Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/SXSW 2025 WikiTex media hackathon (ID: 22894757)
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Applicant Details
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Sj
- Organization
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- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
I'm a group leader of a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee).
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Founder but no longer point of contact for NEW (New England), joint point of contact for WOW (Offline wikis)
Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
SXSW 2025 WikiTex media hackathon
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-03-01 - 2025-04-01
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
United States of America
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) SXSW event series (since 2023)
- 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)
Despite the fact there are many active Texas Wikipedians (and those with Texas roots), there are few formal events across the vast state. A Texan user group proposal was floated a few years back, to coordinate work on projects related to Texas on Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Commons, but it never got sufficient momentum. A number of Texans at WCNA this year said they'd like to get together more often in person, and we hope this can create the momentum to stand up a user group and engage local media organizations like The Texas Tribune.
As dozens of Wikimedia contributors come to Austin for SXSW every year to speak on panels or for work, this is intended to be a meetup and hackathon for local community members to meet those from out of town, in a cozier setting than the madness or expense of the conference proper.
Venue: We have a venue that will host other wiki events during the period of March 7-15, in downtown Austin, that is only a few blocks away from the Texas Tribune.. Many US Wikimedians will be there organizing other projects (WikiPortraits and some partner meetings w/ Creative Commons, the policy team of the Foundation, and the Internet Archive).
Timing: To accommodate Texas Wikimedians who have to work a Monday-Friday schedule, we will concentrate events on a weekend day.
Travel: We can subsidize travel for Texans coming in from across the state, often gas and parking.
Lodging: We can also subsidize lodging for up to N people coming from outside Austin
Outreach: We will use geotargeting banners to broadcast to Texas Wikipedians, both editors and readers.
Meetup themes: Community - revisiting the user group idea, compiling a calendar of regular events in the state and contacts and universities and cultural institutions. Editing - A short intro to editing workshop, which we've run at other state-level events for newcomers; focused on regional knowledge gaps, and accessible to local Texas Tribune staff. Photography - A photo walk for locations and monuments missing photos, and introducing WLM. Tools - An intro to cool tools, with an afternoon hackathon for developers (one of two that week)
Through our outreach at the upcoming SXSW Conference in March 2025, we aim to bring awareness to Wikipedia, its community and processes generally, The convergence of the film, music, and technology industries that occur at this conference can help us not only to raise awareness, but mobilize new advocates and editors around the knowledge gaps on Wikipedia. We will also simultaneously be building on the Wikimedia outreach at previous SXSW Conferences in 2023 and 2024.
- 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.
- One afternoon of editing and photography on the first weekend of SXSW (March 9), just after a day of Creative Commons sessions; and a 1.5-day Texas conference + hackathon at the end of that week (March 14-15).
- At the conference: sessions on gender gap, AfroCROWD, tool use and development, uploading media, using Wikidata. We plan to invite speakers from WikiProject Texas, Women in Red, Black Lunch Table, and Wiki×AI
- 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.
- 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)
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
- 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.
- 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)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
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| Number of participants | ||
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
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- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 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)
Financial proposal
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- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
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USD
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