I think Florence resumed quite well what I was trying to express. It’s not a criticism - its a fact : I would have been happy to chat with her to understand the ligic behind the recent rapid grant changes. Kind regards, Nattes à chat
> Le 16 sept. 2019 à 13:14, Florence Devouard <fdevou...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Sorry to say Jane, but your answer strikes me as being completely beside the > point :( > > The issue Natachat was raising is related to funding our local activities, a > situation currently made difficult by the new rapid grant system (*) She gave > the example of the Art and Feminism, but this is a single example and other > projects are also impacted by those changes. > I do not see how a problem with WMF funding scheme could be solved by talking > to other volunteers. I very much doubt Natachat would need Valerie to explain > her how to set up and run a local project on gender-gap issues. We are > slightly beyond this... > > The bottom line is that the community engagement department changed a LOT in > the past few months, with arrivals and departures. And this department is > essential for the smoothness of volunteer-run initiatives. > > So yes, it was to be expected that the project leads would have been happy to > meet WMF staff to have the opportunity to better understand the changes and > the new directions the WMF is heading to. > > Florence > > > * in the new system, grant requests for some targetted drive (such as art and > feminism or wiki loves) must be made during specific time frame. The idea in > itself is not a bad one and could help the grant team to be more efficient. > The problem is that the agenda is too tight, which means volunteers have to > start activities before they get the financial support and to a certain > extent even start the activities before they get the approval of support. > >> Le 16/09/2019 à 08:45, Jane Darnell a écrit : >> As far as Art+Feminism goes, this project concentrates on biographies of >> female artists. The English Wikipedia project "Women in Red" is open 24x7 >> all year round and concentrates on biographies of women on English >> Wikipedia, period. So you can take all of your local Wikipedia questions >> about A+F to your local WiR women for each non-English Wikipedia, and if >> there is no overlap yet, I suggest starting your own local A+F/WiR in your >> local Wikipedia. We should probably start a multi-lingual one for Commons, >> since it has proven so difficult to get pictures of female artists to >> illustrate articles about them. >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:27 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < >> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> Thank you Thierry. To be honnest a few of us were really waiting for >>> Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement because we had >>> questions for her about the new rapid grant funding agenda which seems >>> totally inadapted to volunteer’s need in terms of flexibility. One has to >>> wait a soecific month for Art+feminism and very often the timing has not >>> been adapted to when the events are actually taking place. For a volunteer >>> this is way too procedural. We need more flexibility. >>> We had other questions regarding the departure of several people which >>> were very important for the gender gap. >>> So ... Some of us were disappointed indeed. >>> Kind regards, >>> Natacha >>> >>> >>> >>>> Le 15 sept. 2019 à 20:02, Thierry Coudray <tcoud...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>>> >>>> Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement, >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
