Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014 round1/Wikimedia Israel/Progress report form/Q1



Purpose of the report edit

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year). This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs edit

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

  1. Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
  2. Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
  3. In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Overall edit

Metric Achieved outcome Explanation
1. # of active editors involved
2. # of new editors
3. # of individuals involved
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects


Telling your program stories - all programs edit

Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.

  • We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.
  • Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.
  • We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.
  • We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.
  • You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.
Target Last year (if applicable) Progress (at end of Q2) End of year (projected or actual) Comments
Example Example Example Example Example

Revenues received during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report) edit

Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J K

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Spending during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report) edit

Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 3 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

(The "budgeted" amount is the total planned for the year as submitted in your proposal form or your revised plan, and the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year. The "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative amount spent over the budgeted amount.)
Expense Currency Budgeted Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Budgeted ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Percentage spent to date Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J J2 K
TOTAL B C D E F G H I J J2 N/A

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Compliance edit

Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement? edit

As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.

Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

Signature edit

Once complete, please sign below with the usual four tildes.

Resources edit

Resources to plan for measurement edit

Resources for storytelling edit


Basic entity information edit

Table 1

Entity information Legal name of entity Wikimedia Israel
Entity's fiscal year (mm/dd–mm/dd) 1/1 - 12/31
12 month timeframe of funds awarded (mm/dd/yy-mm/dd/yy) 01/01/14 - 12/31/14
Contact information (primary) Primary contact name Itzik Edri
Primary contact position in entity Chairperson
Primary contact username itzike
Primary contact email itzik@wikimedia.org.il
Contact information (secondary) Secondary contact name Michal Lester
Secondary contact position in entity Executive Director
Secondary contact username Mlesterwml
Secondary contact email mlester@wikimedia.org.il


Overview of this quarter edit

The purpose of this section is to provide a brief overview of this report. Please use no more than 1-2 paragraphs to address the questions outlined below. You will have an opportunity to address these questions in detail elsewhere in this report.

CHANGES: Please describe how you changed your plans and budget based on the FDC allocation approved by the Board in December 2012, and your rationale for these changes. You can then use the changed plans and budget as the basis on which to report back on the first quarter.

  • After the submitted an appeal of the FDC decisions we had to take the following strategic decisions: whether to focus on strengthening the existing volunteer base or developing a new focus of building a model for a lasting collaboration with an academic institution. The chapter did not have the capacity to do both. In an extraordinary general meeting, the board decided to aim the attention on the Hebrew Wikipedian community. Other areas that received budget cuts were: Wikimania scholarships, GLAM programs as well as other minor areas. Eventually, cutbacks were done in all the programs and fundraising was increased in importance among the organizational priorities.

A new working plan and budget were approved.


HIGHLIGHTS: What were 1–2 important highlights of the past quarter? (These may include successes, challenges, lessons learned.)

  • Rewriting the working plan and the budget: During January, we reexamined the chapter’s list of priorities and tied the activities to the resources. The revised working plan and budget were presented to the board and prominent volunteers. They were approved and published at the WMIL website during February.
  • Be'er Sheva Educational Initiative: During March, 11 workshops took place in all the schools that taking part in the project. Ten Wikipedians and Wikimedians arrived to the schools to help the project leaders. A special guideline was written for these workshops.


WIKI-FOCUS: What Wikimedia projects was your entity focused on (e.g., Wiki Commons, French Wiktionary) this quarter?

  • Hebrew Wikipedia, Wiki Commons
GROWTH: How did your entity grow over the past quarter vs. the previous quarter (e.g., Number of active editors reached/involved/added, number of articles created, number of events held, number of partipants reached through workshops)?
Lectures 20
No of participants in the Lectures 620
Workshops 16
No of participants in the workshops 500
No. of articles that were written or edited during the quarter (as part of programs) 29 New Articles, 16 Significant edits, 13 short Adyghe articles.
Events 13th birthday of Wikipedia

Financial summary edit

The FDC requires information about how your entity received and spent money over the past year. The FDC distributes general funds, so your entity is not required to use funds exactly as outlined in the proposal. While line-item expenses will not be examined, the FDC and movement wants to understand why the entity spent money in the way it did. If variance in budgeted vs. actual is greater than 20%, please provide explanation in more detail. This helps the FDC understand the rationale behind any significant changes. Note that any changes from the Grant proposal, among other things, must be consistent with the WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, must be reported to WMF, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement. The WMF mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

Revenues for this quarter edit

Provide exchange rate used:

  • 1$ = 3.6 NIS

Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
Donations from individuals ILS 2,000 700 700 555 144 35%
Membership fees ILS 800 400 400 222 111 50%
Sponsors ILS 30,000 0 0 8,333 0 0
Funds ILS 120,000 0 0 33,333 0 0
Partnerships ILS 25,200 0 0 7,000 0 0
FDC ILS 709,000 413583 413,583 196,944 114,884 58%
In kind donation and volunteers hours ILS 50,000 11,733 11,733 13,888 3,259 24%

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Spending during this quarter edit

Table 3 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

(The "budgeted" amount is the total planned for the year as submitted in your proposal form or your revised plan, and the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year. The "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative amount spent over the budgeted amount.)
Expense Currency Budgeted Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Budgeted ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Percentage spent to date Explanation of variances from plan
Community ILS 56,000 6,406 6406 15,555 1,779 11%
Promoting free knowledge ILS 114,400 2,485 2,485 31,777 690 2%
Global engagement ILS 40,824 8,147 8,147 11,340 2263 20%
Management and Administration ILS 228,232 33,601 33,601 63,398 9,334 15%
TOTAL ILS 877,456 137,310 137,310 243,738 38,141 16%

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Progress toward this year's goals/objectives edit

This section addresses the impact of the programs / initiatives* and objectives your entity has implemented over the past quarter and the progress your entity is making toward meeting this year's goals. We understand that some metrics may not be applicable in this quarterly report, so please add metrics here if they are applicable.

*In the past, the FDC has used the term 'initiative', but we are using the term 'program.'

Program 1 edit

Strengthening the existing volunteer base
What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.

12 community meeting that include:

  • 3 edit-a-thons
  • 4 workshop sessions (with 15 editors at least).
  • At least one meetup with external expert lecturers.
  • At least one community organized gathering.
  • Meetups regarding the chapter activities in Wikipedia - as needed.
  • Frequent community meetups in the Tel Aviv office.

Recruiting inactive members back to the community as active editors:

  • Mapping at least 50 inactive Wikipedians.
  • Developing a work plan to reach them.
  • 10% from the inactive Wikipedians the chapter contact return to edit.

Recruiting of volunteers with for strengthening organizational infrastructure:

  • Providing training tools and guidance to volunteers - at least 2 meetings for potential/existing volunteers.
  • Recruiting more than 3 new volunteers in accordance with the needs of the organization.

Encouraging new initiatives:

  • 2-3 new initiatives.
  • publishing microgrants in the community and between our partners

Strengthening relations between the community (especially the active editor community) and the chapter:

  • Building the WMIL portal as part of the the community portal at the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Celebrating together the 13th Birthday of Wikipedia and the 11th anniversary celebration of a of the Hebrew Wikipedia - 80 Wikipedians and guests arrive to each event.


Meeting between the chairperson of the WMF (during his visit in Israel ) and the community. 20 Wikipedians will show up to the meetings.

Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
Activities conducted.
 
13th Birthday of Wikipedia - Tel Aviv Meetup
 
13th Birthday of Wikipedia - Tel Aviv Meetup
  • Community Meeting:

At the end of 2013 there was a vocal conversation in the “village pump” (community) forum regarding the chapter activities in schools and with schoolchildren. Some Wikipedians claimed that high school students, in general, write low quality articles which require a lot of work from the community. Wikimedians emphasized that high school students are the future Wikipedians. After a long discussion, the chairperson gathered a meeting in the WMIL office, which took place at February 26th. Nine Wikipedians came to the office and ten more attended online. 2 staff members and 19 volunteers took part in this activity.

The main takeaways of the conversation:

They, the Wikipedians who came to the meeting, suggest working mainly with high schools, not elementary schools. They also suggest working with gifted students (from 9th or higher). Wikipedians want to be involved in the education program and want to read and approve all articles before they go online.

The talk page.

  • Inactive Wikipedians:

During the first Quarter, the ED started the process of contacting inactive Wikepedians in order to get them to rejoin the community. A starting meeting to the course, with three active Wikipedians held at January. We mapped the possible ways and strategies of encouraging inactive members to rejoin. As a first step, interviews with community members, inactive Wikipedians and other stakeholders. This process will be the role of the community coordinator who started to work at the beginning of April, and she will build a specific working plan for the process. 2 staff members and 4 volunteers


In January we celebrated the 13th birthday to Wikipedia. The gathering was attended by about 100 Wikipedians and Wikimedians. The event was opened by a short presentation of WMIL’s working plan for 2014. WMIL’s Chairperson invited the community to work in the community space and to take part in the WMIL activities or to initiate projects. We invited our partners from the National Library to talk about the the Israeli Web Archive as guest lecturers. In addition to guest lectures, volunteers gave lectures in various fields, such as the OTRS system. At the end of the event, a ceremony for writing competition was held. At the event one wikipedian joined the volunteer team of the chapter who since then mentors the Ministry of Education employee who has been assigned to work on/with Wikipedia for one day a week. 2 staff members and 3 volunteers organized the event.


What worked and what did not?
  • The reorganization of the chapter delayed our planning to recruit a Community Coordinator. After a approving the working plan, we started to look for coordinator. Most of the effort was directed towards the community and eventually, an active wikipedian started to work at April. Those processes slowed the pace of the chapter activities towards the goal of strengthening the community.


Any additional details:


Program 2 edit

Recruiting new volunteers
What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
  • Developing guidance methods and tools for effective instruction, and assisting in the onboarding process of new editors.
  • Conducting lectures and editing workshops.
Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
Activities conducted.

From the fourth quarter of 2013 we began examining the efficiency of editing workshops. We discovered that a few articles were written and there was no follow up with participants in the workshops. Beside a lack of time to handle the bureaucratic assignments, the volunteers treated the workshops in a different perspective from the chapter: they came to share their knowledge, and not necessarily to recruit volunteers or create quality content. A dialogue between the ED and the volunteers about reframing the workshops has started since.

Number of steps have been made in a way to change the workshops:

  • A feedback form to the workshops.
  • A follow up check about participants which includes collecting information about:
    • Did the participant edit during the workshop?
    • Did they edit after a week, a month, 3 months after the workshop?
  • The Activity Coordinator sends emails to keep in touch with participants that did some editing during the workshop and a week later. She invites them to seek assistance if they need it. We found out that connecting new users only in their user page is not effective.
  • A new editing exercise was added to the workshop. With the exercise, participants learn the basic editing rules.

Our next challenge is to write tutorials for editing workshops. We will do it with a company specializing in developing learning tools, which will donate the time pro-bono.

Editing Workshops during Q1:


{{

Date Audience Location No. of participants Contributions
3.1 General public The National Library 17
8.1 Employees of the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites The Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library University of Haifa 11 1 New Articles and 5 Extensions and 1 new editor.
7.2 General public The National Library 9 2 Extensions
7.3 General public The National Library 15 4 New Articles, 4 Extensions and 1 new editor.
17.3 Teachers and tutors Wikimedia Israel office , Tel Aviv 4 ---

}}

Part of the collaboration between The National Library and WMIL once a month an editing workshop is being held in the Library. Volunteers from WMIL and librarians (who became Wikipedians) are leading the workshop together. The teams (The National Library and WMIL) meet quarterly to think together how to perfecting the workshops so that more articles will be written and participants will become editors. These goals are shared by the organizations.

What worked and what did not?
  • The chapter didn’t decide (yet) what are the most desirable target audiences that will increase the number of contributors and enrich content. Until now WMIL guided workshops which were open for all who approached.


Program 3 edit

Organizational strengthening
What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
  • To constitute a professional Wikimedia chapter in Israel, that is able to work efficiently, create partnerships with other institutions and to support and promote volunteers' work.
  • Hiring a Community Coordinator (50% FTE).
  • Developing at least three procedural guidelines to support volunteers in executing projects and initiatives.
  • Launch a 3 years strategic planning.
Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
Activities conducted.
  • Hiring Community Coordinator: Hiring a community coordinator was postponed. Candidate recruitment began after shortly the board reaffirmed the work plan and budget, in February. The ED and a board member interviewed half a dozen candidates from more than hundred who applied. At the end of the process we chose Chen Spector, a Wikipedia Editor with background in Psychology and a teaching degree, with relevant experience in training volunteers. Chen started to work at the beginning April 2014.
  • Developing procedural guidelines:

Rewriting the guideline for Microgrants and publishing it in Wikimedia IL website and at Hebrew Wikipedia. We hope that the Community Coordinator will encourage Wikipedians to submit applications for projects. Wikimania Scholarships: Towards Wikimania 2014 the board and ED formulate a policy regarding Wikimania Scholarships.

What worked and what did not?
  • Activity is progressing as planned.


Program 4 edit

Increasing the chapter’s resources
  • Fundraising to the amount of $25,000.
  • In kind donations to the amount of $15,000
What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.


Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
Activities conducted.

During the first Quarter of 2014 WMIL submitted to grant requests to two foundations. One request was for supporting a program which will promote writing articles in academic institutions. The second request was for developing kit in Hebrew and Arabic for primary school teachers.

In kind donations: A training company will donate their knowledge and expertise and will write tutorials for editing workshops with us.


What worked and what did not?

Any additional details:


Program 5 edit

Creating long-term strategic partnerships
What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
  • Developing and establishing collaborations with academic and cultural institutions.
  • Initiating a photography contest - Wiki Loves Monuments.
  • Developing collaborations with the free content community in Israel.
  • Developing a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Education.
Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?

Regarding cultural institutions:

  • Establishing a partnership with cultural institution, and strengthening our existing collaborations with The National Library of Israel and others.
  • Building new models of partnerships with cultural institutions.

The partnership is with the Comics & Cartoons Museum in Holon started started at February 2014. Wikipedian in residence started to work once a week in the Museum.

Activities conducted.
  • A special initiative page opened. In the page the Wikipedian in Residence listed names of Israeli Cartoonists and encourages wikipedians to edit their articles.
  • Preparing a list of people and organizations that holds rights to approach them and ask for release rights of Comics & Cartoons. Twenty requests for rights were already made and we got a approval from 8 holders.
  • About 150 uploads to wiki commons:

35 photographs of events and exhibitions held at the museum in the past

64 works of art or portraits of artists

27 photographs that the Wikipedian in residence took

15 photographs from the behind the scenes tour

22 Articles

  • March 21st- a "behind the scenes" tour was held in the museum especially for wikipedians. Some 20 people, most of them Wikipedians, arrived with their families.

Photography projects:

  • WLM photography - contest.
  • Acquiring one sponsor at least for WML.
  • Establishing a new partnership.

For two years WLM has been a successful contest in Israel: thousands of images uploaded to Wiki Commons, more than one hundred people participated in taking photographs, tours were organized all over Israel and the press coverage was impressive. In 2014 WMIL decided to widen the scope of the contest and it will include Nature Reserves and other sites. WMIL also considers to promote WikiVoyage with the aid of the content collected during the contests. We recognized two major Israeli entities that may be interested in the competition: Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund and The Ministry of Environmental Protection. Meetings were held with representative of both organizations.

Building a MediaWiki Developer Community

  • Recruit a developer community that will meet on a monthly basis
  • Two Hackathons: Revolving around tools/extensions needed to further the movement’s goals, as well as the Hebrew Wikipedia’s goals, such as Hebrew interfaces for existing tools, or specific developments needed to hasten local GLAM partnerships.

The Hackathons will take place at the 2nd and the 4th quarters. As a primary lesson learned from the second Wikipedia Hackathon held in December 2013, we are looking to ​​establish a permanent developer community in Israel, which will engage in the creation of new developments, repair existing infrastructure and create projects for improving user experience on Hebrew Wikipedia (with an emphasis on Content Editors) and enable WMIL projects with a more technical side.

A group of Wikimedia Israel volunteers gathered, and in order to map the technical needs that will benefit the community of editors, we have created a questionnaire, and distributed it among Hebrew Wikipedia editors.

After we got feedback, we mapped the development needs from the community, we selected two projects where we have chosen to engage. 1. Developing a new category management tools (mediawiki-wide feature). 2. Developing an infrastructure that will allow the existence of more than one tracking list per user.

We hope to collaborate with "The Public Knowledge Workshop (NGO)" – a fellow nonprofit organization - whose community includes software developers, and together establish the first MediaWiki Developer community in Israel.

Ministry of Education:

  • Building long and stable cooperation with the Ministry of Education, in order to:
    • Promote Wikimedia projects in secondary school and among gifted student classes.
    • Wikipedia will be used as a teaching tool in the Israeli Education System.
    • students and teachers contribute free knowledge, and write or edit at least 30 new articles.


Activities conducted.

During the first quarter we deepen our cooperation with The Ministry of Education. There is a Ministry of Education employee who has been assigned to work with Wikipedia one day a week, from February to July. She is learning how to edit Wikipedia and also participated in WMIL activities. Once she has a deep understanding of Wikipedia, she will be writing and assimilating programs in schools.

Gifted Students:

One of our target audiences are gifted students. During 2013 WMIL worked sporadically with classes of gifted students (this was done reactively, when teachers approached us). We set a meeting with the Department of gifted and talented students. The meeting was successful and we were invited to lecture about Wikipedia in a seminar of all the employees of the department. In May, a first workshop for teachers of gifted students will take place. We are hopeful this will lead to a more systematic program for teaching Wikipedia to gifted children.

Be'er Sheva Educational Initiative

Goalsː

  • Expanding public discourse on free content and using Wikipedia as a tool to advance the interest and technological capabilities of the high school students.
  • TWriting or editing 40 articles about the city of Be'er Sheva and the surrounding area.
  • Increasing the quantity of free content available about Be'er Sheva.

10 separate editing workshops were active, one in each school. Each workshop opened with a lecture on Wikipedia, which was followed by a structured editing workshop. 20 volunteers were holding the workshops. During the workshop the students did an exercise where they are given an article that contains errors (broken links, wrong wiki markup, etc), The exercise with wiki markup was valuable for students to learn how to edit. The exercise was specially developed by the Initiative’s volunteers for those workshops but is now used in other workshops.

Kfar Kama project

Goalsː

  • Familiarization with Wikipedia and Wikipedia information search literacy.
  • Writing entries about the Circassian heritage for the Hebrew Wikipedia.
  • Writing entries for the Circassian Wikipedia.

Our volunteers continued with the special project in Kfar Kama. Two workshops for 9th grade took place during the quarter. The students wrote one new article in Hebrew and 13 short articles in Adyghe.

The Adyghe Wikipedia


Editing Workshops during Q1 in Schools and Higher Education: {{

Date Who are the participants? Who are the participants? No. of participants Contributions
29.1 Teachers Ministry of Education, Tel Aviv 14 1 New Article, 1 Expansion 1 new editor.
9.2 High school students Kfar Kama project 15
5.3 Computer Science Students The Technion 16 16 articles in process
5.3 Gifted students Be'er Sheva 60 in process
6.3 Gifted students Be'er Sheva 35 in process
7.3 Gifted students Be'er Sheva 40 in process
12.3 Gifted students Be'er Sheva 35 in process
13.3 Gifted students Be'er Sheva 60 in process
14.3 Gifted students Be'er Sheva 35 in process
17.3 Teachers Wikimedia Israel office , Tel Aviv 4 --
20.3 Gifted students The National Library 16 4 Extensions
24.3 Students College of Management, Hod Hasharon 14 in process
30.3 High school students Kfar Kama project 14 14 New Articles -1 Hebrew and 13 Adyghe

}}

What worked and what did not?
  • The activities in the field of strategic partnerships were reduced dramatically due to lack of resources. The Board decided not to develop WMIL activity with the academic institutions because of lack of resources. The chapter will continue to support the volunteers who work independently with various of lecturers.

Furthermore we reduced the volume of all activities in all the programs of strategic partnerships.


Program 6 edit

Strengthen public awareness of Wikimedia and its mission and of open data
What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
  • Encouraging and sustaining the opening of freely licensed data available to the public, especially about Israel and the Hebrew language
  • ̈Wiki-Academy conference.
Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
Activities conducted.
Deleting images from Wiki Commons

A Wikiletter from WMIL was sent to the BoT regarding the deletion of images from Commons under URAA. It was then supported by letters from WMES, WMAR and WMVE. A response from the BoT and a statement from the legal department were published. A conference call of WMIL and supporting chapters with the legal department resulted in further clarifications. After a [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Massive_restoration_of_deleted_images_by_the_URAA discussion in Commons regarding this subject and following the position of the WMF, a decision was made, stating that URAA cannot be used as the sole reason for deletion.

Wiki-Academy conference

Goals:

  • Expanding public discourse on free content
  • Promoting public debate on the future of Wikipedia
  • Increase awareness for the future of data consumption on the web, and the role of Wikipedia and the Movement in it
  • Participants:
    • Over 120 non-Wikipedian attendees.
    • Over 30 Wikipedian attendees.
  • Over five references in the media.


The 6th conference of Wiki-Academy will take place on June 1st, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya. This year the conference will deal with the question of the future of Wikipedia. How changes in the internet will affect Wikipedia? how the decrease of editors and the raise of other knowledge sources will affect Wikipedia, the Movement and the web? We are pleased and honored that Jan-Bart de Vreede will be our key speaker. Jan-Bart will be joined by Prof. David Weinberger, Co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. The conference will contain many lectures around the future of WIkimedia, as well as a debate about paid editing.


What worked and what did not?
  • We were successful in raising a broad discussion over URAA and the implications of current Commons policy on the practical usefulness of Commons as an international repository. The resulting decision in commons addressed the concerns and frustration raised by Hebrew Wikipedia editors.

Any additional details:

  • You can see all publications relating to Wikimedia Israel Hebrew Wikipedia here.


Lessons learned edit

Lessons from this quarter edit

A key objective of the funding is to enable the movement as a whole to understand how to achieve shared goals better and faster. An important way of doing this is to identify lessons learned from entities who receive funds, and to share these lessons across the movement. The purpose of this section is to elicit some of these insights, which will be shared throughout the movement. Please answer the following questions in 1–2 paragraphs each.

What were your major accomplishments in the past quarter, and how did you help to achieve movement goals?

  • WMIL major achievement of the past quarter is building a relationship with the Ministry of Education and conducted diverse activities among teachers and students.

What were your major setbacks in the past quarter (e.g., programs that were not successful)?

  • Building MediaWiki developers community in Israel will be a bigger challenge than we anticipated.

What factors (organizational, environmental) enabled your success?

  • Our success relies on good interpersonal communication with our volunteers and our partners. Beside that there is a great interest in the Ministry of Education to build a partnership with WMIL.

What unanticipated challenges did you encounter and how did this affect what you were able to accomplish?

  • Fund raising is very time consuming, and this affects our ability to carry on with other important activities.

What changes might you make in executing your initiatives into the next quarter?

  • A Community Coordinator started to work at April 1st. She will help executing WMIL initiatives.

Additional information edit

Provide any other relevant information that may be helpful or relevant for the FDC (e.g., links to any media coverage, blog posts, more detailed reports, more detailed financial information).

Compliance edit

Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement? edit

As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.

Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".Yes

Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No". Yes

Signature edit

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