Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wiki Wednesdays
Navino Evans - NavinoEvans Kseniya Soldatenko - Ksoldate
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Applicant details
editWikimedia username(s):
- Victoria Stasiuk - Vicstasiuk7
Navino Evans - NavinoEvans Kseniya Soldatenko - Ksoldate Inga Petri - IngaPetri
Organization:
G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?
- Applied previously and did receive a grant
H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?
- Yes
H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?
- Canada Council for the Arts - January 2022
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information
editR. Where will this proposal be implemented?
- Canada
S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:
- Regional
S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- We would like to include all the territories and provinces of the Country of Canada in this proposal, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia
T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)
- Website - https://victoriastasiuk.ca/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vicstasiuk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/artscultureshifttothrive
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Proposal
edit1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?
Wiki-Wednesdays Online Webinars is a co-creation of Victoria Stasiuk & Associates (Arts and Culture Consulting based in Canada) and Histropedia (United Kingdom). For phase one of this project, the collaboration received funding from the Wikimedia Foundation's rapid grant program from November 2022 to March 2023.
We are applying to the General Support Fund to continue this work from May 2023 to February 2024.
With Wikimedia's support we have been able to hold 5 webinars so far with 35 participants. We were able to create 9 new wikidata user ids and 1169 edits of wikidata articles.
A more substantial longer term goal is to increase the digital literacy for Canadian GLAM workers outside the Province of Quebec. We've discovered the significant difference between our GLAM colleagues in Quebec and the rest of Canada and we are interested in using this fund to address this knowledge gap. As an example of the difference, we were able to demonstrate in our knowledge graph the difference between Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) based in Quebec City and our colleagues in art galleries outside of Quebec. One of the differences is that MNBAQ has been successful in the process of creating a property proposal.
Victoria Stasiuk has discussed the necessary steps for the GLAM sector outside of Quebec to put forward property proposals with Christopher Shilling and Navino Evans and there would have to significant GLAM sector wiki digital literacy learning in this area for the ecosystem to be able to follow the lead of our francophone GLAM colleagues.
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
Within the GLAM sector in Canada, Ms Stasiuk has noticed there is a significant knowledge gap in the area of Linked Open Data and open source platforms. Through this project, we hope to continue learning in this area so that GLAM workers can help their organizations, artists and communities with discoverability and search engine optimization so that they can attract more online and on-site visitations.
Ms Stasiuk acknowledges the work of Andrew Lih's as a Wikidata and Digital Media Strategist to raise the profile of the importance of these activities. In one of Andrew's presentations he stated, "Our work at the MET (NY NY) in this area is directly related to discoverability on Google. We've found evidence that within 5, 10, 15 minutes of creating a wikidata article, we can see can see them popping up on the search engines."
Our team would like to continue to show the impact in wikidata edits and their connections to GLAM institutions in Canada through knowledge graphs, mixed media online learning (PowerPoint demonstrations, videos, etc.) in our online webinars, social media outreach as well as online resources that target Canadian GLAM workers. We have started to build these resources and this grant will allow us to continue this work and build the number of digital assets available for free to Canadian GLAM workers.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
In our previous phase of this project, we conducted one hour online webinars with a mixture of presentations and breakout groups to illustrate the importance of this area. We conducted a google survey with registered individuals and attendees to find out if this format was optimal or if we should look change the format.
Informally colleagues have indicated the lunch hour time frame EST works for busy GLAM professionals.
We will alter the format of the hour based on the feedback from the google form for the WMF rapid grant, as well as further individual feedback from GLAM colleagues.
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We would like to develop and/or build on existing Wiki resources to help Canadian museums, art galleries, archives and libraries increase their volunteer and community engagement through online wikidata editing sessions through toolkits and step-by-step instructions for our colleagues to implement. Sessions held on Feb 1, 2023 and March 2, 2023 are good examples of this approach.
We are also seeking to build on our existing knowledge graph so that we can demonstrate the connections between the Uninvited Exhibit (Female Canadian Visual Artists who produced work from 1920 to the 1960s/similar time period the Group of Seven Canadian Landscape Painters). When Navino Evans created the first SPARQL query in November 2022 , he used the Canadian Group of Painters wikidata article as a vehicle to show how many women were included in this group - Canadian Group of Painters (Q11734722) as a starting place.
One of the goals of the project will be to see if we can increase the number of art galleries in Canada creating connections to the female visual artists' wikidata articles by adding references to their e-collections to demonstrate that these organizations 'have works in the collection of".
In Phase one, we were able to show this with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Vancouver Art Gallery. Other organizations to include over this project period would be the National Gallery (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum as well as our colleagues in Quebec at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?
No
5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?
- N/A
6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.
- There will be two different periods for the grant period. May to September 2023, the Project Team will hold planning sessions to determine Project Team roles and scope of work. From September 2023-February 2024, we will be holding monthly WikiWednesday free online webinars with guest speakers who are part of the Canada Council of the Arts Project Team who represent various perspectives of Indigenous Peoples, South Asian as well as North/Lesbian.
We have provided the details of this demarcation of time phases and details in Project Timeline document uploaded to the flux portal below.
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Roles & Responsibilities for Project Team
Navino Evans (Technical Advisor)
- google sheets for editors, editing guidelines, reusable resources for holding volunteer edit-a-thons from wiki existing resources
Victoria Stasiuk (Project Manager)
- lists, registration, social media, Canadian art and heritage subject matter expertise, GLAM stakeholder relations and outreach as well expertise based on her experience as a Volunteer Development consultant.
KS - (Marketing and Communications)
- additional branding and multi-media learning resources to support the broader Wikimedia open source movement (power point presentations, videos clips, etc.)
8. 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, Socioeconomic Status, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial, Sexual Orientation
8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
Our project seeks to raise the profile of female Canadian visual artists that produced significant work but did not receive the level of profile, reputation and financial success as male visual artists during a similar time period.
In terms of Geography, we are seeking to assist GLAM workers and organizations whose wiki knowledge is not as well developed as our colleagues in Quebec.
In terms of language, English speaking GLAM workers are not as familiar with wiki knowledge as francophone GLAM workers.
9. 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.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology, Diversity
10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
In the earlier phase funded by Wikimedia Foundation's rapid grant, Ms Stasiuk was able to increase the participation among non-Wikimedia GLAM sector workers through her profile, posts, and invitations on LinkedIn, Twitter and posts on WorkInculture's Dashboard.
Through these outreach efforts, we increased awareness of Linked Open Data and the availability of online resources.
12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?
Our team is dedicated to providing positive and collaborative dynamic learning opportunities for adult training.
In order for adults to participate in a peer learning environment, they must feel safe and valued.
We strive create these types of experiences through our informal interactions in our Online webinars and Project Team meetings.
13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
Yes
13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
Our partnership with Western University librarians let to a participant joining us from the United Kingdom when they posted the details of the upcoming webinars on an international librarian resource network.
Our cognito form indicated that one of the attendees found us this way.
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
No
14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
N/A
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
WorkInCulture Galleries Ontario Ontario Museum Association BC Museums Association Canadian Museums Association
16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.
- One key risk is that one of the project team finds it difficult to maintain their level of commitment to the project based on their current client work.
One way we have mitigated this risk is setting up a google drive with shared information.
17. 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, Improve User Experience, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.
- No
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
For this phase, we would like to present more details information on Property proposals for Canadian GLAM organizations that are ready to begin this process.
Another key item we would like to learn for this phase is the best way to do batch uploads using Quick Statements.
A third key area is to help Canadian artists and their organizations become discovered internationally.
20. 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 space provided.
| Main Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata property ID creation for Canadian GLAM organizations | Facilitate the creation of a Wikidata ID property for the institution to allow them to add unique identifiers for artists, works or other entities stored in their own collection databases.
This will be completed after confirming the institution has this kind of data available, and is convinced of the benefits of engaging with Wikidata (example for creating this for McMIchael Canadian Art Collection and Art Gallery of Hamilton, perhaps for the December 2023 meetup or follow-up email) |
3 |
| Collection matching for Canadian GLAM organizations | Artists, works or other entities stored in their own collections are uniquely matched to Wikidata items.
Perform mass imports of IDs once matching is complete, provided a Wikidata property has been created. |
2 |
| Reuse of Wikimedia content or processes | For institutions who have matched their content to Wikidata items, they now have easy access to Wikipedia articles, media from Commons and other Wikimedia resources.
This is used in some way either internally, on social media or on their own website, for example: Sharing/embedding Wikidata query visualizations, or using them to analyze their content Providing related content for artists or works in their collection Using Wikimedia Commons for structured data tagging of images |
2 |
| Import some data into Wikidata | Use data in their collections to create references statements on Wikidata. This can be done using mass imports if matching is already complete | 1 |
| Wikimedian in Residence | It would be ideal if we are able to communicate the benefits of engaging with Wikimedia enough to facilitate the adoption of a Wikimedia in residence. | 1 |
Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | Continue engaging with any of the processes we start during the project for adding to or consuming Wikimedia content | 1 |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | Resources that are developed to aid institutions with their specific challenges relating to consuming, matching, or importing to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. These will be developed as needed, but likely will include spreadsheet templates and instructional materials. | 5 |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A |
21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | How many unique people will participate throughout the course of the online webinars (September 2023 to February 2024) | 50 |
| Number of editors | People who have made one edit on wikidata | 30 |
| Number of organizers | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | One batch uploads for cultural organizations and/or individual edits. | 1000 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
N/A
22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
We will update and revise our existing Google form survey to include the above metrics.
This existing google form can be accessed at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rTlnyMbpVuFywIiUpj9-372oIkJitFUDebIWAHSQkqU/edit
Financial Proposal
edit23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.
- 13175 CAD
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 10274 USD
23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.
- Please note that we are also applying for funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse to support this project during the same time period. We have uploaded the budget for this CCAC application to this portal, so WMF staff and grant allocations committee members can see how the two project are inter-related and complimentary to the goals of both organizations. Please treat the CCAC budget information as private and confidential.
Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s): Copy of presentation for December 2022 - https://victoriastasiuk.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/dec-7-wiki-wednesday-presentation-by-V-Stasiuk-and-N-Evans.pdf
Final Message
editBy submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.
We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- Yes
Feedback
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