Tumpuan Wikimedia, September 2012
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
Tumpuan
Perkakasan "Curation Laman" memudahkan semakan rencana Wikipedia yang baru
Every day, thousands of new pages are created on Wikipedia, requiring hundreds of volunteer editors to check them for quality. To make their work easier, the Editor Engagement Team has developed the "Page Curation" feature. It includes two tools:
- The New Pages Feed, an overview of new pages, annotated with information that helps reviewing them
- The Curation Toolbar, which appears next to a new page, offering autoconfirmed editors easy access to various actions, e.g. to mark the new page as reviewed, tag it for quality problems, or nominate it for deletion.
Page Curation was deployed on the English Wikipedia on September 20, and is planned to become available on other projects as well.
Ramai penyunting Wikipedia baru mengalami kekecewaan apabila mereka memulakan rencana yang tidak memenuhi jangkaan masyarakat dan dihapuskan. Ia diharap dengan ciri Curation Laman akan mendorong kepada suap balik yang lebih baik bagi pencipta laman.
Model berasaskan sukarelawan baru bagi mengagihkan wang derma dilancarkan
Sepanjang separuh tahun lalu, model baru telah ditetapkan bagi mengagihkan wang derma yang dikutip melalui tapak projek Wikimedia. Lebih dari $10 juta darinya kini akan diagihkan berdasarkan cadangan Jawatankuasa Pengagihan Dana ("Funds Dissemination Committee - FDC"), yang kesemuanya terdiri dari sukarelawan.
Following a public nomination process, the seven voting members of the first FDC have been announced: Arjuna Rao Chavala (India), Dariusz Jemielniak (Poland), Ali Haidar Khan (Bangladesh), Mike Peel (United Kingdom), Yuri Perohanych (Ukraine), Sydney Poore (United States), and Anders Wennersten (Sweden). They are joined by Jan-Bart de Vreede (Netherlands) and Patricio Lorente (Argentina) as non-voting representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Susana Moraes (Portugal) was appointed as ombudsperson for the FDC process.
The FDC is now reviewing funding requests by 12 organizations, which are open for public comment until October 22.
New travel project site, and legal activities
The Wikimedia Foundation has agreed to host a new travel project site at the request of the Wikimedia community. Unfortunately, on August 29, 2012, Internet Brands, the owner of the Wikitravel website, sued two Wikitravel volunteers, alleging various legal claims. In response, one of the volunteers filed an anti-SLAPP motion, arguing that Internet Brands’s lawsuit sought to suppress his right to discuss the new Wikimedia travel project. The Wikimedia Foundation has also filed a suit against Internet Brands, claiming that it has no right to impede the creation of the new travel project.
Data and Trends
Global unique visitors for August:
- 456.25 million (+0.98% compared with July; +7.92% compared with the previous year)
- (comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release September data later in October)
Page requests for September:
- 19.1 billion (+5.3% compared with August; +20.9% compared with the previous year)
- (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)
Active Registered Editors for August 2012 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):
- 79,572 (-0.74% compared with July / -0.81% 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 August 2012:
Kewangan
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(Maklumat kewangan hanya tersedia bagi Ogos 2012 pada waktu laporan ini.)
Kesemua maklumat kewangan yang dibentangkan adalah bagi tempoh 1 Julai 2012 - 31 Ogos 2012.
| Pendapatan | $1,758,126 |
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| Perbelanjaan | |
| Kumpulan Teknologi | $2,286,158 |
| Kumpulan Pengumpul Dana | $417,387 |
| Kumpulan Pembangunan Sejagat | $1,110,627 |
| Kumpulan Pentadbir | $144,825 |
| Kumpulan Kewangan/Perjawatan/Pentadbir | $864,207 |
| Perundangan/Penyokong Masyarakat/Perhubungan | $377,572 |
| Perbelanjaan Penuh | $5,200,776 |
| Lebihan penuh / (rugi) | ( $3,442,650 |
- Revenue for the month of August is $1.4MM vs plan of $465K, approximately $946K or 203% over plan, primarily due to the $1.0MM received from the Sloan Foundation.
- Year-to-date revenue is $1.8MM vs plan of $1.9MM, approximately $0.1MM or 9% under plan.
- Expenses for the month of August is $2.6MM vs plan of $2.7MM, approximately $0.1MM or 3% under plan, primarily due personnel expenses, internet hosting expenses, travel expenses, capital expenses, and legal expenses partially offset by a grant for the India catalyst program and higher recruiting expenses.
- Year-to-date expenses is $5.2MM vs plan of $5.9MM, approximately $0.7MM or 12% under plan, primarily due to personnel expenses, internet hosting, travel expenses, capital expenses, legal expenses.
- Cash position is $21.8MM as of August 31, 2012 which is approximately 6.2 months of expenses.
Other movement highlights
Worldwide Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest with record participation
Lebih dari 15,000 orang muat naik lebih dari 350,000 imej sepanjang September bagi Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, pertandingan menunpu pada gambar peringatan kebangsaan bebas. Bilangan gambar lebih dari sekali ganda berbanding acara 2011, yang telah disahkan secara rasmi sebagai pertandingan gambar terbesar di dunia oleh Rekod Dunia Guinness. Pemenang kebangsaan telahpun diistiharkan bagi Amerika Syarikat dan negara lain, dan 12 teratas seluruh dunia akan diumumkan pada awal Disember.
Perbincangan konflikkepentingan
During September, the "wiki-town" projects Monmouthpedia and Gibraltarpedia generated discussion about whether a Wikimedia UK trustee had led them in a way that blurred his roles as a Wikimedia chapter trustee, a paid consultant for the projects’ government partners, and an editor of the English Wikipedia. Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation have since jointly appointed an independent expert advisor to review both Wikimedia UK’s governance arrangements and the conflicts of interest related to these projects.
Persidangan EduWiki Pertama
Universiti Leicester, England, mengadakan Persidangan EduWiki pertamanya, membawa bersama para akademik dari tiga benua dan ahli Wikimedians bagi berbicara mengenai Program Pendidikan Wikipedia dan cara lain untuk bekerja sama. Persidangan dua hari ini diatur oleh Wikimedia UK.