[Wikimedia-l] Voting open for Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

2015-05-17 Thread Gregory Varnum
Greetings,

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the
candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing
authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many
diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

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The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31.

To vote:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339

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On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Quarterly Report, January-March 2015

2015-05-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi,
I love the report, it is a good read.. I actually did grin

What I miss in the report is reporting on Wikidata. I understand that it is
the German Wikimedia chapter responsible for the development of Wikidata
but it does impact the whole of Wikimedia. At the same time, work done at
WMF impacts Wikidata. Two examples; the wikidatification of Commons, the
query engine for Wikidata.
Thanks,
  GerardM

On 16 May 2015 at 02:01, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi all,

 please find the Wikimedia Foundation's report for the third quarter of
 the fiscal year at

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quarterly_Report,_FY_2014-15_Q3_(January-March).pdf
 .

 Quoting below the foreword by Terry.

 ---
 We are please to bring you the WMF Quarterly Report for Q3 of 2014/15.
 This is the second report since switching from a monthly cycle, to
 align with our quarterly goal setting process, and contains several
 changes that focus more on results and achievements.

 One major change is that goals are counted as either a success (green)
 or a miss (red). This report is now a comprehensive overview of all
 the Q3 objectives rather than a subset of the quarters goals, as we
 delivered in the Q2 report. In a mature 90 day goal setting process
 the “sweet spot” is for about 75% of goals to be a success.
 Organizations that are meeting 100% of their goals are not typically
 setting aggressive goals.

 We have also been able to reduce the amount of time and effort that
 goes into producing the report by flowing information straight through
 from the Quarterly Review Meetings.

 In the report you will also find a couple of new pieces of data. The
 overview slide shows the status of all 130 goals from Q3 on a single
 page, broken down by organization. Additionally we have been able to
 include site speed metrics as part of our overall report card.

 Terry Gilbey, Chief Operating Officer

 --
 Tilman Bayer
 Senior Analyst
 Wikimedia Foundation
 IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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