Grants talk:PEG/WM ID/Wiki Apsara Indonesia

GAC member status for this application

Studying the proposal

• -- Namayan (talk) 16:30, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
• -- Thuvack (talk) 16:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

No objection

Ok, Mayur ^{(talk•Email)} 04:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Comments

Dear Applicant, thanks for submitting your grant application. Do you mind translating the budget breakdown (in the Google Docs) to English? I have a problem understanding it, as I don't speak Indonesian. Thanks. Abbasjnr (talk) 08:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Request to include project budget details as part of the grant submission

Thank you, Ivonne, for renaming the request and for translating the detailed budgets to English so that the GAC may review them more easily: please monitor this discussion page for more comments.

Since this submission requests funds for several distinct projects within one submission but only a budget overview is included on the submission page itself, we request that you include these detailed project budgets on the grant submission page itself rather than using external links. We are requesting this because WMF needs to have a verifiable public record of funds requested (and approved, if applicable) that also allows us to track any changes to the grant submission during review and after a decision.

I hope this is not too cumbersome a request. If it is too time-consuming to produce the tables on wiki, you might consider including these project budgets as images or in portable document format (just ensure that the file is uploaded to Meta and clearly linked to from the grant submission). We will also add this suggestion to the grants index to avoid confusion for future applicants.

Thanks for your cooperation, and let us know if you need any clarification on this point.

Regards, Wolliff (talk) 22:07, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Winifred,

We already moved all the external links for detailed budget in this section. Thank you. --22Kartika (talk) 13:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Great! Thank you for doing that. Wolliff (talk) 18:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Sanskrit translation

This is probably an off-topic comment. But Apsara in Sanskrit traditionally means a female deity or being, the translation for vidhyadhari is correct as knowledge owner/giver, but I have never heard the two terms being equated in the same meaning, nor in the same context within this culture. This might be one of those cultural things[1] but it occurred to me at first, in case someone else also noticed, otherwise please ignore this comment. Theo10011 (talk) 18:35, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

IIRC, Vidyadhari is an alias of w:en:Saraswati, not w:en:Apsara. But yeah, this is from my limited knowledge of Sanskrit, Indian culture and mythology. :) — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 04:04, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Time frame, manpower and detailed breakdown request

Hi guys.

Pretty big grant request this one. Any ways, can someone redo tables or presentations to show likely time frames, volunteers required for each project and a detailed breakdown for each? I am having trouble to imagine the scale of these projects and Wikimedia-Indonesia's capacity to run these concurrently or even separately in one year.

Will comment further once more information becomes available.--Thuvack (talk) 16:15, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Thuvack, sure will do working on your requested table. If you are interested to know Wikimedia Indonesia's capacity in running several projects in one year, I recommend you to see our previous project (2011): Wikimedia_Cipta. Similar like Wiki Apsara Project, the previous one consists of around seven different projects/activities, particularly in three cities.--22Kartika (talk) 15:03, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Thuvack, Kartika is being modest :-) . I'll give the number for you so you can have a clearer view on WMID capacity. In 2011 we receives 40 grand from WMF, our total budget in 2011 is 750 grand, WMF grant covers 5.3 percent. In 2012 we have around 600 grand to play with (see our financial report). For 2013 number is embargoed but it will go up, this grant request probably going to be 10 percent of a total budget. Siska.Doviana (talk) 01:42, 23 October 2012 (UTC)