[Wikimedia-l] 2021 Creative Commons Summit: Call for Proposals is Open!

Hi all, As Creative Commons is celebrating its 20th year, I am honored to serve on the Program Committee for the 2021 CC Summit (with some great WikiFriends) and happy to share that the call for proposals

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

Hi Andreas, Thanks for your email. As Lisa shared in response to the original thread and question, the $8.7 million was used to set up a grantmaking fund at Tides Advocacy to fund two areas: 1) Funding Annual Plan Grants (APG) to the affiliates and 2) creating a $4.5 million Knowledge Equity

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimania-l] Reminder - Wikimania 2021 Session Proposal Submissions

That's right Martin, all submission deadlines have been harmonised to June 18. On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 13:24 Martin Rulsch, wrote: > Hi, > > As the original deadline for submissions in the individuals track had been > 11 June as per diff.wikimedia.org >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Thank you. And keep up the good work!

Dear Abraham, it is wonderful to have you in the movement; thank you as ever for all of your inspiration and support, and the work you have done + enabled in others. > Wikimedia is one of the strongest and last-standing proponents of the free and open internet, Just so. Let us make sure it

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Thank you. And keep up the good work!

Hello, "In 2012, when Pavel Richter brought me into the organisation to build up the Wikidata team and to bootstrap the project together with Denny Vrandečić, I already had a slight notion that something huge that was about to emerge; “Wikidata, the next big thing” still echoes in my ears today."

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

Hello Mark. Wonderful idea. I am Oby Ezeilo of The Igbo Wikimedia User Group in Nigeria, Just want to ask, if we are to join online do we need to pay the same amount? Regards On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 2:21 PM Chen Almog wrote: > Hi Mark, > > If you are willing to consider postponing the event just

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Deutschland’s new Executive Director: Christian Humborg

I am just this cheerful news. Thank you, Lukas, for sharing this news. I am super excited about this news, and i wish to congratulate Christian for achieving the feat. I cannot forget in a hurry the support provided by you and your team during the time of my case with the German embassy in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

Hi Mark, If you are willing to consider postponing the event just a bit, to January, you can also apply for the upcoming Conference Grants round. The deadline for submission will be in early September. I'm happy to help and answer any questions. Chen On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 16:16 Samuel Klein

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

This looks lovely, thank you for organizing it Mark. You can submit a rapid grant request for support for online participation. This seems like something of interest to developers of Translate

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

Hi Mark, I strongly suggest that the organizers request a budgetary support through a WMF grant while there is still ample time before the event. Kind regards, Butch Bustria On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 1:40 PM Subhashish wrote: > I totally agree with Rajeeb too. A Wikimedian who is otherwise >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimania-l] Reminder - Wikimania 2021 Session Proposal Submissions

Hi, As the original deadline for submissions in the individuals track had been 11 June as per diff.wikimedia.org , this means that the deadline was

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Invitation for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2021

Dear Ivana, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for your email. Yes, we'll be using the same hashtags from the last year. Definitely, Wikimedia hashtag search[1] allows us to measure results by defining different time frame. It's an awesome tool. You can track all the participant's contributions