Grants:APG/Proposals/2017-2018 round 2/Wikimedia Indonesia/Proposal form/Community Program
Community Program
Indonesian community has very actively engaged with Wikimedia projects, but most of the Indonesian volunteers we hardly know them, even by Indonesian volunteers too. We can send them a message online or virtually meet, but we haven’t yet met a lot of them in person. We’re also aware of their user privacy, but when we start to engage potential users in some area, we would like to have them to work together and build community in their location. Indonesia is a very potential place to build a larger Wikimedia community, as more than a half of our population (143.26 million internet users) are using the Internet right now, but only a small amount who know how Wikimedia projects works. Also, we saw a potential increase of Indonesian community in international Wikimedia community, as we know there is lack of Indonesian community participation, even in Wikimania, or another international community events. We finally realize that a lot of users thinking that language barrier is one of the biggest issues. As English, it’s not first, second or even third language (usually local language is our first or second language, following by Indonesian as our second or third language), it makes them reluctant to connect with another part of the world or international community. So, we need to strengthen Indonesian community by having the local conference, in order to build the capacity building, as well as train them how to do their own projects, without any worries of language barrier anymore, especially if they want to apply for Rapid Grants or Projects Grants for the future by themselves.
Rapid grants
Rapid grants is localized version of Rapid Grants program by Wikimedia Foundation. Since several years ago, we can count by hand the number of Indonesian volunteers who apply the grant to WMF. As we further discuss with our community, one of the main reason is language barrier, most of Indonesian are afraid writing their own project in English, so Wikimedia Indonesia would like to tackle this problem, by use of Indonesian language for every proposal and they don’t need to write their own report in English. Wikimedia Indonesia will handle the narrative and financial report to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Users and uses
The beneficiaries of the project outputs are mainly for Indonesian volunteers who want to initiate their projects or even to support their contribution in Wikimedia projects.
Impact
This project will increase the participation from Indonesian community to the global movements. They can also learn how to start or manage the project from Wikimedia Indonesia’s experience, as it’s the initial step for them, to know better about Wikimedia grant program.
Target
- Minimum 10 applicants
- Minimum 5 grantee
- Grantee from at leas 3 Wikimedia projects (e.g. ID, JV, SU, MIN WIkipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc.)
Indonesian Wikimedian Conference
Indonesian Wikimedian Conference will be our first national conference for Indonesian, as we see growing in number and contribution but we rarely meet in person. This event will be our new step to establish and plan together our commitment in Wikimedia projects.
Users and uses
The beneficiaries of the project outputs are Wikimedian projects communities and volunteers. They can connect with other communities and volunteers, and can join and start the collaboration after the conference.
Impact
This project will increase the participation of Indonesian community, building, and strengthen the relationship within community.
Target
- A total of 50 participants from at least 10 provinces out of 34 provinces
- A total of at least 15 female participants
- A total of at least 15 participants who present at or moderate sessions
- 90% of respondents to the post-event survey and survey results
- 3 of new projects/partnerships initiated as a result of connections made, skills learned, or ideas shared at the conference (within 1 year after the event)