Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Tajik Wikimedians User Group event (ID: 22196904)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Darafsh

Organization

N/A

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)

I am the founder and the leader of the user group.

Main Proposal

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

Tajik Wikimedians User Group event

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2023-09-26 - 2023-09-27

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Tajikistan

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary

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)

First of all, the Tajik Wikimedian community is small and we are connected only through a Telegram group which is quite new and we can't solve our problems and also talk about our visions and the future priorities on this group or even on Wikipedia itself. On the other hand, our community never been part of a bigger community, and our knowledge about Wikimedia foundation and especially the Movement Strategy is very low. Young editors of Tajik Wikipedia are eager to learn more about the campaigns and new tools that they can localized into our Wikipedia.

With this conference we want to create an offline, safe space for Tajik Wikimedians to meet and connect with each other and participate in facilitated discussions about our vision, plans, challenges and priorities. We want the community members to feel energized by connecting with each other. Live discussions always will spark creative ideas to work together. By inviting some Wikimedians from the outside of community, we will have this chance to work with them in workshops about different aspects of Wikimedia. Practically speaking, we aim to create a plan for the community to move further. This conference will be the first Wikipedia event in Tajikistan.

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.

List of main activities: Pre-conference work (including organizing the venue, inviting speakers, logistics) During the conference: DAY 1: Presentations about our User Group; current state of our community Presentation about How to present Wikipedia. Facilitated discussions about future priorities and plans, including providing information about Movement Strategy and grants. Presentation about how to build a community.

DAY 2: Presentation about the UCoC and how it can benefit our community, followed by Q&A Presentation Wikimedia movement campaigns (such as TWL, Wiki Loves Monuments, and etc) Presentation about Wikidata.

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.

User:Darafsh and uer: VASHGIRD are the main persons of this conference. Both of them are member of the Tajik Wikimedians User Group and they are volunteers. Their roles are divided into off-site and on-site roles, as Darafsh lives outside the Tajikistan, VASHGIRD is responsible for the on-site tasks such as the venue, and logistics while Darafsh's roles are the program and presentations.

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 target is the Tajik Wikimedians community, however, since our venue is a university, we have focus on non Wikimedian students of university.

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.

N/A

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 main discussion held on our Telegram group which is accessible from https://t.me/TajikWikimedians We also post a notice on tg.wikipedia.org village pump: https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедиа:Қаҳвахона/Ба_диққати_корбарон#Конфронси_Википедиа_дар_Душанбе

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)

Geography

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Other

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)

Ensure Equity in Decision-making

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

The most important thing for our community is having a voice among the Wikimedia movement. We hope after this conference, members of our community can work with the Wikimedians around the world and can participate to discussions about Wikimedia.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	80
Number of editors	50
Number of organizers	7

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

Yes

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open 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

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)

I'm not sure

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uB7h4eOtd1azdq4YgUCjE_teVrNBhzyKDymt8D1rN7M/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)

4393.49 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.

4640 USD

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

Yes

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Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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