Grants:TPS/Build/Design

Opportunities provided by TPS

• Travel funding provides opportunities to deeply connect participants to the movement and each other.
• Participation Support demonstrates an opportunity to reach a range of new Wikimedia grantees, including women and participants in the Global South.

Recommendations

• The volume of requests and grants made in this program must be increased in order to fully realize its potential; the scale of use is too small with the current scope and setup.
• Program pages should be redesigned for ease-of-use and to generate joy.
• Simpler application methods should be investigated in order to keep the process open to a range of applicants.

SCOPE OF WORK for Travel and Participation Support Grants

TPS should fit into overall concepts of the look and feel of grants pages, be informative and inviting, & explain the purpose and intention of Wikimedia grantmaking. timing approximation in green

Initial

• Review current TPS on-wiki process Grants:TPS
• Compare with analysis of the existing program Grants:TPS/Analysis
• Review redesign sprint plan Grants:TPS/Build/Spring_2014_sprint
• Create a research, design and build schedule

one week

Design document

Create a design document that outlines the requirements of the TPS process

• Determine who will use it (read + talk with Siko)
• Determine priorities of each user
• Outline required pages and forms

• Main landing
• Application workflow (eligibility, application form, etc)
• Surface applications in various statuses (open, funded, past, etc)
• Surface reports (requirements, reports in various statuses, etc)

two weeks with one week of revision

Design development

• Create mockups/wireframes, develop colors in line with grants programs, come up w/ a logo/theme/mascot

two weeks with one week of revision

Build

• Build pages and forms and process templates

three weeks with one week of revision

Test

• Make necessary revisions

one week with revisions

• Increase the joy of Wikimedians