Grants talk:Project/Building a Wikimedian Role into the Future of MHz Curationist

Comment from Wikimedia Foundation GLAM & Culture team

Hello! Organizations have typically answered these questions by adopting a more active approach, where the WiR is engaged in knowledge production and community engagement, learning as they go. Can you be more explicit about how you would involve Wikimedia communities through this research project? Thanks, -- GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 23:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Withdrawal of this proposal

Hi all,

I recently marked this proposal as withdrawn, and just wanted to explain the reasoning. In recent weeks, I've been advising MHz Curationist on a different project idea that we jointly designed: Grants:Project/MHz Curationist/Building a sustainable system that unlocks museum metadata for Wikidata use. I believe that proposal is their most promising one, because it directly involves Wikimedians and it is more clearly related to a definite benefit to Wikimedia projects; I also think what we have proposed there is more well-formed and achievable, because it relies on some of Curationist's existing technology. During the course of working on that project, we decided it would be better for them to focus efforts on that project, and treat the community organizing project grants they submitted as a learning experience. The following statement comes from the rest of the Curationist team:

Thank you to the Community for your interest, questions and feedback on our submission. Your responses have helped us better understand how to be part of the Wikimedia community, and what the committee is looking for. At this time MHz Curationist has made the decision to withdraw our submission of this project.

In the meantime, as part of our learning process, we’ve submitted a project proposal of "Building a Sustainable System that Unlocks Museum Metadata for Wikidata Use". We have made sure that we are working with people who have subject matter expertise and are ingrained within the Wikimedia community. In fact, that project idea actually originated from within the Wikimedia community, and was suggested to us as a way in which we could leverage the unique value of Curationist's platform to meet the Wikimedia community's existing goals (e.g. Sum of all Paintings). We look forward to Committee feedback and questions on this new submission.

Thanks again to everyone for the time spent in reviewing the proposals! Dominic (talk) 14:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)