[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: India grants and communication to Wikimediaindia-l

Hello, After the launch of the current grant process, formation of the Regional Grants Committee, announcement and commencement of round 1 applications, it is probably good to revisit this thread. I hope that the Wikimedia Foundation grants team and Regional Grants Committee (SAARC) would kindly consider these over-all process-related notes. Here are a few observations about the "over-all process"— A 1) Major Indian grant requests should come to India mailing list. The term "major" can be defined by an amount (more than "₹" amount) or any other criteria (region coverage, project coverage, duration etc). Possibly RGC (SAARC) can kindly set up criteria? 2) I would suggest separate email threads for "major" grant requests, however if this list gets too many emails, I would suggest to please send at least a digest email clearly briefing the grant proposals. 3) Please consider making this step a mandatory one, and mark applications "invalid" or "incomplete" unless the step is properly done. 4) This should not be done only as formality, and the community should be allowed at least 7 to 10 days' time to comment. I would request RGC to start reviewing only after this period. 5) There might be moderation and other issues in the list, and can be handled separately. B 1) Please consider working on an "Appropriate notification/canvassing policy" (or guideline). This can be a document covering best practices, and also possible inappropriate behaviours such as excessive canvassing, votestacking, back-scratching, meatpuppetry etc. Please see a similar thread I started on Wikimedia-l at [1] 2) It would be good to have a direct communication option with RGC (SAARC). I suggest kindly make this on-wiki. Possibly this can be created in form of a noticeboard at Grants_talk:Regions/SAARC or at Grants:Regions/SAARC/Noticeboard This or similar process may be replicated in other SAARC countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, and other regions also depending on the relevant community request. I'll be happy to voluntarily add inputs or work on any of the things mentioned above such as A1, B1 etc. Thanks, User:Titodutta (In volunteer capacity) Footnotes [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… রবি, ১০ জানু, ২০২১ তারিখে ১০:৫৫ AM টায় তারিখে Tito Dutta < trulytito(a)gmail.com&gt; লিখেছেন: