This is fascinating news! Congratulation John and João, for such a strong partnership among affiliates. What a great example of collaboration to seek more resources for work in the movement.
Parabens! gratulerar! On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 11:06 AM John Andersson via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > We’re excited to share that Wikimedia Sverige and Wikimedia Brasil have > received more than USD 100,000 in funding from Sida, the Swedish > International Development Cooperation Agency. > > The funding will support a joint one-year project: *Strengthening Civil > Society Capacity for Open Knowledge through Wikimedia Brasil.* > > The project will run from October 2026 to September 2027 and will > establish two community hubs in underrepresented Brazilian states, > supporting local volunteers, cultural institutions and civil society > organisations to document cultural heritage, geographic information and > local languages through Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. It also > connects to Metabase <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page>, > Capacity > Exchange <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Capacity_Exchange> and > Wikimedia Sverige’s Wikispeech > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispeech> project, with a pilot on > speech data collection for underrepresented languages. > > The project will also strengthen cooperation between civil society in > Brazil and Sweden, enabling organisations to jointly address challenges > related to internet governance and advocate for an open, inclusive and > rights-respecting internet. > > This is the first time our two organisations have partnered on a joint > externally funded project, building on several years of collaboration > through the Content Partnerships Hub, Metabase, Capacity Exchange and > shared work on the Wikimedia Movement Strategy. This external grant will > allow us to further support the work done through the Content > Partnerships Hub > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub>. > > We hope this project can serve as a model for how affiliates can partner > with each other to access external funding – and we’d love to hear from > other affiliates thinking along similar lines. > > If you’re at Wikimania and would like to work on cross-Wikimedia affiliate > projects, come find us – we’d love to explore future collaborations and > discuss how we can develop joint applications. > > Best, > > John Andersson, Executive Director, Wikimedia Sverige > > João Alexandre Peschanski, Diretor executivo, Wikimedia Brasil > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/YMPIGTMAFCRXXRPQA7B3LTOIDYCYYF4H/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- *Jorge Vargas* (he/him) Senior Director, Community Resources and Partnerships Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> M: (+1) 415.404.9536 I work from San Francisco, USA. My time zone is PST: UTC/GMT -8.
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