Lisa + all -- Excellent to see this take shape. It pairs well with a vintage CSB <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias> ...
Thank you for putting out a call for potential projects to support. I'll think more on it before filling out the form <https://forms.gle/gzqRH7yMFEGgZb4e6>; some categories that come to mind that can't happen on-wiki projects today: * Reliable secondary sources that write prolifically about under-documented people and projects * Reliable interlocutors that record and index oral and other histories, and under-documented languages (cf Rosetta and PanLex) * Making representative subsets of essential collections available digitally (ex. <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-native-american-treaties-digitized-and-online-first-time-180976056/>) + under a free license. (ex. <https://news.artnet.com/art-world/getty-wins-jet-ebony-archives-auction-1606687> ) Sam. PS - some thoughts on your comments, Geni: Geni writes: > 3 [internet access] isn't really viable at our kind of funding levels and has significant enviromental concerns. Efforts to get libraries online, in regions whose lit + historical + public records are underrepresented on the searchable web, is quite impactful as part of digitization + mirroring efforts. Many regional groups work in collab w existing infrastructure-efforts providing the bandwidth [such as Giga <https://www.unicef.org/innovation/giga>] > 4 [digital literacy] Again not really viable at our funding levels Not my experience; especially as knowledge propagates like a taper flame. > (also english language lessions would have more impact). I imagine this is not meant to be limited to the english-speaking world and projects. > 5 [non-traditional records of knowledge] runs into the issue that the community has not historicaly proven accepting of attempts to lower RS and notability standards for non western areas. This comment seems a bit off-topic. These grants as described are not constrained by what is accepted by current wiki projects; archiving and indexing non-traditional records allows them to be cited and allows the archives to become recognized as reliable sources; only a few project-language-editions to my knowledge have been prickly about engaging with oral histories, and such records exist in every culture and part of the world. <https://news.artnet.com/art-world/getty-wins-jet-ebony-archives-auction-1606687> 🌍🌏🌎🌑 On Wed., Jun. 9, 2021, 1:15 p.m. Lisa Gruwell, <lgruw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > This is a $4.5 million USD fund to address racial inequities that impact > the work of free knowledge. It was created to provide focused grants to > organizations that are advancing knowledge equity, one of two key pillars > of our 2030 strategic direction of becoming the essential infrastructure of > free knowledge. Specifically, the fund is meant to support organizations > working to address the racial injustices and barriers that prevent > participation in free knowledge. > > > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund > > [5] https://forms.gle/gzqRH7yMFEGgZb4e6 >
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