Dear Wikimedia community,
Wikimedia Denmark's Annual report for 2014 is available:
https://dk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Annual_report_2014
It details our events and work. One notable event was the participation
of our chairman Ole Palnatoke Andersen in a Wikipedia-specific national
radio program.
Greetings from Denmark
Finn Årup Nielsen
Dear Wikimedia Colleagues:
As you may know, Annual Plan Grants are funds allocated to support an
organization’s annual plan to achieve Wikimedia objectives, and the Funds
Dissemination Committee (FDC) is a group of Wikimedians who make
recommendations to the WMF Board about Annual Plan Grant (APG) proposals.
Proposals to the APG program are accepted twice each year, in April and
October. You may read more about the APG process and upcoming milestones
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information.
Today, we are pleased to confirm that fourteen of eighteen organizations
that submitted letters of intent for 2015-2016 Round 1 of the APG process
are eligible to submit proposal forms for 2015-2016 Round 1 by the upcoming 1
October 2015 proposal form due date. Only eligible organizations that have
already submitted letters of intent will be able to submit proposal forms
using their proposal hub pages that were created at the time the letters
were submitted.
The eligible organizations are:
Amical Wikimedia
Wikimedia Argentina
Wikimedia CH
Wikimedia Czech Republic
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Wikimedia Eesti
Wikimedia España
Wikimedia Israel
Wikimedia Nederland
Wikimedia Österreich
Wikimedia Serbia
Wikimedia Sverige
Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia Ukraine
Wikimedia Eesti is provisionally eligible pending the submission of
complete financial data for 2014 by the application deadline on 1 October
2014. You may view a detailed summary of how eligibility was determined
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility/2015-2016 round1
.
Proposal forms for Annual Plan Grants will be due by 1 October 2015. Here
are some upcoming milestones:
* Eligibility confirmed: 15 September 2015
* Proposals due: by 1 October 2015
* Community review: 1 October 2015 - 30 November 2015
* Staff assessments published: by 8 November 2015
* FDC deliberations: middle of November 2015
* FDC recommendations published: by 1 December 2015
* Board decision: by 1 January 2016
* Start of new grant terms: 1 January 2016
All eligible organizations must continue to comply with any agreements with
WMF and meet all requirements listed in column (T) of the eligibility
checklist in order to maintain eligibility until and after a grant is
received, and the organization may not be able to receive a grant (or funds
may be withheld) if the organization stops being eligible at any point. Once
proposal forms are submitted, a 30-day public review period will begin on 1
October 2015, when comments on the proposal forms are considered as an
important input into the FDC process.
We encourage you to contact FDCSupport(a)wikimedia.org with any questions
about the eligibility process or the proposal process. If you have general
questions or concerns, you may also post them here on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Comments.
Best regards from FDC staff!
Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Winifred Olliff
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
now available on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2015-09-14
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Stephen LaPorte
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
*NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical
reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community
members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more
on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*
TL;DR: Fill
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RtBz72MTmKJKcraZk8FORHZRL6Y0gSo5VeNIFOKwHt…
, it takes 5 min.
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As you probably know by now, Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario wants to achieve
a Wikimania format which allows people to "get things done" and leave
the conference fully satisfied with the result of their investment of
time and other resources (see pillars 2 and 4:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Pillars ).
For this purpose, we consider all audiences (see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Program#Tar…
).
Participants other than scholarship recipients and reimbursed
representatives are one group we heard very little from, but we think
they are important because: 1) they have financial resources and help
make the Wikimania budget sustainable; 2) they have motivation to share
and ideas on what makes Wikimania valuable.
We set up this form mainly to collect names of some such people and talk
with them later: if you provide your contact, we may write you on this
topic. We may release aggregate data from the resposes; data will be
handled by us and the Wikimania 2016 fiscal sponsor "Ecomuseo delle
Grigne" (under EU law). Please fill the whole form, it's short!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RtBz72MTmKJKcraZk8FORHZRL6Y0gSo5VeNIFOKwHt…
Feel free to forward this invite to anyone.
Thanks,
Federico Leva and Martin Rulsch
Wikimania 2016 team, scholarships subteam
Greetings!
First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who voted for Wikidata in
the first phase or the "Land of Ideas" competition. With your support,
we made it into the Top 10. \o/
Now it's time for the second phase: We have to be number one to
finally win the Public's Choice Award.
So please vote again and help us spread the word! Voting is open until
15 September, and you can repeat your vote daily (!). It's easy:
1. Go to the voting page: http://hauptvoting.welt.de/mainvoting/list
2. Click the yellow button under the Wikidata entry
3. Type in your email address and tick the box to agree to the voting rules.
4. You will receive a link via email. Click the link within 24 hours.
5. BONUS: Watch the video, where every finalist presents themselves in
15 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFXsPTNdMEI (in German,
but Wikidata is right at the beginning ;))
Thanks everyone!
Nicole
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Nicole Ebber
Vorstandsreferentin Internationale Beziehungen
Adviser to the ED, International Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on
Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will
be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
At next month's meeting, we will:
* Welcome recent hires
* Present a community update
* Review WMF top-level metrics
* Share research findings
* Showcase recent work
* Engage in questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org