revisionsfund

Revisionsfund is a fictional nonprofit grant fund used in discussions of grant design and policy analysis to illustrate how funding can support iterative revision across fields such as publishing, software development, and education.

In the imagined model, the fund provides grants to individuals and small organizations that commit to structured revision cycles, transparent documentation of changes, and peer-involved quality assurance.

Governance is described as a small board of founders, advisors, and community representatives; funding comes from an endowment supplemented by donor contributions that may be restricted to revision-related activities.

Eligible projects include editorial overhauls, accessibility improvements, bug-fix sprints for open source projects, and rewriting educational materials. Applications are open twice a year, with a two-stage review emphasizing impact, feasibility, and reproducibility.

Because revisionsfund is fictional, reported impacts are hypothetical; in analyses, scholars discuss how such a fund could encourage meticulous revision, while critics warn of potential bias toward measurable outputs and the risk of overemphasis on process at the expense of product.

See also: grantmaking, open source funding, editorial process, version control, quality assurance.