Funny.
Gerald: "What do YOU hope" [again YOU*] Me: "My point is not important here" Gerald:" When your point of view is that other people spending money is wrong because it does not conform to your ideas"
???
I don't have a point, I'm asking "Success for whom?" I asked that, and "you did not answer the question", I'm not have a argumentation, I'm asking because I can't see any benefit, as a Brazilian, as a Wikimedia Commons volunteer, as a Wikimedia Movement volunteer. You did not answer that also, and use some ad hominem for??
And:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk%3APEG%2FWikimedia_C...
WMF ignored us and approved this. And WLE and WLM at this moment in Brazil is not a good investment to donated money. I'm doing other thinks that are resulting in Featured Pictures and Quality Images, and approaching the university, you are not seeing, because we don't burn WMF money. And money is not to burn, is to invest. Sample of work: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Illustration_Programme, see the rate of QI and FP per photo, and the money used (zero), and WP used. I will not list all here because this is not about me, it was just to refuted your statements "When your ideas do not work", "did you not do this job", ...
"Money is there to burn as long as it probably leads to results"
Results, results for whom? Which results? For the Wikimedia Movement? If it is, I can't see they delivering any good result, that's why so many "negativity".
I'm not worried about spending money, I'm worried about the bad used of money, pay for contribution, and to make it worse, receiving very low quality of work.
Again "Success for whom?"
On 31 October 2015 at 14:06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, So you did not answer the question. What is it that you aim to achieve. I get words, no ideas, nothing. Only negativity.
Money is there to burn as long as it probably leads to results. The results should not be compared with what is done elsewhere when elsewhere is incomparable. When your point of view is that other people spending money is wrong because it does not conform to your ideas, then I pity you because why did you not do this job, why did you allow that situation to exist in the first place. When your ideas do not work, you may indeed blame others. Fine, move on. Thanks, GerardM
On 31 October 2015 at 16:15, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton < rodrigo.argenton@gmail.com> wrote:
Gerard,
This "you" is for me? Right?
Well I'm really asking here for whom this was successful, and tried to explore the several layers that could be impacted by this.
My point is not important here, but this is a conversation, so:
Measure of success: Wikimedia Commons receiving a good impact by this, new active volunteers that understand "free" "elaborative" "volunteers", new good quality
images,
new documentation to facilitate the penetration of new comers. [1] At least 100 featured pictures for each 1'000 USD invested[2], and at
least
10% of retention with those characteristics listed.
Wikipedia having a bunch of articles illustrated, with good quality
image,
and receiving more volunteers willing to help, increasing not only the illustration of the article, but also the article it self. [3] At least 10 featured articles or 30 four stars articles, of those
National
Parks mentioned for 1'000 USD invested. For being a Featured Article amd fou star at WP-pt, images are a must have.
"off-line", this activity involving several volunteers that would create activities to spread the Wikimedia Movement outside the Wiki word, facilitating the journey to get in the Free Culture.
And the more 30'000 USD that I was referring was about WLE 2014/15 and
WLE.
WLE 2014 they talked about 20'000 USD in this event, and we will not
have a
clearance on that, because they use the Brazilian Program to burn this money, and we don't have any serious report, and evaluation from the community, see the report [4].
Fae, I did some raw comparatives for this WLE 2014:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bad_usage_of_money_in_B...
And tried to bring the readers to the local reality, this waste of money was totally ridiculous. WLM made this comparatives also. We can put some "price" to that.
I started this email before Padula's answer, "we receive more
international
community support than local support ", because the local community know you, don't trust in you, they isolated you, and some of them have very strong opposition to your permanence in Wikimedia Movement. [5] But we
are
not talking about you.
[1] I would like to see Wikimedia Commons volunteers be involved in the process, to create more clear, précised, and aligned rules for the
contest,
otherwise they will use Commons as a uploader, ignoring the community,
and
creating some issues, as massive deletion necessities. Also they have participate in Commons community, because during those contests
volunteers
of Commons had to help their contester, not knowing what is going on, or having a unexpected demand, as several questions in Portuguese in help cafes, and none volunteer who speaks pt ready there (I tried to help, but I'm not omniscient and omnipresent). (Same happened for Mexico contest). And they did not oriented about Wikimedia Commons, the legacy left by the contest was a ocean of "humm... okay", or over-processed downsized
images.
The ones that received the quality approval of the community, normally
had
to be edited by us. New volunteers, new documentation, quality images or else, nothing was created.
[2] I know how much cost me to produce a Featured Picture, and it's something very close to that.
[3]Lets take the first five images of the contest, and their respective articles:
1° - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajedo_de_Pai_Mateus 2° - don't have a article for that. (image not in use) 3° - don't have a article for that. 4° - article about the city: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Jos%C3%A9_dos_Ausentes (image not in use) 5° - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambaba (image not in use).
All of those had images to illustrate the article before it shows up,
and 3
of 5 are not in use in any WP... 3 of 5 in the winners, less then 2% in total are in use, and normally just adding one more photo to the article, not illustrating the article, or receiving better images. This would be avoid, if the coordination had a conversation with the local community
and
listed articles without any picture, or very poor ones. Most of those stills with none image... samples: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_da_Amaz%C3%B4nia https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_Serra_da_Mocidade https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_da_Serra_da_Cutia https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_de_Paca%C3%A1s_Novos https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_de_Serra_das_Lontras .... check:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_parques_nacionais_do_Brasil,
see the number of red links
and just for fun, try to open the first articles about beaches in this list: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_praias_de_Santa_Catarina
Understand four star articles.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predefini%C3%A7%C3%A3o:Escala_de_avalia%C3%A7%...
[4] the only report https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth/2014
values on this report 13.000 + 6.950,00 + 13.900,00 + 2*( 2.500,00 + 1.500,00 + 1.000,00) = 43'850 BRL ~ 20'000 USD at the time. So 11'000 + ~20'000 = 30'000 USD!
and how long it takes to WMF gating 30'000 USD? Any one know how much
Latin
America donated to WMF? 30'000 USD is money.
[5]some samples of local community interacting with Padula's "ideas":
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Brazilian_Group_of_Education_...
https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio_Discuss%C3%A3o:Rodrigo_Padula follow the thread:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediabr-l/2014-August/015754.html
...
On 31 October 2015 at 09:52, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
We have many years of running these very similar projects. It should be possible to compare the value of outcomes against each other to see if some use better practices than others, and then to help assess future grant proposals for their potential value against estimated costs.
I agree that outcomes are more than quantity of images, and the large WMF programme evaluation training had precisely the aim of ensuring that all funded projects would apply non-subjective measures of value (i.e. investment per image, investment per new editor, investment per new article are all measurable). One issue raised was the poor quality of a significant number of images, and quality should be part of the measurability of claimed outcomes. The original post in this thread mentioned that 86 photographs have been used on Wikipedia, this is a reasonable measure of quality, though investing $11,000 for this outcome is probably an unfair comparison, so others are needed.
When programmes include competitions with prizes, then this requires special attention at the grant stage due as, again, we have experienced several controversies around programmes reliant on this method.
We may wish to change the thread title, but the governance questions raised are relevant and are best not dismissed with "stop wasting our time on an email thread which should be about good PR".
Fae
On 31 October 2015 at 11:28, Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com
wrote:
On 31.10.2015 12:12, Fæ wrote:
On 31 Oct 2015 11:00, "Ilario Valdelli" valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
On 31.10.2015 11:46, Fæ wrote: > > Hang on. Could I have an independent reality check; is that really
$7
> per photograph? > > Fae
30.000 is exact, but they are 30.000 Real which means 11.000 USD.
Cool. So about $2.50 per image.
This looks expensive compared to my upload projects (the last
500,000
images have cost $0.00 in total) but perhaps the benchmark is better
when
measures against other WLM projects.
Anyone have the numbers to show comparative value?
Fae
Using a bot to collect images in internet probably would have been
lesser
than 0$ per image.
Anyway the real calculation of an impact of a project is not so
simple.
Because if we would use the same parameters, people reading this
thread
have
spent more than 5 minutes, and calculating the sum of people reading
this
thread we can calculate a big time waste.
We can say that this thread is really time-expensive without
producing
a
real impact. But we know that this mailing list is done to help the communication and not to calculate the time waste, so a thread like
this
is
accepted.
I have put the links, it's sufficient to read the measures of the
success to
know that the aim of the project is not to produce only images.
Kind regards
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