Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedians of the Levant UG Grant Proposal 2024
statusFunded
Wikimedians of the Levant UG Grant Proposal 2024
start date2024-01-012024-01-01T00:00:00Z
end date2024-12-312024-12-31T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)34050 USD
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding regionMENA
decision fiscal year2023-24
funding program roundRound 1
organization (if applicable)Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
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Applicant information edit
- Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
- Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
- 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)
- No
- Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- Yes
- Fiscal organization name.
- Kiwix
Main proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)
- Wikimedians of the Levant UG Grant Proposal 2024
- 2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year funding or renewal process? (required)
- No but we would like to apply for multi-year funding next time
- 2.1. For how many years of multi-year funding are you applying? (required)
- N/A
- 2.2. 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)
- 2024-01-01
- 4. Proposed end date. (required)
- 2024-12-31
- 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://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TNfgJ3SXd7_sXZ9z6ecIHvix2jqRS0Opg8btJSsKU1M/edit?usp=sharing
- 6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)
- No
- 7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
- Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region)
- Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria
- 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)
Program 1: Education program, Reading Wikipedia in Classroom edit
- Approach
- Collaboration with universities and schools to increase awareness and engagement.
- Outreach: Using the social media channels of the user group and of the partners to advertise these programs, their objectives, and intended outcomes.
- Grants: Providing small grants to help implement these projects
- Participants Recognition: Grant certifications and awards to motivate participation
- Strategies
- in-person training in the universities in Levantine countries conducted by the program supervisors - UG members.
- Online sessions and meetings with different members of the UG to share experiences and exchange knowledge.
- Have good documentation for the program, to clearly track the progress, and to benefit future similar programs.
- In the case of content editing, the edited articles will be directly related to students'/teachers specialty, which improves the reliability of the content.
- Challenges to address
- The Knowledge Gap: Wikipedia readers need to know more about Wikipedia and the efforts volunteers do to provide reliable content. Encourage readers to take part in the editing efforts. This also includes changing * the traditional ideas people still have about Wikipedia, such as being unreliable and must not be used by students
- Attract newcomers, train them, and engage them to participate in the voluntary work on the Wikimedia projects, and be the next generation of editors in Wikimedia projects
- Adoption in Education: Overcome any resistance or skepticism in educational institutions in working with the education program
- How our strategies will support addressing Challenges
- Decreasing the GAP between students and Wikipedia by learning the essential approaches to edit it.
- Having new UG members who will participate in the Wikimedia projects to maintain the sustainability of the group’s work.
- Adopting Wikipedia in Educational institutions, by establishing partnerships with universities.
Program 2: Contests, Editathons, Training and Workshops edit
- Approaches
- Engagement with WMF campaigns
- Interacting with the Arab Community interests
- Increasing awareness about Wikipedia in both the Levantine community and the entire Arab Community
- Highlighting and increasing awareness about the other Wikimedia projects such as Wikidata and Wiki Commons. This includes educating the newcomers about the basics about Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
- Increasing the skills of the community members including content editing, basics of scientific research, professional photography, etc.
- Strategies
- Engaging local experts in edit-a-thons, trainings and workshops
- Media outreach: Using social media channels for the user group to advertise about these programs and increase awareness about the campaigns
- The focus will be on the highly important topics: Women, HumanRights, Environment, intangible cultural heritage, etc.
- Increasing retention rate, reducing barriers to participation and Volunteer Data Support program.
- Challenging to address
- Reducing the GAP between the Arabic community and WMF campaigns
- Having more Levantine people editing Wikipedia and its sister projects.
- Quantity and quality of the edited content to Wikimedia projects
- Our strategies will support addressing the challenges by
- Increasing the quantity and quality of the content in Wikimedia projects specially Arabic Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata
- Increasing awareness about Cultural Heritage, Women, HumanRights, Clinement Change and other important topics.
- Maintaining sustainability: contests and edit-a-thons are essential events through which we can attract volunteers, teach them how to edit, and encourage them to join the WM Levant user group.
- Conducting Contests, Edit-a-thons, Trainings and Workshops aimed for the community will improve and support relations between Wikimedia and the Communities.
Programs: Partnerships - GLAMs edit
- Approaches
- To establish new partnerships with Libraries, Educational institutes, organizations, etc., in order to benefit from the knowledge these entities have.
- To reactivate and maintain the existing partnerships, by offering new projects and practical programs.
- To reach out to a wider audience in the Levant community, with the help and collaboration of partners.
- Strategies
- Keep regular communication and collaboration with the partners
- Capacity building and support to improve high-impact content about underrepresented content.
- Carry out a diverse range of activities that fulfill the common goals.
- Challenging
- Connections with the important GLAM institutes in the Levant countries are still limited, although potentials are high.
- Poor Academic collaboration
- Reach out, discussions, and identify the interest is difficult.
- Introducing our group as a non-official voluntary group is difficult.
- Our strategies will support addressing the challenges by
- Explaining the Vision of Wikimedia, and the objectives of the Wikimedia projects to GLAM institutes
- Stressing the importance of such collaboration to share and open the existing and inaccessible knowledge
- Convincing people about the importance of volunteering in a different domain than what they are used to: “Volunteer your knowledge”
- Shedding light on the partnerships we did using social media channels to tell our stories, which in turn will help others understand what happens behind the scenes in Wikipedia specifically.
- Helping GLAM institutes communicate their message and achieve their mission.
- Engaging staff and employees of the GLAM institutes themselves to participate in sharing the knowledge they work on, to increase the Arabic content using the Wikimedia platforms.
- 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 | No |
| 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, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
- 9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)
- 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)
- Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues, Documenting or incubating languages on Wikimedia projects, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs
- 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 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)
- 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, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Participation in campaigns and contests
- 9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)
- Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, WikiForHumanRights, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary, Art+Feminism, WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
- 10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TNfgJ3SXd7_sXZ9z6ecIHvix2jqRS0Opg8btJSsKU1M/edit?usp=sharing
- 11. Describe your team. (required)
Wikimedians of the levant user group is built of Board members and the members as volunteers.
There is one part time job salaried position for projects coordinator, The job contains communication, writing reports, minutes, and have the financial issues covered for Wikimedians of the levant UG.
Board members represent the Legislature in the UG, whereas the members are Executive community and they can govern the work of the board members.
- 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)
Yes, We are looking to work with educational institutes and universities to have education programs. On the other hand we are trying to have new partnerships with Libraries in AMMAN. Finally, we hope to strengthen our partnership with ICOMOS to increase awareness and have more edits about cultural Heritage.
We have worked on Education programs with universities as an external partners in Palestine, and the students are now editors in Wikipedia, and we have successful versions with them.
- 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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Metrics edit
Wikimedia Metrics edit
- 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.
| Metrics name | Target | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 55 | N/A |
| Number of all editors | N/A | N/A |
| Number of new editors | N/A | |
| Number of retained editors | N/A | |
| Number of all organizers | N/A | N/A |
| Number of new organizers | N/A |
- 14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
| Wikimedia project | Created | Edited or improved |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 1000 | 3000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 500 | 1000 |
| Wikidata | 10000 | |
| Wiktionary | ||
| Wikisource | ||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||
| Translatewiki | ||
| MediaWiki | ||
| Wikiquote | ||
| Wikivoyage | ||
| Wikibooks | ||
| Wikiversity | ||
| Wikinews | ||
| Wikispecies | ||
| Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia |
- Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)
The work will be done by WM levant members, and volunteers from the community in Edit-a-thons, workshops, Participateing in Wiki Loves X and/or other contents
Other Metrics edit
- 15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)
- Yes
| 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 edit
- 16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required)
- No
- 16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)
N/A
- 16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)
- N/A
- 17. Your local currency. (required)
- USD
- 18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)
- 34050 USD
| Year | Amount (local currency) |
|---|---|
| Year 1 | N/A USD |
| Year 2 | N/A USD |
| Year 3 | N/A USD |
- 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.
- 1, Part time job for a projects coordinators position
- 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.
- 0
- 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 | 5338 USD |
| Operational costs | 9805 USD |
| Programmatic costs | 15166 USD |
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
Additional information edit
- 22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)
By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.
We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- Yes
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