Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Liam, thanks for writing this - as an early campaign critic, it means a lot to our team to see your updated thinking here! I see much value in running experiments that help us test our assumptions and refine our understanding of what works and what doesn't in this movement, and am glad to know that you agree this particular one has resulted in something useful w/o negatively impacting other projects. Cheers, Siko On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become replicable models for future activities and help solve the broad gender-gap problem. When the inspire campaign was first announced I was critical - not of the importance of the topic - but whether the method of focusing attention on only one topic was a good idea. By focusing grants on one topic, would that be beneficial to that topic or would it simply be detrimental to all other topics? It seems the answer is that SPECIFICALLY INVITING people to apply for grants on a specific topic DOES draw out many and various good ideas. Without that specific invitation, it is likely that only a proportion of these would ever have been submitted, and an even smaller number actually funded. Furthermore, it don't believe any of the grant applications that were underway on other topics were delayed or negatively affected because of this project. So, congratulations WMF grants team on trialling an innovative and tricky idea. Let's hope the 16 projects prove to be successful! -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding. The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity. You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/. The funded projects are: - Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 -
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding. The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity. You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/. The funded projects are: - Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare! - Just for the record https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record - Let's fill the gender gap Workshops https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Let%27s_fill_the_gender_gap_Workshops - Empowering Afrodescendant women in Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia What’s next: We hope you'll continue to engage with these projects as they begin work in coming months and offer your experience and ideas! Meanwhile, our regularly scheduled grant programs continue :) A number of ideas and grant proposals from the campaign are still in development. Over the coming year, we'll continue to encourage people to make changes based on feedback and our Project and Event Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG and Individual Engagement Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG programs will be happy to continue to receive new or adjusted proposals aimed at increasing gender diversity during regular funding cycles along with all other topics. A full analysis of the Inspire campaign is in progress, and in coming weeks we'll be sharing findings from a traffic analysis and a participant survey. Stay tuned for another update in mid-May on what we learned from the Inspire experiment, what worked, what didn't, and recommended steps for the future. Many thanks to all of you that contributed to this campaign with proposals, ideas, feedback and suggestions! Cheers, The Inspire Team -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l,
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Hi Liam, I too am happy with many aspects of Aspire. However, the campaign scheduling and communications issues caused major headaches here in Cascadia, and was disruptive in other ways that I'd rather not document in a public list. The Community Resources and LE teams are aware of the specifics. I am hopeful that communications and scheduling will be planned more carefully in the future. Congrats to the grantees. I look forward to hearing about what you learn and achieve. (: Pine On May 1, 2015 2:36 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become replicable models for future activities and help solve the broad gender-gap problem. When the inspire campaign was first announced I was critical - not of the importance of the topic - but whether the method of focusing attention on only one topic was a good idea. By focusing grants on one topic, would that be beneficial to that topic or would it simply be detrimental to all other topics? It seems the answer is that SPECIFICALLY INVITING people to apply for grants on a specific topic DOES draw out many and various good ideas. Without that specific invitation, it is likely that only a proportion of these would ever have been submitted, and an even smaller number actually funded. Furthermore, it don't believe any of the grant applications that were underway on other topics were delayed or negatively affected because of this project. So, congratulations WMF grants team on trialling an innovative and tricky idea. Let's hope the 16 projects prove to be successful! -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding. The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity. You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/. The funded projects are: - Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Thank you, Liam, for the supportive positive comments. Sydney On May 1, 2015 5:36 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become replicable models for future activities and help solve the broad gender-gap problem. When the inspire campaign was first announced I was critical - not of the importance of the topic - but whether the method of focusing attention on only one topic was a good idea. By focusing grants on one topic, would that be beneficial to that topic or would it simply be detrimental to all other topics? It seems the answer is that SPECIFICALLY INVITING people to apply for grants on a specific topic DOES draw out many and various good ideas. Without that specific invitation, it is likely that only a proportion of these would ever have been submitted, and an even smaller number actually funded. Furthermore, it don't believe any of the grant applications that were underway on other topics were delayed or negatively affected because of this project. So, congratulations WMF grants team on trialling an innovative and tricky idea. Let's hope the 16 projects prove to be successful! -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding. The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity. You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/. The funded projects are: - Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare ! - Just for the record https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record - Let's fill the gender gap Workshops
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaau-l] Wiki Towns
There is a longer list available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QRpedia *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2015-05-01 2:56 GMT+02:00 d...@bisharat.net: Thank you and thanks to others whe also replied. This info is helpful. One thing I was wondering is why only 5 WikiTowns worldwide (based on the number of categories on en.wikipedia.org*). Aside from the first in Wales and the two in Australia, there's one in South Africa and one for Gibraltar. Curious to know by what measure the concept is popular. (That sounds like a challenge but not meant to be.) I can see that the work involved and expenses for the plates/signs might discourage potential projects. I'm considering proposing a WikiTown project in my current town - Falls Church, Virginia, US - which seems to me (based on a probably inadequate understanding of what's involved) to be an ideal size for roll-out and maintenance of all elements. I've hesitated to make preliminary contacts in local govt and civic groups until I am more convinced on the sustainability of the overall Wiki Towns effort and feel better able to answer inevitable questions. I think the first mention of the idea is likely to get positive reaction, esp. if framed in terms that relate to current planning efforts, but that could be the end of it without a plan, a good cost-benefit presentation, and a few activists to carry it forth. Is there a best practices guide? Any reason why there's no general or project page on WP about Wiki Towns where such info might be collected? (And to where this discussion might move?) All ideas and any info appreciated. Don Osborn * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiTowns Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 06:06:20 To: Australian Wikimedians mailing listwikimediaa...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: d...@bisharat.netd...@bisharat.net; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns G'Day Yes Australia has two ongoing Wikitown projects - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Freopedia - I'm created both projects and are responsible for their on going activity, the projects activity spikes depending on the availability of funding for each set of new plates. I was also fortunate enough to see the talk in Washington in 2012. WikiTowns have a wide appeal and are very popular the issue is that they require significant time to build which gets complicated when you rely on volunteers. I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has, and provide assistance Gnangarra Vice President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 17 -- 29 April 2015
Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/Wikimania News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/News_and_notes In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/In_the_media Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/Featured_content Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/Recent_research Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/Traffic_report Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2015-04-29 PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-29 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/ • How many women edit Wikipedia? https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/how-many-women-edit-wikipedia/ • What we learned from the blog survey https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/blog-survey-results/ • Sharing images of the earthquake in Nepal: Krish Dulal https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/ • Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/27/wiki-loves-earth-2015/ • A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/24/european-copyright-reform/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become replicable models for future activities and help solve the broad gender-gap problem. When the inspire campaign was first announced I was critical - not of the importance of the topic - but whether the method of focusing attention on only one topic was a good idea. By focusing grants on one topic, would that be beneficial to that topic or would it simply be detrimental to all other topics? It seems the answer is that SPECIFICALLY INVITING people to apply for grants on a specific topic DOES draw out many and various good ideas. Without that specific invitation, it is likely that only a proportion of these would ever have been submitted, and an even smaller number actually funded. Furthermore, it don't believe any of the grant applications that were underway on other topics were delayed or negatively affected because of this project. So, congratulations WMF grants team on trialling an innovative and tricky idea. Let's hope the 16 projects prove to be successful! -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding. The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity. You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/. The funded projects are: - Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare ! - Just for the record https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record - Let's fill the gender gap Workshops https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Let%27s_fill_the_gender_gap_Workshops - Empowering Afrodescendant women in Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia What’s next: We hope you'll continue to engage with these projects as they
[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Hi All, Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding. The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity. You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/. The funded projects are: - Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare! - Just for the record https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record - Let's fill the gender gap Workshops https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Let%27s_fill_the_gender_gap_Workshops - Empowering Afrodescendant women in Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia What’s next: We hope you'll continue to engage with these projects as they begin work in coming months and offer your experience and ideas! Meanwhile, our regularly scheduled grant programs continue :) A number of ideas and grant proposals from the campaign are still in development. Over the coming year, we'll continue to encourage people to make changes based on feedback and our Project and Event Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG and Individual Engagement Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG programs will be happy to continue to receive new or adjusted proposals aimed at increasing gender diversity during regular funding cycles along with all other topics. A full analysis of the Inspire campaign is in progress, and in coming weeks we'll be sharing findings from a traffic analysis and a participant survey. Stay tuned for another update in mid-May on what we learned from the Inspire experiment, what worked, what didn't, and recommended steps for the future. Many thanks to all of you that contributed to this campaign with proposals, ideas, feedback and suggestions! Cheers, The Inspire Team -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
