Wikimedia Sverige recived a $65,500 grant from the Swedish National Library
in support of the Library Data project:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-August/012351.html
WMDE has multiple open staff positions in software development, design,
fundraising, and legal services:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/de/vacancies
Stanford University Libraries and the Linked Data for Production project (
http://www.ld4p.org) are hiring a Wikimedian in Residence:
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/wikimedian-in-residence-3711
The WMF Readers team published a roadmap review. There is a lot of
information in here that will be of interest to veteran contributors
regarding WMF plans. I was especially glad to see that improvements are
planned for mobile web that should benefit contributors.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadma…
Outreachy round 17 is in the pipeline:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090742.html
The WMF education team is hosting office hours this week, and plans to host
"at least 2 office hours per month":
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2018-August/002061.html
WMDE's Techncal Wishes team has made significant improvements to wikitext
diff views:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090726.html
Two new user groups were approved by the Affiliations Committee. The groups
are Wikimedians for Offline Wikis and Wikimedians of Tamazight.
WMF's Community Tech is seeking comments regarding tools for program and
event organizers:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_e…
What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language.
Pine
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )