Re: [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

[Xavier Cailleau]

Hi John and everyone,

first, congratulations for all these impressive projects. I'm particularly
interested in the second one which is a big step to help cultural
institutions incorporate the contribution to wikimedia projects in
professionnal practices. I'm wondering how this online training module has
become a "mandatory" training module for all of public librarians ? What is
the link between the National Library of Sweden and the other public ones ?
Are they linked to cities, municipalities or directly to the National
Library of Sweden ?

Do you think an english documentation will be available ?

Congrats again for thoses projects !

Best,

Xavier

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Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 14:04, Sydney Poore  a écrit :

> John, I'm thrilled to learn of the these project grants and the
> accompanying funding. Congratulations to you and others involved in
> securing this funding and the reduced cost for the office space.
>
> This accomplishment should be celebrated far and wide because of the value
> that it brings to the whole Wikimedia movement!
>
> Sydney
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:31 AM John Andersson <
> john.anders...@wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians User Group

[Rajeeb Dutta]

Congratulations to all the Marathi Wikimedians!! 
Regards,
Rajeeb (Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone

> On 28-Mar-2019, at 8:48 PM, Kirill Lokshin  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Marathi Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to increase awareness about Marathi Wikipedia and other
> Wikipedia projects, and to develop programs which will improve editors'
> work on the project and work towards addressing the gender gap on Marathi
> Wikipedia.
> 
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> 
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
> 
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Marathi_Wikimedians_User_Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

[Rajeeb Dutta]

Congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team!! Looking forward to contribute 
to these amazing projects.

Cheers, 
Rajeeb(Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone

> On 28-Mar-2019, at 8:28 PM, Lane Rasberry  wrote:
> 
> Congratulations. I am excited especially for the "Bibliographical data on
> Wikidata" part, where my university and many other universities around the
> world will join you in collaboration. I expect that what Wikimedia
> Sverige does in this space will set global precedent for how everyone in
> research publishes and shares research. This is very good news and I will
> look for an opportunity to collaborate in research and Wikidata content
> curation.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:12 AM Stacy Allison-Cassin 
> wrote:
> 
>> To echo everyone else, congratulations! These projects sound amazing and
>> I'm really looking forward to the results.
>> Stacy
>> 
>> Stacy Allison-Cassin, MMus, MISt, PhD Cand.
>> 
>> Associate Librarian
>> 
>> York University Libraries
>> 
>> 
>> *York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of
>> many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by
>> the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat,
>> and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge
>> the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
>> This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant,
>> an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.*
>> --
>> *From:* Wikidata  on behalf of John
>> Andersson 
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:31 AM
>> *To:* wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; g...@lists.wikimedia.org;
>> cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch; wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org
>> *Subject:* [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+
>> in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year
>> 
>> 
>> 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 possibi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Kiril Simeonovski]

Hi Anders,

There is an expression in Macedonian that says „Секое вештачко нешто се
распаѓа на природен начин.“ (Every artificial creation breaks down
naturally.). This is exactly what is going to happen with this strategy.

Best regards,
Kiril

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 7:05 PM Anders Wennersten 
wrote:

> There is a Swedish expression "har man tagit fan i båten får man ro
> honom i land" (If you have taken the devil into your boat you must row
> him ashore"
>
> Independent if this process has been bad or not, I see it is as just
> some six month left of it. And it is important to do the best of it. It
> would be a bad move to stop it at thois point in time, and would also be
> too late to correct the process if it has been flawed.
>
> Anders
>
>
> Den 2019-03-27 kl. 14:05, skrev Itzik - Wikimedia Israel:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Two weeks ago I sent this email to my strategy working group (resource
> > allocation). I didn't plan to send a public email, just to share with the
> > rest of the group my reason to leave and just to disappear.
> > I receive feedbacks with many of the group members and also requesting
> > permissions to transfer it with others outside of the group, which leads
> to
> > more conversations that I had around it.
> >
> > Last week we had our weekly phone call, during which we discussed our
> > feelings and opinions about the process so far. From our long
> conversation
> > and the conversations with the others, I learned that many of these
> > feelings exist among the other members, as well some ideas on how to make
> > it easier and less demanding and at the same time publishing the
> > conclusions sooner.
> > Yesterday, following a good conversation with one of the WMF's board
> > members about it, I was asked to share these thoughts with the movement's
> > list, so that it may also involve the community's feedback as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Itzik Edri*
> > Chairperson (volunteer)
> > it...@wikimedia.org.il
> > +972-54-5878078
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Forwarded message -
> > From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
> > Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:08 PM
> > Subject: I decided to leave the working group
> > To: 
> >
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > For a long time I have been considering leaving the working group but
> each
> > time I decided to give it another chance. Yesterday, after long
> > consideration, I decided to write this email.
> >
> > I must be honest - I was skeptical from the first moment about this
> > process. The huge amount of money which the board allocated to this
> process
> > together with the complicated and (very) long process planned for it -
> make
> > me doubt the ability to really have a real outcome in a reasonable time.
> > For the past two years, it seems to me like the strategy took over almost
> > every movement event and activity. I feel bad for investing millions of
> > dollars from our donations and uncounted hours of volunteer time into
> this
> > process.
> >
> > I also felt hypocritical in the way the foundation acts - while
> "freezing"
> > grant programs (such as APG) and holding affiliates from increasing their
> > programs and budgets, "because of the strategy process" while
> > simultaneously approving itself to increase its budget and staff year
> after
> > year by tens of percentage.
> >
> > Despite my distrust of the chances of this process and the criticism I
> felt
> > for it, I instructed my organization to give it the full support we been
> > asked, as all our movement did. Later on, I decided to join this working
> > group as I felt we almost reached the final step of the process and I
> > wanted to help shape the recommendations. I was totally wrong.
> >
> > In the first months of the workgroups, I felt it was completely wasted of
> > time. I saw how wonderful volunteers tried to lead the process within
> each
> > group (thank you Daria!) - but it wasn't their job, nor none of us. I
> felt
> > like I was returning to university, and every few weeks I received
> > instructions and homework from the lecturer, with assignments to the
> > following week - and in between, that we need to lead it and solve things
> > by ourselves. It took the core team a few months to change it and bring
> > external support, but even after the (right) change, it continues to feel
> > like I came *to work for *the strategic process, not with.
> >
> > I felt like nothing happened for the past year(or years?) before the
> > working groups started to operate. As if we didn't have hundreds of
> > meetings around the world, with a total of tens of thousands of people
> and
> > an enormous amount of hours of conversations - and aside from a short few
> > sentences of a strategic direction, we started from scratch. A completely
> > new process.
> >  From scratch to have discussions about what this process is, definitions
> > and concepts. What is the problem with the current system? What are the
> > challenges? What people shared during the first phase? Information which
>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Chris Keating]

Hello,

I just want to chime in here. Like Itzik I'm a working group member with a
community and chapter background, unlike him I am not resigning  :)

I certainly identify with many of the frustrations he shares. Everything in
the process is slow and that is very frustrating for those of us who just
want to get on with the work.

Some of that is because the scope and breadth of what the process is trying
to achieve. Some is because of the amount of the governance equivalent of
"technical debt" the movement has accumulated as decision after decision
has been put off and ultimately swept into this process to resolve. Some of
the slowness is due to the particular way the process is being aporoached
and the supporting resources that are available (it seems while WMF can
spend immense amounts of money on this process, it can't make any quick
decisions on how to spend that money because of an ossiffied procurement
process... *shrugs*). I won't say any more about the process now because I
expect there to be many discussions at the WMSummit about how it works from
here.

In spite of these frustrations, I think it's likely that the outcomes of
the process will be a significant, lasting, positive  change for the
movement.

Chris


On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, 17:09 Paulo Santos Perneta, 
wrote:

> I subscribe what Yaroslav wrote, line by line.
>
> My personal impression is that for the people who are at the onwiki
> communities, in which I include myself till 2018, this whole Strategy 2030
> thing looks indeed like something happening in a distant galaxy, led by
> people with very little notion of what is actually happening in the
> projects. And there is also this notion that sometime in the near/mid
> future vogons would came in to impose whatever they had decided there, and
> that they will have to be chased off.
>
> I attended Iberoconf 2019[1] early this year in Santiago, where Strategy
> 2030 was supposed to be very much in focus, and I was hoping to have a
> better idea of what it was over there. However, we ended up never talking
> about it (at least that I can remember), so the idea I got was that it is
> something of no importance or of very little importance, but on which, for
> some reason, huge amounts of WMF funding is being thrown in.
>
> I do not care about the money - it's their money, they do whatever they
> want with it. But it kind of annoys me that Strategy 2030, while being
> apparently useless, tends to pervade all Wikimedia events and spaces. It
> kind of stays there, doing nothing and occupying space that could be better
> used for more practical stuff.
>
> Nothing against the people that is on the Working Groups, I'm sure most of
> them are doing their best, as Itzik, but this whole thing at this point is
> really looking as some failed experiment, and it would probably be better
> to salvage what is possible from this and the other past "strategy"
> experiments, look at what failed and start something new and better
> thought.
>
> [1] -https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMCL/Iberoconf_2019
>
> Best,
> Paulo (DarwIn)
>
>
> Yaroslav Blanter  escreveu no dia quinta, 28/03/2019
> à(s)
> 15:38:
>
> > Hello Itzik,
> >
> > thanks for sharing this.
> >
> > I actually did not want to react, because I presumably sound too critical
> > on this list in the last couple of years. However, 24h passed, and nobody
> > reacted, and It would be unfortunate if we let this go.
> >
> > My own experience brought me to the same conclusions, even though I have
> a
> > very different background. I am a project contributor, highly active on
> > several WMF projects and having some advanced permissions there. I belong
> > to the category which became common to refer to as "unorganized
> volunteers"
> > (which we actually read as a derogatory name). I participated in the 2010
> > strategy consultation, which was pretty much community driven, and I
> liked
> > that one. My name is on the final document. However, I did not like the
> > current process from the very beginning. In the first stage, facilitators
> > were hired, and some of them genuinely wanted to do things but did not
> know
> > how to activate the communities, and others did not even make an effort.
> As
> > I already shared on this list, on one of the projects I am active in we
> > took the challenge seriously and formulated quite a few of strategic
> > directions - just to be told by the facilitator that this is not what we
> > were expected to do. The final document had no trace of our suggestions.
> I
> > was one of those who opposed the final document and signed for this on
> Meta
> > - about 70 people signed and were duly ignored. I was not looking forward
> > to the second round, but when I saw a call, I though "ok, I was
> criticizing
> > the process a lot, but did I do enough to fix it", and I applied. My
> > application was rejected, and a couple of days later there was a second
> > call stating that the first one did not get enough appl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Anders Wennersten]

There is a Swedish expression "har man tagit fan i båten får man ro 
honom i land" (If you have taken the devil into your boat you must row 
him ashore"


Independent if this process has been bad or not, I see it is as just 
some six month left of it. And it is important to do the best of it. It 
would be a bad move to stop it at thois point in time, and would also be 
too late to correct the process if it has been flawed.


Anders


Den 2019-03-27 kl. 14:05, skrev Itzik - Wikimedia Israel:


Hi,

Two weeks ago I sent this email to my strategy working group (resource
allocation). I didn't plan to send a public email, just to share with the
rest of the group my reason to leave and just to disappear.
I receive feedbacks with many of the group members and also requesting
permissions to transfer it with others outside of the group, which leads to
more conversations that I had around it.

Last week we had our weekly phone call, during which we discussed our
feelings and opinions about the process so far. From our long conversation
and the conversations with the others, I learned that many of these
feelings exist among the other members, as well some ideas on how to make
it easier and less demanding and at the same time publishing the
conclusions sooner.
Yesterday, following a good conversation with one of the WMF's board
members about it, I was asked to share these thoughts with the movement's
list, so that it may also involve the community's feedback as well.



*Itzik Edri*
Chairperson (volunteer)
it...@wikimedia.org.il
+972-54-5878078



-- Forwarded message -
From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:08 PM
Subject: I decided to leave the working group
To: 

Dear friends,

For a long time I have been considering leaving the working group but each
time I decided to give it another chance. Yesterday, after long
consideration, I decided to write this email.

I must be honest - I was skeptical from the first moment about this
process. The huge amount of money which the board allocated to this process
together with the complicated and (very) long process planned for it - make
me doubt the ability to really have a real outcome in a reasonable time.
For the past two years, it seems to me like the strategy took over almost
every movement event and activity. I feel bad for investing millions of
dollars from our donations and uncounted hours of volunteer time into this
process.

I also felt hypocritical in the way the foundation acts - while "freezing"
grant programs (such as APG) and holding affiliates from increasing their
programs and budgets, "because of the strategy process" while
simultaneously approving itself to increase its budget and staff year after
year by tens of percentage.

Despite my distrust of the chances of this process and the criticism I felt
for it, I instructed my organization to give it the full support we been
asked, as all our movement did. Later on, I decided to join this working
group as I felt we almost reached the final step of the process and I
wanted to help shape the recommendations. I was totally wrong.

In the first months of the workgroups, I felt it was completely wasted of
time. I saw how wonderful volunteers tried to lead the process within each
group (thank you Daria!) - but it wasn't their job, nor none of us. I felt
like I was returning to university, and every few weeks I received
instructions and homework from the lecturer, with assignments to the
following week - and in between, that we need to lead it and solve things
by ourselves. It took the core team a few months to change it and bring
external support, but even after the (right) change, it continues to feel
like I came *to work for *the strategic process, not with.

I felt like nothing happened for the past year(or years?) before the
working groups started to operate. As if we didn't have hundreds of
meetings around the world, with a total of tens of thousands of people and
an enormous amount of hours of conversations - and aside from a short few
sentences of a strategic direction, we started from scratch. A completely
new process.
 From scratch to have discussions about what this process is, definitions
and concepts. What is the problem with the current system? What are the
challenges? What people shared during the first phase? Information which
wasn't available and ready for the group, and still isn't. Eight months
after we start, the real conversation about the subject which I joined to
discuss about and help shape recommendations around it, is far, far away
from even to start.

The more I spoke to more and more people who are part of the process, I
realized that this despair is not only with me but with many. But we are a
real Wikimedians, and we are committed to the things we start. We are bad
with stopping things when they don't work or have real reviews of the
things we do when we have the belief that this is the right thing. I
completely stopped thinking it is the right thing 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the March 2019 Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting: Thursday, March 28, 18:00 UTC

[Sasha Redkina]

This meeting will start in 20 minutes

Sasha Redkina
Front Office Coordinator
*The Wikimedia Foundation*
www.wikimediafoundation.org


On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:36 AM Sasha Redkina <
activitiesmeet...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Monthly Activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
> March 28th, 2019 at 18:00  UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
> #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the meeting will
> be broadcast as a live YouTube stream:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxCFzA3PEaQ
> 
> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> *Agenda:*
>
> Facilitator: Adora Svitak, Communications Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>- Welcome and introduction to agenda - 2 minutes
>- Movement update - 3 minutes
>- New Communications committee and Movement communications group - 5
>minutes
>- EU Copyright reform update - 10 minutes
>- Movement strategy update - 15 minutes
>- Questions and discussion - 10 minutes
>- Wikilove - 5 minutes
>
>
> Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
> the meeting and how to participate:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings
>
> The April 2019 monthly activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
> April 25, starting at 18:00 UTC (11:00 Pacific Daylight Time). To sign up
> to participate, please visit:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings/Sign_up
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Fæ]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 15:38, Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:
>
> Hello Itzik,
>
> thanks for sharing this.
>
> I actually did not want to react, because I presumably sound too critical
> on this list in the last couple of years. However, 24h passed, and nobody
> reacted, and It would be unfortunate if we let this go.
...

Ditto.

I have been asked in private, three different times by three different
people if I would like to take part in the strategy process. My most
recent decline and explanation was pretty much identical.

I simply do not believe in the process being followed. So it would be
a poor use of my volunteer time to try to take part, as whatever I had
to contribute I am convinced would have zero measurable impact on the
eventual outcome. These thoughts are sad ones, as the money and
significant amount of volunteer time and goodwill being invested,
could be directed to very productive open knowledge projects. Let us
hope that I will be proven wrong, soon.

Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Paulo Santos Perneta]

I subscribe what Yaroslav wrote, line by line.

My personal impression is that for the people who are at the onwiki
communities, in which I include myself till 2018, this whole Strategy 2030
thing looks indeed like something happening in a distant galaxy, led by
people with very little notion of what is actually happening in the
projects. And there is also this notion that sometime in the near/mid
future vogons would came in to impose whatever they had decided there, and
that they will have to be chased off.

I attended Iberoconf 2019[1] early this year in Santiago, where Strategy
2030 was supposed to be very much in focus, and I was hoping to have a
better idea of what it was over there. However, we ended up never talking
about it (at least that I can remember), so the idea I got was that it is
something of no importance or of very little importance, but on which, for
some reason, huge amounts of WMF funding is being thrown in.

I do not care about the money - it's their money, they do whatever they
want with it. But it kind of annoys me that Strategy 2030, while being
apparently useless, tends to pervade all Wikimedia events and spaces. It
kind of stays there, doing nothing and occupying space that could be better
used for more practical stuff.

Nothing against the people that is on the Working Groups, I'm sure most of
them are doing their best, as Itzik, but this whole thing at this point is
really looking as some failed experiment, and it would probably be better
to salvage what is possible from this and the other past "strategy"
experiments, look at what failed and start something new and better thought.

[1] -https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMCL/Iberoconf_2019

Best,
Paulo (DarwIn)


Yaroslav Blanter  escreveu no dia quinta, 28/03/2019 à(s)
15:38:

> Hello Itzik,
>
> thanks for sharing this.
>
> I actually did not want to react, because I presumably sound too critical
> on this list in the last couple of years. However, 24h passed, and nobody
> reacted, and It would be unfortunate if we let this go.
>
> My own experience brought me to the same conclusions, even though I have a
> very different background. I am a project contributor, highly active on
> several WMF projects and having some advanced permissions there. I belong
> to the category which became common to refer to as "unorganized volunteers"
> (which we actually read as a derogatory name). I participated in the 2010
> strategy consultation, which was pretty much community driven, and I liked
> that one. My name is on the final document. However, I did not like the
> current process from the very beginning. In the first stage, facilitators
> were hired, and some of them genuinely wanted to do things but did not know
> how to activate the communities, and others did not even make an effort. As
> I already shared on this list, on one of the projects I am active in we
> took the challenge seriously and formulated quite a few of strategic
> directions - just to be told by the facilitator that this is not what we
> were expected to do. The final document had no trace of our suggestions. I
> was one of those who opposed the final document and signed for this on Meta
> - about 70 people signed and were duly ignored. I was not looking forward
> to the second round, but when I saw a call, I though "ok, I was criticizing
> the process a lot, but did I do enough to fix it", and I applied. My
> application was rejected, and a couple of days later there was a second
> call stating that the first one did not get enough applicants. Then I was
> sure I am happy that whatever final document would be there in the end is
> no way my name could be associated with it. Whatever else would happen
> around the strategy discussion this round, I am not going to be available
> to help. The strategy discussion is smth that happens in a different
> galaxy. The process is hopelessly broken and should have been killed at an
> earlier stage. I know that a lot of people I respect (and quite a few I do
> not) were and still are involved, but apparently the process design was not
> appropriate from the very beginning.
>
> I am generally very disappointed by an inability of many people at WMF and
> thematic organizations to realize what "strategy" actually means.
> Apparently, they really think that they are the movement, and volunteers at
> the projects ("unorganized volunteers") would do what they decide for them.
> We had already enough calls showing that the communities are not going to
> do what they are told if they do not think it is reasonable. And if
> somebody has forgotten the Wikitravel story, which tells us what happened
> if you push volunteers too much, it could be useful to read it again. I
> have an impression that some people really forget where their salary is
> coming from, that other people are working for free, and if they stop
> working for free, there is not going to be any salary any more. And if you
> can not understand what communiti

Re: [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

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin]

Congratulations WMSE

Pierre-Yves

Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 16:41, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <
it...@wikimedia.org.il> a écrit :

> Great news, John!
>
>
>
> *Itzik Edri*
> Chairperson (volunteer)
> it...@wikimedia.org.il
> +972-54-5878078
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:32 PM John Andersson <
> john.anders...@wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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Re: [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

[Itzik - Wikimedia Israel]

Great news, John!



*Itzik Edri*
Chairperson (volunteer)
it...@wikimedia.org.il
+972-54-5878078



On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:32 PM John Andersson 
wrote:

> 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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Yaroslav Blanter]

Hello Itzik,

thanks for sharing this.

I actually did not want to react, because I presumably sound too critical
on this list in the last couple of years. However, 24h passed, and nobody
reacted, and It would be unfortunate if we let this go.

My own experience brought me to the same conclusions, even though I have a
very different background. I am a project contributor, highly active on
several WMF projects and having some advanced permissions there. I belong
to the category which became common to refer to as "unorganized volunteers"
(which we actually read as a derogatory name). I participated in the 2010
strategy consultation, which was pretty much community driven, and I liked
that one. My name is on the final document. However, I did not like the
current process from the very beginning. In the first stage, facilitators
were hired, and some of them genuinely wanted to do things but did not know
how to activate the communities, and others did not even make an effort. As
I already shared on this list, on one of the projects I am active in we
took the challenge seriously and formulated quite a few of strategic
directions - just to be told by the facilitator that this is not what we
were expected to do. The final document had no trace of our suggestions. I
was one of those who opposed the final document and signed for this on Meta
- about 70 people signed and were duly ignored. I was not looking forward
to the second round, but when I saw a call, I though "ok, I was criticizing
the process a lot, but did I do enough to fix it", and I applied. My
application was rejected, and a couple of days later there was a second
call stating that the first one did not get enough applicants. Then I was
sure I am happy that whatever final document would be there in the end is
no way my name could be associated with it. Whatever else would happen
around the strategy discussion this round, I am not going to be available
to help. The strategy discussion is smth that happens in a different
galaxy. The process is hopelessly broken and should have been killed at an
earlier stage. I know that a lot of people I respect (and quite a few I do
not) were and still are involved, but apparently the process design was not
appropriate from the very beginning.

I am generally very disappointed by an inability of many people at WMF and
thematic organizations to realize what "strategy" actually means.
Apparently, they really think that they are the movement, and volunteers at
the projects ("unorganized volunteers") would do what they decide for them.
We had already enough calls showing that the communities are not going to
do what they are told if they do not think it is reasonable. And if
somebody has forgotten the Wikitravel story, which tells us what happened
if you push volunteers too much, it could be useful to read it again. I
have an impression that some people really forget where their salary is
coming from, that other people are working for free, and if they stop
working for free, there is not going to be any salary any more. And if you
can not understand what communities want, then you need to ask again, and
not just write a few generic sentences and take it to another level. There
are enough real challenges before the movement which, if inappropriately
handled or not responded to, can just kill the whole Wikimedia universe. To
write a text in which a lot of money and a lot of time is invested but
which is not even specific about anything is not one of them.

And if you ask me I would say that the strategy can not be determined
solely by people who are not working in projects on a daily basis.

Cheers
Yaroslav

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 2:06 PM Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <
it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Two weeks ago I sent this email to my strategy working group (resource
> allocation). I didn't plan to send a public email, just to share with the
> rest of the group my reason to leave and just to disappear.
> I receive feedbacks with many of the group members and also requesting
> permissions to transfer it with others outside of the group, which leads to
> more conversations that I had around it.
>
> Last week we had our weekly phone call, during which we discussed our
> feelings and opinions about the process so far. From our long conversation
> and the conversations with the others, I learned that many of these
> feelings exist among the other members, as well some ideas on how to make
> it easier and less demanding and at the same time publishing the
> conclusions sooner.
> Yesterday, following a good conversation with one of the WMF's board
> members about it, I was asked to share these thoughts with the movement's
> list, so that it may also involve the community's feedback as well.
>
>
>
> *Itzik Edri*
> Chairperson (volunteer)
> it...@wikimedia.org.il
> +972-54-5878078
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
> Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:08 PM
> Subject: I decided to leav

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of India Technical User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Wikimedians of India Technical User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. The group aims to introduce new Wikipedia technologies to
volunteers, to recruit new technical contributors, and to work with Indic
communities to address their technology problems and requests.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_of_India_technical_user_group
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_India_technical_user_group
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Marathi Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to increase awareness about Marathi Wikipedia and other
Wikipedia projects, and to develop programs which will improve editors'
work on the project and work towards addressing the gender gap on Marathi
Wikipedia.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Marathi_Wikimedians_User_Group
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

[Lane Rasberry]

Congratulations. I am excited especially for the "Bibliographical data on
Wikidata" part, where my university and many other universities around the
world will join you in collaboration. I expect that what Wikimedia
Sverige does in this space will set global precedent for how everyone in
research publishes and shares research. This is very good news and I will
look for an opportunity to collaborate in research and Wikidata content
curation.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:12 AM Stacy Allison-Cassin 
wrote:

> To echo everyone else, congratulations! These projects sound amazing and
> I'm really looking forward to the results.
> Stacy
>
> Stacy Allison-Cassin, MMus, MISt, PhD Cand.
>
> Associate Librarian
>
> York University Libraries
>
>
> *York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of
> many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by
> the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat,
> and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge
> the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
> This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant,
> an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.*
> --
> *From:* Wikidata  on behalf of John
> Andersson 
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:31 AM
> *To:* wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; g...@lists.wikimedia.org;
> cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch; wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org
> *Subject:* [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+
> in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year
>
>
> 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)73-3965

Re: [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

[Samuel Patton]

Congratulations! These initiatives look awesome. Well done on securing the
funding and subsidized office space.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:05 AM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing  :)
>
> On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, <
> john.anders...@wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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Re: [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

[Alex Stinson]

So many congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team! Its super exciting
the path you are going down with each of the projects! The movement is
going to benefit from that work.

Cheers,

Alex

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:05 AM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing  :)
>
> On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, <
> john.anders...@wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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Re: [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

[Samuel Klein]

Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing  :)

On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, 
wrote:

> 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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

[Fæ]

Congratulations and sincere thanks to all working hard behind the
scenes as well as those publicly fronting the projects to achieve
these successes.

For putting in lots of late evenings, perspiration and perseverance, well done.

Thanks,
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 10:31, John Andersson
 wrote:
>
> 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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Re: [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

[Biyanto Rebin]

Congratulations to WMSE and its community.
This is wonderful news.


Pada tanggal Kam, 28 Mar 2019 pukul 11.32 John Andersson <
john.anders...@wikimedia.se> menulis:

> 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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

[Asaf Bartov]

Wonderful news, John!  Congrats to WMSE and to all of us, who will benefit
from this work.

  A.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:31 PM John Andersson 
wrote:

> 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
>
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>
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>
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>
> Wikimedia Sverige
>
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>
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Re: [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

[Sydney Poore]

John, I'm thrilled to learn of the these project grants and the
accompanying funding. Congratulations to you and others involved in
securing this funding and the reduced cost for the office space.

This accomplishment should be celebrated far and wide because of the value
that it brings to the whole Wikimedia movement!

Sydney

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:31 AM John Andersson 
wrote:

> 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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Re: [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

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

Great news!
We can't wait to have the WikiSpeech application deployed, as the Basque 
language part is finished yet!

Cheers
Galder
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[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

[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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