Neal, Would you please ask the Foundation to hire my Google Summer of Code students to help do https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01713 for Wiktionary?
I have a number of other requests, but that's the biggest budget item. Best regards, Jim Salsman Fort Lupton On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Todd Allen and I are headed to Germany April 19-22 to represent the > Wikimedians of Colorado User Group > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group > > The conference page is at > > Wikimedia Conference 2018 - Meta > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018 > > Do you all have any input? Is there anything in particular we should look > for or bring up at the conference? > > E.g. about the Wikimedia long-term strategic plan? > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction > > --- Our strategic direction: Service and Equity --- > By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the > ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to > join us. > > We, the Wikimedia contributors, communities, and organizations, will > advance our world by collecting knowledge that fully represents human > diversity, and by building the services and structures that enable others to > do the same. > > We will carry on our mission of developing content as we have done in the > past, and we will go further. > > Knowledge as a service: To serve our users, we will become a platform that > serves open knowledge to the world across interfaces and communities. We will > build tools for allies and partners to organize and exchange free knowledge > beyond Wikimedia. Our infrastructure will enable us and others to collect and > use different forms of free, trusted knowledge. > > Knowledge equity: As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the > knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and > privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong and > diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and technical > barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge. > --- > > Or Movement Partnerships? > > Or Capacity Building & Learning? > > I'll be out-of-town starting tomorrow and this neal...@gmail.com address is > the best way to reach me. > > Thank you, and cheers, > > Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
