[Wikidata] Re: [Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects] New Product Manager Joins Wikimedia Deutschland

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Congratulations,

It's nice to see you, here.

Regards.

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 1:37 PM Ifeatu Nnaobi 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Ifeatu
> , and I'm
> writing to introduce myself as the Product Manager for the Wikidata and
> Wikimedia Projects team.
>
> The Wikidata for the Wikimedia Projects team is a new team at Wikimedia
> Deutschland (WMDE) that wants to provide structured data support to other
> Wikis in the Wikimedia movement. The team is part of the Linked Open Data
> (LOD) group at WMDE. It will work closely with Lydia Pintscher (Portfolio
> Lead Product Manager for Wikidata) and other LOD team members to establish
> sustainable structures to support collaborations between Wikidata and the
> other Wikimedia projects.
>
> I joined the team in June 2023, and current team member Danny Benjafield
> (Community Communications Manager) and I are exploring ways to build tools
> and features in a community-centred way. This means learning about existing
> initiatives between Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects and examining new
> insights into fostering Wikidata integrations that are collaborative,
> multilingual and provide high-quality data for projects of different shapes
> and sizes.
>
> My background is in interactive media focused on queer, feminist, and
> migrant narratives. As someone from the global majority, it's imperative to
> contribute to improving Wikidata's ability to accommodate diverse ways of
> knowledge contribution and consumption.
>
> As the new team settles in, our big task for the year is interacting with
> community members from various backgrounds and perspectives to understand
> what makes collaboration between Wikidata and Wikimedia projects
> challenging. Please stay tuned for our announcements on how we will do this.
>
> In the meantime, please email me (ifeatu.nna...@wikimedia.de) or leave a
> note on my Meta Talk page
>  if you already
> have something to share.
>
> Thrilled to be here,
>
> --
> Ifeatu Nnaobi *(she/they)*
> Product Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
>
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Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Congratulations !!!

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:31 John Andersson  Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants totaling
> around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of these
> projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving updates
> please let me know.
>
> Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for
> our office space.
>
> Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector
>
> The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a
> text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From
> September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki
> extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add pronunciations
> to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to add more languages to the
> text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for oral
> citations.
>
> The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS (a
> language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland and
> the Swedish Dyslexia Association.
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019/Ansökan
>
> Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries
>
> From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library of
> Sweden, will develop an online training module for Swedish librarians
> focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be a
> mandatory training for all of Sweden's 5,000 public librarians. Our hope is
> to give all of them a basic understanding of the Wikimedia projects, as
> well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the
> most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to ongoingly
> organize activities and events independently at their libraries across the
> country.
>
> Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and
> FindingGLAMs campaigns.
>
> There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the coming 3
> years if successful.
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan
>
> Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata
>
> We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The
> project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project
> will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020.
>
> Cost reduction
>
> Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily
> subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation.
> Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year compared
> to when we had an office of our own.
>
> We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered so
> important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that
> the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility to
> grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous subsidy).
>
> Please contact John Andersson (john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have
> any
> questions.
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
> - - - -
>
> John Andersson
>
> Executive Director
>
> Wikimedia Sverige
>
> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>
> Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se
>
> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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