@Richard I know that no public reports were released previously. But if it starts to be a habit, it will help elevate the transparency of the process.
Concerning the grid the Judges real names can be anonymized to be Judge 1, Judge 2 and so on. As for the "second guessing" issue, I think it can appear in many forms whether the report was published or not. As for your example, isn't it the case for all contenders (especially if they are strong ones) in any selection mechanism (be it bidding, elections or any other form) ?
And Richard thank you for all your efforts as a judge and taking the effort to reply on our concerns in this thread. Holding such responsibilities is a huge burden and makes the person vulnerable to critics, whether they are deserved or not.
@Nathan Totally agree! This would be a great start.
Kind Regards, Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
No, Aya, I don't think there will be a public report - I don't think it's happened in previous years.
I for one would not be happy with making my marking grid public because
the
bidders didn't know that the marking grids were going to be made public - and for that matter, neither did I! I am also a little worried about
being
"second-guessed" by the community at large. Imagine, *for example,* if
the
jury was split down the middle, with half hating the Mexico bid and half loving it: it could be very damaging for the volunteer team morale to
show
that not everyone supported them, and it might damage the conference. Perhaps in future it would be a good thing to do...
However, I see where you're coming from - it would be good to have
feedback
on the individual bids for posterity's sake, and to make sure that
mistakes
or omissions aren't repeated in future...
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
Maybe start by releasing the blank grid? Meta has judging criteria, but I don't see a grid. Does the jury bottom line the grid scores and then average them up? Maybe that "final score" by the jury as a whole could be released to the parties who submitted bids? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe