Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Hi Micru, My understanding is that the thinking at WMF is that, if this campaign is successful, they may repeat Inspire with a different focus, perhaps global south, underrepresented languages, public health, or education programs. It could be very beneficial to involve affiliates in some of these programs. Affiliates might also be interested in running some of the projects in IdeaLab that have not yet been sponsored by WMF. Cheers, Pine Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/ *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:52 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Liam, that is true, originally I submitted an idea because of the specific topic of the campaign, which later on evolved into a more generic project which could potentially address other kind of issues. BUT, without the original hook, perhaps I would have never submitted anything. I hope the inspire campaign doesn't mean that it is the only way to do things. I wish to see chapters playing a role in the grantmaking process, assisting specially with internationalitation which seems a long standing issue. Cheers, Micru On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index - Wikipedia Buddy Group
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Liam, that is true, originally I submitted an idea because of the specific topic of the campaign, which later on evolved into a more generic project which could potentially address other kind of issues. BUT, without the original hook, perhaps I would have never submitted anything. I hope the inspire campaign doesn't mean that it is the only way to do things. I wish to see chapters playing a role in the grantmaking process, assisting specially with internationalitation which seems a long standing issue. Cheers, Micru On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - 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_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - 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_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns
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Thank you Liam for your nice comments. Hasive On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Micru, My understanding is that the thinking at WMF is that, if this campaign is successful, they may repeat Inspire with a different focus, perhaps global south, underrepresented languages, public health, or education programs. It could be very beneficial to involve affiliates in some of these programs. Affiliates might also be interested in running some of the projects in IdeaLab that have not yet been sponsored by WMF. Cheers, Pine Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/ *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:52 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Liam, that is true, originally I submitted an idea because of the specific topic of the campaign, which later on evolved into a more generic project which could potentially address other kind of issues. BUT, without the original hook, perhaps I would have never submitted anything. I hope the inspire campaign doesn't mean that it is the only way to do things. I wish to see chapters playing a role in the grantmaking process, assisting specially with internationalitation which seems a long standing issue. Cheers, Micru On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute
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Liam, thanks for writing this - as an early campaign critic, it means a lot to our team to see your updated thinking here! I see much value in running experiments that help us test our assumptions and refine our understanding of what works and what doesn't in this movement, and am glad to know that you agree this particular one has resulted in something useful w/o negatively impacting other projects. Cheers, Siko On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - 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_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - 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_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 -
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees
Hi Liam, I too am happy with many aspects of Aspire. However, the campaign scheduling and communications issues caused major headaches here in Cascadia, and was disruptive in other ways that I'd rather not document in a public list. The Community Resources and LE teams are aware of the specifics. I am hopeful that communications and scheduling will be planned more carefully in the future. Congrats to the grantees. I look forward to hearing about what you learn and achieve. (: Pine On May 1, 2015 2:36 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - 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_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - 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_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns
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Thank you, Liam, for the supportive positive comments. Sydney On May 1, 2015 5:36 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - 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_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - 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_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare ! - Just for the record https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record - Let's fill the gender gap Workshops
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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 wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 1 May 2015 at 23:01, Alex Wang aw...@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_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training - Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute - 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_Wikipedia - Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - 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_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare ! - 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_Workshops - Empowering Afrodescendant women in Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia What’s next: We hope you'll continue to engage with these projects as they
