[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

2016-04-01 Thread Marti Johnson 
There is just over a week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IEG> (IEG) proposals by the April 12th
deadline.  If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes,
and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia
volunteers, start your proposal today!  Please encourage others who have
great ideas to apply as well.  Support is available if you want help
turning your idea into a grant request.

   -

   Submit a grant request <
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply>
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   Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants <
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging>

If you have any questions or would like to brainstorm with us about your
proposal, we're hosting a few IEG proposal help sessions this month in
Google Hangouts:


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   [https://plus.google.com/events/cf5dpv5rv3jnlomdtglqro2fu70 April 5th],
   16:00 - 17:00 UTC
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   [https://plus.google.com/events/c9upg2mb0htkr8e2fmulhu9miek April 8th]
   1:00 - 2:00 UTC
   -

   [https://plus.google.com/events/cp84h7htq699uvk6hl3cdo78iho April 12th]
   16:00 - 17:00 UTC


Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohn...@wikimedia.org) with
questions about getting started with your idea.

Warm regards,

Marti


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*Individual Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation *
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From: Marti Johnson 
Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:03 PM
Subject: Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is
accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th for new ideas to improve
Wikimedia projects.   Funds are
available (up to $30,000 USD) to support individuals or teams of up to four
people to implement promising ideas, whether focused on building a new tool
or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building.  Ideas
from the current Inspire Campaign on content curation and review are very
welcome. 

Do you have have a good idea, but would like some feedback before
applying?  Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give you
advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab>  Once your idea is ready,
it can be easily migrated into a grant request.

Community Organizer (and former IEG recipient) Chris Schilling and I will
also be hosting Hangouts at least weekly for real-time discussions about
the Inspire Campaign and the IEG Open Call to answer questions and help you
make your proposal better.  Hangouts are already underway - with the next
two scheduled for March 15th and 22nd.  <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events>

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.  Put your idea into
motion, and submit your proposal between March 14 and April 12! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply>

Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohn...@wikimedia.org) with
questions about getting started with your idea.

Warm regards,

Marti


*Marti JohnsonProgram Officer*
*Individual Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation *
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: Mjohnson_WMF

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
 in the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan FY2016-2017

2016-04-01 Thread Anna Stillwell 
Rock on.
/a

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Katherine Maher 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> The Foundation is pleased to announce that our Annual Plan is now on
> Meta.[1] This year's plan focuses on improving support for--and
> consultation with--community, responding effectively to changing user
> needs, and addressing strategic challenges facing our movement. We're
> investing in areas that we believe the Foundation is uniquely positioned to
> address, including readership and reach, volunteer retention and
> engagement, and support for knowledge creation.
>
> Thank you to everyone who contributed earlier this year to the strategy
> consultations, which helped guide our thinking.
>
> We look forward to your feedback!
>
> Warmly,
>
> Katherine
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CEE Spring 2016

2016-04-01 Thread Ivana Madžarević 
Thanks Nikola for this review. I've shared it with our community. :)

Cheers!

Ивана Маџаревић
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*Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*

2016-03-31 23:54 GMT+02:00 Nikola Kalchev :

> Dear Wikipedians from all over the world,
>
> for 10 days now the arguably largest article writing contest has been
> taking place in Central and Eastern Europe - Wikimedia CEE Spring [1]. For
> 72 days Wikipedians from 29 communities [2] will be writing about the
> culture, history, important persons and much more about the region on their
> Wikipedias. The contest aims at closing content gaps about countries,
> regions [3] and languages [4] from the region. Each community created a
> list of at least 100 articles [5] which it would like to see written in all
> languages and all other communities are doing so with fervour! Communities
> as large communities as the Russian, Ukrainian and Polish ones, and as
> small as the Sakhan, Estonian and Macedonian ones, have joined. Highly
> motivated local organisers and guys with magical technical skills have
> emerged from all the communities and have made organising the contest an
> easy task.
>
> At the moment of writing the Ukrainians are leading the pack when it comes
> to the highest amoung of created and significantly expanded articles [6]
> and most articles have been written from Hungary's lists [7]. Participants
> are gladly sharing their articles with their friends via a Facebook page
> [8]. Over 1000 articles from the lists and over 1400 in total have been
> created or significantly expanded during the first 10 days [6][7].
>
> Some communities have special prizes aiming at closing the content gender
> gap, too. Most countries have put notable women in their wished topics. The
> project is funded by an international grant [9] which covers expenses for
> books and other source materials for writing articles on Wikipedia and its
> sister projects of up to 400 Euro per community.
>
> Spread the word and write some articles about CEE!
>
> Nikola Kalchev / User:Лорд Бъмбъри / Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
> On behalf of the international organising team
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016
> [2] We started with 21, but more and more are joining!
> [3] CEE politics is complicated
> [4] We claim the Esperanto language for ourselves
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Article_Lists
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Wikis (not all
> Wikipedias included)
> [7]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Structure/Statistics
> [8] https://www.facebook.com/WCEESpring/
> [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_CEE/CEE_Spring
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