Grants talk:IdeaLab/Wikimedia Women Ambassadors Project (W2AP)

Hi HBUDDHA. Thanks for submitting your idea! It would be great to have a few more details on the project. My understanding is that you will be supporting students and women researchers to upload their assignments and original research to Wikipedia. Please note that Wikipedia has a policy of not publishing original though: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Please read more about the policy here: No original research. If this is not your plan, let us know. A similar project that we could fund would be collecting work already published by and about female scientists and writing articles about that in Wikipedia. Thanks, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Alex Wang (WMF). Thanks for your response! Actually, we thought of both- collecting work already published somewhere else by and about female scientists and writing articles about that in Wikipedia and some work that are original. As we do not want to do something against the Wikipedia policy, we would like to edit the proposal to make it clearer than this version. Would you like to have any more details on the project? Please let us know. Regards, HBUDDHA

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Wikimedia Women Ambassadors Project (W2AP)

Scoring rubric	Score
(A) Impact potential 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?	6.5
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	5.3
(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?	4.5
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	4.0
Additional comments from the Committee: Has the potential to increase the diversity of content and contributors by directly recruiting an under represented women, especially with focus on English Wikipedia along with two different South Asian languages. The project has the potential to be adapted in other communities or other types of experts. The the overall idea is sound and has the potential to grow the wikimedia movement in an area of the world where is is a huge potential for growth, and to do it in a way that increases gender diversity. But there is a large amount of reworking of the plan that needs to happen. Would suggest funding a scaled down version with a pilot project to see if they have the ability to create a successful team to support them and execute the more modest plan. Awarding prizes continuously is not a sustainable motivator. Lacks engagement of Wikimedia community, and no particular external communities are targets An overall target audience that is sound, but the geographic area and target audience is too large to be meaningful. Experience level of the project team is unclear. The proposal needs to adjusted in scope, a detailed timeline, a detailed breakdown of the budget. Would encourage them to contact local Wikipedian and local wikimedia movement organizations to get support, coordinate activities, and perhaps work together. Would like to see a pilot for this, of a few months, so see if materials made and the approach taken are effective. Measures of success are very ambitious. Not sure there is a need for a project coordinator and for a project advisor, would reduce to one person those tasks and allow more resources for community organizers.

Inspire funding decision

This project has not been selected for an Inspire Grant at this time.

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