Annual report released: On January 21, the Wikimedia Foundation released its
annual report for 2014. It is the seventh annual report released by the Foundation. A Foundation
blog post describes the creation of the report.
Wikimania 2016: On January 20, the Wikimedia Foundation
announced that the site for the 2016
Wikimania conference will be
Esino Lario, a small
comune in
Lombardy, Italy. Six bids were submitted last year and of those,
Atlantic City,
Chennai,
Dar es Salaam, and
St. Louis were disqualified by the jury, leaving only
Manila to compete with Esino Lario. Posters on the Wikimedia-l mailing list largely praised the decision, but one expressed surprise that the population of the Italian village (772) was smaller than the expected number of conference attendees.
Steward elections:
This year's elections for the position of
steward will be held from February 8 to 28. Candidates can stand for the election until January 28, and as of press time eight candidates are in the running. There are currently 34 stewards.
Discuss this story
Stewards
I have read the Stewards article but still find the role of steward to be somewhat mysterious. Can anyone give a simple explanation of their importance, in particular to the English Wikipedia, comparing them with Arbitrators and Bureaucrats and any of the other mysterious powerful Wikipedia jobs? Thanks! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 18:53, 24 January 2015 (UTC) reply
Annual report
The Wikimedia blog says that "this year’s Annual Report has a whole new format and caters to a much larger audience: everyone who reads Wikipedia." Well, if it had been translated to other languages, that would have been better. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 23:58, 25 January 2015 (UTC) reply