I did!
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jane,
Read!
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2014-December/0076…
From February 1-April 30, PEG will only accept
proposals as part of the gender gap campaign, with the exception for
urgent
requests.
This means regular projects will not be accepted. That is effectively
shutting the grantmaking down.
Of course we will not let WLM to be shut down. But this grantmaking
shutting down is very demotivating and discouraging, for many organisers.
This is also counter productive in solving the gender gap problem.
Romaine
2015-01-03 18:10 GMT+01:00 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>om>:
Teemu,
Of course! Not only that, but I think that an internal survey already
shows
that WLM attracts a higher percentage of female
contributors than any
other
project that measured it. Don't assume by the
subject heading of this
thread that any WLM project is being shut down. In fact, nothing is being
shut down.
Jane
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Leinonen Teemu <teemu.leinonen(a)aalto.fi>
wrote:
Hei,
5 cents: would it make a difference if the Wiki Loves Monuments / Art
project plans (and others) will explicitly promise that, for instance,
the
gender (f/m) balance of the participants (n 500)
will be 40/60 and +50%
of
> them will be new editors?
>
> This would be meet the strategic objectives.
>
> -Teemu
>
> On Sat Jan 03 2015 05:27:47 GMT-0500 (COT), Romaine Wiki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some disturbing news entered my mailbox the past days. The grant
making
> team
is going to shut down the grantmaking process for Project and
Event
> > Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) for three full
> months!
> >
> > They have decided that they want to focus only on a specific
strategic
> > priority: the gender gap, and that all
other good projects are
refused
for
> 3 months (February-April).
>
> Having more attention to a strategic priority is fine to me. Having
more
> > attention to the problem of the gender gap, sounds good to me as
such,
we
> can use much more projects and content in
those areas. But that does
not
> > mean that many many volunteers who are organizing other projects
should
become the victim of other projects.
This is a negative signal to all those volunteers who are currently
working
on project plans to be submitted in February,
March and April. Good
projects to be ignored, just because the WMF think those are less
important. They say this is a positive campaign, but this sounds as a
negative campaign to me. This discourages many volunteers in doing
projects.
And even worse: this is only to be generally announced 2 weeks before
that
> period of shutting down starts! (this sounds like a joke, sadly it
isn't)
To organize a good project volunteers (yes, we are still unpaid! and
organize these projects in our spare time!) we need the time to
communicate
well with all our partners and sponsors, and need
the time to come up
with
a good project plan with a stable basis. Rushing
a project in just a
couple
> of weeks time is very unpleasant and does not help in getting a good
> quality project. And announcing it two weeks before the period
indicates
> > that organizers aren't taken seriously (enough).
> >
> > For example, we are currently planning to organize Wiki Loves
Monuments
> in
> > 2015 again, the world wide contest to have a better documentation and
> > better display of all the cultural monuments worldwide, recognised as
> > largest photo contest in the world by Guinness World Records. We are
> > currently working on forming a team and want to have a good stable
plan
to
> be submitted within some weeks, but now we need to rush. And yes we
need
to
> start in January/February or it will be too late to organize it
properly.
> >
> > Also all the national teams of Wiki Loves Monuments, the
international
> team
> > recommend all the national teams to start in January/February, to
have
a
> > proper organisation together with various local partners and
sponsors,
but
> now all these teams are delayed for three months.
>
> And a personal project of mine in Belgium, I am planning to organize
Wiki
> > Loves Art in Belgium, together with various partners and sponsors. We
> > intent to start in February, but now have to rush to get such done.
> >
> > By the way: did you know there is a Belgium Gap? Belgian subjects are
> > relatively less and worse described on the various Wikipedias.
> >
> >
> > This shutting down results in:
> > * Discouraging many volunteers who are planning to submit good
project
> > proposals.
> > * Having volunteers rushed with project plans, which lowers the
quality
of
> the plans.
> * Having volunteers being late and delayed with projects, for no good
> reason.
>
> Grantmaking is intented to support the communities, not frustrating
them.
WMF: stop
this negative campaign!
And for all project teams who want to organize a gender gap project:
great
> you organize this, it is very very welcome! But I like to make a
> suggestion: submit the proposal on the first day after the shutting
down
> > period to give a strong signal to WMF that shutting down is a bad
idea.
>
>
> It is time for a new strategic priority: closing the Community Gap.
That
> is
> > the gap between WMF and the local communities worldwide. It is not
new,
> it
> > exists for many years already. (It resulted also in the drama of the
> > situation around the Mediaviewer in 2014, the drama with the Visual
> Editor
> > in 2013, etc. in what WMF didn't sense well the community.) (Maybe
the
> gap
> > is less between WMF and the English speaking part of the world, but
the
> > world is larger. We have many people
around the world who are speak a
> > different language. WMF is not sensing the worldwide community well
> > enough.)
> > Finally we should do more about this Community Gap.
> >
> > For those celebrating: I wish you a happy new year with great
projects
> that
> > make every single human being freely share in the sum of all human
> > knowledge!!
> >
> > Romaine
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