Re: [Wikimedia-l] Experimenting on Wikimedians

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

An interesting piece of corporate communication on the topic was 
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/


I've expanded the Meta-Wiki page a bit, including the following additions:
* They number in the dozens and are usually documented in the Meta-Wiki 
[[Research]] namespace.
* Their outcome is often not used for any concrete deliverable, such as 
a merged change to MediaWiki core PHP code or a peer reviewed paper.
* Sometimes changes which are known to be potentially harmful, and would 
never (or hardly) pass standard code review, are deployed as 
"experiments" to bypass tougher public scrutiny. (This is also valid of 
fundraising banners, whose poor translations since 2011 are often 
actively damaging to the public opinion and understanding of Wikimedia 
projects.)


Nemo

P.s.:

MZMcBride, 31/10/2014 04:13:

Of course the stark reality is that A/B testing on users (typically
readers, not editors) during the annual Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser
has been a major component of the Wikimedia Foundation's growth.


In part that's a myth. The income has been increased simply by making 
the banners larger, brighter, naughtier and alarming (we're in danger, 
bla bla). Sometimes they take more space than is left to the article; 
sometimes they can't be dismissed.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

[Stéphane Coillet-Matillon]

Hi Erik,

To specifically respond to your question, and as you know, WMCH does have
plans to hire a developer next year for its offline dissemination program
(ie KIWIX) [1][2].

Since Europeana had indicated its interest into maintaining/developing it
the GWToolset, we decided to focus our efforts on keeping Kiwix going
(that's also where our relationship with the community is strongest). This
being said, we also do intend to be heavily using the GlamWikiToolset next
year already, and may therefore need to develop our own extensions as needs
arise. We however first need to find out what such needs are/will be, and
how Europeana will handle the load.

But yes, to answer your question we do plan on having a dedicated chapter
staff whom you will be able to work with (provided the current APG request
goes well enough, of course).

Cheers

Stephane


[1] 
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form#Offline_Dissemination_Program
*
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline

>>
>>
>>  Original Message 
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling
>> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:50 -0700
>> From: Erik Moeller 
>> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
>>
>> Just pinging this thread -- looking through all the proposals for
>> annual plan grants:
>>
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_%C3%96sterreich/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_UK/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Sverige/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Serbia/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Nederland/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Israel/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Eesti/Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form
>>
>> I'm not seeing any developer contract time allocated to GLAM tooling
>> work yet. At the same time I'm seeing reports of breakage and missing
>> functionality in important tools running in Labs. To the extent that
>> this breakage is due to Labs infrastructure or access to data, it's
>> our job (WMF) to fix it and you should (continue to) poke us to do so
>> -- but to the extent that it can be addressed in the tools themselves,
>> I'd love to see chapters take this on directly. It's possible that I'm
>> missing something. Are there more concrete plans at this point in time
>> to help support the tools developed by Magnus and others, and create
>> new reports on an as-needed basis? Having a dedicated staff person in
>> chapters or an affilicate like Europeana who WMF analytics can partner
>> with would be really helpful for keeping this moving, in my view.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik
>>
>> --
>> Erik Möller
>> VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

[Liam Wyatt]

Hi Stéphane,
I'm currently sitting in the plenary hall of the Europeana AGM in Prado
Museum in Madrid and, quite literally, right now is the presentation is
about the 2015 business plan. What the organisation will prioritise etc.
etc. Therefore, it's a perfectly timed email to mention the GLAMwikiToolset
[GWT] and Europeana! Several Wikimedians from European Chapters, Maria from
the WMF Board of Trustees, and other 'friends of the family' are here too.

In this specific context I should say that in the last weeks of practical
planning for 2015, we've narrowed down the scope of what Europeana will be
wiling and able to support in the Wikiverse. It was decided that while
Europeana does want to fix bugs, improve documentation and give some more
'polish' to the GWT, it has decided that committing to the ongoing
development of an integrated, content-agnostic, clear user-interface, for
Wikimedia Commons is actually beyond the scope of the organisation.
Ultimately Europeana's mission is about European GLAM content and it can no
longer justify being the 'business owner' for the large development task
that would be creating the fully-featured integrated Commons system. To be
clear: Europeana is not 'leaving' and wants to help improve the tool as it
currently exists (as well as remain involved in a variety of other GLAMwiki
activities), but the organisation wanted to be clear in setting
expectations that it will *not* be building the Mass-upload equivalent of
the Upload Wizard.

From a personal perspective, as the guy who was pushing for the
funding/creation of the magical, easy, beautiful mass-upload system
since... I forget how long ago now... I would love to see investment (by
anyone), but in my professional perspective I understand the need for
Europeana to clearly define the scope of its activities - and a
mass-uploader for anyone, with any content, to Wikimedia (with all the
extremely complex usability, templates, metadata... requirements that this
entails) is actually outside the scope of its mission.

- Liam, in my capacity as
Europeana GLAMwiki Coordinator.

wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata

On 31 October 2014 11:11, Stéphane Coillet-Matillon <
stephane.coil...@mail.wikimedia.ch> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> To specifically respond to your question, and as you know, WMCH does have
> plans to hire a developer next year for its offline dissemination program
> (ie KIWIX) [1][2].
>
> Since Europeana had indicated its interest into maintaining/developing it
> the GWToolset, we decided to focus our efforts on keeping Kiwix going
> (that's also where our relationship with the community is strongest). This
> being said, we also do intend to be heavily using the GlamWikiToolset next
> year already, and may therefore need to develop our own extensions as needs
> arise. We however first need to find out what such needs are/will be, and
> how Europeana will handle the load.
>
> But yes, to answer your question we do plan on having a dedicated chapter
> staff whom you will be able to work with (provided the current APG request
> goes well enough, of course).
>
> Cheers
>
> Stephane
>
>
> [1] *
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form#Offline_Dissemination_Program
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form#Offline_Dissemination_Program
> >*
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix_-_Wikipedia_Offline
>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Original Message 
> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling
> >> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:50 -0700
> >> From: Erik Moeller 
> >> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> >> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> >>
> >> Just pinging this thread -- looking through all the proposals for
> >> annual plan grants:
> >>
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_%C3%96sterreich/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_UK/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Sverige/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Serbia/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Nederland/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Israel/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Eesti/Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form
> >>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikimedia_CH/Proposal_form
> >>
> >> I'm not seeing any developer contract time allocated to GLAM tooling
> >> work yet. At the same time I'm seeing reports of breakage and missing
> >> functionality 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

[Yana Welinder]

Thanks Yann!  We will take care of those files.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Yann Forget  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a note: we can update the license on Commons, but I noticed that
> the files were copied locally on https://wikimediafoundation.org/
> Someone with the right priviledges will have to do it there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann
>
> 2014-10-30 17:30 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder :
> > Still traveling, but let me see if I can briefly dispel some of the
> > confusion.
> >
> > CC BY-SA 3.0 grants users the right to use an image under copyright law.
> It
> > does not cover trademark rights. The goal of trademark rights is to
> protect
> > the logo from being used in a way that confuses the public. Trademark
> > protection only covers certain types of uses, which are not the same as
> use
> > covered with a copyright license like CC BY-SA 3.0. The Wikimedia
> trademark
> > policy provides how the logos can be used as trademarks and here is some
> > discussion about why it does that:
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy-purpose#trademark-purpose
> > .
> >
> > So are the logos "free" under the Free Culture Definition? Yes, because
> the
> > definition only talks about freedom under copyright law and lists CC
> BY-SA
> > 3.0 as a "free license." The definition does not mean that users have
> > freedom to violate other types of rights.
> >
> > Hope this clarifies!
> >
> > Yana
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar 
> wrote:
> >
> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >> Hash: SHA512
> >>
> >> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:15:17 -0500
> >> Yana Welinder  wrote:
> >> > To address Allan's question, this does not affect the trademark
> >> > status of the logos as governed by the new trademark policy:
> >> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thank you, Yana.
> >>
> >> However, as someone who understand little about copyright and
> >> trademarks, for me it is difficult to understand how can a logo be used
> >> commercially and not at the same time, and how can a logo be edited in
> >> any but at the same time it only can be published according to specific
> >> visual guidelines.
> >>
> >> Are the logos Free Cultural Works (as defined by Erik Möller on
> >> http://freedomdefined.org) or not?
> >> - --
> >> Allan J. Aguilar
> >> ral...@vmail.me - ralgis@freenode - al...@jabber.ccc.de
> >> PGP: B387 F3B1 0F2C F46B 36AD  FAFF 7BC3 594D F7C0 E1A3
> >> OTR: E95CB6E6 22751983 CA8F3F67 3DFACBFF 0FA3A1BC
> >> userralgis@Twitter - User:Ralgis@Wikimedia
> >> https://editandowikimedia.wordpress.com
> >> https://libredebian.wordpress.com
> >> https://revistasifra.wordpress.com/
> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

[Michael Guss]

Hello Liam and Richard,

Let me try to answer some of your questions.

*Do you have an idea of how much work will be required by movement orgs for
this?*

*Very little actually: it is a matter of simply answering an email asking,
for instance, out of your "Administrative Costs"  listed in your most
recent report, how much were your travel costs.* *There will not be further
paperwork to be submitted. It is the fellows' job to make the final report,
not the chapters or thematic organizations. Furthermore, we are working
with the WMF Grantmaking department as they contribute their expertise and
their already existing reports. Therefore, we won't be contacting the
chapters until we've exhausted our current available resources. Again, I
want to emphasize that we will not be asking for any additional paperwork
to be submitted.  *

*I worry that your target of 20 January won't be met, as we don't have the
resources to help revalidate your data at that point of our year. December
is difficult, as the FDC figures are released then - which is when we need
to construct our final budget for the next year. January/February is also
difficult , as all our staff are already pre-booked working on our
financial year end of January 31 - which is also an FDC quarter end - so
there's a lot of work to be done!*

*We completely understand how overwhelming work can be near the end of the
year and the end of respective fiscal years. The date indicated is not a
hard deadline, but rather a tentative date the fellows have set themselves
as a group milestone; by no means is this date a "drop-dead" item. We fully
appreciate the work our partner organizations conduct and we acknowledge
the difference in abilities to respond to requests. Hopefully we are able
to catch the chapters at the most convenient time possible over the next
few months. Again, we will not reach out until we make certain that the
data we intend to find is not already available. *

*Has anyone contacted movement orgs already, perhaps a few months ago? *

*No, movement organizations were not contacted about this project within
the past few months.*

*Will you need to talk to treasurers? If so, please let us know as far in
advance as you can so we can book dates for meetings!*

*At this time, there is no need to talk to the treasurers. If the there is
a time, we will contact them as far ahead as possible.  *

*What happens if movement orgs do not have time to check your data? Will
you go ahead with "unvalidated" data in your report, or will you be able to
move your timeline to fit with ours?*

*We are here to meet your schedule as best as we can. Given the six-month
duration of the fellows time here at WMF, we hope to conclude this project
before the end of March 2015 and to conclude the initial phase of
consolidating the data earlier than that. However, we are flexible.
Ideally, we would like to validate all the data we receive, but we
understand that this may not be the case for every item. We will indicate
line items that have not been validated in our final report, if need be.
That said, we appreciate if you are able to help us make the most accurate
final product possible. *

*How much input will chapters have in the process? who will have the "final
say" in the comparisons - presumably the WMF? *

*Chapters are strongly encouraged to offer their input throughout the
entire process. After all, this project concerns you! Chapters are
encouraged to reach out directly via the project's meta page
 and the
fellows' pages with their questions, comments, and suggestions. Once we
have gathered as much information as possible, we will attempt to
consolidate our findings into a single, movement-wide report. Garfield Byrd
will monitor and determine the viability of the final product, but any
product rendered will be the result of the participation of our partner
organizations. If there are concerns about the quality of the data then it
will be highlighted in the report. *

*In response to MZMcBrIde, the user account 'WMF Finance Fellows' will not
be used to make any edits on any of the Wikimedia projects. *


*Thank you,*











On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Liam Wyatt  wrote:

> Thank you Garfield for your quick reply - and with welcome news in it. I am
> heartened to see your clarification/confirmation that this project is
> specifically intending to re-use existing documentation and not to increase
> the "red tape" or compliance-requirements of chapters. Also, as mentioned
> in my first email, I would like to reiterate my support for the idea that
> (especially smaller/newer) chapters have a dedicated contact person. This
> will be very helpful for many.
>
> On the other note I raised, could you/anyone also address whether the
> chapters had prior-awareness of this new project's existence or planned
> creation before this email announcement?
>
> On Friday, 31 October 2014, Garfield Byrd  wrote:
>
> > L

[Wikimedia-l] ED response to the recommendations by the FDC Advisory Group on the APG program

[Lila Tretikov]

Dear all,

As you know, over the last few months I’ve been learning about the work of
the organizations we fund through the many grantmaking programs here at
WMF. I’ve been particularly focusing on the impact evaluations that have
been done on WMF grants with the first round of Impact Reports. [1] I
expect I will learn more from you all in the coming months, and I will be
creating opportunities to do so.

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Advisory Group met this past May to
review the first years of the FDC’s grantmaking through the Annual Plan
Grants program. I want to thank them for their thoughtful recommendations. [2]


With the Board of Trustees, I’ve carefully reviewed the Advisory Group
recommendations, in order to understand our successes and our challenges.
I would like to outline my current view of our capabilities and our
opportunities, and I am now publishing my response to these recommendations
on Meta. [3]  Please post questions and comments on the Talk page of that
document. [4]

I would like to offer some time for any feedback  or questions you may have
on my response. To that end, I’ll be holding a virtual meeting on Monday
Nov 3 at 17:00 UTC, and I invite you to watch the streaming video and join
the conversation. [5]  You can ask questions via IRC on #wikimedia-office
directly or message FDC support staff, Katy Love (kl...@wikimedia.org or on
IRC at Katy.Love) with questions or comments; she will voice them in the
Hangout.

I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Lila Tretikov

Executive Director, WMF
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED response to the recommendations by the FDC Advisory Group on the APG program

[Michael Peel]

Hi Lila,

I’m afraid that your footnote links didn’t make it through to the list…

Will you also be replying to the FDC’s comments about the WMF’s budget proposal 
earlier this year?

Thanks,
Mike

> On 31 Oct 2014, at 22:23, Lila Tretikov  wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> As you know, over the last few months I’ve been learning about the work of
> the organizations we fund through the many grantmaking programs here at
> WMF. I’ve been particularly focusing on the impact evaluations that have
> been done on WMF grants with the first round of Impact Reports. [1] I
> expect I will learn more from you all in the coming months, and I will be
> creating opportunities to do so.
> 
> The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Advisory Group met this past May to
> review the first years of the FDC’s grantmaking through the Annual Plan
> Grants program. I want to thank them for their thoughtful recommendations. [2]
> 
> 
> With the Board of Trustees, I’ve carefully reviewed the Advisory Group
> recommendations, in order to understand our successes and our challenges.
> I would like to outline my current view of our capabilities and our
> opportunities, and I am now publishing my response to these recommendations
> on Meta. [3]  Please post questions and comments on the Talk page of that
> document. [4]
> 
> I would like to offer some time for any feedback  or questions you may have
> on my response. To that end, I’ll be holding a virtual meeting on Monday
> Nov 3 at 17:00 UTC, and I invite you to watch the streaming video and join
> the conversation. [5]  You can ask questions via IRC on #wikimedia-office
> directly or message FDC support staff, Katy Love (kl...@wikimedia.org or on
> IRC at Katy.Love) with questions or comments; she will voice them in the
> Hangout.
> 
> I look forward to speaking with you soon.
> 
> Lila Tretikov
> 
> Executive Director, WMF
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED response to the recommendations by the FDC Advisory Group on the APG program

[aude]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Michael Peel  wrote:

> Hi Lila,
>
> I’m afraid that your footnote links didn’t make it through to the list…
>
>
here is Lila's response:

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Advisory_Group/Recommendations/2014/ED_Response

Cheers,
Katie



> Will you also be replying to the FDC’s comments about the WMF’s budget
> proposal earlier this year?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 31 Oct 2014, at 22:23, Lila Tretikov  wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > As you know, over the last few months I’ve been learning about the work
> of
> > the organizations we fund through the many grantmaking programs here at
> > WMF. I’ve been particularly focusing on the impact evaluations that have
> > been done on WMF grants with the first round of Impact Reports. [1] I
> > expect I will learn more from you all in the coming months, and I will be
> > creating opportunities to do so.
> >
> > The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Advisory Group met this past May
> to
> > review the first years of the FDC’s grantmaking through the Annual Plan
> > Grants program. I want to thank them for their thoughtful
> recommendations. [2]
> >
> >
> > With the Board of Trustees, I’ve carefully reviewed the Advisory Group
> > recommendations, in order to understand our successes and our challenges.
> > I would like to outline my current view of our capabilities and our
> > opportunities, and I am now publishing my response to these
> recommendations
> > on Meta. [3]  Please post questions and comments on the Talk page of that
> > document. [4]
> >
> > I would like to offer some time for any feedback  or questions you may
> have
> > on my response. To that end, I’ll be holding a virtual meeting on Monday
> > Nov 3 at 17:00 UTC, and I invite you to watch the streaming video and
> join
> > the conversation. [5]  You can ask questions via IRC on #wikimedia-office
> > directly or message FDC support staff, Katy Love (kl...@wikimedia.org
> or on
> > IRC at Katy.Love) with questions or comments; she will voice them in the
> > Hangout.
> >
> > I look forward to speaking with you soon.
> >
> > Lila Tretikov
> >
> > Executive Director, WMF
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED response to the recommendations by the FDC Advisory Group on the APG program

[Lila Tretikov]

Thanks Katie. Here is the full set of links.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Impact_Evaluations

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Advisory_Group/Recommendations/2014

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Advisory_Group/Recommendations/2014/ED_Response

[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Advisory_Group/Recommendations/2014/ED_Response

[5] http://youtu.be/J-RYwNFXBfg


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:58 PM, aude  wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Michael Peel  wrote:
>
> > Hi Lila,
> >
> > I’m afraid that your footnote links didn’t make it through to the list…
> >
> >
> here is Lila's response:
>
> [3]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Advisory_Group/Recommendations/2014/ED_Response
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
>
>
> > Will you also be replying to the FDC’s comments about the WMF’s budget
> > proposal earlier this year?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > > On 31 Oct 2014, at 22:23, Lila Tretikov  wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > As you know, over the last few months I’ve been learning about the work
> > of
> > > the organizations we fund through the many grantmaking programs here at
> > > WMF. I’ve been particularly focusing on the impact evaluations that
> have
> > > been done on WMF grants with the first round of Impact Reports. [1] I
> > > expect I will learn more from you all in the coming months, and I will
> be
> > > creating opportunities to do so.
> > >
> > > The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Advisory Group met this past
> May
> > to
> > > review the first years of the FDC’s grantmaking through the Annual Plan
> > > Grants program. I want to thank them for their thoughtful
> > recommendations. [2]
> > >
> > >
> > > With the Board of Trustees, I’ve carefully reviewed the Advisory Group
> > > recommendations, in order to understand our successes and our
> challenges.
> > > I would like to outline my current view of our capabilities and our
> > > opportunities, and I am now publishing my response to these
> > recommendations
> > > on Meta. [3]  Please post questions and comments on the Talk page of
> that
> > > document. [4]
> > >
> > > I would like to offer some time for any feedback  or questions you may
> > have
> > > on my response. To that end, I’ll be holding a virtual meeting on
> Monday
> > > Nov 3 at 17:00 UTC, and I invite you to watch the streaming video and
> > join
> > > the conversation. [5]  You can ask questions via IRC on
> #wikimedia-office
> > > directly or message FDC support staff, Katy Love (kl...@wikimedia.org
> > or on
> > > IRC at Katy.Love) with questions or comments; she will voice them in
> the
> > > Hangout.
> > >
> > > I look forward to speaking with you soon.
> > >
> > > Lila Tretikov
> > >
> > > Executive Director, WMF
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