Vikimedya Bülteni, Nisan 2014
Nisan 2014 Vikimedya Vakfı Raporu ve Vikimedya mühendislik raporu ile diğer önemli Vikimedya hareketi etkinliklerinden oluşan bülten
Wikimedia Vakfı bülteni
Wikimedia Lab'ı yeni veri merkezine sorunsuz olarak taşındı
Wikimedia Lab platformu gönüllülerin uygulama sistemleri yayınlayarak topluluğun işini gelştirmek, ve eski Wikimedia sunucularının teknik işlemlerini düzenlemesini sağlamaktadır. Tampa, Florida (ABD)deki eski sunuculara olan güvenin azalmasıyla, WMF Kadrosu tarafından aylar süren çalışmalar sonunda Lab, Nisan ayında Ashburn, Virginia'ya taşındı. Yeni bir dosya sistemine (NFS) geçmenin yararlarından biri çünkü eski sistemden daha güvenilir ve stabil bir sistem (GlusterFS, çoğu hatanın ve site kapanmasının sebebi). Ayrıca, yeni veri merkezinde, bir çok Lab projesi dahili Labs Proxy'i kullanıyor, böylece HTTPS ve daha iyi kişisel veri koruması sağlanıyor. Toolserver, "Tool Labs" ve Wikimedia Labının emektar parçasının, 30 Haziran'da kapatılması planlanıyor.
Yeni Medya Gösterici Wikimedia Sitelerinde yayınlanmaya başladı
The Foundation's multimedia team released Media Viewer v0.2 on 14 pilot sites in April, in preparation for a wider deployment in May. The overall response was favorable, and a growing majority of survey respondents was finding this new multimedia browser useful. The team also developed a set of metrics dashboards to track how often MediaViewer and its various features are used, and how fast it performs over the Internet, as well as local metrics dashboards for selected sites: first results showed a decline in image load time, and suggest that Media Viewer loads faster than the old file description pages.
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Yeni Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi ve Muhasebe Şefi
In April, preparations took place to welcome the Foundation's incoming executive director Lila Tretikov, who was announced on May 1. She will succeed Sue Gardner on June 1, who will move into a new role as special adviser. Lila Tretikov was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States as a teenager. She has been working for technology companies, primarily in open source, in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 15 years, most recently at SugarCRM.
Ayrıca Eylülde, Katherine Maher, topluluğun muhasebe şefi seçilmişti.
Veri ve Trendler
Mart ayının global sitelere giriş miktarı:
- 495 milyon (Şubata göre +4.44% daha fazla; geçen yıla göre -4.33% daha az)
- (comScore data Wikimedia Topluluğunun bütün siteleri dahildir ; comScore, Nisan sayısını Mayıs sonlarında açıklayacaktır)
Page requests for April:
- 20.697 billion (-1.6% compared with March; -0.6% compared with the previous year)
- (Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation content projects including mobile access, but excluding Wikidata and the Wikipedia main portal page.)
Active Registered Editors for March 2014 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):
- 79,352 (+4.59% compared with February / -2.84% compared with the previous year)
- (Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects.)
Karne (Vikimedya Vakfı hakkındaki farklı istatistiksel veri ve eğilimleri içerir):
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Finansal
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(Raporun yayınlandığı tarih itibariyle sadece Mart 2014'e kadar olan finansal bilgiler bulunmaktadır.)
Bütün finansal bilgiler Mart 2014 dönemini kapsamaktadır.
| Gelir | 40.957.259 |
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| Giderler: | |
| Mühendislik Grubu | 12.358.813 |
| Bağış Grubu | 2.989.855 |
| Bütçe Grubu | 1.198.163 |
| Programlar Grubu | 1.358.725 |
| Hibeler | 3.961.161 |
| Yönetim Grubu | 582.854 |
| Yasal/Topluluk Sözcülüğü/İletişim | 2.831.941 |
| Finans/İK/Yönetici Grubu | 5.034.754 |
| Toplam Gider | 30.316.266 |
| Toplam sermaye fazlası | (10.640.993) |
| Amerikan Doları olarak |
- Mart ayı aylık geliri $1.71MM olmasına karşın planda $0.01MM olarak belirlenmişti, planın yaklaşık olarak $1.70MM veya 29,215% üzerinde.
- Yılbaşından bugüne toplam gelir 40.96M$ olmasına karşılık planda 45.05M$ olarak belirlenmişti, planın yaklaşık olarak $4.09 MM ve planın %9 altında.
- Expenses for the month of March is $3.22MM versus plan of $4.57MM, approximately $1.35MM or 30% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, internet hosting, FDC grants, payment processing fees, and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal fees and outside contract services.
- Year-to-date expenses is $30.32MM versus plan of $36.37MM, approximately $6.05MM or 17% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, payment processing fees, staff development expenses, grants and travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services.
- 31 Mart 2014 itibariyle nakit durumu 50.69M $.
Wikimedia Hareketinden diğer öne çıkan haberler
Annual Wikimedia Conference joins Wikimedia organizations in Berlin
From April 10-13, representatives of Wikimedia chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation and other organizations and committees from the Wikimedia movement attended Wikimedia Conference 2014 in Berlin, hosted by the German chapter. In previous years, many presentations covered program activities by chapters, but this year's conference focused more on organisational issues and the future of the Wikimedia movement in general. Examples from the schedule:
- Wikimedia Germany presented the results of its Chapters Dialogue project, which assessed the needs, goals and stories of Wikimedia chapters. Representatives from all chapters had been interviewed for the project, alongside other actors.
- Several other sessions and workshops at the conference discussed how to evaluate the success of program activities in the movement.
Wikimedians remember Adrianne Wadewitz and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
The Wikimedia movement mourned the unexpected deaths of two prominent female Wikipedians in April.
Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz) began editing Wikipedia in 2004, reaching over 50,000 edits. She was known as a scholar who advocated the use of Wikipedia in education and helped to pioneer the approach of letting students contribute to Wikipedia as part of their courses (today the Wikipedia Education Program). Her work to overcome Wikipedia's gender gap earned her wide recognition.
Cynthia Ashley-Nelson (User:Cindamuse) began editing Wikipedia in 2007, reaching over 33,000 edits. She participated in the Volunteer Response Team (OTRS) and was a moderator of the gender-gap mailing list. She passed away at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin where she had just been elected vice-chair of the Affiliations Committee.
Wiki Education Foundation receives $1.39 million grant
The Wiki Education Foundation was initiated in 2013 as a spin-off of the Wikimedia Foundation, assuming responsibility for supporting the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada, formerly run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The program, in which students write Wikipedia articles in place of traditional term papers, created the equivalent of more than 7,000 printed pages of new, high-quality content during the fall term of 2013 and the equivalent of more than 36,000 printed pages of content since its start in 2010.
On April 14, the Wiki Education Foundation announced that it had received a $1.39 million grant from the Stanton Foundation. The grant covers the first year of a three-year funding period, and supports improvements in the education program in the US and Canada, as well as additional programs to improve underdeveloped content areas on Wikipedia.