[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2019-2020 and FAQs now on-wiki

Hello everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation has submitted our annual Form 990 for the Fiscal Year 2019-20 to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and posted on-wiki[1]. The Form 990 is the annual financial reporting, known as an “information

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing The New Grants Strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation

Hello all, This is so amazing to see, Kassia. Especially as someone who was a part of the Resource Allocation Working Group of the Movement Strategy, this is definitely a big leap in the right direction for Knowledge Equity. I am especially excited to see a separate fund for mission-aligned

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2021 Hackathon and Session Acceptances

Dear Community Members, We are pleased to announce that a hackathon will take place on the first day of Wikimania (August 13th). During the 24 hours covering all time zones, we aim to provide a space where the technical community as well as

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 21: Effects of campaigns to close content gaps

Hi all, Just a reminder for our upcoming Research Showcase. On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton wrote: > Hello all, > > The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am > PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to > close content

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing The New Grants Strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation

Hello, Thanks for introducing the new grants design. Coming from a small Indian affiliate trying to sustain ourselves and delivering considerable impact even with a very limited capacity for the last couple of years, I have some anxiety to share. - The new Rapid Fund (<5000 USD) says it is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing The New Grants Strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation

Thanks asaf Mardetanha On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 9:31 PM Asaf Bartov wrote: > The call links were listed in the "Get involved" page (4th link in the > original post). Here it is again: > > >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing The New Grants Strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation

The call links were listed in the "Get involved" page (4th link in the original post). Here it is again: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Get_involved#Office_hours A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Foundation org chart

Hoi, Did we regress from a previous situation - yes Is the software still available to us - yes Do we have a serious issue with providing a service to our public - yes Is it is just one issue or is it one of many issues - one of many Has it improved over time, you tell me yes and you can point out

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Foundation org chart

Does some basic functionality work? Sure. Is it as good as Google? Nope. Is it as good as we can make it? Most likely not. BTW, we are not doing great in searches irrespective of multilingualism issues, but we have notably improved over time. best, Dariusz Jemielniak, "pundit" On Mon, Jul 19,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing The New Grants Strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation

Can you let us know where the office hours will be held? I don't see any zoom or google meet links provided. Mardetanha On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 1:00 AM Tito Dutta wrote: > Greetings, > Thank you for the update. Currently, I am trying to understand all the > information provided in the pages.