From Sunday 20th through to Wednesday 24th FDC will meet in Milan,
primarily to deliberate upon the proposals for round 2. As there are
fewer proposal this time we will also spend time on discussing learnings
from last round in order to improve the process for further Rounds
We also have a special session on Sunday 10-13 for all interested
chapter representatives to meet all FDC and together discuss common
learnings from Round 1. There is also two sessions in the Chapters
conference on Sat 10.30 and 16.30 for more general information and
discussion of FDC (and for the first one also of the grants processes).
The chapters conference schedule can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013/Schedule
A link to our own agenda for the coming days and links to the proposal
up in this round can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_members/Current_round.
Anders
Secretary of FDC
Dear friends and colleagues,
We want to share with you information about the Letter of Intent process
and the FDC schedule for next year (July 2013 - June 2014). As you may
remember, the *Letter of Intent (LoI)* is the first step towards applying
for funds from the FDC, as discussed in the FDC framework [1]. This was not
part of the first year's process, but is meant to be an integral part of
the FDC calendar from this next round (Round 1, 2013-14) onwards. *The
Letter of Intent asks all entities who intend to apply for Round 1 (or
Round 2) to formally state their intention to do so.* In addition, the LoI
now asks applying entities to include a notional dollar figure (or local
currency figure) in the Letter of Intent. Applying entities will be able to
update this amount in their final FDC proposals. The updated Letter of
Intent template will be available on the FDC portal [2] by May 1, but the
sample is here for reference [3].
With the Letter of Intent, the FDC staff can support applying entities in
their proposal process well before the deadline for proposals. We hope this
will remove some of the challenges faced by applicants in the first year of
the FDC process. The FDC can also plan better with a clear understanding of
who intends to apply, and an estimation of the funds requested.
The FDC framework originally stated that the deadlines for the LoI were
June 1 for Round 1 and November 1 for Round 2. However, we are pushing back
the deadline *by one week*, since the community review period was also
extended by two weeks. *The LOI deadline will now be June 8 for Round 1,
and November 8 for Round 2. *
For your reference, here is the updated 2013-2014 Round 1 proposal process
schedule:
- *Letter of Intent deadline for Round 1: 8 June 2013*
- Deadline for WMF Staff to post eligibility: 15 July 2013
- Deadline for entities to meet eligibility requirements: 15 September
2013
- Proposal submission deadline: 1 October 2013
- Community review period: 1 October - 31 October 2013
- Staff assessment deadline: 8 November 2013
- FDC recommendation due: 1 December 2013
- Board decision due: 1 January 2014
The schedule for the 2013-14 Round 2 proposal process:
- *Letter of Intent deadline for Round 1: 8 November 2013*
- Deadline for WMF Staff to post eligibility: 15 December 2013
- Deadline for entities to meet eligibility requirements: 15 February
2014
- Proposal submission deadline: 1 March 2014
- Community review period: 1 March - 31 March 2014
- Staff assessment deadline: 8 April 2014
- FDC recommendation due: 1 May 2014
- Board decision due: 1 June 2014
It is our hope that the Letter of Intent process will help in planning for
both the entities and the FDC, and ensure that the FDC and FDC staff are
supporting the applying entities significantly ahead of the proposal
deadlines.
As always, do not hesitate to let us or the FDC support staff (
FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org) know if you have any questions or concerns about
this important process.
Warm regards,
Patricio and Jan-Bart
(Board representatives to the FDC)
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_…
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Sample_letter_of_intent
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Hi,
It looks like nobody received this email, so I try again!
Vincent
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Plyd <wiki.vincent(a)amplyd.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: The value of Wikipedia for the economy
To: Plyd <wiki.vincent(a)amplyd.com>
Cc: "lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org" <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>, "
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Sébastien Beyou <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
Le mardi 9 avril 2013, Plyd a écrit :
Hello,
> Thanks Seb35 for pointing me this email.
>
> I did a study last year about the value of Wikipedia, as a thesis for my
> diploma in HEC Paris. Here is the link below. It is written in french and I
> used French Wikipedia as an example, but the methods used are the same for
> all languages.
>
> I was looking for indicators on "how to value the job of wikipedians" so
> my prefered indicator was the increase of pageviews. For a glam giving its
> material, saying how many views it generated is the best convincing
> argument imho.
>
> But I searched for a lots of different valuations, with each their own
> limits. As an example :
> - advertisement value : more or less the market value if a private company
> would like to make an offer to the foundation, best evaluation is with a
> simple ratio of pageviews * average page view value.
> $8 per 1000 pageviews => $1 600 000 000 per year for all wikipedia
> with discounted cash flow method (with the internet growth prediction), I
> get a $8 800 000 000 value. (2% of Apple Market Capitalisation)
> limitation : the value of wikipedia relays in its contributors and if it
> was sold, no more contributors would keep writing (and a fork would be done)
> limitation : the pageview value given by the foundation includes bots...
>
> - "how much would it cost to write Wikipedia" ? I used the indicator of
> freelance journalist paid at the "word" and I multiplied by the monthly
> size increase of Wikipedia.
> limitation : of course the choice of journalist is discutable, it's not
> the same job, but it is close enough to be compared.
> I used 57,74€ for 1500 signs (a value found in france), which gave me €32
> 000 000 per month value for french wikipedia, so with a €3000 monthly cost,
> it gives 900 employees for french wikipedia.
>
> - I also calculated with a "time spent" indicator, calculated with
> wikiscan.org (15 minutes max per contribution), which gaves me a more or
> less same result : 900 full-time contributors on fr.wikipedia.org
>
> Thesis:
> http://www.amplyd.com/these/Valorisation%20du%20b%C3%A9n%C3%A9volat%20sur%2…
>
> Slides for a Wikimedia France presentation:
> http://www.amplyd.com/these/Valorisation%20du%20b%C3%A9n%C3%A9volat%20sur%2…
>
> Don't hesitate to ask questions !
>
> Plyd
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Seb35 <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 2013/4/8
> Subject: Valeur de Wikipédia
> To: Plyd <wiki.vincent(a)amplyd.com>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Si tu veux parler de ton étude de la valeur de Wikipédia, il en est
> question sur wikimedia-l (pas lu, juste vu le titre), ça intéressera
> sûrement Lodewijk.
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-**
> April/125050.html<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-April/125050.html>
>
> Seb
>
>
Thank you David, for another excellent update.
Sam.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:00 PM, David Parreño Mont - Comunicació
<comunicacio(a)wikimedia.cat> wrote:
> Dear fellows,
>
> The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
> developed during the last month by Amical Viquipèdia.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> David Parreño Mont
> User:Davidpar
> (As a member of Amical Viquipèdia)
>
> ----
>
> Source:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia/March…
>
> GLAM-WIKI
>
> March 1st. GLAM-WIKI workshop at Basque Contry Cultural Institutions.
> Kippelboy
> March 5th. Museu d'Història de Catalunya (Catalan Museum of History)
> announces its Wikipedian in Residence, user Galazan.
> March 6th. Meeting with Fundació Joan Miró to preparate the 35-hour-long
> edit-a-thon to be held in April. Kippelboy
> March 8th. Meeting to organize wiki workshop in Tarragona. Kippelboy
> March 8th. Meeting to find a possible Wikipedian in Residence at Museu de la
> Música (Music Museum). Kippelboy
> March 9th. Edit-a-thon at Palafrugell Archive[1] about women who have a
> street dedicated. During WikiWomen's History Month[2]. Davidpar
> March 16th. Edit-a-thon at Drassanes,[3] in Barcelona (Commons category)[4]
> March 18th. Meeting with people in charge of education section at Catalan
> Museum of History. Galazan and Barcelona
> March 18th. Wikipedia workshop at Puigcerdà library. Kippelboy
> March 19th. Presentation of a new Wikipedian in Residence at Museu Morera,
> Lleida. ESM
> March 22th. Meeting with Barcelona City Council to design Wikiproject 1714.
> Kippelboy
> Weekly. Wikipedia editing meetings at Girona's Museum of art.
>
> Education
>
> Whole month. Second phase of project Viquimodernisme (Modernism)[5].
> Kippelboy and ESM collaborating with GRACMON-University of Barcelona.
> Whole month. Wikiproject about Preservation of digital information
> resources[6]. 11 articles were started or expanded. Wikiproject coordinated
> by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya with Amical's support.
>
> wikiArS
>
> March 18th. The image set Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean
> sea[7] created by Pau Bahí (Llotja School) advised by D. Garcia-Castellanos
> (I. Jaume Almera CSIC) is considered as “Valued Image Set” in Wikimedia
> Commons.
> Whole month. Peer review of Llotja and EDRA student’s works. Preparation of
> assignments for Manresa students. Contacts with new schools.
> Help page for posting to Commons specific for students linked to wikiArS.[8]
>
> Open Data
>
> March 4th. Meeting with Grup Catalunya Dades to prepare Big Data Week
> Barcelona.[9]
>
> Media
>
> Amical's Twitter surpasses 2000 followers.[10]
> Barcelona TV, TV3, Descobrir.cat talk about edit-a-thon at Drassanes.
> Davidpar
> La Vanguardia, Europa Press, Catalunya Ràdio (interview to Galazan),
> VilaWeb, Bonart, ABC/EFE talk about Wikipedian in Residence at Museu
> d'Història de Catalunya. Davidpar
> Agència Catalana de Notícies, La Vanguardia, TV3 (minute 6:45), 324.cat 1,
> 2, Catalunya Ràdio (minute 3:38), VilaWeb, VilaWeb Mollerussa, La Mañana,
> Segre 1, 2, Nació Digital, El Punt Avui, La Paeria, Bondia.cat, Bonart,
> IntocableDigital.Cat talk about new Wikipedian in Residence at Museu Morera,
> Lleida.
> "Viquimodernisme, not just another GLAMwiki project",[11] article by ESM on
> Wikimedia Blog about Viquimodernisme.
>
> Other
>
> March 8th. Meeting with Direcció General d'Atenció Ciutadana of Catalan
> Government.
> March 16th. 12th anniverary of Catalan Wikipedia. We had a good cake during
> Drassanes edit-a-thon :-)
> March 20-21th. Coorganizated Sharing Commons Sprint[12], with IGOP-UAB, OKFN
> and Ourshare. Lilaroja, Dvdgmz
> March 25th. Meeting-workshop at Centre d'Estudis Vilassarencs. Dvdgmz
>
>
> [1]
> http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Viquimarat%C3%B3_dones_amb_car…
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
> [3] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Viquimarat%C3%B3_drassanes
> [4]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon,_Barcelona_Royal_Shipy…
> [5] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/21/viquimodernisme/
> [6]
> http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Preservaci%C3%B3_de_recursos_d%2…
> [7]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Valued_image_set:_Messinian_salinity_cris…
> [8] http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/WikiArS/Com_publicar_a_Commons
> [9] http://bigdataweek.com/barcelona/
> [10] https://twitter.com/wikimediacat
> [11] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/21/viquimodernisme/
> [12] http://p2pfoundation.net/Sharing_Commons_Spring_Barcelona_March_2013
>
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The [new] list of the Language committee [1] is now open for read-only
subscribers. The new archives will be open.
During the previous two years any valid member of the community could
apply for observer status. Since a week ago, everybody can follow the
list.
(I'm not quite sure if this information has been already published on
this list. If so, sorry for sending it twice.)
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The answer is we have real idea how gay friendly the projects are, but
LGBT Wikimedians have been doing a lot more outreach recently and we
think this is great evidence for our increasing diversity.
>From a few chats over tea at the GLAMwiki conference last weekend, I
realised that most folks with an interest in LGBT matters were either
unaware that anything had changed in the last year, or just had not
got around to finding out where to go for more information (apart from
asking me). So, here are 4 new global resources created in the last 12
months for you to investigate, share with friends or bookmark for
later:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT
If you are interested in discussing and helping with LGBT related open
knowledge content, projects, partnerships, issues or events then you
can find out more about what's going on and contribute new proposals
here.
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:LGBT_Free_Media_Collective
This is a Commons wikiproject to encourage more LGBT friendly photos
and other media for use on all projects. So if you have an archive of
photos from LGBT events, or are part of an organization with
educational media to release, this might be a good place to find out
how to share them with the world.
* https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt
This is a managed email list for any LGBT interested Wikimedians to
safely bounce around new ideas, raise questions, discuss ways of
increasing LGBT participation in Wikimedia projects and general
coordination. It is low volume, with around 3 threads a month at the
moment. Drop an email to one of the list admins if you want to know
more about how it is managed before joining up.
* irc://irc.wikimedia.org/wikimedia-lgbt
Our friendly open IRC channel. Good for chat about LGBT projects and
recent news, though you may need a lot of patience and wait a few
hours for replies - others logged in might be asleep, the other side
of the planet, or working and will not see your message until home
time. But it's not a dating line, other sites are available for that
:-)
Cheers,
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Hi,
While I am at the Wikimedia conference in Milan, meeting a wide selection
of Wikimedians from around the globe, I would love to use the opportunity
to start recording a few short interviews with LGBT/queer/gay contributors
about their experiences on our projects.
I am happy to keep your identity confidential, though I would like to be
free to publish transcripts after they are reviewed with you and anything
you are no longer happy with is deleted.
If you would like to meet up with me for a short chat during the
conference, please do either track me down or send me an email and we will
try to coordinate a time.
For those not at Milan, I would love to chat. Drop me an email and perhaps
we can arrange a Skype call and pen a few notes together on etherpad at
some point.
If I can get a few interviews on record, I would like to eventually write a
short piece for Wikinews about what the culture on different Wikimedia
projects feels like for both open LGBT contributors or those that prefer to
keep their sexual orientation (or gender) a secret. There's no hurry, I'm
not a fast article writer. :-D
Cheers,
Fae
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