Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska/2019-2020
- Application or grant stage: grant in progress
- Applicant or grantee: Wikimedia Community of Republika Srpska
- Amount requested: 16.070,00 EUR (~$US17,903.69)
- Amount granted: 13,400 EUR ($15,000)
- Funding period: 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020
- Application created: April 30 2019
- Recommended application date: 1 May 2019
- Midpoint report due: 15 January 2020
- Final report due: 30 July 2020
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Educational program
The activities to be carried by the community in the designated period and which are part of the educational program are related to the expansion of cooperation with educational institutions. Expansion of cooperation involves the inclusion of new institutions in partnerships and maintaining relationships with partners with which we have already established cooperation.
Previous experience has shown the necessity of involving professors and teachers in cooperation. In order to ensure further sustainability of the education program, the Community will educate teachers of targeted institutions (faculties, secondary schools) for working on Wikimedia projects.
During the indicated period, the community will be focused on the improvement of educational program through the increasing a number of professors (represents of new educational institutions and institutions with which cooperation has already been established) involved in cooperation. The accent will be on the training of professors to work on Wikimedia projects through a one-day seminar for teachers.
In addition to working on the creation of free content, the community will work on the education of the public on topics related to the Wikimedia movement and free knowledge. The main objective of these activities is to motivate and encourage participants to join the community and through their engagement contribute to the Wikimedia movement.
Goals:
- partner relations establishment with new educational institutions;
- further improving relations with institutions with which community already had cooperation;
- inclusion of professors with work on Wikimedia projects;
- the increasing number of content on Wikimedia projects (especially Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons);
- increase in the number of newly registered users originating from educational institutions;
- inclusion of professors and teachers in cooperation and work on Wikimedia projects;
- creating a network for cooperation with teachers and professors from educational institutions.
Measures of success:
- number of institutions we will work with: 10;
- number of planned activities: 1;
- number of participants-professors: 20;
- the teacher from 4 regions of Republic of Srpska will be gathered
- at least 20 professors will be included in cooperation on educational activities;
- number of new or edited articles: 20;
- the number of pictures placed on Wikimedia Commons: 100.
GLAM program
Regarding GLAM activities, Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska will focus on expansion and advancement of the current GLAM program through series of activities within projects Trace of Soul and Wiki Ambassador.
Wiki Loves Republika Srpska - Trace of Soul photo-contests
Trace of Soul is a photo competition which is organized for the fifth time in the Republic of Srpska aimed at collecting photos of natural and cultural assets of the Republic of Srpska. After successful completion of last year's competition, within which 2.160 photographs of natural and cultural-historical monuments from the Republic of Srpska, we wish, now traditionally, to organize the competition for the fifth time and to continue good practices towards the achievement of our goal. The project, in addition to the competition, includes supporting activities - an edit-a-thon and three photo-tours on the territory of three different geographical areas of Republic of Srpska where there have been no similar activities.
Like every year, the community will be focused on collecting photographs of monuments that are not represented through promotional activities in targeted areas.
From 1 July to 31 October 2019
Goals:
- increase the number free photos related to these monuments on Wikimedia Commons;
- increase the number of articles related to these monuments on Wikipedia;
- popularisation of Wikimedia’s mission and vision in Republica of Srpska;
- expand the free knowledge idea;
- attract new volunteers and community members.
Measures of succes:
- 2000 photos;
- 80 participants;
- <10% photos will be used in Wikipedia in first 7 weeks after the competition;
- 20 media coverage;
- community will be stronger than now;
- 30 new articles will be written or Improved.
Wiki Ambassador
The Wiki ambassador in the Republic of Srpska is a project that implies the implementation of the Vikimedians and the Wikipedians in educational, GLAM or similar institutions in order to collect relevant data that is difficult to come by due to lack of literature on the Internet.
It was started in 2016. Thanks to this project the community realized cooperation with 4 GLAM institutions of state importance and on that occasion 260 new referenced articles in Wikipedia were created in Serbian, more than 200 photos were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Also within the framework of this project 4 permanent sets of one museum were marked with QR codes.
In particular, it is planned to cooperate with two GLAM institutions through this project. A total of three delegates from the Wikimedia community of Republic of Srpska will be delegated for this job.
In one GLAM institution - National and university library of Republic of Srpska, that is in Banja Luka, the most important city in Republika Srpska the ambassador will stay 4 work days during which, in cooperation with the employees of the library will work on digitalization of exhibition material and catalogs of national importance that will be placed on the project Wikisource. In addition, the delegated Wiki ambassador will educate and inform the employees with all of the Wikimedia projects. Also, for that occasion, the articles related to free content will be created and edited on Serbian Wikipedia.
The second part of activities would be realized in Višegrad in cooperation with Touristic organization of Višegrad, through 5 working visits. Besides training of employees, the ambassador would hold a thematically focused editing workshop. For that occasion would be realized one editing workshop, during which would be created new articles and updated old articles with quality sources and photographs. Also, the content would be translated into English and placed on English Wikipedia. After the completion of the above-mentioned works, through the QRpedia system, the resulting contents would be linked to QR codes that would be placed on the most important monuments in Višegrad.
The project will enrich Wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wiki Commons and Wikisource with relevant content related to cultural and natural heritage, tourism and history of Republic of Srpska. Also, it will positively affect the promotion of Wikipedia thanks to scanning QR codes in a city that annually visits about 250,000 tourists. Cooperation with mentioned institutions will ensure the relevance and reliability of data and references.
From 1 November 2019 to 1 March 2020
Goals:
- expansions and improvement of GLAM programs in Republic of Srpska;
- working with serious and very important partners as a positive reference for future activities and attracting new partners;
- implementation of Wikimedia projects within GLAM institutions;
- idea exchange and creation of common ground for future cooperation;
- enriching Wikipedia with new content;
- QR codes implementation.
Measures of success:
- 9 working visits;
- 2 new very important GLAM institutions involved in cooperation;
- 1 editing workshop;
- 3 free books on the Wikisource project (~ 300 pages);
- 5 important cultural and historical monuments marked with QR codes;
- 40 new or updated articles;
- 20 new users;
- geographical coverage - the inclusion of 2 cities and the realization of activities;
- 10 media announcements;
- 20 participants;
- 150 photographs;
- 50 new followers on social networks.
Community activities
The community is the foundation and starting point for the implementation of the Wikimedia projects locally, hence it is essential that it works harmoniously and remains vigorous. In the coming period, the community will take into account the motivation of members and the maintenance of positive communication in order to ensure the functionality of the community as a basic initiator. This will be an important prerequisite for the success of projects.
Local Conference
During a specified period, a two-day local conference will be held that will include a minimum of 30 participants. The conference will bring together the Wikimedians and the Wikipedians who are part of the Wikimedia community of Republika Srpska and those who are not, but have taken part in some activities and supported the work of the community.
The purpose of the conference is to motivate participants to work more actively and to give them a sense of belonging to the community. In addition, the idea is to create a quality program in which to make advanced lectures, in addition to getting familiar with Wikimedia projects, so that everyone can find the right sphere of interest and acquire relevant knowledge and skills that they later use to the community. It is of utmost importance to the community that as many of its members are adequately trained to work in the community, because, as the community is expanding, the scope of work becomes bigger and it is very difficult to achieve good results while several people do everything. (from macro and micro planning, through implementation to submission of reports). Also, on the margins of the conference, meetings would be organized with participants to discuss future projects and future engagement of the participants.
From 1 February to 30 April 2020
Goals:
- at least 1 local conference will be held in the designated period with at least 30 participants;
- promote Wikipedia and emphasize its importance;
- promote Wikimedia;
- encourage new volunteers for participation in Wikimedia mission promotion;
- Wikimedia and its projects promotion through conference participants’ introduction with guiding principles and most important achievements;
- popularization of Wikipedia and its opportunities by highlighting its multidisciplinary nature for the target audience;
- recruitment of new Wikipedia users and editors through the introduction to Wikipedia environment and article management;
- Wikimedia Commons popularization through group introduction to the project, its possibilities, and importance;
- target audience familiarization with CC licenses with the accent on their importance;
- Wikimedia community in Republic of Srpska capacity building through exchange of new ideas and shared activities on improvement and implementation of already planned project ideas in the Republic of Srpska;
- improvement of already existing Wikimedia community from Republic of Srpska members cooperation;
- improvement of already attained capacities of Wikimedia community of Republic of Srpska through a positive influence on the enthusiasm of current members;
- positive influence on the general public in the Republic of Srpska with the aim to create a healthy foundation for future projects in our region where Wikimedia and its projects will be recognized as positive and meaningful.
Measures of success:
- 30 participants;
- 20 media announcements;
- >5 new community members;
- 50-100 Facebook followers/page likes;
- at least 4 new collaborations between volunteers;
- Stronger community;
- >6 new users will become active members in next 3 months (active member is a member who will be active on some offline activities, who will leading online projects or will be an active editor on a Wiki project;
- 2 agreements on new projects.
Competitions - Meet Srpska
In order to strengthen the link within the community and to establish a viable connection with the users and editors of the Wikimedia projects, as well as to establish cooperation with potential new partners, a competition will be organized in which the Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons will be focused.
Project Meet Srpska involves editing workshop and competition in writing articles and a photo tour which would focus on collecting photographs of the Republic of Srpska. The project goal is increasing the number of articles on Wikipedia, and the increasing number of photos on Wikimedia Commons.
Meet Srpska is a project for the fourth time organized in the Republic of Srpska. The project has so far justified and exceeded our expectations and goals. During the last year’s competition international partners cooperated, so one part of articles have been translated into other languages - Greek and Arabic. The project Meet Srpska has been recognized as significant both by the local community and the Wikipedia community which always gladly participates.
From 1 October 2019 to 31 January 2020
Goals:
- increasing quality content on Wikipedia regarding different topics related with Republic of Srpska;
- increasing number of photos from Republic of Srpska;
- promotion of Wikimedia and its projects;
- gaining new users;
- gaining and inclusion of new community members;
- promotion of our community on the local level.
Measures of success:
- 10 new users;
- 3 new community members;
- 2 partners involved in activities (organizations or institutions);
- 200 articles will be written or improved;
- 200 photos;
- 15 media releases;
- 50 new followers on social networks;
- <40 participants.
Gender gap - Wiki Women
Following the successful launch of the first Gender Gap program in the Republic of Srpska, in order to further contribute to overcoming the gender gap within the Wikimedia projects and in general, within the community at the local level, the community will continue to expand and upgrade the Gender Gap program in Republika Srpska. In particular, the existing activities will be improved in terms of involving new editors in terms of covering a wider geographic area.
In the already established program, we will include editors from one more city - a regional center. The community will work on acquiring and establishing cooperation with local women's organizations. It will also help to create conditions for achieving a longer-term goal - forming the Wiki Women group within the Wikimedia Community of Republika Srpska.
From 1 March to 1 May 2020
Goals:
- formation of the third group of women editors in the Republic of Srpska;
- upgrade of Gender gap program in the Republic of Srpska;
- gaining new partners;
- enriching Wikipedia with content which is poorly represented on it;
- bridging the gender gap;
- expanding community - the inclusion of new female members in work;
- motivating of women to edit and work on Wikimedia projects;
- establishing cooperation with women organizations.
Measures of success:
- one project will contain 2 workshops;
- 1 one edit-a-thon;
- 1 photo-tour;
- at least 15 participants;
- 15 new female participants;
- 60 new articles;
- 200 photographs uploaded on Wikimedia Commons;
- 8 media announcements;
- at least 2 partner women organizations.
Public activities
The Community will work to spread the vision of an open knowledge through participation in various events, public lectures and participation in seminars in the function of the lecturer. In addition, as before, the community will continue the good practice and maintain regular communication with the media through the organization of press conferences, sending press releases and participation in radio and TV shows. This will contribute to attracting new partners and potential members of the community and promote Wikimedia goals and projects in general.
1 Jul 2019 to 1 May 2020
Goals:
- at least 2 public event;
- regular cooperation with media regular cooperation with media;
- promotion of open knowledge and mission and vision of Wikimedia;
- promotion of Wikimedia and its projects;
- gaining new partners;
- attracting new users.
Measures of success:
- 2 new partnerships;
- 100 media announcements.
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GLAM
Within the GLAM sphere, the Wikimedia Community of Republic of Srpska has, during the indicated period, implemented one complete project - Trace of Soul 2019 (WLE+WLM) and started the implementation of another project - the Wiki Ambassador at the National University Library of Republic of Srpska. At the time of writing the report the project is in its initial phase - joint activities and responsibilities are defined. A complete overview and results of this project will be available in the final report.
Trace of Soul - photo-contest
For the fifth time, the project Trace of Soul 2019 project has been traditionally implemented in Republika Srpska. It is a photo competition modeled on the Wiki Love Earth and Wiki Love Monuments competitions, which has so far collected and placed over 10.000 photos of protected natural and immovable cultural monuments of Republic of Srpska on Wikimedia Commons.
The project was implemented in the period from 1 July to 30 October 2019 and, as before, the results met the set goals. In addition to the accomplished tasks stemming from the aim of the project, one of the significant confirmations of the positive ranking of the project in the local community is the list of institutions and organizations that supported the project and were our partners, which belong to the category of institutions of great importance in the country. One of them is the Cultural Center Banski Dvor, where a ceremony of declaring the winners and the exhibition of the winning photographs was held.
The realization of the project Trace of Soul 2019 has been organized in several stages: preparatory, photo-competition, realization of the editing workshop, realization of photo-tours, exhibition of winning photographs and announcement of the winners.
- Preparatory phase
For our organization, this is one of the significant stages in the realization of both this and all other projects. We are proponents of the theory that good organization is half the work done. So it is in this case. The preparatory phase in the implementation of the project Trace of Soul 2019 included, in addition to making a "to-do list", a whole series of activities - online and live.
The preparatory phase lasted one month - in the period from July 1 to August 1, 2019, and within it, the following activities were realized:
- assignment of duties within the community
- contacting the institutions responsible for protecting the country's heritage
- updating the lists of protected natural and immovable cultural and historical monuments
- communication with partner institutions and defining common goals and objectives
- communication with jury members
- creating additional pages on the site
- campaign creation
- creating templates on Commons
- updating the site
- communication with the media
- monitoring the course of the competition and supporting the competitors
- preparing photo tours
- preparing editorial workshops
- preparation of the exhibition
- data processing and report
- Photo-competition
The photo competition that is the focal point of this project was realized in the period from 1 August to 30 September 2019 on Wikimedia Commons. For the competition 2047 photos of protected natural and immovable cultural and historical monuments of the Republic of Srpska has been uploaded. It is important to note that this year's competition has received a large number of photographs of lesser-known monuments, of which there is almost no information on the Internet. This number, according to our statistics, is about 30% of the total number of photos received. In addition to participants from Republic of Srpska, there is a noticeable increase in participants from neighboring countries - Serbia and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Photo-tours
One of our tasks as project organizers was to try to animate people from less developed areas and areas about which there is no information on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons to participate in the project and raise the visibility of the monuments located in their respective municipalities. About that, 3 photo tours were implemented, which aimed at promoting the project and collecting photographs of poorly represented and lesser known monuments of Republic of Srpska. Photo tours were held in the following municipalities: Bileća, Foča and Doboj. When selecting cities, we took care about territorial diversity. Photo tours were realized in cooperation with local partners - Tourist organizations of the mentioned cities. In addition to Tourist Organizations, we have partnered with local photo clubs to ensure that the collected photos are of the best quality. Within the photo tours, a total of 570 photographs were collected, of which 358 are photographs of monuments of exceptional value to us because the photographs has not been available to the public so far. Photo tours were attended by 34 photographers.
In addition to local tourist organizations and photo clubs, the Tourist Organization of the Republic Srpska has given full support to the project.
- Editing workshop
In addition to photo tours, another follow-up activity was an editing workshop aimed at creating content on an sr. Wikipedia about the monuments of the Republic of Srpska. The editing workshop has been realized in cooperation with the Secondary School Center "Ivo Andrić" in Visegrad and at the same time represents an activity whose goals are correlated with our Edu program. Within the workshop, 10 new articles have been created and 19 articles have been supplemented. During the workshop, the students were introduced to the basics of editing Wikipedia and the environment of Wikimedia Commons. It is also important to note that the workshop was held as part of the celebration of Children's Week.
- Photo Exhibition
An expert jury of eminent experts in the field of photography selected the 20 most beautiful photographs from two categories: the category natural and the category of immovable-cultural and historical monuments, which were presented to the public at a special exhibition that was also the finale of this project. The ceremony of announcing the winners and the exhibition of the winning photographs was held on October 26 at the Gallery of the Cultural Center Banski Dvor in Banja Luka. On that occasion, the winners of the competition were announced, and photos of the participants who entered the top 20 from both categories were presented at the exhibition. This year Dis Youth Theater from Banja Luka provided support for the event and again gave its best actors who were program managers.
At the request of the Cultural Center Banski Dvor, photos remained in the gallery and were exposed for 2 weeks.
- Top 10: Cultural heritage
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- Top 10: Natural heritage
- Partners:
- Tourist Organization of Republika Srpska
- Tourist Organization of Foca
- Tourist Organization of Bileća
- Tourist Organization of Doboj
- Photo cinema club Trebinje
- Serbian Educational and Cultural Society "Prosvjeta" OO Visegrad
- Association of Serbs in BiH
- Association of Citizens "Culture for Culture", Banja Luka
- Banski Dvor Cultural Center - Banja Luka
- Dis Youth Theater Banja Luka.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trace of Soul photo-contests | 2000 photos | 102.35% |
Within the contest, 2.047 photographs of natural and immovable cultural and historical sights were uploaded. |
| 80 participants | 100% |
There were 80 participants in the competition and the accompanying project activities. | |
| <10% photos will be used in Wikipedia in first 7 weeks after the competition | 100% |
In total, at the time this report was made, 272 photographs have been used from the competition, which is 13.29%. | |
| 20 media coverage | 130.00% |
26 publications in the media. | |
| 30 new articles will be written or Improved | 120.00% |
36 articles were written in total (29 articles written in the editing workshop and 6 for the purposes of making QR codes used during photo exhibition). |
Community activities
Competition - Meet Srpska
Meet Srpska is a project primarily designed to strengthen relations with the Wikipedia community. It is a project that has become recognizable and very important to us because of the many goals we achieve within its realization. This is a project that focuses on competition in writing articles about the Republic of Srpska on sr. Wikipedia.
It is a project aimed at enriching Wikipedia with content related to the Republic of Srpska through a competition in writing articles on Wikipedia that is a central part of this project, as well as related activities - a photo tour and edit-a-thon. In addition, this year the project has been significantly improved by including international partners in the implementation. The partnerships have been agreed with the following wikis: Wikimedia Community User Group Greece, Wikimedia Levant, GLAM Macedonia User Group, Wikimedia Russia and Don Wikimedians User Group. Partner organizations in their own countries, on their Wikipedia, organize various activities whose topic is the Republic of Srpska online and offline.
During the indicated period, a part of the project activities was implemented, which lasts until 31 January 2020. The following is an individual description of the activities implemented.
- Competition
In the period from November 20 to December 20, 2019, a competition in writing articles about the Republic of Srpska was held on Serbian Wikipedia. The competition was organized in such a way that all Wikimedia and Wikipedia standards were complied with: work pages were created, rules and recommendations were defined, article templates were set up, special templates and needed categories were created, ect. In addition to the Wikipedia pages, the promotion of the project is guided through our social media sites and pages as well as through communication with the media. 13 editors took part in the competition. A total of 156 have been written and 25 articles have been improved. Almost 40% of the total number of articles are articles for which it is very difficult to find literature, such as some churches and lesser-known cultural and historical monuments. A jury of three experienced, senior Wikipedia editors has rated the articles and selected the winners of the competition - three editors with the highest points. The winners were awarded symbolic merchandise awards.
- Edit-a-thon
An accompanying activity within the project was an edit-a-thon held in cooperation with the "Vuk Karadžic" Elementary School in Višegrad at the It office of this school. This activity was also correlated with the goals and objectives of our educational program. As part of the workshop, students in older classes have been trained to work on Wikipedia through the creation of new articles related to the Republic of Srpska. When organizing the workshop, we took care of the choice of topics, which had to be correlated with the curriculum of individual school subjects, such as language, informatics, history, geography and religion. 13 students took part in the workshop. In total, 13 new articles were created on topics that are underrepresented and difficult to find in literature.
- International activities and partnerships
In order to improve its work and learn more, our organization strives to co-operate with as many Wikimedia branches or user groups as possible. This time, to enrich the project, we have partnered with several Wiki organizations: Wikimedia Community User Group Greece, Wikimedia Levant, GLAM Macedonia User Group, Wikimedia Russia and Don Wikimedians User Group. Some of the activities related to content creation about the Republic of Srpska have been completed, and some of these activities will be implemented in January 2020.
GLAM Macedonia User Group held an editorial workshop with their members and students. On this occasion, 14 new articles were created about the Republic of Srpska on Macedonian Wikipedia. Wikimedia Community User Group Greece has organized a competition in writing articles about the Republika Srpska on Wikipedia. The competition was completed at the time of writing, but the results have not yet been processed. A complete statistical review follows in the annual final report. The Wikimedia Levant will, like the Macedonian editors, organize an editorial workshop at the Faculty of Medicine in Jordan, and Thematic Week of European Regions will be organized on Russian Wikipedia, with the Republic of Srpska as one of its topics. For the purpose of the mentioned activity, a special page with articles that do not exist on Russian Wikipedia was created.
- Local Partners:
- Elementary school "Vuk Karadžic" Višegrad
- Višegrad City Gallery - Višegrad Photo Club
- Serbian Educational and Cultural Society "Prosvjeta" - OO Višegrad
- Rogatica Youth Council
- Serbs in BiH portal
- Association of Citizens "Culture for Culture", Banja Luka.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competition - Meet Srpska | 10 new users | 130.00% |
13 new accounts. |
| 3 new community members | 100% |
3 new members joined the work of the community. | |
| 2 partners involved in activities (organizations or institutions) | 100% |
11 partners involved in activities. | |
| 200 articles will be written or improved | 104.00% |
208 articles created and improved. | |
| 200 photos | 4.50% |
9 photographs were uploaded. | |
| 15 media releases | 106.67% |
Total of 16 media posts. | |
| 50 new followers on social networks | 66.00% |
33 new followers on social networks. | |
| <40 participants | 100% |
A total of 40 participants took part in activities. |
Participation in public events
- International Literacy Day
The Wikimedia community of Republic of Srpska participated in the celebration of International Literacy Day on September 8, 2019, in Višegrad, organized by the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society of the Prosperity of OO Višegrad and the Drama Studio in Višegrad. On this occasion, our Community held a lecture and presentation presenting Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia program to students, actors and representatives of public life.
- Participation in international events
The community strives to participate in international events to aim to strengthen partnerships with the Wikimedia chapter and to acquire new knowledge and skills. During 2019 our organization participated in three international conferences: Wikimedia Summit 2019 in Berlin, Wikimania 2019 - Stockholm, CEE meeting in Belgrade. Our representatives sought to take an active part in the organized activities and to follow as many lectures and training as possible. Within the framework of Wikimania our representative attended pre-conference days - Learning days where he underwent training to improve the work of organizers and leaders.
- Media and reporting
During the designated period, during the implementation of the projects, the community regularly reported to the public on its activities through communication with the media, through its site, the blog, mailing lists and social networks (Facebook, Twiter, Instagram)). During this period, community activities were promoted through 42 media releases (electronic and print media, radio and TV shows). Each activity has attracted great public and media attention.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public activities | participation in at least 2 public event | 50% |
Part in the event - International Literacy Day. |
| 100 media announcements. | 42.00% |
During the indicated period related to the implementation of activities approved by the APG grant, the community had 42 appearances in the media. |
Meetings
In addition to the regular online meetings held during the micro-planning and project implementation, 3 local live meetings were held. Meetings were held in three cities in Republic of Srpska with local Wikimedia and Wikipedia members which are active members of the community. The topics of the meetings were focused on plans for the improvement of community work, the exchange of ideas related to new projects and their implementation.
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- 4.823,00 EUR (5,361.28 USD), detailed expenses here - Spending report by December 31, 2019.
- The weighted average exchange rate for the period 1 July - 31 December, 2019 was used.
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Cooperation with the National and University Library of Republika Srpska
During the indicated period our community was realized the project Wiki Ambassador in the National and University Library of Republika Srpska. On that occasion, 574 pages of historical content were digitized and placed on the Wikimedia repository within 7 catalogs that were published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. In addition, an agreement was reached to continue cooperation with this very important GLAM institution.
Learning story edit
We archive all our activities on our site, blog, on the special page on Serbian Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
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GLAM program
Wiki Ambassador in the National and University Library of Republika Srpska
In the period from February 10 to April 30, 2020*, in cooperation with the National and University Library of Republika Srpska, the project Wiki Ambassador in the National and University Library of Republika Srpska was realized, which is part of the GLAM wiki program in Republika Srpska. The Wiki Ambassador delegated by the Wikimedia Community of Republika Srpska spent five working days in the National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska and in cooperation with employees who were collaborators on the project worked on the digitization of catalogs - historical catalogs of great importance for the Banja Luka region and the entire region of Republic of Srpska. On that occasion, 574 pages of historical content were digitized and placed on the Wikimedia repository within 7 catalogs that were published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. In addition, our volunteer presented the GLAM program to the employees of the institution and during his stay in this institution, in addition to digitizing the content, he worked on training employees to use and work on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
- Catalogs:
- House of books without address - Library and Earthquake
- On the parchment of the soul - poetry, and frescoes by Svetislav Mandić
- On the foundations of the Serbian reading room
- The form of the unspeakable - the work and legacy of Slobodan Dragaš
- Echoes
- Petar Kocic
- Sopron seal - catalog.
In addition to the above, special pages and categories have been created on the Wikimedia Commons intended for cooperation with the National and University Library of Republika Srpska - the most important institution of its kind in the country, with which an agreement on further cooperation has been reached.
*Note: After March 10, 2020, the mentioned activities were realized online due to the declaration of a state of emergency and a coronavirus pandemic.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Ambassador in the National and University Library of Republika Srpska | 5 working visits | 100% |
5 working visits has been realized. |
| 1 new very important GLAM institutions involved in cooperation | 100% |
Cooperation with the most important library in the country. | |
| 3 free books on the Wikimedia project (~ 300 pages); | 100% |
7 books uploaded (574 pages). | |
| 10 participants | 100% |
10 participants it took part. | |
| 5 media announcements | 100% |
5 media announcements. |
The second part of the project - cooperation with the Tourist Organization of Visegrad - was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community activities
Meet Srpska 2019 - Photo tour
The photo tour planned by the project Meet Srpska 2019 has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the declaration of a state of emergency in the country. Instead, we adapted the planned activities to the situation. Through a public call, we have invited those interested to upload photos of the sights of Republika Srpska to Wikimedia Commons. In addition, an agreement was reached on cooperation with the Tourist Organization of the municipality of Rogatica and Tourist Organization of the city of Doboj, which in cooperation with the photo club Doboj uploaded photos of different parts of the Republic of Srpska, which are available on Wikimedia Commons. A total of 155 photos were posted.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competition - Meet Srpska | 10 new users | 130.00% |
13 new accounts. |
| 3 new community members | 100% |
3 new members joined the work of the community. | |
| 2 partners involved in activities (organizations or institutions) | 100% |
11 partners involved in activities. | |
| 200 articles will be written or improved | 104.00% |
208 articles created and improved. | |
| 200 photos | 82.00% |
164 photographs were uploaded. | |
| 15 media releases | 106.67% |
Total of 16 media posts. | |
| 50 new followers on social networks | 100% |
50 new followers on social networks. | |
| <40 participants | 100% |
A total of 40 participants took part in activities. |
Competitions on Wikipedia
After the declaration of a state of emergency in the country and the COVID-19 pandemic, the community, in cooperation with volunteers, revised the work plan in order to maintain continuity in work and avoid stagnation. In agreement with the WMF, a redistribution plan was made and approved. Competitions on Serbian Wikipedia are part of a new, revised plan.
In the period from 22.4 to 30.6.2020, five competitions in writing and supplementing articles were held on the Serbian Wikipedia, organized by the Wikimedia community of the Republic of Srpska. The competitions were organized after the approval of the request for redistribution of funds due to the declaration of an emergency situation caused by the coronavirus. The community tried to maintain continuity in its work, so all the planned activities were adjusted to the situation and as such realized online.
In an effort to attract as many editors as possible to participate in the competitions, we tried to diversify the thematic frameworks, which had a positive impact on the editors of Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. The realized competitions were focused on the following: Biographies of famous women, Living world of waters, Cities of the world, Theater and Sports. A total of 494 new ones were written, 74 supplemented by 77 participants.
The competitions were well received by the Wikipedian community, which showed a willingness to respond to new challenges and continue working.
Action - DID YOU KNOW?
After declaring a global pandemic and the impossibility to implement the planned activities live, the Community tried to adapt its activities to the situation and adapt all activities to another format - online work. In addition to the realized competitions and activities on Wikipedia, we focused on the promotion of free knowledge through our social networks. An action was organized under the symbolic name - "Did you know ...?" within which we shared various interesting things in the form of posters with the public on social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) every day for a month, noting that the complete content on this topic is available on Wikipedia - on the given link that we also shared with posters. The range of topics was different - from medicine to astronomy. Thanks to this action, the followers were able to read various interesting things - when and how the first blood transfusion was performed, what Leonardo da Vinci was known for, what a termination shock is, and the like. The action was well-received by the target group. According to our statistics, the number of views of selected pages on the Serbian Wikipedia was increased, as well as the interaction with followers on social networks.
Meetings
During the designated period, 2 live meetings were held with community members. In addition, 21 online meetings were held dedicated to the organization of program activities and the definition of the next strategy and annual work plan.
Spending update edit
- BA-SRP - Financial report.
- Total Spent: EUR 13.240,00 ($15.624,54).
Grant Metrics Reporting edit
Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.