Sorry to say Jane, but your answer strikes me as being completely beside the point :(
The issue Natachat was raising is related to funding our local activities, a situation currently made difficult by the new rapid grant system (*) She gave the example of the Art and Feminism, but this is a single example and other projects are also impacted by those changes. I do not see how a problem with WMF funding scheme could be solved by talking to other volunteers. I very much doubt Natachat would need Valerie to explain her how to set up and run a local project on gender-gap issues. We are slightly beyond this...
The bottom line is that the community engagement department changed a LOT in the past few months, with arrivals and departures. And this department is essential for the smoothness of volunteer-run initiatives.
So yes, it was to be expected that the project leads would have been happy to meet WMF staff to have the opportunity to better understand the changes and the new directions the WMF is heading to.
Florence
* in the new system, grant requests for some targetted drive (such as art and feminism or wiki loves) must be made during specific time frame. The idea in itself is not a bad one and could help the grant team to be more efficient. The problem is that the agenda is too tight, which means volunteers have to start activities before they get the financial support and to a certain extent even start the activities before they get the approval of support.
Le 16/09/2019 à 08:45, Jane Darnell a écrit :
As far as Art+Feminism goes, this project concentrates on biographies of female artists. The English Wikipedia project "Women in Red" is open 24x7 all year round and concentrates on biographies of women on English Wikipedia, period. So you can take all of your local Wikipedia questions about A+F to your local WiR women for each non-English Wikipedia, and if there is no overlap yet, I suggest starting your own local A+F/WiR in your local Wikipedia. We should probably start a multi-lingual one for Commons, since it has proven so difficult to get pictures of female artists to illustrate articles about them.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:27 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thank you Thierry. To be honnest a few of us were really waiting for Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement because we had questions for her about the new rapid grant funding agenda which seems totally inadapted to volunteer’s need in terms of flexibility. One has to wait a soecific month for Art+feminism and very often the timing has not been adapted to when the events are actually taking place. For a volunteer this is way too procedural. We need more flexibility. We had other questions regarding the departure of several people which were very important for the gender gap. So ... Some of us were disappointed indeed. Kind regards, Natacha
Le 15 sept. 2019 à 20:02, Thierry Coudray tcoudray@gmail.com a écrit :
Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement,
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