Wikibase Community User Group/Meetings/2025-09-25
Regular meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group.
- 15:00 UTC (16:00 London, 17:00 Berlin, 11:00 New York), 1 hour, *Thursday 24th of September 2025
- Online meeting: https://meet.jit.si/WikibaseLiveSession
Participants (Who is here?)
[edit]- Valerie WMDE
- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry (WikiFur.com / WBUG)
- Ismael Olea (LaOficina / WBUG)
- Clair Kronk (Superraptor / Superraptor123)
Agenda
[edit]- Grants & Funding Opportunities
- Masters of Grants Bootcamp (by WMEU): three 2-hour interactive online sessions to explore the full lifecycle of grant-funded projects with our external experts Paola Farris and Ilaria Rudisi.
- Who is this for? EDs diversifying funding, volunteers with a project idea, fundraisers exploring new sources, programme leaders scaling up, board members working on sustainability…this is for you!
- Why join?
- Gain practical skills for navigating funding beyond the Movement
- Strengthen collaborative learning and peer exchange
- Bring external fundraising expertise into Wikimedia contexts
- Book your free spot by 22nd of September: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsjgvJe_9j2JNpnZ6aYcvhiV2ZGs9VW2yo-a8VZQTt-NG1NA/viewform
- Visegrad Grants – Deadline: 1 Oct 2025
- Grants for regional cooperation in V4, Western Balkans & Eastern Partnership countries.
- Who can apply: NGOs from Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia + partners from EaP & Western Balkans
- Priorities include: Volunteering, shared values, culture, education, media, social development
- Funding: Up to 100% of budget, including 15% overhead
- Partnerships:
- Strategic: 4 orgs from all V4 countries
- Visegrad+: 3 V4 + 1 EaP/WB country
- 🔗 Visit the https://www.visegradfund.org/apply/visegrad-grants/ for guidelines.
- [Reminder] Erasmus+ Small-Scale Partnerships – Deadline: 1 Oct 2025
- Young Civil Societies for Democracy – Deadline: 15 Oct 2025
- [New] Sovereign Tech Fund (Germany & Europe)
- Fritt Ord Foundation – Norway & Europe
- Interreg VI-A NEXT Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine Programme
- Masters of Grants Bootcamp (by WMEU): three 2-hour interactive online sessions to explore the full lifecycle of grant-funded projects with our external experts Paola Farris and Ilaria Rudisi.
- Idea: Stakeholder Group x Wikibase User Group -> Funding Expertise Group? To exchange experiences, etc.
- CapX upcoming meeting to get to know the tool better: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UvTwERvs_OvEousqqpuMymFCqpYVYSaWAND-Y1TeEjQ/viewform?edit_requested=true
- Wikibase intro video on Commons
- Interesting videos to watch from Wikimania:
- General discussions about AI
Chat notes
[edit]Elwin Huaman: Today I'm just listening 16:03 GreenReaper: OK! Today I am on holiday hence the unusual background. 😃 16:04 GreenReaper: The meeting notes are at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2025_09_24 16:06 GreenReaper: I am not sure where Valerie is - Ismael I can't hear you. 16:07 GreenReaper: If you were speaking Ismael Olea: you can't hear me now? 16:08 GreenReaper: Aha so are we meant to be in https://bbb.wikipedia.de/rooms/c4h-7q4-xlf-zmq/join ? 16:09 Valerie: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2025_09_24 16:12 Valerie: if you want to put yourself in the etherpad 😃 Ismael Olea: I've registered! 16:22 Ismael Olea: Also, I would like to wrote a proposal for next Erasmus+ KA220 call, about Wikibase, but need to think the application domain better. 16:24 Ismael Olea: the domain of the target group of users 16:25 Ismael Olea: probably related with museums Ismael Olea: but need to be sure we have it well though first. 16:26 Valerie: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2025_09_24 Valerie: https://capx.toolforge.org/ 16:31 Ismael Olea: https://capx.toolforge.org/profile/Olea 16:36 Valerie: https://capx.toolforge.org/profile/Valerie%20Wollinger%20(WMDE) 16:37 smael Olea: I pay for chatgpt, but I hate how many people use these things 😃 16:40 GreenReaper says: The art site I lead has a very controversial AI policy, just by allowing any of it at all. 😛 https://inkbunny.net/j/467389 16:41 Valerie: 👍 16:45 Valerie says: https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/ Ismael Olea: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135111407 16:49 Elwin Huaman: Unfortunately, I've to leave in a couple of minutes, it was nice to hear you guys, and all the ideas. 16:58 GreenReaper: Thanks for listening!
