 Good morning. There we go. Hey, how's everyone doing today? Woo! All right, there we go. Wonderful. Welcome to April's Monthly Metrics. I'm Danny Kaufman with Major Gifts and Foundations, and today our theme is going to be Wikimedia for the World, so it's going to be a follow-up conversation to what we discussed last month at Metrics. And so to get started, our agenda today, we're going to do welcomes for new hires, go over some anniversaries. We'll have an update from the movement update team, new readers update, exploring the world of Wikipedia and indigenous languages of Latin America, which I'm really excited about. Movement strategy update, and then we'll have some time for questions and discussion, and of course, WikiLove. So let's start off by giving a warm Wikimedia welcome to two new hires, Margaret Epps and Caroline Cinders in product, both based here. And also to new contractors, interns, and volunteers, Arzell Yunzi in technology, in France, Moscanore in advancement, Caitlin Taney in advancement, Rosie Stephenson Goodnight in CE. Yes, community engagement, I should know this. Andrew Hall in technology, John Morrison in FNA, and Antoine Raymond Bebon in community engagement as well. And I should apologize in advance for any names that I mispronounce today. All right, and so starting off with anniversaries, with 11 years, we have Tim Starling, 10 years, Robert Hassel, six years, Timo Tijoff, and five years, and hold the applause, we'll get through this. Faden Lianvarez, Matias Mully, James Forester, and Daisy Chen. With four years, Brandon Black, Monty Hurd, Jan Esfeldt, Jaime Ernstie, Jamie, sorry, Jamie, Eric Bernhardsen, celebrating three years, Sarah Rodland, Giuseppe Lavigetto, Katherine Maher, Danny Horne, Dimitri Brandt, Moritz Mullenhoff, Dimitri Brandt, and stop there for a sec. All right, and celebrating two years, Moritz Mullenhoff, Michael Beattie, Joel Offrecht, Stefan Bison, Neil Quinn, Marumita Viswanathan, Calliope Tsuropidan, Sir Pidu, sorry, Byron Bogart, Stefan Nagelski, and Zuzu. All right, now I'll pass it on to Maria for a movement update. Hi, I'm Maria. I'm communications, monitoring community engagement department, and this time for the movement update, we're trying a new format. We're going to have community members presenting a lightning talk, and we have invited two. Thomas Schallhardt is a volunteer with Wikimedia Austria. Thomas, whenever you're ready. Hey, I'm going to present to you a project called Wikipedia for Peace, which is about improving articles about peace in Wikipedia. For example, about peace movements and peace activists. And we do that by organizing camps in Austria and this year also put a first time in Germany. And these camps usually last for about 10 days and have about 15 participants. And the people in these camps come from all over the world and it's usually quite a diverse group of people. We write in a lot of different languages. The people are usually quite young, like students between 20 and 30, usually not very experienced in Wikipedia. And we have quite a high percentage of female volunteers. We have up to 80% female participants without the special selection process. The project is a cooperation between Wikimedia Austria and the peace organization called Service of an International. Organizations bring together two quite different approaches to volunteering. So both organizations learn a lot from each other in this project. Something that the Peace Organization, Service of an International brings in is a kind of grassroots approach, which means the group process is really important in the camps. So we live together for 10 days, we cook together, we get to know each other and we work together. Next slide. So far, two of these camps have taken place, both of them in Austria in 2015 and 2016. And this year, we will have two more camps in July, one in Berlin and one in Austria again. Next slide. With every camp, the project gets better, I would say. In 2016, we had much more content created. We had better group dynamics also because we were in a more isolated location, which helps the group actually. So now as a specific topics and people choose articles from a specific list of articles rather than coming up with article ideas or no. But that's just a short-term impact. The mid-term impact is that the project is growing. Volunteers who participated in previous camps, they now become coordinators of projects. They become active in Wikimedia projects or they even start up camps in their own communities. This March, we had a European Union where lots of people from all over Europe gathered in Austria to start up new Wikimedia projects in other parts of Europe. And the long-term impact of the project is maybe best summed up by the quote I put there on the slide, which is be the edit you want to see in the world, which is a parody of a famous Gandhi quote. And with the project, we want to change the Wikimedia culture into a culture of peace, more diversity and community health from Wikimedia projects. Thank you. Thank you, Thomas. And the next talk is by Florence Duvard, who's going to talk about Wikifundi. So hello, everyone. Is it okay to sound? Yes. Okay, good. So let me tell you a little story. Over two years ago, I spoke on the phone with the current program director of Orange Foundation, Luc. And I asked him if the foundation would be willing to support the development of a tool that would allow offline editing of Wikimedia article. A tool which could make training on and contribution to Wikipedia possible when there is no or where there is poor internet access or when the price of the data is too high, such as in Africa. A tool which could be used by fledgling Wikimedia user group in Africa to support them in their outreach work. And after I explained my project, there was a long moment of silence. And then Luc said, I have been waiting for this tool for two years. So we had a deal. The tool Wikifundi was launched in January during Wikindaba in Ghana. And the picture where you see in front of you is myself distributing the first pilot kits to Felix, Donacian, Shola, George, and Pachonda for them to test it. So next slide. A full kit is, it's very simple. It's made of one Raspberry PI, which is a small server creating a local Wi-Fi network, a micro SD card, which is simply inserted into the Raspberry. And on the micro SD card, there is a MediaWiki instance with a selection of templates to mimic the Wikipedia environment. Plus we also added some swag and resources to the kit. So the system, the Wikifundi operates in French and English. The kit, the full kit weigh less than a kilo and it costs less than $200 altogether. Slide. So Wikifundi is currently distributed in over 800 schools that belong to the digital school program of the Orange Foundation in Africa. And Wikifundi would be used in fall 2007 during an article writing challenge on Wikipedia in 300 of these schools. So expect first feedback on our pilot Wikifundi probably during Wikimedia, Wikimania 2017. Thank you. Thank you Florence. And to complete the movement update, some Wikimedia foundation highlights. The movement strategy discussions have been open for Wikimedia foundation staff. You probably took part in different workshops in person or virtually I think they're going on until next week or this week. This week. We launched the initiative for open citations with 60 other organizations and scholarly publishers to better... It is awesome, yes, we can clap. There's a new team, media wiki platform and the Board of Trustees election is taking place. The nominations and questions are being accepted now and boarders are invited to submit questions until May the 1st. So if you haven't, you can do that. And coming up in May is cycle two of phase one of movement strategy. If you don't know what this means, there is a very good well-documented page on Meta that explains all the process on the timeline and there's a very cool graphic too that explains all of this. And the Board of Trustees 2017 election, the voting will take place between May the 1st and May 14 and their results will be announced on May 20. And coming up is Anne Gomez with New Readers. Hello. Wow, it's been a while since I've done this. Hey guys, this is the first New Readers update at this forum since August, it turns out. So as a quick reminder, New Readers is a cross-functional team here. We're working on across technology, product, communications, community engagement and advancement. So what is New Readers? It's literally what it says it is. We are here to increase readership in countries where access to the internet is quickly growing by understanding and serving potential readers in those countries. We started with research a little over a year ago which was primarily in Mexico, Nigeria and India. We also looked into other countries as well. So throughout all the activities that we're working on, you're going to see other countries, but this is where the focus has been. The research took a couple different forms. The first is community, right? So we look really closely with our communities, user groups, volunteers, chapters to understand what they know and what they want to know from this kind of research. We did phone surveys hitting over 11,000 respondents in these three countries in something like 19 languages in these countries. I'm not sure exactly. And designed research doing deep contextual inquiry and ethnographic interviews so that we could understand some more of the context. And what we learned from that, like there's a lot, but the very high level is that awareness and use of Wikipedia among internet users is really low in these countries. In Mexico, the highest of the countries we surveyed, just over half the internet users reported having heard of Wikipedia, like literally having heard the word. And in Egypt that was just over one in five. So we've got a lot of way to go here. So where we're at with all this data is that we're building prototypes. When we talk about prototypes here, we're talking about not just web prototypes or software prototypes, but also process and communication strategies and types of grants. And I'm going to walk you through those different things. So it took a while to get from research into this kind of place of building. And we're in a space where we're trying really hard to be focused towards a few different objectives. And so you'll see a lot of iteration and circling back to make sure that we're reinforcing staying focused on our goal. It's been complicated. So there were 24 findings. We're down to a couple of focus areas. We're just going to skip right over that. The priorities here are awareness and access. And what we mean by priorities here is just that these are things that we're focused on working on. There's tons of other good work happening in the movement in other areas. Local content, local languages, is obviously hugely important, but that's just not where we're focusing. So when we talk about awareness and access, those are our primary goals. So what are we doing? That's the exciting part. And I'm going to pass it to Zach to talk about awareness. Thank you, Ann. So my name is Zachary McKeon, and I'm on the communications team here. Florence, so exciting that you're here on this call this morning. We're afternoon and evening elsewhere in the world. So when we talk about awareness, people have lots of ideas, but I want to spell this out a little bit more. When we talk about awareness, we're talking about a few different things. Recognition, use value, and attribution. And if we make those into statements, it's I've heard of Wikipedia, I use Wikipedia for, and I got it from Wikipedia, or I learned it from Wikipedia. And I'm going to talk about each one here. So we go back to the data that came from the New Readers team, and we saw that in our target regions, our real focus regions, awareness of Wikipedia from a recognition level is low. So when we asked the question, have you heard of Wikipedia, people responded, I have heard of it only 25% of India, 23% of Nigeria, 45% of Mexico, and this is among the general population. So what do we do to change that? Well, the prototype we're building here is a regional campaign. And the way that we're going to work on regional campaigns is by first conducting a community messaging survey. That means sending out questions of how do you explain Wikipedia in India? How do you explain Wikipedia in Nigeria? What tools do you need to do that better? And in India, we've done this, and we had 320 responses. In Nigeria, we've done this, and we had 91 responses. These really guide our approach. Then we form what we're calling a community promotion team. This is kind of like a small marketing group that is made up entirely of volunteers. So they make sure that all of the material we will make will be accurate and aligned with their expectations and their experiences, that they feel it's right. So this is not made by us in San Francisco or somebody outside of the country. This is grounded in the community's suggestions on messaging and how they believe we can best explain ourselves for these regions. And then finally, we find ourselves a regional marketing partner. That means somebody who's a specialist in making videos and telling stories in places like India and Iraq and Mexico and Nigeria. Where are we? Underway. The first one we've done is actually with this gentleman here, Sarmad Yassin in Iraq. We've been making a video with him right now with Jack Rabba, who we'll talk about this a little bit later. And this video is in production, so stay tuned. There's going to be a video ad shown in Iraq, and we hope to have that ready in about the next month. We're also doing one in Nigeria. We have a marketing team of five there. This is three of the five. We have Sam Oyeh, Shola Olinyan. He is our president of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. And then we have Coyote Yusef. Add to this group Blossom, who some of you may have met in Berlin, and Elitimi Tayo. We will also be undertaking a regional campaign in India. Right now, we're trying to find the partner for that. So if you have suggestions, agencies, video makers, storytellers that you think are great in India, you can come to us right now. Use value. We want people to know what Wikipedia is useful for. So this is again some of the data we had from the Global Reach team. In their survey, they asked people, what do you use Wikipedia for? So if you take that 25% of people in India who said they have heard of Wikipedia, we asked them, what do you use it for? We believe demonstrating use will help increase adoption and retention, that people will go from being aware to being advocates and being participants. Here, I want to really call out some amazing work happening from community engagement, and especially with Casey Harold. She started a rapid grants program that is starting to work with community members who have ways to promote use values for Wikipedia. And so two to call out here. One is Shola in Nigeria, who I mentioned before. And the other is Mompate in Botswana. Here he is. They're both doing programs where they're not only introducing totally new people to Wikipedia, but saying, here's how you use it. Here's how you get value out of it. The final thing to talk about today is attribution. We want people to know when they are on Wikipedia. And New Readers Research showed us that sometimes people are on Wikipedia and don't know they're there. That was a crisis a little bit in design and UI. So the mobile web team undertook an incredible task. And here I want to shout out Olga Nunez and the rest of the team there. They basically have designed new headers for our mobile pages. So going from on the left here with no branding to an added bar to call out where you are. We basically discovered that people don't read URLs as brand marks. And we need to make this a little bit more prominent. But this isn't just for Wikipedia in English. It's being localized to all the projects and to all the languages. So in fact, it started with Italian and Catalan, I believe, as the testing areas to make sure that it didn't disrupt anything. And once that was shown, we started to adapt it here. Shout out to Neerser for the design elements. All right, I'm going to turn it over to Ann again for access. Thanks, Zach. All right, so improving access. So this is another one where we're approaching this from a couple different pieces, offline and affordability. So there's a lot of overlap between these things. A lot of solutions that probably address both these barriers. But we think about offline as people who have less or no internet access and affordability as for people for whom internet access is very expensive. So offline. Some of you may remember. There are a few people here, I think, who are around. In 2010, the foundation was really seriously investing in offline. And a couple years later decided to stop pursuing that in the interest of not spending resources on a last mile solution and instead investing in zero. So there's been a lot of really amazing work done at that time by the foundation. And again, still in the interim by volunteers, excuse me, community members by NGOs and for-profits that's been ongoing and the world has changed. So we're in a place of kind of picking up these threads and trying to understand what's going on here so that we can best figure out how to spend our resources and let those projects really expand and scale. There's a lot going on here. So this is just the players that we know of who are doing this. Every month or two, I hear about more offline solutions for Wikipedia. Send them my way, if you know any. It's complicated. So we're still in the space of figuring it out. But in the meanwhile, we're starting out with a few different projects to kind of kick this off. The first is grants. We're advising Qwix and Wikimed on a grant to support fully offline reading for specifically medical content. These are individually packaged Wikimed apps with medical content in different languages. They're really great. That grant is ongoing. In our Android app, for people who use that, we are expanding the clarity and functionality of the saved pages features for people who have intermittent connections or want to save on data so they can store those articles for later. And the Android team actually picked up a wish list request from Doc James to add ZIM support. That's the file format that Qwix creates with their content packages in. And that was a request on the community tech wish list that the Android team has picked up and is working forward on this quarter. We're super excited to see that support. And on the mobile web, we're also supporting readers there. So we heard over and over again people like to download and share content from the web and we didn't really have a great way to do that. We found people taking screenshots and all sorts of other things. So over the last couple of months, we did community consultations and rounds of evaluative research to understand what concept we could use to best address this. And the outcome is surprisingly simple. It's great. These are again Neerser's designs to do a mobile-optimized PDF that people should be able to download and share. And the other front of access is affordability and I'm going to hand this to Jack who's on the hangout to talk us through a case study. Marhaba. Greetings from Jordan. My name is Jack Rabah and I head partnerships for the Middle East and Africa on the global reach team. So let's talk affordability. As Anne mentioned earlier, affordability is one of the key findings from our new readers research and is part of our work across access. On the world are coming online. We continue to see that cost of data is a major barrier. Next slide, please. Data affordability, for example, in Iraq is a big problem. Like Florence, I also would like to share an amazing story with you. Sarmad and his wife Ravan have been Wikipedia editors since 2008. They had an idea. Their idea was to expand access to free knowledge in Iraq and encourage Iraqis to contribute to their rich history and heritage. Starting in November 2015, Sarmad worked very hard to make Wikipedia Zero happen in Iraq. And this community-led partnership supported by the foundation is something we're very proud of. Next slide. Okay. So we conducted research to make sure we knew that this is a real problem and to help set our goals. Our initial phone survey in Iraq showed that 80% of internet users said that they use the internet less because of data costs. And that's a big number. Next slide, please. To break this down a little further, we see that for Arabic speakers affected by cost of data, 41% say they use it a little less. Use it a lot less. And 20% said they cannot afford it. Kurdish speakers are even more impacted by cost. Stated that they cannot afford the internet at all. This is an issue. Next slide, please. So on February 28th of this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we launched this partnership with ASL Iraq, bringing 12 million subscribers to Wikipedia. Driver-based represents about 40% of the Iraqi population. So this partnership was showcased in over 100 publications in 31 countries. And as Zach mentioned earlier, we're currently working with ASL to finalize the TV video ad to explain what Wikipedia is to Iraq. The social media campaign, ASL sent out an SMS blast to their subscribers, informing them of this partnership. Next slide, please. So we're planning a second phone survey to capture the success of these marketing campaigns and awareness efforts in Iraq. So because the two or three minutes that was allocated isn't going to do this justice. Stay tuned for a more comprehensive update on Iraq. Thank you. So there's a little bit of a lag here. My fingers are crossed for the internet connection here in Jordan. So far, it's done me proud. So I encourage all of you to follow the new readers' work across Access and Awareness on Meta so you can keep up with the action there. And now I'm going to hand it off virtually to Eddie. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon from Sunny Kochabamba, Bolivia. My name is Eddie Avila. I'm a member of the SGA organization. I'm a member of the SGA organization. And hopefully, some of you may be familiar with the organization since we share some of the same values. And even several community members in commons such as SUBA from WikiVidi Odia and also SGA Klein who was one of the very first global voices members way back in 2005. For a very quick summary, sorry online on their own terms. One of our focus areas has been our work with different indigenous groups across Latin America, helping them use digital media and the web to share issues important to them and even if that means to do so in their own language. My personal work in indigenous languages go back to 2007 when I co-founded a project called Voces Bolivianas, providing blogging workshops to different groups across Bolivia, including Aymara University students in the city of El Alto. As a result of the project, the first Aymara language blog was started. A seed may have also been planted even earlier when hearing a bit of Quechua around the house. My grandmother spoke fluent Quechua and just having the words and phrases ingrained in my memory made me realize the importance of language for one's culture and one's self-identity. While I'm far from fluent, learning Quechua still remains a very high priority for me. Next slide please. So back in 2007 when I first started this work I would hear some of the students we work with share how many of their parents who are migrants from the countryside would discourage the continued use of their native language. Reasoning that learning Spanish better or adding a third language like English will be much beneficial, much more beneficial for their educational or job prospects. Fortunately I think this is changing in some communities and I do think the internet has played a role in attracting a new generation of speakers which is essential for any language to live on. Of course I don't believe that the internet plays a magical role in saving languages but I think it could be a major part of a wider strategy that includes public policy, traditional learning, academic research, and others. And I think the internet is just simply a tool for making it easier for people to connect with one another despite geographical barriers. And I sort of cringe when I hear headlines or see headlines when I say such-and-such platform is saving such-and-such language because from my own personal experience I know that it is the people who are personally invested and committed that are using these tools to promote their language. Many of these language advocates do so with that financial compensation or may believe that they're the only person like them interested in promoting their language but that's far from the case. A friend of mine who was part of that original group blogging in Naimara told me that when he used to look for information online in Naimara there's practically nothing and that's why he wants to be a play an active role in creating information that could be uniquely expressed in our language so that the next generation does not find that same void like he did. You know being inspired by these communities is what led us to start a series of activities called Indigenous Language Digital Activism to facilitate a space so that the digital advocates could connect with one another to share experiences. So far we've organized a series of gatherings in six countries and a seventh coming this weekend in Chile. To make these workshops as inclusive as possible we reached out to other like-minded groups interested how the internet is helping to make content available in even more languages and I think Wikimedia is the major part of that movement. For the workshop in Oaxaca Mexico in 2014 we reached out to Wikimedia Mexico where Ivan and Carmen both enthusiastically joined forces with us and have been a very trusted ally ever since. We also had a very great experience Wikimedia Venezuela where Oscar Costero committed to co-sponsoring the participation of Leonardo Fernandez. He is a Wikimedia NYU Nike editor for the workshop in Bogota since NYU Nike is a language spoken across both countries and in Colombia Sebastián Quintero from the Wikimedians of Columbia Group has also been a very strong partner. Next slide please. So as I started to learn more about Wikimedia on a more practical level I became generally curious about why certain languages were represented on Wikimedia. Who are the people behind the scenes? Sometimes upon first glance it's not always apparent about the history of the site because many people choose to edit anonymously which is you know their right. I was curious to see how challenges compare with Wikimedia with other digital media you know with social media for example one can tweet or write on their Facebook profile however they want using the orthography of their choosing but with Wikimedia consensus must be reached which is not always easy. Next slide please. So with these questions and through the encouragement of several of the groups I mentioned earlier I thought Rising Voices would be the right team to convene the discussion by applying for a project grant which we received last year following some excellent feedback from the Foundation staff and others who were involved in the review process we started the project to gain a wider look at these projects. So the first phase is taking place right now in the form of a participatory research mapping project where we are documenting the experiences more than a dozen active incubator sites in Latin America to learn about the challenges and strategies to overcome these obstacles. For this project we hired Rodrigo Perez as the lead researcher responsible for the bulk of the data collection analysis. Rodrigo is a Zapotec language advocate from Mexico who has been involved with a number of free software localization projects and that previously took part in efforts to launch Wikipedia and Zapotec. Next slide please. So the project design includes a lot of outreach a lot of talking with as many people as possible everyone from current editors both native speaking and those who have learned the language as second or third languages current and potential readers of this information different regional affiliates who have implemented their own activities designed to support these communities such as Wikimedia Mexico who is currently working with groups in Yucatan Peninsula with Wikipedia in Maya and other groups that would like a little more guidance on how to best support these groups as well as other institutions that may be positioned to provide support also includes a lot of online research reading blog reports leaving messages for editors and basically seeing how much information can be gathered from existing information on the web. Sometimes these contacts lead somewhere sometimes it ends up being a dead end but more often than not most people have been very generous with their time willing to share their thoughts on the subject. Collecting quantitative data also provides a good idea on with whom we should speak. There are a lot of great tools out there providing information about the most active editors, number of edits. So thank you to all those that continue to produce tools that help with gaining a better understanding of the status of these Wikipedias. So one thing we've been asking during these interviews is how this project could help them in their own work. In one of the groups we've worked with we spoke with indicated that they would like a type of roadmap with recommendations and best practices that could provide some basic guidance on working with these communities but still can be flexible enough to take into account certain contexts or unique challenges so that it does not become a one-size-fits-all model. We also hope by conducting this exercise we can provide more visibility for existing projects in need of more volunteers as well as showing examples of how projects are working in case of other communities want to step forward and share knowledge in their own language. Next slide please. Even though we have a couple months ago with more interviews and outreach we still want to connect with the language committee with who we still want to learn a little more about their work. I think they're doing a lot of great job. I follow along on the email list and it's a very serious work but I think there's a lot of committed people to do some really to learn more about their work. So I just thought of I shared some early observations that we had that we've had so far. It's sort of hard to generalize how all Wikipedia and indigenous languages are set up. Some were promoted by non-speakers who believe that it would be smart to have a Wikipedia in that language and by setting one up then it might attract native speakers. Talking about some of the earlier incubated projects while others are being promoted by speakers that acquired the language of second languages and there's some other native speaker non-native speaker partnerships running. One quick example of an unlikely pair that's making Wikipedia work in Paraguay. It's a country where approximately 90% of the country speaks Guarani, either as a monolingual or bilingual speaker. However, less than 5% identify as a member of the Guarani ethnicity. We met a gentleman from outside the capital of Asuncion who was a researcher, a Guarani teacher and even has his own Guarani language podcast that was really interested in contributing to Wikipedia in his language. Although he wasn't entirely comfortable with the editing software mainly because of his work commitments. So in comes an experienced editor from Lithuania. Even though he doesn't speak Guarani, has been extremely supportive in indigenous communities working towards creating free knowledge in their language and offered to upload and format the information sent to them by the teacher in Paraguay with the eventual hopes that the teacher can learn the software and upload to himself. But it's one way to get kind of the same goal. And also really quickly, we've seen contributors with varying degrees of knowledge of how Wikipedia is governed. What the steps are needed to get a project going as well as a varying knowledge of knowledge about the pillars. And we sort of suspect that this may be the case where in countries where there may not be a local affiliates because many times affiliates run workshops or presentations that could establish a partnership, that relationship that could be a mentor or a source of information for some of these newcomers. And finally, I think conflict resolution remains a major challenge, especially with projects with few editors. Next slide, please. So through this outreach, we have made over the last several months. I'm happy to share some unexpected yet very positive outcomes as a result of these connections. One group, the Ibera group, has been a very welcoming space to me personally. They're eager to lend advice, tips based on their deeper experience with the movement and providing introductions to other members. I also made a great connection with Vahid from the Education Department, with whom I connected with this group in El Alto, Bolivia, who was interested in reactivating Wikipedia and Aymara through an education project at the Public University in El Alto. And I also made a great connection with Wikimedia Canada that is running an outreach project with the First Nations community and where I talked to or co-organized an event or edited on around First Nations topics to coincide with Wikimedia conference this August. Next slide, please. As you can imagine, there's a lot of information collected and yet to be organized and distributed. And a lot of people with whom we still like to connect with. And some more next steps is to present this information in a variety of ways so we could attract feedback from all the relative stakeholders to further discussion and ask for their help to fill in some of the information gaps but also to raise awareness about this movement for sharing free knowledge and native language in Latin America. Next slide, please. So that was a really quick overview of this work. I'd like to thank Maria for the invitation and thanks to Samantha and Samantha for the help with the presentation slides. And thanks to everyone for their work with the Wikimedia found movement. And we at Global Voices are really excited to be a small part of that. Thank you very much. Thanks so much, Eddie. So up next is Guillaume with Movement Strategy Update. Hi. So my name is Guillaume Pomier and I'm going to talk about strategy today and I know that the topic of strategy can be a bit dry. So I'm going to try something new and I'm not going to talk about cycles or faces or tracks. I'm going to try and do this presentation entirely in emoji. So there will be no text and no data, just emoji. Let me know how that goes. So if we think back about the past 16 years, I mean we have accomplished a lot. We have created and curated this amazing body of free knowledge composed of millions of articles and millions of media files in hundreds of languages. And as someone put it in the values discussions, we are a community of hundreds of thousands of people building monuments to people's knowledge and it's really easy to get lost in the day-to-day routine of editing or of the work here. But we have accomplished something truly remarkable and we should acknowledge that. And as we think about the past 16 years, that also gets us thinking about the next 16 years. So what more should we do? What else should we be doing in those next 16 years? And so 16 years, we're basically saying 2030 because 2030 is a run number and we like run numbers. And when we think about the future, we don't have a crystal ball. So thinking about the future is basically an exercise in imagination. But because we're Wikimedians, it's an exercise in imagination based on facts and sources and references and trends. So talking about trends, what can we know about... Sorry. What can we know about the world in 2030? What should we know? Well, you've heard this before, but we know that there will be a lot more people, particularly in Asia and Africa. We know that technology will evolve dramatically through mobile devices and rich media and messaging and new interfaces. We know that it's going to take about 100 years for children in lower income countries to reach the same kind of education levels as what we have in developed countries. And we also know that there is a trend towards centralization of the Internet and consolidation of power into the hands of a few giant companies, particularly in the tech industry. And as we think about the trends, we also need to think about going beyond what we know and who we know and trying to bring in more voices. Because we have a very ambitious vision, but we're not alone in trying to accomplish that. We are part of an ecosystem and we need others, we need partners. And those voices should be part of that discussion because they will be part of the future. And what this entails is hundreds of interviews and small groups discussions and research. So for example, the foundation is partnering with reboot in Indonesia and Brazil to conduct research that is similar to what was done with the new readers program. And so they will talk with partners and subject matter experts. They will conduct contextual inquiries with readers in their own environment to see how they use the websites. And so this is about places where we're not well known. And in parallel to that, there are also online surveys conducted in places where we are very popular to try and understand how people perceive and use Wikimedia products. And all of this will inform community discussions. And as I was mentioning, we need to know a little bit about the future in order to figure out our place in it. So in order to identify some of those global trends, we're also partnering with people who are doing some scenario planning. And that will give us some information around demographics and technology and media consumption habits and access to knowledge and policy. If you have any recommendations about people to talk to or research to conduct, you are more than welcome to add those recommendations to a matter. But you're also strongly encouraged to reach out to those people yourself because the foundation can do everything alone. We're a global and distributed movement. And experience has shown that when it comes to building relationships, building those relationships on the local scale, it's much more likely to bear fruit than a centralized approach. So find those experts, find those possible partners, talk to them, see what you learn and, you know, share that with the rest of the movement. And the foundation has also reserved some budget for affiliates who want to run some of those small group discussions with experts. So if you're if you're interested in doing that, you can reach out to the team, you can reach out to me and I can direct you to people who can get you started. Now, obviously, you know, this is just one part of the puzzle. And as you know, there have been a lot of community discussions starting with the foundation's all hands and also continuing with the many discussions that have happened recently on the wiki and the workshops that have been organized by affiliates and the recent wiki media conference in Berlin. And when I talk about new voices, it's not just people outside the movement. It's also people within the movement who don't necessarily engage in those kind of discussions very often. And the foundation is working with 18 coordinators who are organizing and facilitating discussions in many languages across wikis to reach people where they are with the support of the community engagement department. And volunteers have done that as well. And as I was mentioning, groups and affiliates as well. So if you've been around for a few years, you know that in some of the past processes, some questions were very guided. They were like, what do you think about mobile and its impact and everything? And some participants felt that they felt constrained. They felt that they didn't have the space to express, you know, the variety of their opinions and thoughts. So this year, we started with an earlier stage and a much broader question about, you know, what do you think we should be doing by 2030? And for many participants, you know, they enjoy that freedom. And we got a lot of useful input. And others were just like, I really don't know what you want from me. And that's fine. I mean, we have, you know, people thinking different ways. And there are different ways to engage. And soon we will start to discuss specific topics in more detail. So if you haven't felt that you could participate before, it's coming soon. And the coordinators and the volunteers have summarized a lot of those discussions on MEDA. And a more quantitative analysis will be posted in the next few days. So until we get some more research, what are people discussing so far? There are not no big surprises. So what people are talking about is basically collaboration and partnerships, community health, content quality and neutrality, partnering with the education sector, building a global movement and serving emerging markets, staying relevant through innovation, content gaps and biases, structures and governance in the movement. It's a bit difficult because I have to retranslate from MOG to English. Languages, diversity and inclusion, supporting new and experienced contributors and defending our values. So some of these are less about imagining the future and more about, you know, how we get there. And they will all have a place at some point in the process. And as I was mentioning, we're going to move into more detail with these topics. So we're going to take a closer look at the main ones. So if you're particularly interested in, you know, content gaps and biases or the possible business models that can be used across the movement, or maybe, you know, moving beyond the model of the Western encyclopedia, you will be able to engage, to share research and to discuss your findings and to discuss with other people interested in those topics starting in about a week. So if you haven't felt this far that you could contribute or that if you have not been satisfied, give it a chance with the next discussions. And so, you know, I know that the process can be confusing and the jargon can be confusing. So I just wanted to take a moment to extend an invitation. If you've been confused or if you have questions or if you have concerns, you can reach out to the team, you can reach out to me and no matter how busy we seem to be, there will always be time to listen to you and provide answers to the best of our abilities. If you're not sure who to contact, you can contact me. I will either respond or redirect your questions. You can also send me an email in emoji or something. I will try to decrypt it. Now, just to finish, I want to say that this is about figuring out our collective future. And to me, it's exciting. I know it's not exciting for everyone. So if you're not excited, be practical. And this is going to impact your work and your budget and your head count. So maybe not this fiscal year, but the next one. So you should probably be part of it in some way. And there are many ways to participate. I hope that you will find one that works for you. All right. Thank you, Guillaume. And let's give it up one more time for all of our presenters today. All right. So we have about nine minutes for questions and discussions. I've got one question for Guillaume from IRC, which is for the strategy process, what does finished look like? I don't know if I can answer that without jargon. What does finished... Okay. So the first finish is around Wikipedia when the direction will sort of have emerged from the research and the discussions. And after that, there will be more discussions about how to implement it and who does what. So I would say the first finish line is August with the direction. And second finish line is early next year when we figure out who does what. This is a question for new readers. Is there a place I can compare the statistics about engagement, understanding of Wikipedia, etc., with existing statistics about the U.S., Europe and places that are not new readers? Hi. I want that so much. We don't have comparable phone surveys for sort of like the global north, in part because you can't do phone surveys like those in many countries that have more established anti-spam and anti-privacy protection and all that. But there is work, I believe, under track C to do some sort of in the strategy, some sort of comparable thing probably in an online survey that anyone from track C wants to speak to, they can. I have a question for Delphine. Maybe she can talk a bit more about the online editing component of the thing she was talking about whose name I've forgotten. Huh? Gohans, sorry. I'm very embarrassed and I'm very sorry. It's weird this manner of always confusing Delphine and me. Okay, so. Sorry. I will repeat the question now if Gohans knows it's addressed to her. You presented about an offline editing thing, and I was wondering if you could talk a little bit more about the offline editing features that exist in that and how that works exactly. Okay, well, essentially when we did it, we tried to identify. Oh, by the way, so in case the box is here and these are the cables. So it's very small, right? So when it works, it opens something that really looks like Wikipedia, except for one Macintosh for which there is a problem of fixed screens. So if anyone knows how to help us on this and avoid this fixed screen thing, please contact us. This would be very helpful. Otherwise it looks very much like a regular browser thing. And it works pretty similarly to Wikipedia except that for example, there is no IP editing. So we have to register an account. And what we have been trying to do is to import as many templates we felt reasonable. So not all of them, we made a selection of templates based on the number of times they were used. So for example, all the templates necessary to do info boxes for cities or for schools or for countries are inserted in the SD card, but you may not find every single template that currently exists on Wikipedia. So they are technically speaking some little elements not working, but otherwise the visual editor is working versus the wiki code. Most of the regular admin system are working as well. When it doesn't work, it's when it needs to make a call outside. Let me give you an example. Increasingly in info boxes we are using data coming from wiki data. And of course in this case that cannot work. So one of the limit of the system might be all the info boxes that make a call to data currently being hosted on wiki data. Does that answer your question or do you need some more stuff? Kind of. I was mostly wondering, you say it's offline editing, so I guess people write edits and then submit them later. This wasn't very clear from either your website or the presentation. Oh, okay. So it's imagine the thing completely off internet. There is no internet whatsoever. The way you do it is that you use this thing that you plug into electricity and it automatically creates a small Wi-Fi network. Something that might cover a room, maybe a big room. And then anyone can just use a browser, open the browser and identify in the list of Wi-Fi network the wiki funding network. So they will connect themselves to this wiki funding network and will be able to access only the content that is on the little box. So the way people do it is that they can edit within this completely closed network. They can create articles. They can modify their stuff. So we don't know exactly how many people can connect themselves all together. We made a few tests during wiki in Daba and at least a dozen people could work together at the same time. Even if it was probably much more slowly than what you might expect for example if you were online in San Francisco for example. So you can set up a system in a room with for example a dozen people who will work together directly on the article which is on wiki funding. Then when the article is finished there is no automatic syncing. This is on purpose because we felt it might be too problematic to do automatic syncing between the real wikipedia and the wiki funding. So the person has to manually copy and pass the code in the article and then somehow get online and copy and pass the code in the wikipedia article. To give an example the writing contest we intend to do in the African schools these schools are absolutely not connected to the internet at all. It's not that the internet is on and off it's just not connected at all. So the way we will be doing it is actually quite challenging. The people will use the wiki funding as a small closed network within the school they will write the article completely offline within the small closed network and then when the article is done they will do copy and pass some of the code and it will be put on the USB key and then the USB key will be transported to a place where there is internet access and the person will take the code saved on the USB key to put it on wikipedia. So it's something that for us is normally very quick in such circumstances become increasingly heavy and difficult to implement but that's the only way we can have these kids being trained and work together to write articles. That makes lots of sense, thank you. I think we have time for one more question. Any other ones in IRC? Alright, in that case we will move right along. We have a few minutes for some wiki love. I'll give some wiki love to Guillaume for doing the emoji presentation. Thank you very much. I actually could say this every month or every day but I'd like to give some wiki love to the blog and social folks. Ed Earhart, Samir who works with us in Egypt and Arby Johnson they have upped their game so much I'm so proud of them so I just wanted to give a shout out there. Anyone else? Going once, going twice. Okay. So this just about wraps up our April metrics. I see one in the back. Robert, very important. So just a quick reminder we do have a special mixture this afternoon from 4 to I think it goes to 6pm but from 4 to 4.30 we have around 60 Googlers who are going to be visiting our office as part of an appreciation and a thank you that we're giving them for all their support during Google Give Week in December. So I really encourage all of you to come join us and to come interact and welcome all these wonderful guests to our office today. So with that said we are done. Thank you.