Hi all,
This round of proposals to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) presents a new and
interesting challenge - that of reviewing the entirety of the Wikimedia Foundation's
(WMF's) plan for the next year. As part of the FDC process, the WMF/FDC staff normally
assemble a staff assessment of each proposal. In this case, however, the WMF/FDC staff
have a potential bias here, since their work is included in the WMF's proposal.
As a result, we have asked Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE), the second largest entity in our
movement, to do the staff assessment of the WMF's proposal, and they have agreed to do
this. WMDE will be adapting the framework of the standard staff assessment as they see fit
in order to appropriately assess the WMF's proposal; the main expectation we have is
that they will help identify the key strengths and weaknesses of the proposal in their
assessment. They will be sharing their assessment with the WMF on the 7th May, on the same
day that the FDC staff will share their assessments with the other applicants, in both
cases to check for factual inaccuracies. The assessment will be posted publicly on the 8th
May, on the same day that the FDC staff will publicly post their assessments.
We would also like to encourage the other Wikimedia organisations to review the WMF's
proposal, and to post comments and questions on the talk page for the proposal. It goes
without saying that we also encourage Wikimedia community members to also review the
WMF's proposal, and the other proposals in this round, and to similarly post comments
and questions. Community feedback is important for the FDC work. The FDC will take all
feedback into account during its deliberations next month. We will also be inviting
specific community members with particular experience/skills to ask for their input on the
proposals; please get in touch if you have any suggestions of community members that
should be invited to do this.
Thanks,
Dariusz and Mike on behalf of the FDC
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