Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Editatona território corpo-terra
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Applicant Details
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CalliandraDysantha
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Anita Braga
- Organization
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- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
WikiMulheres+ and Wiki Editoras LX
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMulheres+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Editoras_Lx
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Editatona território corpo-terra
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
There is a dominance of cismale-related content in Wikimedia. The gap increases if we look into smaller languages’ communities. According to WHGI, as of May 2020, only 18% of Wikipedia biographies in Portuguese are dedicated to women. In terms of contributions, as of January 2020, only 11% of pt.wiki editors were women, according to a wikimedian research. Cisgender white males are the majority of contributors on lusophone Wikimedia projects. Also, people from Angola and other African Lusophone countries are dramatically underrepresented. Looking into the scope of this year’s Wiki for Human Rights campaign: Right to a Healthy Environment, and crossing it with gender and geography, we find a huge gap both on the content we have on the Wikimedia platforms and on who is creating that content. Just from analyzing four articles, Mudança do clima, Justica Climática, Vulnerabilidade às mudanças climáticas, and Mudanças climáticas e género, it’s clear that gender inequities are mostly absent from the content, namely from Lusophone contexts other that Portugal and Brazil. In recent years, Lusophone women have been steadily building a transnational, transatlantic network. Nonetheless, there are groups still underrepresented in our community, as well as editors who wish to improve their editing skills. We think that a collective practical experience can solve this issue and need. And we believe that the Wiki for Human Rights campaign brings this opportunity, on such a pressing issue as it is the environment. We thus aim to empower the contribution of Women, Gender Dissidents, People of Color, and Global Southerners to the Lusophone Wikimedia. Community capacity building is the main change we are trying to bring about. Concurrently, we aspire the inclusion of gender-related content and to use Wikimedia to bring awareness to the unequal impacts of environmental hazards as well as the relevant people who, despite oppressions and challenges, are helping to fight those issues.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Our main strategies are: (1) Partnership: Partnering with a platform for inclusive dissemination of scientific knowledge to co-organize roundtables (RT) with gender and environmental researchers. Three goals: promoting cross-cutting awareness to the topic, using RTs as focus groups to identify topics for impact, that will support the creation of the Edit-a-thon topic lists. We also hope to benefit from the platform and the activists’ and researchers' networks to target participants. In addition, a stronger effort will be made to include speakers from African Lusophone countries, with the support of a black media partner. (2) Capacity bridging: Train the RT participants and attendees to edit WM. Since RTs will be around the intercross of the topics of gender and environment, we expect the outreach done previously will result in this kind of profile of newcomers and already experienced editors; and that the topics identified through RTs will motivate them to contribute to Wikimedia, increasing the inclusion of gender-related content on environment, with a focus on African lusophone countries. Both Wiki Editoras Lx (WELx) and WikiMulheres+ (WM+) are informal user groups. WM+ has only recently started its activity and WELx has started in January the implementation of its first funded annual plan, after 4 years of an active existence. However, resources are limited, considering that our joint work has always relied greatly on voluntary female work. And as women, gender inequality has a great impact in our lives. Our invisible wiki work, not rarely, is affected by emotional labor. So, in accordance with most of the best practices from the 2018 WMF Gender Equity report, we chose to focus on more mission-driven qualitative contributions on intersectional knowledge: strengthening our ranks while outreaching to peers, and training to edit Wikimedia, through well-cared partnerships, rather than conducting a broad content contest to the broad community of experienced editors.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will organize an online Lusophone Edit-a-thon on the theme of “território corpo-terra” (Body-Earth Territory), a concept theorized by Lorena Cabnal and other indigenous activists. We will carry online activities involving speakers and participants from Lusophone countries, ranging from round tables (RT) to wiki training events and edition-gatherings. In line with Knowledge Equity, we will connect wikimedian women and nb people climate and gender activists, researchers, and human rights defenders from different geographies into on-topic discussions, which will fuel the actions of article writing on the pt.wikipedia, photo upload to wikicommons, items creation on wikidata, and also quotes inclusion on wikiquote. Additionally, one activity will be connecting PT and ES editors, in consonance with the LATAM regional coordination of Wiki for Human Rights campaign, expanding the geographic scope and using the opportunity to strengthen Brazil’s regional links. Following our strategy, we will: (1) Plan the activities with a group of volunteers from our users’ groups: training events and edition-gatherings; round tables with specialists, researchers, and activists. (2) Promote the activities on and off-wiki, through our channels and our partners’ networks. (3) Run the RTs, where our team will take notes of the topics referred by the speakers, to be later analyzed and converted into topic lists. (4) Launch the online Edit-a-thon, starting on April 22, where editors can contribute to the above-mentioned actions on the different Wikimedia projects. (5) Host training events and online edition-gatherings biweekly, to support skills development. (6) Monitor and disseminate the outcomes of the initiative. In the end, we wish to accomplish a successful outreach and mobilization of diverse editors to either start or keep on wiki editing. Externally, we hope to enable great and wide content inclusion, which will sum-up to other regional initiatives within #WikiForHumanRights.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Wikiforhumanrights
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Wiki Editoras Lx and WikiMulheres+ will handle the support of the activities, co-coordinated by Anita Braga and CalliandraDysantha. Together, there is a strong joint capacity both for on-wiki organizing, off-wiki outreach and a diverse pool of wiki skills. Among our users’ groups members we have wikimedians in residence, WMF staff members, several WMF and wikimedia community long-term volunteers. From both user groups, that sum up to more than 50 members, we will create a group of organizers for each of the identified roles and tasks we will need to implement the proposed activities: overall coordination, communication and outreach, topics for impact analyzing team, speakers outreach, support, IT, design, training, and reporting.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Content Gender gap, Geography, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
The crossroad between Culture and Climate Change is a relevant talking point in recent times. Activist movements pointed how the Human Right To A Healthy Environment is disproportionately denied to Global Southerners, People of Color, and Women. Our work within the diverse Portuguese-speaking communities will address the aforementioned topic for impact intersected with the Gender Gap. We will also consider Geography and race/ethnicity gaps to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
- 7. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 8. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
We wish to empower the contribution of Women, Gender Dissidents, People of Color, and Global Southerners to the Lusophone Wikimedia. What we call our community is people committed to the strategic direction of Knowledge Equity in the Lusofonia, majorly composed by cis women. Lusofonia is our territoriality: a non-continuous space of portuguese-speaking people and different cultures, which spreads through Europa, South America, Africa, and Asia. For this initiative we will target Brazil, Portugal, and Angola. We have contact people and a partner who can help us reach underrepresented groups. We will engage participants through our established on and off-wiki networks, but also will outreach peer groups, activists, and specialists considered potential participants. Furthermore, we will also organize different channels of communication with the participants, such as, email, telegram groups, and talk pages. More than inclusion of new contributors to our movement, we believe we need to enable their long-staying/retention. This was an outcome our user groups reached at WikiCon Brasil 2022, when a number of strategic discussions were led. One strategy to retain participants is to insert them in off-wiki channels of discussion, and invite them to follow up our user groups activities, or even join it. Another is to support groups still underrepresented, such people from Angola, LGBTQIA+, and/or people of color with the means to establish their own channels and user groups.
- 9. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Aside from WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct, we also abide by Art+Feminism Safe, Brave Space Policy. A Safe and Support team will be responsible for handling any harassment issue or providing needed support to participants. The support is not only emotional, but technical and material: specific training and meal allowance are primordial. Our scope is directly related to Knowledge Equity, and our activities will be designed to implement this strategic direction.
- 10. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
We will present the event proposal to the main affiliates of our context: Wiki Movimento Brasil and Wikimedia Portugal, proposing them to be communication and dissemination partners. Since it is a localized activity, aiming for community capacity building and not a wide contest, we reached beforehand the interested parts and not the broad community of editors in the Lusophone Wikimedia. Such a strategy aims to ensure the protagonism of women in the planning of this proposal. Talking about our community of wiki women and nb people, we will share the draft with our peers and ask for feedback in order to refine the proposal. Moreover, we also opened a call to members who wish to be part of our task-force.
- 11. Are you aware of other Organiser Lab proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
Yes
If yes:
- 11.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- Yes
- 11.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- We are not aware of other Organiser Lab proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted.
Since our proposals aligned, we, Anita Braga and CalliandraDysantha, present a joint proposal.
The joint forces of Wiki Editoras Lx and WikiMulheres+ will enable transatlantic, transnational and multicultural experiences and relations. Both the organizing team and the groups of participants will connect online, coming from different places and belonging to different communities. Capacity exchange will meet intercultural connections.
- 12. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 12.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
We will partner with Niboe https://niboe.info, a multilingual platform for the social communication of knowledge, in which CalliandraDysantha is a member. Niboe will provide personnel and tech support to the initiative, specially its channels (website, Fediverse instance, peer-tube channel) for the mobilisation of participants, communication of the activities; as well as number of self-hosted useful apps for the activities planning and report. We will also partner with Bantumen https://bantumen.com/, a media platform dedicated to the black Portuguese-speaking community, with emphasis on African lusophone countries. Already a partner of Wiki Editoras Lx, one of the co-founders became an organizer of our user group after curating one Edit-a-thon in 2022. Bantumen produces a yearly list of relevant black lusophone personalities - Powerlist 100, which had its second edition last year. Bantumen will support the project as a media partner and as a curator for the roundtables' speakers list.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 13. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
Concerning the outreach, engagement and empowerment of women, gender dissidents, PoC and global southerners to the Lusophone Wikimedia and community capacity building: Has the model we used (RTs with researchers and specialists) increased the motivation to edit wikimedia projects? Was it a good model to engage in Wikimedia active people within other environmental and gender movements? What factors motivated them to continue to participate in our activities? What factors act as barriers for the ones that didn't? How do both of these relate with context? Concerning the inclusion of gender-related content within the scope of the Right To A Healthy Environment: Is the model we used (RTs with researchers and specialists) adequate to find topics for impact that are specific to the different lusophone contexts? Has the connection between editors, climate and gender activists and researchers, and human right defenders brought more awareness to the topic, increasing the quality of editions?
- 14. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to Filling out your main metrics.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| % of participants on round tables that participated on the edit-a-thon | We want to learn if the round tables created interest on the participants to edit wikimedia and understand the Participants’ engagement | 50 |
| % of newcomers who became more aware about Wikimedia and its power to amplify knowledge | We want to learn if the overall works have increased the global perception of newcomers on the benefits of contributing to Wikimedia | 75 |
| Case study | We want to understand what specifically was determinant for newcomers to make them want to contribute to wikimedia, what have they learned, what motivated them; and if these are related to their identity or cultural or geographic background | 1 |
| # of identified topics specific to African Lusophone countries | We want to learn if our strategy of involving specialists, activists and researchers from african lusophone countries was effective to increase the number of topics for impact from these regions | 10 |
| % of participants that became more aware to the unequal impacts of environmental hazards upon women, nb people, PoC, global southerners | We want to learn if wikimedia is a useful tool to create awareness to relevant knowledge gaps concerning gender and environment | 75 |
- 15. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | # of attendees to the round tables disaggregated by gender, location, race, … (considering 10% from african lusophone countries, 10% nb, 20% PoC) | 100 |
| Number of editors | # of people who will contribute to the topic list along the duration of the edit-a-thon | 50 |
| Number of organizers | # of people that support the organization and implementation of the activities, disaggregated by country (out of 10, 4 Portugal, 4 Brazil and 2 Angola) | 10 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | pt.wikipedia.
Number of articles created, of which 75% are stubs and 25% are whole new articles concerning environment, gender and underrepresented communities, namely african lusophone countries (10 out of 75 on african lusophone countries) |
75 |
| Wikipedia | pt.wikipedia.
Number of articles improved to include relevant information concerning environment, gender and underrepresented communities, namely african lusophone countries (4 out of 10 on african lusophone countries) |
10 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of files uploaded about environment and gender, 25% focused on underrepresented communities, namely african lusophone countries (3 out of 12 on African lusophone countries) | 12 |
| Wikidata | Number of items created or improved on topics related to environment and gender, 20% focused on underrepresented communities, namely African lusophone countries (15 out of on African lusophone countries) | 75 |
| Wikiquote | Number of items created on topics related to environment and gender, 20% focused on underrepresented communities, namely african lusophone countries (5 out of 25 on african lusophone countries) | 25 |
- 16. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
Main metrics 1, 2 and 5: we will use the registration forms and post-event surveys to measure those metrics.
Main metric 3: we will use the same post-event surveys to select 3 people to conduct a more thorough interview, based on a same question script applied to all of them, focused on the learnings we need to assess. We will produce a report and a social media post series with the findings, to disseminate both on-wiki and off-wiki.
Main metrics 4: we will manually analyze the topic list, that will be based on a qualitative analysis of the round tables (as if they were a focus group).
Contributors and content contributions quantitative metrics: even though we have more experience with the Programs & Events Dashboard, we believe in this case of a longer editathon (7 months), the Event Metrics associated with a specific hashtag for the event would be a better and easier tool to measure contributions. Otherwise, we would have a very time consuming task of eliminating from the Dashboard all the contributions from the editors that are not associated with the event. Since both measure the # of editors, the tool would also be used for that purpose. As for organizers, we would measure that manually.
Financial Proposal
edit- 17. & 17.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
13156 EUR
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
14295.84 USD
- 19. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AMWKm6tiI_g8i4wh_F9Jgq9lPgXvXvGAzhkyLmFUvX4/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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