Hello Nathan,
We talked in the same mailing list about a year ago as copied below but
never had a conversation. Do you still do Wikipedia stuff?
I just saw this New York Times article called The Geography of
Fame<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/opinion/sunday/the-geography-of-f…
was reminded about your proposal for Passing On, as I thought that the
data supporting one could support the other.
If you ever apply for Wikimedia
funding<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab>then let me know
and I will comment on your proposal. There is actually a
closing date for funding proposals at the end of this month. I think these
happen 2-3 times a year.
Also, if you are interested, you are welcome to attend and present at our
National United States WikiConference, a Wikipedia conference in NYC at the
end of May. <http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Main_Page>
CC'd on this email are my friends Jen and Bob. They were talking about
Geography of Fame, and I thought they might want to see your project also.
yours,
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>wrote;wrote:
Hello,
The German Wikipedia chapter is organizing the conference and their team
gives scholarships. The scholarship deadline was September 20, I think, but
perhaps there are other funding options. I recommend contacting them on the
conference's talk page.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference>
The process for getting funding for any Wikimedia conference is generally
a culture check - you demonstrate somehow that you are part of the
Wikimedia community - and then propose an idea and get community support.
Being part of the community is a big part of this because huge numbers of
outsides send advice into the community without understanding anything
about how Wikipedia works, and the community simply does not respond to
such requests because nothing comes of them.
I tried your interface and it is really cool. Other people should check it
out. You have lots of options for soliciting other community support but I
would be happy to help you interface with the Wikipedia community as you
like. To start I have the following advice:
1. Identify your Wikipedia username when talking to Wikipedians
2. post to relevant Wikiprojects
3. post to the Idea Lab, which is the grants forum
4. post to conference organizers, such as the diversity conference
5. subscribe to relevant mailing lists, in your case probably gender
gap
6. get an affiliation with a Wikimedia chapter in a relevant country
Thoughts?
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM, J. Nathan Matias <natematias(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi everyone!
I was told that I should write to this list with questions about finding
a scholarship for funding to attend the Wikimedia Diversity conference.
I'm a PhD student at MIT and have been designing ways to use gender data
to crowdsource greater participation in expanding Wikipedia's coverage of
women. This early prototype <http://passingon.followbias.com>, for
example, uses data about women in 20 years of New York Times obituaries.
Users can read about those women and check to see if they're in Wikipedia.
As readers explore, their micro-actions are pooled into a dataset of
resources that can be used to create stub articles for notable people.
In the long term, it should be possible to connect with other data
sources in archives and newspapers in ways that bring new editors into
Wikipedia.
Think of it as a precursor to a Wiki Loves Monuments for diversity. I
have applied to the conference in hopes that my work on data could support
such an initiative.
1. What's the process for getting funding?
2. Who should I try to team up with on this effort
Thanks!
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