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Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 10:55 PM Ruthven <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > during the Wikisource triage meetings we discussed the opportunity of > using Foundation and Chapter grants in order to improve the project > (focusing on the ProofreadPage extension), instead of waiting for the > Annual Wishlist or hoping for some computer scientist user with a lot of > good will. Other User Groups regularly ask for grants with success, even if > the activities do not directly improve the projects. > > We were lucky because WMI (Wikimedia Italy) funded two grants we > requested. We asked for grants for developers on very punctual tasks. > > Sohom is adapting theEdit-in-sequence gadget, used in some projects, to > have it natively in the ProofreadPage extension. Jay is upgrading the > BookReader (currently, this tool is limited to the Indic Wikisource > community) so that other global Wikisource communities can also use it. > Sam is supervising in his work hours the two projects. > > Here's the link to the WMI announcement: > https://www.wikimedia.it/news/sostenere-le-idee-dei-volontari-per-liberare-conoscenza/ > > Let's hope that we can pursue this course of action in the future, in > order to have efficient and up-to-date projects. Check with your local > chapter if there are grants available for developers, and join us in the > Triage meetings! > > Cheers, > Alex > *Ruthven* on Wikipedia > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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