Grants talk:Project/I School Challenge for Countering Online Harassment
Change status to 'proposed' to submit for 8/2/16 Project Grants deadline
Dear Npdoty,
Please note that if you intend to submit this proposal for the August 2 deadline of the current round of Project Grants, you must change the status from draft to proposed. If you have any questions, our final proposal clinic is from 1600-1700 UTC on August 2.
Cheers,
--Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:13, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks! That was one of my open questions. (Tried to join the office hours via IRC, but may have missed you.) Npdoty (talk) 20:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Comments / Questsions from I JethroBT (WMF)
Hi Npdoty, I'm Jethro, a community organizer. Thanks for preparing your proposal to conduct comprehensive, research-based approach to tackling harassment on Wikimedia projects. I have a couple of suggestions about places to obtain some feedback and recruit volunteers from Wikimedia community who might be interested in assisting with this initiative. If the target project you are seeking to improve is the English Wikipedia, a few good places to make a general announce to get feedback include:
- The wiki-research-l mailing list is all about scientific research regarding project content and their communities, and would be a great place to announce the project, get feedback and look for potential collaborators,
- The village pump is a general space for alerting the community about community-focused proposals. It's common for feedback to be provided locally there-- feel free to link to the discussion if that is the case.
- Try dropping a suggestion about the grant proposal to The Signpost, a semi-weekly newsletter sent to thousands of English Wikipedia contributors.
I've already dropped a line about the proposal in the #wikimedia-researchconnect IRC channel dedicated to research discussions and topics as well.
I had a few questions as well:
- The proposal outlines plans to evaluate multiple platforms, including Wikipedia. What other platforms will be evaluated? In total, do you have an estimate of the number of platforms this research is scoped for?
- One component of the project is to develop a portal for research and tools. The Research namespace here on Meta currently contains an space for folks to submit and document research projects and the tools they develop along with them, and can be categorized under a project. Can you describe what sorts of benefits a new portal could have in this project?
Thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 6 August 2016 (UTC)