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Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi @Daclausen: it was good speaking with you today to get to understand your proposal a bit better. Here are some links to the project I mentioned that has focused on running local campus events outside of the classroom at another university, which may be of interest to you:
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?
7.4
(B) Community engagement
Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often?
Does it have community support?
7.4
(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?
7.4
(D) Measures of success
Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success?
Are they realistic?
Can they be measured?
6.8
Additional comments from the Committee:
The proposed program is similar to some other, previously successful programs to create on-campus editing communities, and is likely to produce similar impact.
The target audience on campus listed is the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Graduate Studies, the libraries, academic departments, and Academic Affairs. While we know from past experience that all campus projects bring in women as editors, this project is weak in targeting women as a specific audience. Otherwise, the proposal is sound and could go hand in hand with the Wiki Ed Foundation and The Wikipedia Library to generate impact online from projects on university campuses.
The Systemic Bias Kit may be very helpful for this group! :)
Like that proposers are very clear that this is a social solution.
Like the idea of reaching out to faculty AND librarians.
There is a reasonable degree of community engagement and support.
Not clear if the administration is supporting.
Good, existing IRL community support and evidence of endorsements.
There seems to be a high degree of community engagement planned, with the potential for more engagement continuing sustainably in the future.
The scope is divided into two parts which is understandable. 1) training for instructors and networking with administration; and 2) student outreach. The first area of scope probably needs to be linked closer with the second area to get everyone editing together. Plan needs more details to understand if it is doable with the proposed budget.
Needs to have stronger measures of success. The Wiki Ed Foundation can recruit and train instructors with evaluation tools, The Wikipedia Library can work with campus libraries with evaluation tools so this project needs to bring something extra to the project. One edit-a-thon is too modest for this amount of effort. That said, having a comprehensive cross campus approach could be a great model to use and should be a focus of a measure of success.
If funded, I'd love the participants to document how their instructors use Wikipedia in the classroom and share this with Wiki Education Foundation, too.
I think having a group of 10 people to actively contribute is an ambitious goal, but maybe with enough enthusiasm etc.
I like the mixture of ways that results will be reported, but could use a slightly more concretely thought out set of quantifiable metrics for success.
I like the idea of having support come from the libraries on university campuses and having a year long cross-campus campaign.
Biggest concern is that it is not really focusing strongly on the gender. Would like to see more involvement in planning from the member of the project team who is the co-founder and outreach coordinator for #LNK Coding Women (lnkcodingwomen.org, @lnkcodingwomen), if the focus on gender is to be retained. Using the term "females" is a bit of a red flag in terms of the team lead’s grasp of and sensitivity towards gender issues.
Additional work on budget and goals would be helpful.
This project has not been selected for an Inspire Grant at this time.
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