[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Tilman Bayer joins Product & Strategy Department

FYI :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:50 PM Subject: Tilman Bayer joins Product & Strategy Department To: Staff All Hi all, It’s my pleasure to announce that Tilman Bayer is joining the Foundation’s Product & Strategy depar

[Wikimedia Announcements] Update regarding WMF's reporting practices

Hi all -- Starting this month, WMF will be shifting its organization-wide reports from a monthly to a quarterly cadence. This reflects our growth as an organization, and is intended to make important developments more visible internally and externally. == Background == Shortly after Sue became W

[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Guillaume Paumier as Senior Analyst / SF relo

FYI - belatedly forwarding after internal announcement: - - - Hi folks, Guillaume Paumier has been Technical Communications Manager in the Engineering Community Team since early 2011. In this role, he's been instrumental in developing the monthly engineering reports (including all the underlying

[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Arthur Richards as Team Practices Manager

Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce Arthur Richards as Team Practices Manager for WMF. Arthur will lead a group of ScrumMasters and coaches to scale up our ability to support teams in developing robust processes for software delivery. In this new role, Arthur will report to the VP of Engi

[Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Rachel diCerbo, Director of Community Engagement

Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell, Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our technical

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue

FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:56 PM Subject: Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue To: Wikimedia Mailing List See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/October_2013_private_data_security_issue On October 1

[Wikimedia Announcements] Toby Negrin joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Analytics

Hello all, it’s my great pleasure to announce that as of today, Toby Negrin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as the new Director of Analytics. Toby will be responsible for leading the analytics team, which is responsible for enabling data-driven decisions in the Wikimedia Foundation and the bro

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations

FYI :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:17 AM Subject: Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations To: Wikimedia developers Hello all, I’m delighted to announce that Ken Snider is joining the Wikimedia operations team. He will start as

[Wikimedia Announcements] Jared Zimmerman joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of UX

Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on the team, contributing his own design work. It’s still a small team (Brandon, Vibha

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Travel Project - Next Steps

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM Subject: Travel Project - Next Steps To: Wikimedia Mailing List , Wikimedia developers Hello all, As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a Wikimedia travel project based

[Wikimedia Announcements] Terry Chay joins WMF as Director of Features Engineering

Hello all, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Terrence (Terry) Chay is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Features Engineering. Terry comes to us from Automattic, where he helped improve the WordPress.com user experience by implementing an A/B testing framework, improv

[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Howie Fung as Director of Product Development

Hello all, It’s with great pleasure that I announce the promotion of Howie Fung to the position of Director of Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation, effective February 1. Howie joined us in October 2009 as a consultant for usability projects, and became a permanent staff member in May

[Wikimedia Announcements] Official Wikipedia Android App Released

In case you missed our blog post or reports in the tech media: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/ https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wikipedia We recently released the first version of a Wikipedia smartphone app for Android phones. It's base

[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia

Hello all, I’m really happy to announce that Fabrice Florin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement. In this position, Fabrice will take the lead in articulating and refining, in partnership with the community and the engineering team, the requirements for

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, September 2011

Hello all, please find below the WMF report for September, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_September_2011 The reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corpora

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, July 2011

Please find below the report for July. As always, you can find the formatted and illustrated version on-wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_July_2011 Big thanks to Tilman Bayer, our new Movement Communications Manager, for shepherding this one. Going forward Tilman w

[Wikimedia Announcements] June 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report

Please find below the WMF report for June. As always, the editable and formatted version can be found on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_June_2011 All best, Erik * 1 Data and Trends * 2 Financials * 3 Highlights o 3.1 2011-12 Annual Plan Appro

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: WMF engineering promotions and role changes

FYI :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM Subject: Announcement: WMF engineering promotions and role changes To: Wikimedia developers Hi folks, I’m pleased to announce the following promotions and role changes in engineering

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, May 2011

Please find below the WMF report for May. As always, the editable and formatted version can be found on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_May_2011 All best, Erik * 1 Data and Trends * 2 Financials * 3 Highlights o 3.1 Public Policy Initiative wraps up

[Wikimedia Announcements] April 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report

Hello all, you can find the wiki version of our April report on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_April_2011 Plain text version below. All best, Erik * 1 Data and Trends o 1.1 Reach and Participation o 1.2 Financials o 1.3 Staffing * 2 Highli

[Wikimedia Announcements] March 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report

Fung under the supervision of Erik Moeller. The Editor Trends Study specifically examined changes in the long-term retention of users newly joining Wikimedia projects. >From Sue Gardner's update: : Here’s what we think the Editor Trends Study tells us: Between 2005 and 2007, newbies starte

[Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM - March 2011

Hello all, "This Month in GLAM" is a new community newsletter about Wikimedia's relationships with the cultural sector (GLAM stands for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). I've suggested that they forward this to WikimediaAnnounce-l regularly but here's a sample :-). All best, Erik --

[Wikimedia Announcements] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

Dear all, it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy, reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francisco, having relocated from the UK. Dario joins Howie Fung and me as part of the Wikim

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011

As always, you can find the formatted version on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_February_2011 Plain text below & feedback welcome :-) All best, Erik Contents * 1 Data and Trends * 2 Financials * 3 Highlights o 3.1 Strategic Plan Sum

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2011

mmunity at a major social computing conference. Howie Fung, Diederik van Liere and Erik Moeller continued review of first data from the Editor Trends Study [6] conducted by Diederik van Liere. The study is an in-depth quantitative analysis of major trends in Wikipedia editing communities, and will be pub

[Wikimedia Announcements] December 2010 Wikimedia Foundation Report

0,000 bytes each to articles." ===India technology fact-finding trip=== Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma and Erik Moeller traveled to India for about two weeks of meetings with various groups, organizations, and individuals. The purpose of the trip was to assess technical barriers to growing the

[Wikimedia Announcements] November 2010 Wikimedia Foundation Report

In September we had 1400 open issues that had been open for some time, creating unhappiness in the volunteer developer community. We created a staff and volunteer tiger team to attack the problem. As of November, 800 requests were remaining. == Research and Strategy == The product strategy team

[Wikimedia Announcements] October 2010 Wikimedia Foundation Report

This version is for e-mail consumption. Formatted, living version: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_October_2010 All best, Erik ==Highlights== * Wikimedia Foundation projects serve more than 400 million unique visitors * Events: Hack-a-Ton in Washington, DC; Inside th

[Wikimedia Announcements] [Backlog] April 2010 Wikimedia Foundation report

in a German legal case. ==Wikimedia at Museums and the Web conference == On Tuesday, 13 April 2010 over 50 leaders from the global museum sector were invited to meet with 11 Wikimedians for a day-long workshop in Denver, Colorado, to discuss collaboration between the two communities. Wikimedia staf

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, September 2010

Formatted and editable version here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_September_2010 == Highlights == * Videos of Wikimedians released: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/24/four-videos-of-wikipedias-volunteers/ * Article feedback pilot launches: http://blog.wikimed

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, August 2010

Hello all, please find below the August 2010 report of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you're so inclined, you can help us improve the wiki version, which has nicer formatting, too: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_August_2010 All best, Erik == Highlights == *Usability

[Wikimedia Announcements] All four Wikipedia videos published

Hello all, over the last few days, we've been releasing the videos mentioned in a previous announcement through various social media. All four videos are now published, and you can find a blog post with links here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/24/four-videos-of-wikipedias-volunteers/ I

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Fwd: report of Wikimedia Argentina

FYI - see the link below for Wikimedia Argentina's September bulletin. Highlights include: * The chapter just celebrated its three year anniversary -- congratulations! :-) * A new version of the outreach brochure "Wikipedia en el aula" ("Wikipedia in the classroom"), which can be downloaded from

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Hong Kong Report for Jul-Aug 2010

FYI, the report for Wikimedia Hong Kong for July and August. The "education toolkit" referenced below is a media literacy project targeting high schools in Hong Kong; you can read more about the grant here (we funded it at a reduced budget of $10,000): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_HK/E

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [Announce]: Mark Bergsma promotion to Operations Engineer Programs Manager

FYI, also posted to the Wikimedia tech blog at: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/1033/ (EPM stands for Engineering Program Manager.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Danese Cooper Date: 2010/9/14 Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Announce]: Mark Bergsma promotion to Operations Engineer

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Announcing GLAM-WIKI:UK

FYI. Liam Wyatt has championed Wikimedia's relationships with cultural institutions, and has led key initiatives like the British Museum's "Wikipedian in Residence" program in June 2010 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM ). Please see his announcement below regarding an important even

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report - July 2010

Hello all, sent on Sue's behalf. We're working through the April/May/June backlog for historical completeness, but wanted to share this new report upon completion. We should be returning to predicable production frequency now. I'd also like to invite you to help get the word out about this report

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report WMSE August 2010

FYI, below is the August report for Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden). -- Forwarded message -- From: Jan Ainali Date: 2010/9/1 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report WMSE August 2010 To: chapters-repo...@lists.wikimedia.org This is the chapters report for Wikimedia Sver

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Hungary report for August 2010

FYI: The latest report from Wikimedia Hungary below. Congratulations to WM-HU for being awarded a grant by the Council of Hungarian Internet Providers of HUF 4.7 million ($ 21 300), which will be used for technical infrastructure. As noted below, WM-HU has also been awarded grants by the Wikimedia

[Wikimedia Announcements] Report to the Board (February and March)

undation inquiries. TECHNOLOGY – CORE As noted in the previous report, Danese Cooper joined the Wikimedia Foundation as CTO, succeeding Brion Vibber. Erik Moeller and the Wikimedia Foundation technology team organized several orientation and transition meetings. The process for decommissioning

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapters report Wikimedia Nederland May - July 2010

Below is a summary of three months of activities by Wikimedia Nederlands. Please do check out the gallery of recently uploaded Tropenmuseum objects. This is one of the first cultural partnerships resulting in a large scale upload of photos of three-dimensional objects with metadata -- and it's a be

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Polska report January-July 2010

Below is a report on half a year of activities and programs by the Wikimedia chapter in Poland. I want to highlight the Wikimedia conference that took place in Warsaw in March, which drew more than 100 participants, and the awesome "Wiki-expeditions" into the Polish provinces. This year, Wikimedia

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] [Non-officially recognised] Wikimedia CAT July 2010 report

FYI - an update from our friends in Catalonia (not an official Wikimedia chapter). This is the first I've read about the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona in November ( http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010 ), which some of you may be interested in attending. All best, Erik ---

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapter Report WMDE June 2010

And another monthly report from Wikimedia Germany. We also blogged about the Skillshare conference mentioned below here . Erik -- Forwarded message -- From: Pavel Richter Date: 2010/7/21 Subject

[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] WM-IT chapter report January-June 2010

Here's 6 months worth of reporting from Wikimedia Italy about their recent activities. One particular piece of news below that I found very interesting is the announcement of a library space-sharing agreement -- hopefully we'll see more dedicated physical spaces for free culture soon :-)

[Wikimedia Announcements] Rand Montoya leaving Wikimedia Foundation

Hello all, I regret to inform you that Rand Montoya will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. His last day with us will be September 30, 2010. Rand has generously agreed to support and advise us for the next three months as we're gearing up for the 2010 fundraiser while he looks for opportunities

[Wikimedia Announcements] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to Foundation Website

(FYI) -- Forwarded message -- From: Veronique Kessler Date: 2010/6/29 Subject: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to Foundation Website To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Hi, The 2010-11 Annual Plan and Questions and Answers have just been posted to the Foundati

[Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter Report WMDE May 2010

And, another punctual update from Wikimedia Germany about their activities. :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Pavel Richter Date: 2010/6/15 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapter Report WMDE May 2010 To: chapters-repo...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear friends of free knowledge

[Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter Report WMDE April 2010

(See previous email for context.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Pavel Richter Date: 2010/6/10 Subject: [Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Chapter Report WMDE April 2010 To: chapters-repo...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear friends of free knowledge, == Wikimedia Conference == The Wikimedia

[Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter Report WMDE March 2010

Hello all, as most of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation is supported by a network of 28 international chapter organizations. These are independent organizations advocating and acting on behalf of the Wikimedia mission in their respective geographies. See:

[Wikimedia Announcements] Naoko Komura leaves Wikimedia

Hello all, I'm sorry to tell you that Naoko Komura, Wikimedia's Head of User Experience Programs, has decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation. Naoko has just wrapped up the Stanton Wikipedia Usability Project for us, so this is a natural moment for her to decide to leave. The Wikipedia Usabilit