Grants talk:Project/Brazal.dang/Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects as Open Educational Resource in the Bikol Region

Eligibility provisionally confirmed, Round 2 2021 - Research and Software proposal

This Project Grants proposal is under review!

We've provisionally confirmed your proposal is eligible for review in Round 2 2021 for Research and Software projects, contingent upon:

• confirmation that the project will not depend on staff from the Wikimedia Foundation for code review, integration or other technical support during or after the project, unless those staff are part of the Project Team.
• compliance with our COVID-19 guidelines.

Schedule delay

Please note that due to unexpected delays in the review process, committee scoring will take place from April 17 through May 2, instead of April 9-24, as originally planned.

• Please watch your talkpage, which will be the primary method of communication about your proposal. We appreciate your timely response to questions and comments posted there.
• Please refrain from making changes to your proposal during the scoring period, so that all committee members score the same version of your proposal.
• After the scoring period ends, you are welcome to make further changes to your proposal in response to committee comments.

COVID-19 planning for travel and/or offline events

Proposals that include travel and/or offline events must ensure that all of the following are true:

• You must review and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
• If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you must be able to complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
• You must be able to postpone any planned offline events or travel until the Wikimedia Foundation’s guidelines allow for them, without significant harm to the goals of your project.
• You must include a COVID-19 planning section in your activities plan. In this section, you should provide a brief summary of how your project plan will meet COVID-19 guidelines, and how it would impact your project if travel and offline events prove unfeasible throughout the entire life of your project.

Community engagement

We encourage you to make sure that stakeholders, volunteers, and/or communities impacted by your proposed project are aware of your proposal and invite them to give feedback on your talkpage. This is a great way to make sure that you are meeting the needs of the people you plan to work with and it can help you improve your project.

• If you are applying for funds in a region where there is a Wikimedia Affiliate working, we encourage you to let them know about your project, too.
• If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate applying for a Project Grant: A special reminder that our guidelines and criteria require you to announce your Project Grant requests on your official user group page on Meta and a local language forum that is recognized by your group, to allow adequate space for objections and support to be voiced).

We look forward to engaging with you in this Round!

Questions? Contact us at projectgrants wikimedia  · org.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:38, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects as Open Educational Resource in the Bikol Region

Scoring rubric	Score
(A) Impact potential Does it have the potential to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects, either in terms of content, contributors, or both? Does it have the potential for online impact? Can it be sustained, scaled, or adapted elsewhere after the grant ends?	5.3
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	4.7
(C) Ability to execute Can the scope be accomplished in the proposed timeframe? Is the budget realistic/efficient ? Do the participants have the necessary skills/experience?	7.0
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	4.7
Additional comments from the Committee: in line with goal of reaching population not covered by technologies and wikimedia but I don't think it is scalable/sustainable. It is too localised and probably will be too specific to get insights for wider decisions Proposal directly addresses strategic priorities, as it focuses on increasing knowledge equity. Nevertheless, it lacks ability to sustain or scale. I would also like to know this is something institutions are expecting, that is part of their plan There is a plan to get data and act on a project given the data. These are two different moments and for each one of them a risk assessment is needed. In particular, the lack of a research frame --following the very guidelines that proponents should work with when making proposals-- makes it especially hard to evaluate. experienced wiki-member, realistic budget and challenging goals Strongly committed Wikimedian leads the project. Other participants are not described No support from local community. it has a certain and high social value/impact but I don't think we can handle such big problems with our limited funds. We have other projects that will be more scalable and more efficient in terms of results produced and efforts invested To support Wikimedia awareness and knowledge equity in the Bikol Region is definitely a goal of us all. I am glad this is being taken seriously by a committed Wikimedian. Nevertheless, the proposal still needs more work and might be better framed as a project in the community organizing round, not the research & development round.

Opportunity to respond to committee comments in the next week

The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal. Based on their initial review, a majority of committee reviewers have not recommended your proposal for funding. You can read more about their reasons for this decision in their comments above. Before the committee finalizes this decision, they would like to provide you with an opportunity to respond to their comments.

Next steps:

1. Aggregated committee comments from the committee are posted above. Note that these comments may vary, or even contradict each other, since they reflect the conclusions of multiple individual committee members who independently reviewed this proposal. We recommend that you review all the feedback carefully and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page by 5pm UTC on Saturday, May 15, 2021. If you make any revisions to your proposal based on committee feedback, we recommend that you also summarize the changes on your talkpage.
2. The committee will review any additional feedback you post on your talkpage before making a final funding decision. A decision will be announced Thursday, May 27, 2021.

Questions? Contact us at projectgrants wikimedia  · org.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 15:33, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Round 2 2021 decision

This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.

We love that you took the chance to creatively improve the Wikimedia movement. The committee has reviewed this proposal and not recommended it for funding. This was a very competitive round with many good ideas, not all of which could be funded in spite of many merits. We appreciate your participation, and we hope you'll continue to stay engaged in the Wikimedia context.

Comments regarding this decision:
This proposal takes an interesting approach to the problem it addresses and covers aspects of interest to both the Wikimedia movement and the education sector in the region. Some strong points of the proposed project are that it includes clear stages of data gathering and analysis, and trainings for both maintenance of the hardware and for accessing and evaluating content on Wikipedia. However, there is still some open concern about the plan. For example, the late establishments of partners suggests that the project will conduct research on institutions before Phase 2 of identifying potential partners, and some reviewers questioned whether it should be the other way around. The output/outcomes metrics seem to be dependent on schools being physically open, and in light of the pandemic, there was concern about school closures again later in the year.

We especially appreciate the applicant’s experience, networks and commitment to the movement and hope you will consider applying again.

Next steps: Applicants whose proposals are declined are welcome to consider resubmitting your application again in the future. You are welcome to request a consultation with staff to review any concerns with your proposal that contributed to a decline decision, and help you determine whether resubmission makes sense for your proposal.

Over the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has been undergoing a community consultation process to launch a new grants strategy. Our proposed programs are posted on Meta here: Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021. If you have suggestions about how we can improve our programs in the future, you can find information about how to give feedback here: Get involved. We are also currently seeking candidates to serve on regional grants committees and we'd appreciate it if you could help us spread the word to strong candidates--you can find out more here. We will launch our new programs in July 2021. If you are interested in submitting future proposals for funding, stay tuned to learn more about our future programs.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:02, 28 May 2021 (UTC)