Hi all,
In the latest round of Individual Engagement Grants
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>, 28 eligible proposals were
submitted for review. The committee recommended 8 for funding, with 9
grantees selected to receive $87,332 overall. WMF has now approved all 8
grants. Here’s what we’re funding.[1]
Online Community Organizing - 2 projects funded
* Health images for all
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Health_images_for_all>:
User:CFCF <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CFCF>, a veteran Individual
Engagement grantee from Medicine Translation Project Community Organizing
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Community_Organizing>,
will return to IEG to coordinate a multi-strategy initiative to bring
quality medical images to Wikipedia across many languages.[2][3][4]
* Effective Engagement with Health Topic Experts using Guided Checklists
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_Health_Topic_Experts_using_Guided_Checklists>
:
This project will create infrastructure to make it easier for health
specialists to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia. Through interviews
and research, User:FloNight
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight> will
develop a robust health topic quality checklist that medical experts would
use to guide their review of health content on Wikipedia, directing them to
make high quality edits. [5][6]
Tools - 6 projects funded
* Improve ‘Upload to Commons’ Android App
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_Android_App>
:
This project will further enhance ‘Upload to Commons
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/25/categorizing-commons-android-photos-easier/>,’
making the Android app more user-friendly by improving categorization tools
and providing tutorials to help new users create more useful content for
Commons.[7][8]
* Enhance the ProveIt gadget
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Enhance_the_ProveIt_gadget>:
The ProveIt gadget is a reference manager that creates a visual interface
for easily adding and editing references to a Wikipedia article. This
project will optimise the gadget by connecting it with Wikidata to allow
for autocompletion of references with existing data.[9]
* Alt text tools:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools>Alternative
texts provide in-context descriptions of images to increase accessibility
for vision-impaired users. This project would create a collection of tools
to allow volunteers to efficiently add and improve text alternatives on
English Wikipedia.[10]
* A graphical and interactive etymology dictionary based on Wiktionary
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary>
:
This project will extract etymological relationships from Wiktionary to
build a database designed for integration into Wikidata. The database will
allow extraction of interesting information like how pronunciations or
semantics evolved through time across etymological trees and across
languages.[11]
* Wikiscan Multi-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikiscan_multi-wiki>:
This project will expand the Wikiscan site <http://fr.wikiscan.org/>,
currently focused on French Wikipedia, to include all Wikimedia wikis with
more than 100,000 edits. It will provide many daily-updated statistics,
such as most active pages and users for each day and month since a project
was created.[12][13]
* Lua libs for behavior-driven development
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Lua_libs_for_behavior-driven_development>
:
This project will create an extension to support testing of Lua-modules in a
behavior-driven development
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:behavior-driven_development> style using
spec-like tests.[14]
More information about this round will be covered shortly on the Wikimedia
Foundation blog.
The open call for Project Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>, which will replace IEG in
the next round, is scheduled for 1 July-2 August, 2016.[15]
Congratulations to the successful grantees!
1.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
2.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Health_images_for_all>
3.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CFCF>
4.
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Com…
5.
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_He…
6.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight>
7.
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_…
8.
<
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/25/categorizing-commons-android-photos-ea…
9.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Enhance_the_ProveIt_gadget>
10.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools>
11.
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etym…
12.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikiscan_multi-wiki>
13.
<http://fr.wikiscan.org/>
14.
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Lua_libs_for_behavior-driven_dev…
15.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
*Marti JohnsonProgram Officer*
*Individual Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
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