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Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for July 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
Wikimedia Foundation highlights
Foundation staff at Wikimania
From July 12 to July 14, Wikimedians from around the world came together in Washington DC for this year’s annual Wikimania conference, organized by Wikimedia District of Columbia (see also the this month’s movement highlights). Among them were many Wikimedia Foundation staff, fellows and contractors.
The keynote of Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner was titled “Wikimedia Foundation: The Year In Review and The Year Ahead” (slides), and the Schedule included many other presentations by WMF staff, fellows and contractors:
- Fabrice Florin, Howie Fung, Karyn Gladstone, Brandon Harris, Oliver Keyes: Engaging editors on Wikipedia: A roadmap of new features (abstract, slides) / Oliver Keyes: Engaging the Community: What We’ve Tried and Where We’re Going (abstract) – video
- Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw: Life Without Brackets: Visual Editing for Wikitext (abstract,
- Erik Moeller: The purpose-driven social network: Supporting WikiProjects with technology (abstract, slides)
- Brandon Harris: The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015 (abstract. slides)
- Steven Walling, Maryana Pinchuk: Welcome to Wikipedia, now please go away: improving how we communicate with new editors (abstract, slides, video)
- Tilman Bayer (with MZMcBride): Stop Spamming’ vs. ‘Nobody Told Me’ – the state and future of movement broadcasting mechanisms (abstract, slides, video)
- Alolita Sharma: The next billion users on Wikipedia with Open Source Webfonts (abstract, video)
- Amir E. Aharoni: The software localization paradox (abstract, slides)
- Noopur Raval: GLAM and Outreach in India (abstract)
- Lori Byrd Phillips: State of GLAM-WIKI in the US (abstract)
- James Forrester & Philippe Beaudette: Wikimedia relations with governments, lobbying and public relations (abstract, video)
- Amir E. Aharoni: Supporting languages, all of them (abstract – submitted by Gerard Meijssen – , slides, video)
- Siebrand Mazeland: A Tale of Language Support (abstract, slides, video)
- Siebrand Mazeland, Santhosh Thottingal, Pau Giner, Niklas Laxström, Amir Aharoni, Arun Ganesh, Alolita Sharma: Ask the Language Support People (abstract, video)
- Fabrice Florin: Giving Readers a Voice: Lessons from Article Feedback v5 (abstract, slides, video)
- Geoff Brigham: Top 10 Legal Issues for the Wikimedia Movement (abstract, slides, video)
- Leslie Carr, Ben Hartshorne, Jeff Green, Ryan Lane, Rob Halsell: Ask the Operators (abstract, video)
- Ben Hartshorne: Swift and the Media Storage System (abstract, slides, video)
- Amir E. Aharoni: The hundred-year old websites – a new look at Wikisource (abstract, slides, video)
- Brion Vibber: Embedded scripting: creating interactive diagrams, maps, and other media resources in MediaWiki (abstract, slides, video)
- Andrew Garrett, with other panelists: Small Process Helpers: The case for Widgets (abstract, video)
- Tomasz Finc, Jon Robson: The Wikipedia Mobile Experience — Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going (abstract – submitted by Patrick Reilly -,slides, video)
- Yuvaraj Pandian: The Wikipedia Smartphone Apps Story (abstract, video)
- Oliver Keyes, with other panelists: Eternal December: How Awful Arguments are Killing the Wiki, and Why not to Make Them (abstract, video)
- Maryana Pinchuk, Steven Walling: “This is my voice”: the motivations of highly active Wikipedians (abstract, slides, video)
- Ryan Lane: Wikimedia Labs and the state of our open source infrastructure (abstract)
- Amit Kapoor/Kul Takanao Wadhwa: Reaching the Next Billion Users: Wikipedia on mobile (abstract, slides, video) + panel (video)
- Tomasz Finc, Dan Foy: Removing the barriers of access to Wikipedia (abstract, slides, video)
- Niklas Laxström: Translating the wiki way (abstract, slides, video)
- Rob Lanphier: Delivering MediaWiki faster, smoother and better (abstract, video)
- Siko Bouterse, Sarah Stierch, Jonathan Morgan, Jon Harald Søby, Peter Coombe, Tanvir Rahman, Steven Zhang: Wikimedia Community Fellows: what we’re researching, piloting and building to help the movement (abstract, slides: Introduction, Teahouse, dispute resolution, translation project, help pages, Small Wiki Editor Engagement)
- Sumana Harihareswara, Guillaume Paumier, Rob Lanphier: Transparency and collaboration in Wikimedia engineering (abstract, video)
- Katie Horn: Fundraising: Under the Hood (abstract, video)
- Sarah Stierch: 10 women in 10 minutes (abstract, slides)
- Santhosh Thottingal: Read and Write in your language (abstract, slides)
- Asaf Bartov: Funds for Free Knowledge: Wikimedia Foundation Grantmaking (abstract, slides, video)
- James Alexander: The Bad Assumptions of the Copyright Discussion (abstract)
- Sumana Harihareswara: What Does THAT mean? Engineering Jargon And Procedures Explained (abstract)
- Roan Kattouw and Timo Tijhof: ResourceLoader 2: The Future of Gadgets (abstract, slides)
- Guillaume Paumier: 11 years of Wikipedia, or the Wikimedia history crash course you can edit (abstract, video)
- Lori Byrd Phillips (with Àlex Hinojo and Andy Mabbett): QRpedia and you (abstract)
Beyond these, Wikimedia Foundation staff, fellows and contractors also participated in various other panels.
The fundraising team recorded over 100 on-camera interviews with Wikimedia editors, programmers and volunteers from all over the world. Interviews are inspiring new editor appeals (and a short video about Wikipedia), which we will showcase during the annual fundraiser.
Data and Trends
Global unique visitors for June:
- 469.64 million (-4.62% compared with May; +17.60% compared with the previous year)
- (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release July data later in August)
Page requests for July:
- 17.7 billion (-1.9% compared with June; +25.3% compared with the previous year)
- (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)
Active Registered Editors for June 2012 (>= 5 edits/month):
- 82,220 (-3.2% compared with May / -1.3% compared with the previous year)
- (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects except for Wikimedia Commons. Note: We are in the process of moving to a metric that takes into account SUL and Wikimedia Commons.)
Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects) for June 2012:
Financials
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(Financial information is only available for June 30, 2012 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the period of July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012.
| Revenue | $36,112,711 |
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| Expenses: | |
| Technology Group | $12,335,628 |
| Community/Fundraiser Group | $3,769,765 |
| Global Development Group | $4,879,005 |
| Governance Group | $998,443 |
| Finance/Legal/HR/Admin Group | $6,814,021 |
| Total Expenses | $28,796,862 |
| Total surplus/(loss) | $7,315,849 |
- Revenue for the month is $549K vs plan of $162K, approximately $387K or 238% over plan.
- Year-to-date revenue is $36.1MM vs plan of $29.5MM, approximately $6.6MM or 22% over plan.
- Expenses for the month is $3.3MM vs plan of $2.2MM, approximately $1.1MM or 49% higher than plan, primarily due to catching up on planned capital expenditures and higher-than-budgeted expenses for professional services and wikimania.
- Year-to-date expenses is $28.8MM vs plan of $28.3MM, approximately $512K or 2% higher than plan, primarily due to higher-than-budgeted payment processing fees (reflecting over-achieved revenue targets), higher-than-budgeted expenses for Wikimania, and an over-spend for Legal to fix issues with our trademark portfolio.
- Cash position is $25.4MM as of June 30, 2012 which is approximately 10.9 months of expenses.
