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
Wonderful news, John! Congrats to WMSE and to all of us, who will benefit from this work.
A.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:31 PM John Andersson john.andersson@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_%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
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
Congratulations to WMSE and its community. This is wonderful news.
Pada tanggal Kam, 28 Mar 2019 pukul 11.32 John Andersson < john.andersson@wikimedia.se> menulis:
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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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
Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing :)
On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, john.andersson@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_%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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
So many congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team! Its super exciting the path you are going down with each of the projects! The movement is going to benefit from that work.
Cheers,
Alex
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:05 AM Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing :)
On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, < john.andersson@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_%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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Congratulations! These initiatives look awesome. Well done on securing the funding and subsidized office space.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:05 AM Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing :)
On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, < john.andersson@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_%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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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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_%E2%80%93_Talresursinsamlar...https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_%E2%80%93_Talresursinsamlaren_2019/Ans%C3%B6kan
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...https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ans%C3%B6kan
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.semailto: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.semailto:john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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_%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
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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_%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
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Congratulations !
Just wondering: how can the Wikispeech works with existing tools and structures (in particular, I'm thinking about LinguaLibre - who just pass 90 000 records this week -, Lexemes on Wikidata and Structured Data Commons, but there is probably others).
Cdlt, ~nicolas
Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 16:15, Rajeeb Dutta marajozkee@gmail.com a écrit :
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_%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
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
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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_%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
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
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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
*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_%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
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
-- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
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Congratulations to Wikimedia Sverige team. This is amazing news! :)
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM Suyash Dwivedi suyash.tps@gmail.com wrote:
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
*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_%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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Amazing news indeed! Congrats and well done to the whole team.
Best, Shani.
----------------------------------------------- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495 on Technology, Internationalization and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495. * Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med. * Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group. * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621. * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda http://bybe.benyehuda.org. +972-525640648
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 8:31 PM Rohan Badlani rohan.badlani@gmail.com wrote:
Congratulations to Wikimedia Sverige team. This is amazing news! :)
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM Suyash Dwivedi suyash.tps@gmail.com wrote:
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
*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_%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
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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*Rohan Badlani* 4th year undergraduate student, B.E.(Hons), Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
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Great news, John!
*Itzik Edri* Chairperson (volunteer) itzik@wikimedia.org.il +972-54-5878078
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:32 PM John Andersson john.andersson@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_%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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Congratulations WMSE
Pierre-Yves
Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 16:41, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < itzik@wikimedia.org.il> a écrit :
Great news, John!
*Itzik Edri* Chairperson (volunteer) itzik@wikimedia.org.il +972-54-5878078
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:32 PM John Andersson < john.andersson@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_%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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:31 John Andersson <john.andersson@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_%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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe