Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

[Fæ]

On 25 September 2015 at 08:52, Fæ  wrote:
...
> Thanks for your commitment to get this up to date.

For anyone following the transparent and open publication of the
allocation and rationales for necessary WMF staff project account
rights (i.e. not community managed), the wiki table on meta was
updated this week, see [1] and the recent changes at [2].

Links
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Advanced_Permissions
2. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_Advanced_Permissions=revision=14021568=13957537

P.S. As Revent highlighted, the spreadsheet should say "Role" rather
than "Roll". :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

[Liam Wyatt]

On 9 October 2015 at 22:58, Megan Hernandez 
wrote:

> All of these community suggestions remain in the banner. Another sentence
> that was briefly tested on a small percentage of users about a year ago
> that received negative community feedback was “If everyone reading this
> gave $3, we could keep it online and ad-free another year.” We did not end
> up using that sentence for the campaign and we commit to not using it in
> any future campaign. In the next quarter, we are planning many more message
> tests -- with both brand new ideas as well as smaller tweaks to the
> existing text. If you have an idea to test, please share on the 2015-16
> test ideas page
> .
> Thanks again to everyone who has shared ideas so far.
>

For what it's worth, as the person who's made by far the most edits to that
page and as one of the people responsible for some of that 'negative
community feedback', I'd like to say thanks to the fundraising team for
being very responsive to all the feedback that has been given. This is
doubly so because the fundraising department doesn't have a dedicated
'community liaison' staff role, meaning that the responsibility for
reading, triaging, enacting those suggestions is spread across the team.
Not all of the suggestions have been put in place, some have - as mentioned
in Megan's email, but they have all been responded to in good faith. So...
thanks :-)

-Liam

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

[Gnangarra]

Pete

We realise what the foundation was thinking in its response, I wasnt
looking to be negative about the  reasonings rather just pointing out that
the community has already gone the path of a National event, and we'll be
doing so again.

The problem isnt just the connections within our community they always need
improving, the issue we face is that our community is physically isolated
from the rest of the global community as well that is as critical for its
future development as anything. Wikimanias are still the best way to share
information across the whole of the community every project that I have run
here in Australia has been as a result of the information I learnt while
attending Wikimanias, I must say that I learnt alot thanks to WMUK when I
was in London for the Wikimania both practical and how important the
personal connections we make within the community are.

Having experienced that I want to get that same opportunity to Australia
given how few of our contributors get the chance to attend them even more
so given that no one from Australia was given the opportunity to connect in
Mexico where this decision was taken is even more distasteful.

On 10 October 2015 at 09:06, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by "knocked back," Gnangarra, but the WMF
> response to that grant proposal looks thoughtful and aimed at finding a
> viable solution at some point in the future.
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015#WMF_comments
>
> Andy Mabbett, your perspective is a valuable one. I agree that Wikimania in
> its existing form may not be of central importance to the movement, and I
> do think that treating it as such has the potential to unnecessarily
> elevate the emotional pitch of some of these discussions.
>
> -Pete
> [[User:Peteforsyth]]
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:
>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana?
> > > ​​
> > >
> > >
> >
> > ​We tried that
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015
> > a​nd
> > was knocked back for the funding needed to make it happen.
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

[Gnangarra]

>
>
>
> Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana?
> ​​
>
>

​We tried that
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015
a​nd
was knocked back for the funding needed to make it happen.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

[Pete Forsyth]

I'm not sure what you mean by "knocked back," Gnangarra, but the WMF
response to that grant proposal looks thoughtful and aimed at finding a
viable solution at some point in the future.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015#WMF_comments

Andy Mabbett, your perspective is a valuable one. I agree that Wikimania in
its existing form may not be of central importance to the movement, and I
do think that treating it as such has the potential to unnecessarily
elevate the emotional pitch of some of these discussions.

-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:

> >
> >
> >
> > Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana?
> > ​​
> >
> >
>
> ​We tried that
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_AU/Wikiconference_Australia_2015
> a​nd
> was knocked back for the funding needed to make it happen.
>
>
> >
> > --
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> >
> > Andy Mabbett
> > @pigsonthewing
> > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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[Wikimedia-l] WMF as an advertiser

[Theo10011]

Hi

I started writing some common thoughts on WMF fundraising, particularly the
whole notion of advertising. I've always thought of evaluating WMF as just
another advertiser that uses banners. I started this essay on Meta[1].

We certainly claim to be free from advertisement. How about we consider for
a moment that WMF is our biggest client - utilizing banners on every
project in any country, at any time, for as long as it wants -
hypotheticals mostly ;). What standards would we hold ourselves up to? The
truth, verifiability and neutrality of Wikipedia, or standards spurious
enough to be brought in front of a judge for false and misleading
advertisement.

Sponsors and advertisers, even agencies, do hold themselves up to certain
standards in terms of their messaging. There are boundaries and legalities
that ad campaigns tend to blur but they are open to be challenged in a
court. What about those standards for our banners - Do we lie, mislead, do
we make emotionally manipulative asks and form narratives that are really
not connected with what we do. From establishing urgency through "urgent
appeal from our founder", to stating that the funds are "needed" to keep
wikipedia online, to all those fuzzy, warm donor stories from India and the
developing world. In fact, there is a trend to use narratives from the east
and developing countries, to make a personal ask accompanying pictures -
making it all emotionally impactful. (If you look at fundraising by region
- India, South Africa, make up around 5-10% of the revenues. So basically,
it is about selling emotional narratives from developing countries to more
affluent countries.)

How about we compare ourselves to the leaders of banner based ads. The
spammers of the world, those peddling porn, viagra and gambling sites would
be the king of banner clickthroughs, no? The biggest experts at banner
design, placement and messaging. Would their teams be solely focused on
data and making incremental changes to maximize their revenue - does the
underlying message/product matter to them? does it matter to us? I wonder
if they A/B test everything too.

Anyway, some thoughts to ponder over the weekend for me. I say all that
without focusing on anyone and realizing well, that there have been a lot
of changes in leadership during this time. But I see the fundraising
campaign itself, as if it is on a rail track headed one-way faster and
faster - to what end I wonder.


Regards
Theo

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_as_an_advertiser
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

[Andy Mabbett]

On 6 October 2015 at 01:56, Gnangarra  wrote:

> the wording is unhappy because I'm unhappy with the process and
> there is nothing public about Montreal even being on the radar for
> Wikimania

I can understand your frustration, and to a degree share it.

Perhaps its time to take a sideways step, and not let Wikimania be
such a big thing? As I type, WikiConUSA is running, and earlier this
year I was honoured to be invited to speak at WikiArabia's first such
event.

The OSM community also has both an international event (State of the
Map; not held this year) and regional equivalents (State of the Map
US; State of the Map Scotland, etc)

Perhaps the future for the Wikimedia movement is national or
continent- focussed events, with more occasional Wikimanias? Flying
speakers in, if need be, but addressing a more local audience, many of
whom would not get to attend Wikimania?

Why not organise WikiOz, or WikiOceana?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

[Florence Devouard]

Sorry to see you go Jan ! Thanks for all the energy and work done.
See you in Esino

Flo

Le 08/10/15 10:22, Jan Ainali a écrit :

All,

For the last three years I have been the Executive Director for Wikimedia
Sverige. Before that I have been Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary of the
board (at different times) and have been involved since the founding of the
chapter in 2007. It is perhaps even an understatement to say that the
chapter has been a big part of my life. I have had the opportunity to be
part of a fantastic journey from starting the first chapter’s activities to
today, with stable strategic activities, seven people in the office, and a
diversified board. It has been an awesome time in my life and I have met
and worked with some truly wonderful persons along the way, and I am
thankful to all of you that have made it so inspiring. But now, as my
contract is about to come to an end, I feel that it is time for me to move
on to new endeavours. I am confident that the chapter is already in good
hands, with a professional board and an office with experienced staff
members and functional processes, but I’ll be around until at least the
beginning of January to make it a smooth transition.

I will obviously always be a wikimedian at heart and probably pick up on my
editing again and I will also stay subscribed to most mailing lists. If not
earlier, I’ll see you in Esino Lario.

Best regards,

*Jan Ainali*
Executive director, Wikimedia Sverige 



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

[Abraham Taherivand]

My warm congratulations to Wes and Tomasz on their new roles!

Cheers,
Abraham

2015-10-09 2:34 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov :

> All,
>
> I want to share an update about the WMF’s product leadership. As of today,
> Wes Moran has stepped into the role of Vice President of Product. In this
> role, he’ll oversee the Foundation’s product across all audience verticals,
> reporting to me. Please join me in welcoming Wes into this new role.
>
> Wes has more than 17 years of experience in product design and development,
> with expertise in open source communities, user-centered design,
> interaction design, user experience, user research and testing, product
> management, and more. Since joining the Foundation, he led the
> newly-created Discovery team to focus on user needs, transparency, and
> accountability, and worked closely with our colleagues at Wikimedia
> Deutschland on key projects such as Wikidata. He has been an invaluable
> resource as we have continued to recruit for a Chief Technology Officer,
> working with Terry and myself to cover critical leadership
> responsibilities.
>
> With this change, Tomasz Finc, Katie Horn, Toby Negrin, and Trevor Parscal
> will report to Wes. Tomasz will now lead the Discovery team. Tomasz has
> been Director of Discovery and helped build and lead development of this
> new team. He has served in many leadership capacities over his 7 years here
> at the foundation and joined us from Amazon where he worked with the A9
> search team. Please join me in congratulating Wes and Tomasz.
>
> Lila
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Join the community review of 11 annual plan grants proposals to the FDC

[Anders Wennersten]

and to be more specific. Read and enjoy:

*WMUK its impressive reorganisations of operations and recruitment of new ED
*WMCH its refocusing and its excellent community support program, 
especially considering they have three communities to support
*WMNL its graph of impact vs resources. It gives an excellent insight 
and easy to  understand view of what works in reality
*WMUA its success in involving volunteers and already getting to 
understand what works/giving high impact
*WMIL and WMAT its professional plans with concrete and well worked 
through targets


Anders

Den 2015-10-09 kl. 07:42, skrev Anders Wennersten:
I have now reviewed these proposals (with the exception of WMDE, being 
too complex, and WMSE, due to COI). It is the fourth consecutive year 
I do this and most entities has been there all years.


I want to share my general finding that there has been a major 
improvement in most of the proposals and plans, especially among the 
older chapters.


I find we are reaching a new level of professionalism in these 
entities, where I also have a feeling is related to a set of very 
successful recruitment of new EDs


Being an old chapter board member and FDC member it is most satisfying 
seeing this important progress!


Anders





Den 2015-10-06 kl. 21:32, skrev Katy Love:

Hello, Wikimedians!

I want to share with you that the community review period for the Annual
Plan Grants (APG) program is underway for eleven proposals. These
organizations are requesting unrestricted funding to support their 
annual
plans, including both programmatic and operational costs. These 
requests in
Round 1 total roughly US$4.2 million, out of US$6 million available 
in both
rounds this year. In mid-November, Funds Dissemination Committee 
(FDC), [1]
a volunteer committee made up of members of the Wikimedia community, 
will

convene. They will meet in San Francisco to discuss these proposals in
detail and make a recommendation to the WMF Board of Trustees on use of
these funds.

 From now until 30 October, we invite everyone to review the 
proposals, and

to provide thoughts and ask questions on the discussion pages of the
proposals. You can begin your exploration of the proposals on the 
community

review landing page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Community_review. 




About community review: Annual plan grant proposals are submitted to the
FDC on 1 October. That is followed by a 30-day open comment period. 
During

this community review, all are invited to provide input on and ask
questions about specific proposals on the discussion pages of the 
proposal
forms. Applicants are also asked to respond to input and questions 
during
this period, although they are not able to change the proposal form 
itself

after the submission date.

The FDC follows the discussion pages of the proposals in preparation for
their deliberations in November. These questions, comments and responses
are an input to their collaborative decision-making process. While 
anyone

can comment on proposals after the open comment period closes on 30
October, the FDC may not be able to take comments made after this period
into consideration when making its decisions about funding.

How to join in the review: Please visit the community review page [2] to
view the proposals being considered and follow the instructions on that
page. The proposals are only available in English, but your comments 
on the

discussion pages do not need to be in English.

Why your feedback matters: We hope that this open comment period will 
add

to an in-depth and robust review of each proposal. The community review
process also helps make our grantmaking transparent and 
collaborative. The

FDC and the WMF staff value feedback and insights from the Wikimedia
community in making its funding recommendations.

You can find more information about the APG program, the FDC or the
upcoming milestones on our portal. [3] Please let us know if you have 
any
questions, concerns, or feedback about the process. You can reach the 
FDC

support staff can be reached at fdcsupp...@wikimedia.org

Warm regards,
Katy Love

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Community_review 


[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Join the community review of 11 annual plan grants proposals to the FDC

[attolippip]

Thank you very much!
Your work is really appreciated. It was very very useful

Best regards,
antanana
ED of Wikimedia Ukraine

2015-10-09 8:42 GMT+03:00 Anders Wennersten :

> I have now reviewed these proposals (with the exception of WMDE, being too
> complex, and WMSE, due to COI). It is the fourth consecutive year I do this
> and most entities has been there all years.
>
> I want to share my general finding that there has been a major improvement
> in most of the proposals and plans, especially among the older chapters.
>
> I find we are reaching a new level of professionalism in these entities,
> where I also have a feeling is related to a set of very successful
> recruitment of new EDs
>
> Being an old chapter board member and FDC member it is most satisfying
> seeing this important progress!
>
> Anders
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Den 2015-10-06 kl. 21:32, skrev Katy Love:
>
>> Hello, Wikimedians!
>>
>> I want to share with you that the community review period for the Annual
>> Plan Grants (APG) program is underway for eleven proposals. These
>> organizations are requesting unrestricted funding to support their annual
>> plans, including both programmatic and operational costs. These requests
>> in
>> Round 1 total roughly US$4.2 million, out of US$6 million available in
>> both
>> rounds this year. In mid-November, Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC),
>> [1]
>> a volunteer committee made up of members of the Wikimedia community, will
>> convene. They will meet in San Francisco to discuss these proposals in
>> detail and make a recommendation to the WMF Board of Trustees on use of
>> these funds.
>>
>>  From now until 30 October, we invite everyone to review the proposals,
>> and
>> to provide thoughts and ask questions on the discussion pages of the
>> proposals. You can begin your exploration of the proposals on the
>> community
>> review landing page here:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Community_review
>> .
>>
>>
>> About community review: Annual plan grant proposals are submitted to the
>> FDC on 1 October. That is followed by a 30-day open comment period. During
>> this community review, all are invited to provide input on and ask
>> questions about specific proposals on the discussion pages of the proposal
>> forms. Applicants are also asked to respond to input and questions during
>> this period, although they are not able to change the proposal form itself
>> after the submission date.
>>
>> The FDC follows the discussion pages of the proposals in preparation for
>> their deliberations in November. These questions, comments and responses
>> are an input to their collaborative decision-making process. While anyone
>> can comment on proposals after the open comment period closes on 30
>> October, the FDC may not be able to take comments made after this period
>> into consideration when making its decisions about funding.
>>
>> How to join in the review: Please visit the community review page [2] to
>> view the proposals being considered and follow the instructions on that
>> page. The proposals are only available in English, but your comments on
>> the
>> discussion pages do not need to be in English.
>>
>> Why your feedback matters: We hope that this open comment period will add
>> to an in-depth and robust review of each proposal. The community review
>> process also helps make our grantmaking transparent and collaborative. The
>> FDC and the WMF staff value feedback and insights from the Wikimedia
>> community in making its funding recommendations.
>>
>> You can find more information about the APG program, the FDC or the
>> upcoming milestones on our portal. [3] Please let us know if you have any
>> questions, concerns, or feedback about the process. You can reach the FDC
>> support staff can be reached at fdcsupp...@wikimedia.org
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Katy Love
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee
>> [2]
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Community_review
>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

[Pete Forsyth]

I want to be clear about my previous message -- I am not questioning any
individual person's integrity in the process, and I know from firsthand
experience that a tremendous amount of good work goes into this stuff. But
I think the process that has evolved around developing the campaign is
broken.

In Megan's message, I see a great deal of emphasis on the specific points
that are attributable to community suggestions/requests. But there is a
bigger point that gets lost: It's not about where the ideas come from, it's
about whether the final result "gets it right."

If the WMF produced mission-compatible banners without any community
consultation at all, I'd be happy, and I think most others would be too.
Running an open process is not the right way to measure success here. An
open process is one of many ways to surface problems, and maybe to generate
ideas; but it's not the be-all end-all.

The fund-raising department is clearly held accountable on its
easily-measured performance. It needs to also be held accountable to the
mission. How to do that is a difficult design and management problem, and I
don't pretend to have the perfect answer. But it's something that needs to
be done.

Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> I agree, that banner does not reflect the values of this movement. Pure
> and simple; it's not a grey area, and not worth my time to discuss for the
> 97th time.
>
> Personally, I long ago gave up participating in these discussions, for the
> most part -- because the same valid points get made over and over again,
> and the same *AWFUL* errors are made year after year in the fund-raising
> campaign.
>
> Leila's post here is heartening, and I'm glad that somebody has the energy
> to articulate the concerns so well. I, myself, do not; I have simply lost
> faith in the integrity of the Wikimedia Foundation's fund-raising
> operation. I am, honestly, ashamed to tell people that I used to work in
> the fund-raising department there (though I believe the work we did was
> valuable).
>
> I recently heard from a high-ranking executive at a software company. She
> told me that she had given money to the Wikimedia Foundation, and then
> looked into the WMF's budget, and the messages in the campaign she had
> responded to. The word she used to describe her feeling was "mortified."
> She had considered asking for her money back, but had decided against it.
>
> Fortunately, she was sophisticated enough not apply her negative feelings
> to Wikipedia, but rather to the Wikimedia Foundation. But can the WMF
> afford to assume that will always be the case?
>
> Apparently, the thinking thus far is, "yes."
>
> -Pete
> [[User:Peteforsyth]]
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Leila Zia  wrote:
>
>> Hi Megan,
>>
>> Thank you for the update and all the hard work the team has done during
>> Q1.
>> My comments below.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Megan Hernandez > >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > The team has used this first quarter to test a wide variety of brand new
>> > banners. From images, to banners highlighting photos from Commons, and
>> > different messages, we’ve found a few new ways to share the fundraising
>> > message with Wikipedia readers. With updated designs, we’ve ended the
>> > quarter with a banner that performs roughly 20% better than the best-
>> > performing banner from last quarter.
>>
>>
>> I saw that banner and I want to do all I can to help you not use it even
>> if
>> it performs 20% better. I put my story in p.s. so it's easier to skip for
>> whoever chooses to skip. This is a true story. :-\
>>
>>
>> > Better performing banners are required
>> > to raise a higher budget with declining traffic. We’ll continue testing
>> new
>> > banners into the next quarter and sharing highlights as we go.
>> >
>>
>> I've said this couple of times in the past through different channels
>> (sorry to those of you who have heard this before) but I think it's key to
>> repeat it here just so we are all clear about what we know and what we
>> don't know.
>>
>> We know that our pageviews are not growing globally (depending on how you
>> look at the trend and predictions, they are going down with a slow slope
>> or
>> are almost flat, neither case is good.).
>>
>> We also know that a higher budget means more work for Furndraising to meet
>> the budget.
>>
>> We do not know the relation between the decline in pageviews and our
>> ability to raise money, we do not have research evidence for the above
>> statement given the data we have, so I highly encourage all of us not to
>> repeat this statement (even though it sounds very intuitive) until we show
>> such evidence because the more we say it, the more we believe it. Ellery
>> explains what we know and don't know about this specific topic when I ask
>> him a question about this in Metrics Meeting in April 2015. That
>> discussion
>> is recorded 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

[Leila Zia]

Hi Megan,

Thank you for the update and all the hard work the team has done during Q1.
My comments below.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Megan Hernandez 
wrote:


> The team has used this first quarter to test a wide variety of brand new
> banners. From images, to banners highlighting photos from Commons, and
> different messages, we’ve found a few new ways to share the fundraising
> message with Wikipedia readers. With updated designs, we’ve ended the
> quarter with a banner that performs roughly 20% better than the best-
> performing banner from last quarter.


I saw that banner and I want to do all I can to help you not use it even if
it performs 20% better. I put my story in p.s. so it's easier to skip for
whoever chooses to skip. This is a true story. :-\


> Better performing banners are required
> to raise a higher budget with declining traffic. We’ll continue testing new
> banners into the next quarter and sharing highlights as we go.
>

I've said this couple of times in the past through different channels
(sorry to those of you who have heard this before) but I think it's key to
repeat it here just so we are all clear about what we know and what we
don't know.

We know that our pageviews are not growing globally (depending on how you
look at the trend and predictions, they are going down with a slow slope or
are almost flat, neither case is good.).

We also know that a higher budget means more work for Furndraising to meet
the budget.

We do not know the relation between the decline in pageviews and our
ability to raise money, we do not have research evidence for the above
statement given the data we have, so I highly encourage all of us not to
repeat this statement (even though it sounds very intuitive) until we show
such evidence because the more we say it, the more we believe it. Ellery
explains what we know and don't know about this specific topic when I ask
him a question about this in Metrics Meeting in April 2015. That discussion
is recorded starting minute 37, second 38 here

.

Best,
Leila

p.s. Here is the story:
I open my laptop at 5:30am to check few definitions on Wikipedia for an
upcoming early morning meeting. The room is dark and the only source of
light is my laptop, I go to Wikipedia and I see that banner
.
I'm still sleepy, and probably my mind is not functioning the way it
normally does, nevertheless, here is what comes to my mind: I have a sudden
feeling of fear. I see a very black background, and I think someone very
important has died. I look a bit more, and I see some red colors, then I
think something in the order of SOPA has happened. I'm getting quite
nervous. I look at the text, but it's too long for me to parse it at that
moment with the thoughts I have in the background. I look more at the
background, I see some orange colors, some yellow colors, and a little
human circled, I first think that whole color combination is a flame (red,
orange, yellow, and the semi shape of a flame), then I think someone is
jailed/executed. My eyes finally manage to see the right-hand-side of the
page, and I see there are dollar signs and numbers. I sigh in relief, and
then I get really upset (though I manage to pass that stage soon). Now, if
I was not involved in the movement, I'm not sure if I would pay or not
(maybe I would) seeing that banner, but because I'm in the Movement, I got
really sad seeing myself going through that experience because I know more.
I also acknowledge that different people have different backgrounds and
experiences in life. What I see as a sign of death and war, may not be a
signal for many other people (though the color black is almost universally
used for signalling death), and I acknowledge that you cannot accommodate
everyone. But please be aware, some people get really scared seeing this
kind of banner.

I said the story above, but I also want to say that I understand the
pressure on you. I've said it here

(and btw, huge thanks for being open to suggestions :-), and I'm saying it
here as well: I'm happy to help us to fix such an experience for our users.
Please let me know if you're open to test new designs. I'm more than happy
to help you for some time for us to bring in more designers and community
members into this conversation. I'm sure we can do this.

>
> --
>
> Megan Hernandez
>
> Director of Online Fundraising
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

[Pete Forsyth]

I agree, that banner does not reflect the values of this movement. Pure and
simple; it's not a grey area, and not worth my time to discuss for the 97th
time.

Personally, I long ago gave up participating in these discussions, for the
most part -- because the same valid points get made over and over again,
and the same *AWFUL* errors are made year after year in the fund-raising
campaign.

Leila's post here is heartening, and I'm glad that somebody has the energy
to articulate the concerns so well. I, myself, do not; I have simply lost
faith in the integrity of the Wikimedia Foundation's fund-raising
operation. I am, honestly, ashamed to tell people that I used to work in
the fund-raising department there (though I believe the work we did was
valuable).

I recently heard from a high-ranking executive at a software company. She
told me that she had given money to the Wikimedia Foundation, and then
looked into the WMF's budget, and the messages in the campaign she had
responded to. The word she used to describe her feeling was "mortified."
She had considered asking for her money back, but had decided against it.

Fortunately, she was sophisticated enough not apply her negative feelings
to Wikipedia, but rather to the Wikimedia Foundation. But can the WMF
afford to assume that will always be the case?

Apparently, the thinking thus far is, "yes."

-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Leila Zia  wrote:

> Hi Megan,
>
> Thank you for the update and all the hard work the team has done during Q1.
> My comments below.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Megan Hernandez 
> wrote:
>
>
> > The team has used this first quarter to test a wide variety of brand new
> > banners. From images, to banners highlighting photos from Commons, and
> > different messages, we’ve found a few new ways to share the fundraising
> > message with Wikipedia readers. With updated designs, we’ve ended the
> > quarter with a banner that performs roughly 20% better than the best-
> > performing banner from last quarter.
>
>
> I saw that banner and I want to do all I can to help you not use it even if
> it performs 20% better. I put my story in p.s. so it's easier to skip for
> whoever chooses to skip. This is a true story. :-\
>
>
> > Better performing banners are required
> > to raise a higher budget with declining traffic. We’ll continue testing
> new
> > banners into the next quarter and sharing highlights as we go.
> >
>
> I've said this couple of times in the past through different channels
> (sorry to those of you who have heard this before) but I think it's key to
> repeat it here just so we are all clear about what we know and what we
> don't know.
>
> We know that our pageviews are not growing globally (depending on how you
> look at the trend and predictions, they are going down with a slow slope or
> are almost flat, neither case is good.).
>
> We also know that a higher budget means more work for Furndraising to meet
> the budget.
>
> We do not know the relation between the decline in pageviews and our
> ability to raise money, we do not have research evidence for the above
> statement given the data we have, so I highly encourage all of us not to
> repeat this statement (even though it sounds very intuitive) until we show
> such evidence because the more we say it, the more we believe it. Ellery
> explains what we know and don't know about this specific topic when I ask
> him a question about this in Metrics Meeting in April 2015. That discussion
> is recorded starting minute 37, second 38 here
> <
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/WMF_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_April_8%2C_2015.ogv
> >
> .
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> p.s. Here is the story:
> I open my laptop at 5:30am to check few definitions on Wikipedia for an
> upcoming early morning meeting. The room is dark and the only source of
> light is my laptop, I go to Wikipedia and I see that banner
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#/media/File:Sept2015BannerEx.png
> >.
> I'm still sleepy, and probably my mind is not functioning the way it
> normally does, nevertheless, here is what comes to my mind: I have a sudden
> feeling of fear. I see a very black background, and I think someone very
> important has died. I look a bit more, and I see some red colors, then I
> think something in the order of SOPA has happened. I'm getting quite
> nervous. I look at the text, but it's too long for me to parse it at that
> moment with the thoughts I have in the background. I look more at the
> background, I see some orange colors, some yellow colors, and a little
> human circled, I first think that whole color combination is a flame (red,
> orange, yellow, and the semi shape of a flame), then I think someone is
> jailed/executed. My eyes finally manage to see the right-hand-side of the
> page, and I see there are dollar signs and numbers. I sigh in relief, and
> then I get really upset (though I manage 

[Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

[Megan Hernandez]

Hi all,

There's a new Q1 fundraising update on meta
 and
posted here as well.

The Wikimedia Foundation has just wrapped up the first quarter of the
2015-16 fiscal year. Over these past three months, the fundraising team has
been running ran campaigns in Japan, Brazil, Malaysia, South Africa,
Belgium and Luxembourg and prepared for the upcoming year-end English
fundraising campaign. The online fundraising team missed the $6 million
goal for the quarter due to postponing the Italy fundraiser to October to
support the Wiki Loves Monuments campaign. We raised roughly $5.7 million
in the first quarter of the year and plan to make up for the loss in the
next quarter. The 2014-15 fiscal year fundraising report
 was
also posted in this quarter. If you haven’t read it yet, please do check
out the report for a wealth of information on the last fiscal year.

The team has used this first quarter to test a wide variety of brand new
banners. From images, to banners highlighting photos from Commons, and
different messages, we’ve found a few new ways to share the fundraising
message with Wikipedia readers. With updated designs, we’ve ended the
quarter with a banner that performs roughly 20% better than the best-
performing banner from last quarter. Better performing banners are required
to raise a higher budget with declining traffic. We’ll continue testing new
banners into the next quarter and sharing highlights as we go.

The banner message has also been updated with suggestions from the
Wikimedia community. Thank you to everyone who has suggested improvements
so far! We have changed “We survive on donations averaging about $15” to
“We are sustained by donations averaging about $15.” We’ve also changed
“Please help us end the fundraiser and get back to improving Wikipedia” to
“Please help us end the fundraiser and improve Wikipedia.” These message
edits did not positively or negatively affect donations and were made in
response to community feedback. In the past, we have also relied on
community feedback to improve our campaigns. In the last year, community
feedback has led to improvements to the usability of the close X icon and a
new line to highlight the editing community, “Wikipedia is written by a
community of volunteers with a passion for sharing the world’s knowledge.”
All of these community suggestions remain in the banner. Another sentence
that was briefly tested on a small percentage of users about a year ago
that received negative community feedback was “If everyone reading this
gave $3, we could keep it online and ad-free another year.” We did not end
up using that sentence for the campaign and we commit to not using it in
any future campaign. In the next quarter, we are planning many more message
tests -- with both brand new ideas as well as smaller tweaks to the
existing text. If you have an idea to test, please share on the 2015-16
test ideas page
.
Thanks again to everyone who has shared ideas so far.

This upcoming quarter will be our biggest of the year with campaigns in
Italy, France, the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. The
team is focused on providing the best donation invitation and experience
possible to readers. We will be sharing plenty of more information about
the upcoming campaigns over the next couple of months. Thank you for your
support!

-- 

Megan Hernandez

Director of Online Fundraising
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMCON 2015: Report from the Program and Engagement Coordinator

[Nicole Ebber]

Dear Wikimedia friends,

We have just published our report of the Program and Engagement
Coordination for the Wikimedia Conference. It covers the first six
months of our experiment. (Spoiler: We consider this experiment a
success.)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/PEC_Report

With this report – as well as the two previous ones – we share our
experiences and learnings in a quite extensive manner so that people
can learn from and build upon it. Besides these reports, we also
strive to share our learnings in presentations, talks or personal
conversations. We appreciate any feedback or recommendation regarding
the Program and Engagement Coordination, because we strongly believe
in the power of being learning partners in the movement.

Happy reading!
Nicole & Cornelius

For the timeline of the 2016 conference, please see here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016


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Adviser to the ED, International Relations

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de

Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikinobel 2015 tomorrow

[Jon Harald Søby]

Hi Michael,

This one is just focusing on the peace prize. As you may know, the rest of
the Nobel prizes are awarded by Swedish institutes, while the peace prize
is handled by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Our cooperation is with the
Nobel Peace Center, which is sort of like a museum about the peace prize,
and since they're only focussed on the peace prize I don't think it would
be practical to include the other prizes here. However, it would be great
if Wikimedia Sverige could try to get something similar going in Sweden.


2015-10-09 1:23 GMT+02:00 Michael Peel :

> Hi Jon,
>
> Is this just for the Peace Prize, or will the editathon also work on
> articles on the winners of the other nobel prizes? I've been doing some
> wikignoming on the enwp articles on the physics prize winners [1] [2], but
> they still need more work on the content - although there are now quite a
> few versions in other languages now that weren't there a few days ago!
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaaki_Kajita - a new article created
> on the day of the announcement. Could really do with a picture.
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_B._McDonald - the article
> already existed, so this hasn't seen as much change as the other one.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 8 Oct 2015, at 15:47, Mardetanha  wrote:
> >
> > Very good news,
> > Hopefully we might be able to do same in fawiki
> >
> >
> > Mardetanha
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Jon Harald Søby 
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> You may have seen the blog post
> >>  already,
> but
> >> I'd like to remind you that the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced
> >> tomorrow, and like last year, Wikimedia Norge and the Nobel Peace Center
> >> are hosting an editathon as the prize is announced, aiming to update
> >> Wikipedias in various languages as soon as possible, and provide sources
> >> about the winner(s).
> >>
> >> We will meet in the Nobel Peace Center at 10:00 local time (09:00 UTC),
> and
> >> the prize will be announced one hour later. Like last year, we will use
> the
> >> IRC channel #wikinobel (webchat link ),
> and
> >> will also tweet from the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
> >>  (also on Instagram at
> #wikinobel
> >> ).
> >>
> >> Please join us, and feel free to spread this message to your local
> >> community.
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

[Gergo Tisza]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Fæ  wrote:

> For anyone following the transparent and open publication of the
> allocation and rationales for necessary WMF staff project account
> rights (i.e. not community managed), the wiki table on meta was
> updated this week, see [1] and the recent changes at [2].
>

And if you are interested in more rights being community managed, please
comment on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/OAuth_handover :)


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

[Katy Love]

Jan,

I am very sad to see you moving on. From the first day I met you, I knew
you were a valuable, passionate and kind partner to me in our movement.
You've always been driven to make positive change. You've tried out new
approaches to see what might work.  You've learned from those experiences
and you've shared widely so that others might know, too. You've been
helpful and proactive in so many ways. And you've taught me a lot over the
last several years!

I will miss you very much.

Please do stay in touch. And enjoy the next adventure!

Katy

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Jan Ainali  wrote:

> All,
>
> For the last three years I have been the Executive Director for Wikimedia
> Sverige. Before that I have been Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary of the
> board (at different times) and have been involved since the founding of the
> chapter in 2007. It is perhaps even an understatement to say that the
> chapter has been a big part of my life. I have had the opportunity to be
> part of a fantastic journey from starting the first chapter’s activities to
> today, with stable strategic activities, seven people in the office, and a
> diversified board. It has been an awesome time in my life and I have met
> and worked with some truly wonderful persons along the way, and I am
> thankful to all of you that have made it so inspiring. But now, as my
> contract is about to come to an end, I feel that it is time for me to move
> on to new endeavours. I am confident that the chapter is already in good
> hands, with a professional board and an office with experienced staff
> members and functional processes, but I’ll be around until at least the
> beginning of January to make it a smooth transition.
>
> I will obviously always be a wikimedian at heart and probably pick up on my
> editing again and I will also stay subscribed to most mailing lists. If not
> earlier, I’ll see you in Esino Lario.
>
> Best regards,
>
> *Jan Ainali*
> Executive director, Wikimedia Sverige 
>
>
>
> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens
> samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
> Bli medlem. 
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