On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Jens Best <jens.b...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Sorry to interrupted, just a short question. > > I'm looking for statistics of how many project ideas/requests were > submitted in the past. How many volunteers and WMF-employees were and are > involved in evaluating all these submissions and so on. > > Can anybody provide me with a link or any other kind of reliable > informations on that? > > best regards > > Jens Best > Hi Jens, Some quick stats: *PEG handles about 20 proposals per month *IEG handles about 30 submissions per round (of those requested, we ultimately funded 7 projects in the latest round) *2 program officers, 1 grants administrator, and several other staffers are advising or otherwise touching some portion of these grants to a much smaller degree. 16 members on each committee (give or take a couple members) are involved in reviewing proposals. > > 2015-01-08 15:13 GMT+01:00 Leigh Thelmadatter <osama...@hotmail.com>: > > > I dont think the issue is the idea of encouraging projects that increase > > the participation of women, but rather the message that everything else > is > > getting shoved aside. > > > > I dont see this as sexism and playing that card is counter-productive. > > > > What I suggest is that instead of saying that for three months everyone > > else is sidelined, focus on inclusion. If there arent enough or good > > enough projects for addressing the number of women participating in > > Wikipedia, perhaps we should look into why. Perhaps also look into the > > Foundation directly reaching out to women's groups for collaborative > > purposes. > > > > But the OP does have a point. By telling certain groups "we are not > > interested in you right now" you are playing an "us-against-them" game > and > > quite probably causing more harm than good. > > > > > > Leigh > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:03:40 -0500 > > > From: nawr...@gmail.com > > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why WMF should reconsider the 3-month gender > > gap project-related decision > > > > > > You certainly put a lot of time and effort into being wrong. Any first > > year > > > undergraduate writing course will tell you that to make an argument you > > > need to address the counter-arguments, which you have failed even to > > > mention. Diversity of contributors isn't a social justice goal, or > even a > > > cultural engineering goal. It is aimed squarely at increasing the > > diversity > > > and caliber of content. Not only does the small proportion of women > mean > > > that millions of them with huge amounts of expertise to contribute are > > > unheard, it also means that their perspective and approach are > > > underrepresented or missing entirely. > > > > > > And yes, the same is true for others - not only African-Americans, but > > > Africans. Not only people of "Indo-Asian" descent, but the people of > the > > > Indian subcontinent itself. This is not an American movement, yet the > > > "global south" is deeply under-represented, and the WMF has been > working > > > for years to address this issue. This is, again, because diversity of > > > contributors matters for the breadth and depth of coverage in our > > projects. > > > The goal of the Wikimedia movement is the sum of all human knowledge, > not > > > the sum of knowledge held by white men between 15 and 35 living in > Europe > > > and North America. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 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 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> > -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!* _______________________________________________ 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>
