Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update regarding WMF's reporting practices
Hi Erik, Many factors of this redesign of reporting make sense to me. However I'd like to ask that some useful info from the monthly reports continue on a monthly basis if possible because their timeliness is valuable. Here are some topics that come to my mind for a possible lighter-weight monthly report, and other people may have their own topics to add: *HR arrivals/departures *C-level and D-level staff changes *Financial spend YTD vs. plan *Fundraising totals YTD vs. plan *Official office visitiors *Pageviews, with breakout for mobile *Active editors *Unique viewers (with breakout by method of estimation such as Comscore vs. internal, and whether mobiles are included) *New accounts created *New active editors *File uploads to Commons *Wikipedia new articles created *DCMA requests and other takedown, censorship, or defense of contributors actions *Litigation status updates *Significant security or reliability problems and responses, such as with Heartbleed *Major infrastructure commissionings or decommissionings such as with data centers *Major feature rollouts or rollbacks *Major stories for Comms *Grantmaking FDC announcements *Creation or revocation of chapters *New projects commissioned such as Wikivoyage I believe that I learned through a monthly report some time ago that a surprisingly large percentage of fundraising revenue was being lost to bank fees, and I asked if this could be addressed, which it was. This kind of benefit from report analysis may be more difficult to achieve in a timely manner with quarterly reports. However, I hope that it will be possible to design lighter-weight monthly reports about the subjects above where timeliness is valuable, and create well-designed and thorough quarterly reports as you described that facilitate deep dives into data and team quarterly reviews, especially around strategic priorities. Thanks, Pine On Nov 5, 2014 10:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all -- Starting this month, WMF will be shifting its organization-wide reports from a monthly to a quarterly cadence. This reflects our growth as an organization, and is intended to make important developments more visible internally and externally. == Background == Shortly after Sue became WMF’s Executive Director, she started giving updates to the Board of Trustees about her work. These reports were compiled for accountability purposes, and not without some trepidation, Sue started sharing them publicly in January 2008. [1] The reports have grown in scope and depth alongside the organization. Where we think we can do better is in the following areas: - We've not defined the threshold for report-worthy work clearly enough, so work that represents a few person hours’ effort could get more space than a whole team’s work over the course of the quarter; - We've not consistently mapped reporting against organizational priorities; - We’re not presenting a strategic view on what we’re learning, where we’re changing direction and why; - We’re not helping users of the reports consistently discover quarterly review minutes, slides and other materials related to a specific area, in part due to the reports not being aligned with the quarterly rhythm. In addition, given the dependency on an increasing multitude of inputs (from across an organization that had fewer than 20 staff when these monthly reports were launched, and now has more than 200), the reports have increasingly gotten backlogged, to the point that we’re just now releasing the August report. At the same time, under Lila the organization has shifted into a recognizable quarterly rhythm. Priorities are defined quarterly, and reviews are being introduced following the end of each quarter for all significantly staffed projects. == A New Reporting Process == It’s come time for us to revisit the model we use for reporting, to clearly define the purpose/audience for these report, and to iterate on the monthly format. Purpose: The purpose of this report is accountability and learning within the movement. The report is not a storytelling tool. Any evaluation will be done with these objectives in mind. Audience: Its audience is chiefly internal, including community members, WMF staff, and interested donors/funders. Format: Effective immediately, we are shifting to a quarterly reporting format. This will impact our reporting, and the October through December reporting period, in the following ways: - Instead of three monthly reports for October, November, and December, we will publish our first quarterly report in February 2015. - We are reviewing the key organization-wide metrics and will improve the selection and presentation of numbers at the top level of the quarterly report. - We will closely align quarterly reports with quarterly reviews, and re-use high level findings from the quarterly reviews, while referring to the slide decks and minutes from the reviews for
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
2014-11-06 4:09 GMT+01:00 Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com: I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader, and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference experts and journals. The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak with librarians and journal publishers. It would be nice if the Wikipedia Library encouraged, or perhaps even required, that everytime a citation is added from a source behind a paywall, the Open Access button should be used to report it. /Jan ___ 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] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
It would be nice if the Wikipedia Library encouraged, or perhaps even required, that everytime a citation is added from a source behind a paywall, the Open Access button should be used to report it. I would love to see this happen. While that button is not mentioned here, the coordinators of the Signalling open access project are supporters of the button and if the Wikipedia community had more presence in the open access movement then promoting the button and perhaps even automating its use would be a next step I would like to see happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness /Jan ___ 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 -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 l...@bluerasberry.com ___ 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] Invitation to WMF October 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, November 6, 19:00 UTC
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. The current structure of the meeting is: * Welcoming recent hires * Update and QA with the Executive Director, if available * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also specialized reports and analytic * Review of financials * Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority initiatives Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further information about how to participate. We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you, Praveena -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Product Strategy and the VP of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.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] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 43 -- 05 November 2014
In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-05/In_the_media Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-05/Traffic_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-05 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ 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: 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] [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. We will be taking questions and also discussing about the availability of the new version of the Content Translation tool[1][2] and upcoming plans. Please see below for event details and local time Thank you. Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/03/announcing-the-second-version-of-the-content-translation-tool/ Monthly IRC Office Hour: == # Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates and plans 2. Q A (Questions can be sent to me before the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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 stewards and What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together
I've had a number of discussions with our stewards over the years. Many of them are dedicated, polite, clever, and highly sophisticated in the ways of the Wiki. They get no pay and little glory for their delicate work, and we often take their availability for granted. The title of this article [1], The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia: What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together overstates the stewards' influence a bit, but I enjoyed reading the article and think that other Wikimedians might also. To our stewards: thank you. Pine [1] https://medium.com/matter/the-36-people-who-run-wikipedia-21ecca70bcca ___ 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
