Dear all,
I thank you for your answer. I congratulate Wikimedia Sverige for their achievement that will absolutely contribute to the development of the Wikimedia movement. We will be honoured to actively collaborate with Wikimedia Sverige and to participate to their three projects.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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De : Colette Guébo <yao.mariecolette@gmail.com>
Date : 2019/03/28 20:15 (GMT+01:00)
À : "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc : cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : Re: [GLAM] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

Congratulations to the Wikimedia Sverige team. it's super cool.

Best regards.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:12 PM Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team!! Looking forward to contribute to these amazing projects.

Cheers,
Rajeeb(Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone

> On 28-Mar-2019, at 8:28 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane@bluerasberry.com> wrote:
>
> Congratulations. I am excited especially for the "Bibliographical data on
> Wikidata" part, where my university and many other universities around the
> world will join you in collaboration. I expect that what Wikimedia
> Sverige does in this space will set global precedent for how everyone in
> research publishes and shares research. This is very good news and I will
> look for an opportunity to collaborate in research and Wikidata content
> curation.
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:12 AM Stacy Allison-Cassin <sacassin@yorku.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> To echo everyone else, congratulations! These projects sound amazing and
>> I'm really looking forward to the results.
>> Stacy
>>
>> Stacy Allison-Cassin, MMus, MISt, PhD Cand.
>>
>> Associate Librarian
>>
>> York University Libraries
>>
>>
>> *York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of
>> many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by
>> the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat,
>> and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge
>> the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
>> This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant,
>> an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.*
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Wikidata <wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of John
>> Andersson <john.andersson@wikimedia.se>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:31 AM
>> *To:* wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; glam@lists.wikimedia.org;
>> cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch; wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
>> *Subject:* [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+
>> in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year
>>
>>
>> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants
>> totaling around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of
>> these projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving
>> updates please let me know.
>>
>> Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for
>> our office space.
>>
>> Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector
>>
>> The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a
>> text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From
>> September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki
>> extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add pronunciations
>> to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to add more languages to the
>> text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for oral
>> citations.
>>
>> The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS
>> (a language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland
>> and the Swedish Dyslexia Association.
>>
>> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019/Ansökan
>>
>> Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries
>>
>> From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library of
>> Sweden, will develop an online training module for Swedish librarians
>> focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be a
>> mandatory training for all of Sweden's 5,000 public librarians. Our hope is
>> to give all of them a basic understanding of the Wikimedia projects, as
>> well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the
>> most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to ongoingly
>> organize activities and events independently at their libraries across the
>> country.
>>
>> Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and
>> FindingGLAMs campaigns.
>>
>> There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the coming 3
>> years if successful.
>>
>> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan
>>
>> Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata
>>
>> We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The
>> project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project
>> will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020.
>>
>> Cost reduction
>>
>> Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily
>> subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation.
>> Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year compared
>> to when we had an office of our own.
>>
>> We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered so
>> important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that
>> the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility to
>> grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous subsidy).
>>
>> Please contact John Andersson (john.andersson@wikimedia.se) if you have
>> any questions.
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> John
>>
>> - - - -
>>
>> John Andersson
>>
>> Executive Director
>>
>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>
>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>>
>> Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
>>
>> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
>>
>>
>>
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