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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals and committee members Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:04:47 -0800 From: Siko Bouterse sbouterse@wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi all,

The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee invite you to submit and review proposals for community-led experiments to improve Wikimedia!

Individual Engagement Grants support individuals and small teams to organize projects for 6 months. You can get funding to turn your idea for improving Wikimedia projects into action, with a grant for online community organizing, outreach and partnerships, tool-building, or research. Funding is available for a few hundred dollars up to $30,000.

Proposals for this round are due 31 March 2014:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

We're also seeking new committee members to help review and recommend proposals for funding. Candidates are invited to sign up by 9 March 2014:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee

Some examples of projects we've funded in the past:

*Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)[1]

*Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)[2]

*Coordinating free access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)[3]

*Building community and strategy for Wikisource (EURO 10000 for organizing and travel)[4]

You can read more on the WMF blog:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/

Hope to have your participation in this round!

Best wishes,

Siko

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Build_an_effective_method_of_publ...

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Visual_editor-_gadgets_compatibil...

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vi...