[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Individual Engagement Grants program will fund 8 community-led projects

Hi all, In the latest round of Individual Engagement Grants <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>, 28 eligible proposals were submitted for review. The committee recommended 8 for funding, with 9 grantees selected to receive $87,332 overall. WMF has now approved all 8 grants. Here’s what we’re funding.[1] Online Community Organizing - 2 projects funded * Health images for all <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Health_images_for_all>: User:CFCF <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CFCF>, a veteran Individual Engagement grantee from Medicine Translation Project Community Organizing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Community_Organizing>, will return to IEG to coordinate a multi-strategy initiative to bring quality medical images to Wikipedia across many languages.[2][3][4] * Effective Engagement with Health Topic Experts using Guided Checklists <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_Health_Topic_Experts_using_Guided_Checklists> : This project will create infrastructure to make it easier for health specialists to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia. Through interviews and research, User:FloNight <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight> will develop a robust health topic quality checklist that medical experts would use to guide their review of health content on Wikipedia, directing them to make high quality edits. [5][6] Tools - 6 projects funded * Improve ‘Upload to Commons’ Android App <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_Android_App> : This project will further enhance ‘Upload to Commons <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/25/categorizing-commons-android-photos-easier/>,’ making the Android app more user-friendly by improving categorization tools and providing tutorials to help new users create more useful content for Commons.[7][8] * Enhance the ProveIt gadget <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Enhance_the_ProveIt_gadget>: The ProveIt gadget is a reference manager that creates a visual interface for easily adding and editing references to a Wikipedia article. This project will optimise the gadget by connecting it with Wikidata to allow for autocompletion of references with existing data.[9] * Alt text tools: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools>Alternative texts provide in-context descriptions of images to increase accessibility for vision-impaired users. This project would create a collection of tools to allow volunteers to efficiently add and improve text alternatives on English Wikipedia.[10] * A graphical and interactive etymology dictionary based on Wiktionary <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary> : This project will extract etymological relationships from Wiktionary to build a database designed for integration into Wikidata. The database will allow extraction of interesting information like how pronunciations or semantics evolved through time across etymological trees and across languages.[11] * Wikiscan Multi-wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikiscan_multi-wiki>: This project will expand the Wikiscan site <http://fr.wikiscan.org/>, currently focused on French Wikipedia, to include all Wikimedia wikis with more than 100,000 edits. It will provide many daily-updated statistics, such as most active pages and users for each day and month since a project was created.[12][13] * Lua libs for behavior-driven development <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Lua_libs_for_behavior-driven_development> : This project will create an extension to support testing of Lua-modules in a behavior-driven development <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:behavior-driven_development> style using spec-like tests.[14] More information about this round will be covered shortly on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. The open call for Project Grants <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>, which will replace IEG in the next round, is scheduled for 1 July-2 August, 2016.[15] Congratulations to the successful grantees! 1. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> 2. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Health_images_for_all> 3. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CFCF> 4. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Com… 5. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_He… 6. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight> 7. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_… 8. < http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/25/categorizing-commons-android-photos-ea… 9. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Enhance_the_ProveIt_gadget> 10. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools> 11. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etym… 12. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikiscan_multi-wiki> 13. <http://fr.wikiscan.org/> 14. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Lua_libs_for_behavior-driven_dev… 15. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> *Marti JohnsonProgram Officer* *Individual Grants* *Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>* +1 415-839-6885 Skype: Mjohnson_WMF Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share <http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> in the sum of all knowledge. 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