Hi Lewis

Many thanks for your email and for your interest in the project!

Obviously the press release and social media announcements around the grant are by necessity short on detail, although the application itself was much more comprehensive. But to clarify, this won't be a pot of cash that other organisations can apply to Wikimedia UK for. Instead, we will be recruiting a person and a half (i.e one full time and one part time post) to work with the existing staff team to plan and deliver a programme of activity for and with heritage organisations, which will include:

  • A webinar programme enabling a wide range of stakeholders within the sector to increase their understanding of the case for open knowledge, as well as practical issues relating to open licensing. We're hoping to reach up to 100 organisations through this element of the programme.

  • We will work in a more collaborative, in-depth way with up to 20 organisations, with whom we will plan and deliver bespoke editing events or other workshops to develop new skills and improve the coverage of their heritage on the Wikimedia projects. In practice, we envisage that these 20 organisations will come through the webinar programme, but that won't necessarily be the case for all of them.

  • We will identify between two and four organisations to work in a more in-depth way to develop and embed more open policies and practice, with sustained intervention and support along the lines of our existing residency model.


There will be a focus on heritage which is underrepresented on Wikimedia, and we may narrow this focus down further to specific groups. We will share more information about this as we develop our thinking, now that the funding is confirmed. We don't currently have any project partners in mind and will focus in the first instance on recruiting for the new posts. Again, we will share information about that through this mailing list. 

Best wishes
Lucy


 

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 13:04, Lewis Cawte <lewiscawte@googlemail.com> wrote:
Any funding is great news for the chapter and well done to everyone involved in getting the award.

Having read both the National Lottery and WMUK, it seems to fall short on anything particularly specific on what the funds will be spent on? Presumably, the chapter had some provisional/speculative ideas of organisations and programmes it would assign funds to when it put itself forward for this pot of cash? Are there existing projects that the chapter expects this money to help extend/expand, what is considered "underrepresented cultural heritage".

Apologies if this stuff is available elsewhere, I'm a bit out of the loop with chapter happenings, and I've only gotten (back) into the content side of things really since October-ish.

-- Lewis Cawte



On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 12:33, Natasha Iles <natasha.iles@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hi all

Please join us in celebrating the announcement today that Wikimedia UK is one of twelve projects being supported through The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund.

Please read our Press Release or follow on social Facebook, twitter, instagram.
Coverage is also on The National Lottery Heritage Fund website.

Many thanks and best wishes
Natasha

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Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. 

Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.

Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.