Dear friends and Wikimedians,
(apologies for cross-posting!)
The Community Resources team announced in January the intention and process
to review its current grants programs (Annual Plan Grants, Simple Annual
Plan Grants, Project Grants and Rapid Grants) to ensure we are aligning
with the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement, with a focus on
knowledge equity and building a thriving movement[1][2].
Now that we have finished our needs review, key stakeholders discussions,
community brainstorms, and grantee surveys, we are excited to share with
you the draft proposal[3] that has resulted from this work:
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunc…
>
We are requesting your feedback on how the proposed grant programs would
impact you and how well they align with our movement strategy, which can be
provided in the following ways [4]:
* Complete a feedback form
* Participate in office hours
* Discuss on-wiki
* E-mail the Community Resources team (<communityresources(a)wikimedia.org>)
More information about these options can be found on our feedback page.[4]
After one month when the planned feedback period is over, the Community
Resources team will review all community input and make final adjustments
to complete the redesign. In April 2021, the Community Resources team will
review and incorporate suggested changes and send a final proposal for
endorsement and approval by the leadership of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Working with all our communities to update our grants programs is essential
to ensuring that they are useful and address real needs for our
communities. Thank you for all of the participation that has brought us to
this point. We look forward to the continued engagement in this next step
and listening to your ideas.
On behalf of the Community Resources team,
Chris
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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunc…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunc…
*Chris Schilling* (him//they)
User:I JethroBT (WMF)
Senior Program Officer, Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
(Apologies for cross-posting!)
The Community Resources team is inviting you to an exciting opportunity to
be a committee member as part of the grants programs' participatory
grantmaking practice.
Participatory grantmaking ensures that resourcing community efforts in the
movement is diverse, equal and inclusive. This practice aligns with
movement strategy recommendation 4. Ensure Equity in Decision-making:
Establishing shared responsibility and accountability for decision-making
and distribution of resources.
Serving committee members will have the opportunity to inform and advise
funding decisions and proactively share recommendations and mentorship to
support grantees worldwide in their development, growth, and sustainability
strategies; that contribute to a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
You will also strengthen your capacity in participatory decision-making
processes while learning about our community's incredible work and the
different contexts that influence their work.
Here is statement by current committee member, Thepwnco, on their
experience;
My experiences with Wikimedia Foundation grant programs have been very
rewarding and I feel so fortunate to have served as a volunteer committee
member since 2014. Grant programs contribute to equity and sustainability
in our movement through funding unmet and under-resourced needs. Under our
participatory approach to grantmaking, volunteers play a key role in
decision-making. Volunteers also help support and strengthen community-led
initiatives by reviewing grant proposals for impact and providing feedback
and other support to prospective grantees. But being a volunteer committee
member is much more than just a way to share your knowledge and insights,
it’s also an incredible opportunity to learn and be inspired by the breadth
of amazing and innovative work taking place across the movement and in
diverse communities and regions.
Here are the committees that are currently soliciting new members:
* Project Grants: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project
** Project Grants Committee reviewing Community Organizing proposals: This
committee reviews proposals for projects that inspire and coordinate
volunteers, via campaigns, training, contests and other forms of community
organizing. You can learn more about Project Grants here:
** Project Grants Committee reviewing Research and Software proposals: This
committee reviews proposals for projects that create or maintain software
that supports the Wikimedia movement, or that conduct research to answer
questions important for Wikimedia communities and projects.
* Simple Annual Plan Grants:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/About
** Simple APG Committee: This committee reviews proposals to fund a group
or organization's programs and operating expenses for 12 months. The groups
and organizations need to already have experience managing programs and
grant funding.
Orientation and training is provided for new members and you don’t have to
have previous experience to sign up.
Committee responsibilities include:
* Providing review and constructive feedback to help support applicants and
strengthen grant proposals
* Evaluating and recommending promising proposals for funding
* Helping recruit and spread the word about grants
* Optional: Becoming a project advisor for proposals that interest you
Eligibility requirements for committee members can be found here:
* Project Grants :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Committee/Eligibility#commit…
* Simple APG: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Committee
You can sign up as a candidate for a committee here:
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Committee/Candidates
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Committee/Candidates
Deadlines for submitting committee candidacy:
* Project Grants Committee reviewing Community Organizing proposals --
February 5, 2020
* Project Grants Committee reviewing Research and Software proposals --
March 5, 2020
* Simple APG Committee -- February 5, 2020
Please reach out to projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org for questions on the
Project Grants Committee and simple(a)wikimedia.org for questions on the
Simple APG Committee.
Warm regards,
Veronica Thamaini, Program Officer for Simple APG
Marti Johnson, Program Officer for Project Grants
Chris Schilling, Program Officer for Rapid Grants
*Chris Schilling* (him/his/they/their)
User:I JethroBT (WMF)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Senior Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello Gender gap listserve,
Trying to lift up all the work that people on this listserve do, is a new
wikimedia-grant funded project humaniki <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Maximilianklein/humaniki>.
If you're familiar with Wikimedia biography gender-gap tracking tools WHGI
and Denelezh, this is the next iteration of those. The idea is to*
co-design this tool with editors*, and as such, it would be* amazing to
have gendergap editors take paid roles in the development*. There are two
contracts, one for a UX Researcher and one for a Frontend Software
Engineer. Please find the details of the roles below. And additionally on
that co-design theme, we are* interested in gathering feedback from this
community on what are the data needs of diversity-focused editors*. So if
you would be interested to chat with us on what features should go into
humaniki, please contact me as well.
*Role: Community UX Researcher*
Full Job Description:
https://notconfusing.com/images/Community_UX_Researcher.pdf
The role of community UX Researcher is to facilitate the co-design process
of creating humaniki. You will identify community groups with whom to
partner, elicit their product needs, and synthesize it into a design
specification. Liaising between the community and the humaniki engineering
team, in multiple rounds of development, you troubleshoot and make
decisions to ensure the tool is effective. Finally, you'll communicate the
project's development through blog posts, online trainings and other media.
*Role: Frontend Software Engineer*
Full Job Description:
https://notconfusing.com/images/Frontend_Software_Engineer.pdf
The role of the software engineer is to build the humaniki web-app in
collaboration with the backend engineer and UX researcher. After receiving
the design specification from our community UX researcher, you will give
input into the stack and architecture. You develop web and
data-visualization features to make them ready for user testing, as part of
an iterative development cycle. Supporting a launch of the tool, you
monitor and fix bugs to make sure the application is robust for users.
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
Hi,
Here is the link to the video of Maggie Dennis office hour on community resilience and sustainability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGRXVx5EeCk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGRXVx5EeCk>
The themes evoked are important to our gender gap projects, as they include discussion on the future code of conduct and how to promote a safe contributing environment.
Kind regards,
Nattes à chat
Hello everyone,
In March, the Communications team at the Wikimedia Foundation is launching
a global social media campaign for Women’s History Month. The main goal of
this new campaign, starting March 5, is to share the Wikimedia movement’s
progress toward achieving greater gender equity, describe the challenges
that remain, and to invite others to participate in working toward greater
gender equity and representation in the movement.
As part of the campaign, we plan to highlight the amazing people and
initiatives that contribute to greater gender equity across the movement
via social media and the Wikimedia Foundation Medium account
<https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge?source=---------…>.
We are also creating a webpage on the Foundation's website that will
include community-created editing resources for new volunteers interested
in gender equity, as well as a list of events happening around the world
for Women’s History Month.
We would love to hear if you or your communities are running events or
projec*ts **related to gender equity this March* that we could highlight on
our website and social media accounts as part of the campaign.
If you have specific events that you are planning for Women’s History
Month, please email me off list with any relevant links to the event and we
can make sure that we include it on our webpage.
If you are interested in having your gender equity work highlighted on
social media by @Wikimedia channels, please fill out this short form
detailing your efforts and any associated accounts we should tag on social
media to help promote:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchEZ_-8jCJP6E6UQguy_MjOYgoNUfSyzN…
We will be sharing more information on how to get involved in the campaign
(including a social media toolkit with draft messages, graphics, and
hashtags) soon. We will also be creating a page on Meta-Wiki with more
information about the campaign.
We look forward to hearing from you, thank you!
Sam
Samantha Lien
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
I am Cristian and I am new to this list. I am not new to the movement, I
have been part of Wikimedia Italy for the last 12 years, 7 of which I
have spent serving in the board.
I wanted to share this project that I have just proposed for a project
grant:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Community_Health_Metrics:_Un…
We are team of 3 researchers from Eurecat, a research center in
Barcelona. We have quite an extensive experience doing research on
Wikipedia both on content and user interactions.
Our aim is to study editor's lifecycle to identify factors associated
with editors leaving the project and make what we discover available
through dashboards that can be used by the communities to plan further
actions.
In particular, the proposal includes a focus on gender and other factors
characterizing underrepresented groups, for example native language, or
country of origin. We plan to identify which user have disclosed
information about gender through userboxes (an approach already used in
the literature) and focus our analyses using that information.
We understand that this kind of analysis raises possible concerns
regarding privacy. For this reason, we plan to present results
aggregated and at page-level, not at editor level. We would love to hear
your feedback on these points.
We would like to involve the community as much as possible when choosing
on which metrics we should focus on, and we would like to hear your
feedback.
Thank you.
Cristian
I decided to join this mailing list when I saw it on another editor's
userpage. My experience with other mailing lists is Wikimedia-I, where I've
sent out the WMYHTW threads for the past month. Anyways, I'm interested in
the gender gap on Wikipedia, so it's probably a good idea to stay informed
via this mailing list.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss)
Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times – I will be
posting it to multiple mailing lists.
Wikimedia Norge would like to organize a regional Wikimedia Diversity
Conference in 2020 for Europe, with the hope of many other regional
conferences on the same topic being held in the near future. The Wikimedia
Diversity Conference 2020 will provide a meeting place for discussing,
debating and generating recipes for change concerning diversity in the
Wikimedia movement.
We will be sharing more updates regarding a possible conference later in
2020. For now, we are working on drafting a grant proposal to the Wikimedia
Foundation to support the conference. As part of the drafting the proposal,
a Community Engagement Survey is crucial to understand what community
members are expecting out of such conference. In that regard, Wikimedia
Norge invite all those who are interested in the topic of diversity to take
part in the survey.
Please take the survey here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEaXc2AIaaFgKiQUWCDdnJKLd26KA8_DD…>
or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEaXc2AIaaFgKiQUWCDdnJKLd26KA8_DD…
*Participants*
For a Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020 we would like to invite
participants who are decision-makers in the movement (volunteers, board or
staff members of a Wikimedia affiliate) or highly engaged in projects about
knowledge equity and diversity. The conference will be an opportunity for
the participants to discuss solutions for implementation of the 2030
movement strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20> on
knowledge equity.
Best regards,
*Jon Harald Søby*
Prosjektleder / Prosjektleiar / Prošeaktajođiheaddji / Project Manager
Wikimedia Norge / Wikimedia Noreg / Wikimedia Norga
+47 977 67 510
jhsoby(a)wikimedia.no
Hi gendergap-l members,
We are writing to let you know that the time is quickly approaching for the
next round of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Project Grants program. On January
21, we will launch the Round 2020/1 open call, with a final proposal
deadline of February 20 for all submissions. Importantly, this will be the
only open call for Project Grants in the current fiscal year, so we’d love
to get your help in making sure that your community is aware of this
funding opportunity, and has time to plan a proposal, if desired.
Should you become aware of prospective applicants, you can let them know
that:
-
Prospective grantees are welcome to reach out to
projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org with questions before the open call begins.
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We offer these pages on Meta to help applicants plan projects and
complete a grant proposal:
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Tutorials for writing a strong application <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Tutorial>
-
General planning page for Project Grants <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Plan>
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Program guidelines and criteria <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Learn>
Every round, we make our best effort to recruit committee members, who
volunteer to help review and make funding decisions about grant
applications. Would you also please take a moment to consider whether you
can suggest any individuals you think might make a strong contribution in
this role? Please consider:
-
Are there individuals who could offer strong insights into the regional
community that you would recommend?
-
Are there thematic areas you think are especially important for the
movement right now? Are there individuals with strong expertise in those
areas you think might be willing to volunteer for Project Grants committee
work?
-
Are there individuals whose judgement or skill sets have impressed you,
who might be willing to serve in this capacity?
Please let us know! We appreciate your help with these requests.
The full 2020/1 Round schedule is also listed on the Project Grants
proposal webpage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>, and is
also copied here for easy reference.
Round 1 2020 schedule
-
Open call: January 21 - February 20, 2020
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We will be planning virtual proposal workshops co-hosted by Project
Grants Program Officers and thematically relevant Wikimedia Foundation
staff members with expertise in GLAM, education, software, ets. The
workshops will support live, real-time discussions to support applicant
proposals.
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Proposal deadline: Thursday, February 20, 2020
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Staff eligibility review: February 21 - March 2, 2020
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Community review: March 3 - March 16, 2020
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Committee review: March 17 - April 8, 2020
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Grantees announced: Friday, May 15, 2020
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Grants disbursed: June 2020
You can contact us at projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org (reaching Marti Johnson,
Chris Schilling and Janice Tud) if you would like more information about
Project Grants or the upcoming round.
With thanks,
Chris and Marti
*Chris Schilling* (him/his/they/their)
User:I JethroBT (WMF)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>