Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at the Missoula Art Museum

Comments from WMF

Hello 86jknight, thank you for submitting this Rapid Grant request and for running an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon at the Missoula Art Museum. I have reviewed your request and have the following questions and comments.

• In your proposal you mentioned that you would have an experienced editor supporting your event. Would you please include this person’s Wikimedia username in the proposal page?
• While we allow some accessibility expenses like childcare, Rapid Grant funds may not currently be used as compensation for people’s time, so please remove Teaching Artist expenses from your budget.
• How will you be monitoring and tracking the edits of the participants? If you don’t have any specific plan, please consider using the Outreach dashboard.
• Our grant program does not allow for project dates to be only one day, in order to accommodate grantees to incur expenses before their project, if necessary. Would you kindly update your grant period dates in the probox? It can be as short as 7-8 March.

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 07:16, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Response to Davit

Hi Davit,

Thanks for your comments. I have made the requested updates and I have a few changes to note:

I have deleted the teaching artist expense. Upon talking to various childcare providers, we decided as a museum to focus on childcare rather than providing a guided arts project by a teaching artist. As such, we also decided to bump the pay of each provider to $15.00/hr each. This change is reflected in the resources section of our grant.

Due to the remoteness of Montana and the lack of experienced Wikimedia editors in our area, I've switched our experienced Wikimedia editor to a new editor. Please let me know if this is acceptable as part of our focus is training participants along with Missoula Art Museum staff to be Wikimedia editors.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Many thanks, John Knight