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From: "Alex Wang" <awang(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Oct 7, 2016 10:46 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Project Grants program will fund 6
community-led projects
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Hi all,
In the first round of Project Grants, 13 eligible proposals were submitted
for review. The committee recommended 6 for funding, with a total of $
180,396 in funded projects. WMF has now approved all 6 grants. Here’s
what we’re funding.[1]
Software - 3 projects funded
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Librarybase: an online reference library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Harej/Librarybase:_an_online_reference_library>
Improving the citation ecosystem for Wikipedia so editors can more easily
look up relevant sources could greatly improve their productivity and ease
of editing. This grant supports the development of Librarybase
<http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/wiki/Librarybase:About>, a project to
develop structured bibliographic data around citations. There are numerous
benefits to creating this structure, especially for hard-to-model books,
including the generation of source recommendations for specific topic areas
or WikiProjects, migration of notable references to Wikidata, and
more.[2][3]
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Wikidata Module
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Putnik/Wikidata_module>One
of the biggest challenges in using Wikidata content on Wikipedia is having
a simple, user-friendly integration tool and workflow for editors.
User:Putnik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Putnik>’s Wikidata
module is currently used by over a million articles on Russian Wikipedia to
add information from Wikidata to article infoboxes. Through this project,
Putnik will improve the Lua module to make it easier to install, easy to
integrate with infoboxes without knowledge of Lua, configurable for the
most common use cases, and extendable.[4][5]
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WikiFactMine
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiFactMine>Contentmine
software helps turn peer-reviewed literature into Wikidata-based facts.
It can crawl up to 10,000 articles per day sourcing information and making
it available for integration into the database. This project will build
infrastructure to connect ContentMine to Wikidata, creating an accelerated
conduit to populate Wikidata with new datasets. It will also place a
Wikipedian in Residence at Cambridge University to coordinate human
curation of data extracted from WikiFactMine.[6]
Offline outreach - 2 projects funded
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A Wikipedian-in-Residence to Engage 500 Librarians and their Communities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities>Public
libraries and librarians are natural partners for the Wikimedia movement,
sharing a commitment to free access to knowledge. A leader in the library
field, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
<https://www.oclc.org/home.en.html>has secured funding from the Knight
Foundation
<http://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/knight-news-challenge-libraries-awards-16-million-support-innovative-ideas>
to capitalize on this synergy and create a national training program for
500 public librarians to build skills in editing Wikipedia and implement
Wikimedia programming for their local community members. This grant funds a
Wikipedian-in-Residence at OCLC to serve as the content expert in
developing training materials, understanding Wikimedia community norms, and
mentoring librarians.[7][8][9]
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Why women don’t edit Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UGGR/Why_women_don%E2%80%99t_edit_Wikipedia>The
Wikimedia Community User Group Greece will partner with two Greek women’s
organizations, SheSharp and Telesilla, to better understand the challenges
faced by Greek women in participating in the Wikimedia projects. They will
utilize their collective networks to build awareness about editing
Wikipedia, conduct trainings, and provide mentorship based on their
learnings.[10]
Research - 1 project funded
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Strengthening Indigenous-Language Wikipedias in Latin America
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Strengthening_Indigenous-Language_Wikipedias_in_Latin_America>Previous
attempts to engage indigenous language communities in developing new
Wikipedias have been been met with many challenges and varying degrees of
success. Global Voices
<https://globalvoices.org/-/topics/digital-activism/>, a nonprofit
focused on digital activism and with deep networks in Latin America, will
work with Wikimedia affiliates in the region to review the existing active
and incubator Wikipedia projects in the indigenous languages of Latin
America. By mapping successes and challenges, the team will develop best
practices and guidelines for how to support communities that are interested
in developing their indigenous language community and important learnings
for both WMF and the Wikimedia community on if and how we can best support
them.[11][12]
You can read more about this round on the Wikimedia Foundation blog.[13]
The current call for round 2 of Project Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> ends October 11th. The
next open call begins December 19th. [14]
Congratulations to the successful grantees!
1.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications>
2.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Harej/
Librarybase:_an_online_reference_library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Harej/Librarybase:_an_online_reference_library>
3.
<http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/wiki/Librarybase:About>
4.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Putnik/Wikidata_module>
5.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Putnik>
6.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiFactMine>
7.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/A_
Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities>
8.
<https://www.oclc.org/home.en.html>
9.
<http://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/knight-news-
challenge-libraries-awards-16-million-support-innovative-ideas
<http://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/knight-news-challenge-libraries-awards-16-million-support-innovative-ideas>
10.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UGGR/Why_
women_don%E2%80%99t_edit_Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UGGR/Why_women_don%E2%80%99t_edit_Wikipedia>
11.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Strengthening_Indigenous-
Language_Wikipedias_in_Latin_America
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Strengthening_Indigenous-Language_Wikipedias_in_Latin_America>
12.
<https://globalvoices.org/-/topics/digital-activism/>
13.
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/07/new-project-grants/ >
14. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
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Alexandra Wang
Program Officer
Community Resources
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: alexvwang
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