[Wikimedia-l] last days to submit your proposals for GLAM Wiki Conference

2023-08-18 Thread Evelin Heidel
Hello everyone! This is a reminder that you have till *August 20 *to submit a session proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023, which will happen November 16-18 in Montevideo, Uruguay. You will find more information on how to submit a session here:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-18 Thread Steven Walling
Biyanto, Thanks for your reply on this, very much appreciate the context and more information. On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 3:41 AM Biyanto wrote: > From the beginning, the Knowledge Equity Fund was designed as an > experiment: a pilot fund to improve the pool of knowledge resources on >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-18 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I confess I am feeling a little conflicted. For example, I find it hard to begrudge kids in Dominica the chance to develop some digital skills. If the money were used effectively to that end, I would be very happy to see that. The US and UK projects I'm struggling more with. You are telling users

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-18 Thread The Cunctator
This is all extremely helpful information. I am grateful for the with you have done and I think this is an excellent project. On Fri, Aug 18, 2023, 6:41 AM Biyanto wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Biyanto Rebin, and I am one of the community members who is > part of the Knowledge Equity Fund

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-18 Thread Biyanto
Hi all, My name is Biyanto Rebin, and I am one of the community members who is part of the Knowledge Equity Fund Committee. I joined the Equity Fund Committee last year because I believe that our movement needs support from other groups and organizations who are working on free knowledge to make

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania - Korea editathon will happing today's lunch

2023-08-18 Thread Youngjin Ko
This email is send behalf of user:Trainholic Hello all, Our famous JinJinJaRa Guy will host the “welcome to Korea” K-editathon session in TODAY at 12:45-14:00 at room 309! We'll be chatting casually about Korea, editing related articles in any language. We'll have some delicious traditional

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-18 Thread Nathan
Steven, I've been thinking about your points here and I wonder if it's worth zooming out a little bit on what Wikimedia is trying to achieve. The classic slogan of making the sum of all human knowledge accessible to all is an incredibly broad and ambitious goal. Since the WMF was founded, the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-18 Thread Samuel Klein
++. Anything we can learn + apply from Outreachy (and their own community of mentors, alums, and practitioners!) would be wonderful. Their impact per unit of funding seems, at very casual inspection, well ahead of all comparable initiatives. And we could even fund them directly, who have often