 Hello everyone. Welcome to the June 2016 edition of the Wikimedia Foundation's monthly metrics meeting. Great to see you all here. Those of you who are coming back from Wikimedia, welcome back. Good to see you. So we've got a full agenda today as always. We'll start with the welcome then do a community update, metrics update something from research and a product demo before Catherine comes on and gives a quick media update as our new official executive director. Then we'll do some Q&A. Thank you. I missed taking questions on IRC and then trying a little bit of positivity at the end of the meeting. Which we'll get to later. So welcoming some new hires and contractors. We have Emerald converting. Also Joe Walsh, Sillian Ziemba, and Delfine. And then we have new contractors. Meenakshi, Rikita. Sorry, let me try that again. Riddika? Is that right? I hope so. Loreen and Liz. Welcome everyone. Then we have some anniversaries. I won't read them all here but let's call out Ceddin, Victor, Jmo, Rob, Chad, and Kaldari who have been here for five and six years. And people who made it through their first year at the foundation. Max, David, David, Lian, Sarah, Peter, and Amy. All right and now on to Alex for our community update. Hi, I'm Alex with the community engagement team. We have a few exciting updates. Obviously, Wikimania was attended by a number of staff. I think around a hundred. It took place in a beautiful village I hear near Lake Como. A town of 760 people was overrun by over a thousand who were Canadian. There were hackathons, learning days, lots of great discussions. I had to stop following from people on Instagram because I couldn't handle seeing all the photos. Yeah. Wikilev's Earth took place in May and June. Last year, they had over a hundred thousand submissions from 26 participating countries. This year again there's over 26 countries participating including Iraq, Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Venezuela, all areas of natural beauty and significance. This year something cool is the Wikilev's Earth organizing team who is the Ukrainian chapter is partnering with UNESCO to focus on biosphere reserves. And UNESCO is highlighting this partnership with their media and the communication. So that's super exciting. In the Indic languages, the Odia Wikipedia is turning 14 years, Odia Wiktionary 11 years, and Pujabi Wikipedia is turning 14 years. So these guys are and girls are crushing it online. Milestones, Italian WikiSource reached 100,000 text units. Kyrgyz Wiktionary reached 200,000 page edits. And the Armenian Wikipedia reached 200,000 articles. Three new user groups were created, including the Florida Librarians, Wikiversity Journal and Kentucky. In July, we're continuing our global metrics consultation run by Saty. And so please update the collaboration calendar on Metta if you're doing any type of consultation survey events that has more than a few people engaged. And metrics. Thank you. Hi, I'm Dan. I'm the lead product manager in Discovery. I'm here to talk to you about metrics. So two things before I start the slides. The first update is that we've been looking at the zero results rate a lot, as a lot of you are familiar with. We actually have changed the way that it's calculated recently to remove a load of things which were being counted incorrectly. For example, like things that were happening in the back end that didn't really correlate to a user query were sometimes encountered as zero results. Actually means the zero result rates a little bit lower than we thought it was, which is good. And the second thing is I have a live demo for about a second to show you. So it's not come out very well on this, unfortunately. Hopefully those of you that are online can see it a bit better. But we're pleased to announce that on Wikivoyage, all Wikivoyages, we now have these dynamic maps. So you can zoom in, you can zoom out, you can pan around, you can click on all the points of interest which are referenced in the article, and you can see the cross references on the left-hand side. So this is available to be used on all Wikivoyages. It's now up to users to actually migrate these over and not doing the migrations ourselves. We want people to do it when they're ready and when it's got all the features that they need. So if you have any feedback on this, please let us know. We'd love to talk to you about it. Now back to the slides. Okay. So now I'm going to talk about our updates to wikipedia.org. So on the 20th of May, we launched a new footer on wikipedia.org. And this is a screenshot of the footer. So you can see it tells you that the site's hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, links to a lot of the sister projects, and describes them a little bit because meta-wiki might not mean a lot to your average reader or the average person that goes on this site. So what we actually saw when we did this, well, this is the old footer. So it looks pretty similar, but it's not got the descriptive text. The fact that it's a Wikimedia project isn't as highly noticeable. So mostly just a cosmetic change, right? Well, no, actually. The effect here is that users are actually now slightly more likely to navigate to sister projects when they go to the site. So these cosmetic changes can actually make a difference to the way that people use the site. And this is a screenshot of Wikiboyage. So that was definitely a good thing there. And on the 2nd of June, we launched language detection. So what you might note, this is a screenshot from wikipedia.org. You might notice something a bit different. It's in Latvian. And it's suggesting a couple of other languages like Russian is suggested in English and so on. So you may now be wondering, well, why did you just change wikipedia.org to be Latvian? That can't be good for everyone. Well, how does it know what language to choose? It looks at your browser. So what I actually did here to get it to show these languages was I changed languages that I have in my browser. So I said that Latvian is my most preferred language in English, then Russian, then Japanese. If you actually look, Japanese is there too. So it's called the accept language header, basically. That's the technical name for it. So what actually happened as a result of this, users are now actually more likely to go to wikipedia in their language. So although we did see slightly more people actually engaging with the links that were already there, the number of people was about the same. The big difference was where they actually went. Previously, people would pretty much just go to English, because it was the first one there. But now that we're actually showing people the language that they have in their browser, they're much more likely to go to that rather than to English or whatever. So we're actually serving people content in their language rather than forcing them to use it in English, which is definitely a good thing too. So why do we care about wikipedia.org? Well, it's a multilingual entry point to Wikipedia. I said this when I presented it three months ago. Now it's even more multilingual because we have this is the English version. So now now we have the actually people getting it in their language, which is great. And we get around 14 million page views per day on this site. So again, not inconsequential, there's actually account for a lot of users. So thank you. Thank you. I'd like to thank everyone in discovery who made this possible. And if you want to check out our Q1 goals, they're on media wiki.org. So you can click on those. And the mailing list and my email address is there. If you want to speak to me or you can speak to me afterwards or an IDSE. Thank you. Now, research. Alright, I'm going to be presenting from up here in beautiful cloudy Seattle. I'm going to share my screen and present it. Alright, can everybody see me? Perfect. Hello everybody. I'm Jonathan from the design research team. Today I'm going to share some findings from a research study of how college students use free online information resources like Wikipedia for school. This study is part of an ongoing collaboration between product and research to better understand and support the needs of our readers. Unlike many previous studies of Wikipedia use and education contexts, which are focused on Wikipedia as a teaching tool, we were primarily interested in how students use Wikipedia and other internet resources outside the boundaries of the classroom in the syllabus. Now, those of you who are young enough to have been in college after about 2005, I just barely missed this cut off, probably use Wikipedia this way yourselves at some point. If so, you weren't alone. Students frequently use Wikipedia to supplement their official course resources, whether they're completing homework assignments, cramming for a test or writing research paper. We were interested in learning more about why students turn to Wikipedia. Is it because they find it accurate and up to date? Because the quality of content available or the breadth of topics covered? Because it's freely available and easy to access? Or because of something else entirely? Specifically, we wanted to learn why students are still turning to Wikipedia today in 2016. Because we know that a lot has changed since 2001 when Wikipedia was launched. The way people use the internet has definitely changed. Many more people access the internet on mobile devices, they're accessing more multimedia content. And thanks to social media, there are now many more ways for people to interact with that content and with one another over the internet. But how have these changes affected the information consumption habits and the information needs of students? We also know that since 2001, many other sites and services have appeared that allow people to access useful information on the internet for free. Many of these sites provide different kinds of content than Wikipedia, or they present it in different ways. For example, optimize for mobile or for multimedia. Some of these sites may work better than Wikipedia for certain students learning styles, or help them learn about certain subjects more effectively. Students may prefer them over Wikipedia in particular learning contexts or for particular use cases. So we wanted to know when and why do students choose other sites over Wikipedia when they do. Answering that question can help us understand how to prioritize our product work and to better address our users needs. To get at the answer, we went straight to the source and asked the students themselves. Our goal was to understand how modern college students use free online information resources, which we're calling foyers for purposes of acronym, including but not limited to Wikipedia. We surveyed students to find out which resources they turn to most often, why they choose those resources over others, and what they found most valuable about those resources. In order to avoid biasing the students, we never mentioned Wikipedia or any other resource by name in the survey. We wanted to collect a variety of examples. So we defined what a foyer was in very general terms. It had to be free to use and accessible via the internet. College provided resources like a course website or a subscription journal didn't count and neither did search engines. We developed the survey in partnership with a group of students at the University of Washington in Seattle, and had those students distribute the survey through the online communication channels that they and their peers use regularly, mostly Facebook groups, Twitter, Snapchat and listservs. We received 214 responses over two weeks. Here are a few of the things we found. The rest of the findings will be available in the research report, which is linked at the end of this presentation. Not surprisingly, we found that students drawn a wide range of resources of many different types for many different reasons. However, there were definitely some standouts. Video streaming sites, online courses and social Q&A sites were popular, as was a certain free encyclopedia. Many of the less common resources that people named were subject specific. And many of these focused on on sciences and engineering disciplines, probably because our server survey population contained a lot of engineering students. But social media and news sites were also well represented. Speaking of that free encyclopedia, Wikipedia was the most mentioned site by far. YouTube, Stack Overflow, Khan Academy and Coursera rounded out the top five. In the survey, we asked students to briefly describe why they used each of the resources they named. Here's what they said about us. These responses indicate that students find a lot to like about Wikipedia. It's well maintained and well written. It serves as a good jumping off point for research. It's easy to find the information that students need in Wikipedia. And its prominent place in Google search rankings makes it very visible and accessible. These responses also suggest some familiar prejudices still exist. For example, students have a sense that Wikipedia is less reliable than other sources. And the final quote in particular raises the issue that our continued popularity is a bit of a self-reinforcing thing. One of the reasons students use Wikipedia, rather than something else, is that we're popular and highly ranked. In other words, that a lot of people use Wikipedia. This tends to make us easy to find, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we're inherently better than any other resource that students could be using. We also asked students several questions about how they generally consume information from free online resources. Fortunately for us, the results of these questions show that most students still read a lot on the internet, although most of what they're reading is short form text, like summaries or abstracts. And they also watch a video more often than they read whole articles or books online. We also asked students to rank features or characteristics of the resources they use by importance. One area we were particularly interested in was mobile use. So we asked students how they prefer to access free online information resource content on mobile devices, through downloads like podcasts or ebooks, a mobile web browser, multimedia streaming, or apps. On average, student ranked access to content via mobile web and streaming is more important than via downloads or apps. We found a lot more interesting stuff as well, which I don't have the time to cover today. My general takeaways from this study is that while Wikipedia continues to serve students' needs well, there are opportunities for us to make our content easier to use for education purposes. One thing we could do would be to make it easier to create and locate audio and video content on Wikipedia projects. Another possibility might be to make it easier for people to remix the content that's already hosted on our projects to create custom learning modules around particular topics. I'm obviously curious to hear your ideas as well. So happy to take your questions or comments at the end of metrics or offline. That's it for today. Quick shout out to Mark Zachary, professor at UW and the 10 undergraduate students who worked with me on this project. And thank you all very much. Hello, I'm Ryan Caldari with Community Tech Team. This month for the product demo, we're going to have a demo of a new beta feature developed by the Wikimedia Deutschland TCB team. In case you don't know what the TCB team is, they're basically the equivalent of Community Tech, but under Wikimedia Deutschland. And they have some really great engineers that we love collaborating with. So I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Tobi and Fish to introduce the revision slider extension. Hi, I'm Tobi. So this is Fish. I'm Tobi. We are from the TCB team at Wikimedia Germany. Basically, the TCB team, for those who don't know it yet, we are especially working on wishes that come from the German-speaking community. And we're closely working together with the Community Tech team. Thank you, Ryan, for introducing. But today we are talking about a tool we developed called the revision slider. This is a great example of how our teams, the Community Tech team and the TCB team work together. Basically, we had on our wish list from the German community a wish that said basically as a user, when I look at it if I want to be able to easily see all the added comments of added between two revisions. And originally when we thought about it wish we were totally not having something like the revision slider in mind. But then we got to know from Community Tech team that they were working on something called revision slider that is based on another gadget called revision jumper. And we looked at it and we said oh cool, that is going to solve our wish as well. And so Community Tech team worked out a prototype of that tool which was a gadget. And then the international 2015 wish list survey came in and Community Tech team had a lot of other things, a lot of other important things to do and they had no resources left to like get that out of prototype state. So we agreed that TCB team picks that project up and we were working on getting it out of the prototype state. We took a test driven approach of coding this tool and we also worked closely together with our UX team that was doing a lot of user testing during the development phase already. And so we turned the revision slider into a nice little media wiki extension and here we are. And that was enough of like storytelling from my side. So I'm heading over to Fish who will show you the tool. Yeah so we will have a small demo of it. I imported the Wikipedia article from the English Wikipedia but that's about Brad. I imported not the whole article but enough revisions to have something to show. To enable the extension so it's we made an extension that's available as a beta feature so you have to go to your preferences and be logged in and there you can activate the extension. Now when you go to the history page and compare revisions you will land on the tiff page and there the revision slider is loading. There it is. In the background it loads from the API metadata of the last 500 revisions available. We are working on a patch that will load data in chunks so that we have no limits. But that's it for now. The bars you see represent revisions and bars going up represent additional content bars going down represent content that was removed. When you hover the bars you see the metadata so the user names, the comment, the size of the page, the size of the change. To look at a certain tiff you have these pointers that you can move around so the yellow pointer represents kind of the old tiff you're looking at and the blue one the new one and everything in between you can compare. So if you want to look at the certain thing you can just move them by drag and drop and there it loads. You can also move them by clicking. So now I compare these two revisions and see what happened in between. You can also move to all the revisions by clicking on the arrows and there you can see that the pointer is kind of stick to the side because they are out of scope but still I can use them and can drag them here and now I'm comparing everything that happened in between these changes so not much apparently. Yeah we also included a small tutorial so when a user first uses this extension this tutorial will pop up and it describes shortly what's done here and what you can do with it and there we are. We plan to go on the German Wikipedia live soon with it as a beta feature and there are also other videos that are interested. So yeah that's the tool. Okay so if you want to try it out yourself it's at the moment deployed to beta. It will I think very soon be deployed to test Wikipedia and then we will go live first on the German Wikipedia and then on all the rest hopefully. Thank you very much. So if you have any questions just hope us. Thanks for watching. Hi can you guys hear me? All right. To see you all my apologies that I am not with you all in San Francisco today. To be honest if I had known that there had been an announcement planned last week I probably would have made an effort to be there for today's presentation. It is awesome to be with you all here at the Foundation and I am going to ask Heather to sort of walk through my slides today. We have some things to go over. I want to talk a little bit about things that happened at Wikipedia and talk a little bit about the presentation that I made to the board on strategy and what that means for us at the Foundation and the movement. But somebody reminded me that normally what happens at this point is that the outgoing executive director introduces the new executive director. We don't really have anyone to do that. So even though we've worked together for about two years I thought it might be useful to step back and reintroduce myself. Apologies in advance to those of you who are in Wikimania and as an allario and I've already seen these slides. But getting started hi everyone. This you may recognize one of our kittens from the kitten cam about two weeks ago at the office. I just thought there would be a nice background as we talked through some things. So I'm Katherine you've known me all for a little while. I am from the east coast of the United States which is where I'm coming from you coming to you from today. I became interested in free culture and open movements. When I was a student in Egypt back a long time ago in 2007 I began the beginning of what I see as my journey to the foundation. When I was working for the organization UNICEF testing what were media wiki extensions designed to improve accessibility in Addis Ababa Ethiopia for people with auditory and visual impairments trying to create information networks based on wikis. Our efforts failed but we learned a lot about accessibility and we learned a lot about media wiki and in fact some of those things were presented at the 2008 with Romania and Alexandria Egypt. So that was a while ago and in the period between then and joining the foundation in 2014 I spent a lot of time working in open movements around improving community accountability transparency participation fighting for digital rights for people around the world from places like Tunisia to Myanmar to Haiti and in 2014 I joined the foundation as the head of communications. The reason for that was pretty simple. After years spent working with global movements and global communities and years trying to stitch together open source open culture with social change it became really obvious to me that working in a place like Wikimedia foundation working with the Wikimedia movement there really was no better place to combine these things that I felt passionate about and loved and after spending two incredible years with you all the board on Friday of last week let me know that I had the opportunity to spend another few incredible years with you all this time in the role of executive director and I very gratefully and excitedly and somewhat shocked accepted and so I just wanted to say thank you all I wish that I could be there with you today and I'm looking forward to getting back to the foundation for those who are not at the foundation I'm looking forward to seeing you all over the course of the coming weeks and months through get-togethers through meetups through travels and then ultimately hopefully all at all hands and I want to talk a little bit about Wikimedia and what we saw at Wikimedia so Heather I think Heather Walls isn't oh wait I forgot something excuse me I forgot that no introduction would be complete if I didn't introduce myself with the one thing that everybody in this room cares about which was what was my first article next slide hang out here and look at the kitten there's troubleshooting coming from the room well so in 2014 in October I started to I took the plunge and tried editing Wikimedia for the first time not just as a random IP editor but with a user name accountable for all the things that I would do and oh hangout crash all right well those of you in the hangout we can can hang out for a little bit well done so far why did you decide to do that article I will I'll talk about that excellent all right is everyone back excellent all right affirmation cool so perhaps we can move forward to the next slide I want to talk a little bit about that thing that makes us who we are which was the very first article that I ever edit it there you go there it is 2014 October I sat there alone one evening and I just learned that something about myself which is that I like writing articles from scratch I think it is a lot of fun and I really enjoy it and this is the first one I tried you'll see if you go back and look at the history I made a lot of mistakes in terms of citations I'm really a big fan of Cytoid I think it's pretty awesome product and have learned a lot since first getting started with us well we were down in the crash Jonathan we're gonna ask me why I chose to edit this article this article is about a homeless housing development in Los Angeles and Skid Row and I because I came across it and I was interested in learning more about it and there was nothing there I checked Wikipedia to see if we had articles about luxury buildings in San Francisco and we did and so it felt only fair to also write about housing for the homeless on Wikipedia so that is my first article so moving on I wanted to talk a little bit about wikimania and the and so what I was hearing there on Wednesday and Thursday of the coming days the days go right ahead of wikimania we had a board meeting with our new board as many of you know we have two new board members in a new chair and we said goodbye to two board members patricio lorente who was our board chair and Frida brioche who had been with us for some time actually I think it was the second time on the board and we had welcome to new members we've welcomed Natalia Timke from Ukraine and Christophe Hiner from France our two new board officers are Christophe Hiner is now our board chair and Maria Sephardari is now our board vice chair we had a really good meeting and I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the outcomes of that but before I do I wanted to talk about some of the things that I heard at wikimania we talked at the board meeting about the need for thinking about our shared future and I was amazed because on Thursday and I'm sorry on Friday Saturday and Sunday that is really a common theme that I heard a lot of people talking about a hope and a vision for the future of feeling as though we as an organization and as a movement had reached a place where we were ready perhaps for change and we didn't know exactly next slide we didn't necessarily know exactly what that change would look like but are nervous and excited and anticipation there is a feeling that the organization of the wikimedia foundation some of our affiliate organizations members of our movement have really reached a place where what we have accomplished in the last 15 years we're feeling really good about we feel as we've got mature institutions we feel as though we know at least on some level what works and what doesn't for us as a movement and now it's time for us to take all of those learnings and knowledge and think about how we'd collectively direct our resources together for the future we don't know exactly next slide we don't know exactly where that change will take us right so if you had asked us five years ago if we would be in a small town in Italy I think probably people would have said no if you would ask people five weeks before Italy I think people would have still had questions about how that was all going to work out but we know that when we embrace change we at least try new models and we learn new things and one of the things that I think people learned in this in alario was that there are many different ways for us to come together as wikimedia there are many different ways for us to live our values and sometimes we can live those out values in a small town in the Italian Alps next slide so one of the big things that I also heard a lot in addition to this anticipation of change was a desire for inclusivity it came up time and time again in conversations this desire for not just having a sense of being a welcoming place for the projects in the projects I think that came up a lot and in fact we had some really exciting statements from our trustees about their commitment to making our projects a friendly and welcoming place but around making this a place where everybody can find their role next slide and finding ways to bring new people in so whether that is focusing on safe spaces or focusing on making the projects a place where people know how they can contribute and contribute meaningfully or doing better outreach to individuals around the world who are not yet represented in our projects there was a real clear appetite for that at all levels of conversation from individual contributors from leaders in our movement from affiliate organizations finding ways to bring more people in and give them a sense of how they can contribute that in ways that are going to make our projects stronger more inclusive and and really more robust next slide another conversation that we had was how can we be relevant and meaningful in new places one of the exciting events that I attended was actually a meetup of our colleagues from global south affiliates and global south contributors in general and they were sharing knowledge and information about what it was like to work in their context and how could they work more effectively together what are the things that we can do from a product standpoint from an engineering standpoint to be more relevant but also how can we think just a little bit differently about what does it mean to be an engaged active Wikimedian in a place where you might only have access to the internet in a consistent and stable way once a month is that five edits are you a Wikimedian these are interesting questions and these are the things that we know that the foundation is interested in tackling but we also know that our community is interested in tackling it feels like there's an appetite for us to move forward and really take on these questions and be open to what that might mean and how that might make us look in the future next side and that was really where we came to it was a future built together this is something that people express a interest in coming together through consensus and collaboration to think about how we move forward there were a couple meetings that I attended where I looked around the room and people said to me or expressed to me that they feel as though they have so much to offer this movement and really it's a question of how what are the ways that they can bring their experience what are the ways that they can bring the history and the learnings of the past their visions for the future the work that they've been doing the professional organizations networks collaborations and partnerships that they have been building and bring them to the movement in a way that allows us to align ourselves and be stronger going forward be stronger together next slide and so that gets me to the question of preparing for a movement strategy in the board meeting we talked a little bit about this next slide there's a clear desire for a unifying vision from across the movement we've heard this from our affiliates we've heard it in community feedback to our annual plan at the wikimedia foundation we've seen it in FDC recommendations we understand that it's the responsibility of our trustees we know from our engagement survey results that people are looking for a vision that unifies and motivates them and we also know about a very pragmatic standpoint that as we go out we talk about our endowment we talk about our long-term future our donors and supporters are interested in what it is that we're going to do and where it is that we're going to go next slide we have some challenges and these are some of the things that we talked about at the board meeting foundation staff are a little tired we went through this process from 2014 to 2015 we got to something that really allowed us to give guidance to our annual plan but we've been there before and I think people sort of the word strategy people need to take a deep breath and find their way to re-engage with the same enthusiasm and momentum we know from the past the last approach that community was not totally satisfied with the inclusivity the engagement and the consultation and then this is from a slide that I presented to the board we were talking about the need for this to be led by permanent leadership so luckily across some of that off we now have a sense of where it is that we're going in terms of permanent leadership but we also and so those are some of the challenges we also have some needs there is a need to engage our our colleagues at the foundation with a compelling vision one that allows them to know where it is that they fit in and how they can bring their talents to our future there is a need for our community and organizations to have operating roles within that broader vision whatever it is that we're doing we're not going to succeed if we go it alone there's a need for us to address and prepare for our longer-term opportunities and challenges to move out of a defensive position where we're only talking about what scares us about our future but think about instead what are the things that we can really achieve when we move all of our resources together to allocate our resources against a holistic strategy to think about all of our strengths as a movement across the board not just necessarily the projects but also perhaps our global reach for example allocate our resources against a strategy that thinks about all the things that we bring to the table and of course to build confidence in the permanent leadership team as I mentioned this is a slide that I gave to the board but I think this is really important people need to know that they can trust where we're going so that they have the sense that there's stability and that with time we will get there next slide so preparation and planning for a broader movement vision what I committed to the board was that we are going to work on building a movement vision together it is something that we're going to do inclusively it's something that we're going to do with community it's something that we're going to do with partner organizations it's something that we're going to do with staff the board agreed there needs to be ownership from within the organization we all need to feel so this is something that we can believe in what does that mean it means that we have some experience in processes that have worked well and that have worked less well we have processes that had good parts of it to them and parts that had less great parts to them so what we want to do is we want to identify all of our stakeholders all of our resources and the timelines against which we would want to start moving forward in a strategy process we want to review the strengths and weaknesses of past processes to see what are the things that we want to take with us into the future what are the things that we can leave behind we also should look to other organizations and other movements well we are very unique we are unique in it in the sense that we are unique among unique institutions there are other organizations out there other movements out there that do strategy planning and we can learn from them in order to be more effective going forward we want to capture stakeholder feedback on how these processes have gone and then we want to make recommendations for a movement-wide process that is truly inclusive that is on a timeline and that gets us somewhere so next slide some of the first things that we're going to be doing are organizing sessions with staff trustees affiliates and contributors and our strengths so what are those movement assets for example I mentioned certainly the traffic to our sites but we also have donors around the world who love and support us are there ways that we could engage them more our destination where is it that we see ourselves and we look back 10 15 years from now 15 years in we've achieved a lot we know that we can look around and take stock 15 years forward what is the stock that we want to take how do we want to feel about what we have how far we've come over 30 years of public media our purpose why do we want to get there we talked a lot about our mission we know what our mission is we know what our vision is but what is it that we want to really do to tangibly make a difference alongside that mission in the world and then our strategy what is it that we're going to do to get there how are we going to allocate those resources what is that going to mean what are we going to look like and to engage our departments across the foundation and the department level discussion around ownership of the vision so that we are all aligned in the same direction and have an understanding about what it is we share. Next slide. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Wikimaniacal. So what does this mean I talked a little bit about the need for us to put together a timeline at the high level I can tell you that the board is looking for us to deliver a strategy within about a year that's a stretch goal they understand that for it to be inclusive and meaningful and to be something that we can truly align around and make sure that the movement is excited about it may take a little bit longer than that but that's the goal that we're targeting for the next year this is sort of what we're thinking about doing some of the strengths and weakness mapping, auditing what it was that worked identifying our stakeholders evaluating what we are all aligned around those strengths that I mentioned those opportunities looking at the issues around if we are going to move forward in different directions what does that mean for the way that we are sustained through our revenue model how do our current programs get us to our vision exploring our metrics are we really truly capturing all the things that we do not just as a foundation but as a movement right now we can talk about traffic but does that capture the health of our community confirming those timelines then then ideally bringing them to our board of trustees and presenting so that we've got buy-in ahead of the board has a November strategy meeting every November that we've got buy-in on what it is that we're trying to achieve in the timeline that we're trying to do it on and then getting started really talking to people about what it is through working groups through discussions or consultations in a process that will get us to the future I don't know exactly what the specifics of that will look like we will build that together but this is the goal that has been tasked as the top priority from the board and this is what we will be working on going forward as I mentioned I know there are some challenges and I'm really looking forward to hearing from all of you on how we might move forward on this together in a way that makes sense in a way that is valuable in a way that brings the best voices the strong sorry not the best places the best ideas to the table in a way that here's strong voices and quiet voices and build something that we as a movement can be proud of we as a movement feel is inclusive we as a movement feel rough reflects our best strengths that addresses some of our weaknesses and really creates the future that we all want to see together so I you'll hear me talk more about this in the future this certainly won't be the only thing that we'll be working on but I wanted to give you a high level overview of some of the things that we're going to be doing my goal is to make this as transparent as possible I plan to present or publish this on on wiki of course but also to continue to plan in the open so that you have a sense and a holistic sense of where we're going so when we get started we know what the plan is and where what the goals and what the timelines are so that we can hold each other accountable and really make sure this process is meaningful and that I think is it for my update. Awesome thanks Catherine. So now it is question and answer time. Do you have anything on IRC and staff in the room if you want to make your way to the mic over here. So we have three questions from IRC, two for Dan and one for Catherine. So questions, a question from Joe about the wikibia.org portal and the changes that you made for the language detection and does that apply to the descriptions for the sister projects in the footer as well. No that page is actually not localized that's something that we inherited from the old way that it was maintained. Getting it localized is a goal of us. I don't know when we would be able to do that though. So those are all in English right now. And a question from Pine about the same changes so you said that people would are going to the wikis in their language more than before. So that means that they are visiting the larger wikis address. So how does that impact how they find content. I mean so his point is that if a topic is not covered in the smaller language do we have the way to show them that it might be available in a bigger language. Yeah that's a very complex problem. It's something that we've already addressed a little bit in the and if you search for something which has zero results we try and like figure out if we actually have something that we can show you some work that we're doing right now and we actually have an A.B. test either running right now or just turned off actually tries detecting the language of the query and then forwarding the results from other wikis. So say for example I'm on the lap in Wikipedia and I'm looking for something and I can't find it if I type the query in English then it will say well I'm showing your results from the English Wikipedia because you didn't find anything in Latvian but that's a problem that we want to work on a lot but it's actually very hard to make good solutions to it and it's going to be a long time before we like have it solved. We'll never solve it really but we can make steps. Thank you. There was a question for Catherine too. Do we do one in the room. Okay that's you go ahead and oh okay my question is for Catherine too. So I actually have two I was really excited and yet kind of anxious when I heard about a strategy I've been talking about this for a really long time I was so I was really excited to see this has become a priority. I guess Catherine and I have two questions. One it has there been any discussion about how a movement strategy will actually be adopted by other parts of our so not just how it applies to what the foundation does going forward but how other movement organizations or groups think about how they will too change or if they will change what they're doing based on that strategy the results of that strategy. So yes and no in terms of the specifics of what that will mean for inclusion. No we haven't talked about that what what it will look like for for example our movement organizations in the future what will their roles be what will they take on but there it has been a conversation at least at Wikipedia and with the trustees about a commitment to the importance of those organizations in a future strategy in creating a strategy with those organizations and with those voices as full participants because as I said there's no way that we do this alone there's only a way that there's only a future for doing this together. I think that one thing that I have seen is that there's not necessarily been clarity about what roles other entities within our movement play there's really only been a focus from my perspective in the last two years that I've been here on what the roles of the what the role of the foundation is and so I think that's an open question and when I was in at Wikipedia I spoke with I had the chance to join a meeting for example of the EPs of the chapters of the chairs of the affiliates and talk a little bit about what it would mean to participate and my commitment to them was once we had more clarity about what those potential on ramps and participation modes would be you would be able to speak more about how that works for them how do we make sure that we maximize their participation in a meaningful way not just a token way a meaningful way so that any future strategy is inclusive of them and it may mean that the foundation just as part of the work that we want to do and that the that other partners within our movement or other individuals within our movement play a role that we all agree on together or fill other roles that we know that the foundation is less well suited to fill and my second question was more practical it was about resources so as I've seen other strategy processes obviously go here it seems like a lot of like five to 10% of a lot of people this time and so I'm wondering to what extent you're thinking about who or how we're actually going to put dedicated resources against this where there obviously will be chance for collaboration and inclusion I get all that but in terms of that there is someone who is not just feeling like they have to balance their own workload and then this on top of it. I think that's a great question Sati and one thing is that I don't have I don't have an answer just yet as to what exactly that will look like what I will say is that I know from the past two strategy processes that I'm more familiar with at the foundation the 2010 to 2015 and the more recent 2014 to 2016 conversation which is more foundation focused we had dedicated staff members or I believe they met my consultants at the time including Philippe Bodette running that process in 2010 and then we had people who were outside consultants working with us in 2014-2015. I believe that we will need to have a dedicated coordinator who helps move this forward so that that is not necessarily requiring the time of staff members who have other work to do and then the challenge will be designing a process that is inclusive of all of those perspectives but that does not sort of cannibalize the time that you are already dedicated to achieving the goals in the annual plan as well as other just regular programmatic support. So that's going to be a challenge it's something that we're going to work on and that's actually where I think that we can learn not just from creating this out of whole cloth as the foundation but looking at the way other large organizations think about running processes like this other large movement organizations who have experience in this. I think that there's a lot for us to learn externally there's some things that we can adapt that are appropriate to us some things that will not be appropriate to us but my feeling is that's going to be the design challenge of the next few months and that's really what we're looking to sort of solve for by November. And the other question for Catherine was from Pine who wanted an update on the CTO search. Sure, fine. I don't have the numbers directly in front of me but I do know that as of the last time I looked I think we had and this was admittedly about 10 days ago ahead of Wikimania and the board meeting we had about nine or 10 candidates in the pipeline that we were moving through that people were speaking with and there were some candidates in the area that the team was excited about. I have not yet had a chance to check in with the team as to how that has progressed over the last 10 days since Wikimania but that was where we were at the very start of Wikimania. I don't know if there's anyone from the recruiting team in the room who could be able to provide more details. No takers there. Well, thank you. Any other questions from the room? Anything else on IRC? Okay. Should we move on to the last portion of this meeting? There's slide for this. Great. So this is something that I guess was suggested in the last manager's meeting which was just to devote the last few minutes of this meeting to people sort of coming forward and talking about what they're really excited about what they really love about Wikimedia. So anyway, yeah, just sort of an opportunity to talk about what's positive about our work. So if anybody has something that they want to use to get the ball rolling, we've got the mic over here. I have to say that I'm just really excited to hear Katherine talk about a strategy process that focuses on unifying all of our teams of the same vision and fundraising. That's something that I think really helps us. So that's something I'm excited about. So I just want to give a shout out to Anna Lantz who was the person that found and identified Culture AMP. Culture AMP has proved to be a very capable partner who first highlighted a problem and elevated it to the board and then highlighted the progress, which seemed to be very meaningful in getting Katherine as our permanent ED. So as recruiters will tell you, identifying the right talent and the right partner is not a no-brainer. And she stewarded all of that work through a very difficult time under a lot of stress. So that rocks. This is a bit small for me. Sorry. I'll lean forwards. To be kind of short-sighted and think about what makes me happy in the last five minutes, the fact that there's now a discussion going on in the office channel about my presentation. So it's nice to have people interested in the wonderful work that Discovery does. Thank you. Hi, everyone. I just wanted to give a shout out to the organizers of our pride contingent in the parade. Oriel and Liza. It was our first time. It was a love fest. It was fantastic to know that as an employer and as a group, we supported that. And it was super fun. Next year, drum lines. We have some on the Hangout. Yes, can you? We could hear you. And now we can't. There we go. That sounds good, Deli. It's better now? Yes. All righty. So I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the ops team that have been working with my team. They were great to see. And they have been absolutely great. So especially Brendan Black and Mark Bergsmann, they have been really, really awesome to work with. And when we were discussing having this week of moment, I was thinking about them. So, yeah, thank you for being great. Have one on IRC. Heather, can you take it? Yes, we have Jody on IRC giving a shout out to Doreen and Karen for all their work, Karen and support for those who went to Wikipedia. And shout out to Ellie as well for her help with Wikipedia. I wanted to give a shout out to Asaf and Alec. So PEG grants closes today. It's the end of an era. It's our longest standing grants program and it's changing onto a new form. So, yeah, I just wanted to give a shout out to you guys. Great job. Any other takers? Anyone online? Okay. I guess for those in the office, lunch is served. Thanks everyone for attending and happy new fiscal year.