2013

1. Wikimedia Research Newsletter

   Wikimedia Research Newsletter, December 2013

   Vol: 3 • Issue: 12 • December 2013 [contribute] [archives] Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments With contributions by: Daniel Mietchen, Maximilian Klein, Piotr Konieczny and Tilman Bayer Contents 1 Cohort of cross-language Wikipedia editors analyzed 2 Attempt to use Wikipedia pageviews to predict election results in Iran, Germany and the UK 3 Integrity of Wikiped... Read more

2. Community

   WMF Board publicly rolls out its updated governance handbook

   In keeping with the Wikimedia Foundation’s commitment to transparency, the Board of Trustees is publishing its updated Board Handbook to allow our community to follow and understand better the workings and procedures of the Board and to learn more about how the Wikimedia Foundation is governed. The Handbook was created at the suggestion of the Board Governance Committee. It reflects many months ... Read more

3. Community

   Handling our user data – an appeal and a response

   (Today we are posting an English translation of a blog post from German Wikipedians outlining concerns about the handling of Wikipedia user data, or metadata. Above that post you will find the Foundation’s response to those concerns).  Response to user appeal In June this year, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) started to solicit community input on our privacy policy, and since September we have b... Read more

4. Wikipedia

   New draft feature provides a gentler start for Wikipedia articles

   For most of Wikipedia’s history, we encouraged editors to create new encyclopedia articles by publishing immediately. Just find a page that doesn’t exist, type in content, and after you hit save, it’s shared with the world. This helped Wikipedia grow to the millions of articles it has now, but the project has matured in many ways, and we need additional tools for creating great n... Read more

5. Affiliates

   November notes from Brussels

   Assen Gert Sennema – Sisyphus 2 Fundamentally shifting the copyright narrative is not a weekend job. Since July 2013 Dimitar Dimitrov is Wikimedian in Brussels. In assorted blogposts he talks about his experiences vis-à-vis the EU. Fundamentally shifting the copyright narrative is not a weekend job. Still, the effort that needs to be undertaken here is beyond that of a traditional lobbying ... Read more

6. Features

   OpenDyslexic font now available on Polish Wikipedia

   For those who suffer from dyslexia, the simple task of reading can become a monumental struggle. It can be hard to understand exactly what what it means to have dyslexia for those who don’t suffer from it, for this reason the condition can often go unaddressed. ... Read more

7. Community

   New Individual Engagement Grantees to engage community with tools and outreach

   Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees! These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online impact on Wikimedia projects. We’ve learned a lot from the first round of IEG grantees over the past 6 months, and are delighted to see what this next group will share with th... Read more

8. Press

   Sue Gardner to receive first Knight Innovation Award

   The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to share the news that Sue Gardner will receive the first Knight Innovation Award from the Knight Foundation, in conjunction with City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and its Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. “Sue’s extraordinary vision for Internet freedom and openness has helped guide the rapidly changing world of... Read more

9. WMF monthly reports

   Wikimedia Highlights, November 2013

   For versions in other languages, please check the wiki version of this report, or add your own translation there! Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement Wikimedia Foundation highlights Duration of edit-a-thons: 91% lasted less than 8 hours New support material for... Read more

10. Highlights

    Wikimedia Foundation Report, November 2013

    You are more than welcome to edit the wiki version of this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc., and to add translations of the “Highlights” excerpts.   Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of November (December 5, 2013) Contents 1 Data and Trends 2 Financials 3 Highlights 3.1 New support material for prog... Read more