Dear Wikimedia Community,
I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) portal [1] today (August 1, 2012 PDT). The FDC Proposal form is
available for all eligible entities to use immediately, and can be created
by going to the main portal page and starting at the “I am ready to begin”
section. (For some guidelines, see here [2] for a sample proposal.) The
deadline for finalised proposals in Round 1 of the FDC process is October
1, 2012.
As all of you know, the Eligibility Status [3] and Eligibility Checklist
[4] tables - laying out current eligibility and compliance requirements for
the FDC process - were shared with the community last week. Based on this,
chapters/entities interested in applying for Round 1 of the FDC process
should work to close their eligibility gaps, and contact Garfield Byrd (WMF
Chief of Finance and Administration) for any clarifications.
We have done our best to design the portal to be as accessible and
informative as possible. Some aspects of the portal are still being built;
we ask for your patience as we finalise these. Once the members of the FDC
are nominated by the Board in early September 2012, the portal will also
introduce you to the new FDC and the Ombudsperson, as well as the two
non-voting Board members serving as observers on the FDC.
We welcome comments and suggestions from the community to improve the FDC
portal and the information it contains! We request that you leave
suggestions for changes on the page for Questions to FDC support staff [5],
or on related Talk/Discussion pages. We want to avoid too many changes on
those pages in the short term, to minimize confusion for entities sending
proposals to the FDC.
In particular, we hope that all chapters/entities that would like to apply
for FDC funds will be in touch with us <FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org> to let us
know of any suggestions or concerns they may have during this process.
Warmly,
Anasuya Sengupta
(Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, WMF; lead for the FDC support
team)
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Exampl…
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_Round_1_E…
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_Round_1_E…
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Questions_for_FDC_staff
Hi all,
The July edition of the Fellowship News is now available:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News
Topics covered include all current fellowship projects:
*Fellowship Program updates
*Dispute Resolution
*Gender Gap
*Help Page Redesign
*Small-Wiki Editor Engagement
*Teahouse
*Translations
Come learn what we've been up to this month!
Best wishes,
Siko
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Siko Bouterse
Head of Community Fellowships
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi,
The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders
cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos
and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation.
Practically everything that happens at the Olympics is notable and
should be on Wikipedia, Commons, etc. Does anybody know whether there
are professional accredited photographers who are Wikimedia-friendly
and plan to upload their photos? If there aren't any, does anybody
know whether a Wikipedian can obtain such accreditation?
This doesn't concern me directly, but there are many, many people who
write Wikipedia articles about sports in all languages and it may be
interesting to them. Also, it may be a frequent issue in sports and
I'm just not aware of it because I rarely follow sports.
Sources for the restrictions:
* http://www.tickets.london2012.com/purchaseterms.html
* PDF: http://j.mp/london2012prohibited
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
[this was also posted to translators-l last week, but we want to spread the
word even further]
Hi all,
The translation committee on Meta has been dormant for some time
(individual members have been active, but the committee as such has not
been active), but it is time to revive it to ensure that the translation
process on Meta is viable. As several members of the committee are
currently busy with other things, and because it would be nice to have
several more members in the committee so that it will function well even
when some members are inactive.
Therefore, this is a call for volunteers to serve on the committee. If you
have any experience with handling translations on Meta, Translatewiki or
anywhere else you are welcome to join. In fact, you don't need much more
experience than with translating stuff – the new system and tools we have
available on Meta make the process of managing translation much easier than
it has been in the past (and if you don't know how to do that yet, we will
show you how).
A further explanation of what the committee work consists of and its areas
of work can be found on the new draft page for the
committee<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Trans/Revamp>.
We would like to have many new members on the committee, so that the work
load for each member is not too overwhelming.
If you are interested in becoming a part of this committee, please send us
an e-mail on the transcom list (transcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org).
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mvh
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
Hello,
There are many projects in small languages. People want to develop
them, but are often not sure what should they do. Even something basic
like "improve existing pages and write new ones" may not be obvious.
Is there something like a "task list for new projects"? Something like:
* Write new articles about your own culture
* Translate articles about worldwide topics from big Wikipedias
* Create useful templates, like {{welcome}, {{citation needed}},
{{infobox}}, {{delete}} etc.
* Write content policies
* Write help pages about MediaWiki (that's a big topic for its own thread)
* Complete and maintain the translation of MediaWiki and extensions in
translatewiki.net
* Create pages for Village pump, Administrator notice board, Help desk etc.
* Watch Recent changes
* Periodically delete articles that were marked for speedy deletion
etc.
(Of course, for Wikisource, Wikibooks etc. the task list would
somewhat different.)
I was about to write such page for the Punjabi Wikipedia, which I
kinda adopted in the last few months, but then thought that something
like this may exist already. Is anybody familiar with anything?
Thank you.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hoi,
I am learning Arabic and one of the skills I lack is typing with ten
fingers for the Arabic script. On many Wikisources the ProofreadPage
extension is installed. What I cannot easily find is where I find the books
that need transcription for Arabic.
There are many people every year learning other languages like Arabic who
benefit from touch typing. Exercises are needed to learn to type well and
using Wikisource is the ideal way to prevent all that labour to be futile.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2012/08/learning-to-type-arabic-wikisour…