Grants talk:Project/ISUR/Wikipedia women and ancestral knowledge from the global south in the Colombian context/2
Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2020[edit]
This Project Grants proposal is under review!
We've confirmed your proposal is eligible for Round 1 2020 review. Please feel free to ask questions and make changes to this proposal as discussions continue during the community comments period, through March 16, 2020.
The Project Grant committee's formal review for Round 1 2020 will occur March 17 - April 8, 2020. We ask that you refrain from making changes to your proposal during the committee review period, so we can be sure that all committee members are seeing the same version of the proposal.
Grantees will be announced Friday, May 15, 2020.
Any changes to the review calendar will be posted on the Round 1 2020 schedule.
Questions? Contact us at projectgrants wikimedia · org.
I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
COVID 19 planning[edit]
Dear JulioGaitan,
Updated COVID-19 planning guidelines do not allow your proposal to proceed in the current round. I have emailed multiple times with instructions about next steps, but I have not heard a reply from you. Can you please contact me as soon as possible so we can follow up at projectgrants wikimedia · org?
Thank you, --Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:45, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Aggregated feedback from the committee for ISUR/Wikipedia women and ancestral knowledge from the global south in the Colombian context/2[edit]
Scoring rubric | Score | |
(A) Impact potential
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6.8 | |
(B) Community engagement
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5.0 | |
(C) Ability to execute
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5.0 | |
(D) Measures of success
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5.0 | |
Additional comments from the Committee:
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This proposal has been recommended for due diligence review.
The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal and recommended it for due diligence review. This means that a majority of the committee reviewers favorably assessed this proposal and have requested further investigation by Wikimedia Foundation staff.
Next steps:
- 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.
- If you have had an interview with a Program Officer, you may have orally responded to some of the committee comments already. Your interview comments will be relayed to the committee during the deliberations call.
- You are welcome to respond to aggregated comments here on the talkpage to publicly share any feedback, clarifications or questions you have.
- Following due diligence review, a final funding decision will be announced on May 29, 2020.
--Marti (WMF) (talk) 22:58, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Round 1 2020 decision[edit]
This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.
We love that you took the chance to creatively improve the Wikimedia movement. The committee has reviewed this proposal and not recommended it for funding. This was a very competitive round with many good ideas, not all of which could be funded in spite of many merits. We appreciate your participation, and we hope you'll continue to stay engaged in the Wikimedia context.
Comments regarding this decision:
The committee appreciates the strong fit your continued work with Wayuu and other indigineous communities has with movement strategy with respect to representing indigineous knowledge with respect to their needs and interests in Wikimedia projects.
However, the most significant concerns expressed by the committee were the following:
- In the previous Project Grant report, connectivity issues were a substantial issue, and this was during a time when you were able to conduct training activities offline. We are concerned that the infrastructure for conducting online activities is not likely to be good, and that this will result in a poor experience for both you and the indigenous communities you plan to work with.
- That the budget included things like utensils and papers, even after a few rounds of revisions related to the pandemic restrictions, without clarity. Items such as these suggest that in-person events may have been planned or tentatively planned with indigineous communities, which we cannot currently support through funding.
We would welcome you to resubmit this project at a time when we are able to fund in-person/offline events again.
Next steps: Applicants whose proposals are declined are welcome to consider resubmitting your application again in the future. You are welcome to request a consultation with staff to review any concerns with your proposal that contributed to a decline decision, and help you determine whether resubmission makes sense for your proposal.
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