Grants:Project/Rapid/GLAM-Wiki Partnerships WIR/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/GLAM-Wiki Partnerships WIR.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes we are happy because we have come to see how powerful of a tool Feminisim and Folklore has been through out the execution of the campaign especially to create partnerships with women museums. It brought us closer to media contacts who were eager to promote our content on their website.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Partnerships outreach to at least 50 affiliates; at least 10 new local country-based affiliates; Training material and video tutorials; Proactive email and video conferencing support; Training exercises for campaign organizing and partnerships training	We did partnership outreach to over 80 different user groups, chapters and heritage organizations from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. We were successful in partnering with over 30 wikimedia groups, 5 media institutions and one cultural institution. Women History Museums from Zambia. We created 3 toolkits and videos for the Wikimedia Commons and Folklore.	Our WIR provided hands on support over video conferring, email and Telegram chat with our partners over the span of last 6 months ensuring that the communication was smooth for any support the partner affiliates and organizations needed for organizing and promoting local events. We organised two Photo walk and event space opportunities exploration for the local community in their regions
For cultural institutions and folklore partner organization, Professional Materials such as presentation, toolkits, pamphlets, and other material support; Video conferencing and email support for partnership ideas and support throughout the execution; Photo walk and event space opportunities exploration for the local community in their regions	WIR provided professional Materials includings presentation, toolkits, pamphlets, and other material support Video conferencing and email support for partnership ideas and support throughout the execution to the respective partners	We provided the partnerships, content integration support via different initiatives and training exercises. Guide the technical and outreach coordinator for the Commons tools. Provide training support to affiliate partners Apart from hands-on communication and training, we ensured the efforts were documented in the form of toolkits that can be freely downloaded or read by any cultural enthusiast.

Learning

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What worked well?

We made partnerships, affiliates and non -affiliates this user groups, language community, media groups, and held various discussions with Women History Museums from Zambia. This project will covered important gaps in indigenous knowledge that are being left out. It will allow people and partnership opportunities and space to collect, document, and make that knowledge freely available with free licenses that can be used for educational and research later. To expand the network to partner with the cultural institutions internationally and support the local Wikimedia Affiliates who wish to collaborate with those local cultural institutions for photo hunts and content partnerships, from the local museums, cultural bodies to media partners. Efforts from Country Coordinators. Notifications and messages for participants and country coordinators, number of meeting (what did you meet on) share efforts and learnings

Off-wiki Media Partnerships

Women History Musuem - whmzambia.org
Scholastic world - https://scholasticworld.blogspot.com/
Unite4Heritage - https://www.unite4heritage.org/

Partnerships and coordination with Wikimedia chapters, Usergroups, Communities and affiliates

Wikimedia Foundation, Community Wikimedia User Group Haïti, Dagbani Wikimedians, Hausa Wikimedians, Igbo Wikimedians User Group, PhilWiki Community, Wiki Loves Falles 2022, WikiDonne User Group, Wikimedia Community Ireland, Wikimedia Community Malta, Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya, Wikimedia España, Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Perú, Wikimedia Thailand, wikimedians of Mali User Group, Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group, Yoruba Wikipemedians User Group. Hablon User Group, Hindi Wikimedians User Group, Marathi Wikimedians, Odia Wikimedians User Group, Pakistani Wikimedians, Indian Wikimedians, Bengali Wikimedians, Assam Wikimedians, Gujarathi Wikimedians,Malyalam Wikimedians, Punjabi Wikimedians,Sindhi Wikimedians, Saraiki Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Art+Feminism, Wiki Women in Red,Les sans pagEs,Croatian Wikipedia,Manipuri Wikipedia, UniStu Love Wiki User Group (now University Students Wikimedians), WikiDonne User Group, Wikimedia Community Ireland, Wikimedia Community of Tatar language User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Malta, Wikimedians of Mali User Group, Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group, Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group.

The Tool kit tackled the following areas: As a topping to our efforts, read the blog on Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore and a look at the resource kit we created.

English - [1]
French - [2]

What did not work so well?

There was a challenge with language since most of the participating countries speak either French and Asian languages. All other language volunteers were not available at the times of the meeting to support since they were engaged with other personal duties. This made it difficult and dragged out meetings since we had to rely on translating apps to communicate with the team from Benin, Mali and Zambia during one of our coordinators meetings.

What would you do differently next time?

We hope to hire language translators who will assist us during training, webinars and coordinators meetings.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Wikimedian-in-residence compensation - USD 1800
Fiscal sponsor (10%) - 200 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

We hope to continue our efforts to preserve intangible heritage with our efforts of partnerships with Heritage organizations, Media partners and online campaigns on Wikimedia projects.