Grants talk:Project/Yomomo/Mathematrix

Eligibility concerns

Hello Yomomo,

Thank you for submitting this proposal--we appreciate your desire to support access to education in mathematics. However, unfortunately, it appears that your request may not meet our eligibility guidelines and criteria. Here are the reasons:

• We do not fund projects aimed at improving third-party applications. We only fund projects aimed at improving one or more of Wikimedia's existing websites. This means that we can't fund you to work on Mathematrix.

• Also, it appears that you are requesting paid time to create content. We do not pay for people's time to directly create content themselves. Instead, we fund people to coordinate and support volunteers to create content for Wikimedia's websites.

If you believe I have misunderstood your project, please reply here on your proposal talkpage and help us understand your intention better. Then, please email us at projectgrants wikimedia  · org to let us know.

Otherwise, if your proposal is indeed ineligible, we ask that you withdraw it from the round by changing your proposal status from Status=Proposed to Status=Withdrawn.

If we do not hear back from you by February 28, 2020, we will need to mark your proposal withdrawn.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Hallo Marti! Thanks for the Info.

• For the first part: The Mathematics Site Mathematrix is already part of Wikibooks. IF it becomes later an independent project, it can still be part of Wikimedia projects (and this is the idea).
• You are right, I m also asking money to create content AND to administrate the project. Paid administration of the wikimedia project is of course part of the wikimedia policy (the project would otherwise not exist). Still I m asking from NO money to 12000 €. So, no money for content and administration is still an option in the proposal. Would it be a solution then, when you propose to give money ONLY for administration or, in case this is still against the guidelines, not even for this but only for the rest of the mentioned purposes?

As already mentioned in the proposal: I m not dependent on that money and I will still go on developing the project. So, if you still think it is not eligible, I will just withdraw it,no problem :-). I would still need support though, on ways to make the project more familiar and to find more volunteers for it. So, in case of withdrawal, please write me, where I can get such support. Thanks! Yomomo (talk) 07:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello Yomomo,

Thank you for clarifying the nature of the Mathematrix site. I had not grasped that it is part of Wikibooks already. I misunderstood that it was a non-Wikimedia site. Projects on Wikibooks are eligible for funding through Project Grants.

We can pay for project administration of projects that are focused on community organizing. So if you are applying for paid time to coordinate contributors to add or improve content on Wikibooks, then this is eligible. We cannot pay for your time to create the content yourself.

If you update your project to follow these guidelines, and then email me at projectgrants wikimedia  · org, then I will mark your project eliglbe for review.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Warm regars,

Marti (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2021 - Community Organizing proposal

This Project Grants proposal is under review!

We've confirmed your proposal is eligible for review in Round 1 2021 for Community Organizing projects. This decision is contingent upon compliance with our COVID-19 guidelines. Proposals that include travel and/or offline events must ensure that all of the following are true:

• You must review and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
• If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you must be able to complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
• You must be able to postpone any planned offline events or travel until the Wikimedia Foundation’s guidelines allow for them, without significant harm to the goals of your project.
• You must include a COVID-19 planning section in your activities plan. In this section, you should provide a brief summary of how your project plan will meet COVID-19 guidelines, and how it would impact your project if travel and offline events prove unfeasible throughout the entire life of your project. If you have not already included this in your proposal, you have until March 12 to add it.

The Community review period is now underway, from February 20-March 4. We encourage you to make sure that stakeholders, volunteers, and/or communities impacted by your proposed project are aware of your proposal and invite them to give feedback on your talkpage. This is a great way to make sure that you are meeting the needs of the people you plan to work with and it can help you improve your project.

• If you are applying for funds in a region where there is a Wikimedia Affiliate working, we encourage you to let them know about your project, too.
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Please feel free to ask questions and make changes to this proposal as discussions continue during the community review period. By March 12, make sure that your proposal has incorporated any revisions you want to make and complies with all of our guidelines. If you have not already done so, you can make use of our project planning resources to improve your proposal further, too.

The Project Grant committee's formal review for round 1 2020 will occur March 5 through March 20, 2021. We ask that you refrain from making any further changes to your proposal after March 12, so we can be sure that all committee members are scoring the same version of the proposal.

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We look forward to engaging with you in this Round!

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--Mercedes Caso (platícame) 00:58, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Yomomo/Mathematrix

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?	5.4
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	4.6
(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?	5.4
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	2.8
Additional comments from the Committee: The improvement of mathematics is important and the use of simple language too. The project fits with Wikimedia's strategic priorities. The website that they intend to create can be sustained in the future and scaled if necessary because it will probably require little maintenance. This project is based upon the idea that knowledge, particularly numeracy, may empower people. This connects theoretically to the vision that drives the strategy of the Wikimedia movement. A problem is that how this vision is in practical terms being built in Mathematrix is missing. The approach is more iterative than innovative. The potential impact is probably significant and risks are low. However there is no clear plan for evaluation of the project impacts . The project goals and measures of success are rather vague. The document in which Mathematrix is presented is still at this point a collection of insights and good ideas that need to be developed into a plan to lead to an actual project. The idea is worth exploring, but needs more work and community engagement. The only participant probably has necessary skills to execute the project. However the budget is not very specific as far as seminars and advertisement are concerned. So, a more detailed plan of activities should be included. How many seminars? Who will participate in them? What software is necessary for creation of videos? etc. The project seems to be done by a single person without community involvement. The community engagement is low. For a budget like that I would supposed to have a more detailed submission. At the moment, with the data present in the submission, it seems to be very close to the paid editing (it is not clear what the project manager will do). The project is interesting but in its present form looks underdeveloped. It should be provided with more specific goals and measures of success and with a more detailed budget and plan of activities. The proposal seems to be hinting at creating a seperate site based on the existing work already done on Wikibooks. So the impact of Wikimedia projects is very minimal. The plan needs to be more focused on how teachers will be engaged to create content Wikibooks. It is a wonderful idea, Yomomo, yet it is unclear to me how the project --as presented now-- could become a model in which the education community and the Wikimedia volunteer community are actively engaging with the vision and the actual product that is being conceived. Without the model, it is hard to understand what the role of the project manager would be.

Opportunity to respond to committee comments in the next week

The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal. Based on their initial review, a majority of committee reviewers have not recommended your proposal for funding. You can read more about their reasons for this decision in their comments above. Before the committee finalizes this decision, they would like to provide you with an opportunity to respond to their comments.

Next steps:

1. Aggregated committee comments from the committee are posted above. Note that these comments may vary, or even contradict each other, since they reflect the conclusions of multiple individual committee members who independently reviewed this proposal. We recommend that you review all the feedback carefully and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page by 5pm UTC on Monday, March 29, 2021. If you make any revisions to your proposal based on committee feedback, we recommend that you also summarize the changes on your talkpage.
2. The committee will review any additional feedback you post on your talkpage before making a final funding decision. A decision will be announced no later than Friday, April 22, 2021.

Questions? Contact us.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 21:24, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Round 1 2021 decision

This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.

We love that you took the chance to creatively improve the Wikimedia movement. The committee has reviewed this proposal and not recommended it for funding. This was a very competitive round with many good ideas, not all of which could be funded in spite of many merits. We appreciate your participation, and we hope you'll continue to stay engaged in the Wikimedia context.

Next steps: Applicants whose proposals are declined are welcome to consider resubmitting your application again in the future. You are welcome to request a consultation with staff to review any concerns with your proposal that contributed to a decline decision, and help you determine whether resubmission makes sense for your proposal.

Over the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has been undergoing a community consultation process to launch a new grants strategy. Our proposed programs are posted on Meta here: Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021. If you have suggestions about how we can improve our programs in the future, you can find information about how to give feedback here: Get involved. We are also currently seeking candidates to serve on regional grants committees and we'd appreciate it if you could help us spread the word to strong candidates--you can find out more here. We will launch our new programs in July 2021. If you are interested in submitting future proposals for funding, stay tuned to learn more about our future programs.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2021 (UTC)