Actually, the experiment is whether such a campaign would drive more
successful grants, as I understand it. It works from the assumption that
such grants would have a positive impact. I'm happy to go with that
assumption though.
I still strongly disagree with this initiative, but especially the
The Wikisource dogma is:
If things are published and free, they belong to Wikisource.
Unfortunately, there is no Wikimedia project for original research,
Sucheta.
As an example, some years ago I wanted to host my bachelor thesis (about
Wikisource) in a fixed form on Wikisource (and I could do
Sucheta Ghoshal, 05/01/2015 14:30:
huge repository
of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to make
available digitally in the form of free contents.
Freely licensed reproductions of relevant primary sources are definitely
welcome on Wikimedia Commons.
We wish to
Hello Sucheta,
for me this looks like a good restart for Wikiversity. For me beside of
providing university courses one of the target of Wikiversity is also
always to be actually do crowd sourced research works.
Best regards
Ting
Am 01/05/2015 um 02:30 PM schrieb Sucheta Ghoshal:
Hi all,
Hi all,
A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of
counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also
working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge repository
of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to
This sounds like a Wikisource idea - do we have any wikisourcerers who can
give their thoughts?
Richard Symonds
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Wikisource should only be used for material that has already been published
elsewhere, it sounds like what's being attempted here is original
publishing.
One option may be simply to set up your own MediaWiki installation and host
such material there. You can therefore set your own licencing
BumpingI do not see any response on this mailing list from the
Grantmaking team, and I can't actually find very much about this entire
plan on the Grants portal at Meta (which may say more about the grants
portal than about the dissemination of the plant).
However, since this is something
Hello everyone,
We hope you have enjoyed great holidays! We are sending December's
education newsletter. Apologies for cross postings.
The end of 2014 witnessed great achievements by participants of Wikipedia
Education Program around the world. Some programs completed their first
edition of the
First day back from vacation, I'm drafting response as we speak, just
haven't sanity-checked enough to hit send yet :) Will soon!
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
BumpingI do not see any response on this mailing list from the
Grantmaking team, and I can't
Hi all,
This is not exactly how we were hoping to announce the Inspire Campaign on
this list, but now that I'm back online, let's try this again...
First, to clarify some key points:
*Yes, we are taking a 3 month break from funding regular
all-kinds-of-proposals in both IEG and PEG programs
* Siko Bouterse wrote:
Why the gender gap? Although we’ve committed to supporting and increasing
gender diversity, so far these kinds of projects haven’t emerged
organically at any meaningful scale. In the first half of this year, IEG
and PEG have spent only 9% of funds on projects aiming to
Did you not see the bit about experimental?
Cheers,
Peter
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