New grants available from the Wikimedia Foundation for individual Wikimedians
This week the Wikimedia Foundation launched a new grantmaking program called Individual Engagement Grants. These grants support individual Wikimedians or small teams to complete projects that benefit...
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Wikimedia IdeaLab is an experiment in user-friendly grantmaking
Applying for a grant can be an intimidating process. There are forms to fill out, rationales and explanations to give, project plans and budgets to lay out. This process can be particularly...
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Announcing the first Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grantees
Individual Engagement Grant Barnstar Today we’re announcing the first round of Individual Engagement Grantees. The Wikimedia Foundation makes a variety of types of grants, many of which focus on groups...
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Defining the Wikisource vision
This post is available in 3 languages: Català • Italiano • English (This is a guest post by Wikisource volunteers Andrea Zanni and David Cuenca) English There was an Indian librarian who once wrote...
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First release of the Miga Data Viewer
Screenshot of Miga I’m one of the recipients of the first-ever round of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Individual Engagement Grants for a project that I initially titled the “MediaWiki Data Browser“. The...
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Individual Engagement Grant learnings and a call for new proposals
Today, we are launching the second round of Individual Engagement Grants with an open call for a new set of project proposals. If you have an idea for a project that will improve a Wikimedia community...
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Visualising Edits
This is a post by Jeph Paul, recipient of a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can...
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Gamestorming: Making of The Wikipedia Adventure
Could learning to edit Wikipedia be engaging and fun? I set out to answer that question this spring with the support of an Individual Engagement Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. I wanted to figure...
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New Individual Engagement Grantees to engage community with tools and outreach
Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees! These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas...
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Using social media to engage Wikipedia readers and editors in China
This post is available in 3 languages: English • 简体中文 • 正體中文 English Addis Wang’s postcard project Wikipedia editor Addis Wang has developed an approach to spreading awareness of Wikipedia in the...
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Individual Engagement Grants demonstrate their potential for impact
This post is available in 3 languages: English • Zh-hant 正體中文 • Zh-hans 简体中文 Round 1 IEG projects English A year ago, Wikipedia didn’t have a social media presence in China. With the support of a...
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Call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals: community experiments wanted
IEG barnstar Do you have an idea for a project that could improve Wikipedia or another Wikimedia community? The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee are seeking...
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VisualEditor gadgets
This post was written by two recipients of Individual Engagement Grants. These grants are awarded by the Wikimedia Foundation and aim to support Wikimedians in completing projects that benefit the...
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Are you the next Wikipedia Visiting Scholar?
Wikipedia Visiting Scholars gain full university library access. Many Wikipedia editors are limited by the sources they have access to. The Wikipedia Visiting Scholars (WVS) program is a novel...
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New grantees bring fresh perspectives on research, mobile, and...
Individual Engagement Grants to unlock 12 new projects A new group of Individual Engagement Grantees will be starting to experiment soon, boldly piloting new ideas aimed at improving Wikimedia’s...
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Women Scientists Workshop Development Update
Editors at a LUC Women Scientists Workshop. The Women Scientists Workshop Development IEG [1] is a project aimed at empowering women college students by encouraging them to create content about women...
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Digging for Data: How to Research Beyond Wikimetrics
The next virtual meet-up will point out research tools. Join!! For Learning & Evaluation, Wikimetrics is a powerful tool for pulling data for wiki project user cohorts, such as edit counts, pages...
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Creating Safe Spaces
This morning I read an article entitled Ride like a girl. In it, the author describes how being a cyclist in a city is like being a woman: Welcome to being vulnerable to the people around you. Welcome...
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Expanding local history with The Wikipedia Library
Find out more about The Wikipedia Library! If you are an editor on the English Wikipedia, you might have noticed the recent uptick in announcements for accounts offered by The Wikipedia Library! The...
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Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia’s Medical...
This is a syndicated post from Global Voices. The original post can be found here. Subhashish Panigrahi is a volunteer contributor for Wikipedia and has worked in the past as a community and program...
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