[Wikimedia Announcements] New board of Wikimedia DC

[James Hare]

All,  

Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board 
appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of 
Directors, comprising:

* Kirill Lokshin, President
* Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
* James Hare, Secretary
* Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
* Rob Fernandez
* Peter Meyer
* John Sadowski
* Diane Shaw
* Rebecca Williams

Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and Walter 
on becoming President and Treasurer!

Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available here: 
. We look forward 
to another year of outreach!


—
James Hare
Secretary, Wikimedia DC
https://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc

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Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation IEG program will fund 14 community-led projects

[Lila Tretikov]

Thank you Marti, committee. And congratulation to all of the grantees.

Lila

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Marti Johnson 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In the latest round of Individual Engagement Grants
> , 29 eligible proposals were
> submitted for review. The committee recommended 14 for funding, with 19
> grantees selected to receive $83,113 overall.  WMF has now approved all
> 14 grants.  Here’s what we’re funding.[1]
>
> Tools - 7 projects funded
>
> * Batch Uploader for small GLAM projects
> 
> :
> This project will create a simple batch content upload tool in order to
> address the needs of smaller GLAM institutions who may not have the
> necessary resources, including budget, time, or staff expertise, to operate
> the existing tools used by larger galleries, libraries, archives, and
> museums.[2]
>
> * Pan Scandinavian Machine Assisted Content Translation
> 
> :
> Using Apertium, an open-source machine translation platform, this project
> will create translation data for closely-related languages Swedish, Danish
> and Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) for use in Content Translation, an
> on-wiki translation tool.[3]
>
> * StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via Reference
> 
> :
> Using natural language processing, this project will take online content
> from a selection of (non-Wikimedia) websites and documents and then
> automatically convert the raw text into references to external sources
> thereby verifying the data provided in existing Wikidata statements.[4]
>
> * Wikimaps Warper 2.0
> :
> This project will focus on improvements to Map Warper, an open-source tool
> used for digitally aligning and overlaying historical maps, in order to
> make the software more accessible to Wikimedians and better integrated with
> Wikimedia projects.[5]
>
> * Wiki Needs Pictures
> :
> By centralizing multiple sources of data including local templates,
> category labels, and Wikidata item properties in one application, this
> project will create a coordinated image request system with a
> mobile-friendly map-based interface that allows contributors to easily
> discover where there is demand from Wikimedia projects for specific
> images.[6]
>
> * Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia
> 
> :
> By implementing natural language processing patterns, this project aims to
> create and apply English Wikipedia category structures to Vietnamese
> Wikipedia with the help of the community to evaluate and standardize the
> naming convention process.[7]
>
> * Proofreading semi-automatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool
> 
> :
> Using the open source program LanguageTool, this project will supervise
> the analysis of content, document common grammar errors, and develop bots
> and scripts to replicate their corresponding edits in Catalan Wikipedia.
> [8]
>
> Offline Outreach & Partnership - 5 projects funded
>
> * Editing Maithili Wikipedia
> :
> This project will deliver a series of in-person training sessions to
> students in Nepal’s Satpari District in order to create and nurture an
> active group of editors on Maithili-language Wikipedia.[9]
>
> * Increase Awareness of and Participation in Indic Language Wikipedias in
> Colorado
> 
> :
> Small group instruction and training in native language typing in multiple
> Indic scripts are the focus of this project which seeks to eliminate some
> of the barriers preventing the Indian diaspora community of Colorado
> Springs, CO from editing on Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi,Telugu, and Tamil
> Wikipedias.[10]
>
> * Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia Video
> 
> :
> This project will create a modular series of instructional videos that can
> be updated and translated as needed, and that can be used to successfully
> onboard new editors en masse, for example, at edit-a-thons and other events
> where it is not possible to have the involvement of experienced
> Wikimedians.[11]
>
> * Wikitherapy :
> An 

Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] New board of Wikimedia DC

[Katy Love]

Congratulations, Wikimedia DC!

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Hare  wrote:

> All,
>
> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of
> Directors, comprising:
>
> * Kirill Lokshin, President
> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
> * James Hare, Secretary
> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
> * Rob Fernandez
> * Peter Meyer
> * John Sadowski
> * Diane Shaw
> * Rebecca Williams
>
> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>
> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available
> here: . We
> look forward to another year of outreach!
>
>
> —
> James Hare
> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
> https://wikimediadc.org
> @wikimediadc
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] New board of Wikimedia DC

[Tanweer Morshed]

Congratulations to the new board!

On 12/6/15, James Hare  wrote:
> All,
>
> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of
> Directors, comprising:
>
> * Kirill Lokshin, President
> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
> * James Hare, Secretary
> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
> * Rob Fernandez
> * Peter Meyer
> * John Sadowski
> * Diane Shaw
> * Rebecca Williams
>
> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>
> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available
> here: . We
> look forward to another year of outreach!
>
>
> —
> James Hare
> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
> https://wikimediadc.org
> @wikimediadc
>
>


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Regards,
Tanweer Morshed

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Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] [Chapters] New board of Wikimedia DC

[Siska Doviana]

Any photos? :D

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:11 PM, James Hare  wrote:
> All,
>
> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of
> Directors, comprising:
>
> * Kirill Lokshin, President
> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
> * James Hare, Secretary
> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
> * Rob Fernandez
> * Peter Meyer
> * John Sadowski
> * Diane Shaw
> * Rebecca Williams
>
> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>
> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available
> here: . We
> look forward to another year of outreach!
>
>
> —
> James Hare
> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
> https://wikimediadc.org
> @wikimediadc
>
>
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Wikimedia Indonesia
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[Wikimedia Announcements] Agenda for the December 9, 2015 Board Meeting

[Zhou Zhou]

Hello all,

The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
now available on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2015-12-09

Thanks,

Zhou
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Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] [Chapters] New board of Wikimedia DC

[Newyorkbrad]

Congratulations to all of the officers and board members.

Best regards,
Newyorkbrad/IBM

On 12/6/15, James Hare  wrote:
> All,
>
> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of
> Directors, comprising:
>
> * Kirill Lokshin, President
> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
> * James Hare, Secretary
> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
> * Rob Fernandez
> * Peter Meyer
> * John Sadowski
> * Diane Shaw
> * Rebecca Williams
>
> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>
> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available
> here: . We
> look forward to another year of outreach!
>
>
> —
> James Hare
> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
> https://wikimediadc.org
> @wikimediadc
>
>

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