Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Black Lunch Table in 2022 and Beyond/Midpoint Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2024-01-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Midpoint
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- Name of Organization: Black Lunch Table
- Title of Proposal: Black Lunch Table in 2022 and Beyond
- Amount awarded: 905397.3
- Amount spent: USD,
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these.
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered? What will you do differently going forward?
4. Please describe how different Wikimedia communities are being informed about your work. Provide any useful links that illustrate community engagement.
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
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6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities for this fund. What are you learning about these areas during this period?
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your project?
Part 2: Metrics edit
8a. In your application, you outlined some core metrics that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics and describe the qualitative or quantitative results to date, if applicable. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results and mention the tools used.
Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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Number of participants | BLT: Branded Digital Events 200 this includes live and asynchronous viewing of recordings
Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons and Photobooths 150 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements 100 BLT contests: 50 |
500 | |||
Number of editors | BLT digital events are not necessarily editing events, so we have zeroed out that number here, and while our participants in the photbooths are contributing to Wikimedia platforms, they themselves are not editing.
BLT: Branded Digital Events 0 Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons and Photobooths new 75 returning 25 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements new 50 returning 50 BLT contests: 50 new and returning is not applicable here as it is not a training/edit-a-thon session, and is likely more appealing to returning editors. |
250 | |||
Number of organizers | N/A The work that BLT does is organized by our team. There are four staff members who possibly contribute to the realization of events, though it is largely the responsibility of the Wikimedia Director and Wikipedia Assistant.
Please advise if this should be written as those that we partner with to realize institutional or community engagements. |
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Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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Wikipedia | BLT: Branded Digital Events 0
Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons: 100 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements: 200 BLT contests: 80 We are defining this metric as completely new articles created |
380 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Wikimedia Commons | BLT Branded Digital Events 0
Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons and Photobooths: 200 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements: 100 BLT contests: 50 We are defining this metric as new commons uploads. |
350 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Wikidata | BLT Branded Digital Events 0
Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons and Photobooths: 50 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements: 75 BLT contests: 50 We are defining this metric as total number of new Items added |
175 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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8b. In your application, you outlined some additional metrics that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics and describe the qualitative or quantitative results to date, if applicable. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results and mention the tools used.
Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | BLT brings artists and Institutions to the platform in unconventional ways, including through artist residencies, lectures, strong social media awareness, and published works. Our ability to engage these kind of partners positively impacts the project as a whole.
BLT: Branded Digital Events 45 Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons and Photobooths 25 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements 10 BLT contests: 2 This tally can be tabulated by looking at our event archive/join us calendar |
82 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Number of people reached through social media publications | BLT: Branded Digital Events 1500
Black Lunch Table Edit-a-thons and Photobooths 0 Black Lunch Table Regional Proxy Engagements 0 BLT contests: 100 For BLT Live we would measure the total number of views of IGTV videos or Vimeo videos For BLT contests we would measure the number of likes and shares/retweets on our BLT Bingo Tip campaign |
1600 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
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10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
10a. Please describe how and what has proved to be most effective.
11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.
- Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.).
- Below is an additional field to type in link URLs. You can include any monitoring tool links (dashboards, etc), surveys, training materials, presentations, and other URLs. We also recommend you share your findings in the form of a learning pattern. Click on this link to find out more. If you create any learning patterns, please link them below.
Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance edit
12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
13. Local currency type
14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?
15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.
- N/A
16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.