Grants talk:Project/Ensuring funds for prizes for Slovenian foto and editing projects

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Aggregated feedback from the committee for Ensuring funds for prizes for Slovenian foto and editing projects

Scoring rubric	Score
(A) Impact potential Does it have the potential to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects, either in terms of content, contributors, or both? Does it have the potential for online impact? Can it be sustained, scaled, or adapted elsewhere after the grant ends?	4.0
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	4.2
(C) Ability to execute Can the scope be accomplished in the proposed timeframe? Is the budget realistic/efficient ? Do the participants have the necessary skills/experience?	6.4
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	5.8
Additional comments from the Committee: Usual photo contest Its potential impact is not clear because there is only a little information on the Project idea section. It is difficult to understand what's the problem they've identified and why they believe that's important. It is hard to identify the key problem this project is trying to solve. There is no clear evaluation report to suggest that the poor participation was a result of small prizes. It would be interesting to see an evaluation of the past project that suggests that the participation drop-off is due to small prizes. Thank you for providing a descriptive account of the activity that you are envisioning. We are missing a broader vision of what you expect to reach from this activity: how does it connect to a strategic perspective of the Slovenian community? How does it connect to learning processes for the movement? This is not particularly an innovative project. The project is content-focused, and the connection to community engagement appears to be mostly geared towards a one-shot event, not building a stronger relationship. Prizes are also too high given expected outcomes and learning processes. So, this project seems to have little potential for impact, relative to investment and gives little indication of an evaluation plan to measure outcomes and meaningfully capture learning. The budget could be clearer. Though the budget for prizes is high, and it is the prime costs for the budget, there are no sufficient reasons. Also, there should be more statements about how they got those indicators of their evaluation plan. This proposal is submitted by a recognised Wikimedia user groups. Local affiliate has supported. The proposal seems to be insufficient and there is a need to investigate more but the relation costs/benefits. I do not see so many projects in a community like the Slovenian one and I would support them to give them more strength. More contents should be added to the page. The lack of budget detail is a serious problem and the high budget for prizes seems unnecessary. Proposal needs a vision. It has focused on providing a descriptive account of the activity, but it is unclear how this benefits the movement at large (learning processes?) and the sustained local engagement of new groups that will be reached out. Prizes are extremely high, and a better account of why they need to be so high or how the figures that have been presented have come up is needed. Perhaps, this project would benefit from connecting to Grants:Project/CEE Spring User Group/CEE Spring 2021 and be organized within the CEE proposal, as redundancy appears to exist.

Opportunity to respond to committee comments in the next week

The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal. Based on their initial review, a majority of committee reviewers have not recommended your proposal for funding. You can read more about their reasons for this decision in their comments above. Before the committee finalizes this decision, they would like to provide you with an opportunity to respond to their comments.

Next steps:

1. Aggregated committee comments from the committee are posted above. Note that these comments may vary, or even contradict each other, since they reflect the conclusions of multiple individual committee members who independently reviewed this proposal. We recommend that you review all the feedback carefully and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page by 5pm UTC on Monday, March 29, 2021. If you make any revisions to your proposal based on committee feedback, we recommend that you also summarize the changes on your talkpage.
2. The committee will review any additional feedback you post on your talkpage before making a final funding decision. A decision will be announced no later than Friday, April 22, 2021.

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Mercedes Caso (platícame) 05:01, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Too late response... to be considered in future?

"I do not see so many projects in a community like the Slovenian one and I would support them to give them more strength." This sentence is probably more or less summarizing our attempt. As a community, we are quite weak in numbers. If we organise in-person meeting, we are gathered around 10-15 and that is usually core. Almost nobody is actively doing on gathering donations (foto,...). We as a community have to try (test?) new approaches to build awareness of broader society. With actively advertising photo contest in spring? Why not, all corporations do it, it is of questionable value, but do we throw away idea just because of that? Why spring? As stated, Wiki loves monuments comes for Europe in unfortunate time when pictures are simply usually not the best if taken.

Why such prizes? Well, this is our discretion right to try to estimate whether such prizes would be high enough to gain attention. We are lacking of quality pictures, lots of photographers are not employed at the moment and it is estimate that such prize would make them participate. Are prizes abnormally high? May be, but not for Slovenia, especially 2nd and 3rd.

Lack of community support? This could be standalone topic... It is often happening we have to promote voting for selected article. Not taking decision and exposing with some opininion is national's attribute and local Wiki community could be somehow a reflection of that. Giving live public lectures is more or less concentrated around up to 5 persons.

At last and not least: as a local community it took as almost 20 years to start Users group. Funds received so far: 0. I was expecting that we try to at least hear each other and through efficient conference adress above mentioned topics and try to make them acceptablee for both sides. Will it take another 20 years to get first grant?

Kind regards, --ModriDirkac (talk) 15:38, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Round 1 2021 decision

This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.

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Marti (WMF) (talk) 00:33, 23 April 2021 (UTC)