Re: [Wikimedia-l] timeline for Project Grants

2019-04-28 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Will it not be better to ask the grant team at WMF directly? Regards, Isaac On Sun, Apr 28, 2019, 2:36 AM Milan Dojchinovski < dojcinovski.mi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > does any of you have info on the deadline for the next project grants? > > As far as I remember, it was June, but at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The thing you fail to understand is how much of what we do is done by a community. What we need is collaboration with the world of libraries. It is embodied by librarians and yes, it is important that they are on our side. To be on our side, they need to know Wikipedia, what we are doing in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-28 Thread Jennifer Pryor-Summers
Jake Thanks for that, but I think we need to preserve a sense of proportion here. According to a recent WMF Research finding, see https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/03/can-machine-learning-uncover-wikipedias-missing-citation-needed-tags/ ,"one out of four articles in English Wikipedia does

Re: [Wikimedia-l] timeline for Project Grants

2019-04-28 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Rapid grants are also terribly slow and totally behind the proposed deadlines. They take months to get approved. Valuable events and partnerships have been and are being ruined because of this. This delay and slowness is absolutely unexplainable. I recall people mentioning here in the list that