Grants given to Wikimedia Foundation/2005

Immediately pressing grants edit

  • UNESCO grant Wikipedia, Feb 2005 (!!)
    I sent a short mail asking what we had to do to candidate. Anthere 10:07, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Grants/IFAP
    ~$45k for projects that improve international access to information, and educate information professionals...

Other grants edit

Dates given are expected dates for the allocation of funding. Most grants must be submitted in summer/autumn 2005.

  • NSF-04605, ideal for Wiktionary, June 2006. Endangered languages. We should dig up a list of those, and see if we do not cover one. Or could... possibly funding students to work on those ?
  • NEH-challenge, Wikimedia, Nov 2006
    For setting up an endowment/trust, not for immediate expenses. Deadline in early May.
  • NEH teachinglearning Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikijunior, Wikiversity April 2006
    $100-200k
    particularly good for WP if we want to help teachers develop curricula that include and interact with the 'pedia +sj+
  • NEH reference materials Wikipedia May 2006
    "These grants are given to support projects to create reference works and research tools. Eligible projects include: databases and electronic archives that codify and integrate humanities materials, or provide bibliographical control of a subject or field...
    $70-800k