Hello all!
Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select
community mailing lists and all previous recipients of a Wikimedia
Foundation Rapid Grant.
We have an announcement regarding the closure of the Rapid Grants [1]
program between May 14 - June 30, 2018. This year we've received a lot of
interest in the program and this quarter we've almost doubled the amount of
grants offered to the community compared to last year's quarter. You can
look at our spending analysis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis>
[2] for
reference. Unfortunately, this means we've expended our funds for this
fiscal year. The last date we will be receiving an application for a rapid
grant before the closure will be *Friday, May 11, 2018*.
We encourage *Wiki Loves Earth* participants to apply for a Rapid Grant by
May 11, 2018 to receive support for their project.
The grant program will be open again to receive grant requests starting *July
1, 2018*. At this point we will be implementing the following changes:
1. There will be a minimum of *$500 USD* for grant requests
2. Applications will only be accepted between the *1st - 15th of each month*.
This is to help with our current workflow and to allow us to be more
responsive to your requests.
If you have any questions, please email us at rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org.
Best regards,
Woubzena
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis
Woubzena Jifar
Program Officer
Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
User: WJifar (WMF)
Hello Everyone,
I am glad to share a recent collaboration of Odia Wikipedia community with
the Government of Odisha.
After releasing the content of 2017 Asian Athletics Championships (
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/28/digest-asia-athletics-championships/
) another initiative by the Government of Odisha to bridge the dearth of
Information about Odisha on Wikipedia by releasing its social media
accounts under CC-BY 4.0.
Earlier this week, the community members met the Government officials
regarding this, and after understanding the value of Open Content, it took
only 24hrs to release the social media channels under CC-BY 4.0 license.
As a pilot project, 8 social media accounts from Government of Odisha are
under CC-BY 4.0,Now, the content is free for everyone to use, share, and
build upon their work.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/18/odisha-social-media-free-license/
The community is also planning to take the collaboration further and
relicense some of the websites under CC-BY 4.0.
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*Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "*
Community Advocate, Access To Knowledge Program
Centre for Internet and Society
Phone: +91-7537097770
*LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4
*Twitter*: @saileshpat
Dear all,
on April 7th, Wikimedia Italia held its general assembly, where a new board
has been elected. It is composed as follows:
* Lorenzo Losa, President
* Valerio Perticone, Vice-president
* Carlo Benini, Secretary
* Saverio G. Malatesta, Treasurer
* Maurizio Napolitano
I wish to thank Federico Leva, Giuseppe Profiti and Paola Liliana
Buttiglione, who ended their term, for their invaluable work in the board.
The general assembly drew a very good participation, with 89 voting members
(the most participated general assembly in the last ten years!), and
unanimously approved the 2017 annual report (currently in Italian only; an
English version is planned).
<https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Relazione_sulle_attivit%C3%A0_2017>
A few highlights from the 2017 report:
* Two new WIRs have started working at the Ministry of Culture (ICAR and
ICBSA). Some portals of the central archives administration have already
adopted the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license as well as the public domain charter! For
more links see:
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence>
* We got more than 3.000 researchers to archive their articles in green
open access (in just two months!):
<
https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/26/how-wikimedia-helped-authors-make-over-300…
>
* OpenStreetMap activities are strengthening, reaching more than double the
people we expected.
>From the structural point of view, since July 2017, after almost a year of
intense discussions with members and staff, we have started implementing
changes while going towards a reduced workload for the board. We have
mutually agreed to part ways with our former ED. Since then, three new
employees have started working with us: Giovanna Ranci, for the education
program; Marta Arosio, for GLAM partnerships; Teresa Scorza, for
administration and bookkeeping.
Looking forward, the 2018 budget and annual plan, written by 37 members and
employees together, is increasing the support for Wikimedia volunteers
(financially and otherwise), while reducing expenses for salaries and
administrative services.
<https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Piano_annuale_2018>
Best regards,
Lorenzo
Dear all,
*Deadline extension*
The program committee is looking to create a diverse GLAM conference that
truly serves the global community. To achieve this goal, we would like to
accept submissions not only from established GLAM projects and communities,
but also from emerging communities / developing countries / groups just
starting out their GLAM endeavors.
Looking at the submissions so far
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_TLV_2018_open_submissions>,
we have decided to extend the content submission
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program> deadline *till next
Monday, May 7th, at midnight *(wherever you are in the world). We are
hoping this extension will encourage more submission from developing
countries, emerging community and allow for a more diverse program.
*Tips*
In the past week I've been asked repeatedly if I have tips for good
submissions. The best tip I can offer is -- no matter if your GLAM
partnership / project is well established or you are just starting out,
make sure your submissions offers an added value beyond "this is what we
did in our project", i.e. focus on what you leaned and how it could be of
use by others in the GLAM community.
GLAM on,
Shani.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> [[Sorry for x-posting]]
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm happy to report that the content submission process
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program/Submit> for the
> GLAMWiki Conference 2018 is now open! Submissions will be accepted *till
> April 30th*, so feel free to start drafting your proposals.
>
> Please note that submissions for scholarships
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_TLV_2018/Scholarships> will open
> tomorrow via a different process and the actual registration will take
> place later on in June. We'll notify you every step of the way. :)
>
> Looking forward to reading your submissions,
> Shani (on behalf of the organizing team and the program committee).
>
Hello all,
*(sorry for crost-list posting)*
Every year since Wikidata went live, on October 29th, 2012, the Wikidata
community celebrates its anniversary all around the world. Local groups
organize meetups, workshops, share cake and greetings, to celebrate the
work of the editors building up the knowledge base and its ecosystem of
tools.
Last year, for the 5th birthday, the WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Documentation>,
first international conference dedicated to Wikidata was organized in
Berlin. Waiting for its return in 2019, the local events continue! We
encourage the community to meet up, the chapters and user groups to
organize events in order to build a Wikidata group in their area. Even if
you're just starting editing, or you've never been organizing an event
before, you can be part of the Wikidata's sixth birthday!
The events will take place around October 29th, 2018 (it doesn't have to be
on this exact day). You can find a lot of information on this page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday
You will find the list of events that will take place around the world,
ideas of formats, ways to get funded, and documentation about organizing
events.
We're excited to see many small or big Wikidata events happening everywhere!
If you have any question or need help, feel free to contact me.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result was a Google ad linking to
wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked encyclopedia. We used
to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more honest
than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of reliability and
oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the discussion
about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone else
uncomfortabe with this?
--
Anthony Cole
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