Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/AfroCROWD:Championing Communities of African Descent on and in Wikimedia and Improving the relevance of Wikipedia and open technology to communities of Color

Feedback from the Regional Committee

Hi Shanluan, and thank you for AfroCROWD's proposal for for the current funding cycle. The US/Canada Regional Committee has initially reviewed the proposal; to start the discussion, I'm offering some comments and questions for your review.

First, some comments:

• I am impressed by the very broad range of activities, audiences, and geographical locations in which AfroCROWD has been active. When reading your proposal I have the sense of an experienced project team and a mature, vibrant project.
• I appreciate that this project engages participants "wherever they fall on their Wiki journey" and is seeking to develop critical skills such as fact-checking, evaluating sources, and understanding media bias.

Next, a few questions:

• Would it be possible to provide an alternative view (or link) to your timeline? The link provided leads to a Canva display which is unreadable (much too small) on my system.
• In this & in previous AfroCROWD proposals, the list of activities has included engaging participants as contributors to Wikidata, but I see no metric associated with this. I'm just curious to know if any Wikidata activities have been attempted or completed.
• I understand that a key goal of AfroCROWD is to increase awareness of Black culture and the African diaspora. Have you considered monitoring the number of posts in Diff which relate to activities in Africa or within the African diaspora, as a rough measure of increased awareness within the WM community?

Thanks again for your proposal. Redwidgeon (talk) 22:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)