Wikimedia monthly activities meetings/2013-06

May 2013

Wikimedia Foundation monthly Metrics & Activities Meeting, June 2013

July 2013

• When: 6 June 2013 starting at 18:00 UTC (11:00 Pacific Daylight Time)
• Where:
  • Physical location: 6th floor, Wikimedia Foundation office, San Francisco.
  • IRC participation: #wikimedia-office^connect
  • YouTube recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCEj5AOrFA

Agenda

Most updates should be done in lightning-talk form, typically 3 minutes + 2 minutes for Q/A

• Welcomes - slides
• Top line metrics - reportcard
• Engineering
  • VE update
  • Mobile update - slides: GDoc / PDF
    • Data update
    • Commons App : Education, styling, performance
    • Web : Echo, Editing, & Photos
  • Wikidata guest speaker update (Denny - 5m) slides:GDoc / PDF
  • Wikimedia (Tool) Labs update - Ryan & Coren - 5m
  • Summer interns (Google Summer of Code/Outreach Program for Women) - Sumana - 5m - mw:Summer of Code 2013 & mw:Outreach Program for Women/Round 6 & mw:Mentorship programs/Possible projects
• Grant-making and Programs
• Fundraising
• Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications
  • Trademark update - Yana - 5m - slides: GDoc / PDF
• Executive

Notes

On GSoC/OPW: We have 22 interns from China, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, US, Israel, Czech Republic, and Ukraine.

In the past, we've only had 8 or 9 interns at once, and there have been problems with making their work effective; this time, stricter scoping, 2 mentors for each intern including domain experts from community, & getting initial contribution as part of application to as a trial audition.

We have at least 8 women participating, more than in previous years, and help from 32 mentors, many of them volunteers.

Some highlights -- expect:

• Better spam filtering
• VisualEditor -- math editor, RTL support, source code editor, browser test automation
• Uploading books to Wikisource via UploadWizard, and refactoring for the ProofreadPage extension, which Wikisource depends on

Notes

• For more information about WMF activities and metrics for the month of May, see the monthly report.