The Foundation sends out a bulletin every two weeks on progress against our annual plan. You can also read a six month snapshot of the progress made against last year's plan.
Highlights included:
Infrastructure
[edit]- Releasing the highly anticipated Dark mode and deploying it to over 40 wikis, including for anonymous users. A longstanding wish shared by many Wikimedians.
- Expanding the Collaboration List feature in the Campaign Events extension to help contributors easily find on-wiki events and communities that interest them.
- Deploying Automoderator as the latest in a suite of tools that volunteer editors can use to fight disinformation while making content moderation more efficient.
- Enabling AbuseFilter editors and maintainers to make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit allowing communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots.
- Building the Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, is now available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis.
- Improving the experience for users with extended rights on the projects, like stewards, by enabling them to specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
- To guarantee a more secure and privacy-conscious experience without compromising convenience, updating the Single User Login.
- Improvements to the UploadWizard that will make it easier for moderators on Commons.
- Resolving a total of 650 volunteer-reported issues in Phabricator in 6 months. For instance, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page. We have also resolved bugs in important areas like Add Link, the Android Wikipedia App, and the “Download as PDF” system, among others.
- Running six experiments to help us learn where to invest even more time and attention.
- Experimenting to remix Wikipedia content into short “fun fact” videos generating 1.87M views and 1.51M unique users via this experiment.
- Enhancing the effectiveness of gathering and addressing user proposals by revamping the Community Wishlist, a space where technical suggestions and ideas are welcome.
- Responding to new trends in infrastructure reuse being driven by scraping bots collecting training data for large language models (LLMs) and other use cases.
Volunteer Support
[edit]This new goal combines last year's goals of “Safety and Inclusion” and “Knowledge Equity.”
- Foundation, affiliates and volunteers worked together to protect an open internet at the 79th United Nations General Assembly. This included advocating for inclusion of language to protect community-moderated, public digital goods like Wikimedia.
- Responding to changing legal frameworks and fighting strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) that target Wikipedia. This included a legal victory in Germany, filing an amicus brief or friend-of-the-court in the Paraguayan Supreme Court and an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico.
- Providing support for ongoing cases in India defending the rights of Wikimedians through every avenue available.
- Monitoring and supporting the Wikimedia projects during the largest election year on record.
- Starting to roll out temporary accounts for unregistered (logged-out) editors on multiple wikis.
- Enabling over 2227 Wikimedians from 143 countries to come together at Wikimania in Katowice, Poland and online. This Wikimania, made with love, welcomed the next generation of our movement as they engaged in discussions about the future of our movement with a spotlight on product & technology and a celebration of functionaries across the movement.
- Improving language equity - in particular with a pilot that accelerated the onboarding of five new Wikipedias after language committee approval.
- Celebrating four Wikimedians from different language communities through WikiCelebrate.
- Providing support to regional conferences (WikiArabia, WikiIndaba, WikiConference North America, WikiConvention francophone, itWikiCon 2024, Wikimedia CEE Meeting, Bangla WikiConference, Wiki Nigeria) and thematic (Global Advocacy) conferences.
Effectiveness
[edit]- Meeting a diversifying revenue target through growth in multiple channels including the successful 2024 “Big English” campaign.
- Increasing cost-effectiveness by completing a relocation from the Foundation's San Francisco office to a new, significantly smaller administrative space, resulting in a rent cost savings of over 80%.
- Growing Wikimedia Enterprise, from continued contract with our largest customers to adding a number of new customers (1, 2, 3). To support these customers as well as to fuel additional customer growth, we have added several major new features to our API suite, including parsed references, structured contents datasets, and an enhanced free-access tier.