[Wikimedia Announcements] All four Wikipedia videos published

2010-09-24 Thread Erik Moeller
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/

[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, August 2010

2010-10-07 Thread Erik Moeller
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 ==

[Wikimedia Announcements] Official Wikipedia Android App Released

2012-01-26 Thread Erik Moeller
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

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

2013-10-03 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:56 PM Subject: Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

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

2014-05-27 Thread Erik Moeller
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

[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Arthur Richards as Team Practices Manager

2014-07-24 Thread Erik Moeller
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

[Wikimedia Announcements] Update regarding WMF's reporting practices

2014-11-05 Thread Erik Moeller
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