The state of the Wikimedia movement

Phoebe AyersWikimedia Foundation Board of

TrusteesMay 31, 2014

Wikiconference USA

I use Wikipedia to live my life.

-- donor comment, 2013 fundraiser

495M Unique Visitors / March 2014

Half from Europe and North America, half from the rest of the world

mobile

Oliver Keyes and Toby Negrin, May 1 2014 WMF Metrics Meeting

desktop

31M articles in Wikipedia (globally)

21M files on Commons

On the English Wikipedia:

Top 5,000 articles = 19% of all traffic

From Andrew West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:5000 andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-02-04/Special_report

32K active editors/month in English WP

wikidata

WLM

English Wikipedia active editors. From Halfaker et al, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline

6K new editors per month in en:wp: but they’re not staying

And some other languages…

• Spanish Wikipedia: 4,086 • Chinese Wikipedia: 2,188• Hindi Wikipedia: 44• Swahili Wikipedia: 9• Javanese Wikipedia: 7(Active editors/month in March 2014, from stats.wikimedia.org)

Getting together

• 40 chapters• 1 thematic organization• 11 usergroups • (at least) 38 meetups globally in June

2014• 1 big annual conference• (and lots of smaller ones)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Courses75 current classes (spring 2014 term)

What’s the community focusing on?

●Articles, data, books, travel guides…

●Quality ●Outreach ●Partnerships and GLAM●Tools

What’s the WMF focusing on?

• Technical platform• Supporting editors

Mobile & Wikipedia Zero

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start

What’s next?

Our big questions

How to… • Maintain a vibrant community• Provide access for all • Turn readers into editors• Maintain and improve quality • Ensure the future of the free and

open knowledge ecosystem

How we’ll get there

• Iterative strategy• Many experiments• Community project support • Stable platforms• Advocacy• Better data

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely

share in the sum of all knowledge. - Wikimedia’s vision

statement

Thank you

I extend my heartfelt thanks to the men and women who

tirelessly work on keeping Wikipedia the wonderful website it is.

-- Donor comment, 2013 fundraiser

Discussion?Phoebe Ayers

payers@wikimedia.org