Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Update - Big English Fundraiser

[Joseph Seddon]

Hey all!

I wanted to send a quick reminder that our English language fundraiser is
launching tomorrow afternoon (29th Nov, ~1300-1500 UTC).

A few other reminders:
* Have an idea? Leave it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising
/2016-17_Fundraising_ideas
* Want to see the current control banner messaging and designs?:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2016-17_Fundraising_ideas#Current_Control_Banner_Message
* Need to report a bug or technical issue with a banner or payments page?
Create a Phabricator ticket - https://phabricator.
wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862
* Here is also the ever present fundraising IRC channel to raise urgent
issues: #wikimedia-fundraising (
http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23wikimedia-fundraising&uio=d4
 )
* You can also email me directly with feedback, ideas or issues (
sed...@wikimedia.org)

Finally we didn't get any interest in our fundraising feedback and design
sessions last week and the week before so they were put on hold, however if
there are individuals who are interested in taking part in such a session,
one on one, then reach out to me and I would be happy to arrange a time
with you.

Many thanks

Seddon


On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Joseph Seddon 
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> We are coming up to that time of year again with the launch of our English
> fundraiser. Our E-mail campaign is already underway and in a little under
> three weeks time, the banner campaign will launch in the US, UK, Canada,
> Australia, New Zealand and Ireland on Giving Tuesday [1], November 29,
> 2016. We will continue to try and limit the disruption from these banners.
> Our current expectation is to run our banners for all traffic for the first
> two weeks. Following that we will some combination of either reducing the
> amount of traffic being shown banners or the number of times a banner is
> shown to each user. There will then be one last final push before the end
> of December. It is my hope to update you after both of these stages with
> our progress.
>
> It is certainly no secret that it is a very important period for
> fundraising as our December activities are responsible for raising around
> 45% of all movement funds. As we reported in last years fundraising report
> [2] and at the September metrics meeting [3] we continue to adapt to the
> shift in our readership from desktop to mobile. Over the last two years,
> our e-mail efforts have played an increasingly major role in our
> fundraising to counter this shift and will certainly be the case over the
> next two months.
>
> As always it’s critical for my team to have both broader staff and
> community input in our fundraising efforts. This year we have been working
> closely with the Reading product team along with members from both the
> Reading and Editing design teams to improve our fundraising flow, in
> particular, trying to keep closer to the new standardised Wikimedia UI
> guidelines [4]. In addition to this, over the last five months we ran a
> number of staff and community feedback sessions and we have been very
> grateful to everyone who took part in those. They proved very successful in
> providing both a constructive critical eye for existing banner and email
> appeals as well being a source for a plethora of new ideas.
>
> The plan is that we will run more of these in conjunction with some of our
> major campaigns throughout the year. This will start with a series of
> sessions focusing on the English Campaign and would like to invite you all
> to a number of session being run over the next two weeks:
>
> * Thursday 17th November @ 1300 UTC
>
> * Thursday 17th November @ 1900 UTC
>
> * Monday 21st November @ 0100 UTC
>
> Please do sign up and find out more information [5]. Participation will be
> via IRC, Youtube live & via Google Hangout for ease of participation.
>
> As always if you have ideas and are not able to participate in these
> sessions you can leave feedback on our Fundraising Ideas page where you can
> see links to our current fundraising banners and current appeal text [5].
> Over the last year: use of Phabricator [6] for bug reporting; event and
> related content specific banners; improving the ease with which to dismiss
> banners; numerous improvements to the language used; and country specific
> images all came about from suggestions made on that page. So please do keep
> the ideas coming and I would like to thank you all in advance both for your
> input into the campaigns but more importantly the awesome work in building
> one of the largest sources of freely accessible knowledge in human history.
>
> I look forward to working with you all in the coming weeks.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> --
> Seddon
>
> *Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
> *Wikimedia Foundation*
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_Tuesday
>
> [2] 2015-2016 WMF Fundraising Report:
>
> https://wikimediafoundatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report just published

[Pine W]

There is an ongoing discussion about this subject in Wikipedia Weekly on
Facebook, and it appears that the matter is not yet closed.

Stephen, could you clarify who "we" is in your last paragraph? I am not
sure that WMF Legal is the entity that should be determining what is "in
the best interest of the Wikimedia movement or Foundation". While WMF Legal
certainly should make recommendations, the final decision about what is
best for WMF should rest with the WMF Board (which I have been pressing for
more transparency in financial matters for quite some time; I believe that
it would be in WMF's best interest to set a good example by being much more
transparent about financial matters in general).

Also, I question whether the decision about what is "in the best interest
of the movement" is WMF's decision to make.

Pine


On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Stephen LaPorte 
wrote:

> Hi Chris and Lodewijk,
>
> I was asked to follow up here on the questions from October about
> country-by-country fundraising data.
>
> We make fundraising decisions, including decisions about what information
> we release, based in part on our internal legal assessments in the country.
> We don't go into our legal assessments publicly, as it may make it
> difficult to keep legal risks and costs low.
>
> We strive to be as open about our fundraising activities as we can.
> Compared to nonprofit industry standards, we release more information than
> other non-profits tend to, including continent-level breakdowns of
> donations, information about revenue channels and testing, and reports from
> our fundraising research:
>
> - https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Fundraising_Report
>
> - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Reader_Survey_November_2015.pdf
>
> I’m sorry that we can’t give more satisfying answers to your questions, but
> in this case we have determined that publishing the requested information
> would not be in the best interest of the Wikimedia movement or Foundation.
>
> --
> Stephen LaPorte
> Senior Legal Counsel
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> *NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical
> reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community
> members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more
> on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer
> .*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting's open on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

[Johan Jönsson]

If you want to see what happened to the wishes from last year's
survey, the status column here could be helpful:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results

We'll get the word out on the wikis on the coming days, but if you
want to post on your local Village Pump to spread the word, that's
much appreciated.

//Johan Jönsson
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Danny Horn  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The voting has started on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, and all
> Wikimedia contributors are invited to come and vote on the projects that
> WMF's Community Tech team will work on next year:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
>
> There are 267 proposals this year, on a wide range of subjects that I'm
> pretty sure you have an opinion about.
>
> You've got two weeks to vote, from now through December 12th. You can vote
> for as many proposals as you like, by adding a {{support}} tag under the
> proposals that you think are worthwhile.
>
> Once the voting's over, we'll have a ranked list of projects for the
> Community Tech team to work on, as well as other developers and volunteers
> who want to build features and make changes that the core contributors
> really want.
>
> This is an opportunity for you to help set the agenda for a WMF product
> team, so I hope everybody comes and participates!
>
>
> Danny Horn
> WMF Product Manager
> Community Tech
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[Wikimedia-l] Voting's open on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

[Danny Horn]

Hi everyone,

The voting has started on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, and all
Wikimedia contributors are invited to come and vote on the projects that
WMF's Community Tech team will work on next year:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey

There are 267 proposals this year, on a wide range of subjects that I'm
pretty sure you have an opinion about.

You've got two weeks to vote, from now through December 12th. You can vote
for as many proposals as you like, by adding a {{support}} tag under the
proposals that you think are worthwhile.

Once the voting's over, we'll have a ranked list of projects for the
Community Tech team to work on, as well as other developers and volunteers
who want to build features and make changes that the core contributors
really want.

This is an opportunity for you to help set the agenda for a WMF product
team, so I hope everybody comes and participates!


Danny Horn
WMF Product Manager
Community Tech
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[Wikimedia-l] WMDE update after the General Assembly

[Tim Moritz Hector]

Dear fellow Wikimedians,

Over the weekend, Wikimedia Deutschland held its General Assembly and
elections for the supervisory board as well as for the auditors.

The newly elected board consists of seven members:

* Tim Moritz Hector (Chair, re-elected)
* Sebastian Moleski (Treasurer, re-elected)
* Sabria David (re-elected)
* Kurt Jansson (re-elected)
* Lukas Mezger (re-elected)
* Harald Krichel (re-elected)
* Johanna Niesyto

The board has met for its first meeting on Sunday and elected Sabria David
and Kurt Jansson as Deputy Chair.

Johanna is new to the board, so please join me in welcoming her to the
board of WMDE. I would also like to thank our former board members Nikolas
Becker, Jürgen Friedrich and Catrin Schoneville wholeheartedly for the
great work and their commitment to Wikimedia Deutschland in the past years.

Lena Stammler and Daniel Baur (re-elected) are our two recently-elected
auditors, and I am extending my congratulations to them.

At the GA, the board furthermore presented the final report on the
WMDE-Governance-Review and how we handled the recommendations of the
report. Moreover, the members approved the annual plan for 2017.

The board will meet in January to discuss the goals for our term in the
next two years and I am very much looking forward to working together with
this team.

Best regards,
Tim Moritz Hector


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Tim Moritz Hector
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
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