Forwarding my message...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ilya Haykinson haykinson@gmail.com Date: Sep 24, 2007 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] wikinews and Knight News Challenge To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

I'm finishing up a proposal to the Knight Foundation (details in the next couple of days), but it's for the Knight's main funding process and not for the News Challenge. The processes are similar, but the News Challenge is meant to be easier.

Wikinews applied for last year's News Challenge and got pretty close to being accepted (my understanding is that out of 1000 proposals about 40 got funded, and we missed the 40 by a hair). I highly recommend that if anyone has a good idea that they don't be shy and write something up. If you need any help with your proposal please feel free to run it by me.

Cheers,

-ilya haykinson

On 9/24/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

On 9/24/07, Samuel Klein sj@laptop.org wrote:

...

I believe some wikinews-related groups applied last year...

Ilya Haykinson is still actively working on a new project proposal, perhaps he can post a quick update. -- Toward Peace, Love & Progress: Erik