talk given for WikiConference USA, May 30-June 1 in NYC. Covers an overview of what's going on in Wikipedia and Wikimedia.

1. The state of the
Wikimedia movement
Phoebe Ayers
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
May 31, 2014
Wikiconference USA

2. I use Wikipedia to
live my life.
-- donor comment, 2013 fundraiser

3. 495M Unique Visitors / March 2014
Half from Europe and North America, half from the
rest of the world

4. mobile
Oliver Keyes and Toby Negrin,
May 1 2014 WMF Metrics Meeting
desktop

5. 31M articles in Wikipedia (globally)

6. 21M files on Commons

8. On the English Wikipedia:
Top 5,000 articles =
19% of all traffic
From Andrew West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:5000 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-02-04/Special_report

9. 32K active editors/month in English WP
wikidata
WLM

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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)

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

14. What’s the community
focusing on?
● Articles, data, books, travel guides…
● Quality
● Outreach
● Partnerships and GLAM
● Tools

20. What’s the WMF focusing on?
• Technical platform
• Supporting editors

21. Mobile &
Wikipedia
Zero

24. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy

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

26. What’s next?

27. 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

28. How we’ll get there
• Iterative strategy
• Many experiments
• Community project support
• Stable platforms
• Advocacy
• Better data

29. Imagine a world in which every single
human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge.
- Wikimedia’s vision statement

30. 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

31. Discussion?
Phoebe Ayers
payers@wikimedia.org