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During Fiscal Year 2013–14, Wikimedia DC continued to develop its governance practices as a key element of its organizational growth strategy. Over the course of the year, Wikimedia DC adopted several new policies, including an [[Advisory Committee Policy]], an [[Ethics Policy]], a [[Fiscal Control Policy]], a [[Technology Access Policy]], a [[Travel Policy]], a [[Volunteer Policy]], and a [[Whistleblower Policy]], as well as amending a number of existing policy in light of the organization's changing circumstances. |
During Fiscal Year 2013–14, Wikimedia DC continued to develop its governance practices as a key element of its organizational growth strategy. Over the course of the year, Wikimedia DC adopted several new policies, including an [[Advisory Committee Policy]], an [[Ethics Policy]], a [[Fiscal Control Policy]], a [[Technology Access Policy]], a [[Travel Policy]], a [[Volunteer Policy]], and a [[Whistleblower Policy]], as well as amending a number of existing policy in light of the organization's changing circumstances. |
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Revision as of 01:39, 18 October 2014
This report describes the activities of Wikimedia District of Columbia during Fiscal Year 2013–14, covering the period from October 2013 through September 2014.
Programs
At the beginning of the 2013–14 fiscal year, Wikimedia DC realigned its program structure to reflect the three interconnected factors that make the Wikimedia movement a success: content, technology, and community. As described in Wikimedia DC's annual plan:
The aim of Wikimedia DC is to make free content available to the world. The development and promotion of technology gives us tools to distribute free content. Most importantly, building a vibrant community makes all of this possible.
Content
Over the course of the fiscal year, Wikimedia DC supported a total of 21 edit-a-thons in partnership with 13 separate cultural, academic, and professional institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, the University of Delaware, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Phillips Collection, the Laurel Historical Society, the D.C. Historical Society, the American Statistical Association, the American Chemical Society, and Frederick County Public Libraries.
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The edit-a-thons were attended by a total of 137 volunteer participants, who collectively made 1019 edits to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, adding a total of 290,453 bytes of content. Of these, 276 edits, corresponding to 64,599 bytes of content content, were made by newcomers, while 743 edits, corresponding to 225,854 bytes of added content, were made by experienced editors.
Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian Libraries, October 2013
Edit-a-thon at the Laurel Museum, November 2013
Edit-a-thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, February 2014
Edit-a-thon at the University of Delaware, April 2014
Edit-a-thon at the Frederic County Public Libraries, June 2014
Edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland, August 2014
- Scan-a-thon
- Summer of Monuments
Technology
Over the course of the fiscal year, Wikimedia DC supported 3 hack-a-thons in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Hack-a-thon at the Luce Foundation Center, November 2013
Hack-a-thon at the National Archives, April 2014
Hack-a-thon at the National Archives, April 2014
Community
Wikimedia DC partnered with Wikimedia New York City to organize the inaugural WikiConference USA. Approximately 250 people from throughout the United States, as well as a handful of Canadians, participated in the three-day event, which featured four keynote speakers and several panels, presentations, and discussions on all manner of topics affecting the Wikimedia community, including the gender gap, paid editing, on-wiki policy and procedure, and offline outreach.
Attendees at WikiConference USA, May 2014
Session at WikiConference USA, May 2014
Session at WikiConference USA, May 2014
Attendees at WikiConference USA, May 2014
Attendees at WikiConference USA, May 2014
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- Workshop Facilitator Training
- Social events
Public policy
This year the chapter established a committee on public policy issues. The committee drafted comments for a panel at the US Copyright Office on proposed legislation on orphan works. These are works whose copyright holder cannot be identified or cannot be located, so permission to use the work cannot be obtained. Wikimedia DC participated in a roundtable panel on this subject at the Library of Congress, and we submitted official written comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on proposals to handle orphan works.
Wikimedia DC volunteers also met with House and Senate staffers on Capitol Hill for briefings on subjects of mutual interest, including copyright rules and support for making cultural content freely available online.
In August, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute hosted a panel on Wikipedia editing for Congressional staff. The event received significant press coverage in light of the ongoing controversies surrounding Congressional editing. We later published a blog post on the subject of Congressional staff making edits to Wikimedia.
Members of the committee attended a Supreme Court case on software patents, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, and we are accumulating expertise on this topic. In addition, our chapter joined the Congressional Data Coalition, we held an open government hackathon at the Sunlight Foundation.
Organizational development
Membership
At the end of Fiscal Year 2013–14, Wikimedia DC had 72 members, corresponding to a 18% increase from the beginning of the year.
Governance
During Fiscal Year 2013–14, Wikimedia DC continued to develop its governance practices as a key element of its organizational growth strategy. Over the course of the year, Wikimedia DC adopted several new policies, including an Advisory Committee Policy, an Ethics Policy, a Fiscal Control Policy, a Technology Access Policy, a Travel Policy, a Volunteer Policy, and a Whistleblower Policy, as well as amending a number of existing policy in light of the organization's changing circumstances.
Wikimedia DC continued to expand its committee structure, creating two new standing committees, the Executive Committee and the Safe Space Committee, as well as four additional advisory committees, the Communications Committee, the Content Programs Committee, the Public Policy Committee, and the Technology Programs Committee.
Grantmaking
As part of our charitable activities, Wikimedia DC provides small grants to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations to fund activities that align with our mission to advance general knowledge and to collect, develop, and disseminate educational content under a free license or in the public domain.
In Fiscal Year 2013–14, Wikimedia DC received six grant applications with a total value of $1,753.72 from individuals and organizations across the United States. Based on these applications, five grants (corresponding to 83.3% of the submitted applications) with a total value of $1,403.72 (corresponding to 80.0% of the total amount requested) were approved and funded. The grants provided by Wikimedia DC were used to fund activities and events in Laurel, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Portland, Oregon.
Benefactors
Wikimedia DC programs are made possible in part by the generous contributions of our members. Member contributions are collected through a tiered sponsor membership program, which allows members to donate additional funds to support Wikimedia DC activities when establishing or renewing their memberships. Wikimedia DC expresses its sincere gratitude towards these sponsor members for their contributions:
- Gold Sponsors: James Hare, Kirill Lokshin, Peter Meyer, John Sadowski
- Silver Sponsors: Georgina Bath, Vijay Goswami, Christopher Maloney, Elaine Meyer, Diane Shaw, Sarah Stierch
- Bronze Sponsors: Christopher Alhambra, Jim Carpenter, Meghan Ferriter, Peter Hess, Stephen Katsurinis, Christopher Licciardi, Scott Miller, Jake Orlowitz, Nicholas Papacostas, John Rogers, Sage Ross, Misty Sweet, Jacqueline Taylor, Joshua Westgard
Measures of success
Our goal this year is to hold events with at least eight institutions, including at least two new institutions.
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