I read the Report earlier today as it was passed around Twitter. The design is really a step up from the last report (not that it was bad, just that is one is so good). The timeline in particular is helpful.
I would like to say that the page about the Mumbai attacks article felt * slightly* out of context, at least compared to the amount of space devoted to it versus, say, the NIH Wikipedia Academy. Donors might benefit from a more frank explanation that the article was just one example of the projects as a source of breaking news and how our content evolves over time. Anyway, that's just some nitpicking on a pretty fantastic document. :) Well done! Steven Walling http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jay Walsh <jwa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the next day or so Rand and the fundraising team will be sending out an > email to all of our donors (about 230,000 - thanks to a tremendous > fundraiser) recapping the campaign sharing our 2nd annual report, which you > can also read here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report > > As with our previous year's report, we make an effort to describe the > year's activities, our major accomplishments, our financial successes, and > where we're heading in the coming year/years. This is a crucial tool for > our fundraisers and for building strong relationships with our major > stakeholders, and of course to let our chapters and our vast community of > volunteers get a snapshot of our work. It's primarily intended to work as a > print document, and one that quickly presents top-line data and key > information, as well as a basic structured narrative about the Foundation > and our volunteer community's work. > > You'll note that our report is out later than last year, and this isn't a > pattern we'll duplicate :) We did spend more time on design and narrative > this year, with the intention of bringing more depth to the story, > especially in features like the center-spread anatomy of an article. We > also wanted to put more of a forward-facing direction on the report. > Optimally our report will always come out 2-3 months after the close of > fiscal, as soon as our audited statements are complete. > > There's still more good work to be done, but it's a big leap from last > year. This year's designers David Peters and Rhonda Rubenstein did a great > job (collectively known as 'ExBrook design' here in SF > http://www.exbrook.com/). Lane Hartwell's ccbysa photos feature > prominently - she's been shooting our staff portraits for the last two years > (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photography_by_Lane_Hartwell). > > We'll be starting work on the next edition in a few months. About 1500 > copies will be printed here in the next week or so. We'll be sure to bring > copies to the chapter meeting and of course Wikimania. We can ship some > copies out as well if there's interest (but in limited quantities only, it's > a pricy shipment after 10 locations :) > > Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! > > -- > Jay Walsh > Head of Communications > WikimediaFoundation.org > blog.wikimedia.org > +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
