Hey folks,
Applicants for the current round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) have
submitted many proposals that involve new tools, bot tasks, and other
technical elements. I’ve provided the list of these proposals and brief
descriptions below.
Your feedback in these technical proposals is requested! If one of these
ideas interests you, consider reading it over, and feel free to endorse,
express concerns, make suggestions, and ask questions. Your input and
expertise will help the applicants develop better proposals, and support
the IEG Committee during their evaluation. Comments are requested until
October 19th.
With thanks,
Jethro
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Wiki Needs Pictures
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures>
Developing a map to show entities around the
world that need photographs
on Wikipedia
Wikimedia Maps Rendering Improvements
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimedia_Maps_Rendering_Improvements>
Improving road labels and borders on Wikimedia
Maps
Wikimaps Warper 2.0
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0>
Refactoring Wikimaps Warper code to make the
project more accessible for
volunteer contributions
Alt Text Tools <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools>
Tool to make it easier to improve text
alternatives for images
Batch Uploader for Small GLAM Projects
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_projects>
Creating a simple batch uploader for
small-to-medium entry level partner
institutions.
Bot Development for Azerbaijani Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Bot_Development_for_Azerbaijani_Wikipedia>
Developing a translation bot for Azerbaijani
Wikipedia
Proofreading semiautomatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_the_Catalan_Wikipedia_with_LanguageTool>
Proofreading the whole Catalan Wikipedia using the
LanguageTool with the
help of scripts and appropriate supervision.
Color Blindness Content Checker
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Color_blindness_content_checker>
Make Wikipedia chart and diagrams color blind
accessible
Pan-Scandinavian Machine-assisted Content Translation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assisted_Content_Translation>
Creating more machine translation language data
for use in Content
Translation, for Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål+Nynorsk
projects.
StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References>
Creating a process that extracts facts from text
and produces Wikidata
statements with reference URLs.
Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Categories_for_Vietnamese_Wikipedia>
Generating new categories for small-scale &
medium-scale Wikipedias where
editors are lacking.
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Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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It would be nice if before asking for general review, the proposals
were vetted to have sufficient detail. Some of these seem to be "I
want X$ to do Y, and I'm not going to tell you how I plan to do Y, or
how I determined X$ is needed, or even give a detailed definition of
what Y is".
For a grant proposal, I'd expect to see budget justifications, time
estimations broken down by rough sub tasks, a general plan of attack,
potential risks and how the grantee plans to mitigate them, user
acceptance criteria, etc
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-bawolff