Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Pride in Sport @EuroGames Vienna 2024 (ID: 22458457)

support

As one of co-organizers of Wiki Loves Pride (in Sport) at Bern EuroGames and Pride I am supportive of EuroGames 2024 Vienna in taking the active role in supporting continuity of this campaign and effort in managing the resources needed to make it advance and scale up in 2024. -- Zblace (talk) 15:28, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Program Officer's Questions

Dear Gerhard,

Thank you for your interest and application to the WMF's rapid fund. I have the following questions concerning your application:

1. The provided metrics seems very moderate, what does previous experience suggest is possible to achieve during this activity in terms of contributions? Would it be possible to set higher targets? 2. Budget: can you please clarify what is included in editors' costs, as paid editing is not eligible as a cost category. 3. Budget: can you please clarify whose travel and accommodation costs are included in those budget lines, and where do you plan to acquire those? 4. How would your plans change in case you received partial funding?

Thank you very much for the clarifications! Have a nice day, Agnes ABruszik-WMF (talk) 14:33, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Dear @ABruszik-WMF as I am person who provided targets (and experience from 2023 experiment) I would say it is modest but not too much considering that this is niche context intersecting sport and LGBT+ themes where very very few people are engaged with and informed. Please be mindful that LGBT+ contributors are often stressed and burdened in their work, prone to burnouts and their work is often surpressed. Our targets can go a bit higher especially with commons uploads (photo, audio and video), but considering all of the above I would personally not advise to do much more in non-routine work. This is the first time WMF is funnding it and considering the fact that host organization has taken an active role in managing it - it should not be compared to routine contributing my experienced Wikimedians and on mainstream (often overrepresented) subjects. If you could help us identify what is the visibility in Wikimedia (HU, EN, DE…) of EuroGames 2012 held in Budapest as first and only in former socialist block - that would maybe also give you more insights if how hard is still to cover these huge but under mediated / documented LGBT+ events. Our primary goal is to create know-how and empower diverse individuals interested in this, not just have usual suspects from Wikipedia who cover everything mainstream. Thank you! Zblace (talk) 11:37, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Dear @ABruszik-WMF

2. Budget: The editors' costs include travel, per-diem accomodation and/or food scholarship (depending on need). They do not include fees for the editors. However, we would like to award the best contributors with symbolic amounts.

3. Budget for travel and accommodation: We have not fixed yet who and how many persons will geit their costs paid. But we are likely to follow the model from 2023 and support the protocol similar to Wikimedia Switzerland.

4. Changes in case of partial funding: Our focus lies on delivering a huge event with a small team. If we do not have external support from the experienced LGBT+ Wikimedians and people who can do this work in other languages, it will just not happen as even smaller activity. Gerhard Marchl (talk) 20:31, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Just to add - this was the protocol and regulation we followed in 2023 with WMCH https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Policies/General_Reimbursement -- Zblace (talk) 12:13, 9 February 2024 (UTC)