Hi there, Wikimedians,
I am writing to let you know that the WMF Community Resources team is closing one of our smaller funding programs, Travel and Participation Support (TPS) [1]. *TPS will no longer accept applications as of May 1, 2018.*
Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement outreach program. It reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian volunteers who present about Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of the grants restructure following our 2015 Reimagining Grants consultation. [2] As we have redesigned our grant programs to better meet the needs of our stakeholders, we are no longer resourced to support TPS as a separate program.
*We will continue to* *support travel requests as part of our other grant programs*, as follows:
*Rapid Grants* will now fund travel requests for non-Wikimedia events from individuals for up to $2,000 USD, prioritizing applications that include all of the following: * Wikimedian presenters who have a special area of expertise in relation to their target audience (for example, a psychology professor who is sharing about Wikimedia projects at an academic conference for other psychology professionals) * outreach activity with a training component and a plan for online follow-up providing ongoing mentorship and support (editing training, editathon, etc.) * regional travel requests under $2,000 USD
*Rapid Grants* will continue to fund travel expenses for local Wikimedia events. Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
*Conference and Events Grants* will continue to support travel scholarships for Wikimedia events. Note that this funding is awarded to conference organizers who then manage requirements for participants. Requests for more than $10,000 USD are required to start the application process 6 months before the date of the proposed event. Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference
*Wikimania Scholarships* will continue to support travel scholarships for Wikimania. Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars
You can contact me directly if you have any questions.
Warmly, Katy Love
*[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Implem... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Implementation *
On 12 March 2018 at 18:08, Katy Love klove@wikimedia.org wrote:
Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement outreach program. It reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian volunteers who present about Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of the grants restructure following our 2015 Reimagining Grants consultation.
*We will continue to* *support travel requests as part of our other grant programs*, as follows:
For the sake of clarity, please could you state what types of applications (if any) will no longer be supported, which would have been supported previously?
Hello there Andy,
Sure thing.
Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events to create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase the likelihood that their participation will have an impact on other attendees. In TPS, we sometimes funded people who were presenting a talk at an event like an academic conference. We will no longer fund Wikimedians to attend non-Wikimedia events to present a talk. Now we ask that applicants include additional elements in their plan besides presenting a talk, such as hosting edit-a-thons, offering trainings or meet-ups, and/or arranging for follow-up activities online after the event. Our intention here is
Occasionally, the TPS program received requests to support international travel with budgets that were slightly over $2,000 USD. These requests came in infrequently, but that type of grant request would be impacted by this change. This change is aligned with our intention to focus on more regional travel requests, which tend to be more cost-effective than international travel requests (though this is of course very context specific!).
Take good care, Katy
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 12 March 2018 at 18:08, Katy Love klove@wikimedia.org wrote:
Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement outreach program.
It
reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian volunteers who present about Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of the grants restructure following our 2015 Reimagining Grants
consultation.
*We will continue to* *support travel requests as part of our other grant programs*, as follows:
For the sake of clarity, please could you state what types of applications (if any) will no longer be supported, which would have been supported previously?
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Hello again, everyone!
Whoops! Let me try again, this time without the unfinished sentence.
Hello there Andy,
Sure thing.
Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events to create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase the likelihood that their participation will have an impact on other attendees. In TPS, we sometimes funded people who were presenting a talk at an event like an academic conference. We will no longer fund Wikimedians to attend non-Wikimedia events to present a talk. Now we ask that applicants include additional elements in their plan besides presenting a talk, such as hosting edit-a-thons, offering trainings or meet-ups, and/or arranging for follow-up activities online after the event.
Occasionally, the TPS program received requests to support international travel with budgets that were slightly over $2,000 USD. These requests came in infrequently, but that type of grant request would be impacted by this change. This change is aligned with our intention to focus on more regional travel requests, which tend to be more cost-effective than international travel requests (though this is of course very context specific!).
Yours sincerely, Katy
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Katy Love klove@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello there Andy,
Sure thing.
Rapid Grants will require Wikimedians who travel to non-Wikimedia events to create a more robust engagement plan. The reason for this is to increase the likelihood that their participation will have an impact on other attendees. In TPS, we sometimes funded people who were presenting a talk at an event like an academic conference. We will no longer fund Wikimedians to attend non-Wikimedia events to present a talk. Now we ask that applicants include additional elements in their plan besides presenting a talk, such as hosting edit-a-thons, offering trainings or meet-ups, and/or arranging for follow-up activities online after the event. Our intention here is
Occasionally, the TPS program received requests to support international travel with budgets that were slightly over $2,000 USD. These requests came in infrequently, but that type of grant request would be impacted by this change. This change is aligned with our intention to focus on more regional travel requests, which tend to be more cost-effective than international travel requests (though this is of course very context specific!).
Take good care, Katy
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 12 March 2018 at 18:08, Katy Love klove@wikimedia.org wrote:
Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement outreach
program. It
reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian volunteers who present about Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of the grants restructure following our 2015 Reimagining Grants
consultation.
*We will continue to* *support travel requests as part of our other
grant
programs*, as follows:
For the sake of clarity, please could you state what types of applications (if any) will no longer be supported, which would have been supported previously?
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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