Making a bunch of unsupported and mostly unrelated accusations of bad faith is usually not a great way of raising support for your grant request. Long rants about how more money would be needed without even a hint of what that money would be used for are also unhelpful. I recommend letting this thread die and then starting a fresh one about the mission impact of the Wikidata conference and how it could be raised by a larger budget.
I would also recommend talking with the other organizers first, as right now it is unclear whether you are complaining about the WMF not willing to give a larger grant or about the organizers not feeling the need for one.
(FWIW the WikidataCon budget is ~75.000 EUR, planned to be supported by a 36.000 EUR WMF grant and a 40.000 EUR WMDE grant.)
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:52 PM, David Cuenca Tudela dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Recently the review for the Wikidata conference grant application has started, and I have complained that the funds allocated are insuficient to cover the needs of the grants. The requested amount for the grants was 36,000 EUR, but in my opinion that should be at least 72,000 EUR.
I have the feeling that the WMF is sitting on a pile of money just giving breadcrumbs to the community, and the community has to suffer in silence about this stinginess. What can we do as a community to request with a clear voice the funds that we need?
Why are there two standards? One standard seems to be that everything that the WMF needs to allocate can go unsupervised, whereas another standard seems to apply to community activities where every penny is so supervised that it becomes a pain in the ass to organize anything big.
The Wikidata Conference needs more funds to be a success and I think that in the grand scheme of things, the money requested is just peanuts compared to the money that the WMF has collected from donors.
If things have to be done well, then the community has every right to claim the money from the donors. The WMF has no right to appropriate that money and use it as a hammer to sabotage events that could have a real impact like the Wikidata Conference.
I request that the amount of funds allocated for grants to be increased from 36,000 eur to 72,000 eur, and this is an informed request that I perform both as a community member and as a member of the Wikidata Conference Grants Committee.
The link to my complaint can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Conference/ WMDE/WikidataCon#Complaint_about_this_grant_application
The link to the Wikidata Conference Grants Commitee can be found here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/ Volunteer/Scholarships_committee
I hope to have some feedback about this complaint. Thank you, Micru _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe