[Foundation-l] Grants -- a proposal

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

There are several interesting proposals here which shouldn't be confused, even 
if there are related. Earmarking a donation is something, finding new 
financial resources for new projects and ideas is something else. I 
understand that the former might be a problem for managing the funding in 
some cases, although a possibily to express a support for a particular 
project would be nice.

I am particularly interested about funding some languages not very active (or 
not active at all) in Wikimedia projects upto now. I am thinking about 
African and Asia languages such as Swahili, Pashto, Urdu, most Indian 
languages, Burmese, Lao, Khmer, etc. There are possibilities to find new 
financial resources in this area, both from persons and organisations, which 
would not support the general cost of running Wikimedia projects. I think 
that should be separate from funding for the general projects because it 
might be seen as a way towards paying editors.

But even with funding it might not be so easy to find editors for these 
languages. So far I only have three contacts who answered a mail about 
writing Indian languages articles after some requests to the main Indian 
universities. I think it better to find editors first, and then see if they 
need some financial support.

Regards,
Yann

Le Sunday 19 June 2005 01:00, daniwo59 at aol.com a écrit :
> Hello all,
> In this email, I would like to propose a few ideas for grants and
> money-raising, in order to get community feedback. The focus of this email
> will  be smaller grants and donations.

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