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_Roadmap...

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_ev...

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language.

Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )