[Wikimedia-l] Learn how to develop bots in small wiki toolkit workshops

[Srishti Sethi]

Hi all,

TLDR; Want to learn new technical skills to help improve your wiki? Sign up
for workshops on scripts and bot development, organized by the small wiki
toolkits initiative: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops> [1].

Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to build technical capacity in
smaller language wikis by developing toolkits, conducting workshops, and
providing technical support <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> [2]. The first set of
workshops for 2022 will teach individuals how to automate work in their
wiki community by developing, maintaining, and hosting bots. These
trainings build upon the lessons learned from two regional initiatives in
2021:  [3].

To sign up for a workshop, add your signature under a specific workshop
section on this page <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops> [4]. The
first workshop is scheduled for February 25th, 16:00 UTC. The organizing
team will share more details on mailing lists and on your talk page closer
to the date of the workshop.

The SWT Organizing Team is also exploring issuing digital certificates and
badges to attendees of these workshops. More information on that will be
available in the coming weeks.

We look forward to your participation!

Cheers,
Srishti

(On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Past_events

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops

*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks, Christian and Liam -- this looks very nicely handled.
Liam - wow, now that ABC link is really a blast from the past :)  S

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:54 AM Liam Wyatt  wrote:

> Dear Željko,
>
> I wish to make a reply to some of the comments you raise - primarily to
> emphasise to the rest of the subscribers on this list that there is already
> an extensive community discussion about this Frankfurter Allgemeine
> Zeitung (FAZ) opinion column on the German Wikipedia 'Kurier' forum,
> starting from here:
>
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Antwort_von_Wiki_Loves_Broadcast_zu_FAZ-Artikel_vom_18.01.2022
> I encourage anyone who wishes to discuss the issues raised on the
> original, and the reply, articles - to do so at that forum.
>
> Relatedly, there is also this point-by-point rebuttal thread on Twitter,
> which has been shared by WM-DE too:
> https://twitter.com/leonidobusch/status/1483409545473015810?s=21 [with
> each tweet being machine-translatable inside twitter's own interface].
>
> But mostly, I wish to emphasise this letter, which written by the
> volunteer community leaders behind the "Wiki Loves Broadcast" (WLB)
> project. The FAZ opinion column is referring at a community-originating
> volunteer campaign to obtain free-licensing for audiovisual material
> produced for public service broadcasters. And so, I feel their response
> which should be the thing which is emphasised:
>
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast/Statement_zum_FAZ-Beitrag_vom_18.01.2022
> [English language machine-translated version:
> https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast/Statement_zum_FAZ-Beitrag_vom_18.01.2022?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=wapp
> ].
> The WLB homepage is here:
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast.[1]
>
> To the other issues raised:
> The concept of a free-license means that anyone can use use the material
> for any purpose, including commercially: and as we know, many already do.
> The FAZ opinion column conflates this fundamental principle of
> free-licenses with an entirely separate project being run at the WMF. The
> "Enterprise" API project is not licensing content - everyone can *already* use
> it. Rather, it is a *service* with higher-speed/volume data throughput
> than could (or should) be provided for free for commercial organisations,
> who wish to use it. As we say: "Same water, thicker pipe." And ironically,
> for the argument being made in FAZ, this API does not include any
> multimedia content on Wikimedia projects. I say "should", because if it
> were a service provided at no-cost to largest commercial users, that would
> mean subsidising their business model with donors' money.
> Also, since Željko asked if there was any comments provided by the WMF, I
> would like to point out that myself and the WMF Comms team were
> coordinating with WM-DE last week about this reply article in FAZ. And
> furthermore that the *Enterprise *project FAQ on Meta - which is also
> fully translated into German, and has many responses regarding the
> financial and legal aspects
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ
>
>
> Sincerely,
> - Liam / Wittylama
> *Wikimedia Enterprise *Project Manager, WMF
>
> [1] somewhat relatedly, I ran a similar campaign with the ABC in my home
> country Australia a decade ago, and every now and then I still see the
> video files from it appearing in unexpected places across the internet:
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2012/03/25/abc-joins-wikimedia-in-sharing-historic-footage/
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 12:53, Željko Blaće  wrote:
>
>> Thank you for engaging with this topic in public and doing the
>> translation and sharing here (adding open-glam list).
>>
>> Aside from being a nice Sunday read I think this is a super useful case
>> study for people working in the cultural sector and advocacy for open. Was
>> this published elsewhere in English?
>>
>> I would love for us to have a better platform to comment and discuss
>> individual aspects of both articles (Discourse as WM Spaces would be good -
>> no?), but anyway few inline comments below.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 7:24 PM Christian Humborg <
>> christian.humb...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> we had articles in Germany published connecting the activities of
>>> Wikimedia Enterprise with our licensing advocacy. Please find below the
>>> article of a filmmaker, published last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine
>>> Zeitung, one of the large German newspapers.
>>>
>>
>> I see the article did not get a huge amount of comments and in that way
>> it failed to attract much attention or there were echoes elsewhere?
>>
>> https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/wikimedia-plant-die-kommerzialisierung-ihrer-inhalte-17736141-p2.html#lesermeinungen
>>
>>
>>
>>> Below you find our response, published this week in the Frankfurter
>>> Allge

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska: Annual report 2021

[WМ RepublikaSrpska]

Dear all,

I hope to find you in good health and in a good mood! I want to share with
you information related to the activities of the Wikimedia Community in
Republika Srpska. Our annual work report for 2021 is available on the
following page:

   - Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska: Annual report 2021
   

   .

If you have any questions or suggestions - we are at your disposal!

Best regards,

Miroslav Tanasković
Wikimedia Community
of the Republic of Srpska


*„**Замислите свијет у коме **свака особа на планети има **слободан приступ
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*оно на чему ми радимо.“*
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[Wikimedia-l] Meet the Community Development Team

[Cassie Casares]

Hello everyone,


The Community Development team
 at the Wikimedia
Foundation is hosting our first ever community call on February 23, 2022
from 15:00 - 16:00  UTC on Zoom

.


The purpose of the community call is to provide a space for volunteers to
meet the Community Development team. The five-person Community Development
team is responsible for developing accessible opportunities for volunteers
to grow critical capacities and leadership skills for movement
sustainability and growth. The community call is also a shared space for
all volunteers to hear or speak about projects related to capacity building
& leadership development in the Wikimedia community.


Our first call, Meet the Community Development Team will include a sign up
sheet
for
those who would like to speak for 5-10 minutes about their
individual/community capacity building work.


If you would simply like to attend and listen, join the Zoom link at the
scheduled call time, please find the link here

.


Although the primary language of the call is English, we are committed to
providing simultaneous translation to the best of our ability.  Please use
the same sign up sheet

to indicate your language preference so that we can best accommodate
translation support as needed.


Some may be asking, what is capacity building and why is the Community
Development team supporting this work?


What is capacity building? Capacity building is any activity aimed at
developing a skill or capability in others; it can take many forms, ranging
from formal training through online self-study courses to individual
mentorship.


The “Invest in Skill and Leadership Development”

recommendation of the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy
encourages
movement-wide capacity building as a necessity to achieve our strategic
commitment to Knowledge Equity. Capacity building has the ability to
encourage diversity, redistribute and share resources, welcome newcomers
and grow communities.


Community Development is launching this series to ensure we can hear
directly from volunteers who are interested in or who already are leading
capacity building work in their communities. This is one one way we plan to
create a space for direct conversations with volunteers about the different
contexts, challenges, and opportunities in capacity building across the
movement.


How do our projects relate to capacity building and leadership development?

Our team's portfolio is a curation of online and offline learning programs
and resources that aim to enable skill development and resilience in the
movement.


Some of our recent capacity building projects include the  Wikilearn Online
Learning Pilot
, Board of
Trustees Candidate toolkit
and
the 2021 Wikimania Speaker Series
.


In order for us to continue building relevant curricula and programming, we
need to hear from the Wikimedia movement. Please visit the Community
Development team page
 to learn more about
our capacity building and leadership development projects.


Key Dates:



   -

   First community call: February 23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00  UTC on Zoom
   




   -

   Sign up
   

   to speak at the first community call. The application closes on February
   February 14th, 2022.


To participate in the community call:



   -

   To attend the call, please find the link to the call her
   

   e.
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   Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal devicer.
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   Use the sign up sheet to confirm your interest to speak about your work
   in capacity building here
   



We are excited to see and hear from you in our call next month!


Thank you,


Community Development team





Cassie C

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia payroll and related (WAS: Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy)

[Christophe Henner]

Hi,

I'm sorry but I feel that discussion is loaded and meant to create a heated
debate and not provide good analysis data points.

I was surprised by your claims, so I picked one example, not giving names
to not single anyone out.

First, you assume the first year is systematically a full year, it never
is. And yes even if you arrive mid january, it does take a dent in your
yearly compensation (it represents 5%).
Second, you voluntarily speak in numbers and not ratio, which makes all
data easy to twist. The one I checked had a 4% to 6% yearly salary increase
which all in all is market practice in the US (we can argue about the
discrepancies but hey).
Third, even if you spot a higher increase, going into personal details
about the increase is meaningless (such increases can be related to pre
negotiated increase, to planned catch up on cost of living, on role change,
role expansion, new responsibilities, beyond expectations achievements, a
load of valid HR reasons).

If only on very specific and verifiable data points like those I can find
how you distort reality to fit your narrative I can only assume you are
doing the same for the rest of the discussion.

Public eye provides a safeguard for problems and financial abuses, yes (and
that's why 503c are public).

But twisting those data to spread gratuitous shade on people working for
the Foundation (and even naming them) is wrong and honestly shows a lack of
empathy (you don't care about how people can live when their integrity is
attacked while they are committed).

So I am happy to jump in Spreadsheet and discuss compensations, but if we
are to do it, let's at the very least do it with a benevolent approach and
minding the people whose job is talked about.

Just a bit of empathy and care goes a long way :)


--
Christophe


On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 15:20, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Correction:
>
> The 2016 base salary figure for Lisa in my previous mail should have read
> $209,706, not $192,018.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 1:55 PM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> All the numbers are taken from the official Form 990s filed. You can
>> verify them for yourself here:
>>
>> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703
>>
>> There is also a table of top-earners' base salaries on Meta, with data
>> taken from the Form 990:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries
>>
>> Have a look. They show various individuals' salaries increasing by
>> remarkable amounts in recent years.
>>
>> Jaime Villagomez' base salary for example increased by more than $50,000
>> in three years, from $237,665 in 2016 to $289,356 in 2019.
>>
>> Toby Negrin's base salary increased by more than $45,000 over the same
>> time period (from $192,018 to $237,992).
>>
>> Lisa Seitz-Gruwell's base salary increased by more than $40,000 over that
>> period (from $192,018 to $252,117).
>>
>> These are all base salaries, excluding "other compensation", which adds
>> another $34K, $33K and $21K to the salary figures for these three
>> individuals, respectively.
>>
>> You can find the above figures on Page 7 of the following forms:
>>
>> The 2016 Form 990 is here:
>> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/201821349349310527/full
>> The 2019 Form 990 is here:
>> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/202101319349300105/full
>>
>> In 2008, only three people at the WMF earned more than $100,000:
>>
>>
>> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/200049703/2010_05_EO%2F20-0049703_990_200906
>>
>>
>> In 2019, it was (at least) 165.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:44 AM Chris Keating 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, 00:45 Nathan,  wrote:
>>>
 I suspect there weren't that many FT employees of the WMF in 2008, if
 any?

>>>
>>> According to Andreas's table there were 72 total employees. How many
>>> were full time? Pass!
>>>
>>> But his numbers make little sense, so it's hard to draw conclusions from
>>> them.
>>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

[Luis Bitencourt-Emilio]

hi molly; certainly. 

while I don’t agree with Nicolas’ tweet verbatim - particularly the “need 
better critics” bit - what resonated with me personally was being unable to 
attribute human values, good vs. evil, to an underlying technology platform. 
note; I interpreted good/bad as value judgments here rather than quality 
ratings; from a quality perspective, there’s tons of bad tech out there!

in my experience, the communities that build on those platforms are 
overwhelmingly the most impactful force in its outcome being either positive or 
negative, and oftentimes the same underlying platform is used and misused to 
both outcomes by different communities (e.g. the internet).

a potential caveat here is how high or low in the stack one considers… I don’t 
think anyone would propose that SQL is inherently evil, but perhaps there’s 
specific use cases of higher level technology, particularly in the ai realm, 
that can make it harder to separate the technology’s potential from how it’s 
being used. in my interpretation of the tweet above, the “platform” wording 
made me consider broader, underlying technologies rather than this scenario.
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[Wikimedia-l] Annual activity report for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development

[Jan Ainali]

Dear all,

Our activity report for 2021 can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2021

Jan Ainali, on behalf of Wikimedians for Sustainabel Development
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[Wikimedia-l] Deadline extended for EduWiki Week Community Showcase Submission

[Sailesh Patnaik]

Dear Wikimedians,

Happy Monday! Recently, we have announced EduWiki Week
! A virtual
festival for free knowledge in education, from 21st February 2022 to 25th
February 2022. This will be a hybrid event with asynchronous activities,
live interviews, and a final community showcase session. Stay tuned for
more updates!

The community showcase session will be on the 23rd of February from 13:00
UTC till 16:00 UTC. You can submit a proposal to highlight your work,
ideas, research or tools with the education community. The deadline to
submit a proposal is now extended till the 4th of February. Submit your
proposal here

.

If you or your affiliate plan to organize regional events during the week,
like interviews, edit-a-thons, training or other events, please add them

to the asynchronous celebrations section.

Please let me know if you have any questions.


Thanks
Sailesh (Wikimedia Foundation), Florencia (WM Argentina), Klara (WM
Polska), Vjollca (WM of Albanian Languages UG), Will (WikiEducation),
Kashyap, Elfego (Wikimedia Foundation).
-- 

Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)

Program Officer, Education

Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy

[Liam Wyatt]

Dear Željko,

I wish to make a reply to some of the comments you raise - primarily to
emphasise to the rest of the subscribers on this list that there is already
an extensive community discussion about this Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung (FAZ)
opinion column on the German Wikipedia 'Kurier' forum, starting from here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Antwort_von_Wiki_Loves_Broadcast_zu_FAZ-Artikel_vom_18.01.2022
I encourage anyone who wishes to discuss the issues raised on the original,
and the reply, articles - to do so at that forum.

Relatedly, there is also this point-by-point rebuttal thread on Twitter,
which has been shared by WM-DE too:
https://twitter.com/leonidobusch/status/1483409545473015810?s=21 [with each
tweet being machine-translatable inside twitter's own interface].

But mostly, I wish to emphasise this letter, which written by the volunteer
community leaders behind the "Wiki Loves Broadcast" (WLB) project. The FAZ
opinion column is referring at a community-originating volunteer campaign
to obtain free-licensing for audiovisual material produced for public
service broadcasters. And so, I feel their response which should be the
thing which is emphasised:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast/Statement_zum_FAZ-Beitrag_vom_18.01.2022
[English language machine-translated version:
https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast/Statement_zum_FAZ-Beitrag_vom_18.01.2022?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=wapp
].
The WLB homepage is here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast.[1]

To the other issues raised:
The concept of a free-license means that anyone can use use the material
for any purpose, including commercially: and as we know, many already do.
The FAZ opinion column conflates this fundamental principle of
free-licenses with an entirely separate project being run at the WMF. The
"Enterprise" API project is not licensing content - everyone can *already* use
it. Rather, it is a *service* with higher-speed/volume data throughput than
could (or should) be provided for free for commercial organisations, who
wish to use it. As we say: "Same water, thicker pipe." And ironically, for
the argument being made in FAZ, this API does not include any multimedia
content on Wikimedia projects. I say "should", because if it were a service
provided at no-cost to largest commercial users, that would mean
subsidising their business model with donors' money.
Also, since Željko asked if there was any comments provided by the WMF, I
would like to point out that myself and the WMF Comms team were
coordinating with WM-DE last week about this reply article in FAZ. And
furthermore that the *Enterprise *project FAQ on Meta - which is also fully
translated into German, and has many responses regarding the financial and
legal aspects
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ

Sincerely,
- Liam / Wittylama
*Wikimedia Enterprise *Project Manager, WMF

[1] somewhat relatedly, I ran a similar campaign with the ABC in my home
country Australia a decade ago, and every now and then I still see the
video files from it appearing in unexpected places across the internet:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2012/03/25/abc-joins-wikimedia-in-sharing-historic-footage/


On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 12:53, Željko Blaće  wrote:

> Thank you for engaging with this topic in public and doing the translation
> and sharing here (adding open-glam list).
>
> Aside from being a nice Sunday read I think this is a super useful case
> study for people working in the cultural sector and advocacy for open. Was
> this published elsewhere in English?
>
> I would love for us to have a better platform to comment and discuss
> individual aspects of both articles (Discourse as WM Spaces would be good -
> no?), but anyway few inline comments below.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 7:24 PM Christian Humborg <
> christian.humb...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> we had articles in Germany published connecting the activities of
>> Wikimedia Enterprise with our licensing advocacy. Please find below the
>> article of a filmmaker, published last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine
>> Zeitung, one of the large German newspapers.
>>
>
> I see the article did not get a huge amount of comments and in that way it
> failed to attract much attention or there were echoes elsewhere?
>
> https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/wikimedia-plant-die-kommerzialisierung-ihrer-inhalte-17736141-p2.html#lesermeinungen
>
>
>
>> Below you find our response, published this week in the Frankfurter
>> Allgemeine Zeitung. I hope this is useful for further debates.
>>
>
> One needs to register (or even pay?) to get to this article?  I wonder
> what was the quality and quantity of responses here?
>
> https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/wikimedia-ard-und-zdf-freie-lizenzen-fuer-das-gemeinwohl-17753492.html
>
>
>> Kind regards
>> Christian

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2022 Ombuds Commission

[Karen Brown]

Hello, everyone.

I'm writing with information about the Ombuds Commission (OC), the small
group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the
privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of CheckUser and
Oversight tools, on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. I
apologize for the length of the announcement. :)

The application period for new commissioners for 2022 recently closed. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.

This year’s OC will consist of eight members, with a two-member advisory
team who will guide the new commission and also, if necessary, fill in in
the event that the OC is unable to act due to incapacity or recusal.


I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2022 OC:

Regular membersÉrico  <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%C3%89rico>

Érico has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2010. He edits primarily on
Portuguese Wikipedia, where he is a bureaucrat, checkuser, and
administrator, and Commons, where he is an administrator. He has, in the
past, also served as an oversighter and a global sysop. He has created
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia payroll and related (WAS: Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy)

[Andreas Kolbe]

Correction:

The 2016 base salary figure for Lisa in my previous mail should have read
$209,706, not $192,018.

Andreas

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 1:55 PM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Chris,
>
> All the numbers are taken from the official Form 990s filed. You can
> verify them for yourself here:
>
> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703
>
> There is also a table of top-earners' base salaries on Meta, with data
> taken from the Form 990:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries
>
> Have a look. They show various individuals' salaries increasing by
> remarkable amounts in recent years.
>
> Jaime Villagomez' base salary for example increased by more than $50,000
> in three years, from $237,665 in 2016 to $289,356 in 2019.
>
> Toby Negrin's base salary increased by more than $45,000 over the same
> time period (from $192,018 to $237,992).
>
> Lisa Seitz-Gruwell's base salary increased by more than $40,000 over that
> period (from $192,018 to $252,117).
>
> These are all base salaries, excluding "other compensation", which adds
> another $34K, $33K and $21K to the salary figures for these three
> individuals, respectively.
>
> You can find the above figures on Page 7 of the following forms:
>
> The 2016 Form 990 is here:
> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/201821349349310527/full
> The 2019 Form 990 is here:
> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/202101319349300105/full
>
> In 2008, only three people at the WMF earned more than $100,000:
>
>
> https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/200049703/2010_05_EO%2F20-0049703_990_200906
>
>
> In 2019, it was (at least) 165.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:44 AM Chris Keating 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, 00:45 Nathan,  wrote:
>>
>>> I suspect there weren't that many FT employees of the WMF in 2008, if
>>> any?
>>>
>>
>> According to Andreas's table there were 72 total employees. How many were
>> full time? Pass!
>>
>> But his numbers make little sense, so it's hard to draw conclusions from
>> them.
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[Wikimedia-l] Form 990 clarification request (for the attention of WMF accounts staff)

[Andreas Kolbe]

Dear WMF accounts staff,

Could you kindly clarify whether the "Salaries, other compensation,
employee benefits" figure in Part I, line 15 of the Form 990 relates solely
to the 291 employees indicated in Part I, line 5, or whether it also
includes salaries, compensation and benefits for the 82 contractors listed
in Part V, line 1a of the Form 990.

Thank you.

Andreas
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia payroll and related (WAS: Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy)

[Andreas Kolbe]

Chris,

All the numbers are taken from the official Form 990s filed. You can verify
them for yourself here:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703

There is also a table of top-earners' base salaries on Meta, with data
taken from the Form 990:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries

Have a look. They show various individuals' salaries increasing by
remarkable amounts in recent years.

Jaime Villagomez' base salary for example increased by more than $50,000 in
three years, from $237,665 in 2016 to $289,356 in 2019.

Toby Negrin's base salary increased by more than $45,000 over the same time
period (from $192,018 to $237,992).

Lisa Seitz-Gruwell's base salary increased by more than $40,000 over that
period (from $192,018 to $252,117).

These are all base salaries, excluding "other compensation", which adds
another $34K, $33K and $21K to the salary figures for these three
individuals, respectively.

You can find the above figures on Page 7 of the following forms:

The 2016 Form 990 is here:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/201821349349310527/full
The 2019 Form 990 is here:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/202101319349300105/full

In 2008, only three people at the WMF earned more than $100,000:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/200049703/2010_05_EO%2F20-0049703_990_200906


In 2019, it was (at least) 165.

Andreas

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:44 AM Chris Keating 
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, 00:45 Nathan,  wrote:
>
>> I suspect there weren't that many FT employees of the WMF in 2008, if
>> any?
>>
>
> According to Andreas's table there were 72 total employees. How many were
> full time? Pass!
>
> But his numbers make little sense, so it's hard to draw conclusions from
> them.
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of the Gungbe Wikimedians User Group

[Olushola Olaniyan]

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:40 AM Camelia Boban 
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> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] *Gungbe Wikimedians User Group* [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to promote Wikimedia projects in Gun(Gungbe) language. The Gun
> language is a language in the Gbe languages group spoken by the Ogu people
> in Nigeria and Benin Republic.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Gungbe_Wikimedians_User_Group
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gungbe_Wikimedians_User_Group
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> *Camelia Boban*
> *Chair*
>
> *Affiliations Committee
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Gungbe Wikimedians User Group

[Camelia Boban]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] *Gungbe Wikimedians User Group* [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to promote Wikimedia projects in Gun(Gungbe) language. The Gun
language is a language in the Gbe languages group spoken by the Ogu people
in Nigeria and Benin Republic.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Gungbe_Wikimedians_User_Group

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gungbe_Wikimedians_User_Group

Regards,



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