Congratulations to WMSE
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 12:51 AM Colette Guébo yao.mariecolette@gmail.com wrote:
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
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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_%E2%80%93_Talresursinsamlar...
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/Ans%C3%B6...
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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