Grants talk:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/Community review

Questions

What experience does the organization have that will enable it to implement the proposal? Sanjit.khulal (talk) 01:35, 16 April 2015 (UTC) ni njia ip nyinyi hutumia kufikia watu walio mbali haswa kama hapa kenya ama magharibi mwa kenya kwa sababu sija wahi ona huu muradi hapa kwetu bungoma. na pia ningependa kujuwa kama mimi naweza kusaidika na huu mradi kwa kuleta maendeleo kwa kijiji chetu.

Questions

I need more explaination to the proposal of APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round 2 Community review (section) because i don't understand what you mean.

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ZA

Why is it so simple to write ZA instead of "South Africa" to make people guess which country it could be? Does the Committee so undemanding? JSoos (talk) 10:20, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

يمكن أن نخصص بعض التبرعات لبناء مشروع آخر يكون ضمن فروع ويكيميديا و الذي يمكننا به مساعدة التلاميذ أو الطلبة في مستوياتهم الدراسية فعلى سبيل المثال :إنشاء دروس أو محاضرات أو تأطير نصوص التي تساعد التلميذ أو الطالب في حياته المدرسية. إخلاص حسن قاسمي (talk) 17:20, 16 April 2015 (UTC)إخلاص قاسمي 🍀

General comments

If Wikimedia Foundation can practice and uphold frugality, then just save up the moolah. Ronggy (talk) 01:34, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Question: What is this, may I ask? HanSangYoon (talk) 02:03, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

(ru) Дайте мне денег на написание учебника по Component Pascal )))) Учебник опубликован под лицензией Creative Common. [[1]] Fantom78 (talk) 06:38, 16 April 2015 (UTC) [Google Translation from Russian: "Give me money to write a textbook on Component Pascal published under the Creative Common license." — Translation added by Mwr0 (talk) 20:47, 16 April 2015 (UTC)]

I'm not sure if User: Fantom78 is just joking, but surely writing a CC book is a nice volunteer project. I would recommend removing this from the comments as a non sequitur. DeWriterMD (talk) 21:00, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Définition 1 : L’ordinateur est une machine électronique, qui traite l’information dans une unité centrale (UC, ou CPU pour Central Processing Unit), selon un programme qui est enregistré en mémoire. Les données fournies en entrée par un organe d’entrée (par exemple de type clavier) sont traitées par l’unité centrale en fonction du programme pour délivrer les résultats en sortie, via un organe de sortie (par exemple un écran) Dans cette cour nous essayons de répondre à quelque unes des questions suivantes : • Comment un ordinateurs représenter ces données ? • Comment un circuit interne au processeur peut-il effectuer une addition ? • Comment apprendre à programmer en assembleur ? • Comment fonction un mémoire centrale ? Le Microprocesseur Est fabriqué le plus souvent en silicium, il est constitué d’un certain nombre de transistor élémentaire interconnecter (des millions aujourd’hui) Le CPU exécute les fonctions de l’unité centrale, c a d exécute les instructions envoyée par un programme, c’est le cœur de l’ordinateur. Architecture des processeurs : Dans les années 80, des chercheurs d’IBM, sous la direction JOHN-Cocke, ce sont convainquez qu’un ensemble réduit d’instruction (Rapide, Efficace) va allez mieux qu’un plus grand ensemble augmentée d’instructions, plus lent et moins efficace. Avec cette innovation toutes portée à croire que ce nouveau type allez remplacer l’ancienne. Mais 10 ans plus tard il est apparait que l’une et l’autre avec des avantage et des inconvénients. Les processeurs actuels se répartissant en deux grandes catégories. CISC ; RISC CISC (Complexe Instruction Set Computer) RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)

Well, my mother-tongue is German - but I will write for You in English. Our main problem is the loss of authors, isn't it? The work in wikipedia is on voluntary basis. And it must stay that way, otherwise wikipedia looses its face. Support for the authors is desirable, anyway. But I personally think, that is not the main problem. To motivate more new authors (and not offend the long-standing ones!) wikipedia should open new tasks/purposes in the main projects (en-, de-, nl-, a .s. o. wikipedias) and not in wikibooks, wikipedia for kids or whatever. For the computer-servers it should not be a problem to host more content (but less projects). I will give You an example: We [2] tried some years ago to invent undersides (separated by "/" from the main articles), describing the contents of articles in easy ways (for us in medicine) for kids. I personally think, this project would have been of utmost importance, cause many articles are not understandable for the ordinary audience. In the meantime many authors might have been interested in "translating" very complicated contents to easy ones. The same with wiki-voyage. Why not make a underside "travel-info"? I know the reasons, but one could easily use a corresponding labeling. Redlinux (talk) 21:50, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Comment about the previous comments

<Sorry for my english practice, a bit rusty>I strictly understand nothing out of the 4 previous "comments" or questions, neither their relation to the topic (dont read Russian, sorry), nor their relation the one to the other. Probably a matter of display ?</Sorry>
<Pardon pour l'expression un poil agacée>Je ne comprend strictement rien aux "commentaires"/question qui précèdent : ni leur lien avec le sujet, ni leur relation, les uns avec les autres. C'est mon écran ? </Pardon ... agacée>
Best regards anyway, meilleurs regards sur tous les chemins, cordialement et Hop ! --Kikuyu3 (talk) 13:15, 16 April 2015 (UTC) Btw : if its content is worth it, it might be appropriate that the diff in russian be translated to english ? Otherwise, (ie not worthy), please advise, as well.

Clueless

OK, I'm here because of the big bold banner at the top that's controlled by WMF (in the same area where fundraising banners appear).

• Can someone give me a reader's digest overview of what this is all about and what I'm supposed to do? I don't care to spend an hour figuring it out.
• What is "ZA"? An abbreviation for South Africa?
• What is "Norge? A brand name of major household appliances, a town in Oklahoma, or Norway? "Wikimedia Norge´s work will in the next funding period concentrate on 3 programs: GLAM, Gender Gap, Academic Wikipedia." Will all of the money spent for these three programs be limited to projects within the country of Norway, or will some money be spent on these projects in other countries?
• Please disambiguate "The Centre for Internet and Society".
• Are any grants for funding within the United States discussed here? If not, when are where are such grants discussed?
• The top of the page say this is about one of four WMF grantmaking programs. Is it about annual plan grants (Grants:APG)?
• Is there a list of affiliated organizations that are eligible to apply for grants anywhere?

Thanks, Wbm1058 (talk) 20:18, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes — ZA is South Africa http://za.wikipedia.org (see Proposal Form).

Disambiguation — It is Centre for Internet and Society (India) (see Proposal Form) — Mwr0 (talk) 21:08, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Haha. http://za.wikipedia.org is Wikipedia for the Zhuang language! Wbm1058 (talk) 21:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Grants are international, not specific to the United States. If you are interested in reviewing the existing grant proposals, they are looking for comments from the community that will help the committee to decide who and how much grant money may be awarded. This is the 30-day review period, so I'm quite sure that no new applications are being entertained for Round 2. DeWriterMD (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

So, would it be correct to assume that Wikimedia NYC and DC did not apply for any grants, or were their applications rejected in Round 1? I wasn't paying attention, so I missed the first round. Wbm1058 (talk) 21:27, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

I see: Quite a bit of feedback at Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round1/Community review. Is this the final round? Wbm1058 (talk) 22:08, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant that ZA is South Africa in spite of za.wikipedia.org! Mwr0 (talk) 23:50, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello and welcome Wbm1058! Thanks for stopping by and asking some of these questions. Most of them have been answered (thank you to Wbm1058 and DeWriterMD), but here are the remaining answers. It is correct that Wikimedia NYC and DC did not apply for grants this round or in the last round of the funding for this grants program (the annual plan grants). They both have received funding from the project and event grants program. If you have interest, I encourage you to look through the programs that these six organizations are planning for the year, and ask any questions or offer feedback on their plans. You can review other funding programs at WMF, too. There you will find grants to individuals, groups, and movement organizations like chapters, including several in the US. Movement organizations (including thematic organizations, user groups, chapters) are eligible to apply to different grants programs depending on what they are requesting. And, yes, Norge is indeed Norway; the organization is called Wikimedia Norge. Cheers, KLove (WMF) (talk) 04:03, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

My comment

My view is that since all these language areas are worthwhile projects, then funds should be dispersed to all. The ones with more needs should be appropriated more money. I assume those who put this discussion together know which language areas need more help. And the comment that we need more writers and editors is valid. Anything we can do to attract and keep serious users is good. Wpollard (talk) 06:42, 17 April 2015 (UTC) maoni yangu ni kwanba kama ingewezekana kutupiga jeki kwa ukulima wa mazao mbambali ili tuweze kuinuka kimaisha na pia kuondoka katika hili janga la umasikini.

comment Iyongi

Bonjour, je suis en République Démocratique du Congo, Formateur des contributeurs Wikipédia dans le cadre du sous projet "AFRIPEDIA", nous allons bientôt créer un club des contributeurs actifs dans l'encyclopédie, surtout qu'il y a seulement peu d'articles sur l'Afrique. Mais nous sommes confrontés au problème de motivation. Ma question : A qui s'adresser pour nefusque un peu de soutient financier, pour motiver ceux qui sont formés? surtout les membres du club que nous sommes sur le point de monter? leur donner au moins des moyens pour se connecter à Internet, ou acheter une machine? c'est sont des petites choses qui peuvent motiver grandement les gens en Afrique.