Congratulations and sincere thanks to all working hard behind the
scenes as well as those publicly fronting the projects to achieve
these successes.
For putting in lots of late evenings, perspiration and perseverance, well done.
Thanks,
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 10:31, John Andersson
<john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
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…
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(a)wikimedia.se) if you have any questions.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
Best,
John
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Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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