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വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഹൈലൈറ്റ്സ്, സെപ്തംബർ 2012

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This page is a translated version of the page Wikimedia Highlights, September 2012 and the translation is 44% complete.


വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ റിപോർട്, സെപ്തംബർ 2012 ൽ നിന്നും വിക്കിമീഡിയ എൻഞ്ചിനീയറിംഗ് റിപോർടിൽ നിന്നുമുള്ള സെപ്തംബർ 2012 ലെ ഹൈലൈറ്റുകൾ. കൂടാതെ മറ്റ് പ്രധാന വിക്കിമീഡിയ മൂവ്‌മെന്റ് പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളും

വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ പ്രധാനകാര്യങ്ങൾ

ഇവിടെ ഉപയോഗിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ക്യൂറേറ്റർ പണിപ്പെട്ടി ഒരു പുതിയ ലേഖനത്തെ പുനരവലോകനം ചെയ്തതായി അടയാളപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനൊപ്പം ലേഖകന് ഒരു സന്ദേശമയയ്ക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു.

"Page Curation" tools make it easier to review new Wikipedia articles

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.

Many new Wikipedia editors experience frustration when they start an article that does not meet community expectations and gets deleted. It is hoped that the Page Curation feature will also lead to better feedback for page creators.

New volunteer-based model for distributing donation money launched

Over the last half year, a new model has been established for distributing the donation money raised via Wikimedia project sites. More than $10 million of it will now be allocated based on the recommendations of the new Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), which consists entirely of volunteers.

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.

പുതിയ യാത്രാസഹായപദ്ധതിയും നിയമവശങ്ങളും

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.

വിവരങ്ങളും അവയുടെ ട്രെൻഡുകളും

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:

http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/

(നിർവചനങ്ങൾ)

Financials

Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of August 31, 2012
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of August 31, 2012

(Financial information is only available for August 2012 at the time of this report.)

All financial information presented is for the period July 1, 2012 - August 31, 2012.

വരുമാനം 1,758,126 ഡോളർ
ചിലവുകൾ:
സാങ്കേതിക വിഭാഗം 22,86,158 ഡോളർ

Fundraiser Group

4,17,387 ഡോളർ
ഗ്ലോബൽ ഡെവലപ്‌മെന്റ് ഗ്രൂപ്പ് 11,10,627 ഡോളർ
ഭരണവിഭാഗം 1,44,825 ഡോളർ

Finance/HR/Admin Group

8,64,207 ഡോളർ

Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications

3,77,572 ഡോളർ
മൊത്തം ചിലവുകൾ 52,00,776 ഡോളർ
ആകെ നീക്കിയിരുപ്പ്/ (നഷ്ടം) (34,42,650 ഡോളർ)
  • 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.
Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of September (October 4, 2012)

മറ്റ് പ്രധാന പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ

Al Mac's Diner-Restaurant - one of the US finalist images for Wiki Loves Monuments

Worldwide Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest with record participation

More than 15,000 people uploaded more than 350,000 images throughout September for Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, the contest focused on free photos of national monuments. The number of photos more than doubled from the 2011 event, which has been officially certified as the largest photo contest in the world by Guinness World Records. The national winning entries have since been announced for the US and other countries, and the worldwide top 12 will be announced in early December.

Conflict of interest discussions

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.

ആദ്യ എഡുവിക്കി സമ്മേളനം

The University of Leicester, England, saw the first EduWiki Conference, bringing together academics from three continents and Wikimedians to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program and other ways of collaboration. The two-day conference was organized by Wikimedia UK.