Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Libraries to Wiki - intergenerational - spaces (ID: 22069194)

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

6kustek

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

@jetam2

Organization

Progressbar, civic association

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

member of Wikimedia Slovakia

Grant Proposal edit

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Libraries to Wiki - intergenerational - spaces

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

https://www.facebook.com/progressbar https://twitter.com/progressbarsk https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpun3Ro3aUJPoFVZwgqd98A https://www.instagram.com/progressbar_sk/ https://github.com/Progressbar

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

There are little to no stories available for Wikimedia outreach on senior citizens successfully using projects like Wikipedia. Furthermore, senior citizens are morely likely to fall prey to disinformation without ability to work with on-line sources. Third, the senior citizens are underrepresented on Wikipedia, both as editors and as figures - notable women diplomats, scientists, intellectuals and minority public figures - are missing from the encyclopedia. All these findings have been presented at a government-sponsored hackathon on bridging senior citizens digital gap in December 2022 and corroborated by the supporting partners University of Third Age of the Slovak University of Technology and the civic association Aksen. The theory of change is based on feedback of senior citizens who had taken part in the hackathon and tested the prototypes, and the representatives active in social work with senior citizens. The editathon format, a peer-based approach and a non-formal setting with young people allowed participants to shed usual barriers and actively learn using their publicly sponsored personal devices (tablets). Upon further check the proposing team verified youth-work peer-based approaches are rare in senior citizens' lives and there are organized bodies of active senior citizens who have held public offices and lastly, that there is an on-going government action which only hands out devices with basic training on security but doesn't go further as to actively using said devices.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

We propose extending from Progressbar experience peer-based approaches in youth work to organized bodies of active senior citizens - namely Seniors of Slovak Diplomacy, and Senior Slovak Scientists - and lastly without prejudice - the government agency responsible for digital literacy of seniors and GLAMs.

The proposed format is an editathon with non-formal lectures on digital culture where Wikipedia occupies a firm central spot delivered as a hybrid event, on-line and in a non-formal wikispace extended over four weeks, embracing several themes and communities.

This format allows for a returning experience and interaction and allows on-line participation of experienced editors to guide new editors, and a reimagination of the librarian profession.

Furthermore, it allows a continuous communication strategy aimed at different media markets and outlets and a compounding reach. Increased visibility of digital competence and cyberthreats is an appealing common objective allowing for alliance forming and reinforcing the local Wikimedia User Group.

The designed interaction space among young digital natives and senior citizens with plenty of questions with no one to ask is the key innovation which provides experiential learning for both groups involved as witnessed and confirmed via feedback at the December hackathon.The participation and direct work with references also allows all parties to understand key tenets of disinformation resilience.

Lastly, an analytical approach and supervision, an intended evaluation and synthesis of a cook-book for GLAMs to organized similar events is embedded in the proposal for dissemination and further work on developing best approaches to increasing diversity and inclusion, reducing the digital divide and improving social cohesion and disinformation resilience.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

1. Hybrid Editathon We aim to elevate the non-formal experiential approach in the editathon to allow virtual access, repeat participation and interaction, and to engage and cross-seminate communities, partly responding to the epidemic of loneliness among the elderly.

Based of a successful collaboration between Wikimedia Slovakia and Wikimedia Taiwan during the pandemic, using the Gather.town platform, the advantages of a semi-permanent always-on virtual space were made clear for both quality of interaction and the availability of async work.

We intend to open a semi-permanent virtual space and a series of in-person events in what we would call a wikispace - a safe space for open knowledge - for participants to attend in-person or on-line, or both. This should allow for increased quantity and quality of human interaction, as well as sequential engagement of individual communities of senior citizens, young digital natives and GLAM professionals.

2. Digital Culture Talks

We intend to produce popular talks to engage our audiences in a novel way.

the Depths of WIkipedia approach - using our previous collaboration with stand-up comedians (most notably Ján Gordulič) to deliver a light-hearted meme-based talk

the civil controversy of transgender linguistic issues in gendered languages like Slavic family of languages - in the strict safe spaces policy and in utmost professionalism we would like to highlight how wikipedians handle the intricacies of gendered language edits. This is a recurring topic in the community and we intend to set the tone of civility and science-backed policies.

Cultural heritage - We intend to promote a reflection of the wealth of digitized cultural heritage objects - from intangible dances and folklore to books, audiovisual, 2D and 3D art - spearheaded by cultural institutions to projects like Wiki Loves Monuments

3. An event cook-book for GLAM

Based on the above, an evaluation and step-by-step guide for local organizers.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

1Lib1Ref, CEE Spring, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

We have consulted the proposal with the Wikimedia Slovakia. These are volunteers, but we intend to train and remunerate the experienced editors for their faciltating time during the editathon. They're Jetam2, Lišiak, Armin.

Please see Partnerships for other members of the team who don't necessarily have Wikimedia usernames.

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Geography, Language

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

We intend to specifically cover notable Women (in diplomacy, in science, in minority cultures - Roma, Hungarian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian). We intend to specifically cover Subcarpathian Ruthenia / Transcarpathian Ukraine which is an area lying in current East Slovakia and West Ukraine. We intend to highlight the condition and challenges of Rusyn/Ruthenian and Roma language Wikipedia Content.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Human Rights, Public Policy, Culture, heritage or GLAM

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Linguistic / Language, Age, Digital Access, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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?

The primary target group are senior citizens. We intend to reach as many as possible, as editors and participants. As speakers and role models we intend to invite specific communities:

Seniors of Slovak Diplomacy - a group of retired former Slovak diplomats
Seniors of Science - retired former scientists and technologists from Slovak Academy of Science
Fellowship of Friends to Subcarpathian Ruthenia - amateur historians and descendants of Czech legionnaires to the region who happen to be mostly elderly
Government Plenipotentiary for the Roma communities

A secondary target group are secondary school students who are digital natives.

A tertiary group are government agents and existing senior associations to share best-practices and learn and comment on the possible innovation.

All of the groups above are underrepresented groups on Slovak wikipedia, not to mention minority language wikipedias like Rusyn or Roma.

Through partnerships we intend to nurture these relationships, collect feedback and encourage to engage on follow-up events, or continuous projects for improvement, depending on specific community needs.

We intend to engage 100 participants during the 3 months period.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

In line with the WIkimedia policies and partner policies, like the Youth Safety policy of the Bratislava Region Youth Council we will train key facilitators and instruct all participants to uphold civility and respect during the event.

This is also a key concern so it will be monitored closely and evaluated in the cook-book for GLAMs as the stated goal is also to allow for civil methods of discourse and further social cohesion.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

Since the hackathon we have approached the WMSK board with the idea and gladly learned the WMSK is starting an activity on their own focused on small group of seniors in B. Bystrica in February.

This will be an interesting continuation of this line of activities, allowing the community to contrast and compare traditional lecture based in-person events approach in traditional GLAM setting, and a hybrid wikispace heterogeneous groups non-formal approach.

The WMSK board requested the proposal to be elaborated and moved later in the calendar for 2023 and these changes have been reflected in the design and timeframe of the activities.

The activity has not been discussed on-wiki yet.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

No

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

Yes

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

N/A

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

Our key stakeholders are the senior citizen communities with whom we have consulted and adapted the concept.

Furthermore, we have consulted with the government agency to be able to engage with the select cohort of senior citizens who have received the digital devices, and with the official partners on their project, the University of Third Age of the Slovak University of Technology.

Furthermore, through an alliance with the Bratislava Region Youth Council, we count on a cohort of digital natives from local technical, mathematical and engineering high-schools, including a select cohort of girl coders from AjTyvIT association, young robot builders from SPy, and also Ukrainian refugees.

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

We intend to collect data on the key assumptions of the project - does the hybrid delivery encourage repeat participation and quality of interaction at scale? Do the senior citizens enjoy engaging with secondary school students in larger groups, or is it a select quality of the active senior citizens?

Do the accomplished senior citizens who have been public figures adapt and conform to Wikipedia rules or will they fight the rules?

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
No. of senior citizens	Number and age of participants	40
No. of secondary school students	Number, age and affiliation of students	40
No. of minority participants	Number and ethnicity of participants	10
No. of decision-makers	Number and affiliation of participants - GLAM, government, senior associations	20
No. of facilitators	Number and seniority of wikipedia editors who agree to be trained and serve as facilitators	8

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants		100
Number of editors	New accounts: 80 Returning: 40 Facilitators: 8	88
Number of organizers		8

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	New and Improved Articles	80
Wikimedia Commons	License-appropriate Photographs	16
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

n/a

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

The Outreach dashboard from WMFL.

Financial Proposal edit

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

4600 EUR

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4990 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11FnfVrYRfQLAMHEiJav31HBKGZM6_aUVbzvS_Q9oL0Q/edit?usp=sharing

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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