Bravo. A useful & thoughtful recap. SJ On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on > grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on > the history, evolution, and processes of the Wikimedia Grants Program (the > Foundation's first, and until fairly recently only, grants program). > > We were interested in an independent report by someone with a good > understanding of wikis and our shared values, and chose a local Wikipedian > named Kevin Gorman (User:Kevin Gorman), active on English Wikipedia, who > has volunteered in the Wikipedia Education Program and also had an (unpaid) > internship at the Foundation office in San Francisco for a few months in > 2011. Kevin was paid our standard contractor wage for his work on this. > > Kevin has posted the report here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Retrospective_2009-2012 > > I'd like to thank Kevin for his work. > > I invite anyone interested to read the report and discuss it on its talk > page. We believe your inputs will help us improve our current and future > processes, especially as we deepen and widen our grantmaking programs and > strategies. We look forward to a productive discussion. > > Please _do_ share this message and link with your respective communities > and lists; please _don't_ discuss this on the lists, but on the talk page, > so that Kevin can respond to questions, and so that I and others at WMF can > provide input as well. > > Cheers, > > Asaf > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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