On 15-02-25 09:37 AM, Edward Saperia wrote:
if they hit their
fundraising target [...]
Your idea is provocative, and intriguing, but I think that - at least in
this form - it is doomed to fail because it actually steps around what
makes kickstarter-like crowdfunding work.
(a) people put
This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while
thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising...
Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on
programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of projects
- education, outreach,
I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia movement
would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a comprehensive
review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in favor
of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap campaign.
Of course you're very correct that there are many projects sitting around
asking for scrutiny - the difference here is the (potential of) funding
would be default yes instead of default no, with the discussion just around
the priority. I expect that would attract a lot more attention very quickly
I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people
propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice
banners. When clicked on, readers are taken to the individual project pages
and donate to them directly, rather than donating into a central pot.
(a)
In your scheme, items would not get moved up to be considered if they are
not popular enough, right? From my experience working on wikimedia global
committees, it would be likely that the volume of requests would be much
larger than the capacity of the wikimedia movement to evaluate them. People
Well, you could create a guideline that said In the interest of
innovation, we should try and fund a diversity of projects and then with
the community hash out what dimensions you care about for diversity in this
context, and how far from equality you are happy to go without artificial
On 15-02-25 11:15 AM, Edward Saperia wrote:
I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people
propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice
banners.
Ah, I indeed hadn't. My understanding was that you wanted to substitute
for the grants
