Hello,

I am writing to request comments on a grant request made by a Wikipedia group at a university in the United States.

The Wikipedia Connection is a student group at Ohio State University which has been organizing Wikipedia meetups since 2014.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Connection>

This group is requesting about $1800 to fund meetup supplies through 2016. See their grant request to the Wikimedia Foundation at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikipedia_Connection/Semester_Funding_for_Workshops_and_Events>

The grant organizers are established Wikipedia contributors.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AddisWang>
AddisWang is also active on Chinese Wikipedia -
<https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AddisWang>

Other good Wikipedia contributors support these organizers both online and at their university. I appreciate them doing the work to both draft this grant request and actually organize Wikipedia events at their school. Here are some of my personal perspectives on this proposal:
If anyone would, please endorse, comment, or criticize this proposal at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikipedia_Connection/Semester_Funding_for_Workshops_and_Events>

I am very happy to see this proposal made and I think encouraging more of these proposals will only lead to better relationships with more universities and grassroots student communities.

yours,


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Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia