Thank you, Siko, that sounds encouraging.
Samuel Klein I think has a point that "harassment" and "sexual
harassment"
are not necessarily the same, the second being more of a civil rights issue.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi Neotarf,
I've responded on-wiki as well, but to recap here:
I, too, was impressed by the way the community showed up during Inspire to
discuss harassment. Some of those 14 listed were early ideas, not all got
fully fleshed out by community members into proposals with funding
requests. Ultimately, few of the anti-harassment project plans were
considered ready for funding by the grant committee who reviewed them. In
some cases, that may be because the idea was deemed more suitably handled
by a regular budget and staff support rather than 1-time funding for
independent community members - online harassment is a really tough issue,
and some aspects may need an organization behind them. In other cases,
though, the lack of funding may just have been because the idea wasn't
ready for implementation (it may have been missing team members, community
backers, a research phase to determine whether the selected solution was
feasible or likely to go somewhere, or something else). All full grant
proposals were given feedback on the talk page by the committee about
potential improvements, and we'd welcome future proposals to consider any
ideas that have moved forward into actionable plans since then. Individual
Engagement Grants will be accepting proposals in September, and Project and
Event Grants accepts them year-round.
Cheers,
Siko
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Looking at the proposed budget for next year, yes
harassment is likely to
be included in the general budget.
That's not necessarily a reason not to support other proposals, however;
I'm not sure the two are related.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Neotarf <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Inspire Campaign brought out a huge amount of
interest in resolving
the problem of sexual harassment. There were some 14 proposals made by 26
users. Someone brought all these proposals together on one page for
discussion, but as far as I know, none of them was ever funded. The reason
for this is uncertain; perhaps anti-harassment measures are better placed
in the general budget than funded as one-time projects. I have pinged
Siko (WMF) and Luis Villa (WMF) on the discussion page, and asked for more
feedback about how to move forward with implementation on these issues.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_hara…
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