I would mention that in your comments.
Pinging Siko to see if she wants to share a grantmaker's perspective. (Siko
is dealing with some of the fallout from Wikimaniagate, so I'm not sure if
she will respond.)
Pine
On Oct 6, 2015 9:10 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I feel that way about all of them, except maybe
StrepHit and
Vietnamese categories (Pan-Scandinavian lang is on the border imo)
I feel like the only things really being assessed here is the
reputation of the author, if the funding is orders of magnitude
off-base, if the goal is remotely in scope of strategic goals, and if
the author said anything outright ridiculous in the proposal.
Most of them don't even have a definition of a minimum viable product
that you could use to determine if the grantee actually even completed
the proposal as promised.
--
-bawolff
On 10/6/15, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Disclaimer: I was a founding member of IEGCom,
for a time I was one of
its
coordinators, and I currently have a grant
proposal for this round of
IEGs.
Comment: if you think that a proposal needs further development before
funding it, please say so on that proposal's talk page. When I was on the
Committee, I found it helpful to have public comments to read; the
responsiveness and articulateness of grant proposers when replying to
public questions and comments was also a factor that I considered when
evaluating proposals. And as a grantee, I find that good-faith comments
help me to improve my proposal.
Thanks for your interest in IEG!
Pine
On Oct 6, 2015 8:05 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/6/15, Chris Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > Applicants for the current round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG)
> have
> > submitted many proposals that involve new tools, bot tasks, and other
> > technical elements. I’ve provided the list of these proposals and
brief
> > descriptions below.
> >
> > Your feedback in these technical proposals is requested! If one of
> > these
> > ideas interests you, consider reading it over, and feel free to
endorse,
> > express concerns, make suggestions, and
ask questions. Your input and
> > expertise will help the applicants develop better proposals, and
support
> > the IEG Committee during their
evaluation. Comments are requested
until
> > October 19th.
> >
> > With thanks,
> >
> > Jethro
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Wiki Needs Pictures
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures>
> >> Developing a map to show entities around the world that need
> >> photographs
> > on Wikipedia
> >
> >
> > Wikimedia Maps Rendering Improvements
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimedia_Maps_Rendering_Improve…
> >
> >> Improving road labels and borders on Wikimedia Maps
> >
> >
> > Wikimaps Warper 2.0
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0>
> >>Refactoring Wikimaps Warper code to make the project more accessible
for
> > volunteer contributions
> >
> >
> > Alt Text Tools <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools>
> >>Tool to make it easier to improve text alternatives for images
> >
> >
> > Batch Uploader for Small GLAM Projects
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_pr…
> >
> >>Creating a simple batch uploader for small-to-medium entry level
partner
> > institutions.
> >
> >
> > Bot Development for Azerbaijani Wikipedia
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Bot_Development_for_Azerbaijani_…
> >
> >>Developing a translation bot for Azerbaijani Wikipedia
> >
> >
> > Proofreading semiautomatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_t…
> >
> >>Proofreading the whole Catalan Wikipedia using the LanguageTool with
the
> > help of scripts and appropriate
supervision.
> >
> >
> > Color Blindness Content Checker
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Color_blindness_content_checker
> >
> >>Make Wikipedia chart and diagrams color blind accessible
> >
> >
> > Pan-Scandinavian Machine-assisted Content Translation
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assiste…
> >
> >>Creating more machine translation language data for use in Content
> > Translation, for Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål+Nynorsk
projects.
> >
> >
> > StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va…
> >
> >>Creating a process that extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata
> > statements with reference URLs.
> >
> >
> > Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia
> > <
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Cate…
> >
> >>Generating new categories for small-scale & medium-scale Wikipedias
> >> where
> > editors are lacking.
> >
> > --
> > Chris "Jethro" Schilling
> > I JethroBT (WMF) <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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It would be nice if before asking for general review, the proposals
were vetted to have sufficient detail. Some of these seem to be "I
want X$ to do Y, and I'm not going to tell you how I plan to do Y, or
how I determined X$ is needed, or even give a detailed definition of
what Y is".
For a grant proposal, I'd expect to see budget justifications, time
estimations broken down by rough sub tasks, a general plan of attack,
potential risks and how the grantee plans to mitigate them, user
acceptance criteria, etc
--
-bawolff
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