User:Jean-Frédéric/Funding programs
Several Wikimedia entities provide funding programs for individuals.
Overview
[edit]- Moved to Grants
Analysis points
[edit]Throwing some ideas
- Set up
- Annual budget dedicated
- Approval process − dedicated committee, board approval, etc.
- Scope of the requests
- Eligibility of seekers
- Communication strategy
- For chapters : relevance strategy
- Tracking strategy
- …
- Results
- Number of requests, number of accepted, ratio
- Total amount requested, total accepted, ratio
- Total number of unique funding-seekers
- Average requested sum
- Typology of requests (equipment, books, travel, etc.)
- Typology of Wikimedia projects supported (Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata...)
- Average request approval/rejection time
- Cost of the funding process
- …
- User stories
- « As a grant seeker, I want my request to be processed quickly, in order to make early arrangements or seek alternative funding. »
- « As a granting entity, I want the requests to be processed quickly, in order to minimize the variable costs (eg train or plane tickets) »
- « As a granting entity, I want to be able to control that the grant money is well spent. »
- …
See also
[edit]- de:Wikipedia:Literaturstipendium/Wikimedia_Österreich − Wikimedia Österreich books granting program (seems to be work a bit differently?)
- Small Grants Programs (etherpad of the session) − Wikimedia Conference 2013, Milan
- insights from IEG round 1 proposal process