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS *Tél +33 7 62 93 42 02 /* *+33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr http://www.wikimedia.fr/ * *40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris* http://osm.org/go/0BPIihnIn?node=691082430 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario Skype: valdelli Facebook: Ilario Valdelli https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli Twitter: Ilario Valdelli https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469 Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Partnership policy - Wikimédia France
Great inspiritional definitions and listing, Anne-Laure. Also it's good to see some facts which always thought to be self-evident and understood written down in such a well-structured form. Thanks for posting. Jens 2015-04-20 16:10 GMT+02:00 Anne-Laure Prévost annelaure.prev...@wikimedia.fr: Hi everyone, Wikimédia France has recently issued its partnership policy : you can find it on Meta both in French [1] and in English [2]. The objective of such a policy is to help communicate our vision of partnerships and share it with future partners and stakeholders. It includes our service offering (which is almost finalized) to clarify our scope of activity. If you have any questions/remarks or your own example of such a policy, please feel free to get in touch ! Regards, Anne-Laure [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Démarche_partenariale [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Démarche_partenariale/en *Anne-Laure Prévost* CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES / SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS *Tél +33 7 62 93 42 02 /* *+33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr http://www.wikimedia.fr/ * *40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris* http://osm.org/go/0BPIihnIn?node=691082430 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Partnership policy - Wikimédia France
Hi, Anne-Laure- This is a very thoughtful approach to a complicated and important problem. Congratulations on creating it, and thanks for sharing it. I look forward to hearing what you (and prospective partners!) learn from it in coming years. Luis On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Anne-Laure Prévost annelaure.prev...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi everyone, Wikimédia France has recently issued its partnership policy : you can find it on Meta both in French [1] and in English [2]. The objective of such a policy is to help communicate our vision of partnerships and share it with future partners and stakeholders. It includes our service offering (which is almost finalized) to clarify our scope of activity. If you have any questions/remarks or your own example of such a policy, please feel free to get in touch ! Regards, Anne-Laure [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Démarche_partenariale [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Démarche_partenariale/en *Anne-Laure Prévost* CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES / SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS *Tél +33 7 62 93 42 02 /* *+33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr http://www.wikimedia.fr/ * *40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris* http://osm.org/go/0BPIihnIn?node=691082430 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia store relaunch
Il 21/04/2015 23:13, Victoria Shchepakina ha scritto: Hello everyone, The Wikipedia store has been relaunched. We closed doors temporarily for a few months to redesign the website and also to introduce new items. Besides, we wanted to re-think our store structure and visual identity, as well as provide creative items made in partnership with socially responsible and mission aligned partners. So check us out https://store.wikimedia.org/! As a reminder, the store is engaged in giveaway programs rewarding volunteers, supporting editathons and engaging in hackathons and other community conferences. As usual, all sales support and reward contributors all over the world. The Wikipedia store looks forward to collaborating with the community, vendors, designers, artists, and people with similar visions to create meaningful merchandise for our community and readers. Soon you will see creative representations of Wikipedia and its sister projects originating from these collaborations. The vision for our merchandise is to motivate you and people around you to help spread knowledge via Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia volunteers are special. Without them, we would not exist. We can’t thank them enough - but we’re trying. That’s why we created the Merchandise Giveaway Program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_giveaways, amongst other giveaway projects. Through it, any Wikipedia user can nominate a Wikipedia contributor to receive a free gift in the mail. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_giveaways#Can_I_nominate_someone_from_the_X_language_Wikipedia_or_Y_Wikimedia_project_.3F Spread the word about the Wikipedia store https://store.wikimedia.org/ and please follow us @wikipediastore on Twitter https://twitter.com/Wikipediastore and on Instagram https://instagram.com/wikipediastore/! Thank you! Best, Victoria Shchepakina Fundraising Associate Wikimedia Foundation office +1 (415) 839 6885 vshchepak...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia store relaunch
Hello everyone, The Wikipedia store has been relaunched. We closed doors temporarily for a few months to redesign the website and also to introduce new items. Besides, we wanted to re-think our store structure and visual identity, as well as provide creative items made in partnership with socially responsible and mission aligned partners. So check us out https://store.wikimedia.org/! As a reminder, the store is engaged in giveaway programs rewarding volunteers, supporting editathons and engaging in hackathons and other community conferences. As usual, all sales support and reward contributors all over the world. The Wikipedia store looks forward to collaborating with the community, vendors, designers, artists, and people with similar visions to create meaningful merchandise for our community and readers. Soon you will see creative representations of Wikipedia and its sister projects originating from these collaborations. The vision for our merchandise is to motivate you and people around you to help spread knowledge via Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia volunteers are special. Without them, we would not exist. We can’t thank them enough - but we’re trying. That’s why we created the Merchandise Giveaway Program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_giveaways, amongst other giveaway projects. Through it, any Wikipedia user can nominate a Wikipedia contributor to receive a free gift in the mail. Spread the word about the Wikipedia store https://store.wikimedia.org/ and please follow us @wikipediastore on Twitter https://twitter.com/Wikipediastore and on Instagram https://instagram.com/wikipediastore/! Thank you! Best, Victoria Shchepakina Fundraising Associate Wikimedia Foundation office +1 (415) 839 6885 vshchepak...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] A new structure for WMF Engineering.
Dear Wikimedians, Today we had a meeting at the Foundation to announce changes in our Product and Engineering team structure. They represent the outcome of many conversations with people from across the Wikimedia community and within the Foundation. These changes will organize our teams around the needs of people they serve, and empower them to focus deeply on their audiences to deliver great outcomes. We’re bringing together our Product and Engineering departments to form new audience teams, reporting to Damon Sicore, our VP of Engineering. We’re grouping core research, architecture, performance, and security functions together, and will begin the search for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our engineering future. And we’re integrating support for Community Engineering into the broader Community Engagement team. These changes are effective today. Earlier this year we set out some goals for our work at the Foundation, described in our Call to Action https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#2015_Call_to_Action for 2015. These goals came out of conversations with you, and with Foundation staff. You’ll see that the first thing we identified was the need to improve our technology and execution. These goals focused on defining commitments, data-driven decision making, support for community engineering requests, and a commitment to engineering leadership. The new changes reflect these commitments. We have organized our product engineering around six teams each with unique audiences. This includes a Community Tech team dedicated to supporting tools for core contributors, as well as teams for Editing, Reading, Search Discovery, Infrastructure, and Fundraising Tech. In particular, I wanted to share more about the plans for the Community Tech team. The creation of this team is a direct response to community requests for more technical support. Their mission is to understand and support the technical needs of core contributors, including improved support for expert-focused curation and moderation tools, bots, and other features. Their mandate is to work closely with you, and the Community Engagement department, to define their roadmap and deliverables. We are hiring for a leader for this team, as well as additional engineers. We will be looking within our communities to help. Until then, it will be incubated under Toby Negrin, with support from Community Engagement. We’re also committed to our long-term technology future. A new CTO will support teams and functions dedicated to performance, architecture, security, privacy, structured data, user experience, and research. Their mandate is to keep Wikimedia fast, reliable, stable, and secure -- and to support the Engineering team in their development of excellent products and features. You may notice there is no standalone Product department. We are moving away from a matrix management structure. Instead, product managers, designers, analysts, engineers, and others working together will report to the same manager, who will report through to the VP of Engineering. This is because we believe that everyone is responsible for user experience and each team is ultimately responsible for delivering on the product vision and a roadmap. It also gives teams ability to make decisions that are best for their audiences, based on their user’s feedback. This represents a maturation of our organization and processes, and will give each new teams more focus, dedicated focus, and more support. I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard to bring this new structure together. Thank you to everyone in the community, for being thoughtful and honest with your needs, criticisms and encouragements. Thank you to our engineers, designers, researchers, and product managers, who have given us extensive feedback about what works best for you. Thank you to our new team managers and leads for stepping up into new roles. And thank you to Erik and Damon, who have worked closely for many months to make this happen. You can find more information about this new structure, the new teams, their missions, and leadership, as well as other questions in a FAQ on Metawiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Engineering_reorganization_FAQ. We will update the Wikimedia Foundation site Staff page soon to reflect these new teams. Lila ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: A new structure for WMF Engineering.
Dear Wikimedians, Today we had a meeting at the Foundation to announce changes in our Product and Engineering team structure. They represent the outcome of many conversations with people from across the Wikimedia community and within the Foundation. These changes will organize our teams around the needs of people they serve, and empower them to focus deeply on their audiences to deliver great outcomes. We’re bringing together our Product and Engineering departments to form new audience teams, reporting to Damon Sicore, our VP of Engineering. We’re grouping core research, architecture, performance, and security functions together, and will begin the search for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our engineering future. And we’re integrating support for Community Engineering into the broader Community Engagement team. These changes are effective today. Earlier this year we set out some goals for our work at the Foundation, described in our Call to Action https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#2015_Call_to_Action for 2015. These goals came out of conversations with you, and with Foundation staff. You’ll see that the first thing we identified was the need to improve our technology and execution. These goals focused on defining commitments, data-driven decision making, support for community engineering requests, and a commitment to engineering leadership. The new changes reflect these commitments. We have organized our product engineering around six teams each with unique audiences. This includes a Community Tech team dedicated to supporting tools for core contributors, as well as teams for Editing, Reading, Search Discovery, Infrastructure, and Fundraising Tech. In particular, I wanted to share more about the plans for the Community Tech team. The creation of this team is a direct response to community requests for more technical support. Their mission is to understand and support the technical needs of core contributors, including improved support for expert-focused curation and moderation tools, bots, and other features. Their mandate is to work closely with you, and the Community Engagement department, to define their roadmap and deliverables. We are hiring for a leader for this team, as well as additional engineers. We will be looking within our communities to help. Until then, it will be incubated under Toby Negrin, with support from Community Engagement. We’re also committed to our long-term technology future. A new CTO will support teams and functions dedicated to performance, architecture, security, privacy, structured data, user experience, and research. Their mandate is to keep Wikimedia fast, reliable, stable, and secure -- and to support the Engineering team in their development of excellent products and features. You may notice there is no standalone Product department. We are moving away from a matrix management structure. Instead, product managers, designers, analysts, engineers, and others working together will report to the same manager, who will report through to the VP of Engineering. This is because we believe that everyone is responsible for user experience and each team is ultimately responsible for delivering on the product vision and a roadmap. It also gives teams ability to make decisions that are best for their audiences, based on their user’s feedback. This represents a maturation of our organization and processes, and will give each new teams more focus, dedicated focus, and more support. I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard to bring this new structure together. Thank you to everyone in the community, for being thoughtful and honest with your needs, criticisms and encouragements. Thank you to our engineers, designers, researchers, and product managers, who have given us extensive feedback about what works best for you. Thank you to our new team managers and leads for stepping up into new roles. And thank you to Erik and Damon, who have worked closely for many months to make this happen. You can find more information about this new structure, the new teams, their missions, and leadership, as well as other questions in a FAQ on Metawiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Engineering_reorganization_FAQ. We will update the Wikimedia Foundation site Staff page soon to reflect these new teams. Lila ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: A new structure for WMF Engineering.
In particular, I wanted to share more about the plans for the Community Tech team. The creation of this team is a direct response to community requests for more technical support. Their mission is to understand and support the technical needs of core contributors, including improved support for expert-focused curation and moderation tools, bots, and other features. Their mandate is to work closely with you, and the Community Engagement department, to define their roadmap and deliverables. We are hiring for a leader for this team, as well as additional engineers. We will be looking within our communities to help. Until then, it will be incubated under Toby Negrin, with support from Community Engagement. I look forward to seeing how this works out. I sometimes worry that it seems like over the years that developers have become more and more separate from the community. Our community is our heart; It is why we are all here. Having teams dedicated to working closely with our communities sounds like an excellent idea. -- bawolff ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
