I feel that way about all of them, except maybe StrepHit and Vietnamese categories (Pan-Scandinavian lang is on the border imo)
I feel like the only things really being assessed here is the reputation of the author, if the funding is orders of magnitude off-base, if the goal is remotely in scope of strategic goals, and if the author said anything outright ridiculous in the proposal. Most of them don't even have a definition of a minimum viable product that you could use to determine if the grantee actually even completed the proposal as promised. -- -bawolff On 10/6/15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Disclaimer: I was a founding member of IEGCom, for a time I was one of its > coordinators, and I currently have a grant proposal for this round of IEGs. > > Comment: if you think that a proposal needs further development before > funding it, please say so on that proposal's talk page. When I was on the > Committee, I found it helpful to have public comments to read; the > responsiveness and articulateness of grant proposers when replying to > public questions and comments was also a factor that I considered when > evaluating proposals. And as a grantee, I find that good-faith comments > help me to improve my proposal. > > Thanks for your interest in IEG! > > Pine > On Oct 6, 2015 8:05 PM, "Brian Wolff" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/6/15, Chris Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hey folks, >> > >> > Applicants for the current round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) >> have >> > submitted many proposals that involve new tools, bot tasks, and other >> > technical elements. I’ve provided the list of these proposals and brief >> > descriptions below. >> > >> > Your feedback in these technical proposals is requested! If one of >> > these >> > ideas interests you, consider reading it over, and feel free to endorse, >> > express concerns, make suggestions, and ask questions. Your input and >> > expertise will help the applicants develop better proposals, and support >> > the IEG Committee during their evaluation. Comments are requested until >> > October 19th. >> > >> > With thanks, >> > >> > Jethro >> > >> > ---- >> > >> > Wiki Needs Pictures >> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures> >> >> Developing a map to show entities around the world that need >> >> photographs >> > on Wikipedia >> > >> > >> > Wikimedia Maps Rendering Improvements >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimedia_Maps_Rendering_Improvements >> > >> >> Improving road labels and borders on Wikimedia Maps >> > >> > >> > Wikimaps Warper 2.0 >> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0> >> >>Refactoring Wikimaps Warper code to make the project more accessible for >> > volunteer contributions >> > >> > >> > Alt Text Tools < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Alt_text_tools> >> >>Tool to make it easier to improve text alternatives for images >> > >> > >> > Batch Uploader for Small GLAM Projects >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_projects >> > >> >>Creating a simple batch uploader for small-to-medium entry level partner >> > institutions. >> > >> > >> > Bot Development for Azerbaijani Wikipedia >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Bot_Development_for_Azerbaijani_Wikipedia >> > >> >>Developing a translation bot for Azerbaijani Wikipedia >> > >> > >> > Proofreading semiautomatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_the_Catalan_Wikipedia_with_LanguageTool >> > >> >>Proofreading the whole Catalan Wikipedia using the LanguageTool with the >> > help of scripts and appropriate supervision. >> > >> > >> > Color Blindness Content Checker >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Color_blindness_content_checker >> > >> >>Make Wikipedia chart and diagrams color blind accessible >> > >> > >> > Pan-Scandinavian Machine-assisted Content Translation >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assisted_Content_Translation >> > >> >>Creating more machine translation language data for use in Content >> > Translation, for Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål+Nynorsk projects. >> > >> > >> > StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References >> > >> >>Creating a process that extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata >> > statements with reference URLs. >> > >> > >> > Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia >> > < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Categories_for_Vietnamese_Wikipedia >> > >> >>Generating new categories for small-scale & medium-scale Wikipedias >> >> where >> > editors are lacking. >> > >> > -- >> > Chris "Jethro" Schilling >> > I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> >> > Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation >> > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> It would be nice if before asking for general review, the proposals >> were vetted to have sufficient detail. Some of these seem to be "I >> want X$ to do Y, and I'm not going to tell you how I plan to do Y, or >> how I determined X$ is needed, or even give a detailed definition of >> what Y is". >> >> For a grant proposal, I'd expect to see budget justifications, time >> estimations broken down by rough sub tasks, a general plan of attack, >> potential risks and how the grantee plans to mitigate them, user >> acceptance criteria, etc >> >> >> -- >> -bawolff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
