[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

[Tanveer Hasan]

Dear Wikimedians,

On behalf of the Community Resources Team, I want to share some updates
regarding the Regional Grant Committees.

We have received many great applications from Wikimedians across the globe
and are excited to move to the next steps in the process.

We have extended the deadline to apply for regional committees till 12 July
2021. As we have received a number of requests for more time to send in
applications.

The Community Resources team will be organising the first round of
orientation and training meetings for Regional Grants Committee members
during mid July 2021. Based on the current size and composition of the
committees and input of the committee members we will invite some
additional members to complement the existing skills and fill in the
missing expertise.

Please apply and encourage Wikimedians from your communities to apply to
the Regional Grant Committees.

We hope to see you during the office hours being organised across the
regions. Timing and other details regarding the office hours can be found
here [1].

Regards,

Tanveer Hasan

[1].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Get_involved#Office_hours

ಬುಧ, ಮೇ 26, 2021 ರಂದು 03:18 ಪೂರ್ವಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <
fdevou...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

> Hello Tanveer
>
>
> Thank you for those answers.
>
> Some questions have been moved to meta as suggested, but have not received
> any answer yet. Can you please have a look ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Florence
>
>
> Le 21/05/2021 à 19:12, Tanveer Hasan a écrit :
>
> Hi Florence,
>
> I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to your
> questions on the discussion page of the Community Resources/Grants
> Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021>.
> We are doing this (responding on discussion page) because of the importance
> of the questions that you have raised and hope that the questions and
> responses would be of help to other community members as well. We request
> community members to post their questions directly on the discussion page.
>
> Regards,
>
> P.S: CR team is going to be copy pasting all the questions raised here on
> the mailing list on the discussion page of the Grants Strategy Relaunch for
> the sake of continuity and having the option to translate questions and
> responses in multiple languages for the benefit of other community members.
> Please allow us a little time to respond to the questions that have
> already been raised in this email thread.
>
> ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <
> fdevou...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:
>
>> Hello Julia
>>
>>
>> I apology if I missed a step at some point.
>> In this application, I read that
>>
>> "All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease
>> to function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the
>> Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We strongly encourage
>> current and former committee members to apply to be part of the regional
>> committees."
>>
>> So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by the
>> Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated committees ?
>>
>> Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to address
>> their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the future ? (september
>> in some cases)
>>
>> To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those groups who
>> are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to pick up a region of
>> their choice and consider themselves attached to it, or will they be
>> appointed a region by default ?
>>
>> Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
>> 1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our current
>> situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
>> 2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on the
>> shoulders of those new regional committee members
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>>
>> Florence
>>
>>
>> Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19 situation
>> continues to affect many of us across the globe and our thoughts are with
>> everyone affected. We are also aware that there are several processes
>> currently in progress that demand volunteer time and we do not want to add
>> more work to anyone's plate.
>>
>> We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committ

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

[Tanveer Hasan]

Hi Florence,

I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to your
questions on the discussion page of the Community Resources/Grants Strategy
Relaunch 2020-2021
.
We are doing this (responding on discussion page) because of the importance
of the questions that you have raised and hope that the questions and
responses would be of help to other community members as well. We request
community members to post their questions directly on the discussion page.

Regards,

P.S: CR team is going to be copy pasting all the questions raised here on
the mailing list on the discussion page of the Grants Strategy Relaunch for
the sake of continuity and having the option to translate questions and
responses in multiple languages for the benefit of other community members.
Please allow us a little time to respond to the questions that have
already been raised in this email thread.

ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <
fdevou...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

> Hello Julia
>
>
> I apology if I missed a step at some point.
> In this application, I read that
>
> "All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease to
> function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the
> Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We strongly encourage
> current and former committee members to apply to be part of the regional
> committees."
>
> So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by the
> Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated committees ?
>
> Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to address
> their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the future ? (september
> in some cases)
>
> To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those groups who
> are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to pick up a region of
> their choice and consider themselves attached to it, or will they be
> appointed a region by default ?
>
> Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
> 1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our current
> situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
> 2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on the
> shoulders of those new regional committee members
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Florence
>
>
> Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
>
> We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19 situation
> continues to affect many of us across the globe and our thoughts are with
> everyone affected. We are also aware that there are several processes
> currently in progress that demand volunteer time and we do not want to add
> more work to anyone's plate.
>
> We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees for
> Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an active say in
> the future of our Movement!
>
> 📣 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees for Grants!
> 📣
>
> We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part of the
> new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources team is setting up
> as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1]. You will be a key strategic
> thought partner to help understand the complexities of any region, provide
> knowledge and expertise to applicants, to support successful movement
> activities, and make funding decisions for grant applications in the region.
>
> 👉Find out more on meta [2].
>
> Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:
>
>- Middle East and Africa
>- SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
>the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
>- East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
>- Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
>- United States and Canada
>- Northern and Western Europe
>- Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
>
> 👉All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found on meta
> [4]. Applications have to be submitted by *June 4, 2021*!
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta discussion page
> [5].
>
> Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
> Best wishes,
> Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Regional_Committees
> [3] https://www.saarc-sec.org/index.php/about-saarc/about-saarc
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Regional_Committees#How_to_apply
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
>
> --
> *Julia Brungs*
> Senior Community Relations Specialist
> Wikimedia Foundation 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

[Tanveer Hasan]

Hi Florence,

I am responding on behalf of the Community Resources Team. Thank you very
much for your questions. Please allow us a little time to respond to these
questions. In the meanwhile, I want to assure you that the CR team would be
providing all kinds of support to the grantees during this period of
transition.

Regards,

ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard <
fdevou...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

> Hello Julia
>
>
> I apology if I missed a step at some point.
> In this application, I read that
>
> "All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease to
> function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the
> Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We strongly encourage
> current and former committee members to apply to be part of the regional
> committees."
>
> So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by the
> Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated committees ?
>
> Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to address
> their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the future ? (september
> in some cases)
>
> To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those groups who
> are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to pick up a region of
> their choice and consider themselves attached to it, or will they be
> appointed a region by default ?
>
> Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
> 1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our current
> situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
> 2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on the
> shoulders of those new regional committee members
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Florence
>
>
> Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
>
> We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19 situation
> continues to affect many of us across the globe and our thoughts are with
> everyone affected. We are also aware that there are several processes
> currently in progress that demand volunteer time and we do not want to add
> more work to anyone's plate.
>
> We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees for
> Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an active say in
> the future of our Movement!
>
> 📣 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees for Grants!
> 📣
>
> We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part of the
> new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources team is setting up
> as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1]. You will be a key strategic
> thought partner to help understand the complexities of any region, provide
> knowledge and expertise to applicants, to support successful movement
> activities, and make funding decisions for grant applications in the region.
>
> 👉Find out more on meta [2].
>
> Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:
>
>- Middle East and Africa
>- SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
>the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
>- East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
>- Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
>- United States and Canada
>- Northern and Western Europe
>- Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
>
> 👉All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found on meta
> [4]. Applications have to be submitted by *June 4, 2021*!
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta discussion page
> [5].
>
> Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
> Best wishes,
> Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Regional_Committees
> [3] https://www.saarc-sec.org/index.php/about-saarc/about-saarc
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Regional_Committees#How_to_apply
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
>
> --
> *Julia Brungs*
> Senior Community Relations Specialist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Tanveer Hasan]

Dear Wikimedians,



We (the community resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation) have been in
contact with colleagues from the Wikimedia movement in India and wanted to
share some of the preliminary outcomes of our discussions.



Firstly, we want to acknowledge the disastrous effect COVID-19 has had on
Wikimedia communities and its members across the movement. The COVID-19
pandemic has affected many of us in both direct and indirect ways.



As has been noted by others on this email chain, we all agree that
Wikimedia volunteers are the most valuable assets of our movement.  As
mentioned in the previous email, providing insurance support to Wikimedia
volunteers in India would not have been possible due to regulatory and
legal challenges. However, we are committed to provide other help and
service to ensure that the movement is supported.



As discussed on this chain, we feel that our partners are the best placed
to understand the needs locally and regionally. We are therefore working
with colleagues from India directly to provide practical help and support
to the movement there including access to vaccines, PPE kits, disseminating
knowledge and fighting misinformation. We will continue to partner with
them and others to establish criteria in line with our mission to support
the communities. These are exceptional times, indeed but together we will
be able to make a difference and support each other.



For any questions about this initiative please feel free to contact:
communityresour...@wikimedia.org



Regards,

On behalf of Community Resources Team,

Tanveer Hasan


ಗುರು, ಏಪ್ರಿ 22, 2021 ರಂದು 02:41 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

> Hi,
>
> COVID-19 has hit hard in India again making it the leading epicentre of
> the disease caused by the new mutated strains. The infection and death
> tolls have reached record high and the health system in different parts of
> the country is on the verge of collapse.
>
> Like other common people, many Wikimedians might have lost their jobs last
> year. Like last year, this year too, many volunteers have been infected and
> hospitalised. Some of them have lost their family members, relatives,
> friends and other dear ones.
>
> Volunteer online community is the heart of our movement and every
> dedicated, experienced and long-term volunteers are our most valuable
> asset. It is not at all exaggerating to say that many language Wikimedia
> projects or WikiProjects are dependent completely on one (or two or
> three...) person's persistence to build it as a tall building from scratch
> and if we lose some of those people, those projects might totally stop
> forever. There are so many fantastic people in the movement who have been
> doing incredible work in their volunteer capacity for such a long time
> (sometimes more than a decade) to make what Wikimedia is today.
>
> I would like to urge people with power and money in the movement to find a
> way to protect these assets. We not only cannot afford to lose them, but
> also need to proactively protect them. Maybe a small step to provide
> personal or family COVID-19 insurance might help a lot. Maybe sending money
> to buy COVID-19 vaccines might save some of them. Who knows?
>
> If we can spend millions of dollars for conferences or a couple of hundred
> thousand dollars to celebrate 20 years of Wikipedia during Wikimania, can
> we not spend a few thousand dollars to protect at least some of the people
> around the globe to some extent who made it possible to turn Wikipedia into
> its 20th birthday?
>
> Disclaimer: I had tried to convince the grants team from my personal
> capacity last year when COVID-19 was spreading rapidly in India but was
> denied due to their legal concerns regarding insurance registration as
> well as settlement and liability issues. Few others tried to convince them
> too but failed. I am reaching out to the community to start a conversation
> this time and find a way together.
>
> I am sorry for my long mail. I could not help it.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Handbook

[Tanveer Hasan]

Hi All,

CIS-A2K team will be extremely glad to support (intellectually and
otherwise) any efforts to localise this handbook. The book can be
relicensed under CC0 as well it that is of help (CIS-A2K team holds the
rights to finalised text version)

On behalf of the A2K team,
Tanveer Hasan AK

ಶುಕ್ರ, ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂ 14, 2018 ರಂದು 06:30 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

> Hi Mathieu,
>
> I have no problem re-licensing the book at all. I assume, Ananth will
> confirm soon from his part. He also assured me that he will start working
> on the meta version soon.
>
> I was responsible for creating the draft of the handbook and I have the
> draft text version with me. I guess, the finalized text version is with
> Ananth as he did the rest of the work of designing and finalizing the
> handbook. I guess, he will share the text version soon, so that it can be
> translated into other languages, including Indic languages.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 18:00, mathieu lovato stumpf guntz <
> psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey Peter, thank you for the incitive to go on.
> >
> > Actually, I didn't watched the license before, but it's CC-by-sa-4.0, so
> > as it is, I couldn't copy/paste it into a Wikimedia wiki, as most of
> > them are CC-by-3.0, and the other licenses used on some wiki are even
> > less possibly compatible. I have little doubt Ananth and Bodhisattwa
> > will grant us persmission to also publish the document under the
> > CC-by-sa-3.0, but we still need their consent.
> >
> > More importantly, my implicit questioning was "were could I find the
> > original working document of from which this PDF was generated from?".
> > Sure we can always make copy/paste from the PDF, but having the working
> > document is often far more useful as a base to wikify.
> >
> > Thank you again to Ananth and Bodhisattwa for the document, I hope we
> > will be able to make a wiki version together, and thank you Peter for
> > pointing the license issue and the lake of explicit demand for the
> > working document.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > Le 14/09/2018 à 13:53, Peter Southwood a écrit :
> > > It is CC-by-sa. Of course you can.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > Behalf Of mathieu lovato stumpf guntz
> > > Sent: 14 September 2018 10:25
> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Ananth Subray;
> > wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Handbook
> > >
> > > Great, thank you.
> > >
> > > Could we also launch a Wiki version that would allow localizations, for
> > > example on Meta or Wikibooks?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 11/09/2018 à 20:25, Ananth Subray a écrit :
> > >> Dear All,
> > >>
> > >> We all know that Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects.
> > We
> > >> are getting many new editors and new books to Indic language
> > Wikisource's.
> > >> At the same time, we even noticed that there are many problems faced
> by
> > the
> > >> new editors and a few of the existing editors.  To help all of the
> > editors
> > >> we have created a Handbook titled as *Wikisource Handbook for Indic
> > >> communities
> > >> <
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Handbook_for_Indian_Communities.pdf
> > >.
> > >> *Which is now available[1] to everyone to make the best use of it. I
> > >> request everyone to share this with all those who are in need of
> > support in
> > >> editing Wikisource.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Authors of the book: Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P V.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> [1].
> > >>
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Handbook_for_Indian_Communities.pdf
> > >>
> > >> Thanks and Regards,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
> > >>
> > >> Programme Associate
> > >>
> > >> Access to Knowledge program
> > >>
> > >> The Centre for Internet & Society
> > >>
> > >> +91-9739811664
> > >> ___
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