Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Rapid Grants Closure May 14 - June 30, 2018

[Woubzena Jifar]

Hello Pine,

Many Wikimedians have been thinking a lot about the strategic direction and
how we might best position ourselves to move towards it. We in the
Foundation’s Community Resources team are planning some temporary changes
that will allow us some space and time to be part of building towards a
long term direction. Please keep that larger goal in mind as you read the
responses to your questions about Rapid grants:

1. Yes, you are correct in that the budget of the Rapid grants program was
originally 200,000 USD for this fiscal year, 2017-18. We have actually
recently allocated an additional 65,000 USD in Wikimedia Foundation funds
for this program, enabling us to fund grant requests already in the
pipeline and programs such as Wiki Loves Earth. During the last quarter, we
received a large increase in grant proposals for Rapid, and made over 70%
more grants in Q3 this year than last year. The 6-week closure will give us
time to process these and also allow the team to reflect on the program’s
needs and explore proactive ways the rapid grant program can reach out to
new grantees and find ways to collaborate with them better.

2. Regarding having a minimum of $500 for the rapid grants program, this is
something we’re experimenting with while we’re aligning to the new
strategic direction. Our preliminary data is showing that this change will
improve our ability to support communities, allowing for more impactful
grants with less overhead for a more effective use of our shared resources.
We also need to make reductions in the time spent processing grants this
year in order to make space for the considerable research and discussions
needed to implement the new strategy, and we need to consider whether the
impact of very small grants warrants their administrative expense.

3. On your third point of having the 1st - 15th of the month be an open
application time, this is also an experiment. We hope that this focused,
clear timeline will allow us to respond more quickly and help community
members understand the state of their application more easily.

Best regards,
Woubzena

Woubzena Jifar
Program Officer
Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation 
User: WJifar (WMF)

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Pine W  wrote:

> Hello Woubzena,
>
> I would like to remind you that I am waiting for a response to the email
> that I sent on April 19.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Pine W  wrote:
>
>> Hello Woubzena,
>>
>> I am glad to hear that the WMF Rapid Grants program has been so popular
>> that its original budget for the year is near exhaustion. I trust that
>> these funds are being spent wisely, and that community members and
>> affiliates are achieving valuable outcomes with these funds.
>>
>> I have some questions about this group of decisions.
>>
>> 1. My understanding is that WMF routinely underspends its quarterly
>> budgets for the organization as a whole. Also, WMF has ample funding in its
>> reserves. Because Rapid Grants appears to be a popular program and the
>> budget of this program appears to be relatively small (am I correct in
>> saying that the program's total budget for FY1718 is $200,000?), why has
>> WMF chosen to suspend the program instead of transferring a relatively
>> small amount of other funds, perhaps $50,000, to support this program
>> through the remainder of FY1718?
>>
>> 2. My understanding is that one of the original goals for Rapid Grants is
>> to support small projects and events in an efficient and timely manner. I
>> am puzzled by the decision to raise the floor for Rapid Grants to $500,
>> which seems to eliminate WMF funding for small projects that might not
>> happen without Rapid Grants support and/or require volunteers to take money
>> out of their personal funds to support Wikimedia projects and events. The
>> WMF Annual Plan for 2018-2019 is currently in a draft phase, and it seems
>> to me that the plan could be revised to support continuing the Rapid Grants
>> program with no floor, or perhaps a very low floor like $50, for funding
>> requests. If the FY1819 budget for Rapid Grants and/or the budget for staff
>> time for Rapid Grants needs to be increased in order to achieve the goal of
>> supporting small projects and events in a timely manner with minimal or no
>> floor, then it seems to me that the modest amount of additional funding to
>> accomplish this would be reasonable.
>>
>> 3. Similarly, if additional staff time is necessary to support continuous
>> processing of Rapid Grant requests instead of limiting requests to the 1st
>> through 15th of each month, then my inclination is to support the funding
>> for additional staff time in FY1819. Does that option sound reasonable from
>> your perspective? I realize that continuous processing might be less
>> convenient for WMF, but I think that support for the 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kio faras vin feliĉan tiu semajno? / What's making you happy this week?

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Ah, the rendering is not that great in full text, for those interesting, 
here is a HTML version: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psychoslave/Wiki_loves_love/wikimedia-l_announce



Le 01/05/2018 à 22:29, mathieu stumpf guntz a écrit :
Viki amas amon, Wiki loves love, विकी प्यार को प्यार करता है, ويكي 
تهوى الحب, and you can find it already translated in more than 50 
languages on the corresponding Wikidata Q52286144 item 
, all that in less than four 
days. Seeing so much effort to foster love, that for sure is a good 
reason to be happy. Please be bold in adding more translations, and 
help to spread more love across the movement and beyond.


But wait, what is Wiki loves love (WLL)? It's an international photo 
contest which aims at documenting love testimonials through human 
cultural diversity. From monuments to ceremonies, from miscellaneous 
objects used as symbol of love to tender gesture, let's show to the 
world how mankind express love everywhere and in so many ways.




/Wiki loves love/ is a rather active entry this week on Wikidata.



WLL Subtitled Logo (transparent).svg 




Interested to help? We are actively looking for people wanting to join 
our team and foster love in the Wikimedia world and beyond 
. 
Help from experienced people in other Wikimedia photo contests or 
other Wikimedia international projects would be especially useful, but 
all good will will be welcomed with warm love!


You can also provide your feedback and proposal to help in one of the 
following place:


 * The project on Commons
 and its
   talk page

 * The project description on meta
    and its talk
   page 
 * Telegram:
 o Wiki Loves Love discussion group
   
 o @WLL18 announce channel 

Special thanks you to Romaine and Rupika for their great efficient 
outreach work! You can help too, spread love, share WLL: in social 
networks, in your chapter, in your user groups, in your family, in 
your neighbourhood, because you know they all deserve more love!


If you love this initiative, but don't have much time to help, *please 
show your support to this project*, just edit the Meta page 
 
and at the end of the section copy/paste the following wikitext: *# 
*.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kio faras vin feliĉan tiu semajno? / What's making you happy this week?

[Rupika Sharma]

Thank You for sharing this Mathieu!

Best Regards
Rupika Sharma
Co-Founder
Punjabi Wikimedians
Ph - +918289087965
Email - ons3...@gmail.com

On 2 May 2018 at 01:59, mathieu stumpf guntz 
wrote:

> Viki amas amon, Wiki loves love, विकी प्यार को प्यार करता है, ويكي تهوى
> الحب, and you can find it already translated in more than 50 languages on
> the corresponding Wikidata Q52286144 item  /Q52286144>, all that in less than four days. Seeing so much effort to
> foster love, that for sure is a good reason to be happy. Please be bold in
> adding more translations, and help to spread more love across the movement
> and beyond.
>
> But wait, what is Wiki loves love (WLL)? It's an international photo
> contest which aims at documenting love testimonials through human cultural
> diversity. From monuments to ceremonies, from miscellaneous objects used as
> symbol of love to tender gesture, let's show to the world how mankind
> express love everywhere and in so many ways.
>
>
> 
> /Wiki loves love/ is a rather active entry this week on Wikidata.
>
>
>
> WLL Subtitled Logo (transparent).svg  ki/File:WLL_Subtitled_Logo_%28transparent%29.svg>
>
>
> Interested to help? We are actively looking for people wanting to join our
> team and foster love in the Wikimedia world and beyond <
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2018#WLL_team>.
> Help from experienced people in other Wikimedia photo contests or other
> Wikimedia international projects would be especially useful, but all good
> will will be welcomed with warm love!
>
> You can also provide your feedback and proposal to help in one of the
> following place:
>
>  * The project on Commons
> and its
>talk page
>
>  * The project description on meta
> and its talk
>page 
>  * Telegram:
>  o Wiki Loves Love discussion group
>
>  o @WLL18 announce channel 
>
> Special thanks you to Romaine and Rupika for their great efficient
> outreach work! You can help too, spread love, share WLL: in social
> networks, in your chapter, in your user groups, in your family, in your
> neighbourhood, because you know they all deserve more love!
>
> If you love this initiative, but don't have much time to help, *please
> show your support to this project*, just edit the Meta page <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki_Loves_Lov
> e=edit=4> and at the end of the section copy/paste the
> following wikitext: *# *.
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Kio faras vin feliĉan tiu semajno? / What's making you happy this week?

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Viki amas amon, Wiki loves love, विकी प्यार को प्यार करता है, ويكي تهوى 
الحب, and you can find it already translated in more than 50 languages 
on the corresponding Wikidata Q52286144 item 
, all that in less than four 
days. Seeing so much effort to foster love, that for sure is a good 
reason to be happy. Please be bold in adding more translations, and help 
to spread more love across the movement and beyond.


But wait, what is Wiki loves love (WLL)? It's an international photo 
contest which aims at documenting love testimonials through human 
cultural diversity. From monuments to ceremonies, from miscellaneous 
objects used as symbol of love to tender gesture, let's show to the 
world how mankind express love everywhere and in so many ways.




/Wiki loves love/ is a rather active entry this week on Wikidata.



WLL Subtitled Logo (transparent).svg 




Interested to help? We are actively looking for people wanting to join 
our team and foster love in the Wikimedia world and beyond 
. 
Help from experienced people in other Wikimedia photo contests or other 
Wikimedia international projects would be especially useful, but all 
good will will be welcomed with warm love!


You can also provide your feedback and proposal to help in one of the 
following place:


 * The project on Commons
    and its
   talk page
   
 * The project description on meta
    and its talk
   page 
 * Telegram:
 o Wiki Loves Love discussion group
   
 o @WLL18 announce channel 

Special thanks you to Romaine and Rupika for their great efficient 
outreach work! You can help too, spread love, share WLL: in social 
networks, in your chapter, in your user groups, in your family, in your 
neighbourhood, because you know they all deserve more love!


If you love this initiative, but don't have much time to help, *please 
show your support to this project*, just edit the Meta page 
 
and at the end of the section copy/paste the following wikitext: *# *.


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