Thank you, Siko, that sounds encouraging. Samuel Klein I think has a point that "harassment" and "sexual harassment" are not necessarily the same, the second being more of a civil rights issue.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Siko Bouterse <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!* > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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