Dear Wikimedia Colleagues:
As you may know, Annual Plan Grants are funds allocated to support an
organization’s annual plan to achieve Wikimedia objectives, and the Funds
Dissemination Committee (FDC) is a group of Wikimedians who make
recommendations to the WMF Board about Annual Plan Grant (APG) proposals.
Proposals to the APG program are accepted twice each year, in April and
October. You may read more about the APG process and upcoming milestones
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information.
Today, we are pleased to confirm that fourteen of eighteen organizations
that submitted letters of intent for 2015-2016 Round 1 of the APG process
are eligible to submit proposal forms for 2015-2016 Round 1 by the upcoming 1
October 2015 proposal form due date. Only eligible organizations that have
already submitted letters of intent will be able to submit proposal forms
using their proposal hub pages that were created at the time the letters
were submitted.
The eligible organizations are:
Amical Wikimedia
Wikimedia Argentina
Wikimedia CH
Wikimedia Czech Republic
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Wikimedia Eesti
Wikimedia España
Wikimedia Israel
Wikimedia Nederland
Wikimedia Österreich
Wikimedia Serbia
Wikimedia Sverige
Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia Ukraine
Wikimedia Eesti is provisionally eligible pending the submission of
complete financial data for 2014 by the application deadline on 1 October
2014. You may view a detailed summary of how eligibility was determined
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility/2015-2016 round1
.
Proposal forms for Annual Plan Grants will be due by 1 October 2015. Here
are some upcoming milestones:
* Eligibility confirmed: 15 September 2015
* Proposals due: by 1 October 2015
* Community review: 1 October 2015 - 30 November 2015
* Staff assessments published: by 8 November 2015
* FDC deliberations: middle of November 2015
* FDC recommendations published: by 1 December 2015
* Board decision: by 1 January 2016
* Start of new grant terms: 1 January 2016
All eligible organizations must continue to comply with any agreements with
WMF and meet all requirements listed in column (T) of the eligibility
checklist in order to maintain eligibility until and after a grant is
received, and the organization may not be able to receive a grant (or funds
may be withheld) if the organization stops being eligible at any point. Once
proposal forms are submitted, a 30-day public review period will begin on 1
October 2015, when comments on the proposal forms are considered as an
important input into the FDC process.
We encourage you to contact FDCSupport(a)wikimedia.org with any questions
about the eligibility process or the proposal process. If you have general
questions or concerns, you may also post them here on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Comments.
Best regards from FDC staff!
Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear Wikimedia Colleagues:
As you may know, Annual Plan Grants are funds allocated to support an
organization’s annual plan to achieve Wikimedia objectives, and the Funds
Dissemination Committee (FDC) is a group of Wikimedians who make
recommendations to the WMF Board about Annual Plan Grant (APG) proposals.
Proposals to the APG program are accepted twice each year, in April and
October. You may read more about the APG process and upcoming milestones
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information.
Today, we are pleased to confirm that fourteen of eighteen organizations
that submitted letters of intent for 2015-2016 Round 1 of the APG process
are eligible to submit proposal forms for 2015-2016 Round 1 by the upcoming 1
October 2015 proposal form due date. Only eligible organizations that have
already submitted letters of intent will be able to submit proposal forms
using their proposal hub pages that were created at the time the letters
were submitted.
The eligible organizations are:
Amical Wikimedia
Wikimedia Argentina
Wikimedia CH
Wikimedia Czech Republic
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Wikimedia Eesti
Wikimedia España
Wikimedia Israel
Wikimedia Nederland
Wikimedia Österreich
Wikimedia Serbia
Wikimedia Sverige
Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia Ukraine
Wikimedia Eesti is provisionally eligible pending the submission of
complete financial data for 2014 by the application deadline on 1 October
2014. You may view a detailed summary of how eligibility was determined
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility/2015-2016 round1
.
Proposal forms for Annual Plan Grants will be due by 1 October 2015. Here
are some upcoming milestones:
* Eligibility confirmed: 15 September 2015
* Proposals due: by 1 October 2015
* Community review: 1 October 2015 - 30 November 2015
* Staff assessments published: by 8 November 2015
* FDC deliberations: middle of November 2015
* FDC recommendations published: by 1 December 2015
* Board decision: by 1 January 2016
* Start of new grant terms: 1 January 2016
All eligible organizations must continue to comply with any agreements with
WMF and meet all requirements listed in column (T) of the eligibility
checklist in order to maintain eligibility until and after a grant is
received, and the organization may not be able to receive a grant (or funds
may be withheld) if the organization stops being eligible at any point. Once
proposal forms are submitted, a 30-day public review period will begin on 1
October 2015, when comments on the proposal forms are considered as an
important input into the FDC process.
We encourage you to contact FDCSupport(a)wikimedia.org with any questions
about the eligibility process or the proposal process. If you have general
questions or concerns, you may also post them here on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Comments.
Best regards from FDC staff!
Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
Centre for Internet and Society' Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) program
would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of August
2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have.
Odia Wikipedia (available at or.wikipedia.org), an Indian-language
Wikipedia project, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution
in June 2015. It was one of the first four Indic Wikipedias (Assamese,
malayalam and Punjabi being the other three)to have started in 2002. The
first edit on the Wikipedia was made on 3 June 2002. Currently the project
has over 8,900 articles and about 17 active editors (also known as
"uikiali"). The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into
acquiring valuable content, re-licensing them under Creative Commons (CC)
licenses, and building tools for acquiring more encyclopedic content from
various sources.
Odia Wikipedia community assessment survey June 2015. It gives an overview
about the various hindrances for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and the
community.
During the thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community came together
to assess community needs, address issues that had been identified earlier
via irc and mailing list discussions, and identify priority areas to focus
on in the future. Odia Wikipedia administrators Mrutyunjaya Kar and
Subhashish Panigrahi designed a needs assessment survey. (
https://or.wikipedia.org/s/tnp) Participating Wikimedians were asked to
discuss various problems they face in editing and outreach two major areas
that ensures quality standards. .
Two-fifths of participants said that problems with the rendering of Odia
characters in different operating systems, ignorance or lack of more
documentation about enabling encoding for Odia, input methods and keyboard
layouts, and other font- and keyboard-related issues as the major reason
for low readership and contribution on Wikipedia.
. . .Read more in the Wikimedia blog at:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/
== Event organized/participated ==
(CIS-A2K events page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events)
⬤ Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library (
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-w…
):
On 6 August a Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Annamacharya
library to preserve rare Telugu literature text. Annamacharya library has a
rare collection of the religious and historical works in Telugu language.
This event was conducted by Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for
Internet & Society's Access To Knowledge program. The second iteration of
the event was organized on 31 August.
⬤ Tamil Virtual University workshop (
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-…
):
On 8-9 August, a two-day long workshop on digital collaborations in
Tamil-language was organized by Tamil Virtual University, Anna University
Campus, Chennai. U.B.Pavanaja, on behalf of CIS-A2K, participated in this
event. Four major topics discussed during the event were: Digitization,
Research and Development, e-learning and Open source and Outreach.
⬤ SDM Ujire Kannada workshop:
(
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dh…
)
CIS-A2K has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. The college's
academic year started on 12 August. It was followed by a one-day workshop
where the students were introduced to editing in Kannada Wikipedia. The
head of the journalism department of the College Bhaskar Shetty and others
supported the event.
⬤ Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Mangalore (
http://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-t…
):
A three-day edit-a-thon was organized between 14-16 August in Mangalore for
bringing good quality content in Tulu Wikipedia. This event, organized in
collaboration with the Tulu Sahitya Academy and Ramakrishna Pre University
College, saw 30 Wikipedia editors participating and creating about 89 new
articles. 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of
the new participants faced problems with using the input methods and the
Wiki-markup. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition
of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being
well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu
Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organize a monthly meetup
and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in.
⬤ Kannada Wikipedia workshop at DSERT (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…
):
A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized between 18-20 August at the
Department of State Educational Research and Training to improve
science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's
high school syllabus. During the workshop the lecturers were taught about
the basics of Kannada Wikipedia, article editing policies, Kannada input,
creating and editing articles on Kannada Wikipedia. U.B. Pavanaja and Tito
Dutta from CIS-A2K conducted the workshop, behalf of CIS-A2K.
=== Sau Dhuni Teen project ===⬤ Wikipedia workshop in Pune (
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-in-theme-of-sou-dhu…
:
A Wikipedia workshop was organized at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune
University on 20 August 2015. Under the scope of “Sau Dhuni Teen” project,
the workshop focused on building resources in Indian languages for women's
studies on Wikipedia.
⬤ Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai:
(
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/sau-dhuni-teen-project-wikipedia-wor…
)
A two-day long and multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organized at the
Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),
Mumbai between 22-24 August. This was an outreach event conducted under the
scope of the "Sau Dhuni Teen" project.
== Blog posts ==
⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore" (
http://goo.gl/ZxJVnS) (18 August 2015)
⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related
Wikipedia articles" (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…)
(19 August 2015)
⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. "Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is
the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!" (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kisorachandrananachampu-on-odia-wiki…)
(21 August 2015)
== Media coverage ==1. ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ
ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ (
http://cis-india.org/openness/news/sahil-online-august-14-2015 )
SahilOnline; 14 August 2015
2. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿಯಿಂದ ದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ (
http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015 )
Mangalorean.com; 13 August 2015
3. Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library
to come on Wikisource! (
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-an…
) The Hans India; 7 August 2015
This newsletter is also available on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa / https://cis-india.org
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From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:05 AM
Subject: Join the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello!
The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 will be taking place in San Francisco,
CA between January 4th and January 6th, 2016.
Registration is open along with the call for participation.
*Deadline for travel sponsorship requests and the call for participation is
October 2, 2015.*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016
Hope to see you in San Francisco!
Forwarding to this list, just in case you ro someone you know is
interested. You need to be tech-curious for this volunteering role, but
developer skills are not required. Community management and project
management skills are more necessary.
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From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:38 AM
Subject: Looking for a co-org-admin for Outreachy 11
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, we are looking for volunteers willing to get involved in the
organization of Wikimedia's participation in the upcoming round of
Outreachy, a program to involve underrepresented communities in open source
projects. https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/
Experienced org admins like Niharika Kohli, Andre Klapper and myself are
looking forward to support new volunteers in this role. We also have a
solid and reasonably well documented process in place helping the
onboarding of new org admins, mentors, and interns. This is a good chance
to grow your tech community management experience in a safe and supportive
context, dedicating about 2-4 hours per week between October and February.
About half year ago, I asked for volunteers to become co-org-admins of the
upcoming Google Summer of Code and Outreachy round. Niharika Kohli answered
back, and she has been an amazing org admin since then. I'm not
exaggerating when I say that her involvement has been one of the best
things impacting my work this year. She has learned and enjoyed a lot, and
she has been very helpful to the interns and mentors that are concluding
their projects as we speak.
Interested? Just reply to this email or comment at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112267
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
now available on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2015-09-14
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Dear colleagues,
Aligned with discussions at the Wikimedia Conference about coordinating
press releases around the world, I would like to invite you to participate
in the drafting and upcoming publication of a community-written press
release that celebrates English Wikipedia's milestone of 5 million
articles. I particularly extend this invitation to affiliates which are
located in areas where English (in any dialect) is a primary, official, or
common language.
Drafting and discussion are happening here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#5_…
<javascript:void(0)>
Please ask your affiliates to participate in a near-simultaneous press
release from interested affiliates and WMF on the day that English
Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles.
Please make sure that your affiliate's contact information is current on
Meta so that it can be included in the press release. Journalists may wish
to speak with representatives of your organization about the press release
and about Wikipedia in general.
This event offers and opportunity to raise public awareness of Wikipedia in
general and our many accomplishments, as well as the many challenges and
opportunities ahead of us to make English Wikipedia in particular be more
accurate, friendly, inclusive, accessible, reputable, and comprehensive.
Regards,
Pine
Dear Garfield,
Thank you for your positive attitude, constructive approach and diplomatic
skills in the past years! I congratulate this foundation with persuading
you to join them :)
I wish you a lot of fun, both on and off the dance floor, and hope to see
you around still - don't be a stranger!
Best regards,
Lodewijk
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Garfield Byrd <gbyrd(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> For the last four years, I’ve led the Wikimedia Foundation’s finance,
> administration, and office IT teams. I've had the opportunity to work
> closely with many of you through collaboration with the Wikimedia
> affiliates. They have been remarkable experiences, and I am grateful for
> all I’ve learned from you during my time here. Therefore it is with some
> sadness that today I am letting you know that I’ve decided to take a new
> opportunity outside the WMF, at a California-based foundation focused on
> public education.
>
> It has been a privilege to work with so many exceptional people over the
> years. I’ve watched the WMF mature and take on many new challenges, and our
> community grow and diversify. Our commitment to our free knowledge mission
> is as strong as ever, and now shared by even more people. While I’ll no
> longer be on staff, I plan to find ways to stay involved in the Wikimedia
> community. I look forward to seeing the movement continue to do its
> important work.
>
> My last day will be September 30. I look forward to staying in touch and
> continuing to support our mission.
>
> Best,
>
> Garfield
>
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