I haven't yet had time to look over the grantee organizations, and the
general issue of funding non-Wikimedia efforts has been fairly well-covered
by statements from all four recently-elected trustees, so I'm just going to
take a moment to bring up some points about the specific process used here:
Gnangarra, the first round of grantees with this pilot fund was based on
suggestions from the Equity Fund Committee itself, as the Equity Fund was
being created. However, we recognize that, for example, this round does not
include any grantees based in Asia, and our goal is to concentrate in those
Hello all,
The September Wikimedia Research Showcase will be on September 15 at 16:30
UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme will be "socialization
on Wikipedia" with speakers Rosta Farzan and J. Nathan Matias.
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVqabVvLIZU
Talk 1
For starters, I would like to thank outgoing board members DocJames and
Raystorm for their service to the community by dedicating a lot of time on
board meetings, processing tons of mail, and so on.
Mario, you are right. An increase in the number of seats will increase the
diversity given a
A reminder that our office hours are upcoming, in a little less than three
hours at 3PM UTC.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:47 PM Alex Stinson wrote:
> Hi Movement Organizers,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Campaign Product team will be hosting our first
> Campaigns Product Office hour on September 9,
Fully agree with Mike.
Also, rather than focusing on how different voting schemes would have
affected some candidates to be one position up or down, wider diversity and
representativity could be achieved by just electing 8 seats from community
elections.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:47 PM Mike Peel
