[Wikimedia-l] APG- TIdes Advocacy

2020-12-15 Thread Kassia Echavarri-Queen
Hello Everyone, My name is Kassia Echavarri-Queen and I became the Director of the Community Resources team in June. I am so excited and inspired to be a part of this movement. Lisa covered the overall intention and background of the Equity Fund and Tides Advocacy. I want to address the

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference Grants Program Updates

2020-12-15 Thread Rachel Farrand
Hello everyone! We would like to announce the dates for our next two upcoming rounds for our Wikimedia Foundation conference grants program. - If you would like to apply for funding to hold an event between July - December 2021 your application deadline is: February 8, 2021 -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New online learning courses on Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment

2020-12-15 Thread Cassie Casares
Hi everyone, Applications for each course open today (December 15) and not December 1 as listed in our previous email. Best, Cassie Casares Project Coordinator Community Development Wikimedia Foundation ccasa...@wikimedia.org On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:05 AM Cassie Casares wrote: > Hello

[Wikimedia-l] Join the International Jury Team of Months of African Cinema Contest

2020-12-15 Thread Eben Calist
Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions. It is already the end of the contest and a lot have been achieved! We have been able to get about 3,000 articles created in about 20 languages! This would not

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation FY20-21Annual Plan on Meta-wiki

2020-12-15 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation would like to announce that our final FY20-21 Annual Plan is now available on Meta[1]. The Annual Plan was approved by the Board of Trustees on September 28th, 2020. As you know, we finalized the plan several months further into the year than we normally

[Wikimedia-l] New online learning courses on Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment

2020-12-15 Thread Cassie Casares
Hello all, The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is launching the WikiLearn (Online Learning Pilot) , a capacity-building project. This project will

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Clinics retrospective and next Clinic

2020-12-15 Thread Asaf Bartov
Dear Wikimedians, As the year draws to a close, the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Development team took some time to reflect on the Wikimedia Clinics program, a pilot we created a couple of months into the pandemic. You can read our retrospective here:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

2020-12-15 Thread Pharos
Hi Lisa and all, Thanks for your responses and thoughts. This is an important area, and key to get right with a consensus-driven approach. Are we going to announce the process for giving grants to organisations outside the movement, including the process for community involvement, in the spirit