Identifying priority areas and directing resources (funds and human) toward
them is a non-controversial way to achieve goals.
This is exactly what is happening with this targeted campaign.
The grants team has made it clear that during this round it intends to work
with people and organizations that have urgent time sensitive needs.
It is a legitimate to question whether it makes sense to keep having an
ongoing open call for grant proposals instead of a period for targeted
requests when the top priorities of the wikimedia movement are not being
addressed with the current process.
That this particular targeted campaign is not *perfectly executed* does not
take this legitimate topic off the table.
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
* Sydney Poore wrote:
It appears to me that you are entirely missing the
actual nature of the
problem and the reason for having a campaign targeted at the gender gap.
The *problem* is that there have been a suboptimal number of grant
requests
for funds to address the gender gap even though it
a listed priority of
the
WMF.
Denying attention and funds to unrelated projects is not an appropriate
way to encourage people interested in "gender gap" to request funds.
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