[Foundation-l] Proposal for the application for a grant that has to be applied for before the 20th]

Robin Shannon robin.shannon at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 02:47:37 UTC 2005


Fucking brilliant idea, but im not quite sure about the ideas to spend
the money. Exactly what is needed on the software front that isnt
currently provided by wikimedia?

paz y amor,
[[User:The bellman]]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:51:48 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> 
> I have posted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IFAP it is an outline for a
> proposal for a $45.000,- grant. We need to apply before the 20th of this
> month. Please, do understand that if we apply for this grant, we have to
> spend money the way we describe. It does not help if you think we should
> not spend the money. We either do or we do not apply and, that way we do
> not benefit and neither do the people who benefit most who are
> incidentally not the people who get paid.
> 
> This proposal aims to achieve three things:
> * cooperation with the Open Office org by creating a dictionary
> integrated into wiktionary for languages they work on. This is a win win
> situation
> *a dictionary and translations dictionary that helps translators and
> students of languages; wiktionary is a many to many dictionary
> *better functionality for wiktionary that will prevent a lot of double
> work and removes the need for running bots to share our work.
> 
> I hope we agree that this is a feasible project and that we can move
> forward with this proposal.
> 
> Thanks.
>    GerardM
> 
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