Hi all,


The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee invite you to submit and review proposals for community-led experiments to improve Wikimedia!


Individual Engagement Grants support individuals and small teams to organize projects for 6 months. You can get funding to turn your idea for improving Wikimedia projects into action, with a grant for online community organizing, outreach and partnerships, tool-building, or research. Funding is available for a few hundred dollars up to $30,000.


Proposals for this round are due 31 March 2014:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG


We’re also seeking new committee members to help review and recommend proposals for funding. Candidates are invited to sign up by 9 March 2014:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee


Some examples of projects we’ve funded in the past:

*Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)[1]

*Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)[2]

*Coordinating free access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)[3]

*Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)[4]


You can read more on the WMF blog:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/


Hope to have your participation in this round!

Best wishes,

Siko


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_publicity_in_PRChina

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Visual_editor-_gadgets_compatibility

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision

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Siko Bouterse
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

sbouterse@wikimedia.org

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