Grants talk:TPS/nwhysel/IASummit2017

Update Nwhysel (talk) 20:22, 12 February 2017 (UTC): The Wikipedia sessions have just been added to the calendar at IASummit.org. There will be two sessions on March 25 and 26. Saturday is a session in line with the diversity theme, and I will be presenting on Wikimedia's programs to promote diversity within Wikipedia: Women in Red, Wiki Loves Pride, Art+Feminism, Black Lunch Table, etc. Sunday is a lunch time session and will be a more general how-to session to get new users up to speed on editing and to promote use and development of discovery tools by information professionals. Vancouver Wikipedia/librarians from UBC and Simon Fraser have been invited to participate. We are also inviting a researcher from UBC who specializes in indigenous rights to give a short presentation on Saturday. A dedicated Wikipedia info table and volunteers will be on the exhibition floor next to a mentoring booth so attendees can learn about Wikimedia activities and sign up.

The sessions are posted on Sched.com, and are accessible on the iasummit.org program page via the Community Working Session filter: https://iasummit2017.sched.com/speaker/noreenwhysel?iframe=no&w=990&sidebar=yes&bg=no

Request funded

Dear Nwhysel,

Thank you for submitting this request. We are happy to approve this request for participation in the IASummer 2017. It sounds like you've lined up a lot of interesting opportunities for participants to learn about and engage with the Wikimedia Projects. We're excited to hear how it goes!

Please review the next steps for your grant as described in "How the program works". Your post-event report must provide a link to an outcome from your participation. We recommend that you start planning your outcome now so you are prepared to submit it as part of your report, which is due 14 days after the event. We would like to hear in your report about how your goals were met.

Note that an outcome does not include the materials you prepare to present at the event (though we’d like you to link to those, too), but something that is created during or after the event because of your participation, such as a link to something new that was co-created by you and your fellow participants at the event, a blog post you wrote to share your experience with others after the event, or a learning pattern to teach others something you've learned at the event. If you choose to make a learning pattern, think creatively about what you learned. Did you address a target audience about whom you have special expertise (for example, a physicist presenting at a conference for physicists about how to use Wikipedia)? Your learning pattern might focus on a strategy you employed that was successful in engaging that specific audience in our projects.

Our Grants Administrator will be in touch with you about your grant. Thank you for work on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Warm regards, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 18:05, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks, Alex! Nwhysel (talk) 19:23, 16 February 2017 (UTC)