Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Community Ireland Annual Grant 2024

Feedback from the Northern and Western Europe (NWE) Regional Funds Committee on your proposal

Dear Wikimedia Community Ireland Team,

Thank you very much for your proposal, describing your activities and projects in support of the Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement. The Northern and Western European Regional Committee has initially reviewed the proposal, and wishes to offer some initial feedback and possibly get some clarification.

• The committee is grateful to see a plan that was presented with an outlook to become multi-year in the next rounds.
• We appreciated the outward projection of the proposal for a growing team such as yours.
• We also appreciated the partnerships established, as well as the potential for new partnerships in the area.

We would like, in this positive overview, to ask you for a few clarifications:

• You express the wish to develop the community outside Dublin: Do you already have outreach plans for volunteers outside the Dublin area? And how do you plan to keep those activities alive?
• The change in personnel will impact on the structure: Do you already have an outlook on what the changes in the volunteer tasks will be? How are you planning to involve the volunteer editing communities of English and Gaelic Wikipedias in the planned outreach work?
• Can you please clarify how the Celtic Knot conference’s recently acquired WMF funding would influence your personnel cost request for the current General Support Fund request?
• What is your overall strategy for the Irish language work in Ireland? Do you foresee that Irish Wikipedians usually writing in English could/would participate more also on the Irish Wikipedia?
• How do you wish to continue your diversity programs, after the WikiWomen Erasmus + Project ends in 2024?

In terms of the schedule for our review process, please complete your review and responses to the committee feedback by May 05th, 2024. In case after receiving your responses, it will be still necessary to find clarity in some specific aspects, we will be happy to provide the opportunity for further responses or offer a meeting to further understand specific elements of your plans. After this period, the Regional Committee will begin a final review of the proposal to make a formal decision.

Thanks again for your work on the proposal and supporting our review.

On behalf of the NWE Regional Committee, ABruszik-WMF (talk) 08:34, 14 April 2024 (UTC)