Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia New York City/2021-2022
- Application or grant stage: under review
- Applicant or grantee: Wikimedia New York City
- Amount requested: $150,710
- Amount granted: TBD (to be added by WMF)
- Funding period: 1 July 2021 - 30 June
20222023 - Midpoint report due: Half YEAR + 15 days
- Final report due: YEAR + 30 days
Application edit
Background edit
Annual Plan edit
Budget Plan edit
Staffing Plan edit
Strategic plan edit
- The former 2018-2020 Strategic Plan continues in effect while the Board of Directors works with Barretto Consulting to develop the new plan.
Introduction edit
Wikimedia New York City brings New York together to share in a richer and more representative free knowledge ecosystem. We draw from our knowledge, passion, partnerships, and flexibility to create community, educate users, and facilitate content contributions through programs and events.
Programs edit
Chapter Membership and Community
This program area focuses on fostering community and connections among our members and Wikimedians through social gatherings and events. Whereas events like edit-a-thons play an important role in building community, their primary function is content development and participant training. Our community includes long-time editors, librarians, journalists, educators, activists, photographers, community organizers, students, retirees, developers, and artists, each of whom have their own motivations for engaging with Wikimedia projects broadly and the Wikimedia NYC community specifically. This program area focuses on those activities which take community as their primary purpose, like our monthly WikiWednesday Salon, annual Wiknic and Wikipedia Day celebrations, and participation in national and global events that connect our local members with the larger Wikimedia movement.
The last year has presented significant challenges to connecting Wikipedians in the New York area. Each of our programmatic focuses have shifted online, yielding new attendance from longtime Wikipedians, but also resulting in a reduced number of new and potential members. In the 2021-2022 grant period, Wikimedia NYC will experiment with a hybrid approach to its programming, provided meeting in person can be done safely. There will be challenges as the spaces previously used for WikiWednesday and our annual Wikipedia Day celebration are no longer available. However, this presents an opportunity to broaden our network and rethink our accessibility.
We will know we're successful when:
- Wikimedia NYC hosts 10 WikiWednesdays in a year, evaluating attendance at in-person versus online events.
- Wikimedia NYC expands its programmatic approach by hosting two community-focused events other than WikiWednesday.
- Contingent upon hiring an ED, Wikimedia NYC will research member satisfaction. This could include an evaluation of the effectiveness of different programmatic approaches. Wikimedia NYC will then share local activities and lessons learned by sending two representatives to local and national Wikimedia events and/or contributing a Learning Pattern.
Outreach and Education
The outreach and education program area focuses on activities that promote and advance the work of the Chapter and its vision for open knowledge. We will activate the education of New Yorkers through trainings and workshops which provide them with the knowledge and skills to participate and share in a richer, more representative free knowledge ecosystem. Wikimedia New York City is incredibly fortunate to exist in such a diverse place as New York, and since its founding has been deeply committed to encouraging the participation and representation of the people, cultures, and communities which call it home. While most of our work takes place at a local scale, the spirit of representation and free knowledge outreach and education have led several projects which began here, like AfroCrowd, Art + Feminism, and the “Wiki Loves …” initiatives, to have a catalyzing, replicable, global impact. In the coming year, we will continue this work while also integrating discussions of the larger free culture movement into our programming.
We will know we are successful when:
- Wikimedia NYC hosts 30 edit-a-thons in thematic areas that support knowledge equity
- Wikimedia NYC hosts two events that educate New Yorkers on issues relevant to the larger free culture movement
- Contingent upon hiring an Executive Director, Wikimedia NYC leads development of training materials and/or train-the-trainer resources
Partnerships
The partnerships program area provides support for programming and content contributions in collaboration with institutional partners. However, as a volunteer organization, Wikimedia NYC has been inconsistent in its support of existing partners, and has not had the capacity to foster new relationships in support of its mission and aims. Informed by over ten years of organizational experience and its current strategic planning process, the Wikimedia NYC Board of Directors aims to hire a full-time Executive Director, who will devote part of their time to supporting and fostering partnerships.
We will know we are successful when:
- Contingent upon hiring the ED, Wikimedia NYC will focus on both defining what it means to be a partner of Wikimedia NYC and build capacity for mutually beneficial relationships.
Grant Metrics Reporting edit
Required. Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.
Needs Request edit
Optional. The Community Resources team would like understand the best way to support the success of your programs and organization in general. If you have any requests or needs you have related to your programs, organizational operations, or other needs below under the appropriate section, please describe them here. You may instead e-mail simple wikimedia.org to reach your program officer if you prefer.
Requests for operational support edit
As Wikimedia NYC embarks on its first full-time hire, it would benefit from a consultation on best practices in managing a position serving a largely volunteer organization.
Final report edit
2021 edit
- December 15: WikiWednesday
- December 6 -10: City Tech SF Symposium Edit-a-thon
- October 27: LGBTQ+ History and Culture at BMCC
- October 10: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (with WikiProject Craft + WikiConference North America)
- October 6: Latinx Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- October 2021: Wiki Loves Monuments NY/NYC
- September 18 - October 31: Prospect Park photo contest
- September 29: WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting
- August 25: WikiWednesday
- July 14: Virtual Coney Island Meetup + NYC monthly collaboration
2022 edit
- Birds of NYC photo Contest 2022
- December 28: WikiWednesday
- December 3: ICP x Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
- November 30: WikiWednesday
- November 11–13: WikiConference North America 2022 in NYC
- October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City
- October 26: WikiWednesday
- October 2: Post-Election Prospect Park Wiknic
- September 28: Annual Election/Members Meeting
- August 24: WikiWednesday
- August 11-14: Wiki World's Fair / Wikimania
- July 27: WikiWednesday
- July 14: Queens Wiknic @ the w:Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society
- June 26: Bronx Wiknic
- June 22: WikiWednesday
- June 8: Environment of the Bronx - Editing Wikipedia for Beginners edit-a-thon @ NYBG
- May 25: WikiWednesday
- May 22: Hacknic NYC 2022
- April 28: WikiGap 2022 - Women, Health & Environment Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - WikiGap/2022/Women, Health & Environment
- April 27: WikiWednesday
- April 24: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder
- April 22: Environment of NYC - Earth Day Edit-a-thon - 2022
- March 27: Wiki-Tent Brunch
- March 23: WikiWednesday
- March 21 & 23: Wiki Week at Queens College (4th annual edit-a-thon)
- February 23: WikiWednesday
- February: Met Afrofuturist Period Room
- February 5: Met Afrofuturist Period Room
- January 30: Wikipedia Day - Formal meet up cancelled due to snow storm but informal meet up occurred!
- January 29: COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Edit-a-thon / Translate-a-thon - 2022
2023 edit
- June 21: WikiWednesday Salon - June
- May 17: WikiWednesday Salon - May + Queering Wikipedia 2023
- April 23: Earth Day Wiknic NYC
- April 22: Earth Day 2023 Edit-a-thon Environment of Brooklyn with Sure We Can
- April 19: Earth Day 2023 Translat-a-thon at LaGuardia Community College
- April 15: Earth Day and the Digital Environment - Beacon, NY
- April 12: WikiWednesday Salon - April
- March 8: Wikimedia Foundation meet-up/WikiWeds
- March 7: History of Nursing in Newark Rutgers University
- February 28: AfroCROWD Hip Hop Online Editathon Training, University at Albany
- February 24: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at Pratt University
- February 15: WikiWednesday Salon - February
- January 15: Wikipedia Day 2023 - Wikipedia 22 at the w:Jefferson Market Library
Program story edit
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Learning story edit
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Programs Impact edit
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Grant Metrics Reporting Final edit
Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.