Hello,
I am grateful to you for sharing your inputs on this thought.
Sushant, I was trying to get an estimate of how many such emails might
come. If needed, we can count only those grants or supports which are
slightly larger in size. Starting from Rapid Grant, I do not have the exact
count of how many Rapid Grant application from/related to the regions per
year. I guess it will be around 10–12/year. Other grants such as Project
Grant, Simple APG, APG etc open up at a specific time (mostly twice a
year). I glanced through the recent grants pages and my hunch is actually
it won't be too many. However you are right, possibly we can check how many
emails the list could have got in 2020. In case if there could be too many
emails, I think the suggestion you have made— fortnightly/monthly email
works pretty well. If needed, the email can be treated as "for information
purpose" and as much as possible the discussion can take place on the
relevant talk page on Meta-Wiki. Thanks, Sushant for your inputs.
Thank you, Pavan for sharing your thoughts. I am not sure about this, I
feel the moderators/managers can work to fix it if the emails are getting
delayed somehow. Some time ago, I don't remember where exactly, I saw a
similar post on some other large mailing list. On Telegram Wikimedia
General Chat also I remember seeing volunteers came in to help in
moderation.
(On a similar note: an email to Wikimedia-l a few days ago informed about
an upcoming plan to review the grants strategy. Our this discussion is not
directly related to that. However as this is going to be an important
activity, one may consider reading:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2021-January/096086.html )
Thanks
As User:Titodutta
রবি, ১০ জানু, ২০২১ তারিখে ১২:২৩ PM টায় এ pavan santhosh <
pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com> লিখেছেন:
Hello Tito,
Many of us are already doing this but before making it a more formal
process/ part of a best practice some issues need our attention. This
brings the question of active adminship of the Wikimediaindia-l mailing
list. Many times, mails to Wikimediaindia-l mailing list did not appear in
the list even after several days. Sometimes mails got published (do not
know technicality, so excuse me for using these terms) even after several
days of the deadline/event/activity. I do not know the reasons or issues in
maintaining the list, but thought it would be helpful to bring this up now.
To sum up: If we aim to get state-level, project-level, and other kinds of
grants posted here, we need to help several communities and many community
members understand the necessity, but in the first place, we need to fix
issues in maintaining this space before asking them to come here and post.
I believe we can do it together and would like to see comments from other
community members too.
Regards,
Pavan.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:55 AM Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Namaskara,
This might be some food for thought, and inputs are welcome. India
mailing list is the largest and most widely used Wikimedia mailing list for
the Indian community. Could we have a practice that all grant requests from
the country (or related to) are informed on the Wikimediaindia-l mailing
list?
Whether it is a state-level, project-level, language-level etc, or
whether it is a rapid grant, project grant etc it would be good to see the
plan details on this mailing list in advance. It will ensure greater
visibility, and it will also ensure the community's understanding/knowing
of each other's projects.
If we can have a practice like this, we can inform Wikimedia, or CR team
or relevant support structure(s) as an India community practice.
This post is in my personal capacity. Please assume good faith
Regards,
User:Titodutta
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