Forwarding good news.
Pine On Jun 18, 2016 08:45, "Marti Johnson" mjohnson@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
In the latest round of Individual Engagement Grants http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG, 28 eligible proposals were submitted for review. The committee recommended 8 for funding, with 9 grantees selected to receive $87,332 overall. WMF has now approved all 8 grants. Here’s what we’re funding.[1]
Online Community Organizing - 2 projects funded
- Health images for all
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Health_images_for_all: User:CFCF https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CFCF, a veteran Individual Engagement grantee from Medicine Translation Project Community Organizing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Community_Organizing, will return to IEG to coordinate a multi-strategy initiative to bring quality medical images to Wikipedia across many languages.[2][3][4]
- Effective Engagement with Health Topic Experts using Guided Checklists
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_Health_Topic_Experts_using_Guided_Checklists : This project will create infrastructure to make it easier for health specialists to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia. Through interviews and research, User:FloNight https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight will develop a robust health topic quality checklist that medical experts would use to guide their review of health content on Wikipedia, directing them to make high quality edits. [5][6] Tools - 6 projects funded
- Improve ‘Upload to Commons’ Android App
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_Android_App :
This project will further enhance ‘Upload to Commons http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/25/categorizing-commons-android-photos-easier/,’ making the Android app more user-friendly by improving categorization tools and providing tutorials to help new users create more useful content for Commons.[7][8]
- Enhance the ProveIt gadget
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Enhance_the_ProveIt_gadget:
The ProveIt gadget is a reference manager that creates a visual interface for easily adding and editing references to a Wikipedia article. This project will optimise the gadget by connecting it with Wikidata to allow for autocompletion of references with existing data.[9]
- Alt text tools:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_toolsAlternative texts provide in-context descriptions of images to increase accessibility for vision-impaired users. This project would create a collection of tools to allow volunteers to efficiently add and improve text alternatives on English Wikipedia.[10]
- A graphical and interactive etymology dictionary based on Wiktionary
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary : This project will extract etymological relationships from Wiktionary to build a database designed for integration into Wikidata. The database will allow extraction of interesting information like how pronunciations or semantics evolved through time across etymological trees and across languages.[11]
- Wikiscan Multi-wiki
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikiscan_multi-wiki:
This project will expand the Wikiscan site http://fr.wikiscan.org/, currently focused on French Wikipedia, to include all Wikimedia wikis with more than 100,000 edits. It will provide many daily-updated statistics, such as most active pages and users for each day and month since a project was created.[12][13]
- Lua libs for behavior-driven development
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Lua_libs_for_behavior-driven_development :
This project will create an extension to support testing of Lua-modules in a behavior-driven development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:behavior-driven_development style using spec-like tests.[14]
More information about this round will be covered shortly on the Wikimedia Foundation blog.
The open call for Project Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project, which will replace IEG in the next round, is scheduled for 1 July-2 August, 2016.[15]
Congratulations to the successful grantees!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG 2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Health_images_for_all 3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CFCF 4.
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Comm...
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_Hea...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight 7.
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_A...
< http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/25/categorizing-commons-android-photos-eas...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Enhance_the_ProveIt_gadget 10.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools 11.
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymo...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikiscan_multi-wiki 13.
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Lua_libs_for_behavior-driven_deve...
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