[Wikimedia-l] Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard

[Will Kent]

Hi everyone,

I'm thrilled to announce that Wikidata metrics are now easily viewable on
the Dashboard.

Here's a short blogpost the details the hard work that went into this
project:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/04/07/more-wikidata-metrics-on-the-dashboard/
We owe a special thank you to our Outreachy intern, Ivana
Novaković-Leković, who worked on the Dashboard code to make this possible.

You can see it in action here:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Yale_University/Dura-Europos_WD_edit-a-thon

Thanks!

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Will Kent (he/him/his)
Wikidata Program Manager
WikiEducation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Next Conversation with the Trustees 21 April

[Elena Lappen]

Hi everyone,

We’re one week away! The agenda for this Conversation will be:

2022 Board Elections: new elections process, changes to plans to expand the 
Board
Universal Code of Conduct Draft Enforcement Guidelines: next steps
The Foundation’s Annual Plan: we’ll host a live discussion where you can help 
shape the Plan

Register, submit questions, or request interpretation by emailing 
ask...@wikimedia.org. More information on Meta 
.

See you there,
Elena

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Elena Lappen (she/her)
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Wikimedia Foundation 



> On Mar 30, 2022, at 6:54 AM, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I’m writing as Acting Chair of the Community Affairs Committee to invite you 
> to our next Conversation with the Trustees, which will take place on 21 April 
> at 10:00 UTC . This is a chance 
> for you to speak directly with members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of 
> Trustees about our work guiding the Wikimedia Foundation’s activities.
> 
> We welcome you to join us on Zoom. Request the Zoom link by emailing 
> ask...@wikimedia.org , or stream live on YouTube 
>  instead. You can also email 
> ask...@wikimedia.org  to submit questions ahead 
> of time or request language interpretation for the call. 
> 
> Agenda items include the Foundation’s Annual Plan and how the community can 
> participate in shaping it. More agenda items will be added on the event Meta 
> page 
> 
>  closer to the date.
> 
> Hope to see you there!
> 
> Rosie
> 
> 
> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)
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> Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation  
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Three Month Update & Wikimedia Foundation Draft Annual Plan

[Sage Ross]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 6:48 AM Maryana Iskander
 wrote:
>
> Hiring the right talent at this level is both art and science. So far, we 
> have sourced hundreds of candidates in a global search spanning the world, 
> although it will remain a rolling process until we find the right leader. I 
> hope to share more soon.
>

I note that the CTO job listing on greenhouse.io has been taken
down... eagerly waiting to learn more, because I agree that this is an
extremely important role for the movement right now.


Sage Ross
User:Ragesoss / User:Sage (Wiki Ed)
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join #WikiFrHumanrights Launch Webinar_ April 14

[Ruby Damenshie-Brown]

The wait is over!!!🤩

The  Multilingual Launch Webinar for #WikiForHumanRights* is live **NOW!*

*Register to join the meeting- https://bit.ly/36FIJIJ
  *

Read more about the event on diff- https://bit.ly/3NCTv3b

All are cordially invited!

Cheers,
Ruby

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:52 PM Ruby Damenshie-Brown <
rdamenshiebrown-...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The wait is over!!!🤩
>
> The  Multilingual Launch Webinar for #WikiForHumanRights is happening live
> tomorrow 14th April 2022 14:00UTC via zoom.
>
> Don’t forget to register- https://bit.ly/36FIJIJ
>
> Read more about the event on diff- https://bit.ly/3NCTv3b
>
> All are cordially invited!
>
> Cheers,
> Ruby
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[Wikimedia-l] Three Month Update & Wikimedia Foundation Draft Annual Plan

[Maryana Iskander]

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Hi everyone,

It’s my third time writing to you in this format. My first note was on
September 14 last year when my appointment was announced [1], then on
January 14 when I shared what I heard from many of you on the listening
tour [2], and now on April 14 to reflect on my first three months as CEO of
the Wikimedia Foundation. I am home in South Africa after a few months in
the United States, where the highlight of joining Wikimedia has been
bringing colleagues together – volunteers, editors, affiliates, Foundation
staff, board members – to reconnect at a human level. I sense that
gathering in person again, where it is safe and practical to do so, may
help us all build and rebuild relationships.

Reinforcing connections to each other, and to the world beyond us, is some
of what I reflected on in my “Puzzles and Priorities” letter, which
followed from conversations with hundreds of Wikimedians. [2]  Three months
later, I wanted to share some of the progress we’ve started to make on the
priorities.

Priority 1: Foundation’s Annual Plan

My top priority was reimagining the way we approached planning at the
Wikimedia Foundation. Since January, we have done the following:

   -

   We started by asking what the world needs from us now - a question I
   heard from many of you last year.  One starting point for this year’s
   planning was to look at some (not all) of the key trends shaping the world
   around us: from the rise of government regulation to the increased threats
   of misinformation and disinformation, the changing nature of search, and
   growing global demands for content. We hosted a staff conversation in
   January and
   
asked
   communities for their additional insights. [3]
   -

   We then tried to answer – in two ways – the question of how the
   Foundation’s current resources were being allocated now: (1) an
   organizational overview looking at how the Foundation collectively supports
   Wikimedia projects, regions, language communities and audiences; and (2)
   department overviews to help our staff understand all of the current work.
   These processes have gone through 2-3 iterations since January based on
   suggestions for further improvement from our teams.
   -

   We also provided guidance on slower budget growth. The Wikimedia
   Foundation has grown very rapidly over the past 3 years – increasing its
   budget by more than 30% in the past year with the addition of more than 200
   new people since 2020. [4] This will not continue as we stabilize this
   expansion and make sure that new resources are delivering maximum impact
   for our mission. We anticipate a 17% increase in our 2022−2023 budget, most
   of this representing inflationary and other year-on-year costs. Funding to
   other movement entities (individual and affiliate) will increase for next
   year by at least the same 17% percent, if not more. Because the vast
   majority of the Foundation’s own budget is allocated to staffing costs, our
   most important resource decisions are about the time and performance of our
   people and teams.
   -

   We spent time reflecting on the strategic direction that should guide
   our annual planning. The Wikimedia Foundation’s recent annual plans have
   identified important high-level goals and medium-term objectives
   .
   [5] Historically, it has not always been clear how these related to the
   movement strategy, a multi-year process to provide clarity of direction to
   2030. We have adopted the strategic direction of our Movement Strategy
   

   [6] to guide this annual plan and our organizational objectives – to
   clarify how “knowledge as a service” and “knowledge equity” can guide the
   implementation of current and future work at the Foundation.
   -

   Finally, the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan has often been presented
   as primarily one-way information sharing. As we more explicitly focus on
   movement strategy through this annual plan, we aspire to more deliberate
   two-way planning by asking what others who share similar goals are also
   doing. For those who are interested in trying this with us, we hope that
   more deliberate two-way planning can help better visualize the collective
   needs, efforts, and opportunities 

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WikiAfrica Hour episode 12

[Ceslause Ogbonnaya]

Dear Wikimedians,

I write to invite you all to WikiAfrica Hour episode 12, where we shall be
engaging our special guest, Maryana Iskander, CEO of Wikimedia Foundation.

It's been four months into her Wikimedia Foundation CEO job, what has
Maryana Iskander been up to? What's she currently working on? What plans
does she have for the movement? Come find out on WikiAfrica Hour episode
12.

*Date:22nd April 2022. Time: 4pm UTC. *

*You can drop questions for her on the "Questions" page of WikiAfrica Hour
Meta page*. Details:https://w.wiki/3E6L

Best regards,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya
*WikiAfrica Hour Host*
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