We are a consensus-based volunteer committee with members who come from over 15 different wikis and collectively speak over 10 languages. We review grant applications in four categories: Research, Tools, Online Community Organizing, and Offline Outreach and Partnerships.
This round will also follow directly on the heels of the second Inspire Campaign, currently underway and focused on 'Content Curation and Review' so we expect that to be a prominent theme in the proposals this round.
Committee membership criteria
We look for the following qualities and qualifications in committee members:
Mandatory- Experience with the Wikimedia movement and at least one Wikimedia project.
- Experience with some aspect of Wikimedia programmatic or project-based work, e.g. editor engagement, WikiProjects or other on-wiki organizing processes, outreach, events, partnerships, research, education, gadget or bot-building, etc.
- Ability to edit basic wiki-markup (grant proposal discussions are largely conducted on meta-wiki).
- Reasonable facility with English, for reviewing and discussing grant proposals.
- In good community- and legal- standing (not currently blocked or banned, involved in allegations of unethical financial behavior, etc).
- Availability to actively engage in the selection process during the published schedule for that round (time commitment is about 3 hours per week, plus 1 extra day for scoring).
Preferable- Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an intended on-wiki or online impact.
- Experience handling externally provided money and working within budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
- Experience applying for grants or working in grants programs (in the Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
- Ability to read and write in multiple languages.
Acceptable- Members may apply for an Individual Engagement Grant themselves, but they will recuse themselves from reviewing proposals in the same category as their own during that round.
- Membership does not conflict with membership in other Wikimedia committees, including the Grant Advisory Committee or the Wikimania Scholarships Committee.