Posters

Wikimania Posters

Posters are here to help you share your project and recruit new volunteers at Wikimania 2016 - and beyond! These posters will be printed at Wikimania 2016, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations. We hope seeing these will help showcase the breadth of activity within Wikimedia - and hopefully even most community members will find something they've never heard of before!

This initiative is produced in collaboration with Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Italia, following an idea of Wikimania in London, 2014.

Posters are particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers
Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.
Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____
Educational, GLAM, Outreach initiatives

All you need to do is fill in the template below, we'll do the rest - they'll be ready and waiting for you at Wikimania 2016.

Call is open and closes on March 30.

Template

Your contact details	If we need any clarification about your project - won't go in the poster.
Project name
Short description	50 words. Must be intelligible to non-Wikimedians.
Longer description	150 words. Why should they help? How can they get involved? Should include key links.
3 milestones	The 3 best things or key elements of this project
Logo	(image from Commons, ideally in svg, if not at least 800px width by 500px height)
Optional other image	(image from Commons)
Primary webpage URL
Mailing List
Your name	Your name (or username): who to contact for this project?
Email contact	Email for primary contact/community manager/comms
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle

Copy the template below, enter your request in a new section.

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Final result example

Some examples of how to present a project

Requests for Posters

Wikiversità

Your contact details	User Samuele2002 talk page &
Project name	Wikiversità
Short description	Wikiversità è un progetto che ha lo scopo di creare e distribuire contenuti didattici e non rendendoli disponibili gratuitamente in modo da aiutare alunni docenti ma anche interessati a conoscere varie materia che vanno dalle canoniche come italiano, matetematica... a quelle non canoniche come scuola guida, chiunque può decidere di creare una nuova materia con delle lezioni anche se questa non è insegnata nelle scuole un esempio può essere la cucina e le varie ricette. Wikiversity is a project that aims to create and distribute educational content — making it available for free to help teachers, students, and people interested in learning about subjects ranging from those as canonical as English, and Maths ... to those as non-canonical as how to drive. Anyone can decide to create a new subject with a class, even for subjects not taught in school like cookery!
Longer description	Mentre offrire i testi in sé è compito di Wikisource (o, per la manualistica, di Wikibooks), la fruizione avviene in un contesto (percorso d'apprendimento) che rientra in un altro progetto: Wikiversità. Wikiversità nasce per offrire quell'approccio didattico, quindi progressivo, alle informazioni, che per esempio Wikipedia non può avere; il lettore ha la possibilità d'affrontare un argomento in base alle conoscenze di cui dispone. In concreto, Wikiversità in italiano si è data una struttura che tiene conto dei programmi scolastici italiani, con materiali didattici suddivisi per materia e destinati alle scuole dell'infanzia, primarie e secondarie di primo e secondo grado; è possibile trovare rapidamente gli argomenti che interessano a uno studente di prima superiore che frequenti, per esempio, l'Istituto professionale alberghiero. In ogni pagina di Wikiversità è possibile inserire collegamenti puntuali ai testi su Wikisource, permettendo a un alunno o a un insegnante (o a un lettore qualsiasi) di disporre della bibliografia tematica per uno specifico livello d'apprendimento e di accedere ai testi con un solo clic. Inversamente, partendo da un testo di Wikisource (o anche cartaceo), per contestualizzarlo in senso didattico il luogo adatto è Wikiversità, che accoglie tutti quegli apparati (introduzione, commenti, spiegazioni, notizie sull'autore, approfondimenti e cosí via) che ne accompagnano la fruizione. Si può dire che i progetti Wikimedia in cui i testi e la biblioteca che li accoglie non vengano vissuti come strutture a sé stanti, ma siano integrati in modo capillare, quasi pagina per pagina, nei percorsi di conoscenza di ognuno di noi; Wikiversità, in particolare, permette di farlo con un approccio graduale in base al livello d'apprendimento. Cosí ogni libro, ben distinto nella sua individualità, concorre a formare quell'unico grande libro che prende forma, accessibile a tutti, nell'ipertesto e nella rete. Wikiversità è strutturata in modo che ogni risorsa (cioè che comprende dalle lezioni ai quiz dai programmi alle esercitazioni...) sia ospitata in una materia che a sua volta è contenuta in un corso e in un area che sono contenuti nei dipartimenti. Questa gerarchia permette agli utenti di trovare immediatamente quello che cercano senza dover stare ore a cercarlo tra tutte le pagine del sito. While offering the texts itself is Wikisource task (or, for the manuals, Wikibooks), the fruition occurs in a context (learning path) that is part of another project: Wikiversity. Wikiversity is designed to offer a progressive educational approach, that Wikipedia can not have; the reader has the possibility to address a subject based on their own knowledge. In practice, Wikiversity in Italian gives itself a structure that takes into account the Italian school curriculum, with learning materials divided by subject matter and designed for all schools. You can quickly find topics of interest to a ninth-grade student, for instance. In every Wikiversity page, you can link the texts on Wikisource, allowing a student or a teacher to access the thematic bibliography for a specific level of learning and access to the texts with one click. Equally, Wikiversity can be used to contextualize a Wikisource text in a didactic way, making use of pedagogical devices like introduction, comments, explanations, author news, analysis and so on. It can be said that the Wikimedia projects in which the texts and the library that receives them are not experienced as stand alone structures, but are embedded in a capillary way, almost page by page, in the paths of knowledge of each of us; Wikiversity, in particular, supports this with a gradual approach based on the level of learning. So each book, distinct in its individuality, contributes to form that one great book that takes form, accessible to all, in the hypertext and the network. Wikiversity is structured so that each resource ( that is, it comprises from lessons to the quiz from the exercises programs ... ) is housed in a subject which in turn is contained in a course and in an area that are contained in the departments. This hierarchy allows users to instantly find what they want without having to spend hours looking for it among all the site's pages.
3 milestones	Lezioni Materie Risorse
Logo	[[File:\|250x250px]]
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://it.wikiversity.org/wiki/Pagina_principale
Mailing List
Your name	Samuele
Email contact	samuelemantani@gmail.com
IRC channel	#Telegram: https://telegram.me/itwikiversity^{https://telegram.me/itwikiversity connect}
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/Wikiversità-986457981441161/
Twitter handle

WikiProject Disability

Your contact details	en:User talk:Dodger67
Project name	WikiProject Disability
Short description	Please reuse the 2014 Leaflet - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Leaflets#/media/File:WikiProject_Disability_leaflet_front_copy.png - no content changes needed.
Longer description
3 milestones
Logo	[[File:\|250x250px]]
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disability
Mailing List
Your name
Email contact
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle

Ningún municipio de España sin foto / No Spanish municipality without a photo

Your contact details	19luis65@gmail.com
Project name	Ningún municipio de España sin foto / No Spanish municipality without a photo
Short description	All municipalities deserve a place in the World. And a place in Commons too! When we found that more than 2,000 Spanish municipalities had no image in Commons, we decided to do something about it.
Longer description	Many pictures are needed from places all around Spain. We need you to go and take those pictures. It could be the place you live, the place where you spend your holidays, even the place where you work. We have been able to add images of more than 500 places, but a lot more is still to be done. You can begin by visiting our page https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Ning%C3%BAn_municipio_espa%C3%B1ol_sin_fotograf%C3%ADa where you will find which areas don’t yet have a picture on Commons. By going to take these pictures you can also enjoy Spain off the beaten track. You will boldly go to places where no Wikimedian has gone before!
3 milestones	More than 500 new places have been added to Commons. Asturias the Basque Country and Murcia now have at least one photo of every municipality. La Guancha (Tenerife) is no longer illustrated with a picture of a mummified foot.
Logo
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL
Mailing List
Your name	B25es
Email contact	info@wikimedia.es
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle

Let's reduce the environmental impact of Wikipedia!

Your contact details	User:Gnom and User:Aubrey
Project name	Let's reduce the environmental impact of Wikipedia!
Short description	The environmental impact of Wikipedia is bigger than most people think. Let’s work together to reduce it and set an example for a sustainable Internet by using renewable energy for the Wikimedia Foundation’s data centres!
Longer description	Running one of the most popular websites in the world, the Wikimedia movement has a significant carbon footprint: Today, only one of the Wikimedia Foundation's data centres is powered by renewable energy and 81% of Wikipedia's energy still comes from coal, gas, and nuclear power. In 2015, Wikimedia received a "D" score in a report issued by Greenpeace, only passing because of its high energy transparency. Some commercial services such as Apple, Yahoo and Google scored far better. With our powerful brand, the Wikimedia movement can also show green leadership in the online sector even though it does not have a massive electricity load compared to other high-traffic sites like Google or Facebook. Please support this idea and share your thoughts on the “Environmental impact” page on Meta!
3 milestones	The Wikimedia Foundation should make a renewable energy commitment. The Wikimedia servers should be run by renewable energy. The Wikimedia Endowment should follow a green investment strategy.
Logo	[[File:\|250x250px]]
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact
Mailing List
Your name	Lukas Mezger and Andrea Zanni
Email contact	lukas.mezger@wikipedia.de; zanni.andrea84@gmail.com
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle	@lukasmezger; @aubreymcfato

StrepHit

Your contact details	Hjfocs
Project name	StrepHit
Short description	`StrepHit` is an Individual Engagement Grant project: it enhances the data quality of Wikidata by suggesting references to validate statements, and will help Wikidata become the gold-standard hub of the Open Data landscape.
Longer description	`StrepHit` is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline that harvests structured data from raw text and produces Wikidata statements with reference URLs from reliable sources.
3 milestones	Corpus of reliable Web sources NLP pipeline implementation Wikidata statements with references
Logo	[[File:\|250x250px]]
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References
Mailing List
Your name	Marco Fossati
Email contact	fossati@spaziodati.eu
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle	@hjfocs

Wiki Project Med Foundation

Your contact details	jmh649@gmail.com
Project name	Wiki Project Med Foundation
Short description	We strive to make clear, reliable, and comprehensive information on healthcare-related topics freely available to all people in the language of their choice
Longer description	We are a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects by, among other things, forming collaborations with other like-minded organizations, giving talks at universities and other organizations, and working to develop greater access for Wikipedians to the medical literature. While we are incorporated in New York State and tax exempt in the United States we are a global group. Our members seek to provide the sum of all medical knowledge to all people in their own language.
3 milestones	We are currently collaborating with the World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, and Cochrane We are working with Translators Without Borders, a few for-profit translation companies, and with Wikipedians to get more content into other languages. We have more than 140 members from 32 countries and we invite you to join us.
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Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
Mailing List
Your name	James Heilman
Email contact	jmh649@gmail.com
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle

Wikivoyage

Your contact details	en:voy:User:Seagull123 or en:voy:User:LtPowers
Project name	Wikivoyage
Short description	For travellers, by travellers: a multilingual, web-based project working to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide.
Longer description	Wikivoyage was founded in the spirit of sharing knowledge... the same spirit that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide. Unlike traditional travel guide books, where everything is copyrighted and based on a single person's one-time visit, Wikivoyage is entirely open content and constantly updated with new information. All you need is Internet access to write and make changes to Wikivoyage articles, even (or especially) while you're travelling! Wikivoyage's largest language projects are English, German, and French, but we have 14 other languages, too. You can help them grow and become the go-to source for travel information for the world!
3 milestones	The ability to print articles for offline use, or save them to your phone with the Wikivoyage Kiwix App so you can still use Wikivoyage without an internet connection. All our articles can be edited by anyone, so you don't have to have a fancy qualification to write for Wikivoyage. If you know something about your favourite destination, then you can just add it. Due to Wikivoyage's online nature, our articles can be constantly updated to reflect what's actually happening in a destination, not on one person's visit there five years ago.
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Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://www.wikivoyage.org/
Mailing List
Your name	Seagull123 or LtPowers
Email contact
IRC channel
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/wikivoyage.org/, https://www.facebook.com/itwikivoyage/ (ITA)
Twitter handle	@wikivoyage

WiBrugherio

Your contact details	Labaici
Project name	WiBrugherio
Short description	WiBrugherio is a GLAM it:project in collaboration with the municipality of Brugherio to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the city's foundation.
Longer description	On December 9, 2016 Brugherio is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the city's foundation. In view of this anniversary, the City Council has launched a project to promote awareness of Brugherio and its history; increase the visibility of its architectural heritage to the local community, to visitors and to tourists; create a digital archive, using the materials already stored in the history section of the local public library and mobilizing citizens to donate their information; stimulate the participation of local people in Wiki Loves Monuments; and create a virtual tourist guide using Wikivoyage and OpenStreetMap.
3 milestones	Improve or create Wikipedia articles about Brugherio, its history, monuments and celebrities. Connect Wikipedia entries with the main buildings and monuments in the city, using QRpedia codes. Create a virtual tourist guide using Wikivoyage and OpenStreetMap.
Logo	[[File: \|250x250px]]
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	Progetto WiBrugherio
Mailing List
Your name	Labaici
Email contact
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle

What's in Wikipedia?

Your contact details	en:User:Smallbones
Project name	What's in Wikipedia?
Short description	This is not what you expect, but it may be very interesting. It is a poster showing what article topics are in the English-language Wikipedia
Longer description	A sample of 1000 articles was classified to give info that is not otherwise easily available. It's part of a personal research project. Titles will be needed for the poster and a bit of explanation beneath the poster itself, but these will be easy. See webpage below.
3 milestones
Logo	[[File:\|250x250px]]
Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smallbones/1000_random_results
Mailing List
Your name	User:Smallbones
Email contact	pdekman@gmail.com
IRC channel
Facebook page
Twitter handle

Wiki Loves Africa

Your contact details	en:User:Anthere
Project name	Wiki Loves Africa
Short description	Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Longer description	Wiki Loves Africa particularly encourages participants to contribute media that illustrate a specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and could include any such universal, visually rich and culturally specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urban living, daily life, notable persons, etc). Wiki Loves Africa is a two-month competition. The project is run across the entire continent. However, we also have a network of national organisers who run specific local activities, e.g. training and communications. In 2014 and 2015, many activities were organized in Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa either by individuals or by Wikimedia Chapters and user groups. If you are interested in helping bridge the African Gap, join us for Wiki Loves Africa 2016 !
3 milestones	The theme for the 2014 photo contest was Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine. Over 6000 images were collected. The theme for the 2015 photo contest was Wiki Loves Africa Cultural Fashion and Adornment. Over 7000 images were collected.
Logo
Optional other image	Colors of africa.jpg
Primary webpage URL	http://www.wikilovesafrica.org
Mailing List
Your name	Florence Devouard, Isla Haddow-Flood
Email contact	fdevouard@anthere.org; Isla@wikiloveswomen.org
IRC channel
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/
Twitter handle	wikilovesafrica

Wiki Loves Africa

Your contact details	fr:User:Anthere
Project name	Wiki Loves Africa
Short description	Wiki Loves Africa est un concours imaginé pour partager la vie, l'environnement et les pratiques quotidiennes des africains avec tous les habitants de notre planète sur Wikipedia ou sur les autres sites de la Wikimedia Foundation.
Longer description	Les participants au concours Wiki Loves Africa sont invités à fournir photos, vidéos ou enregistrements audios au project Wikimedia Commons, pour usage sur Wikipedia ou sur les autres sites de la Wikimedia Foundation. Le concours offre chaque année un thème différent avec pour objectif de couvrir un thème universel, visuellement riche et spécifique d’un point de vue culturel (avec par exemple des marchés, rites, festivals, art public, cuisine, histoire naturelle, urbanisme, vie quotidienne, célébrités etc. ). Wiki Loves Africa est un concours qui se déroule sur 2 mois complets, à l'automne. Le concours concerne la totalité du continent africain. Mais des actions spécifiques sont menées dans certains pays (formation, communication à la presse, chasses photos...) avec des organisateurs locaux. En 2014 et 2015, de nombreuses actions ont été organisées en Tanzanie, Côte d'Ivoire, Tunisie, Egypte, Algérie, Cameroun, Ouganda, Nigéria, Ethiopie, Ghana, Malawi, Afrique du Sud soit par des wikipédiens isolés, ou par des membres de Wikimedia Chapters et Wikimedia User groups. Si vous êtes intéressé-e et souhaitez aider à réduire le fossé africain, rejoignez nous pour le concours Wiki Loves Africa 2016 !
3 milestones	Le thème du concours 2014 était Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine. Plus de 6000 images ont été collectées. Le thème du concours 2015 était Wiki Loves Africa Tenues et Parures Traditionnelles. Plus de 7000 images ont été collectées.
Logo
Optional other image	Colors of africa.jpg
Primary webpage URL	http://www.wikilovesafrica.org/fr
Mailing List
Your name	Florence Devouard; Isla Haddow-Flood
Email contact	fdevouard@anthere.org; Isla@wikiloveswomen.org
IRC channel
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/
Twitter handle	wikilovesafrica

Algerian Wikimedians UG AKA WikiDZ

Your contact details	fr:User:bachounda
Project name	Algerian Wikimedians UG AKA WikiDZ
Short description	Promote and raise awareness in Algeria of the many different projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is flowery field different color smell the whatever we want, wherever we want
Longer description	The Wikimedia Algeria User Group is a local User Group of the Wikimedia Foundation. Its mission is to promote Wikimedia projects in Algeria. One of its core roles is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or other licenses that allows everyone to freely use the knowledge, and to distribute and modify that content for free. مجموعة مستخدمي ويكيميديا الجزائر هي مجموعة مستخدمين محلية لمؤسسة ويكيميديا. وتتمثل مهمتها في التعريف بمؤسسة ويكيميديا ومشاريعها في الجزائر. واحدة من مهامها الأساسية، هو لمساعدة وتشجيع الناس على جمع وتطوير ونشر المعرفة وغيرها من المحتوى التعليمي والثقافي والتاريخي في المجال العام أو التراخيص الأخرى التي تسمح للجميع باستخدام المعرفة بحرية وتوزيع وتعديل المحتوى دون مقابل.
3 milestones	Promotion: Promotion of Wikimedia projects and Free content in general. To encourage the use of Wikimedia resources in education (at cultural centres, associations and Universities) Recruitment: To recruit contributors at Wikimedia projects. This may involve some presentations and workshops on the use of Mediawiki interface. Social: Organization of meetings, excursions to discover collaborative work and volunteering for everyone to enjoy the open knowledge
Logo
Optional other image	Algeria (orthographic projection).svg
Primary webpage URL	http://wikimedia-dz.org
Mailing List
Your name	Mohammed BACHOUNDA
Email contact	bachounda@gmail.com
IRC channel
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaDZ
Twitter handle	@Wikimediadz

Wikimedia Israel's education program

Your contact details	he:user:Shai-WMIL
Project name	Wikimedia Israel's education program
Short description	WMIL's education program involves hundreds of people: professors, teachers, students and volunteers who work in four languages across more than 20 academic courses and 25 classes of gifted students. Following its consistent success, the program is expected to grow significantly. We wish to outline the key reasons for its success.
Longer description	Wikimedia Israel's education program is based on general principles that can be applied in any Wikimedia education project. The program also includes a variety of unique and inspiring program models, for example: academic courses dedicated entirely to Wikimedia projects, programs focused on deepening the connection of students to local communities and environments, and projects that encourage students to write about pioneering women. Our goal is to promote an international educational dialogue: We invite the participants of Wikimania 2016 to learn about our education program and share with us their knowledge about other education projects in the movement. Here are some posts about our education program: Israel’s Ministry of Education & Wikimedia Israel Agree On New Initiative Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia An educators conference and online course Wikimedia Israel’s conference on Wikipedia in education
3 milestones	Understanding of the education system (structure, opportunities and constraints) Education-oriented training tools A strong volunteer base
Logo
Optional other image	Be'er Sheva Educational Initiative.jpg
Primary webpage URL	https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/Israel
Mailing List
Your name	Shai Katz
Email contact	shaiwikimedia.org.il
IRC channel
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIL
Twitter handle	@WikimediaIL (https://twitter.com/wikimediail?lang=he)

translatewiki.net

Your contact details	niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com
Project name	translatewiki.net
Short description	Translatewiki.net is the website where you can translate free software projects into hundreds of languages with an easy interface in your web browser. Translatewiki.net is a community of over a thousand translators and dozens software developers.
Longer description	Anyone with good grasp of their native language and understanding of English can participate: just sign up at the https://translatewiki.net main page and start translating. There are new pieces of text to translate every day, so do check back regularly. No language is ever fully translated. In each project, you can start by reviewing existing translations to get a feel of the style and vocabulary. When adding new projects, we make sure that they are free/open source software and that they have a robust community. Your translations will help millions of users and will forever enrich your language's speakers and software users. The people running the project have made translation as easy as possible. The translation interface has been re-done following designs by professional designer. Everything has been optimized for maximum speed without risking quality. The server is optimized to provide fast response times, the interface has keyboard shortcuts for quick access, context-relevant snippets, translation memory and and much information that helps to write the correct translation. Some projects at translatewiki.net employ so called continuous integration/continuous translation. This means that translations are brought to the users in a matter of hours or days, rather than months or years as is common in other projects.
3 milestones	We wave the flag of the best internationalization practices of the modern software industry; our committed translators in hundreds of languages help surface every language's specific needs. Our reactive community is able to expand language coverage quickly thanks to 350 monthly active translators who care about openness, translation quality, language equality and preservation. We serve MediaWiki translation since 2006 and contributed to its worldwide success. In 2015, we went from 17 to ~100 languages 99 % translated (as regards most used messages). http://laxstrom.name/blag/2015/05/09/14-more-languages-fully-translated-in-mediawiki-this-week/
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Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://translatewiki.net/
Mailing List
Your name	Niklas Laxström
Email contact	niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com
IRC channel	#mediawiki-i18n^connect
Facebook page	none
Twitter handle	nikerabbit, translatewiki

Wikitherapy

Your contact details	Saintfevrier
Project name	Wikitherapy
Short description	Most everyone has heard of art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy etc. and the role they play in facilitating personal growth and promoting mental health. What Wikitherapy aims to do is to help channel the creativity of individuals to the Wikimedia projects, to the same ends as therapy with the fine arts. The concept has been piloted successfully at a Mental Health Daycare Center for adults in Kefalonia, Greece.
Longer description	The Wikitherapy program aims to bring the Wikimedia projects into therapy settings and enable patients to add value to the Wikimedia projects, with added benefits to their self-esteem by participating in the largest open knowledge movement in the world. The results so far are encouraging: our team proudly includes a passionate Wiktionary editor and a Wikiquote enthusiast, while we have also used teamwork to create and/or expand Wikipedia articles of local interest. It has been a rewarding experience and we believe it can be taken even further — our accomplishments are communicated frequently on Facebook and Twitter, don't hesitate to reach out to us if you want to learn more!
3 milestones	raise awareness of people experiencing health disorders in local communities while simultaneously improving Wikimedia outreach by means of online and offline engagement activities; take the project to a broader level by introducing the Wikitherapy concept to hospitals and health institutions at a national level; develop a "Wikitherapy toolkit" with learnings, metrics and materials that could be adapted for use in global settings.
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Optional other image
Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikitherapy
Mailing List
Your name	Mina Theofilatou
Email contact	wikitherapy@gmail.com, saintfevrier@gmail.com
IRC channel
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/wikitherapy/
Twitter handle	@wikitherapy1

Wikipedia Primary School

Your contact details	User:Marta.pucciarelli
Project name	Wikipedia Primary School
Short description	Wikipedia Primary School: providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems. This is a project allowing students, families and teachers to find on Wikipedia the documentation necessary to obtain the primary school qualification in their country.
Longer description	Wikipedia is meant to be an educational tool and it is currently available online, via mobile phones and offline. Experience has shown that, once accessible, Wikipedia does not provide information that responds directly to curriculum-based questions. The project relies on Wikipedia as an existing and growing resource, it solves the need for an encyclopaedia capable of responding to curriculum-based questions, and it fosters Wikipedia content, quality and outreach. Wikipedia Primary School contributes to universal primary education and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG2: Achieve Universal Primary Education). Even if it is scalable and international, the project is conceived primarily to address African countries and languages. Article list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa/Wikipedia_Primary_School/Articles_list Wikipedia Scientific Journal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Scientific_Journal
3 milestones	Improvement of 100 articles related to the South African primary school curriculum Involvement of 5 scientific journals in the process of review Establishment and implementation of a Wikipedia Scientific Journal
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School
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Your name	Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator), Marta Pucciarelli, , Florence Devouard, Erica Litrenta, Tobias Schonwetter, Isla Haddow-Flood, Theresa Hume, Douglas Ian Scott. SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, University of Cape Town, Africa Centre, Wikimedia ZA, Wikimedia CH
Email contact	iolanda@pensa.it; marta.pucciarelli@supsi.ch; fdevouard@anthere.org; elitre82@gmail.com; tobias.schonwetter@uct.ac.za; isla@wikiloveswomen.org; theresa.hume@uct.ac.za; douglas.i.scott@gmail.com
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OCR4Wikisource

Your contact details	User:Bodhisattwa
Project name	OCR4Wikisource
Short description	OCR4Wikisource is a python script which automates the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process intended for Google-based OCR-supported language Wikisource projects.
Longer description	OCR4Wikisource is a recently developed python script, created collaboratively by a team of volunteers from different Indic Wikisource communities, from the dire need to overcome the practical difficulties faced, while manually using Google OCR to proofreading books. The simple idea of automating the process was first placed in 2015 Community Wishlist Survey and also discussed in the First International Wikisource Conference, 2015 in Vienna. The script can download a djvu or pdf file from Commons, split them into individual pages based on the number of columns, upload the file to Google Drive for OCR, download the Google-OCRed text and upload the text to respective pages of the file, thus reducing the wastage of precious time and energy needed for manual work. On January, 2016, the script was tested in different Indic Wikisource projects and from then Tamil and Bengali Wikisource community is utlizing it to the fullest. This script can be a game-changer for all the Google-based OCR-supported language Wikisource projects which are struggling due to lack of good quality OCR.
3 milestones	Around 300,000 pages were OCRed in Tamil Wikisource with this script from January to March, 2016. Around 300,000 pages were OCRed in Bengali Wikisource with this script from January to March, 2016. Tamil and Bengali Wikisource is now among the top 10 Wikisource projects with respect to Total page namespace parameter.
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Your name	T Shrinivasan, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Ravishankar A., Jayanta Nath, Thagaval Uzhavan, Sibi, Omshivaprakash H L, Srikanth L, Kartik Mistry
Email contact	tshrinivasan@gmail.com, bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com, ravishankar.ayyakkannu@gmail.com, jayantanth@gmail.com, tha.uzhavan@gmail.com, civil.sibi1@gmail.com, omshivaprakash@gmail.com, srik.lak@gmail.com, kartik.mistry@gmail.com
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Wikipedia for Peace

Your contact details	User:Shikeishu
Project name	Wikipedia for Peace
Short description	Wikipedia for Peace is an annual summer camp in Austria for writing and improving articles around topics of peace and justice. Participants come from many different countries and live a simple, sustainable lifestyle during the project.
Longer description	Wikimedia community projects can contribute to social change by improving articles on socio-political issues. Wikipedia for Peace took place for the first time in 2015 in Vienna and is a collaboration between Wikimedia Austria and the global peace organisation Service Civil International (SCI). In 2016 the camp will take place from August 10-21 with the focus on "environmental justice". Get in touch with us, if you want to contribute to the project or set up a similar camp!
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_Peace_2015
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Your name	Thomas Schallhart
Email contact	thomas.schallhart@gmx.at
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Enhancing the transmission speed of Wikipedia knowledge by Machine Translation

Your contact details	yanguoqing@gtcom.com.cn; socialmedia@gtcom.com.cn
Project name	Enhancing the transmission speed of Wikipedia knowledge by Machine Translation
Short description	Today, Wikipedia has massive amounts of information. How to quickly translate the information to different languages is a big challenge faced by Wikipedia editors. YeeCloud Machine Translation Engine, integrated with Content Translation Tool, can help editors publish content in different languages in an efficient manner.
Longer description	Wikipedia knowledge available to a user is limited by the languages used to access it. Translation has been a common means to expand knowledge across languages in Wikipedia. YeeCloud is an integrated service ecosystem based on cloud computing and language big data that aims to provide smart language services to Internet users. YeeCloud Machine Translation Engine supports 32 languages and billions of corpora. It can be easily integrated with Wikipedia's Content Translation Tool and provide Machine Translation service to Internet users. Wikipedia developers are also able to use YeeCloud MT API freely. This can enhance the transmission speed of Wikipedia knowledge. Please visit http://www.yeecloud.com for more information.
3 milestones	YeeCloud MT supports 32 languages and billions of corpora. YeeCloud MT provides free service to Wikipedia users. YeeCloud MT is distributed in more than 100 countries.
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Your name	Allen
Email contact	yanguoqing@gtcom.com.cn
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/yeecloud
Twitter handle	@GTC_YeeCloud

Initiative GLAM Côte d'Ivoire

=== Initiative GLAM Côte d'Ivoire ===

Your contact details	Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
Project name	Initiative GLAM Côte d'Ivoire
Short description	Collaboration between GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) and Ivorian wikimedians/pedians in order to build on Ivorian and African knowledge.
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3 milestones	Selected by Libraries Without Barriers young leader program in 2015 Launching pilot with Goethe-Institut in February 2016, at Abidjan
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Your name	Donatien Kangah
Email contact	kanga@e-voir.net
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikimediaCi/
Twitter handle	@wikimedia_CIV

WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration

Your contact details	en:User talk:Oncenawhile
Project name	WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration
Short description	Known as the "world's most intractable conflict", much of the fighting has been over historical narratives. The two sides' histories hardly intertwine and respected scholars and journalists often disagree, presenting great challenges to wikipedia editors.
Longer description	As the world's primary open source publication on the topic, our encyclopaedia has the opportunity to become the subject's most balanced reference point, with a truly bilateral narrative. We would encourage anyone with an interest in the Middle East and a passion for neutrality to help. We can't guarantee that no-one will bite; long memories, deeply ingrained passions and a Mediterranean climate mean things can get hotheaded. But we promise that a persistent focus on clarity, neutrality and verifiability will leave contributors with the satisfaction of helping remove barriers between two peoples fact by fact, one at a time, perhaps equivalent to a "truth and reconciliation commission". Help us build a single encyclopaedic narrative, and mutual understanding and trust.
3 milestones	As Jimbo wrote in The Guardian: "Wikipedians have applied [our encyclopaedia's] collective, education-focused approach to one of the century’s most polarising political issues." The world's primary open source publication on the topic The opportunity to become the subject's most balanced reference point, with a truly bilateral narrative
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Your name	en:User talk:Oncenawhile
Email contact	Note (1): 2014 leaflet at [1] Note (2): The WikiProject was mentioned in a 2016 newspaper article written by Jimbo at [2]
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Iranian Wikimedians User Group

Your contact details	User:Darafsh
Project name	Iranian Wikimedians User Group
Short description	The Iranian Wikimedians User Group will be an independent group of Wikimedians, which will serve as the regional affiliate for Iran.
Longer description	Objectives and plans: Promotion of Wikimedia projects and free content in general. To encourage the use of Wikimedia resources in education (at cultural centers, associations and universities); Outreach work in schools, universities and by social media to tell people about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects; Edit-a-thons to help Wikipedians/Wikimedians to enrich content; Participation in different cultural events including Iran national books exhibition and more; Photography trips and upload-a-thons to teach users how to upload images to Commons and how to use them; Community support: monitoring of current activities and the development status of Iranian projects (including Persian, Mazandarani, Gilaki, Kurdish wikis); Wikipedia 10 Iran
3 milestones	Create a unique font for the Persian Wikipedia and its sister projects Monthly Edit-a-thons on the Farsi Wikipedia Participation in different nationwide or FOSS related conferences to represent WMF projects
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Primary webpage URL	www.WikimediaIran.ir
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Your name	Darafsh
Email contact	Darafsh_wiki@hotmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/wikimediairan/
Twitter handle	https://twitter.com/WikimediaIR

Wiki loves Parliaments

Wiki Loves Parliaments

Your contact details	User:Olaf Kosinsky
Project name	Wiki Loves Parliaments
Short description	Already successfully implemented in German and Austria, Wiki Loves Parliaments is a project in which photographers and Wikipedians gather in government buildings to photograph officials and create Wikipedia pages for them. A second aim of the group is to promote a positive image of the Wikimedia movement in government.
Longer description	Since 2009 Wikipedians have been visiting German and Austrian State Parliaments and the European Parliament to take photographs of their members. They have been made available under a free license on Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_loves_parliaments). They can be used in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects but also outside of Wikipedia - in compliance with the license conditions - for example by the Members of Parliament themselves. 23 such projects have been organised to date with thousands of pictures having been taken. After being discussed in the conference of German State Parliament directors, every parliament invited Wikipedia to visit and we have recently begun to take video statements from officials. We would like to continue with this success and spread our activity to other countries. If you own a camera or love democracy and think that Wikipedia should have articles on the people that represent you then please join us!
3 milestones	A joint project of writers, photographers and helpers A great project to represent Wikipedia in Real Life Creation of a network between Wikipedians and politicians
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Primary webpage URL	http://wikilovesparliaments.org
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Your name	Olaf Kosinsky
Email contact	olaf.kosinky@gmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesparliaments
Twitter handle	@WikiParliaments https://twitter.com/WikiParliaments

WikiProject ESD

Your contact details	User:Ainali
Project name	WikiProject ESD
Short description	This is a cross-project, cross-language Wikiproject for Education for Sustainable Development. It involves primarily Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikiversity (and of course Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata).
Longer description	This project aims to cover the broad topic on a range of Wikimedia projects. In Wikipedia the most important articles in the topic will be improved. In Wikibooks, OER's, how-to's and guides will be created. In Wikiversity there will be courses and other resources for teachers and educators. Wikimedia Commons will support all these with relevant media. Wikidata will tie all the articles together, and also make relevant information machine readable.
3 milestones	A portal has been setup on Meta to help coordinate the work. Existing resources are being identified and evaluated. Next big step is to identify what areas within the topic that are most important in order to be able to focus the work.
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Primary webpage URL	http://bit.ly/wikiprojectesd or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_ESD
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Your name	Jan Ainali
Email contact	janaina.li
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Twitter handle	jan_ainali

#1lib1ref

Your contact details	Alex Stinson astinson@wikimedia.org
Project name	#1lib1ref
Short description	#1lib1ref is a social media campaign first run on 15–23 January 2016. The campaign asked the libraries world to "Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia." The 2016 campaign generated 1500 edits and reached at least 15-20,000 people.
Longer description	The #1lib1ref campaign engaged global librarians in a conversation about how their profession can help Wikipedia’s global audience. By creating targeted messaging for the libraries community alongside a clear calls to action – “Add a reference to Wikipedia” – the hashtag spread through dozens of language communities helping librarians understand better the opportunities for library communities to participate in Wikipedia. Year one of the campaign was a successful pilot, but future campaigns require greater participations from local communities. We are looking for more organizers in more language communities and geographies to reach out to local library communities, and engage them on social media. Please learn more about the campaign at: https://1lib1ref.org If you are interested in being a program leader, please contact wikilibrary@wikimedia.org
3 milestones	The campaign page for #1lib1ref has been translated to 14 languages. Help spread the impact by translating! The campaign needs more organizers to strengthen outreach in languages around the world Join year two of the campaign in 2017!
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Your name	The Wikipedia Library Team
Email contact	wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org
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Twitter handle	@WikiLibrary

wikiidentities

Your contact details	marcmiquel in Catalan Wikipedia
Project name	wikiidentities
Short description	Wikiidentities is a project to reflect how identities are key to editor engagement and Wikipedia's topical coverage
Longer description	Unlike in most social network platforms, in Wikipedia editors are not encouraged to disclose personal traits, hobbies or affiliations. In fact, I think the identity issue has not been discussed enough. Since the project is dedicated to promote a common good, there is no content ownership, and the personal aspects become uncomfortable, or partly taboo. However, I believe that identity matters, in terms of building a Wikipedian reputation, and that editors' identities are tightly related to the content. As a Wikipedian, would you contribute equally if you couldn't choose the topics?
3 milestones	Disseminate research on the importance of identities in Wikipedia Visualize the existing cultural diversity in Wikipedia projects Generate ideas to develop tools for Wikipedians to enjoy free knowledge
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Your name	Marc Miquel
Email contact	marcmiquel at gmail.com, david.laniado at eurecat.org
IRC channel	#-^connect
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Twitter handle	@marcmiquel

Wikipedia Education Program Turkey

Your contact details	wmtr@wikimedia.community
Project name	Wikipedia Education Program Turkey
Short description	This program seeks to improve the number and quality of articles in the Turkish Wikipedia by encouraging the students and educators in academic institutions of Turkey to contribute the Turkish language edition of Wikipedia through classroom assignments and other online or offline activities.
Longer description	We would love to learn your experiences in organizing Wikipedia Education Programs in your area. Please let us hear your advises about how we could motivate the instructors and students to get involved or what are the most useful materials to develop wiki-writing skills of beginners. Experienced Turkish-speaking editors are always welcome to join our Wikipedia trainers and we also look forward to welcoming translators to help us translate Wikipedia Education materials to Turkish.
3 milestones	Recently founded Wikimedia Community User Grop Turkey has first worked on translating WEP training resources from English to Turkish. Since November 2015, we have worked with professors of Uludağ University Department of Psychology first for assigning Wikipedia articles in a graduate level course and then in an under-graduate level course. By this way, more than 100 students have received Wikipedia training in their own academic setting. We have supported the Wikipedia Art and Feminism 2016 event at Istanbul by providing Wikipedia training for event participants. We continue to have talks with professors from other higher education instutions in Turkey for organizing events in their settings for presenting the program.
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Primary webpage URL	https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/Turkey
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Your name	User:Basak
Email contact	wmtr@wikimedia.community
IRC channel	##wikimedia-tr^connect
Facebook page	/WikimediaTurkey
Twitter handle	/WikimediaTurkey

Wiki 4 Media Freedom

Your contact details	bona@balcanicaucaso.org; chiara.sighele@balcanicaucaso.org;
Project name	Wiki 4 Media Freedom
Short description	Citizens' right to information is crucial for democratic societies and it must be defended even in Europe, where media and journalists face threats and censorship on a daily basis preventing dissemination of undesired news. Wiki4MediaFreedom stimulates the dissemination of knowledge on media freedom and pluralism in Europe through Wikipedia. Join us!
Longer description	Wiki4MediaFreedom is a Glam initiative boosting the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom and pluralism in Europe. It incites knowledge dissemination in Wikipedia, as a first point of reference for many citizens, on a crucial aspect for our societies and democracies. The project builds on last year's work of the Wikipedian in Residence hosted by OBC within the ECPMF project, which created the series of Wikipedia articles on Media and Media Freedom in South East Europe based on the reports of different independent organisations as open-access and reliable sources. We welcome cooperation, original inputs and translations in languages other than English from people who are willing to contribute, learn and help disseminate relevant information on media freedom in Europe. An Edit-a-thon will be organized to connect with Wikipedians from many language versions. The Wiki4MediaFreedom team is willing to assist volunteers. Join us!
3 milestones	Channel the contribute of the Wiki community so as to enrich the information available on citizens' right to information, freedom of expression and media freedom in Europe Promote a transnational public debate on media freedom violations recorded in Europe making information available for citizens in their own languages Increase transparency of the media landscape and making it available at one-click distance from any internet user
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.rcmediafreedom.eu/Wiki-for-mediafreedom
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Your name	Marzia Bona; Chiara Sighele
Email contact	bona@balcanicaucaso.org; chiara.sighele@balcanicaucaso.org
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Twitter handle	Wiki4MediaFreedom

Donostiapedia

Your contact details	xabiercanas@gmail.com, aitzol_astigarraga@dss2016.eu
Project name	Donostiapedia
Short description	Donostia/San Sebastian's recognition as 2016 European Capital of Culture coincides with the fifteenth anniversary of Wikipedia. To mark the occasion, we will be turning Donostia into a wiki-city. How will we do this? By working together with citizen agents, creating and publishing articles about the history and culture of the city.
Longer description	Donostiapedia is a long-term project that begins during this Capital of Culture year and will turn Donostia into a wiki-city, by working together with citizens, creating and publishing articles about the history and culture of the city. Donostiapedia aims to link the knowledge of Wikipedia with citizens' and visitors' own experiences. The goal is therefore to harness all this collective knowledge about San Sebastian, starting from our local languages and then translating the articles into as many languages as possible. The project also sets out to boost the amount of Wikipedia content in Basque and increase and provide information on the city. To achieve the goals mentioned, we will define a series of specific activities. One of the most important is Theatry of peace, a 40x40 challenge and a edit-a-thon (8th July) based on art exhibition about peace, the main value of cultural project.
3 milestones	A "Book of Donostia/San Sebastian" will be published in three languages: Basque, Spanish and French. Challenge to wikify Theatry of peace exhibition with edit-a-thon 8^th July. GLAM and educational activities: three residents in GLAM institution in collaboration with Basque Country's University.
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Your name	Xabier Cañas
Email contact	xabier_canas@donostia.eus
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Wikispeech

Your contact details	john.anderssonwikimedia.se
Project name	Wikispeech
Short description	Wikispeech will make Wikipedia talk! An automatic text-to-speech solution integrated in MediaWiki let people struggling with reading Wikipedia access the information. Wikispeech will be scalable to all languages and crowdsourced, which mean that you can help to improve it in your language.
Longer description	Wikispeech is a project that aims to develop a crowdsourced text-to-speech extension for MediaWiki. This will make the information on Wikipedia accessible to a greater audience, such as people with visual impairments, dyslexia, that are illiterate or that learn better from listening. Initially a functioning solution for Swedish and English, and a working prototype for Arabic (to make sure that right-to-left languages also function properly), will be developed. With the help of interested parties and volunteers Wikispeech will be scalable to all language versions. You can contribute by correcting mispronunciations and with technical development. Through a pilot study we investigated what we need to develop and gathered a strong group of partners (with requests to join from half a dozen more universities and other organizations). To date external grants of around 450,000 USD have been secured for the development, mainly from the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority.
3 milestones	Create a scalable and flexible “wrapper” where existing open source text-to-speech solutions can be added and integrated into Wikispeech Add all existing material needed for Swedish, English and Arabic to function properly, and improve them as needed Integrate Wikispeech into MediaWiki, and onto Wikimedia Foundation servers
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Primary webpage URL	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
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Your name	John Andersson
Email contact	john.anderssonwikimedia.se
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Facebook page	#Wikispeech https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSverige/
Twitter handle	#Wikispeech @WikimediaSE

Wikidata

Your contact details	d:User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
Project name	Wikidata
Short description	Please reuse the leaflet at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiData_Leaflet_front_copy.png
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Wiki Women TLV

Your contact details	Tsipi Erann, he:user:TMagen
Project name	Wiki Women TLV
Short description	Wiki Women TLV is an initiative aimed at closing the gender gap in the Hebrew Wikipedia and beyond. Since late 2014, we have offered activities such as lectures, training, edit-a-thons, online support and awareness-raising through social media. Our success is showing!
Longer description	Wiki Women TLV has three main goals: Getting more women involved with editing Wikipedia, producing more content about women and women-related subjects, and eliminating gender bias in existing content. Challenge Though our Facebook group includes hundreds of members, and all our events are fully booked, the challenge remained: How do we get editors to “stick”? Most participants do not edit beyond the events they attend. Solution Focusing on qualitative contribution rather than quantitative. Or – investing more in smaller numbers of participants. Today, we are offering full 3-session courses/workshops to teach editing skills, along with online support for participants by volunteers through Facebook.
3 milestones	260+ new entries = Dozens of new images = Thousands of edits 20 meetups & events = 6 courses = 15 volunteers = 150 attendees And most importantly – growth to ~25% women editors of Hebrew Wikipedia!
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Primary webpage URL	https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99_%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D
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Your name	Tsipi Erann
Email contact	tsipi.eranngmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiWomen/
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#15Challenge writing contest

Your contact details	fdevouard@anthere.org
Project name	#15Challenge writing contest
Short description	15 days to create (at least) 15 biographies of notable African women
Longer description	On the 15th of January 2016, Wikipedia celebrated its 15 year anniversary. However ... even after 15 years, content about Africa in general, and African women in particular, is still limited on the world's largest source of knowledge. For this reason, the Wiki Loves Women team felt it was important to celebrate Wikipedia 15 by organising an online bilingual (English/French) writing contest #15Challenge Writing Contest to increase the number of notable African women that are covered on Wikipedia. The challenge was very successful, with 55 participants : 27 in English, 24 in French and 4 in Armenian. The contest resulted in the creation of 234 new biographies, 71 in English, 122 in French, and 41 in Armenien. The best article in English was about Malouma Mint El Meidah (Arabic: المعلومة منت الميداح‎, also simply Maalouma or Malouma; born October 1, 1960), a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician. The best article in French was about Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician (born 29 June 1952). Wiki Loves Women is a content liberation project related to Women in Africa. In 2016-2017, in collaboration with the Institut Goethe, the Wiki Loves Women project run in 4 countries, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
3 milestones	15th of January 2016 : Launch of the #15Challenge writing contest on French and English Wikipedias 30th of January 2016 : End of the #15Challenge writing contest on French and English Wikipedias 234 new biographies about African Women created in 15 days
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/15challenge-writing-contest/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Women/Writing_Contest
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Your name	Florence Devouard (u:anthere); Isla Haddow-Flood
Email contact	fdevouard@anthere.org; islahaddow@gmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen/
Twitter handle	wikiloveswomen

Concours d'écriture Wikipedia#15

Your contact details	fdevouard@anthere.org
Project name	Concours d'écriture Wikipedia#15
Short description	15 jours pour écrire (au moins) 15 biographies de femmes africaines notables
Longer description	Le 15 janvier 2016, Wikipedia célèbrait ses 15 ans d'existence. Mais... même en 15 ans... le contenu sur l'Afrique en général - et sur les femmes africaines en particulier - reste limité. D'où l'idée de célébrer les 15 ans de Wikipédia en organisant un concours d'écriture bilingue anglais/français visant à augmenter le nombre de biographies de femmes africaines notables. Ce concours coïncidait également avec le lancement du Projet Wiki Loves Women, un projet de libération de contenu relatif aux femmes dans 4 pays africains, la Côte d'Ivoire, le Ghana, le Cameroun et le Nigéria. Le projet Wiki Loves Women est géré en collaboration avec l'Institut Goethe. Le concours d'écriture fut un succès ! En 15 jours, 234 nouvelles biographies furent créées, 71 en anglais, 122 en français et 41 en arménien. Le meilleur article anglophone portait sur Maalouma Mint Mokhtar Ould Meidah (en arabe : المعلومة منت الميداح), née le 1er octobre 1960 à Mederdra, une chanteuse populaire et femme politique mauritanienne. Le meilleur article francophone portait sur Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, née le 29 juin 1952, une femme politique sud-africaine.
3 milestones	15 janvier 2016 : Lancement du concours d'écriture sur les Wikipedia francophones et anglophones 30 janvier 2016 : Fin du concours d'écriture 234 nouvelles biographies de femmes africaines rédigées en 15 jours
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/15challenge-writing-contest/ et https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wiki_Loves_Women/Concours_d%27écriture
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Your name	Florence Devouard (u:anthere); Isla Haddow-Flood
Email contact	fdevouard@anthere.org; islahaddow@gmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen/
Twitter handle	wikiloveswomen

Bot Academy

BotAcademy

Your contact details	andre.costawikimedia.se
Project name	BotAcademy
Short description	A bot is a program which runs with limited or no involvement of the user themself. Bots can be a great tool for experienced editors whether they want to detect spelling mistakes or creating complete articles. But getting started is always hard and this is where BotAcademy wants to help.
Longer description	BotAcademy is a workshop which Wikimedia Sweden has been running for two years which gives a practical introduction in how to use (ro)bots on the various Wikimedia projects. The aim is that participants feel confident enough to do (simpler) bot runs on their own after having attended the workshop. The workshops are aimed at active Wikimedia contributors who are already familiar with the rules and etiquette on their home wiki. By introducing a variety of tools and frameworks at various levels of technical difficulty we want to ensure that each participant finds a tool which helps them with their workflow. Flying participants to Sweden makes little sense in the long run though, instead we are looking for people interested in hosting local events and in creating online teaching materials so that more people feel confident enough to let bots help them make the Wikimedia projects better.
3 milestones	Each participant found a tool or framework which fitted them. More than 6000 bot assisted edits since the second workshop. 42 applicants from 19 countries for the 2015 workshop.
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Your name	André Costa
Email contact	andre.costawikimedia.se
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Facebook page	#BotAcademy https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSverige/
Twitter handle	#BotAcademy @WikimediaSE

Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative

Your contact details	Sydney Poore User:FloNight sydney.poore@gmail.com
Project name	Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative
Short description	An initiative to provide high quality, freely available health information to the world.
Longer description	The Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative is a collaboration between Cochrane and Wiki Project Med Foundation to create high quality, freely available health information.
3 milestones	To improve Wikipedia health articles with up to date evidence based health information from Cochrane Reviews and other high quality sources. To recruit and train health topic experts to contribute to Wikipedia. To provide Wikipedian with access to The Cochrane Library.
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration-Wikipedia_Initiative
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Your name	Sydney Poore
Email contact	Wikipedian@cochrane.org
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Wiki Loves Women

Your contact details	fdevouard@anthere.org
Project name	Wiki Loves Women
Short description	The Wiki Loves Women project bridges two significant gaps on Wikimedia projects – women and Africa – both in terms of content about these subjects and in terms of participation by people from these groups.
Longer description	Gender inequality is rife across Africa. Although much progress has been made to address these inequalities in the workplace and within society, there remains a systemic bias towards profiling men, especially with regards to information, news and knowledge, both online and offline. There are significant numbers of notable women who have shaped Africa's countries and societies, there are innovative business women who help to drive Africa’s many economies (formal and informal) and there are everyday realities that women and female children must face due to their gender. These stories need to sit alongside the ones of their male counterparts. Very few of these subjects can be found online, far fewer on the world’s largest knowledge repositories, such as Wikipedia. The Wiki Loves Women project addresses this bias. It is designed to leverage Wikipedia’s role as a global repository for the dissemination of information to achieve accessible and fair online representation of women in countries in Africa. The project works in four countries (Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria) to encourage the contribution of existing researched and verified information from Civil Society Organisations and Gender-equality groups to Wikipedia. The donated data and content will specifically focus on women’s contribution to the political, economic, scientific, cultural and heritage landscape, as well as the current socio-political status of women, in each country. In addition, the project will encourage the activation and support of new and existing editors (both female and gender-sensitised male Wikipedians) in the focus countries. Wiki Loves Women is a 15 month project, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, and is being managed by Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard.
3 milestones	January 2016 : launch of the Wiki Loves Women project April 2016: Kickstarter meeting in Johannesburg April 2017 : end of the project
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.wikiloveswomen.org
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Your name	Florence Devouard (u:anthere); Isla Haddow-Flood
Email contact	fdevouard@anthere.org; islahaddow@gmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen/
Twitter handle	wikiloveswomen

Wiki Loves Women

Your contact details	fdevouard@anthere.org
Project name	Wiki Loves Women
Short description	Emanciper des informations de qualité relatives aux femmes africaines et les publier sur Wikipedia pour les mettre à disposition du plus grand nombre.
Longer description	L'inégalité des genres est répandue dans toute l'Afrique. Bien que des progrès aient été observés dans le cadre des inégalités existantes au niveau de la vie familiale, de l’éducation, sur le lieu de travail, en politique, il existe toujours un biais systémique en faveur des hommes, en particulier en ce qui concerne l'information, les actualités, les sources de connaissances, la représentation dans les médias, à la fois en ligne et hors ligne. De nombreuses femmes africaines remarquables ont façonné le passé des sociétés africaines. Des femmes d’affaire innovantes ont aujourd’hui un rôle déterminant, qu’il soit formel ou informel, dans le développement économique, environnemental et social de l’Afrique actuelle. Et il existe des réalités quotidiennes auxquelles les femmes et les jeunes filles doivent faire face en raison à leur sexe. Ces récits doivent siéger aux côtés des récits qui portent sur leurs homologues masculins. Mais très peu de ces contenus peuvent être trouvés en ligne, même pas sur Wikipedia, qui est pourtant aujourd’hui l’une des plus importante sources d’information globale. Le projet Wiki Loves Women vise à émanciper et mettre largement à disposition du grand public du contenu culturel et éducatif sur les femmes ou en rapport avec les femmes, contenu déjà existant au sein d’organisations mais peu visible ou peu accessible. L’objectif du projet Wiki Loves Women est de participer à combler deux lacunes importantes observées sur l’encyclopédie libre Wikipedia et portant sur les femmes et sur l'Afrique. Ces lacunes existent à la fois en terme de contenu relatif à ces deux thématiques, mais aussi en terme de participation au niveau rédactionnel. Notre finalité est la lutte contre les inégalités existantes entre les hommes et les femmes sur le continent africain. Le projet Wiki Loves Women a été conçu dans le cadre du mouvement WikiAfrica par Florence Devouard et Isla Haddow-Flood. Ce projet d’une durée de 15 mois environ, organisé en collaboration avec l’Institut Goethe, se déroule en 2016 et 2017 dans quatre pays d’Afrique, le Ghana, le Cameroun, la Côte d'Ivoire et le Nigéria.
3 milestones	Janvier 2016 : lancement du projet Wiki Loves Women Avril 2016 : Kickstarter meeting, Johannesburg Avril 2017 : fin du projet
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.wikiloveswomen.org
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Your name	Florence Devouard (u:anthere); Isla Haddow-Flood
Email contact	fdevouard@anthere.org; islahaddow@gmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen/
Twitter handle	wikiloveswomen

Housetrails.org

Your contact details	info -at- housetrails.org
Project name	Housetrails.org
Short description	Housetrails.org will collect and provide information about the overall appearance of the locality, information about buildings and their stories, recent changes, etc.
Longer description	The goal of housetrails.org is to provide information about the overall appearance of the locality, information about buildings and their stories. This is not only about the most important buildings that are documented well in Wikipedia, this is also about everyday architecture of the past that still is present or gone recently. It should help getting a transparent overview of things happening in your city recently as well as causing curiousity and awareness about the buildings in your surrounding. The system is based on a semantic mediawiki, that allows people to create accounts and edit information like on every Mediawiki. But Map functions are enhanced and Wikicode is not needed since Semantic Forms are used. There is also an app for mobile devices that interacts with the Mediawiki API. The project started in the City of Graz where it is also known as Grazwiki. Most entries are in German language, but the project is open for other cities and languages now.
3 milestones	Improving mediawiki maps and semantic mediawiki maps plugins by adding AJAX support. Using Semantic Forms for better usability. Using the Mediawiki API for mobile app connectivity.
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.housetrails.org/
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Your name	Martin
Email contact	info -at- housetrails.org
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Tools for Tackling Personal Attacks, Harassment and Toxicity

Your contact details	nithum+wikimania@gmail.com
Project name	Tools for Tackling Personal Attacks, Harassment and Toxicity
Short description	Harassment and civility issues are a growing concern for the Wikimedia projects. With your help, we’d like to explore how machine learning tools could help Wikipedians increase community engagement by improving the tone of article and talk pages.
Longer description	Good discussion is important for the Wikimedia community and is challenged by harassment and toxic language, which reduce the quality of engagement. A recent survey by the Safety & Support team at the Wikimedia foundation has found that 38% of Wikimedia users directly experience harassment on the platform. Of those that experienced harassment, 4% stop contributing to the article or project they were involved with. This past year we have seen calls for machine learning based tools for dealing with this problem in a variety of forums, including Wikimedia-l, the enwiki Village Pump, the 2015 Harassment Consultation and the Community Wish List. We are interested in exploring how such tools could improve discussion. We are looking for volunteers to help us define and identify toxicity in article and talk pages and to work with us to design better tools to curate the tone of these pages. For more details about how to get involved, please check out our Research Page.
3 milestones	Comprehensive definitions of the types of harassment and toxicity that occur on Wikipedia A corpus of human labelled examples (and non-examples) of harassment and toxicity Machine learning models that can score different types of harassment and toxicity as they occur in Wikipedia revisions
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Modeling_Talk_Page_Abuse Research Page
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Your name	Nithum Thain
Email contact	nithum+wikimania@gmail.com
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Kiwix

Your contact details	kelson@kiwix.org
Project name	Kiwix
Short description	The whole human knowledge at hand, offline, wherever you go!
Longer description	Kiwix enables you to have Wikipedia and other content without access to Internet: everything is stored on your computer or smartphone! -- Kiwix is an offline reader for web content. It's software intended to make Wikipedia available without using the internet, but it is potentially suitable for all HTML content. Kiwix supports the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data. Kiwix is free software, which means you can freely copy, modify and distribute it. Kiwix is mostly installed in schools, universities and libraries which can't afford a broadband Internet access. It is much faster than the Internet and also can be used by many institutions to save bandwidth and reader's time. But many people use Kiwix for their own personal purposes, for example, of people suffering from censorship or prisoners. Kiwix is really easy to use. It provides a range of features which make usage comfortable: Full text search engine Bookmarks & Notes HTTP server PDF/HTML export User interface in more than 100 languages Tabs navigation Integrated content manager and downloader Kiwix is small and efficient software, usable on lower powered or old computers. It runs on a large range of operating systems, on Android and on the three main PC operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and GNU/Linux distributions.
3 milestones	Windows, OSX, Linux, Android, iOS Many thousands content Feature-rich and server softwares
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Primary webpage URL	www.kiwix.org
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Your name	Emmanuel Engelhart [Kelson]
Email contact	contact@kiwix.org
IRC channel	##kiwix^connect
Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/KiwixOffline
Twitter handle	https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline

Flemish museums on Wikidata

Your contact details	Spinster
Project name	Flemish museums on Wikidata
Short description	Eight major Flemish museums and art collections have made their metadata available via Wikidata. Why did they do this, how was this done, and what are the results and the potential?
Longer description	In the project Flemish art collections, Wikidata and Linked Open Data, a group of Flemish museums and art collections have published metadata of their art collections (estimated: 25,000 artworks in total) on Wikidata, and have thus made this dataset available as Linked Open Data (LOD). In this way, the information about the artworks can be enriched on Wikidata. This project is a first encounter of the participating art collections with the community of Wikimedia volunteers. The project partners investigate whether the free infrastructure, provided by Wikidata, can be used by museums: to realize their open data strategies, and to publish their collection data as Linked Open Data without needing high IT investments.
3 milestones	More than 25,000 Flemish artworks are now available via Wikidata.
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Primary webpage URL	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_and_Linked_Open_Data
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Your name	Sandra Fauconnier
Email contact	sandra.fauconniergmail.com
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Twitter handle	@sanseveria

Connected Open Heritage

Your contact details	John Andersson (Wikimedia Sweden)
Project name	Connected Open Heritage
Short description	"The greatest threat towards the cultural heritage is lack of knowledge and disinterest. The best way to protect the cultural heritage is therefore knowledge and information that is easy to find and free” — Lars Amréus, Director-General of the National Heritage Board of Sweden. Connected Open Heritage will do that.
Longer description	In partnership with UNESCO, Wikimedia Italia, and other organisations, Wikimedia Sverige will work to connect the world’s immovable cultural heritage data on Wikidata, building on the extraordinary work done by volunteers globally. With your help, we will add more data from countries where cultural heritage is at risk, allowing information to be more easily integrated on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. This will spark awareness and interest to save the world's cultural heritage. Here’s how you can help out: Find relevant GLAM partners in one of the target countries - we will do the batch upload. Categorize media and improve the metadata. Share news about the project. Tell us about relevant events and conferences (globally). Establish the mappings between the current WLM data and Wikidata properties/entities by participating in WikiProject WLM and WikiProject Cultural heritage. Translate and localize material relevant to the project.
3 milestones	Data from ten countries where cultural heritage is at risk is added. Wiki Loves Monuments database is available on Wikidata. 100,000+ images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage
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Your name	John Andersson (Wikimedia Sweden)
Email contact	john.anderssonwikimedia.se
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Twitter handle	#openheritage #glamwiki @WikimediaSE

WikiToLearn

Your contact details	Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo@kde.org>
Project name	WikiToLearn
Short description	We want to change the way educational content is created, refined and consumed by students, professors and learners in general. We want to create a community of users and creators of knowledge, involving the greatest minds and the top educational and research institutions. This is what we do, at WikiToLearn.
Longer description	The KDE community has always strongly believed in openness, in free and open source software. Today, we’re taking this mission one step further, by bringing openness to the most important intellectual production of humanity: knowledge itself. And we’re not doing it alone, but with the help of institutions and professors all around the globe. WikiToLearn is an open platform where students, researchers and key people in the academia can create and refine notes and text books, tailored precisely to their needs, giving them the power to customize the teaching beyond what traditional textbooks allow. Our philosophy is inspired from the very foundation of how science works. We believe that “Knowledge only grows if shared” and we want learners to “Stand on the shoulder of giants!” Join thousands of students and professors around the world! Get in touch with the team on: http://join.wikitolearn.org
3 milestones	Direct involvement of the top educational and research institutions Beautiful PDF generation for serious printing and studying Exponentially growing community
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Your name	Riccardo Iaconelli
Email contact	infowikitolearn.org
IRC channel	##wikitolearn^connect
Facebook page	Wiki To Learn
Twitter handle	WikiToLearn

Reviving the Hebrew Wiktionary

Your contact details	he:user:Ariel1024, omriwikimedia.org.il
Project name	Reviving the Hebrew Wiktionary
Short description	In 2009, the Hebrew Wiktionary project became dormant with only 200 edits per month and no active community. New entries were rarely written and most edits were vandalism. The project was brought back to life thanks to the initiative of a handful of editors and Wikimedia Israel. Today, the Hebrew Wiktionary community has 30 editors and dozens of new entries are written every month!
Longer description	Over the years, the Hebrew Wiktionary project died out and became dilapidated. It had no community, no active admins, and the few editors who made some edits every now and then concentrated on preventing vandalism. Then, we decided together to try to bring the project back to life. We created help pages and infrastructure, we promoted discussions about policies and tried to find help and support from other sources. Wikimedia Israel suggested a cooperation with the Academy of the Hebrew Language, which led to the first Wiktionary course – an introductory course to lexicography and Wiktionary editing. The course was a runaway success with over 100 people having registered for the candidate screening stage. The participants joined the editor community and made valuable contributions to the project. We opened another course one year later and we intend to continue this wonderful tradition. We started an entry writing competition for the general public, in which some of the most renowned Hebrew lexicographers and linguists of our time took part as judges, and which brought about dozens of new entries (in addition to several new editors who decided to stay put). Many other events were initiated, such as community meetings, editing days, programmers' meet-ups, discussions, chats etc. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/13/hebrew-wiktionary-community-revitalization/
3 milestones	Wiktionary course with academic-level content, adding high-quality entries to Wiktionary Building the infrastructure for future editors, especially those without lexicographic background Long-term sustained development of Hebrew Wiktionary
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Primary webpage URL	https://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%99
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Your name	Omri Farber
Email contact	omriwikimedia.org.il
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Twitter handle	@omri_farber

Wikinews

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Project name	Wikinews
Short description	Wikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism.
Longer description	Wikinews promotes the idea of participatory journalism because of the belief that citizens know what is news like no others. You are invited to join in this effort, and share news that is of interest to you. All Wikinews articles are created by everyday people just like you, from around the globe. The Wikinews project is a free content news source of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to provide content, free of charge, where everyone is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere. Wikinews is founded on the idea to build a unique news environment to enrich the media landscape.
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Your name	Gyrostat
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Twitter handle	@wikinews, @fr_wikinews, @wikinoticias

WikiProject Language samples

Your contact details	User:MichaelSchoenitzer (Mail)
Project name	WikiProject Language samples
Short description	The goal of the WikiProject Language samples is to add an audio speech sample of the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to each Wikipedia article about a language.
Longer description	Wikipedia exists in many languages, and contains articles about languages. We already have a lot of high quality Wikipedia articles about languages in which you can find information about the number of speakers, the vocabulary, origin and grammar of the language. But often one very natural question about a language is still left unanswered: "How does this language sound?". This projects seeks to change this. The goal of this project is to add a small sample of text spoken by a native speaker to all the articles about languages. The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an appropriate choice for this, since it is translated in "all" languages of the world, is in the public domain and is of the right length to be included to a Wikipedia article.
3 milestones	Audio samples of more then 50 languages have been uploaded German Wikipedia uses most of these files
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Language_samples
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Your name	MichaelSchoenitzer
Email contact	Mail
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Wikiproject UNESCO

Your contact details	User:John Cummings
Project name	Wikiproject UNESCO
Short description	Wikiproject UNESCO aims to facilitate cooperation between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Wikimedia movement to improve open education through Wikimedia projects. These pages provide a guide on what work can be done with simple guides on how to contribute so that everyone can take part.
Longer description	Wikiproject UNESCO aims to facilitate cooperation between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Wikimedia movement to improve open education through Wikimedia projects. These pages provide a guide on what work can be done with simple guides on how to contribute so that everyone can take part. The main goals of the project are to: Improve information on UNESCO programme enscriptions e.g World Heritage Sites. Help navigate and organise sharing of UNESCO media content on Wikimedia projects.
3 milestones	Release of over 20,000 photos from UNESCO archives Encouraging UNESCO inscription programmes including World Heritage and Biosphere Reserves to make content available under a Wikimedia compatible license A Wikimedian in Residence
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Primary webpage URL	meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject_UNESCO
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Your name	John Cummings
Email contact	J.Cummings@unesco.org
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Twitter handle	@mrjohnc

Fellow Program Free Knowledge. Opening up Science

Your contact details	Julia Kloppenburg (WMDE)
Project name	Fellow Program Free Knowledge. Opening up Science
Short description	The Fellow Program, established by Wikimedia Deutschland in cooperation with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in 2016, focuses its efforts primarily on the use of Open Science practices for the purpose of promoting improvements in science and education.
Longer description	The Fellow Program targets young researchers who are in an early stage of their academic career, and consists of partial funding as well as qualification. It aims to impart knowledge about the idea of Open Science, collaborative working methods as well as digital infrastructures such as the Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata) as they could be integrated into the academic workflow and serve as platforms for scientific research and publishing. Thus we want to trigger a social change and promote openness in academic research and teaching in order to benefit the Wikimedia movement.
3 milestones	Training fellows through group work and mentoring. Fellows apply principles of Open Science to their research projects and integrate Wikimedia projects into their research. Addressing academic institutions and empowering fellows as ambassadors for openness within the scientific world in order to strengthen the Free Knowledge movement.
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Primary webpage URL	https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Fellowprogramm
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Your name	Julia Kloppenburg (WMDE)
Email contact	julia.kloppenburg@wikimedia.de; wissenschaft@wikimedia.de
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Lingua Libre

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Project name	Lingua Libre
Short description	Development of a web interface called "Lingua Libre" for recording words in regional languages and automatically upload them on Wikimedia Commons platform. The aim is to help development of Wiktionary and Wikipedia in all regional/minority languages
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Your name	Gerbet Rémy
Email contact	remy.gerbet@wikimedia.fr
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Cite As You Write

Your contact details	joerg.schloetterer@uni-passau.de
Project name	Cite As You Write
Short description	A tool that automatically searches for citable references in different digital libraries, while you edit an article. When a suitable reference is found, adding it to the article is only one click away.
Longer description	We are developing an extension for the Google Chrome browser, that supports "scientific augmentation" of Wikipedia articles. While editing an article, a search for citable resources, e.g. scientific articles is triggered automatically in the background. The extension makes use of different technologies developed in the EEXCESS project: A search query for related resources is constructed automatically from the already written text. This query is then sent to different digital libraries and the aggregated results are presented next to the editor pane. When one of the retrieved results is a suitable citation reference, it can be added with a simple click. Feedback from active editors is highly appreciated and we are looking for developers who want to get involved.
3 milestones	automatically search for citable references insert suitable references with only one click
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Primary webpage URL	http://www.eexcess.eu
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Your name	schloe06
Email contact	joerg.schloetterer@uni-passau.de
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Twitter handle	@EEXCESS

Let’s Fill the Wiki Gender Gap

Your contact details	en:User talk:Nattes à chat, fr:User talk:LaMèreVeille
Project name	Let’s Fill the Wiki Gender Gap
Short description	Given: not enough women contributors on Wikipedia family-, gender-, and relationship-related topics are more present in biographies about women we will organize 6 workshops for women and men to reduce for a start the Swiss gender gap on the French encyclopedia.
Longer description	We will provide six workshops within an academic surrounding to teach participants how to become a wiki contributor with a special focus on gender awareness. Regardless of gender, participants will contribute to pages about renowned Swiss women, but in their own area of expertise. Here is the general layout of the 6 workshops: 1 - introduction to Wikipedia & explaining the gender gap & identifying participants area of contribution 2 - learning the basics of modifying and creating an article 3 - responding to feedbacks from the community 4 - how to look for information to provide references : technical tools for internet "watch" 5 - using inclusive language: writing techniques 6 – closing, meeting senior contributors to assess contributions and celebrating We would like to share our experience, best practices and metrics with the Wikipedia community and inform about future developments of the project
3 milestones	Promote confidence and self-esteem by a learn-by-doing approach Build a network and community of contributors in the Geneva Lake area Encourage the participants to come back to the next sessions as "mentors" to keep building the community
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Primary webpage URL	https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Suisse/Biographies_des_femmes_en_Suisse
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Your name	Natacha Rault- Marie-Pierre Vidonne
Email contact	natacha.rault@unige.ch
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WikiProject Modernisme

Your contact details	ESM
Project name	WikiProject Modernisme
Short description	Bringing as much Catalan Modernisme metadata as possible to Wikidata in order to relate them and generate an informative and open resource, freely available to anyone.
Longer description	Lots of research, inventories, and catalogues about Catalan Modernisme heritage have been made. However, only specialists can easily relate and make connections between Modernisme artworks which are usually preserved in separate collections, sometimes even in different locations. We want to strengthen these connections and make knowledge about Catalan Modernisme heritage more accessible to all interested citizens by concentrating as much metadata about it as possible in Wikidata, setting grounds for complex searches and data visualisations.
3 milestones	Metadata about >15K Catalan Modernisme items has been imported to Wikidata Data provided by >20 Catalan museums and institutions Bringing back open data to the people!
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Primary webpage URL	Wikidata:WikiProject Modernisme
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Your name	Esther Solé (ESM)
Email contact	esther.sole@gmail.com
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Twitter handle	@GracmonUB, @esthersole, @amicalwikimedia

Contropedia

Your contact details	Sdivad, Mikima
Project name	Contropedia
Short description	Contropedia is a tool for improving transparency in Wikipedia. It provides an interactive interface to identify the elements that underwent most changes in an article, and to explore activity related to them.
Longer description	The availability of articles' edit histories and talk pages is essential for ensuring transparency in Wikipedia. However, especially for big controversial articles it is not immediately clear - even for an expert editor, how to make sense of such information and find for example when and why the description of a certain issue was put in the current form. Contropedia is a tool that allows users to identify which concepts within an article underwent most edits, and provides access to the edit history and discussion around a particular topic. We are currently extending it to be fully multilingual, to fully combine edit history with discussion activity in talk pages, and to provide views on networks of articles. A demo and extensive documentation are available online: http://contropedia.net. We aim to present the tool and its functionalities, and to receive feedback from the community about possible improvements and future developments.
3 milestones	Online demo already working for over 100 articles (want to see another article? Ask us to add it by sending an email to contropedia@digitalmethods.net) Language agnostic approach, already working for most languages Academic recognition: papers accepted at the international conferences CHI 2015 and ICWSM 2015 and at the Big Data & Society journal.
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Email contact	david.laniado@eurecat.org and michele.mauri@polimi.it
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WikiProject Esperanto125

Side note: This project was conceived some time ago but the idea was dormant for lack of time of organisers. Now, World Esperanto Youth Organization has assigned some time of their full-time volunteer KuboF (longstanding wikimedian, co-founder of WUG Esperanto kaj Libera Scio - that is me ;) to work on this and some others wiki projects. So do not be afraid about nowadays state of the project description pages, it is really nowadays state.

Esperanto125

Your contact details	viki.esperanto125@gmail.com, User:KuboF
Project name	Esperanto125
Short description	It is unusual for a constructed language to get alive and form a vibrant international community, even with native speakers. Esperanto is such an exceptional language! Help to inform people about this phenomenon by writing and translating articles with us!
Longer description	Esperanto was born as a bold dream of a young idealist whose intention was to bring world peace. This high goal hasn't yet been achieved but Esperanto attracted many language lovers, travellers, alternative life-stylers and even Wikimedians, who created the Esperanto Wikipedia in the same year as the English one. Despite Esperanto's long standing and the development of its own international culture, lots of people are still not aware of it at all. In the WikiProject Esperanto125 we are collecting and translating into as many languages as possible the most important and interesting information about principles, linguistic traits, history, including First book, UNESCO resolution, nowadays situation, eminent speakers, literature, music, film and culture in general as well as organizations and movement. The project invites every Esperanto speaker to collect and improve the original content and translators to translate it (not necessary from Esperanto).
3 milestones	Main topic article "Esperanto" is Featured on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias Vanguard of the project as Esperanto related section in CEE Spring on-wiki writing competition World Esperanto Youth Organization assigned one full-time volunteer for this project for one year
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Esperanto125
Mailing List	eliso@lists.wikimedia.org
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Email contact	viki.esperanto125@gmail.com
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/Esperanto-kaj-Libera-Scio-681900465164464/
Twitter handle	@ELiberaScio

Science Photo Competition

Your contact details	w:ru:user_talk:drbug
Project name	Science Photo Competition
Short description	Now, after experience with the European Science Photo Competition 2015, it goes world-wide in 2016
Longer description	Between the years 2011–2013 the concept of collecting fine scientific images to Wikipedia was successfully tested during the Estonian Science Photo Competition. In 2015 there was European Science Photo Competition 2015. It was successful, and [about 10 000 free scientific images]. This year the competion is going on global, world-wide scale.
3 milestones	30 000 fine scientific media files 5000 people 75 participating countries
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Primary webpage URL	https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Science_Photo_Competition
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Your name	Vladimir Medeyko
Email contact	vladimir.medeyko@gmail.com
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CEE Spring

CEE Spring 2016

Your contact details	Magalia
Project name	CEE Spring 2016
Short description	In CEE Spring Wikipedia editors from Central and Eastern Europe joined forces to expand and create articles about the region. Hundreds of volunteers from the 24 regional language versions of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" created and improved entries related to the culture, history, geography and sports of their neighbours. By the end of the contest, local versions of Wikipedia featured thousands of new articles.
Longer description	CEE Spring 2016 is one of the largest article writing contests in the history of Wikipedia. It's aim is to gather information about the history, culture, traditions, and people from every corner of the Central and Eastern European region. The event took place from March 21 till May 31. During this time period there were individual article competition on 24 related Wikipedias concentrating on creating and significantly editing articles on topics of culture, geography, economics, society, sports, politics, history, science and education, meaning notable phenomena, events and people of each and every participating country from the region. And by encouraging editors to write articles about notable women from Central and Eastern Europe the contest helped to close the gender gap. This project was open to anybody, including those with no prior experience in editing Wikipedia.
3 milestones	Gathering information about the history, culture, traditions, and people from every corner of the Central and Eastern European region. This promotes mutual awareness and understanding by increasing the quantity and quality of free knowledge available about the CEE region. Facilitating regional cooperation, resulting in the closer integration of the Wikimedia movement, the global network of volunteers and non-profit organisations who work in support the Wikipedia websites. Closing the content gender gap by encouraging participants to write articles about notable women from Central and Eastern Europe
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016
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Facebook page	https://www.facebook.com/WCEESpring/?fref=ts
Twitter handle	https://twitter.com/CEE_Spring

ComeOn!

Your contact details	EdouardHue
Project name	ComeOn!
Short description	ComeOn! is a computer software designed to upload batches of media files to Wikimedia Commons.
Longer description	Unlike other tools, ComeOn! supports both pictures and audio files. It uses a common template language to generate the media description in wiki text. Metadata from the media file and from an external CSV file may be inserted directly in the wiki text, reducing the need to edit the description pages after uploading.
3 milestones	Graphical batch upload tool for media files Generates the media description wiki text from file metadata Can read additional metadata from a CSV file
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Primary webpage URL	https://github.com/edouardhue/comeon
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Your name	EdouardHue
Email contact	edouard.hue+comeon@gmail.com
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Twitter handle	@EdouardHue

WikiZoo

Your contact details	EdouardHue, Pyb
Project name	WikiZoo
Short description	Shooting dead animals!
Longer description	WikiZoo is a project to photograph the zoology collections of several French universities. These collections hold thousands of specimens, sometimes very old and of high historical value, but are rarely seen by the public. Publishing high quality pictures to Commons will offer the opportunity to illustrate many biology articles.
3 milestones	Take pictures of rare naturalized animals Publish pictures to Commons Spread the knowledge
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Mailing List	photo@wikimedia.fr
Your name	EdouardHue, Pyb
Email contact	edouard.hue+wikizoo@gmail.com
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Twitter handle	@EdouardHue, @Pyb75

Wikipedia Asian Month

Your contact details	User:AddisWang
Project name	Wikipedia Asian Month
Short description	Wikipedia Asian Month is an online Edit-a-thon aimed at enhancing the understanding among Asian Wikipedia communities.
Longer description	The first Wikipedia Asian Month was held in November 2015. 1,286 Wikipedians from 43 langauge versions of Wikipedia attended the event and contributed a total of 6,096 high quality articles. Each of the participating communities runs a local Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on their own language Wikipedias, which promotes the creation or improvement of the Wikipedia content about Asia except their own country. Although this is an Asian Month, the participating community is not limited to Asia. As one of the parts of the friendship within the Wikipedia Asian Community, each participant who created at least five articles that fulfill the article criteria received a special designed Wikipedia postcard from seven participating countries and regions.
3 milestones	Improve Wikipedia content about Asia which is under-representative. Promoting regional and inter-community collaborations. Increasing cross-community friendship.
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month
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Your name	Addis Wang
Email contact	addiswang94 gmail.com
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Wikimedia 3D roadmap

Your contact details	post /AT/ nikolasbecker.de / User:Theredmonkey
Project name	Wikimedia 3D roadmap
Short description	Wikimedia desperately needs a concept for integrating three-dimensional content. 3D illustrations of famous buildings, animal skeletons, and many more objects could dramatically enrich the user experience. Furthermore, a thought-through concept for 3D integration provides new ways for volunteers to engage: Operating 3D-scanners, drawing 3D models, and creating walk-through scenarios.
Longer description	== How this could look like == Think of the Wikipedia article about the Great Pyramid of Giza. Imagine how amazing it would be if we could provide the reader with a detailed 3D model of the pyramid, that you can walk through, zoom in and out of and rotate freely … Community aspects Integration of 3D models provides new opportunities for volunteers to engage: local community spaces with 3D scanners apps that allow travelling Wikipedians to record and digitalize historic sites extended partnerships with GLAM institutions Open questions Which (open source) technology provides a suitable viewer? Where and how should we store the data? How can we provide simple ways to edit 3D models? (e.g. think of OpenStreetMap) All sorts of input, comments, and support are welcome at wiki-3d@nikolasbecker.de or at the meta page.
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Primary webpage URL	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Theredmonkey/Why_we_are_lacking_a_3D_strategy
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Your name	Nikolas Becker
Email contact	wiki-3d@nikolasbecker.de
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Twitter handle	@redmonkey_

Culture and Safety in Africa

Your contact details	User:Marta.pucciarelli
Project name	Culture and Safety in Africa
Short description	A communication project based on the scientific research “Mobile Access to Knowledge: Culture and safety in Africa. Documenting and assessing the impact of public art on safety and security” and aiming at increasing and improving the current limited and biased information about developing countries among the Swiss public.
Longer description	The communication of the cultural, artistic and contemporary richness of developing and emerging countries allow to address and bridge the need of intercultural dialogue of our current society and contributes to enhance the perception that people have of the world.
3 milestones	Improve 30 Wikipedia articles content related to geography, culture and Africa on Wikipedia. Publish a first-edited open access book about public art in Africa
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Your name	Iolanda Pensa and Marta Pucciarelli (SUPSI), Asta Adukaite (USI), Fiona Siegenthaler (University of Basel), Marilyn Douala Bell (doual'art), Kamiel Verschuren, Xandra Nibbeling and Lucas Grandin (ICU Art Projects)
Email contact	iolanda@pensa.it; mata.pucciarelli@supsi.ch, asta.adukaite@usi.ch, fiona.siegenthaler@unibas.ch, doualart@doualart.org, kamielverschuren@mac.com, xandranibbeling@gmail.com, lowlucas@yahoo.fr
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Cuteness

Wikimedia Cuteness Association

Your contact details	Percy Plush, Erminig
Project name	Wikimedia Cuteness Association
Short description	Cuteness: a state of mind for shaping the future of the Wikimedia movement
Longer description	The Wikimedia movement needs more Cuteness. Badly. Recognising this fact, many Wikimedians have been active in the past few years to advocate for Cuteness. As plushies, we have been at the forefront of this endeavour − traveling to international events like Wikimania in order to shower attendees with Cuteness, raising awareness of the importance of our mission amongst community leaders. The positive reception we were welcomed with, as much as the scale of the issue to tackle, led us to join forces under the Cute banner of the Wikimedia Cuteness Association − a prospective thematic organisation dedicated to foster Cuteness in the Wikimedia movement. We gained much momentum, recruiting many more supporters to our cause. And yet, every other day, every other e-mail and every little drama is a reminder that we still have a long, long way to go.
3 milestones	A vibrant, close-knit community of plushies A global, ever-growing group of countless friends, supporters, and followers. The ultimate key to the bright and glorious future the Wikimedia movement deserves
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Primary webpage URL	Wikimedia_Cuteness_Association
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Your name	Percy Plush
Email contact	percy.plush@gmail.com
IRC channel	#wikimedia-kawaii^connect
Facebook page	PercyPlush
Twitter handle	@Erminig_NCO