Exciting news! Congratulations to you both, John and João.
Very happy to know that CapX and Wikispeech will continue. Sadik. On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 12:48 PM Jorge Vargas via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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/PXQX4G7D2FYCFHKSIB6JU5XYDFBVZLYK/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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