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The below was originally published by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Foundation’s blog. [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/19/wikimedia-projects-500-million/ You can see the original here].  
[http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Jisc], working with Wikimedia UK, has announced the joint recruitment (via a tender) of a Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador.


In the Wikimedia movement, we have [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales a vision statement] that inspires many contributions to our endeavour: “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.”
This is the first education-focused long term residency project that Wikimedia UK is embarking on. Both organisations share the goal of giving the widest possible access to the knowledge held or produced by UK institutions. The task of the Ambassador is to advance this shared goal and to help people engage with that knowledge. This could be done via training and co-ordination projects for the use of Wikimedia tools and techniques for educational purposes.The successful candidate will also undertake outreach work to encourage understanding and development of Wikimedia projects within the education sector. Wikimedia UK’s cooperation with Jisc stems from the [[World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon|WWI editathon]] that the organisations ran together.


We’re still a long way from realizing that vision, but we’ve recently surpassed an important milestone: as of March 2013, the combined sites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation reached more than 500 million monthly unique visitors, according to the latest comScore Media Metrix data. Our traffic increased to 517 million in March, five percent higher than our previous record: 492 million in May 2012.
Chris Keating, Chair of WIkimedia UK, said: “I’m very pleased that we are working with JISC on this project. Both the academic community and the volunteers who edit Wikipedia are in their own ways absolutely committed to the pursuit of knowledge. Bringing the two communities together can help demystify Wikipedia to people who work in higher education, while helping improve Wikipedia articles which form a lasting resource for students at all levels.”
While more people are coming to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia sites, they are also staying longer and reading more. Over the past 12 months, Wikipedia monthly page requests increased from 17.1 billion to 21.3 billion, with the mobile share increasing to roughly 15 percent of the total, or more than [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/01/wikipedia-mobile-hits-3-billion-monthly-page-views/ 3 billion monthly views] ([http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/pageviews_mobile data]). We’re also gratified to see growth in significant target areas: in India, traffic as a percentage of our worldwide total increased from 4.0 percent to 4.8 percent; in Brazil it increased from 3.6 percent to 5.9 percent.


To reach the entire planet, we will need to not only continue to expand our mobile offerings, but also eliminate barriers to access. With [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero Wikipedia Zero], we’re partnering with mobile providers in the developing world to reduce or eliminate data fees for accessing Wikipedia on a mobile phone. In March, [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Axiata_partners_with_the_Wikimedia_Foundation we announced] the fifth major Wikipedia Zero partnership, which means that the program will be available to 410 million mobile users around the world.
Jisc noted: “With so many students and researchers increasingly using Wikipedia to, at the very least, inform further research, the need for improved accuracy is a pressing issue.”


For those who don’t have an Internet connection at all, Wikimedia movement contributors are enabling offline access to Wikipedia, such as the work by [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/04/bringing-the-wonder-of-wikipedia-to-rural-kenyan-schools Kenyan volunteers who travel to rural schools] and install copies of the encyclopaedia on computers there. And now, there’s also an [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/17/carry-the-entirety-of-wikipedia-in-your-pocket-with-kiwix-for-android/ open source application for Android phones and tablets] that makes it easy to download and read offline copies of Wikimedia content.
The project will last for approximately nine months. It is jointly funded by Wikimedia UK and Jisc.


The idea of enabling every single human being to freely share in the sum of all knowledge is still as audacious as ever — but it’s also starting to look like an achievable goal, if we come together to make it happen.
To learn more and apply for the role [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2013/04/wikimedia.aspx please visit this page on the Jisc website]


Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
To find out more about Wikipedians in Residence, on which the project is loosely based, [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/ please visit this page on the Outreach wiki]. The deadline for tenders is 12pm UK time on Wednesday 22 May 2013.  
 
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