Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Gnangarra 
Probably waiting until after April 1st to do all the updates

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 12:02, Rehman Abubakr 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Congratulations to Serhio, Amir, and the rest of the team, for the
> relatively smooth transition.
>
> A quick comment: I noticed that the favicon is still showing the old
> version. Is that due to an update lag, accidental omission, or is it
> intentional?
>
> Yours truly,
>
> *Rehman *
>
>
> --
> *From:* MediaWiki-l  on behalf
> of Amir Sarabadani 
> *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57
> *To:* wikitech-l ; MediaWiki
> announcements and site admin list ;
> Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed
>
> Hello,
> After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and
> months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has
> been officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
> https://mediawiki.org.
>
> The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years
> ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
> diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.
>
> However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had
> several problems, including but not limited to:
>
>- It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
>- Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
>- Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
>adaptations
>
> Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
> form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid
> above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js,
> React, Apache Kafka and many more.
>
> You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
> . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
> theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.
>
> The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each
> petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit
> core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part
> of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never
> stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project,
> the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to
> grow.
>
> The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
> abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
> adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
> docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
> guideline for MediaWiki now:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
>
> We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches
> on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
> You can follow the work of rolling it out in
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.
>
> I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the
> main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos
> in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload
> vandalism.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)
>
> A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers,
> community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for
> months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring
> the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more
> people.
>
> Best
> --
> Amir (he/him)
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Rehman Abubakr 
Hello,

Congratulations to Serhio, Amir, and the rest of the team, for the relatively 
smooth transition.

A quick comment: I noticed that the favicon is still showing the old version. 
Is that due to an update lag, accidental omission, or is it intentional?


Yours truly,

Rehman


From: MediaWiki-l  on behalf of Amir 
Sarabadani 
Sent: 01 April 2021 04:57
To: wikitech-l ; MediaWiki announcements and 
site admin list ; Wikimedia Mailing List 

Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

Hello,
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and months of 
legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has been 
officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of 
https://mediawiki.org.

The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years ago. 
This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing diversity, 
constant growth and also wilderness.

However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had 
several problems, including but not limited to:

  *   It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
  *   Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
  *   Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or 
adaptations

Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract form 
following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid above (and 
more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js, React, Apache 
Kafka and many more.

You can find the discussion of changing the logo in 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
 . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and theoretical 
exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.

The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each 
petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit 
core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part of 
MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never stops, and 
like the petals of a flower, the development of each project, the growth of 
each community built on our engine allows everyone else to grow.

The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice 
abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can adapt 
it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on docker: 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo guideline for 
MediaWiki now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines

We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed 
related patches on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with 
the new logo. You can follow the work of rolling it out in 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.

I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the main 
pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos in this 
category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload vandalism. 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)

A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers, 
community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for months, 
Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring the rights, 
clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more people.

Best
--
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Gnangarra 
Hi

So Sorry, I immediately associated it with the logo BP rolled out in the
late 1990's except with new colours.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP



On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 10:29, Florence Devouard  wrote:

> Nice outcome. Congrats to all
>
> Anthere
>
> PS: yet a little bit sad though :(
>
>
> Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
>
> Hello,
> After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and
> months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has
> been officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
> https://mediawiki.org.
>
> The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years
> ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
> diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.
>
> However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had
> several problems, including but not limited to:
>
>- It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
>- Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
>- Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
>adaptations
>
> Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
> form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid
> above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js,
> React, Apache Kafka and many more.
>
> You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
> . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
> theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.
>
> The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each
> petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit
> core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part
> of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never
> stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project,
> the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to
> grow.
>
> The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
> abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
> adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
> docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
> guideline for MediaWiki now:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
>
> We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches
> on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
> You can follow the work of rolling it out in
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.
>
> I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the
> main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos
> in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload
> vandalism.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)
>
> A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers,
> community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for
> months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring
> the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more
> people.
>
> Best
> --
> Amir (he/him)
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Florence Devouard 

Nice outcome. Congrats to all

Anthere

PS: yet a little bit sad though :(


Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :

Hello,
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and 
months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki 
has been officially changed. This applies to both the software and 
logo of https://mediawiki.org .


The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years 
ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower 
representing diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.


However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it 
had several problems, including but not limited to:


  * It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
  * Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
  * Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
adaptations

Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract 
form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to 
avoid above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, 
Ubuntu, Vue.js, React, Apache Kafka and many more.


You can find the discussion of changing the logo in 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020 
 
. As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and 
theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.


The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: 
each petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of 
an explicit core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as 
and they are part of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact 
that evolution never stops, and like the petals of a flower, the 
development of each project, the growth of each community built on our 
engine allows everyone else to grow.


The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice 
abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you 
can adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki 
on docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678 
). There is a logo 
guideline for MediaWiki now: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines 



We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org  
and landed related patches on master, meaning from 1.36 release 
onwards, it’ll come with the new logo. You can follow the work of 
rolling it out in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230. 



I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on 
the main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use 
the logos in this category on Commons. The files are already protected 
against upload vandalism. 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020) 



A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From 
designers, community members, people who voted and discussed it 
intensively for months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary 
work for transferring the rights, clearing it and filing it for 
trademark. And many many more people.


Best
--
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Samuel Klein 
I love this.  It looks great on the site.  Thanks Serhio and all :)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:28 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> Hello,
> After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and
> months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has
> been officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
> https://mediawiki.org.
>
> The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years
> ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
> diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.
>
> However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had
> several problems, including but not limited to:
>
>- It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
>- Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
>- Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
>adaptations
>
> Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
> form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid
> above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js,
> React, Apache Kafka and many more.
>
> You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
> . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
> theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.
>
> The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each
> petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit
> core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part
> of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never
> stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project,
> the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to
> grow.
>
> The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
> abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
> adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
> docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
> guideline for MediaWiki now:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
>
> We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches
> on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
> You can follow the work of rolling it out in
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.
>
> I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the
> main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos
> in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload
> vandalism.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)
>
> A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers,
> community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for
> months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring
> the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more
> people.
>
> Best
> --
> Amir (he/him)
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Amir Sarabadani 
Hello,
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and months
of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has been
officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
https://mediawiki.org.

The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years ago.
This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.

However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had
several problems, including but not limited to:

   - It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
   - Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
   - Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
   adaptations

Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract form
following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid above
(and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js, React,
Apache Kafka and many more.

You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
. As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.

The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each
petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit
core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part
of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never
stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project,
the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to
grow.

The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
guideline for MediaWiki now:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines

We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches on
master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
You can follow the work of rolling it out in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.

I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the
main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos
in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload
vandalism. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)

A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers,
community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for
months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring
the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more
people.

Best
-- 
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[Wikimedia-l] Farewell video for Katherine Maher

2021-03-31 Thread Nadee Gunasena 
Hello all,

As many of you know, Katherine Maher, the ED of the Wikimedia Foundation,
will be stepping down next month. Her last day is April 15.


While Katherine will continue to be a part of our movement, we wanted to
find a way to celebrate her and send her off. We’ll be putting together a
video montage of farewell wishes from the movement. For anyone that would
like to participate, you can record a short video with your message for
Katherine via your phone or computer by going to the Tribute webpage [1].
Please keep your message under 30 seconds! The deadline to submit a video
is Monday, April 12.*

If you have questions, please reach out.


Best,

Nadee Gunasena

[1] https://www.tribute.co/katherine-maher/



*Tribute is a third party service based in the United States, with its
own terms
of service  and privacy policy
. Please review their terms and privacy
policy before submitting your video. In order to submit your video, you may
need to provide Tribute with a name and email address. If you are not
comfortable submitting your real name or email, we recommend using a
username or pseudonym instead. By submitting a video, you are giving the
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shared with Katherine.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WUG WMSVK's fundraising with questionable circumstances

2021-03-31 Thread Megan Hernandez 
Hello KuboF,

Thank you for your message. I am sending a quick message to let you know we
have received your email and are looking into this situation.

Thank you,

Megan



On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:14 PM Michal Matúšov 
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Please, help protect the trustworthiness of the Wikimedia movement in
> Slovakia - help WUG WMSVK to do a mass fundraising only after it will have
> solved its governance issues (and stop it from using Wikipedia's site
> notices until that).
>
> The Wikimedia User Group Wikimedians of Slovakia (WUG WMSVK) is currently
> using Sitenotice and Anonnotice of Slovak Wikipedia for local fundraising.
> While I appreciate the effort for a non-WMF revenue source, it is not a
> good timing right now. Currently, WUG WMSVK is still under investigation of
> AffCom for their governance issues and is recovering too slowly from
> repeated bylaws violations done in the past under lead of current Chair
> Matej Grochal and current Vice-Chair Radoslava Semanová. Much of it is
> published on [1]. Some non-public violations will be published after a 6
> months period of AffCom investigations (which is going to end sometime
> before 16th of June).
>
> The use of Sitenotice and Anonnotice is based on skwiki Village Pump
> request from the Vice-Chair Dávid Štefan done 23th March 2021 [2] and
> executed by WUG WMSVK's Chair himself less than 3 day later [3]. This is a
> clear example of Conflict of Interests - Matej Grochal mixing his role of
> WUG WMSVK's Chair and skwiki's admin (that part would be OK, according to
> me, if the activation of site noticies would be done by some other admin).
> The time for Community reaction was very little (less than 3 days). The
> community reaction is very weak, but at this point clearly against such use.
>
> I have right now contacted AffCom. But they are a volunteer based
> committee with meetings once in a month, so it is probable that they would
> react too slowly (like, AffCom haven't reacted until now to my message
> about probable bylaws violation of WUG WMSVK from 3 weeks ago, even despite
> my personal calls).
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Slovakia/history#2019
> [2] https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/7180661
> [3] https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/7182017
>
> I hope for quick reaction
> Best regards
> KuboF Hromoslav
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report of grants given out by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2019−2020

2021-03-31 Thread Samuel Klein 
Thanks for calling this out and working on this aspect, Kassia!

A critical bottleneck for supporting emerging communities is a plan for
comprehensive regional microgrant programs, run through affiliate groups.
We should set these up where they don't exist so as to cover the world.

S

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:58 PM Kassia Echavarri-Queen <
kechavarriqu...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The report created by my colleagues in the Advancement Team is useful for
> providing aggregated data on the distribution of grants since 2016 and has
> helped the Community Resources team understand where we stand today in
> terms of equity. The current grants have seen an increase in access from
> emerging Wikimedia communities. However, the distribution of funds to those
> communities is still lagging far behind. With the relaunch of the Grants
> strategy
> 
> we will work towards overcoming this challenge and shape an equitable
> future for the distribution of grants resources across the movement.
>
> The information from this report has been analyzed and already
> incorporated into the current grants strategy relaunch process. In the
> newly proposed grants strategy a priority is to substantially increase
> funding in emerging communities also taking into account the need for peer
> learning and knowledge sharing. The feedback period is still open, please
> help the grants relaunch process by letting us know how to adapt and
> improve the strategy.
>
> The new grants strategy is aligned with the strategic direction of the
> movement and is founded on the principles
> 
> of Subsidiarity & Self management, Equity & Empowerment, Collaboration &
> Cooperation, and People Centeredness, as well as efficient data and
> iterative practices. This has grounded our approach in the values
> identified by the movement.
>
> We are grateful to all the community members who have already helped to
> enrich this strategy relaunch. Please come to the grants meta page to
> engage, learn more about the proposed changes, and to provide your
> feedback.The month of feedback on the new grants strategy proposal will
> come to a close Monday April 5th, 2021.
>
> All the best,
> Kassia Echavarri-Queen
>
> On Behalf of the CR team
>
>
> [1] Grants Relaunch Meta Page
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
> [2] Movement Strategy principles -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:25 AM Guillaume Paumier 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I wanted to share the link to a report covering grants given out by the
>> Wikimedia Foundation during the 2019−2020 fiscal year. This was inspired by
>> the Fundraising reports that fundraising teams have prepared for many
>> years. The intent is to publish similar yearly reports for grantmaking
>> going forward.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking/Reports/2019-2020
>>
>> Questions and comments are welcome, preferably on the talk page.
>>
>> --
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>> (he/him)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report of grants given out by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2019−2020

2021-03-31 Thread Kassia Echavarri-Queen 
Dear Wikimedians,

The report created by my colleagues in the Advancement Team is useful for
providing aggregated data on the distribution of grants since 2016 and has
helped the Community Resources team understand where we stand today in
terms of equity. The current grants have seen an increase in access from
emerging Wikimedia communities. However, the distribution of funds to those
communities is still lagging far behind. With the relaunch of the Grants
strategy

we will work towards overcoming this challenge and shape an equitable
future for the distribution of grants resources across the movement.

The information from this report has been analyzed and already incorporated
into the current grants strategy relaunch process. In the newly proposed
grants strategy a priority is to substantially increase funding in emerging
communities also taking into account the need for peer learning and
knowledge sharing. The feedback period is still open, please help the
grants relaunch process by letting us know how to adapt and improve the
strategy.

The new grants strategy is aligned with the strategic direction of the
movement and is founded on the principles

of Subsidiarity & Self management, Equity & Empowerment, Collaboration &
Cooperation, and People Centeredness, as well as efficient data and
iterative practices. This has grounded our approach in the values
identified by the movement.

We are grateful to all the community members who have already helped to
enrich this strategy relaunch. Please come to the grants meta page to
engage, learn more about the proposed changes, and to provide your
feedback.The month of feedback on the new grants strategy proposal will
come to a close Monday April 5th, 2021.

All the best,
Kassia Echavarri-Queen

On Behalf of the CR team


[1] Grants Relaunch Meta Page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
[2] Movement Strategy principles -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:25 AM Guillaume Paumier 
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I wanted to share the link to a report covering grants given out by the
> Wikimedia Foundation during the 2019−2020 fiscal year. This was inspired by
> the Fundraising reports that fundraising teams have prepared for many
> years. The intent is to publish similar yearly reports for grantmaking
> going forward.
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking/Reports/2019-2020
>
> Questions and comments are welcome, preferably on the talk page.
>
> --
> Guillaume Paumier
> (he/him)
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[Wikimedia-l] Report of grants given out by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2019−2020

2021-03-31 Thread Guillaume Paumier 
Hi folks,

I wanted to share the link to a report covering grants given out by the
Wikimedia Foundation during the 2019−2020 fiscal year. This was inspired by
the Fundraising reports that fundraising teams have prepared for many
years. The intent is to publish similar yearly reports for grantmaking
going forward.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking/Reports/2019-2020

Questions and comments are welcome, preferably on the talk page.

-- 
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(he/him)
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