The beginning of a contentious thread on the Wikimedia mailing list about
Project and Event Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement Grants (IEG):
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-January/076243.html
An earlier official explanation here:
On 6 January 2015 at 09:38, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote:
The beginning of a contentious thread on the Wikimedia mailing list about
Project and Event Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement Grants (IEG):
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-January/076243.html
An earlier
Hi Lightbreather,
One of my hopes is that writing up ideas like yours in IdeaLab during the
campaign could help you better gage interest and opposition to something
like this, as you pointed people to the idea for feedback - one of the
reasons for running a focused, time-bound campaign is to get
Well, I don't know if I did it right, but per Sarah's and Siko's
suggestion, I started this:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women
Just bare bones for now. I will work on it some more tomorrow.
Lightbreather
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Cool idea. I added some questions on the talk page.
Kaldari
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:35 PM, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I don't know if I did it right, but per Sarah's and Siko's
suggestion, I started this:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women
Just
Thought this was interesting.
How to ge more women to join the debate
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-the-debate/?_r=2
Women were clearly underrepresented in my data. They made only a quarter
of comments, even though their
comments got more
Great job! The discussions would have to be publicly accessible, to avoid
an EEML type situation. Also, any consensus made there about external
issues would not be applicable, due to the lack of open participation.
On Jan 6, 2015 7:35 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Cool idea. I
Yes, very interesting. I liked this section too:
Telling women that their comments received more recommendations might also
encourage them to comment more; previous studies have found that women are less
likely than men to persist in commenting when their comments do not receive
positive
Yes! Thank you Risker for the positive energy. This is what I want in
2015!!
This is GREAT news!! I can't wait to see what happens.
-Sarah
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
(Changing the perspective on the previous thread a bit)
Well, it's official - the
Hi Risker,
I actually do think that a project like Reimagining Mentorship would be
fair game for this Inspire Campaign, simply by making explicit some of
their implicit goals - I've been working closely with that team, and
creating a space that is welcoming to women is something we discuss a fair
This is awesome! I can't wait to see what initiatives people come up with.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
(Changing the perspective on the previous thread a bit)
Well, it's official - the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project
Event Grants (PEG)
(Changing the perspective on the previous thread a bit)
Well, it's official - the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project
Event Grants (PEG) will be focused almost exclusively for a 3-month period
on providing financial support and mentorship for requests focused
specifically at
Thanks for putting this out here, Risker. I've been waiting for my blood
pressure to drop a bit before posting a happy announcement of the plan to
this list :) Glad to hear that folks are excited. I'm really looking
forward to what comes next!
We're going to need some help to make this first
I put my name down as a volunteer back in October - October 7, to be
precise. On New Year's Eve I asked the simple question: Is it possible to
start a Wikipedia project that's open to women, or people who identify as
women?
There are a handful of people on this list who are opposed to the idea,
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