Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
March 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytic
* Review of financials
* Welcoming recent hires
* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
initiatives
* Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
--
Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering & Product Development
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6689
www.wikimedia.org
Hello all,
We are happy to announce that Wikimedia Indonesia is awarded a grant by The
Ford Foundation to support our projects on Indonesian content
digitalization. Please find below the official press release. Thank you.
*Press Release*
To be distributedJakarta, 3 March 2014
*Wikimedia Indonesia Receive Grant from The Ford Foundation to Preserve
Indonesian Culture By Content Digitalization*
Wikimedia Indonesia, an independent association established by Indonesian
Language Wikipedia volunteers, has received a grant from The Ford
Foundation for two separate programs that will be carried through 2014 and
2015. This follows the successful completion of the first grant from Ford
Foundation to Wikimedia Indonesia awarded in 2011 to support Creative
Commons Indonesia <http://creativecommons.or.id/> and Cipta Media
Bersama<http://ciptamedia.org/arsip2011/> from
2011-2013.
The first program is to Preserve Indonesian Culture by Content
Digitalization, an effort supported by the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry
for People's Welfare under PNPM Pusaka program, and coordinated under SAPA
(Stratetic Alliance for Poverty Alleviation).
The project has a budget of USD 125,000 (1,4 billion rupiah) to be used by
Wikimedia Indonesia for the following wikimedia projects:
1. Indonesian Wikipedia (Free Your Knowledge
2014<http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Bebaskan_Pengetahuan_2014> in
Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta)
2. Javanese Wikipedia (Semarang, Yogyakarta, and Solo)
3. Sundanese Wikipedia (Bandung)
4. Banjar Wikipedia (Samarinda and Banjarmasin)
5. Minankabau Wikipedia (Pekanbaru)
6. Digitalization of Indonesian content for the Wikisource project
(online)
Ten universities from Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta have signed up to
participate in Free Your Knowledge 2014, Indonesian Wikipedia writing
competition, which will commence in March 2014. The other wikimedia
projects will commence in mid 2014.
The second program is Cipta Media Seluler <http://ciptamedia.org/>, a joint
effort between Wikimedia Indonesia, ICT Watch, Independent Journalist
Alliance Indonesia, and Ford Foundation with the total value of USD 750,000
to fund cellular initiatives with social justice goals via open call for
proposals.
** * END * **
- For more information, please contact Ivonne
Kristiani<http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Ivonne_Kristiani>,
Secretary General of Wikimedia Indonesia at info[image:
px]<http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Berkas:At_sign.png>
wikimedia.or.id.
--
*Isabella Apriyana*
*Wakil Sekretaris Jendral 2013-2015*
*Deputy Secretary General 2013-2015*
*Wikimedia Indonesia*
Seluler (Ph.) +628889752858
Surel (E-mail) isabella.apriyana(a)wikimedia.or.id
Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan
http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi
Hi all,
In the past years I have organized (alone and together with Deror Lin or
Nicole Ebber) the Wikimania presentation 'The Coolest Projects' where I
tried to give an inspiring overview of some of the amazing things Wikimedia
affiliates are doing in our movement - sometimes against the stream. I have
enjoyed it a lot and learned a huge amount of stuff from the volunteers I
spoke with in preperation for this presentation.
I decided however that 2013 will have been my last presentation on this
topic. I no longer have the luxury or enthusiasm to spend the countless
hours on collecting, investigating, expanding, comprehending and presenting
these projects. While Nicole had to make the same decision, I found Deror
Lin (with whom I presented together in 2012) prepared to continue the
project in 2014.
I think it is fair to say that the effort has become a project in itself.
I'm very glad Deror is taking the torch and I'm sure he can use all the
help he can get. Please don't tell him, but to give you an impression of
the work involved, we estimated that we easily spent hundreds of hours on
preparing this presentation last year. So if you want to help Deror, please
share your support. He will probably approach the affiliates in the coming
months to share their cool projects, and I hope that you don't make him
chase you too much :) Think about it already!
If you want to help out, or if you just want to show your support for the
presentation, please leave a note on
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_coolest_projects_o….
Looking forward to an awesome presentation, but this time with me in the
comfortable seats,
Lodewijk Gelauff
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:01:58 +0100
> From: Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming "Wikipedistes" documentary in
> Catalan TV
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> Thanks for posting - I loved the documentary! For me the most obvious
> difference between the groups shown in your various meetings and the
> get-togethers we have in the Netherlands is the age of the
> participants. I think we in WMNL attract a lot more "gray hair" than
> you do. I think it would be a great idea to cut it up into clips,
> because there are lots of themes in there that can all draw their own
> public (libraries & museums, WLM, QRpedia, etc.)
>
> I wonder if the age difference has to do with the slightly political
> nature of keeping a smaller language afloat in a country that
> recognizes another language as the official one?
It has to do with the slightly political nature of trying to extinguish a
great language. All gray haired appearing in the video they had to learn to
write being adults. When they went to school the Catalan was banned and
persecuted.
> It makes me wonder
> about the average age of the people showing up at meetings for the
> Frisian Wikipedia in the northern cities of the Netherlands. I have
> never been to one of their meetings before but now I am curious (and
> we don't have a Frisian Wikimedia community - yet).
>
>
Hi folks,
While watching the current changes to Wikimedia France microgrants program
implemented, I was curious to know which Wikimedia entities had similar
funding programs for individuals - how they worked, how we could learn form
each other.
Since apparently there was no Meta page for that(tm) (yet!) I went ahead and
drafted <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Frédéric/Funding_programs
>
I dug my information out of my email archives and FDC proposal forms, so I
could totally have missed some programs - please add the ones you know
about!
Of course, it would be more useful to have more detailed information on
every program.
Together with Caroline & Pierre-Selim we threw some ideas on what we
thought was interesting to know about the programs, but that's still very
alpha - please add more ideas!
Looking forward to your thoughts about this!
Cheers,
--
Jean-Frédéric
Wikimédia France
(Stepping out of my WMF tech role, wearing my ca.wiki volunteering hat.)
This Sunday the program "30 minuts" of TV3 (top TV channel in Catalan)
will broadcast a documentary about "Wikipedistes". Yes, it has a small
audience compared to US prime time, but in terms of Catalan audience you
probably can't go more prime time than that without being ''indecent''
or wearing a FC Barcelona shirt. :)
http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts/en
What is more important, this veteran program keeps very high standards
in journalism and TV reporting. The two previews being aired these days
are promising:
http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts/proper
Any single editor appearing in these trailers has been already contacted
by friends and relatives ("Hey, I saw you on TV!!!"), and the ca.wiki /
Amical Wikimedia supporters can't wait to watch the full version.
The documentary will be available online. If it is as good as the
average "30 minuts" documentaries are, we {{Who}} might think of a way
to get it subtitled in English. They have an archive of programs with
English subtitles (see the first link), but with all the budget cuts
public TV is facing I don't know how much resources would they have for
translating "Wikipedistes", even if the idea makes sense. Crowdsourcing?
Anyway, more if/when the documentary is good.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi all,
The latest edition of Books & Bytes is out, with a full overview of recent
Wikipedia Library organizing and outreach opportunities, our Spotlight
editorial/interview, plus news and notes from around the open access and
library world. Hope you'll check it out!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL/Newsletter
Best,
Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi)
Coordinator, The Wikipedia Library
