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[[Wikimedia Highlights|Highlights]] from the '''[[Wikimedia Foundation Report, October 2013|Wikimedia Foundation Report]]''' and the '''[[mw:Wikimedia engineering report/2013/October|Wikimedia engineering report]]''' for October 2013, with a selection of other important '''events from the Wikimedia movement'''
== Wikimedia Foundation highlights ==
===Pilot project for free mobile access to Wikipedia via text messages in Kenya===
Wikipedia Zero, the program to provide access to Wikipedia on mobile phones free of data charges, became available in Kenya this month. The partnership with mobile provider Airtel also involves a [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/24/airtel-wikipedia-zero-text-trial/ pilot project testing free access to Wikipedia via USSD/SMS]. For the first time, this service enables people who cannot afford data-enabled smartphones to read Wikipedia through SMS on low-cost basic phones ("[[:en:feature phone|feature phone]]s").
<gallery mode="nolines" perrow="4" widths=140px>
File:Screen Shot Cheetah 1.png|Entering a search term on a mobile phone using USSD
File:Screen Shot Cheetah 2.png|Choosing from a list of matching Wikipedia articles
File:Screen Shot Cheetah 3.png|Choosing which section to read from the selected article
File:Screen Shot Cheetah Reply.png|A part of the article is sent via text message, and the user can respond to read more
</gallery>
[[File:Open Letter for Free Access to Wikipedia.webm|thumb|right|400px|An open letter for free access to Wikipedia]]
===Video about South African students' grassroot efforts to get Wikipedia free on their cellphones===
In November 2012, the students of Sinenjongo High School, South Africa wrote an open letter on Facebook, encouraging cellphone carriers to waive data charges for accessing Wikipedia, so they can do their homework. Victor Grigas and filmmaker Charlene Music visited them and asked them to read their open letter on camera, resulting in a short video that was published this October.
[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/08/open-letter-free-access-wikipedia-south-africa/ Help is welcome] with the translation, design and promotion of this video and of the longer documentary that will be published about the students' call for the carriers to sign up to the Wikipedia Zero partnership program organized by the Wikimedia Foundation.
===Planning the replacement of the Florida data center===
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Operations team [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/21/rfp-new-datacenter-continental-us/ published a detailed request for proposals (RfP)], inviting offers for the location of a new data center in the United States. It will join the existing primary data center in Virginia, and replace the data center in Tampa, Florida. Wikipedia and its sister projects have been hosted in Florida since 2004.
==Data and Trends==
[[File:Wikimedia November Metrics Meeting Photo 03.jpg|thumb|380px|Dario Taraborelli presenting an analysis of trends in active editor numbers]]
Global unique visitors for September:
:'''506 million''' (+1.82% compared with August; +6.54% compared with the previous year)
:([http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors comScore data] for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release October data later in November)
Page requests for October:
:'''27.05 billion''' (+4.4% compared with September; +36.6% compared with the previous year)
:([http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm Server log data], all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)
Active Registered Editors for September 2013 (>= 5 mainspace edits/month, excluding bots):
:'''76,959''' (+0.76% compared with August / -5.83% compared with the previous year)
:([http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors Database data], all Wikimedia Foundation projects.)
'''Report Card''' (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects):
:http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/
([[mw:Analytics/Metric definitions|Definitions]])
==Financials==
{|
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[[File:WMF Revenue & Expenses September 2013 - Actual vs Plan.png|thumb|320px|Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of September 30, 2013]]
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[[File:WMF Expenses by Functions September 2013.png|thumb|320px|Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of September 30, 2013]]
|}
(Financial information is only available through September 2013 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date September 30, 2013.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Revenue
!style="text-align:right"| $7,868,439
|-
| '''Expenses:''' ||
|-
| Engineering Group
|style="text-align:right"| $4,046,942
|-
| Fundraising Group
|style="text-align:right"| $825,991
|-
| Grantmaking Group
|style="text-align:right"| $441,816
|-
| Programs Group
|style="text-align:right"| $424,627
|-
| Grants
|style="text-align:right"| $674,032
|-
| Governance Group
|style="text-align:right"| $152,461
|-
| Legal/Community Advocacy/Communications Group
|style="text-align:right"| $843,218
|-
| Finance/HR/Admin Group
|style="text-align:right"| $1,982,059
|-
! Total Expenses
!style="text-align:right"| $9,391,146
|-
! Total deficit
!style="text-align:right"| ($1,522,707)
|}
*Revenue for the month of September is $2.46MM versus plan of $0.99MM, approximately $1.47MM or 149% over plan.
*Year-to-date revenue is $7.87MM versus plan of $2.98MM, approximately $4.89MM or 164% over plan.
*Expenses for the month of September is $3.33MM versus plan of $3.48MM, approximately $157K or 5% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, and travel expenses partially offset by higher grants, payment processing fees, and outside contract services.
*Year-to-date expenses is $9.39MM versus plan of $11.17MM, approximately $1.78MM or 16% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, grants, and travel expenses partially offset by higher payment processing fees.
*Cash position is $37.77MM as of September 30, 2013.
[[File:WMF Monthly Metrics Meeting November 7, 2013.ogv|thumb|thumbtime=41:50.00|center|550px|Video of the monthly [[Metrics and activities meetings/2013-11-07|Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of October]] (November 7, 2013)]]
== Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement ==
[[File:Temporal-Control-and-Hand-Movement-Efficiency-in-Skilled-Music-Performance-pone.0050901.s001.ogv|thumb|380px|A video showing [[:en:Motion capture|motion-tracked]] finger movements of two pianists playing the same piece. Imported by the OAMI from an open access [[DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0050901|research paper]]]]
===Science award for bot that imports multimedia from academic publications to Wikimedia Commons===
The [[commons:User:Open Access Media Importer Bot|Open Access Media Importer Bot]] (OAMI) searches the database PubMed Central for scholarly papers that include audio and video files as supplementary material. If it finds files that are under a suitable free license, the bot uploads them to Wikimedia Commons. The majority of the material comes from biomedical research papers. The bot has imported [[:commons:Category:Uploaded with Open Access Media Importer|over 14,000 multimedia files]] since 2012; most of them are videos. They form a large part of the around 38,000 video files that currently exist on Wikimedia Commons. [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/21/scientific-multimedia-files-get-a-second-life-on-wikipedia/ Over 700] of the imported files are currently used on Wikimedia projects, on pages that together receive about 3 million page views per month.
[http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2013/10/announcing-the-recipients-for-the-accelerating-science-award-program/ On October 21], at an event in Washington, DC (USA) during the annual [[:en:Open Access Week|Open Access Week]], [[User:Daniel Mietchen]] received an [http://asap.plos.org/about/ ASAP award] for the team behind the OAMI. The "Accelerating Science Award Program" is sponsored by 27 organizations that support open access. Each winner receives US$30,000.
===New project encourages African communities to contribute local content to Wikimedia projects ===
[[Kumusha Takes Wiki/en|Kumusha Takes Wiki]] is a new project for supporting people in Africa "to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities (villages, townships, suburbs, inner cities, etc)." It is funded by the Orange Foundation. Photos [http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/394287 will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons], and text will be provided in a form that is suitable for reuse on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
"Kumusha" is a word from the [[:en:Shona language|Shona language]] (which is spoken in Zimbabwe and neighboring countries), and means "the place where you come from." The project "Kumusha Takes Wiki" is part of "[[Activate Africa]]", a network of projects and initiatives that aim to encourage contribution to Wikimedia projects in Africa, launched at Wikimania 2013.
[[File:Logo Iberoconf Ciudad de Mexico 2013.svg|thumb|320px]]
===Third "Iberoconf" summit in Mexico City===
[[Special:MyLanguage/Iberocoop:Portada|Iberocoop]] is an initiative joining chapters and other groups in the Wikimedia movement from Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Italy. From October 12 to October 15, representatives of these organizations, as well as some board and staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation, came together in Mexico City for [[Special:MyLanguage/Iberocoop:Encuentro_Wikimedia_Iberoamericano_2013|Iberoconf 2013]], the third such meeting after 2011 (Buenos Aires) and 2012 (Santiago de Chile).
Among the [[Iberocoop:Iberoconf 2013/Resumen ejecutivo|outcomes]] was the decision to appoint a coordinator for Iberocoop. [[User:Wotancito|Carmen Alcázar]] of Wikimedia Mexico is the first to serve in this role.
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