User:Sj/AwesomeKnowledge

supporting awesome knowledge,1000ψ at a time.

This is an idea for small simple community grants for knowledge in communities everywhere, to spur more awesome knowledge/science/education projects around the world and help creative folks find one another's work. Riffing off the Awesome Foundation. Help refine this into something delightful you'd be glad to contribute to each month, by editing or commenting on this page. :)

people submit awesome projects (their own or links to others) every month one or more is chosen to receive recognition, no strings attached projects can translate wikis into support from those offering their help results tracked online: projects by hashtag, network on a collage site

anyone who wants to help support awesome knowledge projects joins in to update the project tables (nominate or vote on projects) or offer wiki services (coding, scripting, design, visibility, testing, feedback, translation, &c) each month a number of tickets to a funding event are available for purchase (say 10 100ψ tickets) the first 10 people to claim them get to review/select the next project for support

Currently starting with a single global group, reviewing projects from anywhere and everywhere.

Examples

Examples of other collectives thinking about this, giving out or aggregating awards, prizes, awe, wishes

• Collectives: IndieWebCamp
• Databases:
  • GovBase Airtable of projects w/ useful metadata tags
• Proposals:
  • Gitcoin rounds
• Wishlists:
  • Community wishlists (global, WMDE)
  • Topical wishlists (developers)
• Bounties:
  • Replit bounties
  • en:wp
  • FISSION codes bounty board (IPFS)
  • Individual bounties: WP history animation
• LazyWeb: "Dear LazyWeb" / "Icanhazpdf"

Proposed awesome projects!

Feel free to suggest other sorts of awesome things that expand the format.

See + edit this spreadsheet to add and tag entries.

Recognition of existing awesome things

1. The existence of Brion Vibber Day and Magnus Manske Day as early recognition of core tool development :)
2. The Technische Wünsche survey, starting with Raymond's work since 2013, which gave rise to other wishlists since!
3. [Generator] Past technical wishlist items about improving / updating an awesome and popular tool
4. [Design] Joaquin da Silva's gorgeous conceptual Wikipedia redesign, from animated logos to outdoor media campaigns.
5. ...add yours here!

Recognition of proposals or works in progress

1. The Agora (a collated digital garden project)
2. Mycorrhiza wiki (a software project)
3. Bibliographic Bot for Wikidata
4. Timeless skin upgrades [user choice; dark mode]
5. Tor support balancing need + challenge
6. Automatic video transcoding [via Internet Archive]

Interested participants

If you want to be involved, or are already doing something like this, please list yourself and a link to a userpage equivalent (or project page) below:

• – SJ +
• ...