Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Wikigite in Tuscany

Application received

Hello, Davide Pedalà. Thank you for submitting this grant request. Before we start the review process, I wanted to ask about your relationship with the Wiki Loves Monuments team in Italy, as we only give one grant per contest per country. Regards, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 12:50, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

@MMontes (WMF): We are already in contact with the other members of Wiki Loves Monuments team in Italy, we are available to make a single grant with the team from Puglia Dap78 (talk) 17:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Not funded

In July, Rapid Grants updated its funding guidelines, telling the community that the month of August would be dedicated to Wiki Loves Monuments. Also in July, Ferdinando and Luca submitted independent grant requests for WLM-related activities in Puglia and Toscana. We decided to process them with other WLM requests in August because that would allow us to coordinate with the WLM international team first, and to have a better sense of the amount of requests we would be supporting with a fixed, limited budget.

When we realized that we would be receiving more requests than our budget could comfortably cover, the Rapid Grants and the WLM international team agreed on two key approaches: that we would work with country-based initiatives and that we would ask all countries to submit grants of 1000 USD maximum.

I reached out to Ferdinando and Luca explaining this: that, as a way to ensure that funds would be distributed to the biggest amount of countries possible, as well as to countries with emerging communities and/or hosting the contest for the first time, we would support country-level initiatives first.

Some pieces moved after this. We learned about Luca's involvement in WMIT, which raised other eligibility issues; WLM international team and I were in touch with WMIT to see if there was a possibility that non-WMIT groups could present a single proposal together; Luca and Ferdinando spoke with WJifar (WMF) from the Rapid Grants team at Wikimania; we received proposals from 15 countries and we are waiting for proposals from two more.

In the end, we did not receive a single proposal that covered all interested non-WMIT groups of Italy; Ferdinando withdrew his request; and we are unable to fund Luca's as part of this contest (partly because of the eligibility concern, and partly because Rapid Grants does not generally give 700+ USD for social media advertisement for events; all WLM grantees were encouraged to steer away from social media advertisement for the contests). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MMontes (WMF) (talk)