Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Ionian Wikithon 2024 - Wikimedia Hackathon Satellite Event (ID: 22458599)
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Applicant Details edit
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Eleni.Christopoulou
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Main Proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Ionian Wikithon 2024 - Wikimedia Hackathon Satellite Event
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-04-22 - 2024-06-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Greece
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Wikimedia Hackathon
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
Ionian Wikithon is a satellite event of the Wikimedia Hackathon and has taken place the last two years, 2022 and 2023, in Corfu, Greece. Ionian Wikithon 2024 will be the 3rd iteration of this event, which main aim is to strengthen and extend the wikimedia community's ties with the students of the Ionian University and the Department of Informatics in particural. One of our challenges is to welcome and engage more students and volunteers to join the wikimedia community and become active and regular users. This satellite event will prepare students of the Ionian University and individuals to participate and attend the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 and provide them the opportunity to share their experience after the Hackathon. It will also provide the opportunity to students, developers and academics to share experience and knowledge and acquire new skills. Specifically we aim to:
- recruit new editors inviting them to participate in a series of events and workshops
- train existing and new editors in a)the Wikimedia Phabricator, b)the SPARQL query language and Wikidata Query Service and c)the PAWS/Jupyter notebooks for Python beginners
- inspire individuals and teams to work on new projects and ideas
An overarching goal of the Ionian Wikithon is to strengthen the partnership among Wikimedia Foundation and academia. The Ionian Wikithon 2024 will also be one of the events that will take place for the 20th anniversary of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University. This event is co-organized by the Networks, Multimedia and Security Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics in collaboration with Dr. Eleni Christopoulou and Dr. Dimitrios Ringas, members of the lab teaching staff of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University and the Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Community Greece, in collaboration with Marios Magioladitis, long standing Wikipedian and president of the Wikimedia Community Greece.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
We have designed a series of activities before and after the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024. Following we present the program outline; the dates are indicative.
Organizing team and volunteers meetups | 24 April 2024 | 12 May 2024 | 24 May 2024 | 18 June 2024 | 30 June 2024 | Corfu, Greece The organizing team and volunteers meetups will be held as in-person activities and will give us the opportunity to get to know each other, discuss and share ideas and form a creative team. The organizing team will inform the volunteers about their roles and assign tasks. Organisers have already contacted students of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University in order to support us as volunteers.
Ionian Wikithon - Opening event - Wikimedia Hackathon Satellite event in Corfu | 17 May 2024 | Corfu, Greece The Ionian Wikithon - Opening event will take place on 17th of May 2024 in Corfu, Greece at the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University. It is the opening event linked to Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 and it will be focused on our local community. This event will also be part of the 20th anniversary of the Dept. of Informatics, which will be celebrated with various activities during 15-17 May 2024.
A draft program of the Opening event on 17th of May 2024 follows: 11:30 – 12:00 Open welcome 12:00 – 12:15 Presentation of Ionian Wikithon 2024 - Friendly Space Policy Explained, by Eleni Christopoulou 12:15 – 12:30 Outcomes and participants' experience from Ionian Wikithon 2022, Ionian Wikithon 2023 and Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, by Eleni Christopoulou, Marios Magioladitis, Dimitrios Ringas 12:30-13:00 Introduction to Wikimedia world. Specially addressed to academics, researchers and newcomers. Wikipedia, Wikidata.... Phabricator, by Marios Magioladitis 13:00 - 13:30 Creating and Setting up new accounts, by Dimitrios Ringas 13:30 - 14:00 Invited Speech 14:00 - 15:00 Light lunch 15:00 – 15:30 Wikidata, SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service, by Eleni Christopoulou 15:30 – 16:00 Wikidata and Wikishootme, by Dimitrios Ringas 16:00 – 16:30 Pitch of proposals, projects and ideas 16:30 – 17:30 Hacking time 17:30 – 18:00 Group photo 18:00 - 18:30 Wikidata, Wikipedia and cultural heritage, by Eleni Christopoulou 18:30 – 20:00 Hacking time 20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
Ionian Wikithon - Closing Ceremony | 20 June 2024 | Corfu, Greece The Ionian Wikithon - Closing Ceremony event will take place on 20th of June 2024 in Corfu, Greece at the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University. It is an event, where volunteers and participants of the Ionian Wikithon 2024 will have time to finish their projects, share knowledge, ideas and experiences and the closing ceremony with the awards will take place.
A draft program of the Closing ceremony on 20th of May 2024 follows: 16:00 – 16:30 Open welcome 16:30 – 17:30 Invited Speech 17:30 – 18:30 Data Challenge, by Eleni Christopoulou 18:30 – 19:30 Hacking time 19:30 – 20:00 Awards Ceremony 20:00-20:30 Discussion / Ideas / Proposals for future events 20:30 - Group photo 20:30 - 21:30 Dinner 21:30 - 00:00 - Hacking time
The event will be organised by the Networks, Multimedia and Security Systems Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Ionian University and a number of resources will be provided from the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University. The Dept. of Informatics is located in the building “Aretaios” in the center of the city which is directly accessible using public transportation. The airport and the port are within a 15-minute distance. The department has two computer laboratories and three lecture halls, which can facilitate participants to work on their projects. The Dept. of Informatics is offering us the venue for all events for free. From all the halls participants will have access to the Internet via the local Ethernet 1 Gbps network. The building is wirelessly connected to the central hub of Ionian University. Participants may also have access to network printers if they need to print work or material. The event will be supported from the Wikimedia Community Greece as the president, Marios Magioladitis, is member of the organising team, and others members of the Wikimedia Community Greece will be invited to share their experience and knowledge. Finally, the Corfu Tech Lab will provide 10 laptops for students who don't have their own laptop.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Organizing Team Dr. Eleni Christopoulou, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University (user:Eleni.Christopoulou) Dr. Dimitrios Ringas, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University (user:DimitriosRingas) Marios Magioladitis, president of the Wikimedia Community Greece and long standing Wikipedian (user:magioladitis)
Eleni Christopoulou is in charge of the success of the event and each member of the organizing team will take the following roles: Eleni Christopoulou: Project lead, Program manager, Volunteer coordinator, Participant manager Marios Magioladitis: Communications manager, Social liaison Dimitrios Ringas: Technical coordinator, Venue logistics coordinator, Sponsors manager
A number of students of the Dept. of Informatics will join as volunteers. All participants, both the organizing team and students, will act as volunteers.
The Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University as well as the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece participated in the organisation of the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and Dr. Eleni Christopoulou, Dr. Dimitrios Ringas and Marios Magioladitis were volunteers of this great event that took place in Athens, Greece.
- 9. 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? (required)
Our main goal is to maintain the collaboration that we have already established among the Department of Informatics and the community of the Ionian University with the Wikimedia Community and engage students to be active and regular members of this community. Participants of the last two previous Ionian Wikithons have joined and participated in Wikimania 2022, Wikimania 2023 and Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and have applied for future events. We believe that the participants of this event, too, will play a catalytic role and will eventually be our ambassadors for future events.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
The wikimedia community of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University, represented by Eleni Christopoulou and Dimitrios Ringas and the president of the Wikimedia Community Greece and long standing Wikipedian, Marios Magioladitis, are strongly collaborated the last years and have decided to continue the Ionian Wikithon event, taking into account the great success of the last two events. Most discussions and arrangements have taken place in-person meetings. Additionally, Eleni Christopoulou and Dimitrios Ringas have discussed about the Ionian Wikithon 2024 with the president of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University, and have decided to be part of the events that will take place for the 20th anniversary of our Department. Students, volunteers and participants of previous Ionian Wikithons are eager to join the Ionian Wikithon 2024, too.
Outcomes of this collaboration can be found in the following: Greek Wikipedia main page Wikimedia Community User Group Greece Facebook page Wikimedia Community User Group Greece Official website Ionian University Website LinkedIn Ionian University Facebook Group of Ionian University Department of Informatics (Ionian University) Website Facebook Group of Department of Informatics, Ionian University LinkedIn Department of Informatics, Ionian University Marios Magioladitis website Marios Magioladitis social media pages (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) Local media (TV, radio, newspapers)
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Open Technology
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics edit
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1) What factors motivate students to participate in this event and contribute more actively and regularly? 2) How many students had also participated in last years' events? 3) How many students have been able to identify a Wikimedia project to contribute? 4) Which Wikimedia project do participants feel more experienced and familiar to contribute? 5) What kind of skills do participants needed to participate and which new skills do they believe that they acquired?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | New participants: 80
Returning participants: 20 We will carry out a number of events/activities, so we count the total number of participants. |
| Number of editors | 30 | Newly Registered Users (new editors): 20
Returning editors: 10 |
| Number of organizers | 6 | The main organizing team is composed of the following 3 members:
Dr. Eleni Christopoulou, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University (user:Eleni.Christopoulou) Dr. Dimitrios Ringas, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University (user:DimitriosRingas) Marios Magioladitis, president of the Wikimedia Community Greece and long standing Wikipedian (user:magioladitis) At least 2 volunteers will support the organisation of the Ionian Wikithon 2024 and we have already arranged with 1 (one) invited speaker to participate. All organizers will be volunteers. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | 100 |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We plan to contribute to Wikipedia (in Greek Language) by creating various new articles and editing existing ones, e.g. we will work on new EU laws and regulations regarding ICT. We plan to contribute to Wikidata by editing, filling and correcting a number of Wikidata items and engaging participants in activities that enrich existing Wikidata via tools like: Wikishootme and Depictor. We plan to contribute to Wikimedia Commons by uploading photos and material from all the events/activities as well as to upload photos from sights/places/cultural sites from Corfu and the Ionian Region. We plan to contribute to translatewiki by translating and validating translations from and to Greek language. Specifically, in the Ionian Wikithon 2023 we have completed (100%) the translation of core wiki code and extensions to Greek language.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Percentage of participants returning to the Ionian Wikithon 2024 | N/A | 20 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
1) WMF Labs Outreach Dashboard 2) Statistics from translatewiki 3) Statistics from Depictor (game) 4) Questionnaires
Financial proposal edit
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U5gArebkEfm8booinJPj-jyfspQJ27WjirRGonh4_I4/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
4550 EUR
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
4982.02 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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