Talk:Hardware donation program
Add topicCommunity management
[edit]Am proposing we as a community take on management of this effort. Either folks within the movement or outside the movement could donate laptops with us coordinating distribution. Exchanges could take place at Wikimania or other conferences to remove the complexities of shipping. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:29, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
Project Tiger
[edit]In 2017 the Wikimedia Foundation organized a program to distribute about 200 laptops in India through funding from Google.
- Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report
- https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/supporting-indian-language-wikipedias-program-report
- Project Tiger Editathon 2018
I documented some of this at Google.
If we did more with hardware distribution, then I think there are things we could learn from the outcomes of that program.
Bluerasberry (talk) 17:47, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- What do you think we can learn? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:31, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- @Doc James: Project Tiger is one of the most expensive Wikimedia projects we have ever had. It had an evaluation, but perhaps it could use another look right now. In general here are some strategic questions for Wikimedia projects. Answering them for Project Tiger or measuring the impact is not easy.
- Should we design programs to increase community networks? For example, we may want program participants to join governance discussions to select what topics we want edited, or what big social and ethical issues we need to address around our priorities.
- Should we design programs to encourage content creation, but not within wiki community networks? Our university partnerships produce the most, best content at the lowest cost, but also, students quit Wikipedia after the assignment and do not join community networks.
- Should we design programs to increase institutional partnerships? Institutional partners are the riskiest and usually have now initial benefits, but if we hold them for a few years, they lead to external funding coming into the Wikimedia Movement and the highest return on investment.
- To what extent does the community of stakeholders get decision making power in choosing priorities?
- Bluerasberry (talk) 14:34, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Was planning to keep the donation efforts fairly light weight. Used laptops are about 50 USD each. We at Wiki Project Med Foundation are happy to fund some for groups working on health content. Just working on the paper work with two potential sources of machines. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:17, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- @Doc James: Project Tiger is one of the most expensive Wikimedia projects we have ever had. It had an evaluation, but perhaps it could use another look right now. In general here are some strategic questions for Wikimedia projects. Answering them for Project Tiger or measuring the impact is not easy.
Email address and GDPR compliance
[edit]Is it just me, or do others see the potential doxxing/outing issue from requests that include email addresses of editors and posted in public? Although the email field is marked as "optional", the email address was filled in every open request that I spot checked. If I can find an editor's email address from a fulfilled request in 2018, I'm pretty sure it is not GDPR compliant. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:48, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- User:OhanaUnited feel free to adjust things to remove this. All we need is for them to have email activated in their profile. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:25, 18 April 2026 (UTC)