Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Examining how Professional Academic Organizations engage with Wikimedia (ID: 22278145)/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2024-10-07T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
This is an automatically generated Meta-Wiki page. The page was copied from Fluxx, the grantmaking web service of Wikimedia Foundation where the user has submitted their midpoint report. Please do not make any changes to this page because all changes will be removed after the next update. Use the discussion page for your feedback. The page was created by CR-FluxxBot.General information edit
- Applicant username: BrettButtliere
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4947.61
- Amount spent: USD,
Part 1: Project and impact edit
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning edit
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: The project is aimed at creating a database not only of activities but the organizers of those activities. The information in this database will give us a good idea of Wikimedia engagement by professional organizations, but hopefully also some ideas about how these activities can be taken to the next level. Specifically, the idea is to focus on identifying the people within these organizations who can be surveyed, activated, and usefully brought together to bring about the further adoption of and engagement with Wikimedia projects by professional organizations. The core learning questions include:
- 1. What activities have academic professional organizations implemented?
- 2. How can these activities be amplified and taken to the next level?
- 3. Who are the people that manage these activities within the organizations?
These questions will be answered with a systematic search of professional organization’s websites, looking for the keywords “Wikipedia” and “Wikimedia.” Our team will collect activity level and organization level data concerning what activities are done and how often they have been done. Activities will be logged with links and a categorization schema, and the name of the organization and how many blog posts relate to the keywords will be logged. Additionally, we expect to collect champion level data, that is data about those people who are organizing activities for the organization. Here we expect to log the type of activity and the email address of the individual who organized the activity. These data can be expected to form the basis of a paper on the engagement of professional organizations with Wikipedia, and in the longer term a survey and the engagement of the champions that we find.
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
Part 3: Metrics edit
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 200 | ||
| Number of editors | 0 | ||
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activities identified | We will search 200 academic association’s websites, but we are unsure of how many activities we will identify and be able to categorize. We expect to find that some large organizations have dozens or hundreds of activities, and while we will log the number of activities, we will cap our activities at 10. Thus we can expect to log up to 2,000 activities. | 100 | ||
| Champions and Emails identified: | Associated with each activity, we hope to identify the organizer of the activity, and their email, whom we hope to engage and organize in further actions. We would like to identify one unique person per organization, but also recognize that certain individuals are especially likely to host multiple events, and we hope that the data can also point us in particularly passionate people whom we might support in the future. | 50 | ||
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting edit
10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Your response to the review feedback.
14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
14.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes edit
Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A