Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the United States (ID: 22216150)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2024-03-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: SuperHamster
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1890
- Amount spent: 1655.87 USD, 1655.87
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)
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the United States held its upload campaign through the month of October, and its jury process through the month of November. The vast majority of participants are drawn to the photo campaign via our CentralNotice banner that runs throughout the month.
We had ~260 participants upload over 2,400 photos of history sites to the Wikimedia Commons. Of these photos, ~10% are being used across Wikimedia wikis. Of our 261 participants, ~68% registered after the start of the competition, indicating that Wiki Loves Monuments continues to be a driver of first-time contributors.
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
- Event page
- US winners
- All uploads
- Jury process
- ~260 participants
- ~68% registered after the start of the competition.
- 2,400 photos of historic sites in the United States uploaded.
- 12 jury members from across the United States
Our top-10 winners:
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
- The Wiki Loves tool provides statistics about all the various Wiki Loves photo campaigns, by year and country.
- Most support material comes from the international team page.
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 | Neither agree nor disagree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Neither agree nor disagree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly agree |
| F. Other (optional) | As usual, we attracted participants from all over the United States, and invited participants from our previous contest (2021) to participate again. Our 3rd place winner this year is actually a returning participant, having placed 8th in 2021!
Our event supports culture, community, and underrepresented topics/groups by promoting uploads of historic sites related to these groups. For example, in 2023, we received uploads of Aztec Ruins National Monument, Wupatki National Monument and Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, among several Native American historic sites. |
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: Wiki Loves Monuments always provides many learnings. These can include:
- Learning about hundreds of historic sites and which ones still need to be documented
- Learning about new cultural heritage organizations and their registries
- Learning about the types of historic sites people are interested in, based on what is submitted and used across Wikimedia sites
- Ways that people are interested in both capturing and consuming historical and cultural heritage
- New and growing technologies that are being used to capture historic sites (e.g. drones, panoramas, photo spheres, etc.)
As usual, we received thousands of uploads, ~10% of which have already been used across Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia articles, Wikidata items, etc.). These photo additions greatly enhance our text content. Photos came from all 50 states, and included historic sites from federal-, state-, and local-level lists. Submissions from local historic lists are always exciting to see as it means that participants are engaging with their local historical societies and documentation.
In terms of how participants engage with historic sites, we received over 200 uploads of historic markers and other signage, indicating interest from participants in documenting these. There may be opportunity here to collaborate and contribute these markers to the Historical Marker Database. We also received a number of quality drone photos, one of which (a photo of Church Square Park in Hoboken) placed fourth place.
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)
This year, we had a surprisingly low turnout. In comparison, the United States saw 5,500+ uploads from 590+ uploaders in 2021 - which is more than double what we saw in 2023. Each year, the CentralNotice banner is the main driver of participation to our event, so a decrease in participation may likely be due to fewer people being exposed to the banner (whether due to CentralNotice visibility settings, or having to compete with other banners during October). While we still consider our event a success, we naturally would like to see our numbers return to at least what we have had in prior years. We should look into the CentralNotice setup, and continue to explore and more actively utilize other ways to promote our event so that we aren't necessarily as reliant on the banner.
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)
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international, federated competition. Learnings are shared over the years through our list serve, talk pages, and sessions at Wikimedia conferences all around the world (including Wikimania and WikiConference North America). We plan to participate in these discussions and share what we can with other organizers, as we have in the past.
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 | 600 | 261 | https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/
Discussion on a lower participant turnout is discussed above, under "Did anything unexpected or surprising happen..." |
| Number of editors | 600 | 300 | This number includes uploaders and an estimate of the number of editors across Wikimedia projects who have helped utilize photos. ~10% (~240) photos are being used across Wikimedia projects as of writing. |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 3 | Our organizers this year were Kevin Payravi, Ktkvtsh, and Quercusechinus. We had 12 jury members (list available here). |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | 5000 | 2496 | 0 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Images used on wikis | The percent of uploads that are used across Wikimedia projects. This may be realized in the months following the event as editors add images to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects over time. | 10 | 10 | As we've seen with prior years, roughly 10% of our campaign's uploads have been used across Wikimedia projects. This number may continue to rise a bit more as media is discovered and added to Wikipedia articles, Wikidata items, etc. |
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
No
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)
1655.87
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1655.87
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023_in_the_United_States/Expenses
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)
No deviations in budget, other than underspend.
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
Yes
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
We have $234.13 USD left over. We did not use our full budget for shirts and shipping, and are able to use materials and postage from previous years for certificates.
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
D. I have already sent them back to the WMF
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?
Yes Your response to the review feedback. 14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
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.
Yes
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
As always, thank you for supporting Wiki Loves Monuments!
Review notes edit
Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A