Talk:GLAM Wiki 2023/FAQ
Not able to correct/edit previous entries[edit]
Hello, while filling the form I need to recheck/correct Not able to correct/edit previous entries but the Lime survey form dont allows to do so. is there some method? -- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 09:48, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
(CEE) in Regional criteria[edit]
Hi all! I am happy to see criteria is available in advance and so is info on regional distribution with that... However I am confused with merging regions that have very little in common like CEE and North America over a 5 slots. I understand difference from USA-Canada and Western Europe (at least in big cities) is not significant as level of resources is much higher then average, but CEE is region with much fever resources and both individuals and GLAMs are likely to have harder time paying for travel costs. Zblace (talk) 05:37, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @Zblace: the regional distribution criteria is merely tentative. We used the more traditional way of dividing continents rather than the one that Wikimedia uses. We'll take into account the country where people are applying from and understand their economic context. In any case, it doesn't change the fact that we only have so much money to give out to scholarships, and we want to make sure that we're bringing the right mix of people to have a fruitful conversation. There are many institutions from the US & Europe that still don't have budget for paying for someone to travel, so region is an indicator but not the only one. Scann (WDU) (talk) 15:34, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Scann (WDU) thank you for input. I am grateful that you have better process then Wm CEE Meeting or Wikimania, with what I hear is much smaller budget. There are historic and present discrepancies, that will not get fixed quickly or easy, but efforts should be made. Zblace (talk) 08:58, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Release of individual scores on request[edit]
Would it be possible to Release individual scores on request? Hope not to have the mess like with Wikimania. Zblace (talk) 09:54, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @Zblace, sorry for taking several days to reply to your question. Unfortunately, we can't do that. Scores don't tell the full picture of how a decision was made, and they come without the necessary context to interpret them (for example, how other people were graded in comparison to an individual score, or for example, how different people that have the same score might contribute in a different way to the Conference, breaking the tie in favor of one or the other). Deciding on scholarships is a very complex decision and I trust your understanding on how scores might not be the only tool in aiding decisions. Scann (WDU) (talk) 00:14, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Scann (WDU) once the event is over and worload reduces, would you be interested to have this reflection as a part of focused group of event organizers that could barinstorm on options of how to do this and other aspects of event organizing possibly (better?) in a more transparent and sustainable (WikiWay)? I think it is huge waist of time of many people when they create applications and articulate proposals yet get almost no real feedback from overworked organizers...so I started openning this topic on Wikimedia CEE Meeting in a form of workshop, trying to gather more general input and build awerness. Your input would be precious. -- Zblace (talk) 07:17, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Zblace, I have no problem participating in such a workshop. However, bear in mind that you might not like my opinion! I think there are more productive ways in which we could support candidates in preparing applications (both for scholarships & program proposals), but there's always a limit of how many people you can actually accept (both time and money). For the GLAM Wiki Conference, we had a limited set of people we could give a scholarship to (around 40), but we had around 300 applications. With such a large pool of candidates and with knowledge equity criteria, doing it the WikiWay would just reinforce bias and dissapoint everyone involved. Just as a way of example, for some regions, most of the highest grades were achieved by people who self-identified as men, but one of our goals as organizers was to have a gender balance within regions, not only in the Conference as a whole. Doing this kind of balancing in the public could potentially be hurtful for everyone involved -- us as organizers, but also within regions, and especially for underrepresented participants. This is the perspective I can bring to your workshop -- how the committee agreed on this criteria for giving out scholarships. Scann (WDU) (talk) 11:51, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Scann (WDU) sure / I do not expect we have single shared position over anything in event organzing, let alone over complex issues as scholarships and diversity, but rather have a productive understanding of what could be better ratio of invested energy, time and other efforts to impact and adequate scale/shape/protocol ;-) As for gender representation I actually very radical and would propose for women to be much more than 50% of participants in events at least for few years, before historic disbalance and acumulated priviledge is reduced. Zblace (talk) 13:00, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Zblace, I have no problem participating in such a workshop. However, bear in mind that you might not like my opinion! I think there are more productive ways in which we could support candidates in preparing applications (both for scholarships & program proposals), but there's always a limit of how many people you can actually accept (both time and money). For the GLAM Wiki Conference, we had a limited set of people we could give a scholarship to (around 40), but we had around 300 applications. With such a large pool of candidates and with knowledge equity criteria, doing it the WikiWay would just reinforce bias and dissapoint everyone involved. Just as a way of example, for some regions, most of the highest grades were achieved by people who self-identified as men, but one of our goals as organizers was to have a gender balance within regions, not only in the Conference as a whole. Doing this kind of balancing in the public could potentially be hurtful for everyone involved -- us as organizers, but also within regions, and especially for underrepresented participants. This is the perspective I can bring to your workshop -- how the committee agreed on this criteria for giving out scholarships. Scann (WDU) (talk) 11:51, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Scann (WDU) once the event is over and worload reduces, would you be interested to have this reflection as a part of focused group of event organizers that could barinstorm on options of how to do this and other aspects of event organizing possibly (better?) in a more transparent and sustainable (WikiWay)? I think it is huge waist of time of many people when they create applications and articulate proposals yet get almost no real feedback from overworked organizers...so I started openning this topic on Wikimedia CEE Meeting in a form of workshop, trying to gather more general input and build awerness. Your input would be precious. -- Zblace (talk) 07:17, 30 September 2023 (UTC)