Wikimedia Highlights, January 2013/ar

مقتطفات من تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا و اتقرير لقسم التقني في ويكيميديا لشهر فبراير 2012، ومختارات من أحداث هامة من حركة ويكيميديا

مقتطفات من مؤسسة ويكيميديا

شعار مشروع "مضافة الشاي"

New program offers financial support for projects by individual Wikimedians

The Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program launched on January 15. While most WMF grants have so far gone to organizations like chapters, the new program will finance initiatives by individual Wikimedians or small teams to improve Wikimedia projects. The first application period lasts until February 15. During the first two weeks, 31 ideas, drafts, and proposals were submitted. An "IdeaLab" has been set up where draft proposals can be discussed, and applicants can get help to turn their ideas into complete proposals.

مؤسسة ويكيميديا

Successful migration to new data center

On January 22, Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia sites were migrated to the Foundation's new primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia (US). The prior data center in Tampa, Florida had been the main hosting site since 2004; it will remain on standby to take over in case the new data center experiences an outage. The switch worked nearly without any problems. The Operations Team attributes this success to the careful preparation since 2011. This involved reviewing, improving and documenting the configuration of the servers (currently about 885) in a way that has already improved stability in 2012, and will make it possible to set up new data centers much faster.

New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users

VimpelCom, the sixth largest mobile network operator in the world, joined the Wikipedia Zero program in January, raising the number of mobile users who are eligible to access Wikipedia without data fees by 100 million, to 330 million worldwide. Among the countries served by VimpelCom are Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and other countries of the former USSR.

Wikivoyage logo

Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project

On January 15, the 12th anniversary of Wikipedia, Wikivoyage was officially launched as the newest project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The free travel guide that anyone can edit is already available in nine languages - Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish - with more being added. There are more than 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors.

Data and Trends

الزوار العالمي لشهر سبتمبر:

474.9 مليون (+4.08% مقارنة مع شهر أغسطس؛ +4.47% مقارنة مع السنة السابقة)

(بيانات كومسكور لجميع مشاريع مؤسسة ويكيميديا​​؛ ستنشر كومسكور بيانات شهر سبتمبر لاحقا في نوفمبر)

Page requests for January:

22.2 billion (+10.3% compared with December; +23.4% compared with the previous year)

(Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)

Active Registered Editors for December 2012 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):

78,536 (-1.04% compared with November / +0.09% compared with the previous year)

(Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects. Note: We recently refined this metric to take into account Wikimedia Commons and activity across several projects.)

Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects) for December 2012:

http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/

(Definitions)

الشؤون المالية

إيرادات ومصروفات مؤسسة ويكيميديا منذ بداية العام مقابل الخطة كما في 30 سبتمبر 2012

مصروفات مؤسسة ويكيميديا ​​منذ بداية العام حسب القسم كما في 30 سبتمبر 2012

(المعلومات المالية متوفرة فقط لشهر ديسمبر 2011 في وقت كتابة هذا التقرير.)

جميع المعلومات المالية المعروضة هي للفترة من بدء شهر/عام حتى تاريخ يوم 30 سبتمبر 2012.

الإيرادات	$30,916,665
المصروفات:
المجموعة التقنية	$6,289,609
مجموعة جمع التمويل	$2,039,275
Grantmaking & Programs Group	$2,390,621
مجموعة الحوكمة	$364,699
المجموعة القانونية / المجتمع/ الاتصال	$1,557,154
Finance/HR/Admin Group	$2,820,212
Total Expenses	$15,461,570
Total surplus/(loss)	$15,455,095

• Revenue for the month of December is $14.30MM vs plan of $14.41MM, approximately $109K or 1% under plan.

• Year-to-date revenue is $30.92MM vs plan of $29.91MM, approximately $1.01MM or 3% over plan.

• Expenses for the month of December is $2.70MM vs plan of $3.14MM, approximately $433K or 14% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, and outside contract services.

• Year-to-date expenses is $15.46MM vs plan of $17.78MM, approximately $2.31MM or 13% under plan, primarily due to personnel expenses, internet hosting, travel expenses, and capital expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, and awards and grants.

• Cash position is $41.17MM as of December 31, 2012.

Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of January (February 7, 2013)

Other movement highlights

The orbit of 274301 Wikipedia

Asteroid named after Wikipedia

A committee of astronomers has decided to give a recently discovered asteroid the name 274301 Wikipedia. The name had been proposed by Andriy Makukha, a board member of Wikimedia Ukraine. Wikipedia orbits the sun every 3.68 years, and its diameter is estimated to be about 1–2 kilometers (around 1 mile).

Screenshot of the "Article Statistics and Quality Monitor" tool on the German Wikipedia

EU-funded RENDER project releases editor support tools

RENDER (REflecting kNowledge DivERsity) is a three-year research project begun in 2010 and funded by the European Union. Wikimedia Germany is one of the project partners. At the end of January, RENDER released two tools to support the work of Wikipedia editors: The Task List Generator (TLG) lists articles in a given category that are marked with a cleanup template or have other flaws, such as lacking images. The Article Statistics and Quality Monitor (ASQM) "offers a brief overview about the quality and the current status of any Wikipedia article". It integrates data such as the number of references in the article, its pageviews, and a comparison of its wikilinks with other language versions of the article, possibly indicating information that it missing from one language version of Wikipedia but is present in another.

Wiki Loves Monuments posters in the main hall of the Warsaw Central railway station

Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition in Polish railway station

The winning pictures from the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 photo contest were presented in a three-week exhibition at Warsaw Central, Poland's largest railway station. The exhibition was organized by Wikimedia Poland, in cooperation with an initiative of Polish State Railways that presents open cultural events at selected train stations in Poland.

Review of management and conflict of interest issues at Wikimedia UK

In January, work wrapped up on a report by Compass Partnership, a group of UK-based consultants in non-profit management, about the management structure of the UK Wikimedia chapter and its handling of conflict of interest issues. The report was commissioned jointly by the Foundation and Wikimedia UK in October 2012 following community discussions about potential conflicts of interest arising from a series of outreach projects, including Gibraltarpedia and Monmouthpedia. The report makes various recommendations on how to improve policies and procedures.