On 10/24/2012 3:38 PM, James Salsman wrote:
The Funds Dissemination Committee was originally
proposed by Sue to
the board with explicit support for both groups and individuals,[1]
but at some point after, all mention of individual editors was
removed.[2]
Could someone please say whether this was the decision of the board,
someone else's decision, or a mistake? I ask because I have reason to
believe that about 18% of English Wikipedia administrators are living
below the poverty line, and it seems that support for such individual
editors is reasonable. Local fire departments and the International
Red Cross both have paid personnel and volunteer staff working
alongside each other without any motivational crowding.
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_Prop…
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Eligibility_criteria I suspect you
may have formed for yourself a rather different conception
of the proposed system than what was actually contemplated. To your
first footnote, I find it strange that you would focus on the section
headed "Application process and timeline" for an eligibility question
when there's a section immediately above it regarding eligibility, and
that section is exclusively about groups (entities), not individuals.
The page in your second footnote is pretty clearly an expansion of that
eligibility section, so it's not surprising if they're consistent with
each other.
If I understand things correctly, anything in the FDC materials that
refers to individuals receiving funds should probably be interpreted as
referring to the Wikimedia grants program, which does invite individual
applicants and will continue on as far as I'm aware. The grants program
as a whole would naturally be under the purview of the FDC, but that's
at another level of the process, so individuals wouldn't be directly
participating in the FDC process in that sense.
--Michael Snow