Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-04 Thread Jane Darnell
I just found this link serendipitously while asking for help at the village pump in order to translate the IEG grant process pages into Dutch: https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categorie:Financi%C3%ABle_Ondersteuning_Kleine_Activiteiten I knew we had the Support small projects program within WMNL,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-04 Thread Jane Darnell
Um, definitely a +1 for claiming NemoFind as official WMF trademark btw 2014-03-04 9:55 GMT+01:00, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com: I just found this link serendipitously while asking for help at the village pump in order to translate the IEG grant process pages into Dutch:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jane Darnell, 04/03/2014 09:56: Um, definitely a +1 for claiming NemoFind as official WMF trademark btw Ugh. [...] 2014-03-03 1:46 GMT+01:00, Samuel Klein [...] Prior claim: Disney https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7365379072/h0C8A494A/ Priorer: Jules Verne, 1870, as tranlated in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-02 Thread Denis Barthel
Omg, I totally missed this thread when it started originally. As Wikimedia Deutschland has an extensive history in individual grantmaking and is currently running more than a dozen programs, please allow me to add a link to our overview-page in the German Wikipedia:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Denis: I found it useful, thank you. I believe there is a long history of this in other chapters as well, such as Wikimedia Polska. Are other grantmaking overviews published online? On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-02 1:36 GMT+01:00

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-01 Thread Jean-Frédéric
*Epic thread unearthing!* Thanks to everybody who added more information - Jan, Itzik, Nicolas, Christoph, Siko Jessie. Since apparently there was no Meta page for that(tm) (yet!) I went ahead and drafted https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Frédéric/ Funding_programs The relevant

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-01 Thread Samuel Klein
+1 to moving from ElasticSearch to NemoFind. On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.w...@gmail.com wrote: *Epic thread unearthing!* Thanks to everybody who added more information - Jan, Itzik, Nicolas, Christoph, Siko Jessie. Since apparently there was no Meta page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-01 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-03-02 1:36 GMT+01:00 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com: +1 to moving from ElasticSearch to NemoFind. I am sorry, but NemoFind is a trademark of WM-IT. Now we are going to ask him how to sue you for trademark infringement, since, you know, he already has experience in the field. (Epic troll is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2013-09-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jean-Frédéric, 01/09/2013 15:58: Hi folks, While watching the current changes to Wikimedia France microgrants program implemented, I was curious to know which Wikimedia entities had similar funding programs for individuals - how they worked, how we could learn form each other. Since apparently

[Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2013-09-01 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hi folks, While watching the current changes to Wikimedia France microgrants program implemented, I was curious to know which Wikimedia entities had similar funding programs for individuals - how they worked, how we could learn form each other. Since apparently there was no Meta page for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2013-09-01 Thread Richard Nevell
Wikimedia UK offer microgrants and macrogrants. Microgrants are for sums between £5 and £250, while macrogrants are for £250 to £2,000. To be eligible, the applicant has to be a member of Wikimedia UK; this can either be individual membership, or organisational. You can read more at