Hello all, As a reminder, the microgrant program proposed by Wikimedia Deutschland to support Wikidata birthday events is still running. You can apply until September 1st at 23:59 UTC. You'll find all the relevant information on this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event/Funding>, feel free to reach out to me if you have any question or issue.
If you know Wikidata groups who may need support to organize a birthday celebration event, feel free to share this message with them! We are also running organizers calls <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event/Funding#Get_support_and_office_hours> to answer questions about organizing events and grants. The next one is taking place on August 28th at 18:00 UTC. Feel free to join if you have questions or would like to share your event plans with other organizers. Best, Léa On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 at 09:59, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix_...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello all, > > Every year, the month of October is dedicated to celebrating Wikidata’s > birthday, as our favorite Wikimedia project went live on October 29th, > 2012. Since then, we’ve been celebrating together the achievements of the > community, bringing together active editors and newcomers, and taking > this opportunity to do outreach and bring more people onboard. > > This year, for Wikidata’s 12th birthday, we would love to see many > decentralized community events taking place all around the world in October > and November. > > Whether you are involved in a local chapter or user group, or in touch > with another organization that could organize an event, or simply > interested in connecting with other Wikidata editors, we invite you to > start thinking about organizing a Wikidata birthday event in the upcoming > months! > > On the Twelfth Birthday page > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday>, you will find > more information about the birthday and how to organize an event. > > Wikidata birthday decentralized events are organized by local groups > within the Wikidata community, onsite as well as online. They can take many > forms and can be adapted to the wishes, languages, favorite topics and > interests of the local group. It can be for example: > > - > > A meetup / get together with your local/regional community to share a > piece of birthday cake ; > - > > An online editing campaign to improve Wikidata together on a specific > topic ; > - > > A moment dedicated to celebrating Wikidata’s birthday during a > Wikimedia conference ; > - > > A “translathon” to improve the labels of Wikidata in your language ; > - > > A workshop in a library or university to get more people aware of > Wikidata ; > - > > A livestream presentation to showcase interesting tools ; > - > > …and many other things! > > > On the How to run an event page > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event>, > you will find many other examples of events, and you can take inspiration > from the past years and what other people have been organizing. > > You will also find a communication kit with visuals that you can use to > communicate about your event, and instructions on how to add your event to > the global schedule. > > If you are planning an event for Wikidata’s birthday, you may need some > financial support in order to run the event smoothly. On the Funding page > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event/Funding>, > you will find some useful information about how to get funding, to help > your participants join or to provide equipment or refreshments. > > What is new this year: Wikimedia Deutschland will run an experiment on > providing microgrants to fund projects related to the Wikidata birthday. > These grants, of a maximum amount of 1,000€, will be provided to the > selected projects after an application process that is running until > September 1st. You also have the option to ask for WMF’s Rapid Fund if the > amount or eligibility criteria work better for you. You will find all the > information about how to apply and what to prepare on the Funding page > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event/Funding> > . > > If you are interested in organizing an event, we strongly encourage you to do > it together with other people. We suggest that you reach out to your > local affiliate to get logistical and communication support, or to other > Wikidata editors who share similar interests, for example your favorite > WikiProject. > > You are also very welcome to join the Wikidata Events Telegram group > <https://t.me/joinchat/HGjGexK8LA2wJZEk1x1p_A>, in which you will find > other community organizers who have been running events in the past and can > answer your questions or provide inspiration. On top of that, we are > running organizers office hours > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event#Connect_with_organizers> > from July to October: you can join these online meetings to connect with > other organizers and ask questions to the coordination team. > > I’m looking forward to hearing about your Wikidata birthday events, and > I’m available at lea.lacroix_...@wikimedia.de if you have any questions. > > Best, > -- > Léa Lacroix > Community Engagement & Events Consultant > Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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