Hi Neotarf, I've responded on-wiki as well, but to recap here: I, too, was impressed by the way the community showed up during Inspire to discuss harassment. Some of those 14 listed were early ideas, not all got fully fleshed out by community members into proposals with funding requests. Ultimately, few of the anti-harassment project plans were considered ready for funding by the grant committee who reviewed them. In some cases, that may be because the idea was deemed more suitably handled by a regular budget and staff support rather than 1-time funding for independent community members - online harassment is a really tough issue, and some aspects may need an organization behind them. In other cases, though, the lack of funding may just have been because the idea wasn't ready for implementation (it may have been missing team members, community backers, a research phase to determine whether the selected solution was feasible or likely to go somewhere, or something else). All full grant proposals were given feedback on the talk page by the committee about potential improvements, and we'd welcome future proposals to consider any ideas that have moved forward into actionable plans since then. Individual Engagement Grants will be accepting proposals in September, and Project and Event Grants accepts them year-round. Cheers, Siko
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the proposed budget for next year, yes harassment is likely to > be included in the general budget. > That's not necessarily a reason not to support other proposals, however; > I'm not sure the two are related. > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Neotarf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Inspire Campaign brought out a huge amount of interest in resolving >> the problem of sexual harassment. There were some 14 proposals made by 26 >> users. Someone brought all these proposals together on one page for >> discussion, but as far as I know, none of them was ever funded. The reason >> for this is uncertain; perhaps anti-harassment measures are better placed >> in the general budget than funded as one-time projects. I have pinged >> Siko (WMF) and Luis Villa (WMF) on the discussion page, and asked for more >> feedback about how to move forward with implementation on these issues. >> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_harassment_reporting#Note_to_the_WMF >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*
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