Grants talk:TPS/Sic19/LODLAM2017/Report

Outcome requirement

Dear Sic19,

Thank you for submitting this report. Before I review it, can you tell me whether you have completed the outcome requirement? Per our reporting requirements, you are asked to "provide a link to one outcome from your participation. Instead of writing a detailed account of the event in your report, we want you to share the benefits of your participation more widely with the community. Your outcome could be a learning pattern to teach others something you've learned, a link to something new that was co-created by you and your fellow participants at the event, or a blog post you wrote to share your experience with others after the event." Please note that the slides you presented during your presentation, as well as your conference notes, do not count as an outcome.

As soon as your outcome requirement is met, I will review your report.

Thank you!

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 19:52, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Dear Marti (WMF),

Thank you very much for your comments. I felt that I did complete the Option 1: shared experience outcome requirement and I thought that I had demonstrated this in the discussion of my conference session and presentation. Could I point out that the notes from the session that I facilitated at LODLAM are not my notes - they are, in fact, the notes taken collaboratively by the session participants, which are considered to be the conference proceedings. I did not contribute to the note taking as I was busy chairing the session. I would claim that this document is a record of the new ideas and issues for further consideration that emerged during our discussion and it is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the Wikidata community, particularly those members who working for cultural heritage institutions. Indeed, I am currently writing a proposal (which I will submit in the next day or two) for a talk at WikidataCon 2017 that will build on this session and hopefully move us closer to inter-institutional collaboration on Wikidata.

Concerning the tutorial session at DSDH-17 - I was only invited to give this talk because I was going to be in Venice for the LODLAM Summit. My thinking is that I was able to attend LODLAM thanks to the kind support that you provided via the TPS grant and as a result of this I was able to share some of my knowledge with a group of researchers who are interested in Wikidata. This seems to be a beneficial outcome of the TPS grant that allowed me to share my Wikidata knowledge and experience. Fair enough that the slides themselves do not count as an outcome but I spent many hours creating them and I have released them on a Creative Commons license to allow reuse.

Perhaps I have misinterpreted the outcome requirements somewhat but this style did seem to be fairly consistent with the other reports I read whilst working on my own report. I will, of course, be happy to modify my report to satisfy the outcome requirements if I have not already done so.

I look forward to your response.

With thanks and best wishes,

Sic19 (talk) 22:56, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Dear Sic19, thank you for your response. The intent of the TPS program is to fund Wikimedian volunteers to participate in non-Wikimedian events and extend awareness of the Wikimedia movement. The outcome requirement exists so that TPS applicants will take the time to extend the reach of their participation beyond the conference. This can be done by collaboratively creating something of value for the Wikimedia movement during the conference, or by proactively messaging after the conference, through a blog or newsletter post, to extend the reach of your participation beyond conference participants. Session notes taken by participants in your presentation do not proactively amplify the benefits of your participation beyond the conference community. Ideally, I would prefer to see you send out a message to an audience that you think would be interested in those notes, briefly sharing the highlights and pointing to the notes for further information. Would this be feasible for you? If it is not, though I can't think of another time we've accepted a similar outcome, I am willing to accept the notes as your outcome in this case, since you understood this to be sufficient to meet the request.

Please understand that we do value the work it takes to put together slides. However, since the purpose of TPS is to fund only applicants who have been accepted to give a talk, we assume that most will have slides and/or other materials as part of their presentation.

Thank you,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 12:32, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Dear Marti (WMF),

While I like the idea and understand the value of sharing the notes to extend the benefits of my participation, I do not have access to a medium to disseminate such a message and to be honest I am unsure who exactly the target audience would be for such a message. I apologise for misunderstanding the outcome requirements and I am grateful for both your willingness to accept the notes as an outcome and support which enabled me to attend LODLAM.

Best wishes,

Sic19 (talk) 20:58, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Report accepted (exception for outcome requirement)

Dear Sic19,

Thank you for your response. We are accepting your report as is, given that you made a good faith effort to meet the requirement though misunderstanding what was required, and given that you do not see any way to meet the requirement. , at this point.

If you apply for TPS funding in the future, we ask you to review our reporting requirements in advance and make sure you understand what is required. Our requirements are publicly posted here and also referenced on your request talkpage. If you have any suggestions about what would have made the requirements clearer for you, we would welcome specific feedback.

Thank you for your contribution.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 16:53, 31 August 2017 (UTC)