Grants talk:PEG/WM CL/2015 Projects and Activities

A decision has been made on this grant. Comments are still welcome on this page.

GAC members who support this request

1. Support. See my comments about reserve and cost reduction on t-shirts. I think you should consider these regardless of my support. Alleycat80 (talk) 06:42, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
2. -Violetova (talk) 13:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
3. --Ilario (talk) 21:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
4. --Hasive • talk • 07:05, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
5. --DerekvG (talk) 13:20, 16 March 2015 (UTC) I will support this submission

GAC comments

general assembly

Hi! Could you, please, provide some more details about general assembly? You asked for 8 nights and 8 tickets - so, I guess 8 members will be on the meeting for 1 day. And what is 5 gathering events? Probably, my English is not so good but I don't understand the meaning of this line... rubin16 (talk) 16:52, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi! The General Assembly is the main meeting of Wikimedia Chile, and it has to be held -according to our bylaws- in April of each year. Wikimedia Chile has 28 members, the request for 8 tickets and nights is to facilitate the attendance for people that does not live in Santiago, were the meeting is organized.--3BRBS (talk) 12:50, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Is not you English, I'll expand the comments to make it more clear. The gatherings refer to purchasing snacks for the General Assembly and Board Meetings. By our bylaws, one Board Meeting needs to be held at least once every three months, this is at least four in a regular year, and one of this meeting need to be public, meaning that it is open for attendance. Thanks for your questions.--3BRBS (talk) 13:03, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Eduardo, My first question is about contest, i.e. prizes. You asked only for 1st and 2nd prize. Usually there is one, three five etc. prizes, so I am confused with two of them. The second question is about speeches by Salvador Allende costs: what does it mean allowances for 4 days, and what are the shipping cost for? Regards, -Violetova (talk) 15:39, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Violetova. Thanks for your comments :) About the prizes, we did this before (having two prizes). Having two prizes keeps the budget tight, but at the same time, encourages the participants enough to keep going if someone looks too ahead in the contest. About the Speeches of Salvador Allende, the allowance includes transportation (on public transport) back and forth to the Salvador Allende Fountation, and a meal, for four days (once a week), which is the time estimated to be spent by the Wikimedian in Residence.--3BRBS (talk) 22:14, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but I forgot to clarify the shipping. In the last execution of the project, along with the FSA, we decided to recognize the most active volunteers in the project, and one happen to be from Perú (for example). This item, covers shippings like this one.--3BRBS (talk) 02:26, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Eduardo, this is seems to me like a great proposal in terms of programs and value for funding. I'd like to highlight two things - one big, one small:

• (Big ->) Reserves: I think you should consider your reserves policy. I noticed there's about 20,000+ US$ moving from 2014 to 2015. I think you should consider dropping off the 10% reserves, if this is what remains from last year. Having more than 40% left off from 2014 means underspending or overestimating, and until you figure out why this is, I think that having reserves is unnecessary. Going quickly over your budget from last year, I think you are overestimating in your budget items, and having reserves as well means asking for more funds that you need, and that is undesirable for you (I don't know about implications for WMF, because the money stays unused) - I'd like to see you asking for budget X and then use 95% of X. I hope that's clear.

• (Small ->) Cost of shirts: I went over your budget a few times, compared it from costs in my own country (I know, I know, different sets of currency, different context). I'm fixed on the cost of shirts, because it's >6.6% of your total yearly budget. There are other budget items like this, but they are usually tied to a program. I see you decided you are going to need double the amount of shirts, which cost 15% more. (BTW, this cost was overestimated in 2014 as well). Why is that? I saw that you think that t-shirts are great as outreach tools. While I agree - does this mean you're going to double your volunteers? If so, the cost is justifiable. If not, they have t-shirts from last year - why do they need more, and double? I support frugality in places that expenses are not necessary. This is such a place. I'd encourage you to drop 3% off your budget and print out the same amount (or lower) of shirts as in 2014. I know this sounds petty, maybe it is, but I encourage my local chapter to save $$ wherever and whenever possible, so I'm advising you the same :) Alleycat80 (talk) 06:16, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree here Alleycat, some costs did struck me as high in your proposal. Please check the cost of the T-shirts, coffee breaks and reception (more expensive than the venue rental!), internet hosting, and "Institutional Phone Plan 2015", and if correct please provide some background information so we can understand the reason for the high cost MADe (talk) 20:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

@Alleycat80: Hi and thanks for you comments, first the big. Your comment is clear. I will discuse it with the Board and bring a proposal as soon as I can. Second the small, we conceive the t-shirts to be an add-on for activities, so even though they are not directly tied to a specific event, they are tied to all the events as well, such as edit-a-thons, workshops, and wiki takes, also they serve as a good prize in case a wikicontest becomes really successful. I believe we could tighten the price down to $5,700 and reduce the quantity by 50 units. Does this sound ok?--3BRBS (talk) 04:19, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

@MADe: Hi and thanks also! About the t-shirts, I provided some details in my answer to @Alleycat80. I'll refer to the coffee break and reception. The National Library of Chile only allows to hire for this services the company that runs the coffee shop inside the Library itself. This prices are the lowest quoting for each of the options provided (we asked for a quotation). About the other two points, I will replay as soon as possible.--3BRBS (talk) 04:31, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

@Alleycat80 2.0: Hi again :) As stated in the interim report, we already forseeing that we were not going to be able to execute some activities due to a delay in the reception of the funds in the first place, so more than underspending or overestimating, we consider that the difference ought more to be consider as a defer in funds. On the other hand, we do know that having reserves is necessary due to the volatility of the exchange rate of the dollar and other price changes. We can reasonably expect an inflation to be around 5%, and therefore and increase in prices in the same range. Despiste your analisis, we think that we cannot drop this line, and that the line cannot be lower than a 5% of the total.--3BRBS (talk) 03:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

@MADe 2.0: Completing my prior comment, the internet hosting was chosen as the best option, after an analisis, by one of our board members, that happen to be an computer engineer, considering compatibility of the database, traffic, usability, capacity, etc. We also are hosting a tool that serves the wikimedia community at large, the cost is to keep the server for a year. The context for the Institutional Phone Plan 2015: It consists of two top-up loads: one for the president and one for the GLAM coordinator, since it is necessary to coordinate many actions, and the vast majority of our counterparts does function on a landline(cell phone basis, therefore, many phone minutes are needed to make things work.--3BRBS (talk) 05:40, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Comments by Spiritia

Hello. First, congratulations for this, in my belief, generally well done plan, despite the Alleycat80's (reasonable) comments above for the reserves from last year, and my own comments below.

1. I was puzzled though with Item 5.7.4. "Simultaneous Translation". The Wikimedia Chile Conference 2015 event takes place for 4 days. How comes that the simultaneous translation is needed for 1 HOUR only out of these four days, and is its price really USD 820, as written? What does this price include?
2. To me, Item 5.7.5 "Brochure and Programme" (USD 197 / 400 pieces), Items 1.1--1.5 "Office supplies" and Item 1.14 "Institutional Phone Plan 2015" seem overpriced, but of course this may really be the case in your country compared to mine.
3. All items related to travel costs, travel allowances, allowances for the Wikimedians in residence seem reasonably priced to me.
4. I also would like to comment on Item 5.4.9 "Institutional booklets (year 2013)" which is planned to cost as much as Item 5.4.10 "Institutional booklets (year 2014)" -- 100 pieces each, each costing USD 984. I believe that while it's good to massively promote your recent achievements from year 2014, you may save some money (and trees!) by not printing that much of the 2013 booklet, but upload it under a free license online and link to it in your 2014 booklet. After all, time passes and the information from two years ago progressively goes out of date.
5. What exactly is included in Item 5.7.2 "Reception"?
6. Item 5.8.1 "DSRL Nikon 5200 + Lens": Is this camera going to enter a shared technological pool of Wikimedia Chile, or is planned to become one person's property? Item 5.8.3 "Photography Workshop": How many people are going to benefit from this workshop, please details? Item 5.8.4 "Shipping costs (National certified mail)". What is supposed to be shipped by mail? The note "Target: 32 third division football teams" didn't seem enough informative, at least for me. The same with Item 5.9.3 "Shipping cost (Packages)" for the Wiki contests.

Hope I was helpful. →Spiritia 11:41, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Spiritia, and thanks for your comments.

1. Yes, the simultaneous translation would only be needed for one keynoter, that will speak in one presentation, for one hour. The conference is Spanish based, and our guest speaks English. The following logisitcal setup is needed to relay the English translation to an audience of 135 people (using headphones). The price includes: 1 Simultaneous interpreter, 1 translation space/box + console, 1 transmisor, 135 receptors and earphones, 2 assistants for handing the receptors, 1 audio technician operator, and mounting, installation and retirement of the equipments (this is the most inexpensive quote for a simultaneous translation by the way).
2. Chile is a relativitely expensive country. Please check out this interesting read, provided as a reference if you want to know more about it: Why has chile become so expensive if inflation is under control? - Puente Sur Outsourcing
3. Thanks for your support on this ;)
4. We always upload our Institutional Booklets onto Wikimedia Commons under a free license. We also know that uploading it, does not replace the fact (and also the positive effect) of being able to show and hand out a summary of your activities in live in meetings, activities and events. The prices per unit are estimated on previous quotatons and actual invoices. Printing in Chile is expensive, and this has been explained before (on our prior grant request discussion you can check more). I would like to thank you, because you made me realize that, we would need to update the price for this line item. In 2013 when we requested an estimate for 50 copies of 9 "cuartillas" (36 pages) it was CLP $666,400 (about USD 1,092), but we printed a 24 page booklet in the end, and now, the 2013 Institutional Booklet has 36 pages, therefore we were underestimating this line item. With a compound inflation of 5% per year, the actual price would be around CLP $734.706 for 50 copies (about USD 1,200), we can reduce the amount to 50, but sadly, we will need to increase the price :/
5. The item Reception includes: Beverages, refreshments and finger food for 135 people.
6. Indeed, the camera will enter a shared technological pool of Wikimedia Chile, and will never become become one person's property. Since none of us are expert photographers, one of our volunteer will benefit from this course, to be able to take advantage from the technical capabilities of the camera. The certified mail is to send a formal letter to "32 third division football teams" in Chile, from which we hope, as a pilot project, acquire access to at least two of them. The goal is to acquire a minimum of 100 images per club that grant us access, and therefore, a minimum of 200 images would be expected. The shipping cost for the Wiki contests, covers the costs for sending the prizes to the winners.

You were indeed, and thanks a lot!--3BRBS (talk) 05:37, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

WMF comments

Thank you for this grant request, and for all the thought you have put into planning your activities for the rest of 2015. After reading your 2013-14 report, we were impressed with how you are growing your activities. We are very pleased to learn from your description of your resources that your organization is performing strongly, and is in a good place to do more program work. At the same time, this 2015 request indicates a significant increase in activities and increase in your program budget (considering this grant is for a nine-month period, compared with a much longer period for your previous grant). We know you have expressed concern around volunteer burnout in your most recent grant report. In line with this, we want to hear more from you about how you will support this significant increase in activity without a significant increase in capacity in terms of numbers of volunteers or volunteer time. We are concerned that managing such a large number of programs may be a strain, and could detract from the focus you are building in your strongest program areas (e.g. online contests, GLAM partnerships).

We are excited about your work with online contests, including your continuation of the Wiki Tour contest and your experiment with the new Wikiepic of the Meals and Drinks of Chile Photo Contest! We also note here that the prizes for these contests are quite expensive, but appreciate that you are keeping the number of prizes for each contest to two prizes to keep the budget reasonable. We will want to begin to see strong results in terms of use of content on the Wikimedia projects, and quality of content, in order to justify continued support of expensive prizes for online competitions. We are glad you are looking at this area more deeply, and strategizing about how to get more content produced included in Wikipedia articles, for example, through contests aimed specifically at getting more content in use.

First, we have some questions about some parts of your budget that were not clear to us:

1. It seems like the cost of the donated venue for the conference is accounted for in your program expenses in the amount of 920,000 CLP and is listed as an additional revenue source in your total requested table, which we think makes sense (thanks for accounting for your in kind resources!); however, this would make the total requested for this grant 19,700,167 CLP rather than the 20,620,167 CLP listed at the top of your request, wouldn’t it? We might be misunderstanding, but please clarify this here or go ahead and change your total amount requested in your grant request.
2. Please list your total amount requested from WMF as 20,620,167 CLP(or 19,700,167 CLP, if that is the correct amount) in your “Total amount requested” table if that is the total amount you are requesting for this new grant. Amount remaining from your previous grant is not considered a separate revenue source, since this would be an amount returned to WMF anyway and having WMCL return it by deducting it from the first installment for this new grant (rather than asking WMCL to return it to WMF just so we can send it back to you) is just a matter of mechanics (and frugality, considering the costs of the transfers). We realize this is a minor point, but there should be clarity that the cost of your new grant is 20,620,167 CLP (or 19,700,167 CLP), and the cost of your old grant also corresponds to the amount you actually spent rather than the total amount approved.
3. We were a little confused about your budget for contests since you have line item for 4 contests, and also a separate category for the Wikiepic contest. What are the 4 contests included in that category? Are you doing 4 contests in addition to Wikiepic, or including Wikiepic?

To better focus your budget and proposal we would suggest a few changes:

1. Travel to WMCon is already covered, and meals are provided. Please cut the WMCon items for local transportation and incidental expenses from your budget.
2. Please cut your travel budget for Wikimania to include two representatives rather than three.
3. Please explain why you did not apply for a scholarship to attend GLAM Wiki, but are instead budgeting for it in this proposal. We do think it’s worthwhile for you to attend given the interesting work you are doing in this area, but would like some clarification about whether or not you did seek scholarships (and if not, why you didn’t).
4. The amount budgeted for printed materials is very high, and we have not seen printed materials demonstrate high potential for impact. We count $500 budgeted for programs and notebooks for the conference, $500 budgeted for syllabi for your university programs (working out to about $10 per syllabus!), and $2000 budgeted for printed materials for your outreach work. The total amount of printed materials should be reduced significantly.
5. We understand that outreach can be a motivating activity for volunteers and a good way for you to keep in touch with your local communities; at the same time, we have not seen general outreach work demonstrate significant impact in the past, and so we are very concerned with the large amount of funding budgeted for this work. We ask that you make some cuts to this part of the budget, and provide more justification for the amounts that you choose to include. We can see the value of some activities that you are organizing for existing editors (e.g. Wiki Force), but would like to see the direct benefits of these activities better articulated through your measures of success (e.g. through goals for number of active editors involved, increases in editing activity).
6. We do not see a strong case for the US$1,632 Trans-Andean edit-a-thon, since you are only expecting 10 articles. We see value in regional collaboration, but also need this work to be tied to some concrete results.

Beyond your budget, we had a few questions about specific aspects of your proposal:

1. You mentioned that you are initiating some work with interest groups to identify content gaps, which we found very interesting, but we did not find more information about that in your proposal. Do you have some more information about your plans in this area? Along these lines, for programs that are producing a relatively small but specific output, it would be good to better understand how you have identified these content gaps (specifically for the National Library collaboration, and the birth and death certificates project).
2. You have not listed any measures of success for your sports accreditation program. Would you please add some to the grant request, assuming this is just an unintentional omission?
3. Congratulations on getting space for the conference donated. That is a significant achievement. Would you please offer a little bit more context around how the Wikimedia Chile Conference 2015 relates to your organization’s goals? For example, is your focus on motivating volunteers? Do you have any plans to measure or evaluate these benefits?
4. Considering that you are asking for support for your operating budget, we would find an overall table summing up your goals for the year in total extremely helpful in understanding the benefits of this operating support.

Overall, while we appreciate the excellent work done in 2014 to grow your activity, we are initially concerned about this increase in budget and activities because of the implications that has for your group’s focus and capacity. We want to make sure there is clear context for your work in a few of these areas we’ve asked about and also suggest that you make some significant cuts and revisions to the budget in the areas we pointed out. Despite this, we want to emphasize that we are impressed with your work and excited about the momentum you are building, particularly around online contests, around your GLAM work, and around your potential to understand, document, and address content gaps that matter to your communities. We want to support you in growing that work, and focusing on these high potential areas.

We are open to continuing these discussions about your work, and look forward to learning from your responses. Please let us know if you would like to arrange a call to discuss any of the questions or concerns we have brought up here.

Thank you! Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 19:51, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Winifred. I'm Marco Correa, board member of WMCL and GLAM coordinator. I'm going to refer only to the GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference, and later Eduardo or Juan David will reply the rest of the comments. I applied for a scholarship to the GLAM Wiki 2015 conference on 20 February, and received an e-mail six days ago from Denise Jansen of WMNL asking me additional information for the scholarship. Best, --Warko (talk) 19:15, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Winifred, and thanks for your comments.

First, clarifying points:

1. We already modified the budget in line with your comments. Eventhough the costs form the donated venue were already substracted from the money requested, now it can be understood much clearly.
2. The four wikicontests are meant to generate content in Wikipedia and/or other sister projects, from media provided by other contests or activities (for example: Wikitour, WLM, Wikiepic, and the Accreditation Project). And also, one of the lessons we learned, is that a photograph contest should be linked to the creation of associated content. Therefore, we separated the contest that contributes directly with media (Wikiepic), from the wikicontests to create content in Wikipedia, to have them in similar groups (even though one of the wikicontest will be linked to content provided by Wikiepic).--3BRBS (talk) 06:53, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Second, focusing in budget and proposal

1. We understand, but we believe that the costs to get to and from the airports (probably wrongly named as "local transportation", since it does not represent transportation inside Berlin), is important to be kept in the budget. It is not minor to us, and otherwise, it will need to be covered by volunteers, since it is not included in any other grant support.
2. Ok, we will reduce the budget to two.
3. As stated below and in the grant, we did apply for a GLAM-Wiki scolarship.
4. I believe we could tighten up some line items, or even remove one or two, but at the same time, we believe a couple are necesary. Also, as stated above, printing costs in Chile are high. Let us think about it to bring a proposal.
5. We would like to say that outreach activities are important to us, to motivate our volunteers and to keep in touch with our local communities, but for far more also, since this are not the only outcomes they provide. Thanks to the outreach activities performed by Wikimedia Chile, we were able to: Meet a community member that served as a bridge to seek for support for the implementation of Wikipedia Zero in Chile, and also, come to an agreement with the National Library of Chile, which is the biggest partner we can locally have, as is the biggest repository of information that can be found in Chile -we believe that this two facts demonstrate significan impact-. We consider the prior direct benefits of this activities. Also, as an example, so far we have been relying for many activities on computers provided by two of our volunteers, unluckly, their computers failed, and thus makes it important for us, to have an institutional computer that can be provided for this activities. On the other hand, at a first glimpse, it seems irresponsible to incorporate measures of success that we cannot sufficiently measure (like increases on editing activity) or are beyond of our control (like a number in retention of editors). We could discuss a way to better articulate through our measures of success of direct benefits, but at the same time, we do not want to set up measures that are not realistic or, as stated before, we cannot sufficiently measure.
6. If you see value in regional collaboration this is the time to go for it. Chile is an extremely long country, and the closest city to Santiago, in another country, is Mendoza. Maybe it was really unfortunate to name the goal as "10 articles", which is certainly not the true goal we are aiming too. This number was though of more as a unit of collaboration than any other thing, which is directly related to the people we can bring to the event. If you could give us examples of some concrete results you might expect, that would sufficiently reflect the prior concept of unit collaboration, we would welcome them, so we can express better what we would intend to achieve.

Third, beyond your budget

1. I am sorry to say this, but I do not understand what you mean by 'gaps', since we only used that word for the possibility of the workshop paired with an edit-a-thon focused on the gender-gap. Could you please clarify this for me? :)
2. Unintentional omission. Added.
3. Thanks! Even tough we stated part of this in the grant request, I will try to enlarge the rationale a bit. The conference aims to show concrete examples of good practices and experiences, and its divided in four blocks: Agreements signature + State of the Wiki (Thu-evening); Open knowledge (Fri-morning); GLAM (Fri-evening) and Education (Sat.-morning). Each block/day will be targeted for different audiences: The first two blocks will have an open invitation to the broader community, including editors and other people related to the wiki culture; for GLAM, the National Library will formally invite the DIBAM, which is the government department that unites all the public libraries, archives and museums, and also we will invite the Guild of Librarians; and for Education block we have already invited several teachers, and we will request help from Enlaces, to seek in their network of teachers for participants. The conference will serve the purpose of motivating volunteers, and also as a spot to invite and meet new volunteers, to edit and create content in the Wikimedia projects, and/or to become part of Wikimedia Chile. It will also grant us the unique chance to create a database of between 135 and 540 people and institutions that have interest and relate to the wiki culuture (since they will be present at the conference). From this database, we would also like to create a short list of people and institutions that become more directly interested on implementing projects and activities. We would be satisfied if we can make agreements or implement concrete projects with 1 to 3 GLAM institutions, and 3 to 7 teachers or universities.
4. Thanks again, and yes, we would like to arrange a call.--3BRBS (talk) 08:54, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Update in the budget

Dear Alex and Winifred. We have updated the budget on the page of the grant, following our phone talk and recommendations given above by Winifred and GAC members. We hope they are in line with what we discussed. Eduardo will also update the page with additional information later. Regards. --Juan David Ruiz - Zuirdj 21:25, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Dear Alex, I already updated the grant page, adding a table of potencial participants of the projects and activities, and also updated the metrics for the Trans-Andean Edit-a-thon and the Wikimedia Chile Conference 2015, hoping to reflect better the goals of them.--3BRBS (talk) 06:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Notes upon approval

Thank you for making significant updates to the budget. We are excited to approve this grant request and to support Wikimedia Chile's efforts over the next year. We do have a couple of comments upon approval:

1. Trans-Andean editathon: We understand that the impact of an activity like this is not best measured by the number of people attending or the number of articles created. The most important part of regional collaboration is community building. We will be interested to know the impact of the event on the community, both the local Chilean community and the broader community including Wikimedians in Argentina. Some ideas to consider include, are experienced, new, or a mix of Chilean Wikimedians attending the event? Do they continue/increase their participation in offline events after the editathon? Does it have an impact on their online engagement? Are new ideas/projects discussed with Argentinian Wikimedians at the event and how many of those ideas come to life? We realize that community building takes time and sometimes its impact can only be seen or felt over many months or years. But we're looking forward to discussing with you how we assess/value regional cooperation activities like this.
2. Wikimedia Chile Conference: As we have discussed, WMF does not normally support more general outreach events. We are very supportive of national wiki conferences that bring together experienced Wikimedians to discuss issues related to offline and online cooperation and work. We have not seen much impact from general outreach activities. However, considering the potential partnerships and timing of this event, we are willing to fund the conference. We will be very interested to understand what concreted GLAM and WEP partnerships are developed as a result of this conference and what follow-up strategies for all the new contacts work well in continuing to engage participants. We will expect that the team will track these contacts and how they engage in future activities. In future, we would also expect more review time for a conference of this scale -- at least 3 months.

Looking forward to hearing how the conference and all your activities progress! Thanks for all your efforts in putting together this proposal and activities. Cheers, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 23:10, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Alex, thanks for this message and your comments.--3BRBS (talk) 01:33, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Request for an change to the report date

Dear Grants Administrator, we are requesting an extension of the project report date.

1. The new proposed completion date will be February 29, 2016.
2. As explained by email before the original completion date, on December 29, 2015, after our latest board meeting and consideration of the content due for the 2015 interim and end-of-grant reports, and with special consideration for some activities still in development, we feel compelled to apply for an extension of the completion date for this grant, due to the heavy year-end commitment on our team. As January and February are regionally considered as much slower than the rest of the year, it makes sense for us to include the activities and projects that will be completed in these months in our current report. These activities already appear in the grant request and are in different stages of advancement, with a few delays in their execution, pending to be finalized. This extension time for the projects involved will not require new funds, as they are already budgeted. Thank you and best regards. --Juan David Ruiz - Zuirdj 02:36, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Juan David, thank you for sending us an email requesting this extension 12/29. Your request for extension is approved, the grant period will now end on 2/29/2016. Best, --KHarold (WMF) (talk) 00:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)