Hi folks,
I wanted to respond to a few things related to the Wikimedia Foundation's
grant programs.
Pine, regarding your personal situation, I know many grantees have been
critical of the Wikimedia Foundation at one point or another, or even have
longstanding disagreements with certain
About my comment above: I was referring ONLY in WMF grants. In Greek
wikipedia things are very weird and sad when people are being accused of
paid editing just for getting a WMF grant through the process that we all
know and always making a good and honest use of the wikimedia logos. The
ones who
Definitely one needs to be careful when dealing with paid editing that it's
done in a transparent way and in a way that benefits the encyclopedia. I
think that the English Wikipedia community has generally accepted that
Wikimedians-in-Residence can do paid editing in a way that is beneficial to
Unfortunately it s been said in Greek wikipedia that people that take
grants are paid editors. And that came from people who already taken grants
for their projects in the past. Dark times in Greek wikipedia...
Στις Τρί, 4 Σεπ 2018 - 00:03 ο χρήστης Pine W έγραψε:
> Hello colleagues,
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I think that this leaves all of us who request WMF grants in difficult
positions, because either we get along with WMF or we risk WMF cutting off
our funding, and there are few non-WMF alternatives for funding Wikimedia
work.
Even if someone finds a non-WMF alternative for funding Wikimedia work,
I'm sorry, my understanding of how Grants are supposed to work was
incorrect. From the board FAQ on the FDC resolution: "The GAC [Grant
Advisory Committee], or something like it, will also need to exist even
when the FDC is up and running, to handle smaller and less complex grants."
There does not
As far as I can tell, the way that this is supposed to work is for there to
be no WMF influence on funds distribution.
"We affirm that all funds given to the Wikimedia movement are given in
support of our global projects... funds raised via the Wikimedia project
sites should be considered to be
I apologize for the unusually large load of typos, especially misspelling
Kaarel's name. Usually I get enough sleep but last night I didn't.
Apparently my attention to detail is diminished.
I'm rapidly spending my Wikimedia-l quota of 15 emails per calendar month,
so if there is extensive
Hello colleagues,
A topic which I feel that I should address again on this mailing list is
revenue for Wikimedia work, specifically WMF and non-WMF sources of revenue.
I will start by talking about my personal situation, and then discuss some
related situations.
I am currently requesting a
