On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (copy of this comment placed at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015. > We can continue discussing there) > > Hi, > > Thanks for the elaborate work plan. > > 1. The way the budget is presented at > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015#Budget > > is misleading. A good percent of this budget will be spent on staff > salary, travel logisitics and other things which will not be there if the > work is done by the community. So, this is not the actual cost needed for > the desired output but the cost arising because of the involvement of paid > professionals. > > Exactly . Here the role of community gets diminished ( in fact demotivates active community users ) , while that of paid professionals gains upper hand . > So besides this way of presenting the budget, there should also be a > regular way of presenting budget like how the chapters are asked to submit > during FDC application. It can be noted that during the last round of FDC > funding application, WMIN faced very strict criterion regarding > infrastructure cost, staff salary cost. > > I still remember , that WMIN was made to cut down its budget estimate heavily . > 2. I have an eerie feeling that the community development work in India is > getting outsourced to NGOs like CIS at the cost of crippling budding local > chapters like WMIN. The way Hindi Wikipedia seeks help for content > management (fixing Google articles) confirms my concern. > NGOisation of Wiki at the cost of community volunteers is not correct . > > 3. Where can I find WMF's open assessment of the work done by CIS-A2K in > the previous year? How is the cost for the work done justified? If the cost > if justified, then the actual communities and the content they have > developed on their on own are worth many crores of Indian rupees. But, we > face strict guidelines when applying for grants whereas NGOs like CIS don't > have that strict criterion. > > Where is transparency ? > Ravi > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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