Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Finlands Community Funds application 2022/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 31 January 2023
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information
editThis form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results.
- Name of Organization: Wikimedia Suomi ry
- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia Finlands Community Funds application 2022
- Amount awarded: 100349.92 USD, 119000 EUR
- Amount spent: 91008 EUR
Part 1 Understanding your work
edit1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
Wikimedia Finland's main goals for 2022 were organizational development, outreach, and student projects.
For organizational development, WMFI improved internal structures, arranged occupational healthcare to support remote work, and updated our warranty plans for expensive hardware. We also moved our employee costs to Procountor service but left the reimbursements to Holvi service.
For outreach, we organized several events and workshops, such as the women's week editing competition, the "Punaisten linkkien naiset" competition, and the "Ympäristötiede Wikipediaan" editing workshop. These events had 100 participants (30 were new), and they created 700 new articles. We also made 18 photo walks with museums and other organizations and had five photography trips with active wikipedists. Wiki Loves Monuments was successfully developed as part of European Heritage Days with 927 photos and 54 participants, including 23 new participants.
As for cross-wiki collaboration, WMFI participated in the Wikimedia Hackathon, had a Wikimania watch party with AvoinGLAM, and participated in the Wikimania Wiki Loves Monuments panel discussion. Kulttuurinavigaattori participated in CEE Meeting in autumn with two presentations, and Yupik was Wikimedia Finland's representative in the Finnish ontology service Finto's steering group.
As for student projects, In May 2022, the Helsinki rephotography interns completed their thesis works. WMFI also participated in the EU Datathon with Ajapaik and qualified for the second round. In the summer, one person was in a work-try-out at Wikimedia Finland and was later hired by WMFI to develop the Flutter app. Wikimedia Finland also participated in Shortcut's programming course for immigrants, where two students programmed React web software for Wikimedia Finland. Vahur Puik from Ajapaik also applied for a grant application for organizing a machine learning datathon in Estonia in 2023. Wikimedia Finland joined Villa Karo's support organization.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) was successful with museums in 2022 due to a clear plan for the European heritage days and previous years' work. As this was our photowalk and photo competition coordinator, Nanna Saarhelo's, main project in 2022, she had the resources to consolidate the learnings from the previous year's work into implementation.
The museums were approached in spring through museum-post mailing lists and European heritage days contact lists. To participate in WLM, a curated list of heritage sites in the local area was required. This was created with the help of local organizers and museum staff.
Museums participated because they needed to share information about local heritage and gather photos, as they didn't have the resources to photograph everything on their own. It is also valuable to get photos from an ordinary person's perspective. Heritage lists from museums were imported to Wikidata by WMFI and then edited by museum personnel.
We also provided a web tutorial on how to hold photowalks. If they wanted to organize one, the event was advertised to participants through Facebook, traditional media event lists, and Wikipedia and WLM pages by WMFI. If the event were near Helsinki, WMFI would also participate and give a presentation on Wiki Loves Monuments.
A jury consisting of Wikipedians and cultural heritage experts, found through partner organizations, was assembled. They used the Montage tool to review photos and, after several rounds, convened an in-person meeting with good meal to select the top ten winning images.
The award ceremony was held at the National Museum. At the award ceremony, there was something to eat, prominent speakers, flowers, and certificates of honor. With this, we show the participants that we value their volunteer work and participation. Creating events with prominent organizations like the Finnish National Board of Antiquities is essential for giving the volunteers the feeling that their work is important.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
The three most notable innovations in 2022 were that Siru and Henry completed their theses. Siru's thesis focused on the backup and setup of the Helsinki Rephotography project's analytics server. The analytics server was used in machine learning exercises by Estonian students of Tartu University, and Anna Grund also utilized it in her studies. Henry's thesis involved rewriting the Ajapaikin rephotography application using the Flutter programming language.
Another significant progress was the inclusion of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition as part of the European Heritage Days program under the Finnish Ministry of the Environment's European Heritage Days initiative. Initially, Wikimedia activities in Scotland proposed an international campaign to their own Ministry, which contacted other EU ministries of the environment. The Finnish Ministry of the Environment then reach out to Wikimedia Finland for collaboration. The result was WLM communication materials in multiple languages. In 2022, we successfully engaged in local activities with smaller regional museums.
The third innovative activity was that Yupik, as a representative of Wikimedia Finland in Finto, the Finnish National Ontology service, promoted using Sami languages and Wikidata in the YSO (Finnish General Ontology) concept scheme. YSO is openly licensed (CC0) and linked to Wikidata; for example, Yleisradio (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) utilizes Wikidata and YSO as multilingual terminology resources. Yupik has also translated the terms used in concept schemes in Wikidata into North Sami, Inari Sami, and Koltasami.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
In Helsinki rephotography and with Wiki Loves Monuments project as its immediate successor, we have worked with photography Facebook groups and their organizers in the Helsinki area. We have also worked with the Kallio walking festival community, whose origin was an actual festival. During COVID-19, the event transformed into a brand for neighbor cultural events, mainly outdoors, but they also have indoor local cultural events.
We have advertised our events in the Helsinki events stream, which is propagated to radio and newspapers. We made our events joint with organizations such as museums, so they advertised these too through their channels. The Finnish National Board of Antiquities and Ministry of Environments announced the Wiki Loves Monuments advertised event through their channels.
To wiki community, we wrote on the Finnish Wikipedia news page, the community board, the “Wikipedian ystävät” Facebook group, and our web pages. We have tried to write time to time to This Month in GLAM what we have done in Finland, so we have something in English. Kulttuurinavigaattori also had a presentation in the CEE meeting.
With the Estonian wiki community and the Ajapaik community, we have mostly communicated using Ajapaik's Slack and shared Slack channels. Ajapaik started a monthly online meeting in 2021, during Helsinki rephotography. We have participated from time to time in these also.
With our women's work (women's day event, “Punaisten linkkien naiset”) we have organized our writing campaigns so that there is some prominent women's organization with us that have connections to their communities. This year it was the Women's association Unioni, founded in 1892 and it is one of the oldest Finnish feminist associations. As speaker, we had Jenni Janakka, a Finnish writer and performance trainer.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
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- Photowalks, WLM & rephoto
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2022/Contents/Finland_report
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2023/Contents/Finland_report
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| 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 | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Neither agree nor disagree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Neither agree nor disagree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
The efforts undertaken to engage underrepresented groups, particularly the Sami community, included working with a board member who is an admin in the northern Sami Wikipedia. This member is actively involved in Sami language topics and is part of the Finnish ontology service, Finto's steering group. Writing in Sami and Karelian languages were also included on Finnish Wikipedia's weekly and monthly contests, leading some editors to contribute to the northern Sami and Inari Sami Wikipedias.
For the Wiki Loves Monuments initiative, the organization translated web pages, European Heritage Day media to Sami languages. We also started to translate wikidata items, upload tool and map places to sami languages to get the wlm heritage target map translated. Additionally, the northern Sami translation of the guidebook "Etäopetuksen näytön paikka" was transferred to the northern Sami Wikibooks incubator.
Collaborative efforts were made with Villa Karo to generate Africa-related content for Finnish Wikipedia. Kulttuurinavigaattori had an african music workshop in Estonia. WMFI also joined the Villa Karo support organization for future collaborative endeavors.
In 2022, discussions were initiated among WMFI members on how to handle "deadnames" (the pre-transition names of transgender individuals) on Finnish Wikipedia, including exploring the legal aspects of privacy. Consequently, an article on the concept of "deadname" was created, as were articles about transwomen and transmen.
Part 2: Your main learning
edit8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
In the first half of 2022, we successfully finalized Siru Saranpää and Henry Tianen's thesis works. One learning from this was that the schedule for the interns thesis work needs to be flexible. In our case, the Helsinki rephotography grant period ended, and because that there was a need to pay a grant for successful thesis work before the review was finalized by the school. However, both got grade five from their thesis works (the scale was 1-5, where five is best), so our initial estimate was correct.
In the second half of 2022, we were able to improve the organizational structures, such as occupational health care contracts. We were also able to hire a person using wage subsidies for non-profit organizations. One learning for this was that compared to student projects, this hiring required more planning compared to student thesis works projects, where the University of Applied sciences implements a significant portion of the responsibilities and students also receive local support from the school.
Third learning was that as we have been an online organization, we have even more started to work online. This enabled us to use Wiki Loves Monuments to widen our work also outside Helsinki.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
The war in Ukraine significantly affected our focus. For example, in Finnish Wikipedia, editors focused on this topic, lowering participation to other editing. We also made one cleaning project of the Commons because we discovered by chance that Wikimedia Commons images that were on the Russian RKN blocklist were (not war-related) long-term vandalism or spamming by permanently blocked user.
The sharp increase in the price of electricity in the fall of 2022 caused the need to evaluate technical implementations in terms of electricity consumption. Some of its secondary infrastructure runs on private persons' homes (Ajapaik analytics, backup nodes, for example). We estimate that the cost of electricity rose, including Ajapaiks main server, to more than €100/month. If prices had continued to grow, they would have gone too high for volunteers. To prepare for even higher prices, we moved some of our hardware to single-board computers, which consume a fraction of the electricity. We also started to design parts of the systems for running on-demand instead of 24/7.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
We are planning to continue the integration of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition into the European Heritage Days program together with the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and
Villa Karo is a Finnish residence and cultural center in Benin, West Africa, fostering cultural exchange between Finland and West Africa. Heikki Kastemaa, former president of Wikimedia Finland, introduced the Wikimedia movement to Benin during his residency at Villa Karo in 2017 and 2019. This led to the creation of the Wikipedia project for Benin and collaboration with the Wikimediens du Bénin User Group, particularly in photography. We joined Villa Karo as a community member in December 2022.
Our role is to create free content and support the development of Benin's national languages, such as Mina (Gen), through initiatives like the Language diversity hub in various Wikimedia projects by keeping in touch with Beninese colleagues. We improve Africa's representation on Wikipedia, and enhance writing, reading, language skills, and source criticism. We aim to ensure reliable, fact-based source material about Benin and West Africa. In 2022, we participated in Villa Karo annual meeting and events. Last year Villa Karo residence opened applications to international aspirants, allowing individuals from different countries.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
In 2022 the Wiki Loves Monuments and Helsinki rephotography went very well. We were able to integrate photo walks into our program, and we had events with museums in multiple cities. Together with European heritage days, it felt like a coherent plan we were implementing. We also got our first thesis done for the Helsinki rephotography project, and the Helsinki rephotography project itself was finalized nicely, and in Wiki Loves Monuments, we had an award ceremony again.
In Estonia, our rephoto partner Ajapaik volunteers in Estonia got a medal for volunteering given by the president of Estonia. Of course, much of this was built on previous years' work, and everything just matched well in 2022, but we were still pleased.
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
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- Student projects
Siru Saranpää, Linux-palvelimen asennus ja konfigurointi
Henry Tiainen, Uudelleenvalokuvaussovelluksen kehittäminen Flutterilla
Linh Nguyenin and Josephine Closan Shortcut project
The single board computer project
Part 3: Metrics
edit13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | 350 of editors will continue after activities, 50-100 of these are new editors which are created account during activities and haven't been used Wikimedia services before. | 350 | 100 | Wiki Loves Monuments, Womens events and Public art project have users which have been continued to edit on these topics. Rough guess that 50 new registered user accounts would continue editing some how in next two year.
Also photowalks have participants which continue participate, but their conversion rate from participation to events ( = taking photographs) to editors ( = uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons) is lower than with persons whose participation method was directly the editing. |
Manual observation |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | 20 organizers who haven't been in our projects before will continue editing Wikimedia services after the events. | 20 | N/A | N/A | |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | We start, improve or continue 2 strategic partnerships with higher education institutions for developing our student projects. | 2 | 4 | We did collaboration with Tarto university students coding club with Ajapaik and also one Tarto university student used our Linux homelab server used in Ajapaik machine learning projects for her studies. There one thesis work from Hämeenlinna university of applied science and one thesis work from Vaasa university of applied science. Wikimedia Finland also were customer for two foreing adult students in their programming course where their task was to write Commons uploader and Wikidata query result to converter. | manual |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | 200 | Muijii Wikipediaan event targetted to female and non-binary editors and there were 20 new or inexperienced wikipedia editors. Ympäristötiede wikipediaan 20-30 editors was targetted to graduate students and scientists. Photowalks were targetted to persons which didn't have earlier experience on wikimedia projects and there were for example lot of senior citizens. One of the photowalks was organized with school class (17 participants with age 15) together with their teacher. | manual counting |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | We develop 2 new type of activities with community which haven't been tried before (proposed candidates: Drone photography and language clubs) | 2 | 2 | We did develop drone photography and WLM photowalks organized by local museums.
Planned language clubs (= regular meetings where we edit another language wikipedias together with native speakers which can advice with local wiki policies and practicalities) were planned but not implemented in 2022. |
manual collection |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of participants | New participant 700
Returning participant 300 |
1000 | 760 | Best new editors projects were public art project got 9 and WLM got 23 new registered users. Best participants projets were photowalks which got 350 participants and best content creation projects were womens day and Punaisten linkkien naiset activities which got 670 new articles. | Manually counting the onsite / online participants. Using ukbot statistic in weekly/monthly compentition. Counting users with edits in project using Toolforge replica db and SQL. |
| Number of editors | New editors 400
Returning editors 200 |
600 | 240 | WLM got 24 new editors, public art projects 8. Ympäristötieto wikipediaan and Muijii Wikipediaan edithatons had both 20-30 editors with majority of editors were new/inexperienced editors.
Ukbot competitions such as Womens day (24 participants) , Ukraina (23 participants) and Punaisten linkkien naiset (27 participants) got mostly returning editors mostly because there were no sitenotice banner in 2022 for them. |
Using ukbot statistic in weekly/monthly compentitions. Counting users with edits in project using Toolforge replica db and SQL. Wiki Loves Monuments statistics tool and approximation of how many WLM organizers were editing wikis. Edithatons participants number was counted manually in the event. |
| Number of organizers | New organizers 50
Returning organizers 25 |
75 | 80 | same organizers in different events are counted multiple times. (ie. if same person has been in rephotography and then WLM it is counted twice). | manual counting |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Wikipedia | Number of pages created in Women's day and Women in red event (1000), 400 number of pages improved in Public art documentation project, peer-review project and Benin project | 1400 | 1104 | 1104 unique new wikipedia articles were created in womens day, Ukraina&Russia and punaisten linkkien naiset edithatons. In publica art project 294 public art article pages were improved with new coordinates, photos and additions. | direct SQL queries and Ukbot statistics. |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of photos uploaded | 6500 | 1292 | 1292 photos were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. 987 of these were from Wiki Loves Monuments 2022. | direct SQL on toolforge and Wiki Loves Monuments statistics utility. |
| Wikidata | Number of Wikidata items improved or created | 10000 | 7241 | User Zache's WLM related item edits/creations and Womens day competition updates. Yupics sami language updates | pywikibot |
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14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
No
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
Toolforge's commons and wikidata replica databases are very slow. It makes it hard to query for example how many uploads or edits a user has made in specific periods using SQL.
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
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- Weekly competition statistics page by Ukbot
Public art statistics page
Wiki Loves Monuments statistics
Count edited pages
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships
edit17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Formal training provided by a Wikimedia Movement organizing group (i.e., Affiliates, Grantees, Regional or Thematic Hub, etc.), Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events, Peer to peer learning with other community members (but that is not continuous or structured)
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of awareness of capacity building needs, Lack of staff time to participate in capacity building/training
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
About answers in 17. There is no option to select "capacity is high or is high, but it is decreased". For example in 2022 WMFI capacity in technical fields (answers (M accessing data, N on-wiki tech) was high in terms of skills, but it was substantially lower than 2021 as AvoinGLAM transitioned as independent actor from WMFI.
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Strongly agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Permanent staff outreach, Staff hired through the fund, Volunteers from our communities
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of staff capacity to respond to partners interested in working with us
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
In Wiki Loves Monuments, we have made plans and documented our activities with partner organizations in Google Docs. Parts of the documentation have also been published in a blog or on the Wiki Loves Monuments pages. In re-photography projects, the documentation guidelines have been published in our blog, and the collaborating museums have created a how-to guide for organizing re-photography walks based on their own experiences for other museums to use. We have also held webinars with museums where we have talked about how to participate in events, open licensing, and how we have used openly licensed images by organizations. Ajapaik has shared experiences with other historical photo sites. We have published a summary of what we have done a few times a year in This Month In GLAM.
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration
edit21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
On the other hand, the sense of participation in the international movement isn’t as strong as before. Before, we were participating more in offline international meetings, but because of the Covid time, it is not so active anymore. We are still participating, but the connection is not as strong as it used to be when we met people in person.
We joined Wikimedia Europe in 2022. Wikimedia Northern Europe was established in 2018 but has not been active since the Covid era. We have collaborated with our Estonian colleagues and Wikimedia Norway. Still, our active participation in the international Wikimedia & free knowledge movement in central and regional Europe needs to be improved.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Stayed the same
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
The most significant difference in belonging to the movement is because of the COVID-19 pandemic and reduced travel, not just on international travel but also on in-country travel and meeting people on IRL. It is hard to explain how this will affect us in the long run, but this will change how people interact.
It will support online interactions but reduce offline, and it is hard to say if it is possible to fill the gap when people meet personally just with online work. It also noted that people value personal meetups more than before.
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Stayed the same
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
N/A
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
We support minority languages. Some active Wikimedia Sami community members participate in Wikimedia Finland's work, such as weekly competitions and Wiki Loves Monuments. As an organization, WMFI has tried to make participation possible, such as translating tools and project pages. Our board member Yupik has been active as she speaks and writes Sami languages.
Other active movements in Finland include OKFI (Open Knowledge Finland) and Creative Commons Finland, which work with the open licensing of archival content. WMFI is utilizing available content to create examples illustrating how such content has been used, to use these examples to advocate for future content openings.
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration
editWe are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
No
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
We do this occasionally (less than once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
Our activities planned for the next year includes a meeting with AvoinGLAM, where we strategize and share experiences. We also meet with AvoinGLAM as needed, and we are located on the same physical premises and have joint chat channels. Kulttuurinavigaattori has given presentations about re-photography projects at the CEE conference and participated in other joint meetings. Yupik has also talked about their language work within Wikimedia. Additionally, we have participated in the Wikimedia movement's online training sessions and experience-sharing events.
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance
edit30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
91008
31. Local currency type
EUR
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
N/A
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
27992€
In first half of year, we used more money from Helsinki rephotography to salaries instead of WMFI community grant (approx 6000-7000€) as the project was ending. Also as working at part time for WMFI, both Nanna and Kimmo, had in 2022 also project outside WMFI, which limited max hours what we could have done i even there were money still in the budged.
Also Siru's & Henry's student project was ready at end of Q2 and we started the next ones only after reviewing these. In summer instead of starting new student project we started an intership which we eventually changed to hiring with 5400€ additional external funding. Also, end of the year student project with Linh Nguyenin ja Josephine Closanin didn't use any money but time. Our support for Anna's studies was not financial, but with technological.
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
We would like to use the underspeding from 2022 as part community grant 2024.
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
37. 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
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
We apologize that our report is late. The reason for this is that there have been unexpected factors in the situation of our employees in 2023. One of the employees got a full-time job which was a positive event. However, re-organizing our work for the remaining employees took more effort than expected.