I think Florence resumed quite well what I was trying to express.
It’s not a criticism - its a fact : I would have been happy to chat with her to understand
the ligic behind the recent rapid grant changes.
Kind regards,
Nattes à chat
Le 16 sept. 2019 à 13:14, Florence Devouard
<fdevouard(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
Sorry to say Jane, but your answer strikes me as being completely beside the point :(
The issue Natachat was raising is related to funding our local activities, a situation
currently made difficult by the new rapid grant system (*) She gave the example of the Art
and Feminism, but this is a single example and other projects are also impacted by those
changes.
I do not see how a problem with WMF funding scheme could be solved by talking to other
volunteers. I very much doubt Natachat would need Valerie to explain her how to set up and
run a local project on gender-gap issues. We are slightly beyond this...
The bottom line is that the community engagement department changed a LOT in the past few
months, with arrivals and departures. And this department is essential for the smoothness
of volunteer-run initiatives.
So yes, it was to be expected that the project leads would have been happy to meet WMF
staff to have the opportunity to better understand the changes and the new directions the
WMF is heading to.
Florence
* in the new system, grant requests for some targetted drive (such as art and feminism or
wiki loves) must be made during specific time frame. The idea in itself is not a bad one
and could help the grant team to be more efficient. The problem is that the agenda is too
tight, which means volunteers have to start activities before they get the financial
support and to a certain extent even start the activities before they get the approval of
support.
Le 16/09/2019 à 08:45, Jane Darnell a écrit :
As far as Art+Feminism goes, this project concentrates on biographies of
female artists. The English Wikipedia project "Women in Red" is open 24x7
all year round and concentrates on biographies of women on English
Wikipedia, period. So you can take all of your local Wikipedia questions
about A+F to your local WiR women for each non-English Wikipedia, and if
there is no overlap yet, I suggest starting your own local A+F/WiR in your
local Wikipedia. We should probably start a multi-lingual one for Commons,
since it has proven so difficult to get pictures of female artists to
illustrate articles about them.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:27 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thank you Thierry. To be honnest a few of us were
really waiting for
Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement because we had
questions for her about the new rapid grant funding agenda which seems
totally inadapted to volunteer’s need in terms of flexibility. One has to
wait a soecific month for Art+feminism and very often the timing has not
been adapted to when the events are actually taking place. For a volunteer
this is way too procedural. We need more flexibility.
We had other questions regarding the departure of several people which
were very important for the gender gap.
So ... Some of us were disappointed indeed.
Kind regards,
Natacha
Le 15 sept. 2019 à 20:02, Thierry Coudray
<tcoudray(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement,
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