Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 18:33, Henry Wood wrote: > Is the subject being a Wikimedian relevant to whether or not material > should be published? In practice items about Wikimedians are /more/ likely to be deleted than equivalent items about non-Wikimedians. I know of cases (mostly now reversed, th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-10 Thread Jasper Deng
Hello all, Speaking as an admin of Wikidata, someone having an item on the project should never be a criterion for a scholarship. That would not be fair to those who weren't lucky enough to get an item (I would probably delete any item made on any of you (in this thread) unless you meet one of our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-10 Thread Henry Wood
Risker > I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who is > widely known. I did not say you had. I said that the common view on the projects you support is that the consent of the person written about is not necessary and that volunteers have a right to create that mat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-10 Thread Pete Forsyth
Back to the original question (which is an interesting and worthwhile one, surely applicable to many events across the movement), I would hope that the WMF has some ability to provide guidance on these matters, or failing that, the committees who have put together other conferences (e.g., WikiCite,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-09 Thread Isaac Olatunde
I completely agree with Risker here. In the recent time, most (if not all) Wikipedian of the year award recipients now have a Wikipedia article. One would wonder if Wikipedia of the year award confers notability. This is not to disrespect our WOTY but I do honestly feel that users who are not not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-09 Thread Risker
I've never created a Wikidata profile about anyone, not even someone who is widely known. I've never created or edited a biographical article about someone who isn't really obviously notable, and who has a broad and widely known profile as verified in multiple non-Wikimedia (or Wikipedia/Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-09 Thread ferdinando traversa
I don't think Wikidata was projected to do this :D Should we instead create a WikiEventsHub with Wikibase installed? Regards, Ferdinando. Il giorno lun 7 ott 2019 alle ore 22:39 Lane Rasberry ha scritto: > Hello, > > I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even > whe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-09 Thread Henry Wood
Risker > I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata > profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation. ... and yet you are an energetic volunteer for projects that assert the right to do that to other people? Henry _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-08 Thread
The Wikidata profiles is a bit of a tangent, here's another nudge that the thread is really about best practices for managing scholarships for volunteers. Now indulging the tangent myself :-), care will be taken for all attendees for this planned LGBT+ conference to feel safe and welcome by partic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For any and all other conventions those giving a presentation are notable per the completeness of informing and linking to the presentations. Quite often people have presented before and only when these presentations are linked through their presenter it is possible to make the connection. Tha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Jan Ainali
Besides any other aspects, most scholarship recipients are probably not notable. When I suggested to create items for all of the Wikimania sessions I perceived it as concensus (in the Wikidata telegram group) that they were not notable. So unless they already are notable (and already should have an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation. Making financial support contingent on adding one's name to a publicly editable database does not seem to be particularly wise, nor for that matter particul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Vi to
Making their data publicly available? Yiiikes! Vito Il giorno lun 7 ott 2019 alle ore 22:39 Lane Rasberry ha scritto: > Hello, > > I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even > when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in > Wikidata so tha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Lane Rasberry
Hello, I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants. I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but