[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

[Anasuya Sengupta]

Dear friends and colleagues,

The 2013-2014 Round 2 FDC timeline and all associated dates are being
pushed back by one month. Here are the key date changes:

* Deadline for entities to meet eligibility requirements: 15 March 2014

* Proposal submission deadline: 1 April 2014

* Community review period: 1 April 2014 - 30 April 2014

* Staff assessment deadline: 8 May 2014

* FDC recommendations due: 1 June 2014

* Board decision due: 1 July 2014

This change in dates has been made for a few reasons. First, it allows for
the FDC and community to review the annual plan and budget of the WMF. As
you know, WMF participated in the first year of the FDC process in Round 1
(October 2012). While this was important, the process ended up being
complicated for both the FDC and WMF. WMF used a (no longer in use)
distinction of ‘core’ and ‘non-core’ activities, and shared only the
‘non-core’ portion of its plan in the FDC proposal, rather than its entire
annual plan (as did all other entities). The timing of the WMF proposal was
also difficult; the allocation was made retroactively at a time when the
annual plan was already six months into implementation. While the FDC and
WMF agree that WMF should continue to participate in the process, they also
agree that participation in Round 1 is not a viable solution.

The FDC and WMF have been discussing how the WMF can be part of the FDC
process in a way that is meaningful and allows for a robust community
review. While the exact details are still to be confirmed, both agree that
the best way forward is for the WMF to participate in Round 2 of the FDC
process. This approach also allows for community review of the WMF plan
through the FDC process, before the FDC recommendations and Board approval
of the WMF annual plan.

However, given WMF’s size, the first version of the WMF plan and budget is
only ready by April (the planning process begins after a six month
retrospective is analysed by the WMF Board in January/February, and
strategies for the next year are approved). Therefore, pushing back the FDC
timeline by one month would allow for version 1 of the WMF annual budget
and plan to be submitted for FDC and community review.

In addition, we consulted with entities that were likely to apply in Round
2, in order to check their preference: they informed us that pushing the
dates back by one month was, in fact, more convenient to them as well.
Overall, this timing will create an equal 6 month spacing between the two
annual plan/FDC cycles as opposed to the current 7 month / 5 month
timeframe.

We will be updating all the FDC documentation with these new dates,[1] but
this is a heads up particularly for those intending to apply for Round 2.

Do let us know if you have any questions or concerns about this shift in
dates.

Best wishes and warm holiday greetings to all of you. Here’s to a
fulfilling 2014 for the entire movement!
Anasuya and the FDC staff

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Update

[Tomasz Finc]

thanks for the update Megan and congrats on getting this far

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Megan Hernandez
 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just posted a new update on meta.  Please take a look and leave any
> questions or comments on the talk page:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013
>
> On Monday, we started limiting the number of banners we are displaying to
> readers.  If you continue to see banners more than just one more time (on
> the same device), please let us
> know.
>
> Donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts, so donation
> totals are preliminary and will be adjusting in the next few weeks.  So far
> this fiscal year, we've raised (very roughly) $27 million from nearly 2
> million small dollar donors.  We will raise the remaining $13 million now
> through the end of the fiscal year in June 2014.  The team is planning to
> put English banners up again at a higher level around December 31 for a
> final year-end push.  All of the multilingual campaigns will run in 2014.
>
> We will post a full report of the fundraiser along with test reports from
> hundreds of A/B banner tests in 2014 once we get through reconciliation and
> analysis.
>
> Thank you very much to everyone involved in the fundraiser this year.  It's
> still not over quite yet, but we've had a very successful and exciting
> couple of weeks.
>
> Megan
>
>
>
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>
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[Wikimedia-l] Readers still love you

[Megan Hernandez]

More love from our readers for you.  Enjoy!

i feel like i have a new brain bolted on. that's the internet in general,
but a few of the gears in there are labeled 'wikipedia'

It beautiful how you can get authentic information on almost everything in
one place.. you guyz are doing a great job

I read a lot of scifi when I was a kid and always dreamed of something like
Wikipedia. Of course, I thought a computer would cover the whole wall so
maybe the dream wasn't exactly prescient.

In a world where 99% of people waste their life on Facebook its great to
have a destination where you can go and learn something.

I also get a great kick out of seeing some hamster-brained celebrity crow
about how inaccurate Wikipedia is because she hasn't bothered to learn how
to use it. "If you don't know how to drive stick shift, don't complain
about the poor machine design."

As with all tireless volunteers, all ya'll inspire me and make me want to
contribute more to my community (read: my city, my state, my country, my
world)

Years ago, I would have to listen to my husband and sister-in-law argue
about who was right ALL THE TIME. Now, they just pull out their phones, and
Wikipedia has all the answers. The bickering has come to an end. Halleluiah!

I cannot remember a day in the last 5 years when I haven't opened a
Wikipedia page at least once.

Thank you! I'm a med student and use your site daily.

There is simply NO REASON to be ignorant about ANYTHING. I've always felt
that, but Wikipedia has made it nearly criminally lazy to be so.

Game changer. No other way to say it. There was a life before Wikipedia,
but it was not nearly as enlightened!!!

I think it is one of mankind's greatest achievements. No joke.

I am old enough to remember encyclopedias. This is lots better.

I use wikipedia every day. I now use it with Siri. I would like it
permanently wired into my brain.

I was a professional technical/scientific translator (German, French,
Spanish to English) and constantly needed information on all sorts of
things in different language. You can pick up a lot by comparing the German
and English articles.

makes my 8 yr old daughter smarter, enriches her, makes her more curious,
more empowered, more relevant to the community, and helps shape her
relationship to technology, seek truth, and develop a deeper understanding
of the world and her day to day life.

<3

Elegant searches for truth nourishes the soul.

We tour cross country and our iPhones read us the Wiki entries on the
histories, demographics and economies of the cities we visit! It's like an
endless podcast of fascination and learning!

I've always found Wikipedia useful but now, sort of out-of-the blue, I'm
helping raise a 14 year old. Do you have any idea how many questions daily
whether homework-related or life-related that adds up to? No, neither do I,
but it's a lot and it's great to be able to have a knowledge resource
against which I can grade my own answers!

Brilliant quick reference source to back up ludicrous arguments!

don't need a brain anymore, I got Wikipedia.

As a father of two school age children, I do not always have the answers to
help them with their homework.but Wikipedia usually does !!

Your editors are supremely good. Your online concept has rendered the
venerable encyclopedia extinct. You guys are doing a great job - for
humanity. I'm jealous .

Thanks to Wikipedia, I'm a master of all subjects as long as I have an
active internet connection.

Best thing that ever happened to me since the internet











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[Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Update

[Megan Hernandez]

Hi everyone,

I've just posted a new update on meta.  Please take a look and leave any
questions or comments on the talk page:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013

On Monday, we started limiting the number of banners we are displaying to
readers.  If you continue to see banners more than just one more time (on
the same device), please let us
know.

Donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts, so donation
totals are preliminary and will be adjusting in the next few weeks.  So far
this fiscal year, we've raised (very roughly) $27 million from nearly 2
million small dollar donors.  We will raise the remaining $13 million now
through the end of the fiscal year in June 2014.  The team is planning to
put English banners up again at a higher level around December 31 for a
final year-end push.  All of the multilingual campaigns will run in 2014.

We will post a full report of the fundraiser along with test reports from
hundreds of A/B banner tests in 2014 once we get through reconciliation and
analysis.

Thank you very much to everyone involved in the fundraiser this year.  It's
still not over quite yet, but we've had a very successful and exciting
couple of weeks.

Megan



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Strainu]

2013/12/17 Matthew Flaschen :
> I would actually prefer it be more explicit.  The EXIF data says "public
> domain", but Flickr says "No known copyright restrictions" (why not "public
> domain" or "CC0"?).


See https://secure.flickr.com/commons/usage/

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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] IEG 2013 Round 2 Grantees Announced

[Harold Hidalgo]

Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees.
[1]

These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small
teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online
impact on Wikimedia projects. We’ve learned a lot from the first round of
IEG grantees over the past 6 months, and look forward to seeing what this
next group will accomplish.[2]

Seven projects have been recommended by the *Individual Engagement Grants
Committee*, a group of volunteers from across the Wikimedia movement who
reviewed a set of more than twenty proposals, and approved by the Wikimedia
Foundation for this round.[3][4] These selections represent a broad range
of projects focusing on activities from outreach to tool-building and are
all aimed at connecting and supporting our community.


Grantees are trying out new ways of engaging with women and young
Wikipedians, fostering participation in Africa, and supporting
cartographers, researchers and developers to better engage with projects
like Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia.

The seven selected projects are:

*Wikimaps Atlas*

Led by Arun Ganesh and Hugo Lopez, funded at $12,500.[5]  Hugo and Arun
will be building a system to automate the creation of maps in standardized
cartographic style using the latest open geographic data.  With new
workflows and scripts, they aim to make it easier for Wikimedia’s
cartographers to generate and update maps for use in Commons, Wikipedia,
and beyond.

*Mbazzi Village writes Wikipedia*

Led by Paul Kikuba with collaboration from Dan Frendin, funded at
$2880.[6] This project is a collaboration between Mbazzi villagers,
Wikimedia
Sweden, and the Wikimedia Foundation to build a Wikipedia center in Uganda
where volunteers can to contribute to Luganda Wikipedia, particularly
focusing on articles related to sustainable development.

*What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about
Wikipedia in Cameroon*

Led by Marilyn Douala Bell and Iolanda Pensa with collaboration from Michael
Epacka, funded at €15,000.[7]  The team in Douala, Cameroon will engage
local artists to create comics, video, and other materials to raise
awareness about Wikipedia and free knowledge.

*Visual editor gadgets compatibility*

Led by Eran Roz and Ravid Ziv, funded at $4500.[8] The team aims to map,
organize, and surface lists of gadgets used in different language versions
of Wikipedia to improve sharing of gadgets across language communities.
They’ll also be piloting and documenting an approach for adapting the
most-used gadgets for Visual Editor compatibility.

*Wikidata Toolkit*

Led by Markus Krötzsch with collaboration from students and
researchers at Dresden
University of Technology, funded at $30,000.[9] Markus’ team will develop a
demonstrator toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing data from
Wikidata. The project experiments with ways to give developers,
researchers, and Wikimedians easier access to use Wikidata in applications,
research, and other projects.

*Women Scientists Workshop Development*

Led by Emily Temple-Wood, funded at $9480.[10] Emily is piloting a model of
regular, incentivized editing workshops aimed at college-aged women to
encourage them to become regular contributors to Wikimedia projects and
combat systemic bias with quality content. If the approach is successful,
she’ll use lessons learned in order to develop a scalable kit for other
groups to use.

Finally, we’ve provisionally approved a seventh project:


 *Generation Wikipedia*

Led by Emily Temple-Wood and Jake Orlowitz, funded at $20,000 - provided
that legal dependencies can be satisfied.[11] This project would pilot a
week-long summer conference for young Wikipedians and Wikimedians from
around the globe to connect, share skills and build leadership and
community capacity among our newest generation of editors.

The ten grantees from Cameroon, Uganda, India, Israel, France, Italy,
Germany and the United States will begin their projects in the new year;
most will run from January through June 2014.  They’ll be regularly sharing
their progress, experience and lessons learned from their experiments
throughout this period, so please feel free to visit their respective pages
on Meta for project information and updates in the coming months.[4]

Thanks to everyone who boldly created a project idea or shared feedback and
suggestions in this round!  The next round of IEG proposals opens on 1
March 2014. We look forward to seeing more of your ideas and engagement in
2014.[12][13]

Sincerely,


Harold A. Hidalgo

On behalf of the *Individual Engagement Grants Committee*.


---


1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/ieg-learnings-call-new-proposals/

3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee

4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging

5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 12/15/2013 12:48 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:

2013/12/15 Katie Chan :


"We plan to launch a
crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe
what the images portray."



The images release contained no image-level metadata == One million
uncategorised images == Commons community raise up in arms


It does not really make a difference whether you release a million
images without metadata to Flickr, or to Commons. It comes without any
metadata, so it cannot be searched (and images cannot be found) in
either case. :(


As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons 
community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified 
content.


I agree with Andy (see 
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/#comment-209343) 
that tools for easier curation will be quite helpful.


Matt Flaschen


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 12/16/2013 03:36 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:

Remember that while US caselaw is clear on this point, it is less clear-cut
elsewhere. We at WM tend to take a clear line that 2D reproductions are
ineligible, but it's not a guaranteed absolute truth, particularly in the
UK! We can predict how a court might rule... but they haven't yet, and
claiming copyright is a legally defensible position in many cases.

("Legally defensible" is not always "correct", of course...)

As a result, an explicit declaration is a positive thing and definitely
should not be discouraged.


I would actually prefer it be more explicit.  The EXIF data says "public 
domain", but Flickr says "No known copyright restrictions" (why not 
"public domain" or "CC0"?).


However, we can do our own standard PD-Art analysis to confirm this.

Matt Flaschen

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[Wikimedia-l] IEG 2013 Round 2 Grantees Announced

[Harold Hidalgo]

Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees.
[1]

These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small
teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online
impact on Wikimedia projects. We’ve learned a lot from the first round of
IEG grantees over the past 6 months, and look forward to seeing what this
next group will accomplish.[2]

Seven projects have been recommended by the *Individual Engagement Grants
Committee*, a group of volunteers from across the Wikimedia movement who
reviewed a set of more than twenty proposals, and approved by the Wikimedia
Foundation for this round.[3][4] These selections represent a broad range
of projects focusing on activities from outreach to tool-building and are
all aimed at connecting and supporting our community.


Grantees are trying out new ways of engaging with women and young
Wikipedians, fostering participation in Africa, and supporting
cartographers, researchers and developers to better engage with projects
like Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia.

The seven selected projects are:

*Wikimaps Atlas*

Led by Arun Ganesh and Hugo Lopez, funded at $12,500.[5]  Hugo and Arun
will be building a system to automate the creation of maps in standardized
cartographic style using the latest open geographic data.  With new
workflows and scripts, they aim to make it easier for Wikimedia’s
cartographers to generate and update maps for use in Commons, Wikipedia,
and beyond.

*Mbazzi Village writes Wikipedia*

Led by Paul Kikuba with collaboration from Dan Frendin, funded at
$2880.[6] This project is a collaboration between Mbazzi villagers,
Wikimedia
Sweden, and the Wikimedia Foundation to build a Wikipedia center in Uganda
where volunteers can to contribute to Luganda Wikipedia, particularly
focusing on articles related to sustainable development.

*What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about
Wikipedia in Cameroon*

Led by Marilyn Douala Bell and Iolanda Pensa with collaboration from Michael
Epacka, funded at €15,000.[7]  The team in Douala, Cameroon will engage
local artists to create comics, video, and other materials to raise
awareness about Wikipedia and free knowledge.

*Visual editor gadgets compatibility*

Led by Eran Roz and Ravid Ziv, funded at $4500.[8] The team aims to map,
organize, and surface lists of gadgets used in different language versions
of Wikipedia to improve sharing of gadgets across language communities.
They’ll also be piloting and documenting an approach for adapting the
most-used gadgets for Visual Editor compatibility.

*Wikidata Toolkit*

Led by Markus Krötzsch with collaboration from students and
researchers at Dresden
University of Technology, funded at $30,000.[9] Markus’ team will develop a
demonstrator toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing data from
Wikidata. The project experiments with ways to give developers,
researchers, and Wikimedians easier access to use Wikidata in applications,
research, and other projects.

*Women Scientists Workshop Development*

Led by Emily Temple-Wood, funded at $9480.[10] Emily is piloting a model of
regular, incentivized editing workshops aimed at college-aged women to
encourage them to become regular contributors to Wikimedia projects and
combat systemic bias with quality content. If the approach is successful,
she’ll use lessons learned in order to develop a scalable kit for other
groups to use.

Finally, we’ve provisionally approved a seventh project:


 *Generation Wikipedia*

Led by Emily Temple-Wood and Jake Orlowitz, funded at $20,000 - provided
that legal dependencies can be satisfied.[11] This project would pilot a
week-long summer conference for young Wikipedians and Wikimedians from
around the globe to connect, share skills and build leadership and
community capacity among our newest generation of editors.

The ten grantees from Cameroon, Uganda, India, Israel, France, Italy,
Germany and the United States will begin their projects in the new year;
most will run from January through June 2014.  They’ll be regularly sharing
their progress, experience and lessons learned from their experiments
throughout this period, so please feel free to visit their respective pages
on Meta for project information and updates in the coming months.[4]

Thanks to everyone who boldly created a project idea or shared feedback and
suggestions in this round!  The next round of IEG proposals opens on 1
March 2014. We look forward to seeing more of your ideas and engagement in
2014.[12][13]

Sincerely,

Harold A. Hidalgo

On behalf of the *Individual Engagement Grants Committee*.


---


1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/ieg-learnings-call-new-proposals/

3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee

4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging

5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas

6.
htt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cochrane Wikipedian In Residence

[Chris Keating]

This is a truly awesome initiative, and many thanks to those involved in
organising it!

Chris


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Jake Orlowitz  wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Just a reminder that Cochrane is taking signups for a Wikipedian in
> Residence: Wikipedia:COCHRANE/WIR
>
> Cochrane is a fantastic organization which publishes systematic reviews
> about medical treatments and efficacy.
>
> Wiki Project Med Foundation is helping to coordinate the search for great
> candidates. The Wikipedian in Residence would ideally be:
>
> # An active Wikipedia editor, a Wikipedian in good standing, for at least 1
> year and with 1,000 edits (more is preferable)
> # A science and/or healthcare enthusiast, preferably with a background as
> either a student or professional
> # An ambassador, capable of interacting between Wikipedia's community and
> Cochrane groups
> # A teacher, helping Cochrane contributors to properly and successfully
> navigate and use Wikipedia
> # A collaborator, comfortable working in and among a distributed network of
> professionals
> # A remote facilitator, adept with email, scheduling, online meetings, and
> conference calls
> # A passionate individual, both about Wikipedia’s mission and Cochrane's
> approach and goals
>
> The position is open to anyone who can meet these criteria but may be
> particularly suited to students or recent graduates looking to expand their
> skills and experience, or those who work part-time in another job.
> Candidates should have an excellent level of written and spoken English,
> although those that speak more than one language are particularly welcome
> to apply.
>
> ;Location
> Cochrane is structured as a network of groups located throughout the world
> to which people contribute in different ways, but primarily as authors of
> Cochrane Systematic Reviews. The WiR will work remotely from their chosen
> location and will interact with a number of groups and their contributors
> via email and online. Cochrane will provide a selection of online
> collaboration tools to facilitate communication.
>
> ;Reporting
> The WiR will report to, and be guided by, Cochrane’s Head of Communications
> & External Affairs, and a Senior Editor of The Cochrane Library. They will
> also interact regularly with other members of Cochrane’s senior management
> team and representatives of its publishing partner for ''The Cochrane
> Library''.
>
> ;Working hours
> The WiR will be expected to work flexibly at different times of their day
> to suit their schedule and to help support Cochrane groups throughout the
> world (some work in the evenings is likely to be required). The exact
> number of hours per week will be agreed with the successful candidate, but
> is likely to be in the region of 7-12 hours per week.
>
> ;Remuneration
> The WiR will receive a stipend of up to $6,500 USD/£4,000 for the initial
> six month term, which will be paid in two instalments at the beginning and
> middle of the term. In addition, the WiR will be funded to attend and
> present a session at the 22nd Cochrane Colloquium in Hyderabad, India,
> 21st-25th September 2014.
>
> ;Applying to be WIR
> We want to learn more about you and see how we can best give you an
> opportunity to work with Cochrane. Signup! http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane/WIR
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.

[RYU Cheol]

Thank you for your attention, Asaf.

I am contacting them for better release but they seem very busy for the
release. From the conversation with them, I think they need some help from
some experts from GLAM-WIKI fellows of Wikimedia movement for continuing
the opening and long term success. I found the release lacks some important
meta data in my thought, for example the location of the heritage, and they
do not understand Dublin Core and its extension for the museums. Korean
Wikimedians will start to draft our opinion for better sharing. I hope we
could borrow some wisdom who have the experience to lead a successful
museum information releasing.

Cheol


2013/12/17 Asaf Bartov 

> These are wonderful news, Cheol!  Thanks for sharing them.
>
> Are you or any other Wikipedians in touch with them at all?  If not, it
> might be a good time to get in touch, congratulate them on this decision,
> and describe the ways the Wikimedia community (not just in Korea!) can help
> get more exposure for Korean heritage and art via articles and
> translations, and also (perhaps) to contribute corrections to metadata,
> photo captions, etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Asaf
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:23 PM, RYU Cheol  wrote:
>
> > Hello, folks.
> >
> > The National Museum of Korea announce high quality images of 7,300
> > artifacts would be released. And they will release the 100 thousands
> pages
> > of old books. They said the material will be available for commercial
> uses.
> > But the exact license term is not known.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.museum.go.kr/program/board/detail.jsp?menuID=001009001&boardTypeID=32&originalBoardTypeID=28&boardID=19154
> >
> > I hope I could find the images on Commons.
> >
> > Cheol
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] (press release) Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner Will Receive the First Knight Innovation Award from Knight Foundation

[Jay Walsh]

(This press release is also posted at:
http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/wikimedia-foundation-executive-director-sue-gardne/)

Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner Will Receive the
First Knight Innovation Award from Knight Foundation

Gardner to speak at the Knight Innovation Award ceremony at the CUNY
Graduate School of Journalism on December 16

Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the
operating foundation for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will
receive the first Knight Innovation Award in recognition of her bold
international leadership in digital media and universal Internet
access. After she joined the organization, Wikipedia grew dramatically
to become the fifth most-visited website in the world. Meanwhile,
Gardner established herself as a leader in the struggle for Internet
freedom and access.

Gardner will receive a $25,000 award and will grant another $25,000 to
a startup of her choice in support of innovation and entrepreneurship
in news and information.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation established the Knight
Innovation Award, hosted by the City University of New York’s Graduate
School of Journalism and its Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial
Journalism. Gardner will announce the recipient of the startup award
and speak on innovation during a Dec. 16 (6pm) ceremony at the CUNY
Graduate School of Journalism.

When Gardner joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2007, it raised less
than $3 million a year. By 2011, the organization raised $23 million.
In 2012, she partnered with Orange and Telenor, two European
telecommunications companies, to launch Wikipedia Zero, a program to
provide Wikipedia free-of-data-charges to millions of users across
Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. The same year, she led a
full-day Wikipedia blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and
the Protect Intellectual Property Act, one of the only major websites
to do so.

“Sue’s extraordinary vision for Internet freedom and openness has
helped guide the rapidly changing world of journalism into the digital
age,” said Michael Maness, Knight Foundation vice president of
journalism and media innovation. “Her outstanding accomplishments,
first as a journalist and then as leader of the Wikimedia Foundation,
have set a firm footing for the future. CUNY, itself an innovator in
journalism education and entrepreneurship, is a perfect partner for
this new award.”

Jeff Jarvis, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial
Journalism, said, “We are committed to supporting new models for
sustainable journalism and to incorporating technology developments as
our industry transforms. Sue’s work clearly demonstrates her alignment
with these goals. We are delighted to honor her for her brave and
creative actions and accomplishments.”

Gardner, a native of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, began her career at
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a national public radio
organization. Her background as a reporter and producer has given her
essential insights as she develops best practices for the future of
media.

Incoming CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Dean Sarah Bartlett said,
“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to work with Knight
Foundation, which has supported us for three years, on another
initiative that contributes to the advancement of our industry. Sue
Gardner certainly deserves to be celebrated for her work. Our
institution couldn't be more pleased to co-host this historic event.”

About the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism

The Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism was established
in 2010 to help create a sustainable future for quality journalism
through education, research, and incubation.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality
journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster
the arts. The Foundation believes that democracy thrives when people
and communities are informed and engaged.

About the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in midtown Manhattan is the
only publicly supported graduate journalism school in the Northeast.
Opened in 2006 under Founding Dean Stephen B. Shepard, the School
offers a 16-month Master of Arts in Journalism program that includes a
required paid professional summer internship.  It was also first in
the nation to offer an M.A. in Entrepreneurial Journalism, beginning
in 2011. Taught by award-winning journalists from top media
organizations, students learn to tell stories using print, broadcast,
and interactive formats while getting rigorous instruction in
reporting, writing, critical thinking, and journalism ethics. Students
also specialize in one of five subject areas: arts & culture, business
& economics, health & medicine, international, or urban reporting.

CONTACTS:

Amy Dunkin, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism,
amy.dun...@journalism.