Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are: * Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation * Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access * How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances * When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting * How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped... and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae
Hello,
I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants.
I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are:
- Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation
- Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access
- How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances
- When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting
- How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped... and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae -- Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
LGBT mailing list LGBT@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt
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I don't think Wikidata was projected to do this :D Should we instead create a WikiEventsHub with Wikibase installed?
Regards, Ferdinando.
Il giorno lun 7 ott 2019 alle ore 22:39 Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com ha scritto:
Hello,
I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants.
I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are:
- Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation
- Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access
- How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances
- When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting
- How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped...
and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae -- Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
LGBT mailing list LGBT@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt
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Making their data publicly available? Yiiiiiiikes!
Vito
Il giorno lun 7 ott 2019 alle ore 22:39 Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com ha scritto:
Hello,
I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants.
I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are:
- Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation
- Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access
- How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances
- When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting
- How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped...
and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae -- Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
LGBT mailing list LGBT@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt
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I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation. Making financial support contingent on adding one's name to a publicly editable database does not seem to be particularly wise, nor for that matter particularly equitable; dozens if not hundreds of Wikimedians who have received sponsorships/scholarships to date live in places where publicly linking oneself to Wikipedia or its sister projects could be actively harmful to them. There are very, very few reasons for requiring a Wikimedian to publicly provide information about themselves in this way.
Getting back to the original question: a lot of what would constitute best practices depends on the purpose of the scholarship. Is it a local or regional event? Is there a particular focus on the event (e.g., development of technical skills such as a hackathon, leadership education, new editor recruitment, a particular wikiproject such as Wikisource or Wikiquote, etc.)? Are there particular underrepresented groups that you want to encourage? All of these are worth considering, so that scholarships can be targeted in a way that is most likely to achieve the goals of the event.
Also...consider whether you want to extend scholarships to people with a "proven track record" primarily, or to those who are new or even not yet part of the community. If you're going for the "proven track record" objective, consider what you'd count in favour of evidence of engagement: local/regional/chapter/user group activities, on-wiki activities, holding roles of responsibility either onwiki or offwiki, publishing research about Wikimedia projects, years involved, etc.
Finally, decide what you want to ask the scholarship recipients to give you in return. Do you want them to commit to writing a report? commit to sharing information with other groups/local editors/etc?
I'd encourage those offering scholarships to be forthright in identifying the criteria that will be used to assess the applicants in advance, as much as possible. If this is a large event and you'll be making an open invitation for scholarship applicants, it's important that you tell them what kind of applicant you are looking for, what the scholarship includes and excludes (e.g., travel, registration, accommodation, meals or per diem), and what you expect in return for the scholarship.
Risker/Anne
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 16:39, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello,
I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants.
I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are:
- Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation
- Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access
- How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances
- When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting
- How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped...
and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae -- Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
LGBT mailing list LGBT@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt
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Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation.
... and yet you are an energetic volunteer for projects that assert the right to do that to other people?
Henry
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who is widely known. I've never created or edited a biographical article about someone who isn't really obviously notable, and who has a broad and widely known profile as verified in multiple non-Wikimedia (or Wikipedia/Wikimedia-related) sources.
No, I would never create an article about a Wikimedian - or a Wikidata profile either - unless they are clearly and obviously notable outside of our little microcosm. Frankly, with very few exceptions, almost nobody whose "notability" is primarily related to this movement is actually notable in the strictest reading of the policies of most of our Wikipedia projects. As far as I'm concerned, most of the Wikipedia/Wikimedia/other project-related articles on most of our projects are a prime example of navel-gazing rather than actual notability.
Further, I think it's terrible use of Wikidata to use it to store what are essentially the personnel records of Wikimedia volunteers.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 09:52, Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com wrote:
Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation.
... and yet you are an energetic volunteer for projects that assert the right to do that to other people?
Henry
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I completely agree with Risker here. In the recent time, most (if not all) Wikipedian of the year award recipients now have a Wikipedia article.
One would wonder if Wikipedia of the year award confers notability.
This is not to disrespect our WOTY but I do honestly feel that users who are not notable apart from receiving the award does not merit a Wikipedia article.
Regards,
Isaac
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 4:10 PM Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who is widely known. I've never created or edited a biographical article about someone who isn't really obviously notable, and who has a broad and widely known profile as verified in multiple non-Wikimedia (or Wikipedia/Wikimedia-related) sources.
No, I would never create an article about a Wikimedian - or a Wikidata profile either - unless they are clearly and obviously notable outside of our little microcosm. Frankly, with very few exceptions, almost nobody whose "notability" is primarily related to this movement is actually notable in the strictest reading of the policies of most of our Wikipedia projects. As far as I'm concerned, most of the Wikipedia/Wikimedia/other project-related articles on most of our projects are a prime example of navel-gazing rather than actual notability.
Further, I think it's terrible use of Wikidata to use it to store what are essentially the personnel records of Wikimedia volunteers.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 09:52, Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com wrote:
Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation.
... and yet you are an energetic volunteer for projects that assert the right to do that to other people?
Henry
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Back to the original question (which is an interesting and worthwhile one, surely applicable to many events across the movement), I would hope that the WMF has some ability to provide guidance on these matters, or failing that, the committees who have put together other conferences (e.g., WikiCite, WikiConference, etc. etc.) The WMF used to do some detailed work on this, though my information is now nearly a decade out of date, I'm pretty confident they still do. I'd suggest reaching out to the grants folks at WMF and asking if they can pull something together.
Pete -- User:Peteforsyth
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:20 AM Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree with Risker here. In the recent time, most (if not all) Wikipedian of the year award recipients now have a Wikipedia article.
One would wonder if Wikipedia of the year award confers notability.
This is not to disrespect our WOTY but I do honestly feel that users who are not notable apart from receiving the award does not merit a Wikipedia article.
Regards,
Isaac
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 4:10 PM Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who
is
widely known. I've never created or edited a biographical article about someone who isn't really obviously notable, and who has a broad and
widely
known profile as verified in multiple non-Wikimedia (or Wikipedia/Wikimedia-related) sources.
No, I would never create an article about a Wikimedian - or a Wikidata profile either - unless they are clearly and obviously notable outside of our little microcosm. Frankly, with very few exceptions, almost nobody whose "notability" is primarily related to this movement is actually notable in the strictest reading of the policies of most of our Wikipedia projects. As far as I'm concerned, most of the Wikipedia/Wikimedia/other project-related articles on most of our projects are a prime example of navel-gazing rather than actual notability.
Further, I think it's terrible use of Wikidata to use it to store what
are
essentially the personnel records of Wikimedia volunteers.
Risker/Anne
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 09:52, Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com
wrote:
Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a
Wikidata
profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable
legislation.
... and yet you are an energetic volunteer for projects that assert the right to do that to other people?
Henry
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Risker
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who is widely known.
I did not say you had. I said that the common view on the projects you support is that the consent of the person written about is not necessary and that volunteers have a right to create that material. Indeed, I would go further, and say that it is not unknown for subjects who object to personal information being published to be treated with scorn, contempt and ridicule. Do you accept that, and if so, do you condone it?
No, I would never create an article about a Wikimedian - or a Wikidata profile either - unless they are clearly and obviously notable outside of our little microcosm.
Is the subject being a Wikimedian relevant to whether or not material should be published?
Further, I think it's terrible use of Wikidata to use it to store what are essentially the personnel records of Wikimedia volunteers.
Indeed, in some jurisdictions it is likely to be unlawful.
Henry
Hello all,
Speaking as an admin of Wikidata, someone having an item on the project should never be a criterion for a scholarship. That would not be fair to those who weren't lucky enough to get an item (I would probably delete any item made on any of you (in this thread) unless you meet one of our notability guidelines -- which are less strict than Wikipedia but still essentially must pass CSDA7). Not everyone is comfortable having their information on an item, and in most cases no one will be able to verify that information even if the person consents, since it most likely won't have reliable sourcing.
Wikidata is emphatically not a LinkedIn or Facebook for us. It's a knowledgebase for the whole world.
I also think all the ethics about posting someone's private information on Wikidata is kind of off-topic in this thread. It shouldn't be a basis of anyone's application anywhere. It's fundamentally not fair. Metrics for conferences should be fair while furthering the conference's objectives.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:48 AM Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com wrote:
Risker
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who
is
widely known.
I did not say you had. I said that the common view on the projects you support is that the consent of the person written about is not necessary and that volunteers have a right to create that material. Indeed, I would go further, and say that it is not unknown for subjects who object to personal information being published to be treated with scorn, contempt and ridicule. Do you accept that, and if so, do you condone it?
No, I would never create an article about a Wikimedian - or a Wikidata profile either - unless they are clearly and obviously notable outside of our little microcosm.
Is the subject being a Wikimedian relevant to whether or not material should be published?
Further, I think it's terrible use of Wikidata to use it to store what
are
essentially the personnel records of Wikimedia volunteers.
Indeed, in some jurisdictions it is likely to be unlawful.
Henry
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 18:33, Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com wrote:
Is the subject being a Wikimedian relevant to whether or not material should be published?
In practice items about Wikimedians are /more/ likely to be deleted than equivalent items about non-Wikimedians.
I know of cases (mostly now reversed, thankfully) where items about the authors of academic papers - and so clearly meeting Wikidata's notability criteria - were deleted *because* the author was also a Wikimedian.
In one case, an item was deleted by the subject Wikimedian himself, with no prior discussion. Despite this glaring conflict of interest, it has never been restored.
Besides any other aspects, most scholarship recipients are probably not notable. When I suggested to create items for all of the Wikimania sessions I perceived it as concensus (in the Wikidata telegram group) that they were not notable. So unless they already are notable (and already should have an item) getting the scholarship will not make them notable.
/Jan Ainali (skickat på språng så ursäkta min fåordighet)
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 22:39 Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello,
I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants.
I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are:
- Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation
- Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access
- How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances
- When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting
- How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped...
and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae -- Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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Hoi, For any and all other conventions those giving a presentation are notable per the completeness of informing and linking to the presentations. Quite often people have presented before and only when these presentations are linked through their presenter it is possible to make the connection. Thanks, GerardM
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 00:05, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Besides any other aspects, most scholarship recipients are probably not notable. When I suggested to create items for all of the Wikimania sessions I perceived it as concensus (in the Wikidata telegram group) that they were not notable. So unless they already are notable (and already should have an item) getting the scholarship will not make them notable.
/Jan Ainali (skickat på språng så ursäkta min fåordighet)
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 22:39 Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello,
I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants.
I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria.
We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon, to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events? Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before finalizing our policies are:
- Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide geographic representation
- Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of ensuring wider access
- How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those travelling long distances
- When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for applications and reporting
- How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
this may not be the cheapest option
You can read the conference proposal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikiped...
and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than email. :-)
Thanks Fae -- Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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