I have responded to the questions on the talk page. Do let us have the discussion there.
A. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Jayanta Nath <jayanta...@gmail.com> wrote: > + Ravi > > > On Monday, April 14, 2014, 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 > > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org
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