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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Dariusz and Mike -
I think this is a horrible idea. WMDE is a direct beneficiary of both the
WMF and the FDC decisions, and cannot be considered impartial in assessing
the WMF proposals.
I also question whether or not WMDE has the skill-set necessary to make the
equivalent of a 'staff assessment' of the proposals, particularly in view
of the FDC's comments about their goal-setting and assessment of outcomes
for their own proposal.[1]
Instead I suggest that the FDC seek authorization from the Board for an
independent third party review if it feels that there is not the necessary
ability for the FDC to produce its own assessment. Any assessment by the
WMDE should represent its own perspective.
Risker
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