Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Sustainability Update

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work of this group and all of the information presented! On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM Deb Tankersley wrote: > Hello, > > Just a quick note to say that we've published two annual reports regarding > the Wikimedia Foundation's sustainability

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New portal about Gender Gap on meta

Thank you so much Florence and Alacoolwiki! The updates took a lot of work and are super useful. I haven't looked into all the tabs, but will do so soon. Thank you! Alex On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:03 PM Camelia Boban wrote: > Thank you for the wonderful work Florence and Alacoolwiki . I will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

Congrats! Creating ways for newcomers to feel more welcome and supportive is awesome! On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Isaac Olatunde wrote: > Congratulations to you all. > > Greetings from Nigeria. > > Regards, > > Isaac > > On Sep 30, 2017 12:01 PM, "Moheen Reeyad"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Women explainer video

Really great work! On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Sydney Poore wrote: > I really like and think it is useful. > > Thank you. > > Sydney > > On Mar 8, 2017 9:38 AM, "Florence Devouard" wrote: > > > Hello everyone > > > > Wiki Loves Women is

[Wikimedia-l] One week left to submit a Project Grant Proposal

Hello! *There is just over a week left to submit a Project Grant proposal* < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> by the March 14 deadline. If you have ideas about how you could enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others to apply as

[Wikimedia-l] Report on the Gender Gap Inspire Campaign

to address key issues like the gender diversity within our movement. Happy reading! Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Sati Houston, and Chris Schilling [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Archi ve/Gender_gap_campaign -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Community Resources Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

Congratulations!!! On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > I talked to Mohsen earlier and convinced him it's Persian. I hope it uses > Persian more often :D > > Best > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:25 PM Shlomi Fish > wrote: > > > On

[Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Jul 1-Aug 2)

Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program will launch its first open call on July 1. We will be accepting proposals through August 2nd for new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Funds are available to support individuals,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

Wonderful news!! Congrats! On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:15 AM, James Heilman wrote: > Hopefully this is just a start and the rest of Europe will follow Belgium's > lead. > > J > > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed > wrote: > > > Great

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

Thanks, Asaf! This is very useful and interesting. There is much work to be done. Cheers, Alex On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Anna Stillwell wrote: > Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful. > /a > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 72 hours with Rodin editathon in Mexico City

Very exciting and inspiring! Thanks for sharing Ivan! On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Hasive N. Chowdhury < nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd> wrote: > Great to know Ivan. All the best for Wikimedia Mexico. > > > Hasive > WMBD > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ivan Martínez wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Rapid Grants

Message: 3 > > Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 20:11:10 -0700 > > From: Alex Wang <aw...@wikimedia.org> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Rapid Grants > > Message-ID: > > <CANQ

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Rapid Grants

Hello Wikimedians, We are excited to announce the launch of a new Wikimedia Foundation grants program, Rapid Grants! Rapid grants fund Wikimedia community members -- individuals, groups, or organizations contributing to Wikimedia projects -- to organize projects throughout the year for up to USD

[Wikimedia-l] Want to join a grants committee?

Hello! The Community Resources team is now recruiting committee members to support the launch of two new grants programs [1]. The Project Grants Committee will review and advise on projects that promote new experiments and sustain ideas that work. - Program launches July 1, 2016 with an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The WMAR's ad about Wikipedia

Thanks for sharing, Anna! Where/how does WMAR plan on distributing this ad? Cheers, Alex On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hola Anna, > > Me gusta el video! Además de la conciencia pública, ¿cuáles son sus > objetivos para la campaña de publicidad? > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updated dates: Reimagining WMF grants consultation

under review and may be revised. Cheers, Alex On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:05 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > how much budget do the differing programs have, alex? > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Alex Wang <aw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > H

[Wikimedia-l] Updated dates: Reimagining WMF grants consultation

ence Support Program 2 August: Round 1 Project Grant applications due More details can be found on the Implementation page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Implementation Cheers, Alex On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Alex Wang <aw...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update

Thank you, Katherine! This announcement has me breathing a huge sigh of relief and fills me with optimism for what's to come. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Maria O'Neill wrote: > Congratulations, Katherine, and thank you! Great news! :) > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:49

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reimagining WMF grants consultation: Next steps

Apologies. Updated hyperlink: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Implementation On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Alex Wang <aw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In August, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change th

[Wikimedia-l] Reimagining WMF grants consultation: Next steps

Hi everyone, In August, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Next steps for implementing changes based on the consultation are now available: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Implementation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Colorado User Group

Congrats! Excited to learn more about your activities. Cheers, Alex On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Sydney Poore wrote: > Congratulations!! Look forward to hearing more about your projects. > > Warm regards, > Sydney > On Mar 6, 2016 4:57 PM, "Carlos M. Colina"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Basque Wikimedians User Group

Congrats and welcome! Excited to learn more about this group. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Sam Klein wrote: > Wonderful, and welcome to you all. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:36 PM, wrote: > > > zorionak!!! > > > > Great news! > > > > Mobile

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15 days to create (at least) 15 biographies on notable African women!

Congrats! So wonderful to see so many new articles and a great number of participants. Looking forward to more Wiki Loves Women activities! Cheers, Alex On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Chris Schilling wrote: > Fantastic news, Florence. Thanks for sharing. : ) > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Departure

Garfield, I have deeply appreciated your guidance, humility, and humor whenever I have come to you for advice. You respect for our communities and desire to support them no matter how crazy the situation has been inspiring. You could easily create and enforce rigid processes and rules, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Korea as a Wikimedia User Group

Congrats! On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Hong, Yongmin li...@revi.pe.kr wrote: Finally!!! There was a meeting for creation fo legal entity in Oct. 2014 and I see the approval by WMF AffCom today. -- Revi https://revi.me -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 7. 18. 오전 12:50에 Carlos M.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

Great news! Excited to see some awesome projects from this group! On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, WikiWomen, and welcome! Patricio El mar., 21 de jul. de 2015 a la(s) 3:19 a.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG

Congrats and welcome! On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Raymond Leonard raymond.f.leonard...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to the Iranian Wikimedians User Group! Yours, Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray Cascadia Wikimedians User Group http://cascadia.wiki On Sun, Jul 19,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Albanian Language as a Wikimedia User Group

Congrats and welcome! On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:49:27 +0300 Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, it is an honor for me to announce the recognition [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community UG Belarus

Congrats and welcome! On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Raymond Leonard raymond.f.leonard...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to the Wikimedians of Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus! Yours, Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The ProWikimedia award and thanking the volunteers

Great idea! Thanks for sharing this model. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Great iniciative. I love it and I'll try to do something similar in Spain. Thanks for sharing this. Santi El 2015-06-11 22:43, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the digital language divide

Thanks for sending this, Phoebe. Very relevant and interesting. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:59 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: This feature on multilingualism online and the digital language divide from the Guardian is thought-provoking:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of the Levant User Group

Congrats!! Looking forward to working with you! Cheers, Alex On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: !تشرفنا بكم! مبروك On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Il 21/Mag/2015 20:10, Carlos M. Colina

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate

[Wikimedia-l] Inspire Campaign: Help turn ideas into action!

Hello Wikimedians, On March 4th, the Community Engagement team initiated the first “Inspire Campaign”, a drive to foster and support new ideas to improve gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. The organizers set a goal of having 100 proposals by the end of March; this was met in the first week,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

Thanks so much for this great tribute. Inspiring. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Inspire Campaign launches today!

Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender

[Wikimedia-l] Inspire Campaign launches today!

Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Cinema editathon

Sounds like a fantastic event and partnership! Excited to hear how it turns out! On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Jaime Anstee jans...@wikimedia.org wrote: Great idea! Thanks for sharing, Ivan. Our team looks forward to hearing more about this event and how the new partnership develops. ...

[Wikimedia-l] Join the Grant Advisory Committee!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Algeria Wikimedians User Group

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group China

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New website for the New England Wikimedians user group

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2014-15 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary

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[Wikimedia-l] Join the Grant Advisory Committee!

thanks to our current and former GAC members! Cheers, Alex [1] _everyone_ is implicitly invited! [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Alex Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http

[Wikimedia-l] Join the GAC!

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