Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-28 Thread Pine W
Stuart, As far as I know, grant applicants for WMF grants have never been required to comment or share information regarding grant proposals other than their own. I think that in the past, WMF staff or grant review committee members have solicited feedback for groups of grants. I think that

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-28 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
Hi Chris This, for me, is a diversity issue. Over the years I only seem to give feedback on grants when prompted by someone (it's been my only involvement in grants to date) and every time a potential grantee has prompted me to take a look at their grant, some other grant seems even better than

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-14 Thread Chris "Jethro" Schilling
Hi Stuart, We ask Project Grant applicants to invite feedback from relevant communities on their proposals, such as on this mailing list. While I understand it is helpful for folks to be aware of all research-related Project Grant proposals, this is something you should ask a program officer for.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-12 Thread Jackie
Hi Stuart, Ouch! That sounded a little pointy. If anyone is curious and cannot find the link to the open project grant proposals, you can use this link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications Best, Jackie On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:24 PM Stuart A. Yeates wrote: >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-12 Thread Pine W
For what it's worth, I'm completely fine with people requesting feedback on research-related grant proposals to WMF on Research-l, including individual proposals. My only objection here is to the use of all caps. I'm speaking only for myself and others may have different opinions. Thanks, Pine (

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-12 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
If there's a deadline coming up for supporting research proposals, how about doing the right thing and post a link to all the research proposals? cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 02:26, Jackie wrote: > > Hi Friends, > > I submitted a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

2020-03-12 Thread Pine W
Hello, I have a request, and this is only from my personal perspective and not anything official. Please do not use all caps like this on Wikimedia mailing lists. It comes across as SHOUTING, and what is important or urgent for one person may not be important or urgent for the dozens, hundreds,