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Assist Wikimedians with crowdfunding

NoN Outside the scope of Community Tech

Assist Wikimedians with crowdfunding, Salsman (2018) for Ward Cunningham (Newspeak House, London.)
  • Problem: Grants are difficult to administer, take time, and are often frustrating.
  • Who would benefit: Those who can show they are acting in support of the Foundation's Mission.
  • Proposed solution: Provide services to help Wikimedians set up their own fundraising outreach.
  • More comments: I will finish this Wednesday, November 14
  • Phabricator tickets: to be created if the proposal is selected
  • Proposer: James Salsman (talk) 02:46, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Working list of technologies:

Discussion

Please feel free to SVG-ize the diagram. James Salsman (talk) 03:22, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@James Salsman: I've looked at that diagram and don't understand what it wants to express. :( Is this about / related to Grants:Start? What exactly is "difficult to administer" and "frustrating", with regard to technical aspects? --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 00:38, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, it goes from fundraising goals to search strategies to search results which are transformed into recommended tweets/posts etc. Patreon, Twitter, and Reddit are included as examples but I'd prefer it platform-neutral, so please give me until at least Friday to abstract it from that working diagram. There have been recent discussions of the difficulties in grants administration and program management. I will provide those by Wednesday. James Salsman (talk) 17:59, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi James Salsman: The Community Tech team can work on discrete technical proposals; this proposal is asking for structural and policy changes that can't be addressed through the Wishlist Survey. I'm going to archive this proposal; thanks for participating in the survey. -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]