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Assist Wikimedians with crowdfunding

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Assist Wikimedians with crowdfunding, Salsman (2018) for Ward Cunningham (Newspeak House, London.)

• Problem: Grants are difficult to administer, take time, and are often frustrating.
• Who would benefit: Those who can show they are acting in support of the Foundation's Mission.
• Proposed solution: Provide services to help Wikimedians set up their own fundraising outreach.
• More comments: I will finish this Wednesday, November 14
• Phabricator tickets: to be created if the proposal is selected
• Proposer: James Salsman (talk) 02:46, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Working list of technologies:

• Wikidata and/or Wordnets
  • For synonyms, e.g. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/get-synonymsantonyms-nltk-wordnet-python/ and http://www.nltk.org/howto/wordnet.html and http://globalwordnet.org/wordnets-in-the-world/
• Python and/or Javascript
• WMF cloud services and/or Firebase
• Google Trends e.g. https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends
  • note these are returned in (0...100) so they need to be de-normalized which is convoluted but tractable
• Modules for social media search and posting
  • And probably some "wizard" like system for setting up searches and templates around a given fundraising goal
• Pattern-matching template for proposed responses
• Conservative approval filter
  • E.g., never send without human review and the default should always be to not send without affirmative confirmation
• Modules for monitoring donation campaigns
  • These likely might not strictly be necessary

Discussion

Please feel free to SVG-ize the diagram. James Salsman (talk) 03:22, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

@James Salsman: I've looked at that diagram and don't understand what it wants to express. :( Is this about / related to Grants:Start? What exactly is "difficult to administer" and "frustrating", with regard to technical aspects? --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 00:38, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, it goes from fundraising goals to search strategies to search results which are transformed into recommended tweets/posts etc. Patreon, Twitter, and Reddit are included as examples but I'd prefer it platform-neutral, so please give me until at least Friday to abstract it from that working diagram. There have been recent discussions of the difficulties in grants administration and program management. I will provide those by Wednesday. James Salsman (talk) 17:59, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi James Salsman: The Community Tech team can work on discrete technical proposals; this proposal is asking for structural and policy changes that can't be addressed through the Wishlist Survey. I'm going to archive this proposal; thanks for participating in the survey. -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)