 Okay, welcome to the June metrics meeting, everyone. If you wanna go ahead and grab a seat or find your way to the comfort space. Okay, so today's 29th of June, and I think the first slide up. The theme of today's meeting is the future of the Wikimedia movement and movement strategy. You've been participating all over the world. People have been participating. Today, we're gonna be hearing some of the stuff coming from the tracks that we haven't been as much participating in, as well as from the discussion coordinators who've been working to have those conversations throughout the world. So our agenda will include our usual welcomes, movement update from Maria, community conversations around movement strategy from our community presenters, and new voices research coming to us from Caitlin and Adele, as well as the next steps for strategy moving into now cycle three of phase one, which actually has some extensions. So I will share that with you at the end before we do Q and A and some wiki love. So we have some welcomes. We have Keith and Tech Ops, as well as David and Community Tech, who have joined as Rec Numbers, as well as a few interns and some contractor volunteers coming on board, James Hare and Niharca on my running evaluation team, as well as Wendy Chu in Legal, Abel Estrat in Community Engineering, Peter in Product and Margarita coming to join us on Coms. Actually, fundraising and advancement? Is that correct or wrong, right? Yeah, okay, she's in Coms. Okay, okay, welcome. Yes. We also have lots of anniversaries to celebrate. We have Kaldari and Chad, who have come up on seven years. Jonathan or Jaymo and Victor and Sedin, all hitting their sixth year. Adam White, Peter Com, Toby, Keegan, Erica, Patrick, all hitting four years. Enjoy the extra vacation days with that one, I think. Papau, Elliot, hitting their third year. Max, I'm sorry, go ahead, yeah. And then a whole lot of people with their second year, Max, David Strein and David Cross, Leanne, Sarah Malik and Peter. And then of course, Delfine, reaching her first one year anniversary at this time. So congratulations, everyone. So this is when Maria will come up and share the movement updates and hopefully be introducing our community members. Hi, I am Maria Cruz, working in the Community Engagement Department. And for movement update, this time we're going to go with foundation highlights first. The 2017 movement strategy has finalized cycle two of conversations and we are debating the five themes emerged that emerged from cycle one. The Wikimedia Foundation versus NSA case got astounding in our suit against the NSA, which means that we can move forward to the next stage in the case. The Code of Conduct was published by members of the Wikimedia Tech Collaboration Teams and volunteers. This is a Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Tech Spaces. And finally, the Wikimedia Foundation staff marched at the San Francisco Pride Parade and we got a recognition for our work to promote free knowledge, to support free knowledge. Yay! Coming up in July is Wikimedia Women's Camp in Mexico City, July 6 to 9. It's a conference that brings together volunteers who identify as women from around the world to engage in discussion around the gender gap on Wikimedia projects. And there will be a remote week for the Wikimedia Foundation. July 24 to August 4. Foundation staff can participate in remote work in this time. And for community update, we have community conversations around movement strategy. And today a few people will be presenting the work they have been doing. So we have first, sorry. Marco Correa Pérez. Marco, ¿estás ahí? Hello, yes. Hi, everyone. Yes, I lost the slides, please. Marco, we pass to the next slide. Can you see that? Well, I have been working for the Foundation as a contractor, coordinating the strategy process on the Spanish-speaking community. And of course, my main focus is the individual contributors, the track B. But I also have been supporting the other tracks in Spanish, the organized groups and the new voices tracks for having more voices in Spanish in the whole process. If we can see the next slide, please. And one of the workings we have done in the track A, the organized groups, sessions we held at Iberaconf 2016. For those who don't know, Iberaconf is the regional conference for the Iberaconf initiative that this is a group with user groups and chapters from Latin America and Spain and Italy. And the conference was held in Buenos Aires, June 10th to 12th. And in that conference, along with Jorge Vargas, we led two strategy discussions. We talked first about the whole themes. We divided the participants in five groups and the themes where every group was seeing one team. And then the participants selected the most important ones, the most important themes. And then we discussed in the final session of the conference the challenges we have as an Iberaconf, but also as the foundation in relation to the most important themes for the participants. So this was one of the work we have done in the track A. I also have supported Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Chile, and the user group from Colombia to publish their results on Meta. Next slide, please. In the work we have done in the New Voices track, in Wikimedia Chile, we wanted to participate in the process as a chapter, not only with the opinions of our members, but also serving as a vehicle for engaged Chilean experts and know what they think about the process and the movement. So we asked them for funding to the foundation for having a meeting in Santiago de Chile with different experts in the fields of GLAM education and public policies. And we have eight experts and six Wikimedians. We work with these experts. And next slide, please. So in this meeting we divided the whole session in two main blocks. The first one was a conversation about the future of free knowledge. We asked the participants to answer two main questions. They were, first, how do people access information today and how will they do in 2030? And second, how the institutions are preparing for the future. This main theme. Then after a break, we asked the participants to choose the most important themes. We have five kinds of sticky notes you can see in the photo with different colors. So the participants chose the most important for them and wrote why it was the most important theme. And then we have the discussion with the second block of the future Wikimedia related to the most important themes they selected. And finally, we had a final message from every participant to the Wikimedia movement. And it was published on video in the source page of the meeting. So next slide, please. Well, the outcomes of these two sessions I have spoke. First, the openness and the diversity of the process has been highly valued. The participants consider it a big progress that the foundation have this different voices involving the process as different or compare with past strategy processes that were more closed. And the second result of these two conversations of two sessions was that the most participants considered the theme A healthy and inclusive communities as the most important. And the second one was the theme C. They considered that having a healthy community is a core element to accomplish the rest of the other themes. So, well, that's the main conclusions I have. The source page are published in meta and, well, thank you. Thank you, Marco. Next up is Yvonne Cristiani. She is Deputy Chair of Wikimedia Indonesia. Yvonne? Yes. Thank you. Hello everyone. So I'm Yvonne Cristiani, Deputy Chair of Wikimedia Indonesia and I would like to share our experiences for conducting the strategy discussions in Indonesia. So we have done several activities. We've done online surveys. We've done one-on-one expert interviews and we also took the opportunity to conduct our local strategy plan by hosting a panel discussion that we called External Outlook and we will also conduct a movement strategy salon on July 11th. Next slide, please. And here are some of the key themes from the online surveys that we found from the respondents. First and foremost is the improvement of Wikipedia's quality and quantity. So if we use English Wikipedia as benchmarks, the Indonesian Wikipedia is still far behind and this is despite having 281 speakers. And in addition we need to also pay attention to the quality across languages. There are hundreds of local languages spoken in Indonesia, among which around eight have Wikipedia, but the number of articles and contributors are still way behind the Indonesian Wikipedia. And another thing is there is an increasingly pervasive government censorship and filtering that works by blacklisting domain names considered harmful, but this sometimes ended up with blocking sites that are not harmful. And on the other hand there's Wikipedia while being free from the censure have a privileged position in providing and disseminating verifiable knowledge to the public. And the second concern is about the verifiability or trustworthiness of the projects, especially Wikipedia since there's a concern of the spread of hoax news and Wikipedia is not immune to the scrutiny of the perception of the public and we need to work hard in building the credibility of the project and the minds of the people. And the third point is there is a low awareness of how Wikipedia works in Indonesia, so many people doesn't know how Wikipedia works and while the last is about inclusiveness there need to be an inclusivity in our engagement strategy while right now the contributors demographics are mostly high school or college students and mostly men and while Wikipedia is open to everyone it's not yet reflected on the demographics. And next slide please. We've also conducted one-on-one expert interviews we've interviewed 10 experts in education, technology and GO and governmental sectors and here are some of the interesting insights. First is on data visualization there is a trend of visualizing raw data to have a look that is grabbing attention and there's also a tendency to provide tools to interact or play with data without the necessity to understand programming or technical programming language and all the while some of them claims that Wikipedia's user interface is unattractive and is too text heavy. And second is on awareness there is a huge leadership base in Indonesia but again mostly most people don't know or understand that they could contribute to Wikipedia many of them still think that are paid writers, editors behind Wikipedia so they still assume that Wikipedia is working with the old publication model while those who knew and were that everyone can edit Wikipedia saw this as weakness instead of strength and this is especially through among academics and university professors who are suspicious if their students are using Wikipedia and while this is a huge potential area but instead the perception is that Wikipedia is not reflective or legitimate enough as a source again there's a misunderstanding of how Wikipedia works and last is on information retrieval in the past decade model of information retrieval has greatly changed and people could easily type their questions on Google and Wikipedia is in the position to play a big role since it always comes up first however this is not accompanied by quality content at least on English Wikipedia and next slide please and we've also took the opportunity to host a panel discussion to discuss about Wikimedia and Indonesia's local strategy plan and we invite three panelists to talk about three big topics these are fake news and online media and big data and digital knowledge and also the implementation of open education in Indonesia and next slide next we will host a movement strategy salon on July 11th in Jakarta and here are the list of some of the invitees and I think that's it from me I'll pass it on to Thomas Thank you so much for presenting Can we have Next up is Thomas President of Wikimedia Polska Thomas, you're up Yes, yes, hello, can you hear me? Yes Okay, good So I am accepted being President of Wikimedia Poland I am also a Polish language contractor for strategy process as well but I'm just going to say about this Wikimedia meeting with expert today so it was organised roughly two weeks ago and it was made next slide, please next slide, please then it was organised in Czerwonewiep, Szwestawrad there were 14 experts plus three Wikipedians we invited roughly and something, experts and 14 of them indeed agreed to join us next slide, please and we just wanted to have the variety of experts so two main groups were people from Glam Institution with which we cooperate or we are going to cooperate NGO people from generally open knowledge NGOs who do something in open knowledge and some other people one journalist one former politicians one scientist and contemporary female artists who wanted to stay anonymous next slide, please and this is how it looked like more or less yes, people were just at the beginning sitting at the table eating dinner talking informally at the beginning and then we just started doing official stuff next slide, please so the agenda was first the presentation about strategy process and where we are now I have given short briefing about what it's all about then it was dinner and informal talks some people knew each other but some notes and were curious simply about each other probably added value to them to talk to strangers and then it was general discussion about five teams because this was made during the cycle two and it took too long, around one hour and then we forced people to split into two groups and decided which teams from cycle two they are most interested to them and we just figured out that there were one group which was mainly focused on say quality issue of Wikipedia and second team which was more about the cooperation with other entities and some social issues as well and then after quite long time of two hours talking this smaller group it was coming back together for final conclusion next slide, please next slide so the outcome is quite extensive I mean roughly 30 or something statements but I am just stressing here what really surprised me personally so one of the things was said by Piotr Szydinski who is former Wikipedia and at the moment he is a CEO of the Auschwitz Museum and he still had it from time to time but not very frequently at the moment so he had a comparison how the Wikipedia looked like in say 2005 to 2007 how it looks like now and his idea was that now he has a feeling that the people are so afraid of trolls and hoaxes that they create a very negative atmosphere in Wikipedia and it's really not a good idea because whatever you do under fear is always counter effective and then this anonymous artist said that indeed she agreed with him and said that it probably get rid of many young people who start editing and she says that Wikipedia community is Polish Wikipedia community is ancient next slide, please and this young people team was quite extensive in both groups but the second group which was mainly focused on quality issues were discussing mainly some kind of contradiction between neutral point of view and verifiability and one of the things which surprised me was this Waldemar Kuczynski point of view he's a former politician and he said to us because it was very interesting what's going on about Wikipedia in countries where the Wikipedia was banned or is banned and he said that sooner or later we must decide if we want to be 100% NPOV in these countries or resign from writing about some taboos which triggers the blocking of Wikipedia in those countries which was immediately contradicted by Jaroslaw Lipschitz he's very much a person who is engaged in open knowledge community and he said no, no, the big advantage of Wikipedia is actually that it's ongoing never ending dispute about everything if we block something so it means that we are losing the point and then interesting also point of view was given by the journalist Sylwia Czukowska and scientist Miroslav Filićak who was saying that they see at the moment in Polish Wikipedia and in English as well that it's a general danger of anti-intellectual democracy attitude I mean, removing the real scientific point of view by some crappy point of view and they were stressing such situation like with anti-vaccine if the issue which is going on in Poland and in the US I guess as well when some people say that the vaccine is wrong and they are removing the good scientific proofs that the vaccination is actually good for people the next slide please and then when these two groups joined together so the main team was again for the new young people and Marcin Wilkowski who is doing a lot of the projects together with teenagers he said that what he observes that the teenagers accept that neutral point of view is much more important to them because they don't care if the let's say the Wikipedia content is really well sourced and very strictly okay, but more important for them is neutral and they trust Wikipedia just because it's neutral not because it's well sourced so then next slide please and lesson I was asked to give you this first of all the variety of people in one room makes discussion really fascinating people start to discuss about each other but then it's pretty hard to stop this dispute between them and it started to be not only about Wikipedia strategy but also about say Polish politics and some other not very well connected with us for our topics so then we have to push them really hard to stop talking about other issues and to concentrate on strategy and then the many outcomes are really surprising I was just showing them those outcomes which are most surprising for me personally but if you want to read more about it so there is a link here showing a lot more of outcomes from this meeting so that's it, thank you thank you Tomas and with this I pass it to the presenter of research findings from movement strategy Jorge Hello everyone, my name is Jorge Vargas and I work for the partnerships and global reach team heading all of our work in Latin America today I'm going to talk to you about something very exciting that has been happening for the past months and is within our movement strategy discussion and process we have been incorporating a new voices to the conversation and some of you would ask what are new voices and by new voices we mean experts we mean thought leaders we mean partners we mean allies but we also mean people around the world that are not necessarily participating of the movement but that one way or another are influential for our work in order to do this research we defined four different methods one on one interviews we've been scheduling interviews with experts, thought leaders, partners and so far we've done 96 interviews in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America North America and Europe and all of these interviews have been talking giving us a lot of perspectives about Wikimedia, the movement where people see us in the future we also did design, survey and desk research so we conducted research design research in Brazil and Indonesia for that we worked in partner with Reboot which they're here today accompanying us for the process and we also conducted survey and desk research and the US, Russia, Japan Spain, France, Germany and the UK besides this we also have something very exciting which we already heard a little bit about from Marco and are the events we had events bringing all of these new voices together and just have an open conversation over lunch over dinner, over drinks and we split that in two parts we did some events that we organized double the foundation organized and we did this workshops and salons in India in Mexico, in Nigeria in the US, in Germany and in Belgium but the most exciting part is that a lot of affiliates across the globe are also engaging in this process and they're organizing their own events as we saw previously so far we've had events in Chile in Catawar, in Poland and we have plans to keep this going until Wikimedia so far we have plans for Mexico Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil Nigeria, Indonesia, Nepal Israel, UK, India and they're gonna keep coming so it's not amazing so new voices, who are the new voices? here are the new voices these are people around the world that are discussing and talking about Wikimedia and what's the vision for 2030 just around you can see pictures of the events in Nigeria, the events in Mexico City the event in Catawar that they created this really cool t-shirt with the Wikimedia 2030 logo in the back these are the people that we're talking we're talking with people around the world that are not necessarily in the movement but that are one way or another related to us and our voices that are important to define where should we be heading these are the cool t-shirts that I mentioned with this Wikimedia 2030 logo we see pictures of the Poland event the Mexico event the Chile event that Wikimedia already described and finally these are some pictures of the design research that we did so here are some of the pictures of the people that we talked with in Brazil and Indonesia we talked to students, we talked to experts we talked to teachers, we talked to mothers we talked to parents, we talked to everyone that in one way or another are engaged in learning and in education and for that we interviewed over a hundred people in areas that are urban, very urban and rural with people that were semi-connected, fully connected or completely offline and we learned a lot of things so all of these new voices have been giving us a lot of information that we're still processing and we're trying to get some findings out of that so here's the exciting part and I'm going to let Adelie and Caitlin talk about those findings now Thank you Jorge Okay, so let's talk about findings we are still, I think like just for all of you to know we have got a lot already and there's more to come, right? Caitlin is here to represent that we still have survey results coming more interviews and more events coming in but this is the consensus findings that we have to date so we are starting with knowledge sharing is highly social and you're already hearing that and you probably know that and I'm just here to confirm that the new voices are telling us that's where the world is heading the youth, the people that are going to be our users and readers and consumers and donors and part of our movement they are using social media space messaging apps, they are using the internet to replicate their social connections so the word-to-mouth type of behavior that we used to see now are migrating to WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and other applications and properties that are not necessarily based in a mobile, in an internet browser so this is a really significant change to us and we are hearing from people that our users or the readers that are now today using Wikipedia are not really the users and the readers that will be using the content or seeking that information in the future and now people are not trusting the institutions to create their information they are trusting individuals they are trusting digital influencers to create the content that they are consuming and it's less about going somewhere going to a browser and a destination to find that information is more about using your social networks and the space that you are relating to your networks and the people that you know and finding the information there they are creating that information and they are bringing that to you so that is the digital influencer trusted influencers and content creators that are bringing content to our users then here we see that technology it is really a mainstream end and it's a key factor in meeting the changing needs of our readers creators, institutions and society as a whole we see that coming from the less aware less established markets but we see that a lot coming from the more mature established markets and I want to Caitlyn to represent that so we are hearing from GLAMS and other institutions that they see us as an essential part of preserving their content and their collections and furthering their missions and they are asking us, nearly begging us to please take a more engaged, active role in that we've heard from technologists that we need to keep pace with changing consumption habits and they are asking us to look to today's 15 year olds about how they access and they produce information to assist us in predicting the needs of that cohort in 2030 Yes and then the next finding is movements are built on emotion and human connection and I don't know if you all felt it but really hearing the affiliate led saloons the event hearing his energy coming and reporting on that I think we are really feeling that this is a process that really embodies a global movement and that's what people are telling us we need that emotion we need that factor that really makes us feel that we belong and we are achieving something together that we are actually impacting the whole world and we are seeing that that is a call to us and I think that also is coming up in the discussions in terms of we need to actually be able to communicate better of how the Pente is using this expression how the sausage is made when we stop at anyone can edit people that and we have felt and seen that happening on the ground the trust goes down because if we stop there and you don't really explain the value of anyone can edit and everything that is behind that and the values that are behind that and the rules and the responsibility and the mission that really drive every volunteer that is participating in our project they don't really trust the model but once you really explain what is this all about and what is it that we stand for then we can recuperate that and we can engage them and we can have this feeling the emotion that they need to feel connected to us but I need to move on so here is that as learning platforms evolve we need to think beyond the encyclopedia and this means that the young people that we talk to the 15, 16 years old they are telling us we need modular, short, compact created content you have a lot but it's really hard for us to make sense of this lot of information we need something that really gives us what we need in no time people are leaving the area of in no time we need things now so it's really the speeding up making things modular, compact and short to be able to address them and I think we also know there are things in the encyclopedia western format that are challenging like what we do with the cultures and countries that are preserving their history through oral history or traditions we need to think about that and maybe all those things are not going to be in an encyclopedic format and we need to be able to have that conversation they are asking us to have that conversation so this one there is a tradeoff and people are telling us you are telling us that you want your credibility you want your project and Wikipedia to be credible and how about inclusivity how you do both how you have projects in a movement that can yes be credible but also be open to new people coming in and joining you and they are asking us to reflect on that how you how you do this and I think there is one what they are telling us is that inclusivity and new representation can be only forged on lower barriers to entry the perfect is the enemy of good needs to be in our mentality here so then we can open the doors for participation if we are really truly trying to be inclusive really truly trying to be global and welcoming without letting the credibility off our minds so the next one is Wikimedia should be an influencer in shaping world policy for access to knowledge we talk a lot about like the open to free and people are telling us how about the access how about really thinking about people that are not served how about thinking about the new voices but the underserved new voices and how about Wikimedia really stepping in in a leading role to solve those problems and to you Wikimedia in this space and we have been having those call to actions for more participation and active participation from across the bases like in well established markets and low-runners markets and I want Caitlin to add even more flavors to that so what we are hearing in the salons the WMFRONT salons and in our one-on-one interviews is that being open in and of itself is a political choice that being open isn't standard and it isn't average so even if we think we are being neutral we are not a couple of direct quotes from the interviews a leader in the open movement said quote we need to be able to take positions this could mean that some people decide to leave the movement someone slightly more removed from our world said quote the open movement feels disconnected from populist concerns to jargony and incitry a lot of exclusionism and reverse snobbery so people have different opinions about how we should take a leadership role and we will have to weigh those opinions against all of the information that we are collecting that we already have and as Adele mentioned continues to roll in on an almost daily basis but regardless the recurring theme over and over again is please take a leadership role people really want to work with us they want to partner with us but they really want to know where do we stand yes and now we are going to move on to a more nuanced perspective where this where the new voices are actually differing what are we seeing that is actually different from across the globe so one of the things we are hearing that is different that there is disagreement on just lack of consensus we are hearing it much more we are hearing this theme emerging technologies could radically change access to information we are hearing this a lot in markets where we already have a lot of awareness and a lot of penetration we know 14 years is an eternity in technology we don't know what the world will look like in 2030 but we know it won't look like it does today current tech is going to continue to grow and evolve but tech will become prevalent and ubiquitous that we haven't even begun to imagine just yet there is a brief that was just released it is Thursday so Monday that we will go up on meta very shortly from one of our desk research partner some of the highlights from the brief I will just read to you so quote natural language processing will continue to improve which will in turn improve voice driven applications and platforms and this last piece like bot driven interfaces virtual reality experiences have the potential to change users expectations about how, why and where to seek out news information and entertainment and how they will interact once they do we also know Juliette heard in a conference she was at that bots are increasingly being used by governments and fake news sites to spread disinformation and influence public perception and that's something that obviously we're deeply concerned about and that the other thing that we're hearing a lot is that a lot of these emerging technologies are only for consumption right now like virtual reality but at some point we anticipate that some subset of them will be participatory and the question is will we be prepared to use those technologies when that happens and I think what it like differs from our, from the the new voices in more of the emerging markets is that they're not there yet right like they see yes that technology is coming but there's so many barriers still to access that there are other needs that needs to be meet first or be met first before we are thinking about all this cutting edge technology and the second and final you know overarching thing that we're seeing the disparity around is that privacy and anonymity are still relevant we haven't, you may have noticed that we really haven't talked too much about those in any of the presentations to this point in emerging markets we're seeing that people are migrating to platforms and services that are not as concerned with privacy as the Wikimedia movement is a user, this states user stated, this meets user stated needs they want to know who's behind the content as Penthea said they want to know how the sausage gets made they actually want to know the humans behind the information on the flip side of that across all markets we see activists and intellectuals who are concerned and care deeply about privacy and anonymity they see it as a form of protection and that's not a commonly held opinion amongst users so we know as Wikimedians that expressing oneself freely on certain topics puts people at risk in times those who have seen the importance of privacy have urged us in the interviews and in the salons and through written feedback to continue to press our position here they would like us to remain a leader so that users can continue to freely contribute to the projects and safely express themselves in the emerging world there's some interesting factors at play including digital literacy or lack thereof and the conscious or unconscious acceptance of risk in this space it's likely that this in some form will play into either in a spoken or unspoken way into our work moving forward we know that we have work to do in this area alright and now psychotry is about engaging with this findings and we really want to encourage you I hope we really we try to really show all the richness of this findings and we have we're seeing yesterday that the global movement is one of the leading themes in terms of the discussion with the staff so I think you are already seeing that you are already interested in this but I really would encourage you to really engage even more and join this conversation learn more about these findings this is all going to be posted it's all on meta and come and talk to us join the party come and join the conversation thank you is this working? this brings us to the strategy next steps which are there's actually a new proposed timeline you might have seen it announced in Catherine's message last Friday we have extended cycle 3 through wikimania previously we had a goal of presenting the final direction at wikimania and having that decided before based on a lot of the input and feedback we've been getting across all the tracks especially our organized groups who are working to host these conversations in their local spaces we've been pushing a little too quickly and people need time to synthesize what we've been learning so as Adele just shared we're really focused this month of July on digesting the new voices research and bringing it into the context of what we've been hearing with the five themes so starting this weekend later today we should be seeing start to appear on the wikis we'll be focusing on weekly prompts to sort of have provocative conversations where we're seeing challenges in the synthesis across the tracks so this week's prompt is going to be actually focused on how do we keep our communities staying relevant in a changing world so with some of the things we've been hearing we hear the youth of today which we're supposed to look to to understand where we need to be in 2030 interact with information and exchange information differently they go to platforms they're most familiar with and they like to share there so how do we meet our goals of bringing people along with information at the same time deal with this platform difference the other sort of provocative point there will be how do we actually deal with the sort of bandwidth changes that we're seeing we want snippets of information answering their specific questions rather than long form encyclopedic text and so these are challenges that we're hoping to hear folks really start to brainstorm and think about as we bring the information from the new voices research into where the movement's been talking about growing in terms of the five themes so please engage with that content as it comes up obviously there'll be a new theme and a new challenge question and prompts each week and those will actually come along with a little story of a persona so you can sort of experience the world through someone else's eyes as well as you take on the problem solving in August we're going to be sharing that strategic direction with the drafting group of course working through July to take the information coming through these conversations weekly into that draft and we'll have more information on that in the coming weeks as well but that will go all the way through Wikimania we actually have workshops going on during the Wikimania event as well and of course online through the month of August so that we're ready in September to sort of enlist people to sign on to the future strategic direction and get that sort of endorsement and support at that point so people are pretty happy overall with this extension they feel like they've been heard and we're happy that we're able to work something that really feels like it's a better process and a better model so that we can continue the good work that we've done almost six months now right so beyond that it's time for us to move on to the questions and discussion so as usual if you have questions to ask any of those speakers please line up over at the microphone of course if you're online we have someone monitoring the IRC you can post your questions there and we'll bring it to the mic around to the right person to give you the answer how about now yeah am I amplified excellent alright we do have one question that came in from IRC earlier this is a question for Yvonne math asks what are the most read language Wikipedia's in Indonesia so the most read language is Indonesian besides English so I think first is English because and the second is Indonesian other local languages are really in terms of readership so yeah that was the only okay that's better thank you and that was the only question that I have from IRC so far if other people watching the video have questions please put them in IRC and I will pass them on and otherwise let's take some questions from the room hello just to jump in quickly yesterday we had a brown bag from Pantia Le a principal of reboot and our partner for the research for the movement strategy and new readers and editing project as well she's here so in case you were not able to make to the brown bag and you would like to ask questions to Pantia and Zach Rizan they are here feel free to do so they're expecting that so we're not putting them in this spot hello okay if there are no questions you can go ahead and move on to I know everybody's favorite part of this meeting and share some wiki love so think about what's gone on this last month who's really been there for you helped you out or what have you seen that's been inspiring who do you want to thank the microphone is of course over there this is Leila from research so we ran we are running this study on why we read Wikipedia we started this last year and we are going to repeat it for five languages starting a week ago and then nine more languages volunteers kind of for this the study to run in those languages which meant at least one volunteer from those languages had to go through hours of work with us doing the translations doing one-on-one basically interviews with us for us to make sure that the content is exactly translated the way we wanted to the language but also doing all the coordination work with the community their corresponding community it was a tremendous amount of work on our end it's our job on the end it's volunteer work and I really greatly appreciate that both the volunteer work and also the chapters that were involved just quickly calling out the languages in case they are listening in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian Japanese, Romanian, Russian Spanish and Ukrainian thank you very much for all the work you did Hi there, Zak from communications I wanted to thank all the people who worked so hard at the end of our fiscal year so the finance team the people that work on the wellness reports which I just find incredible Elena you're amazing for processing those and answering questions and giving us three times to ask you questions about them so I just wanted to thank those people for doing those things at a very busy and stressful time thank you I don't know if he's joining us from his summer holidays but I wanted to thank and give some wiki love to Dr. Borelli we recently secured a grant from a new institutional foundation they're very young but they have a lot of potential and they're super interested in open data and the research that Dario and his team are doing and not one specific thing but all of the things and Dario came to New York and was spectacular in this meeting and completely wowed these people he knows everyone and when they couldn't think of someone's name and said oh we talked with these people that do this open data thing and Dario was able to say oh you know Seth so he absolutely rocked this meeting and they're super excited to start working with us and there's a lot of potential in the relationship so I just wanted to say thanks to Dario a couple of pieces of wiki love thanks for everybody who helped make the Pride March happen with our team that was really fantastic and also we were just a couple floats behind a group from another country who is currently having some trouble with wikipedia being able to get logged in because their country shut it off and they stopped by and said oh my god do you know this is happening and I was happy to be able to say oh yes our legal department is on it so thank you legal for everything you do as well well we have them online so I really want to thank Marco, Tomas, Yvonne and all of the community members out there that are actively engaging with the strategy process they've been incredibly helpful they've been amazing and just not only organizing participating but also sharing all of that knowledge that they're gathering back with us so Marco, gracias, thank you Yvonne thank you Tomas I'm mad I'm forgiving for being cheesy but I just wanted to thank all the presenters for making this really exciting and much less like status updates but more like invitations to be involved in very engaging thank you just quickly, thanks everybody if you're on the call or not for helping out with training modules and translations I set out to the community three months ago trying to get 585 messages translated into nine different languages and we're almost there with a few of them which is ridiculous so thanks to everybody who's helped with that okay so if there aren't any more wiki loves I would just give a wiki love shout out also to the finance and talent and culture team who are working I'm sure like mad to do all the end of your adjustments and of course wiki love to all of the people who have so earned them so thank you for joining the meeting I believe lunch is in the back, thank you