Internal:Activity report (Q1 2017–2018)

This report describes the activities of Wikimedia District of Columbia from October 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017.

Institutional partnership
Wikimedia DC held a total of 10 collaborative events with 12 institutional partners.


 * The Hidden Figures Women in STEM Edit-a-thon, held on October 9 in collaboration with West Virginia University
 * The Hispanic Heritage Month Edit-a-thon, held on October 11 in collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
 * The Emerging Technologies Edit-a-thon, held on October 19 in collaboration with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
 * The U.S. Historic Sites Edit-a-thon, held on October 20 in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation
 * The Laurel History Edit-a-thon, held on October 21 in collaboration with the Laurel Historical Society and Museum
 * The Aphra Behn / Burney Society Conference Edit-a-thon, held on November 1 in collaboration with the Aphra Behn Society and the Burney Society of North America
 * The Making Statistics Clear Edit-a-thon, held on November 11 in collaboration with the American Statistical Association
 * The Improving Artist Diversity Edit-a-thon, held on November 18 in collaboration with American University
 * A Wikidata Clinic, held on December 1 in collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian Institution Archives
 * The Women's Economic Empowerment Edit-a-thon, held on December 8 in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden

The events were attended by a total of 83 participants; these participants included 42 new users and 41 experienced users. Collectively, the participants made 447 edits to 137 Wikipedia articles, contributing 217,638 bytes of Wikipedia content.

[Distinguished service awards]

Content development
Wiki Science Competition 2017 in the United States

Grantmaking and sponsorship
[Fiscal sponsorships]

Public policy
[TBD?]

Board and committee activity
[October board meeting]

[December board meeting]

Volunteer capacity and utilization
[Volunteer of the year awards]

Communications
[Mailing list metrics]

Wikimedia DC's primary method of social media outreach is Twitter, with all tweets automatically re-posted on Facebook. The platform is used for general and institutional outreach and event promotion.

Three topics drove much of social media engagement in this quarter:


 * The announcement of WMDC board member Emily Temple-Wood's inclusion in the anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017.
 * The Women's Economic Empowerment Edit-a-thon in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden. Engagement was driven by real-time tweets from the event, prominently featuring Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter, from WMDC and the Embassy, and a retweet from the Foundation's official account.  A second burst of traffic was driven by a story about the event in The Lily, a female-oriented online publication of The Washington Post.
 * Wikidata, including the Wikidata Clinic at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the publication of an episode of a Wikipedia Weekly podcast and a Foundation blog post featuring two WMDC members discussing the October WikidataCon in Berlin.