Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Brasil] Jessie's IDEO adventure
Thanks so much to everyone! It has been such an honor to join this movement, and the things we have experimented with and done have been exciting and fruitful. I know we spend a lot of time talking about our problems welcoming in newbies, but I felt so supported by so many of you from my first day four years ago when I was brand new. Thank you for your openness, your innovative ideas, your challenges to my thinking, and your partnership in building things together. One point of clarification: I'll actually be working with IDEO.org http://ideo.org/, which is a spin-off of IDEO (and yes, Jane, that is the Wikipedia article for IDEO) It is a separate organization focused on partnering with people in need to design paths out of poverty. I'm very humbled for this opportunity, and look forward to sharing learning! I'm pasting some info below with the announcement. Obviously, stay in touch. I will be around :) We’ve had an action-packed spring at IDEO.org with lots of travel, a decision on our next class of Global Fellows, and a very exciting project from the archive heading to market. Here’s what we’ve been up to this spring and summer.WELCOME 2015 GLOBAL FELLOWSAfter reviewing 656 applications—all of which inspired and excited us—we’ve chosen the 2015 class of Global Fellows! They hail from Malawi, Ireland, Indiana, and the UK. They are doctors, inventors, entrepreneurs, and global connectors, all with a dedication to elevating the poor through design. Let us introduce William Kamkwamba, Rebecca Hope, Jessie Wild, and John Collery! We can’t wait to see what change they'll make, what good they’ll do. *Copyright © 2014 IDEO.org, All rights reserved.* On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@okfn.org.br wrote: Congratulations, Jessie! It is super cool that you will bring your talent to other places! It was a pleasure to know and work with you! Thanks for everything you did for the Wikimedia movement and that you taught me whilst I had the opportunity to work together! You rock! P. S. We need create a page about IDEO in Portuguese, then I'll keep supporting you to learn our language. :P (could be a start!) Abraços! Tom 2014-09-18 14:30 GMT-03:00 Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org: Dear friends and colleagues, Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF and the communities we support. We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead the LE team soon, and keep you posted on it. Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ WikimediaBR-l mailing list wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Email from tccgrp, is this legit?
AH! Yes - this is a project contracted by the WMF Grantmaking team. Sorry it was confusing: please do give them feedback! On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I received an unsolicited email stating that In collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation to help movement organizations understand how they have an impact and asking me to fill out a survey. However there are no references about which program or which collaboratio are they talking about. I have looked for tccgrp on meta and there is no information about it, nor on the wmf page. The only reference I could find is a mention to TCC Group in the guest list: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_April_2014 Should I consider this request legit? Cheers, Micru ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG
I put the slides on commons immediately after the presentation: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grantmaking_Impact_Assessment,_2013-14.pdf As for the cost-benefit question: YES ABSOLUTELY we need all the costs involved! This is one of the major gaps we saw in reporting: we weren't able to capture full costs of project, including volunteer time or in-kind donations because those were not reported back to us. We are asking for this data in the upcoming program evaluation review which will have open data collection in September. Please report :) We're also working on a way within the grantmaking structures to gather that information without putting too much of an increased reporting burden on grantees. And to Pine and all others who will be in London at Wikimania: please do stop by the Grantmaking booth in the community village! We'll have people there throughout the days, and it would be awesome to take advantage of the opportunity to engage in this conversation in person as possible (of course, online is an ongoing option). On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: In general, using Google to store Wikimedia slide decks is a bad idea as that's essentially temporary (and restricted-access) storage - it's much better to upload a copy to Commons so they are properly archived (hopefully indefinitely!) and available to all... Thanks, Mike On 1 Aug 2014, at 22:48, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Jessie, Can you make sure that your slides from yesterday are shared publicly so people can take a look at them? Right now they seem to be shared only to WMF employees. Thanks! Dan On 1 August 2014 14:45, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Slides from all the presentations are available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2014-08 The grantmaking slides seem to be limited to WMF employees though. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG
Thanks for listening to the presentation, Pine! There will be a more comprehensive analysis posted on Meta, but in the meantime to answer your questions: 1. I'm aware that Program Evaluation is examining the outcomes of conferences this year, and Jamie and I have discussed this in at least two places on Meta. I'm curious about if and how you plan to measure the online impact of conferences; not just what people and groups say they will do in post-survey conferences, but what they actually do online in verifiable ways in the subsequent 3-12 months. Jaime and I and the others on the Grantmaking team are working together on this, and experimenting with some different ways of evaluating the work in the few months following the conferences. One way to do this in a small experiment, for example, is to run a cohort of users who received Wikimania Scholarships through Wikimetrics at different increments throughout the year following. This is something I have been curious to do for a long time, but never had the tool to do it on an aggregate level! 2. You said in your presentation that there is no direct correlation between grant size and measurable online impact. From the slides at around the 1:13-1:15 minute marks, it looks to me like the correlation is negative, meaning that smaller grants produced disproportionately more impact. I can say that within IEG this occurred partly because we had some highly motivated and generous grantees who volunteered a considerable amount of time to work with modest amounts of money, and I don't think we should expect that level of generosity from all grantees, but I think that grantmaking committees may want (A) to take into account the level of motivation of grantees, (B) to consider breaking large block grants into discrete smaller projects with individual reporting requirements, and (C) for larger grants where there seem to be a lot of problems with reporting and a disappointing level of cost-effectiveness, to be more assertive about tying funding to demonstrated results and reliable, standardized reporting with assistance from WMF. What do you think? Well, there are definite outliers, and the slides aggregate by program type rather than by size. So, for example, several of the IEG grants were much bigger than than the majority of PEG grants. So - not exactly negative correlation (at least, we can't definitively say that). I absolutely agree with your (C) suggestion, and your (B) suggestion is very interesting too - we haven't discussed that one. It may be worth considering if there are larger project-based grants. For the annual plan grants, we have this in terms of quarterly reports (and midpoint reports for IEG), so we do try to do interventions with grantees if it looks like they are off-track. As for (A), based on what we saw through our evaluation of IEG[1], motivation is definitely important but the key difference for outlier performance was from those grantees that had *specific target audiences* identified, so they knew exactly who they wanted to be working with and how to reach those people. So, I would want committees to take into account grants with a specific target audience or specific target topic area (for quality improvements, for example; we saw this for successful outreach in PEG grants[2]). More explicitly on motivation, while it is difficult to measure for new grantees, you can see a lot about someone's motivation and creativity based on their past reports if they are a returning grantee. I would definitely encourage our committees to look back on past reports from returning grantees! - Jessie [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Learning/Round_1_2013/Impact [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Learning/2013-14 -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] IEG Round 1 Conculsion
Hello All - We (WMF Grantmaking) have reached the conclusion of the first round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG)! The grants program itself was an experiment, and we are excited by the types of innovations emerging from the project thus far. Take a look and join the discussion on the blog post[1] and the report page[2]. Also - you are invited to join a live discussion around the key learnings from this first round of IEG grants. It will be held 5pm UTC Wednesday, 19 February. Please find the link and sign-up on the evaluation portal.[3] Best, Jessie [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/06/individual-engagement-grants-demonstrate-potential-for-impact/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Learning/Round_1_2013/Impact [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/News#Upcoming_events -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] Wikimedia Organizations First Employee Study
Hello! Just wanted to give a brief update on a piece of analysis recently posted regarding the* first employee hiring of Wikimedia organizations*. For those who contributed, *THANK YOU* for your participation! The main information can be on found on meta: * Background of information[1] * Survey results[2] Though a very small sample set, the main takeaways of the survey are: - Organizations tend to hire in one of two scenarios: (a) there is a particular activity that needs to occur which is* time-sensitive* and hard to manage via volunteers (events, partnerships); (b) the amount of *administrative work* required to maintain and grow activities is overwhelming to volunteers - *All types of hiring* and staffing are used! Interns, contractors, employees, part-time, full-time. When the workload is known to be re-occurring, it is most needed to have staff over contractors. - It is essential that *job descriptions accurately portray amount of admin work* - Currently, there are *not clear on-boarding plans*, and this can cause some growing pains with a Board of Directors which are generally used to be more hands-on - Organizations are* hiring sooner* upon recognition by AffCom While not earth-shattering results, they provide us a good starting point on better understanding why, how, and when to shift away from an all-volunteer model. It helps bring up some consistencies across groups as well as discrepancies. This is just one input into better understanding the state of and trends in our movement organizations. If you have thoughts, PLEASE - participate in conversation on the talk page. It would be great to capture more stories from the ground of the purposes and challenges of bringing on a new employee. If you have experiences from other volunteer organizations, please feel free to augment the conversation with these as well! Thanks - Jessie [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_First_Employee_Surveyhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_First_Employee_Survey/2013_Survey_Results [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_First_Employee_Survey/2013_Survey_Results -- *Jessie WildGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] FDC 2012-13 process review
Hello everyone! Just wanted to draw your attention to an overview created of the FDC process in review, 2012-13[1] It reviews the process looking solely at the information from the two process surveys which we conducted following the two rounds of FDC funding.[2] The page was created a few weeks back for the FDC Advisory Group,[3] but I just realized I never shared more broadly. A Round 2-only summary of feedback will be posted in August, as well. Obviously, please feel free to share comments on the Wiki! Jessie [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Feedback_and_continuous_improvement_of_the_FDC_process/Process_Survey/2012-13_Year_Review [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Feedback_and_continuous_improvement_of_the_FDC_process/Process_Survey [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group -- *Jessie Wild Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comments on compliance and the FDC Round 2 decisions
to accomplish what a review by the ombudsperson could accomplish in a faster and more thorough manner. Would you or someone else from the Grants staff please address the more broader questions that I raised earlier? I realize that these may have been easily overlooked due to the high volume of email on this list recently, so I'll repeat here. Several interesting comments have been made in this thread regarding the value of a more holistic evaluation of the FDC and GAC processes with regards to chapters especially regarding the hiring of a chapter's first full time employee. There have also been comments made regarding the heavy nature of the FDC grant application process. Would the WMF staff please indicate whether a review of these concerns is under consideration, if so, how they plan to conduct the review? I think you partially addressed these questions in your response but I would appreciate a more direct reply from you, Anasuya, Jessie, or anyone else in the Grantmaking and Programs group. Please feel free to fork into a separate thread if you like. Thanks, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- *Jessie Wild Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:26 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: After re-reading my email to Jessie and looking again at some of the recent WMF Monthly Reports, I think I may be making some assumptions about how Programs and Evaluations works that may be incorrect. Jessie, would you be willing to have an IRC office hour? I think that might address my questions and concerns faster than a prolonged email discussion on this list, although it has the disadvantage that fewer people are able to participate. Please email me off-list if you're willing to set up a time when we're both available. Yes definitely. Sorry for just now responding: somehow I totally missed these emails last week. Pine and I will coordinate on a time and send it around to the list! -- *Jessie Wild Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
Hey all - I have been really curious about this thread, and thanks to all of you for the thoughts and participation. I am in full agreement that we need to have better movement-wide shared lessons and accountability: I think this should include most particularly all places receiving movement funding resources (WMF, chapters, other grant recipients, etc.). On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:14 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: If we truly want to learn from these two, I would suggest running an election on meta where editors can lobby for the next initiative. This is what I'd hoed that the Strategy wiki would foster, and it might have done if the Strategy debate had been on Meta rather than hidden on a separate wiki made more complex by liquid threads. Maybe the result would be Global watchlists, maybe it would be software changes to resolve more edit conflicts without losing edits (both currently languishing as low priorities in Bugzilla). The important thing is that the resulting initiative would be likely to make a positive difference to the project and unlikely to share the fate of liquid threads, the IEP or the AFT. I have been thinking about something like this too. Siko Bouterse - who is leading the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG, not to be confused with IEP!) set up a page a few months ago with the goal of idea generation for projects within the broader community: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab I see this as having a lot of potential for thinking critically and communally about ideas before execution begins -- the challenge, of course, will be maintaining the right balance of applying lessons-learned and fostering innovation! The other thing I am gearing to get up and running is a learning/evaluation space on meta where these conversations can happen: case studies be posted, learnings captured, tools for evaluation shared, projects prioritized, etc. It would be great to have help on this front, so ping me personally if you are interested, and/or keep an eye-out here for more information. Any initial thoughts on how to maximize the effectiveness of those two ideas (IdeaLab and Learning Portal)? Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/Hey ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Learning Evaluation
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM, sgard...@wikimedia.orgwikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Anasuya will be responsible for running all grantmaking processes (for both individuals and entities) and for helping movement entities, like chapters and thematic organizations, to develop and mature. Reporting to Anasuya will be Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild, Oona Castro and Siko Bouterse, as well as a Senior Program Officer for the FDC (a new position that will be filled within the next month or so). * The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for facilitating the FDC process, which recommends funding allocations for the largest and wealthiest Wikimedia organizations such as Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia France. * Asaf continues to be responsible for the Wikimedia Grants Program, supporting younger, smaller Wikimedia organizations like Wikimedia Venezuela and Wikimedia Mexico, and for finding non-Wikimedia organizations that we can fund to carry out good programmatic activities in developing countries, particularly where there are no chapters. * Jessie will be responsible for evaluation and learning for all our grantmaking --- both helping us internally optimize our processes, and helping us and the grant recipients assess organizations? development (for Anasuya) and the impact of the programs funded by movement dollars (for Frank). * Oona will continue to run the Brazil program. Consistent with the Narrowing Focus plan, she is actively seeking a partner to continue the work in Brazil within a grants structure similar to the one we recently negotiated with CIS in India. * Siko is taking over responsibility from Asaf for all funding for individuals. This will make it possible for us to grow our individual grant-making, and it will also free up Asaf to do more small organization development. Siko will also be responsible for documentation and analysis of all grants except the ones funded by the FDC. It?s important for us to grow grantmaking to individuals because individuals create 99% of the value in the projects. They do it with practically no funding, but in some cases a little money will be able to make something great happen. Hi all, As Sue mentioned, we're looking at growing WMF's grant-making to individuals. This allows us to accomplish the goals of narrowing focus (on WMF's capacity as grant-makers, in this case), while finding new ways to support projects led by individual community members. Some more specifics are on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Engagement_Grants Please share your thoughts on-wiki if possible. Thanks! -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Likewise, we're starting to put up some initial thinking regarding Learning Evaluation for Grantmaking Evaluation! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking_and_Programs/Learning_%26_Evaluation_portal/About Feel free to jump in on-wiki as it is being developed; definitely work in progress :) Jessie -- *Jessie Wild* *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs
Thanks for starting this, Itzik! I agree that a much more transparent and broader view of the resources which go into Wikimania each year. I have a feeling we'll all be in for a bit of a surprise. Those of us involved with Wikimania from the WMF side are all onboard to contribute. Garfield and Asaf are both actually en route to meet with next year's organizing team, so we might be a bit delayed in hearing from them, but Tony (WMF Controller aka finance guru) said he'll be happy to gather all the information. Should have 2012 numbers over the next few weeks (I can hopefully put up some estimates earlier than that). I'll add that timeline to the talk page as well. Thanks again for spearheading the effort - Jessie On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: Hi, Jessie started to work on a page that shown breakdown of the scholarships given in 2012, by the WMF and the chapters - and the cost. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2012 I think it's great, but we need to share much more information about how much Wikimania cost to the movement. Wikimania is our biggest and most expensive event\project - and the costs spread around movement. Beside scholarships, the chapters and the WMF spending money on their staff and boards - and this also need to be transparent. When we know Wikimedia Israel gave 4 scholarships for people from Israel, the WMF gave another two - this is not the full picture. WMIL also sent paid for the travel of one board member. In some others chapters the numbers are much bigger (staff+board). Also, we have WMF and Chapters support to the conference itself. I published here Wikimania 2011 costs income: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/2011/Budget I'm not asking everyone now to start digging for their costs in 2011, but I think we can start do it from this year. I posted here WMIL travel costs: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/2012/Budget/Chapters I'll be happy if the chapters and the WMF can post their costs also and I'm encouraging Wikimania 2012 local team also to post their conference costs and incomes. I think this transparency is important, and this knowledge about the total costs to the movement is also important to others who planning Wikimania in the future. Itzik WMIL ___ Wikimania-l mailing list wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Senior Manager Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Scholarships process
Hello everyone! We are in need of revamping the Wikimania Scholarships Process, and your help is needed! Please participate in the discussion on meta[1]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships Talk to you on meta - Jessie BACKGROUND: Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Chapters, and outside organizations sponsor the attendance of individuals to the international Wikimania conference. In 2012, over 150 scholarships were awarded to recipients from over 60 countries. These scholarship recipients were chosen from 1,113 applications. Each recipient was selected primarily on the basis of his/her participation in the Wikimedia projects and his/her future goals for participating in the Wikimedia movement. The scholarship recipients were chosen through a confidential application and selection process run by the Wikimania Scholarship Review Committee. The committee was composed by Wikimedia volunteers and one Wikimedia Foundation staff.[2] [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships [2] For more information on the 2012 scholarship process, see the April blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/25/wikimania-2012-scholarships/ -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
