Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Amical Wikimedia 2025 Grant

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Amical Wikimedia 2025 Grant

Fluxx IDR-GS-2409-17216

start date2025-01-01

end date2025-12-31

budget (local currency)101450 EUR

amount requested (USD)110318.76 USD ^{[note 1]}

grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

funding regionNWE

decision fiscal year2024-25

funding program roundRound 1

organization (if applicable)Associació Amical Wikimedia

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Associació Amical Wikimedia

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required): Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required): Yes

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?: No

Fiscal organization name.: N/A

Please provide links to the following documents if they are available

These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.

Organizational website
Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan

Amical Wikimedia Webpage: https://wikimedia.cat/

Meta webpage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia Twitter: http://twitter.com/amicalwikimedia (@amicalwikimedia) Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Amicalwikimedia (Amical Wikimedia)

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Amical Wikimedia 2025 Grant

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants): No

2.1. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2025-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2025-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Activities_Plan_2025/en

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; We are currently definying the new strategy with our community and stakeholders. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Definici%C3%B3_del_pla_estrat%C3%A8gic_d%27Amical_2030

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required): Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region); The Catalan language communities are spread across several regions, which encompass the actual countries of Spain, Andorra, France, and Italy. Moreover, we plan to forge new alliances within these territories, expand on existing ones, and forge new ones with international affiliates to disseminate the Catalan Language and Culture.

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

Our current strategy is divided between five key areas: Community, Accessibility, Communication, Content and Readers.

Community
Increase the visibility of the association
Do more activities with active members
Search for new collaborators and members
Strengthen the presence of free knowledge in the field of education
Project explicitly aimed at secondary education students ("Viquibatx, Viquilíder, Viquifesta")

Accessibility:
Improve internal relationships and welcome mechanisms to the community
Continue creating videos promoting open knowledge

Communication:
Update the static information on the Amical Wikimedia blog
Regular posts on the Amical Wikimedia blog (1-2 per month)
Making our voice heard against regulations that go against Amical's principles
One press release per month

Content:
Projects related to universities and secondary education (Viquibatx, Viquilíder, Viquifesta)
Keep on with the Bibliowikis online workshops
Promote a project every quarter dedicated to creating women's articles
Follow up on regular and new projects promoted by members
Activities related to Wikidata and Wikicommons as a support to Viquipèdia

Readers:
Commission a study on web positioning and possible measures to improve the visibility of Viquipèdia
Partnerships and collaborations with other entities and institutions promoting the Catalan language, Catalan culture, and open knowledge

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)


Category	Yes/No
Education	Yes
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Public policy advocacy	Yes
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training, Editing Wikipedia Training, Research, Wikimedia Commons programs, Translation; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required): Secondary school students, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors; Other groups if any: N/A

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required): Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.: Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards), Sensitize and educate for gender perspective among Wikimedia projects stewards and editors; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.: On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering microgrants and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required): 1Lib1Ref, Art+Feminism, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap, Other; Other programs and activities if any: Viquiprojecte del còmic

Viquiprojecte de cinema Mes de l'Àfrica Mes de l'Antàrtida i Oceania Quinzena de la qualitat Els 10.000 Diumenge de les referències Viquiprojecte del Brasil 100 dones de la BBC Dones del Baix Llobregat Dones i ciència Viquimarató per la llengua Viquimarató MNAC Viquiprojecte Cornellà Andorra fem coses Viquimunicipi de l'any

Public policy advocacy

9.6.1. What specific laws, or legislative topics, are you targeting with your advocacy plans? Please be as specific as possible. (required)

Open knowledge policies and local copyright laws. Officiality of Catalan Language. Freedom of Panorama. Chat control. TERREC. Minorization of small languages in Google search results.

9.6.2. What are the main methods and tactics via which you plan to advocate for this public policy change? Please be as specific as possible. (required)

Our target is public cultural institutions and, as a second focus, private ones that work within the GLAM sector. We establish contact with them and run different online and in-person activities related to their focus. We also team up with their workers to release their online content to be used (Viquipèdia, Wikidata, Commons, and so on). We try to create awareness of the fair sharing of public heritage and the power of content disclosure for Wikimedia projects. We mentor the institutions as much as they need, providing trainers, facilitators, and the tech knowledge and or hardware they might require to accomplish their goals. We are also patrons of Fundació .cat, a Catalan Language alliance that promotes the Digital presence of the Catalan Language. Recently, we also have started providing surveillance and monitoring of the usage of the Catalan Language within digital environments. We understand our advocacy tasks as an integral part of the relationship with other partners.

9.6.3. Approximately, how much of the requested budget will you dedicate to public policy advocacy (local currency)?: 0
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): Below the anual plan there are two sections with the detailed activities already planned for the year now organized by semesters.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Activities_Plan_2025/en

11. Describe your team. (required)

The board comprises volunteers, and a community of volunteers also leads our programs. Hence, we are basically a volunteer-based association. A few volunteer groups with different local interests are part of the Amical Wikimedia movement, such as the Torre Barrina editors. They promote the creation of local content (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) and multimedia content. They also produce a podcast program on Wikimedia Knowledge. A second group of volunteers is Viquidones UPF, a group of editors working with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra to raise awareness of gender bias content. They organize in-person edit-a-thon and help new editors in their online gatherings twice a month.

In addition to the volunteer community, we have a part-time contractor to whom we confide some of the administrative tasks, institutional relationships, and GLAM-oriented projects.

We want to strengthen our capacity to promote a more solid education program, so we are applying for a second team member. This position will focus on educational-related programs in secondary schools and universities.

Last, If we have two people, we could invest time and effort in local fundraising, which is one of our preoccupations, too.

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

Our collaboration with other Wikimedia chapters, particularly the Basque Country editors, has been invaluable. Their extensive knowledge and experience in video creation and curating educational content have significantly influenced our methodologies. We are also actively involved in multilingual initiatives such as 100 Women of the BBC, where we have consistently been the first language to fulfill the goal. Additionally, we participate in other multilingual initiatives within the Iberian peninsula, promoting Catalan Language and culture outside the Catalan-speaking territories.

In this sense, maybe the biggest in-person event is la Viquimarató per la Llengua, the most significant event in our community and one of the biggest among the Wikimedian community. We promote in-person events within the Catalan-speaking territories and internationally for two weeks. The 2023 edition gathered more than 150 people from 11 different locations, including Portugal, Italy, France and Andorra, among others. This initiative runs with the collaboration of volunteers, local governments, the Catalan Language Institute network, and other local associations.

Another key event is our annual in-person Viquitrobada. Our community gather together for a full weekend. This will be our 17th edition. We have other in-person events as a way to take care of the health of our community.

Referring to other external partners, we team up with the main Catalan speaking universities (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Girona, ESMUC), and some of the main museums (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, among others) and archives.

Amical Wikimedia is member of Wikimedia Europe and participates in some of the in-person activities.

We are also working to establish new alliances within the Wikimedia community and with external partners. One of the 2025 challenges will be to keep up the good work with women-focused content by expanding our collaborations. The second important thing to us will be forging new alliances with LGBTIQA+ associations and diversity to establish regular programs to close these biases.

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	350	N/A
Number of all editors	300	N/A
Number of new editors	70
Number of retained editors	7
Number of all organizers	15	N/A
Number of new organizers	2	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No


Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): Yes

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

Membership contributions, invoicing of workshops, and, very occasionally, donations.

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): 2200

17. Your local currency. (required): EUR

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 101450 EUR

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A EUR
Year 2	N/A EUR
Year 3	N/A EUR

Requested amount in USD: 110318.76 USD ^{[note 1]}

Multi-year funding request summary in USD
Year	Amount USD ^{[note 1]}
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

↑ ^a ^b ^c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required): Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

As stated previously, we currently we have a part-time contractor. We would like to add a second one for 2025.

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

1FTE, in total, two 0.5 FTE contractors.

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): N/A

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).


Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contractor costs	63600 EUR
Operational costs	7950 EUR
Programmatic costs	29900 EUR

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

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Yes

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[fixedrate-1] The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

[note 1]