Dear friends and colleagues, Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on the history, evolution, and processes of the Wikimedia Grants Program (the Foundation's first, and until fairly recently only, grants program). We were interested in an independent report by someone with a good understanding of wikis and our shared values, and chose a local Wikipedian named Kevin Gorman (User:Kevin Gorman), active on English Wikipedia, who has volunteered in the Wikipedia Education Program and also had an (unpaid) internship at the Foundation office in San Francisco for a few months in 2011. Kevin was paid our standard contractor wage for his work on this. Kevin has posted the report here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Retrospective_2009-2012 I'd like to thank Kevin for his work. I invite anyone interested to read the report and discuss it on its talk page. We believe your inputs will help us improve our current and future processes, especially as we deepen and widen our grantmaking programs and strategies. We look forward to a productive discussion. Please _do_ share this message and link with your respective communities and lists; please _don't_ discuss this on the lists, but on the talk page, so that Kevin can respond to questions, and so that I and others at WMF can provide input as well. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Asaf Bartov wrote: Hi. I haven't had a chance to read the report yet, but I just want to say thank you for the transparency here. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l