Grants talk:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO Wikimedian in Residence/Report

Hi John Cummings. Thank you for this detailed report as well as the additional documentation you sent us. Your project is incredibly broad in scope and we won't comment on all the detailed aspects in this discussion, especially since you also have a more recent grant report which should provide updated information on the project. We would however like to recognize a few key accomplishments of this work and have a couple of questions:

1. Partnering with such a large, complex, and influential organization takes time and commitment to understand their processes and navigate their bureaucracy. We understand that a large part of the project was establishing relationships and understanding how UNESCO operates. We appreciate your dedication to undertaking an ambitious project with such a large organization.
2. Documentation is the foundation for a project like this and most of it was missing. We realize you had to spend the majority of your time creating key, clear, and accessible documentation to even begin some of the core work you set out to do. We consider the documentation created a huge outcome of the project that will have an impact over the long-term. The diversity of documentation is very impressive! We checked the updated page views for a few of the key pages -- the Wikiproject:United Nations has had 7,466 views and the Commons:Flikr2Commons page has had 45,018!
3. One of the key goals discussed during the renewal process was to focus on "dissemination and promotion of the documentation created as widely as possible with the aim of moving further towards making open licensing the standard for scientific, cultural and educational organizations and engagement with Wikimedia common practice." The page views of the documentation is one way to see how much people are using the resources. However, the report only mentions utilizing UNESCO's 2 million Twitter followers to promote Wiki Loves Monuments. Can you share other ways you are promoting the work, especially the documentation since that was the main focus of this first grant? Obviously, we believe the documentation to be incredibly useful and want to make sure both Wikimedians and potential partner organizations are aware of them.
4. Please send us expense documentation for the camera/lens and then we can accept the report.

Thank you again for all of your efforts! Cheers, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 00:48, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much @AWang (WMF):

To answer the question about dissemination, I started by sharing it on the Wikipedia and Commons village pump and Facebook groups like Wikipedia Weekly and GLAMwiki Global and making sure they're was linked to from other documentation pages, later on in the project when we started to do more work with Wikidata we shared info on the Wikidata weekly newsletter which has a healthy readership.

One thing I'm still very much aware of that hasn't been done is proper outline case study, I've managed to capture some of it in WikiProject:United_Nations but I've got a draft of something that would be suitable for the Wikimedia blog, I'm waiting for a few more things to happen before its ready but hopefully by March next year it will be published.

Thanks again

John Cummings (talk) 21:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)