Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project!
For the lazy: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_grant_applications
Practically, I think big tables should be limited to cases where there isnt a huge amount of text to read. The summary column is hard to read.
Flo
On 12/3/12 5:49 PM, John Andersson wrote:
Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Hmm, that is very strange. There seem to be some kind of bug when sending from a Hotmail account to this list. I did not structure the text like that and the part "List of successful grant applications" was a link to the page. I have added a print screen- picture of how the messaged looked when I sent it. I have not had that problem on any other Wikimedia email list as far as I know. I hope someone can fix that asap.
Now to the point: I thank you Flo for sending out the link! I also agree with you that the summary was hard read in the list. I do however really think that a summary is central in order to make people inspired and give them a better feeling for the project and that a sortable list have a lot of advantages. Do you have any suggestions how to structure the list differently? I tried adding the the summary in a footnote and made some other minor changes. Is that better?
Kind regards,
John Andersson
From: anthere9@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:06:32 +0100 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please have a look at the new list of successful grant applications!
For the lazy: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_grant_applications
Practically, I think big tables should be limited to cases where there isnt a huge amount of text to read. The summary column is hard to read.
Flo
On 12/3/12 5:49 PM, John Andersson wrote:
Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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Very much better !!
Now, just need to motivate chapters to fill in :)
Flo
On 12/4/12 11:50 AM, John Andersson wrote:
Hmm, that is very strange. There seem to be some kind of bug when sending from a Hotmail account to this list. I did not structure the text like that and the part "List of successful grant applications" was a link to the page. I have added a print screen- picture of how the messaged looked when I sent it. I have not had that problem on any other Wikimedia email list as far as I know. I hope someone can fix that asap.
Now to the point: I thank you Flo for sending out the link! I also agree with you that the summary was hard read in the list. I do however really think that a summary is central in order to make people inspired and give them a better feeling for the project and that a sortable list have a lot of advantages. Do you have any suggestions how to structure the list differently? I tried adding the the summary in a footnote and made some other minor changes. Is that better?
Kind regards,
John Andersson
From: anthere9@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:06:32 +0100 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please have a look at the new list of successful grant applications!
For the lazy: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_grant_applications
Practically, I think big tables should be limited to cases where there isnt a huge amount of text to read. The summary column is hard to read.
Flo
On 12/3/12 5:49 PM, John Andersson wrote:
Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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Hehe, I am glad you liked the changes Flo. Feel free to start adding some yourself if you know any successful examples. It doesn't take very long :).
Everybody, this is an excellent place to broadcast your Chapter's great idea(s) to the international community and really help other Chapters! It will already now be beneficial for us in the Swedish chapter as we have created a rather massive list of possible national funds (where our chapter can apply for grants) and we are about to start formulate a bunch of applications the coming weeks. Good ideas that have been successful in other countries will then be very valuable and can be used as possible examples or potential partners in our applications.
Please spread the word and encourage your boards/chapter staff to spend a few minutes on doing this! :)
Cheers,
John
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org From: anthere9@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 13:15:15 +0100 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please have a look at the new list of successful grant applications!
Very much better !!
Now, just need to motivate chapters to fill in :)
Flo
On 12/4/12 11:50 AM, John Andersson wrote:
Hmm, that is very strange. There seem to be some kind of bug when sending from a Hotmail account to this list. I did not structure the text like that and the part "List of successful grant applications" was a link to the page. I have added a print screen- picture of how the messaged looked when I sent it. I have not had that problem on any other Wikimedia email list as far as I know. I hope someone can fix that asap.
Now to the point: I thank you Flo for sending out the link! I also agree with you that the summary was hard read in the list. I do however really think that a summary is central in order to make people inspired and give them a better feeling for the project and that a sortable list have a lot of advantages. Do you have any suggestions how to structure the list differently? I tried adding the the summary in a footnote and made some other minor changes. Is that better?
Kind regards,
John Andersson
From: anthere9@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:06:32 +0100 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please have a look at the new list of successful grant applications!
For the lazy: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_grant_applications
Practically, I think big tables should be limited to cases where there isnt a huge amount of text to read. The summary column is hard to read.
Flo
On 12/3/12 5:49 PM, John Andersson wrote:
Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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On 3 December 2012 11:49, John Andersson john.andersson@wikimedia.sewrote:
Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
Thank you for creating that list, John. One suggestion - it should be clear from the title of the page that the grants are not Wikimedia Foundation grants.
I'm uncertain whether this should be on the Outreach project or on the Meta project. Since it deals with financial issues that are otherwise grouped together on Meta, and it also seems to focus on Chapters which generally do their reporting on Meta as well, that might be a better place for it. Keep in mind that the Outreach wiki is not an SUL wiki, and anyone who wants to edit there must create a new account and log in separately.
Congratulations to Wikimedia Sweden for their successful work in obtaining grants from third parties. I think we will all look forward to seeing the results.
Risker/Anne
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Keep in mind that the Outreach wiki is not an SUL wiki, and anyone who wants to edit there must create a new account and log in separately.
Outreach is an SUL wiki, and you can use the same account you use everywhere else. You just don't get logged in automatically if you're logged in somewhere else (but if you log in on Outreach, you will be automatically logged in elsewhere).
-Sage
Hi Risker!
I have made some clarifications that WMF grants should not be included in the text, but I have not moved the actual page. (See here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_successful_grant_ap...). Is that sufficient? If not, do you have any suggestions what name to give the page?
I was also a bit uncertain where to put the list. I was focusing more on the role of the list as a place to collect best practices. A bit more of a "how-to" text could be added to it (i.e. what to think about when writing applications etc.). However, you might be right that Meta would be even more suitable. In any case there should be a link from meta added to Outreach or the opposite. Anyone else that has an opinion either way where the page should be located?
Thank you for your kind comment! <teaser>We actually have another grant confirmed as well (but that one I cannot add yet as they have not released their press release yet). I can tell you that is connected to education, so if you are interested in that, be sure to keep an eye on the list the coming week :).</teaser>
Kind regards,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project!
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:42:25 -0500 From: risker.wp@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please have a look at the new list of successful grant applications!
On 3 December 2012 11:49, John Andersson john.andersson@wikimedia.sewrote:
Hi everybody,
Today I created a page on Outreach called List of successful grant applications. I hope that you will add your Chapter's success stories there!
Based on what grant applications we know have worked in other countries we can copy the successful ones when we apply for external funding. This will help speed things up and hence, increase our efficiency and our external funding. This would be especially valuable for smaller Chapters. If you have suggestions on how to improve the page I encourage you to be bold!
So please add your examples there and let the successful examples of other Chapters inspire you!
All the best,
John
Thank you for creating that list, John. One suggestion - it should be clear from the title of the page that the grants are not Wikimedia Foundation grants.
I'm uncertain whether this should be on the Outreach project or on the Meta project. Since it deals with financial issues that are otherwise grouped together on Meta, and it also seems to focus on Chapters which generally do their reporting on Meta as well, that might be a better place for it. Keep in mind that the Outreach wiki is not an SUL wiki, and anyone who wants to edit there must create a new account and log in separately.
Congratulations to Wikimedia Sweden for their successful work in obtaining grants from third parties. I think we will all look forward to seeing the results.
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