Hi all,

We're excited to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Research Fund [1] with the goal of diversifying the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and supporting the Wikimedia Movement in deeper understanding of the projects, decision making, and building new technologies.

We're sending you this email because you yourself may be interested to apply for the fund. We also would like to ask you to raise awareness about the fund in your local communities. Many of you have knowledge of important open research questions for your communities, or have connections to research institutions or researchers who may be interested to do more on the Wikimedia projects.

The deadline to apply is January 3, 2022. We intend to give funds of value USD 2k-50k.

More info at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Techn... .

Big thanks to Emily Lescak for all her behind-the-scenes work to make the launch of the Research Fund possible, and to the Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation for giving us the opportunity and the funds.

If you have questions, please reach out to us at research_fund@wikimedia.org, meta [2], here, or in one of our upcoming office hours [3]! :)

Best, the Research Fund committee chairs Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Techn... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Start [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Techn...