Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Audit Committee observers

[Risker]

Hmm. Ironically, it is standard for even non-member charities and
non-profits in much of the world to have fully-voting members of the Audit
Committee who are not members of the Board of Trustees/Directors.  It is
unfortunate that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has not yet
come around to this idea.  The Audit Committee would be the ideal place to
start, as there are never that many Trustees who are fully conversant with
the responsibilities of auditing.  It is an opportunity lost.

Nonetheless, I hope that well-qualified individuals will agree to put
themselves forward for this oversight role.

Risker/Anne

On 4 April 2016 at 16:54, Greg Varnum  wrote:

> Forward on behalf of Kelly Battles.
>
>
>
> Hello All -
>
> My name is Kelly Bodnar Battles and I am honored to have joined the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in January of this year.
>
> Professionally, I am a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and a material part
> of my near term Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board responsibilities will be
> to chair the Audit Committee.  Currently, the voting members of the Audit
> Committee are myself, Alice Wiegand, María Sefidari and Denny Vrandečić.
> WMF’s CFO and Treasurer Jaime Villagomez is also an important stakeholder
> on this committee as well.
>
> As you may know, we have the precedent of having non-voting members
> (please see role definition below) from outside the board participate in
> the Audit Committee as well.  Toward that end, I would like to:
>
> -  First and foremost, thank Matt Bisanz, Michael Snow, Abhijith
> Jayanthi, Ben Creasy and Florian Gerl for participating in this committee
> as non-voting members in the recent past.
>
> -  Request that if you are interested (or know of other volunteers in
> the community who may be interested) in serving in this capacity for this
> next cycle (from selection through June 2017), please send to me at this
> email address (kbatt...@wikimedia.org )
> your resume, the top 3 reasons why you want to do this and the top 3 things
> you will add to the Audit Committee.
>
> -  Propose the following steps and timeline for the selection process:
> -  Candidates submit their interest and the above information to
> me no later than April 15
> -  The Audit Committee will interview top 4 candidates by May 10
> -  The Audit Committee will select the top 2 candidate by May 15
> -  Selected candidates join the Audit committee by June 1 and
> attend July Audit Committee meeting
>
> -  Outline the following important preferences for candidates
> interested in this role:
> -  5+ years of operational finance and or accounting experience
> -  Solid understanding of the mission and operations of WMF
> -  Prior executive or board experience
> -  CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or MBA (Masters in Business
> Administration), or equivalent earned
> -  Capacity to commit an estimated 20-30 hours annually to attend
> both quarterly and other ad-hoc meetings, prepare or review required
> materials, and interact with committee, staff and/or board as required.
>
> Once again, I am thrilled to be part of this amazing organization.  Thank
> you for the warm welcome I have received so far.
>
> Best,
> Kelly
>
> See link for Audit Committee charter
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter <
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter>
> This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/2016_call_for_Audit_Committee_observers
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/2016_call_for_Audit_Committee_observers
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Audit Committee observers

[Pine W]

Thanks Greg.

Kelly, I'm wondering if you can comment on the role of this committee
outside of audit-related tasks. My understanding is that this committee
also functions as a general-purpose finance and budget committee for the
WMF Board.

Thanks,
Pine
On Apr 4, 2016 13:54, "Greg Varnum"  wrote:

> Forward on behalf of Kelly Battles.
>
>
>
> Hello All -
>
> My name is Kelly Bodnar Battles and I am honored to have joined the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in January of this year.
>
> Professionally, I am a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and a material part
> of my near term Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board responsibilities will be
> to chair the Audit Committee.  Currently, the voting members of the Audit
> Committee are myself, Alice Wiegand, María Sefidari and Denny Vrandečić.
> WMF’s CFO and Treasurer Jaime Villagomez is also an important stakeholder
> on this committee as well.
>
> As you may know, we have the precedent of having non-voting members
> (please see role definition below) from outside the board participate in
> the Audit Committee as well.  Toward that end, I would like to:
>
> -  First and foremost, thank Matt Bisanz, Michael Snow, Abhijith
> Jayanthi, Ben Creasy and Florian Gerl for participating in this committee
> as non-voting members in the recent past.
>
> -  Request that if you are interested (or know of other volunteers in
> the community who may be interested) in serving in this capacity for this
> next cycle (from selection through June 2017), please send to me at this
> email address (kbatt...@wikimedia.org )
> your resume, the top 3 reasons why you want to do this and the top 3 things
> you will add to the Audit Committee.
>
> -  Propose the following steps and timeline for the selection process:
> -  Candidates submit their interest and the above information to
> me no later than April 15
> -  The Audit Committee will interview top 4 candidates by May 10
> -  The Audit Committee will select the top 2 candidate by May 15
> -  Selected candidates join the Audit committee by June 1 and
> attend July Audit Committee meeting
>
> -  Outline the following important preferences for candidates
> interested in this role:
> -  5+ years of operational finance and or accounting experience
> -  Solid understanding of the mission and operations of WMF
> -  Prior executive or board experience
> -  CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or MBA (Masters in Business
> Administration), or equivalent earned
> -  Capacity to commit an estimated 20-30 hours annually to attend
> both quarterly and other ad-hoc meetings, prepare or review required
> materials, and interact with committee, staff and/or board as required.
>
> Once again, I am thrilled to be part of this amazing organization.  Thank
> you for the warm welcome I have received so far.
>
> Best,
> Kelly
>
> See link for Audit Committee charter
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter <
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter>
> This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/2016_call_for_Audit_Committee_observers
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/2016_call_for_Audit_Committee_observers
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Audit Committee observers

[Greg Varnum]

Forward on behalf of Kelly Battles.



Hello All -
 
My name is Kelly Bodnar Battles and I am honored to have joined the Wikimedia 
Foundation Board of Trustees in January of this year.
 
Professionally, I am a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and a material part of my 
near term Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board responsibilities will be to chair 
the Audit Committee.  Currently, the voting members of the Audit Committee are 
myself, Alice Wiegand, María Sefidari and Denny Vrandečić.  WMF’s CFO and 
Treasurer Jaime Villagomez is also an important stakeholder on this committee 
as well.
 
As you may know, we have the precedent of having non-voting members (please see 
role definition below) from outside the board participate in the Audit 
Committee as well.  Toward that end, I would like to:

-  First and foremost, thank Matt Bisanz, Michael Snow, Abhijith Jayanthi, 
Ben Creasy and Florian Gerl for participating in this committee as non-voting 
members in the recent past.

-  Request that if you are interested (or know of other volunteers in the 
community who may be interested) in serving in this capacity for this next 
cycle (from selection through June 2017), please send to me at this email 
address (kbatt...@wikimedia.org ) your resume, 
the top 3 reasons why you want to do this and the top 3 things you will add to 
the Audit Committee.

-  Propose the following steps and timeline for the selection process:
-  Candidates submit their interest and the above information to me no 
later than April 15
-  The Audit Committee will interview top 4 candidates by May 10
-  The Audit Committee will select the top 2 candidate by May 15
-  Selected candidates join the Audit committee by June 1 and attend 
July Audit Committee meeting

-  Outline the following important preferences for candidates interested in 
this role:
-  5+ years of operational finance and or accounting experience
-  Solid understanding of the mission and operations of WMF
-  Prior executive or board experience
-  CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or MBA (Masters in Business 
Administration), or equivalent earned
-  Capacity to commit an estimated 20-30 hours annually to attend both 
quarterly and other ad-hoc meetings, prepare or review required materials, and 
interact with committee, staff and/or board as required.
 
Once again, I am thrilled to be part of this amazing organization.  Thank you 
for the warm welcome I have received so far.
 
Best,
Kelly
 
See link for Audit Committee charter
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter 

This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki:
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

[Emeric Vallespi]

Hello Wikimedians,

The French WikiMOOC is now over. And we had more than 6,000 registered users!
We are very happy and delighted with the results, not only by the number of 
registered users but also because 36% of participants are women, and 19% live 
in Africa. More than 1,000 accounts were created and around 300 articles.

The main goals of this MOOC was to have a scalable solution, to increase public 
awareness and improve the diversity of contributors. We believe that we've 
achieved these goals, and we believe it will be far easier with the next 
versions as the frame and the contents are already here and the team knows how 
to improve it.

I can't write this email without sending huge thanks to the contributors and 
volunteers who had the inspiration with this great idea, then designed and 
facilitated it, to the Wikimédia France's staff members who made it happens and 
especially to Jules Xénard (User:Jules78120) who asked the help of our chapter, 
led and coordinated it from the early stage to the end. [1]

Also, thanks to them, we are able to provide some resources about why and how 
to do a WikiMOOC. Hoping it might be useful if other affiliates want to try, it 
will for our next release, if we have enough time resources to do it again:

- The presentation and results in English on the Wikipedia project page : 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Aide_et_accueil/WikiMOOC/Présentation/en 
(en)
- A Learning Patterns: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Wiki_MOOC (en)
- The Wikipedia project page which hosts the whole documentation : 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Aide_et_accueil/WikiMOOC (fr)

[1] : Credits -> 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Crédits_WikiMOOC.pdf

Thank you, to all of you who have supported us in this program!
Warmly,
--
Emeric Vallespi
Vice President

Wikimédia France
www.wikimedia.fr | Twitter: @Wikimedia_Fr

emeric.valle...@wikimedia.fr | Twitter: @evallespi

> On 17 Feb 2016, at 20:43, Sydney Poore  wrote:
> 
> That great to hear!
> 
> Thanks for the update. Looking forward to hearing more as the course
> progresses.
> 
> Sydney
> 
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
> Wikipedian in Residence
> at Cochrane Collaboration
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Christophe Henner <
> christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> A quick update on this project, we've just crossed the 5 000 registered
>> students.
>> 
>> We'll see how much will complete the course, but so far we're really happy
>> with this number :)
>> 
>> Of course we'll share more insights once this program is over.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> --
>> Christophe
>> 
>> On 14 December 2015 at 19:17, Emeric Vallespi 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Rodrigo,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your support.
>>> Indeed, it is a course to understand and learn how to contribute to
>>> Wikipedia.
>>> That's why the Wikipedia community is involved.
>>> 
>>> The Mooc platform ("FUN") seemed more adapted to conduct the course,
>>> manage inscriptions, release the different stages and support the
>> learners.
>>> 
>>> The content is free licensed (as far as I know) and the Mooc platform
>>> allows to release the content even after the session.
>>> 
>>> You can reach out to Jules (jules.xenard AT wikimedia.fr) if you have
>> any
>>> further questions.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Emeric
>>> 
> On 14 Dec 2015, at 18:31, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton <
 rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 Sorry, but this a course, right? So Why did you not interact with
 Wikibooks, and Wikiversity?
 
 On 14 December 2015 at 14:02, Berard Myriam <
>> myriam.ber...@wikimedia.fr>
 wrote:
 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> For a few months now, 15 French-speaking Wikipedia editors, supported
>> by
> Wikimédia France, have been working to design a Massive Online Open
>>> Course,
> to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and discover more about the
>> way
>>> it
> works.
> 
> The WikiMOOC lasts for 5 weeks (with 2,5h of work/ week, including the
> duration of the courses). You can check out the project page on
>>> Wikipedia
> [1].
> 
> The registration for this WikiMOOC opens today, on the FUN [2]
>> platform
> (powered by the Ministry of Education and Research, in France) !
> 
> The courses will start on February 22nd, 2016.
> 
> Do not hesitate to share this information to all French-speaking
> communities you might know of. Please, note that it is possible to
>> stay
> tuned via WikiMOOC's Twitter[3] and Facebook[4] accounts.
> 
> Here is a short trailer about the WikiMOOC in French :) Enjoy ! [5]
> 
> Please, feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions,
> 
> 
> Jules Xénard jules.xen...@wikimedia.fr
> 
> Wikimédia France
> 
> [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:WikiMOOC
> 
> [2]
>>