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 *Xavier Cailleau* Chargé de mission partenariats et GLAM Partnerships and GLAM project manager *Tél +33 <%2B33%206%2078%2025%2056%2028>** 7 62 93 42 02 <%2B33%206%2078%2025%2056%2028>* *------------------------------------------------------------* *WIKIMEDIA FRANCE* Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/> * *40 rue de clery, **75002 Paris* <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683> * <https://dons.wikimedia.fr/adhesion/~mon-don/?cid=3> <http://dons.wikimedia.fr>* Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 14:04, Sydney Poore <spo...@wikimedia.org> 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 > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Sydney Poore (she/her) > Strategist, Community health > Wikimedia Foundation > Trust and Safety team; > Anti-harassment tools team > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>