Congratulations on bringing to the surface these 16 project ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how these specific projects go, and also to seeing if they can become replicable models for future activities and help solve the broad gender-gap problem.
When the "inspire campaign" was first announced I was critical - not of the importance of the topic - but whether the method of "focusing attention on only one topic" was a good idea. By focusing grants on one topic, would that be beneficial to that topic or would it simply be detrimental to all other topics?
It seems the answer is that SPECIFICALLY INVITING people to apply for grants on a specific topic DOES draw out many and various good ideas. Without that specific invitation, it is likely that only a proportion of these would ever have been submitted, and an even smaller number actually funded.
Furthermore, it don't believe any of the grant applications that were underway on other topics were delayed or negatively affected because of this project.
So, congratulations WMF grants team on trialling an innovative and tricky idea. Let's hope the 16 projects prove to be successful!
-Liam / Wittylama
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On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang awang@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi All,
Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects.
In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding.
The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity.
You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/.
The funded projects are:
- Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_G...
- Gender gap admin training
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training%3E
- Survey women who don't contribute
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_cont...
- Wikipedia Gender Index
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index
- Wikipedia Buddy Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group
- Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties
- More Female Architects on Wikipedia
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikiped...
- Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists'
participation and representation on Wikipedia < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:...
- Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the...
- Wikineedsgirls
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls
- Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia...
- Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Add...
- Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_... !>
- Just for the record
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record
- Let's fill the gender gap Workshops
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Let%27s_fill_the_gender_gap_W...
- Empowering Afrodescendant women in Wikipedia
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_wom...
What’s next:
We hope you'll continue to engage with these projects as they begin work in coming months and offer your experience and ideas!
Meanwhile, our regularly scheduled grant programs continue :)
A number of ideas and grant proposals from the campaign are still in development. Over the coming year, we'll continue to encourage people to make changes based on feedback and our Project and Event Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG and Individual Engagement Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG programs will be happy to continue to receive new or adjusted proposals aimed at increasing gender diversity during regular funding cycles along with all other topics.
A full analysis of the Inspire campaign is in progress, and in coming weeks we'll be sharing findings from a traffic analysis and a participant survey. Stay tuned for another update in mid-May on what we learned from the Inspire experiment, what worked, what didn't, and recommended steps for the future.
Many thanks to all of you that contributed to this campaign with proposals, ideas, feedback and suggestions!
Cheers,
The Inspire Team
-- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project & Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe