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Welcome to this project's final report! This report shares the outcomes, impact and learnings from the grantee's project.

Part 1: The Project[edit]

Summary[edit]

Using the existing infrastructure the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Wikipedia Initiative built during the 2020-21 WMF Project Grant, we have had the opportunity in this project grant period to run a variety of new programs and events focused on developing sustainable pathways for scholars within rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literacy, and language studies to contribute to Wikipedia with knowledge equity goals at the forefront.

In 2021-2022, we established the CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program, which supported a group of four Ph.D. students and candidates in writing studies graduate programs to complete a variety of individual projects (e.g. CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Coffeehouse Twitch Stream Takeovers and WikiProject Writing Spotlight Development) and one group project (i.e. WikiProject Writing Translation Task Force) catered to shared interests between fellows’ own skill sets and research goals and the goals of the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative. By working directly with emerging writing studies scholars, we gained a unique understanding of what our participant base values in programming, events, and standalone materials while making measurable progress toward improving vital general interest articles along with field-specific academic topics.

In 2022-2023, we created the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker Series, a modified set of workshops where we invited eight scholars throughout the academic year to speak on their research. After the talk, participants were trained on how to edit Wikipedia and edited articles related to the scholar's presentation. We collaborated with CCCC member groups to invite scholars that their members would be interested in hearing from and invited interested CCCC Wikipedia graduate fellows to participate. Through this model, we received more participants on average than our previous workshops (i.e. Wikipedia as Public Scholarship and Getting Started with WikiProject Writing), continued to grow our repository of field-specific articles in need of edits and creation with relevant scholarship to be included, and contributed to our total impact on knowledge equity goals on Wikipedia within writing studies.

We continued to modify and adapt existing infrastructure and programming–including WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlights, CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Coffeehouse Twitch Streams, editing workshops, standalone CCCC Wikipedia Initiative editing advice manuals, the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative meetup page, and WikiProject Writing–and to increase our outreach by distributing events to relevant professional listservs and Twitter.

Project Goals[edit]

Continue to expand, support, and engage a community of expert academic Wikipedia editors by further developing WikiProject Writing with embedded expert-focused tools and resources and supporting new strategies to counteract Wikipedia-hostile academic attitudes.

Project Impact[edit]

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Targets[edit]

  1. In the first column of the table below, please copy and paste the measures you selected to help you evaluate your project's success (see the Project Impact section of your proposal). Please use one row for each measure. If you set a numeric target for the measure, please include the number.
  2. In the second column, describe your project's actual results. If you set a numeric target for the measure, please report numerically in this column. Otherwise, write a brief sentence summarizing your output or outcome for this measure.
  3. In the third column, you have the option to provide further explanation as needed. You may also add additional explanation below this table.
Planned measure of success
(include numeric target, if applicable) 		Actual result Explanation
Improve vital, general interest articles as well as high-traffic, field-specific articles within English, Spanish, and French Wikipedias with an emphasis on providing due weight to historically minoritized scholars and their research.
  • All CCCC Wikipedia Initiative participants: 31 articles created, 435 articles edited, and 1.53K references added to English, Russian, German, and Arabic Wikipedias with a focus on mostly biographies of minoritized scholars, field-specific articles, and vital articles within writing studies. These articles have been viewed 44.5M times as documented on the 2022 CCCC Editor Activity dashboard (January 1, 2022 to January 1, 2023) and 2023 CCCC Editor Activity dashboard.
  • CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellows: 7 articles created, 49 articles edited, 988 total edits, and 353 references added to English, Russian, German, and Arabic Wikipedias with a focus on mostly biographies of minoritized scholars, field-specific articles, and vital articles within writing studies. These articles have been viewed 4.23M times documented on the 2021-22 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program(August 13, 2021 to August 12, 2022).
  • We shifted our original language focus (French, English, and Spanish) to English, Russian, German, and Arabic based on the language skills of the graduate fellows selected.
Expand both crowdsourced and Wikidata-sourced lists of articles to improve and create on WikiProject Writing.
  • When the CCCC WiR and a CCCC Wikipedia Grad Fellow (Andrew Yim) began to develop Wikidata-based queries, they realized how challenging it was to find a comprehensive list of all composition and rhetoric scholars across different language Wikipedias since many scholars within writing studies (1) did not have properties specifying their field of work and (2) were labeled under an overwhelming diversity of fields of work with repetitive categories and great diversity in nomenclature. With the addition of culturally-specific language when querying across language Wikipedias, this made it even more difficult to get an accurate understanding of what scholars exist in one language Wikipedia but not another (See more at “What didn’t work”)
Develop a wide range of expert-focused resources on the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative meetup page and WikiProject Writing, ensuring readily-accessible information for current and future academic editors.
Establish strategic partnerships among colleges, universities, libraries, publishers, and community organizations to develop a model for a pipeline that increases opportunities for professional recognition of scholars editing Wikipedia.
  • Created, hosted, and developed the CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program, which helped develop professional pathways for editing and organizing with Wikipedia past the end of the program date.
  • Developed, circulated, evaluated, and selected the recipient--Dr. Matthew Vetter--of the inaugural CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Award for Contributions to Public Knowledge.
  • Created, hosted, and developed the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker Series, where we collaborated with CCCC member groups to invite their suggested scholars to speak at the beginning of the talk. After the talk, event participants were trained on how to edit Wikipedia and contributed to articles related to the scholar's presentation. These events have received our highest participation in CCCC Wikipedia Initiative events to date.
CCCCWI Workshop Participation
CCCCWI Speaker Series Participation
Provide resources and a model for supporting scholars editing Wikipedia.
  • Established a CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program focused on developing skills and understanding of Wikimedia projects, aimed at providing a Wikimedian-in-residence (WiR) guided mentorship pathway for other humanities-oriented organizations, programs, and initiatives to use.
  • We developed and documented new forms of engagement based on our experience organizing and engaging with emerging scholars within writing studies including faculty liaisons and a speaker series (See “What worked well”).
  • Developed and began hosting the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker Series with support from interested CCCC member groups and past CCCC Wikipedia graduate fellows. The model involves (1) a talk from a scholar recommended by a CCCC member group, (2) a Wikipedia editing training session hosted by the CCCC WiR, and (3) an editing session where participants edit articles related to the speaker’s talk. We have posted these on the WikiProject Writing Youtube account with permission from presenters.
  • The CCCC WiR and CCCC graduate fellows presented their work at both academic and Wikimedia-centered conferences to present the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative as a model for how academic professional associations might engage with Wikipedia, address content gaps and issues of knowledge equity, and recognize the value of public scholarship.


Story[edit]

Looking back over your whole project, what did you achieve? Tell us the story of your achievements, your results, your outcomes. Focus on inspiring moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes or anything that highlights the outcomes of your project. Imagine that you are sharing with a friend about the achievements that matter most to you in your project.

  • This should not be a list of what you did. You will be asked to provide that later in the Methods and Activities section.
  • Consider your original goals as you write your project's story, but don't let them limit you. Your project may have important outcomes you weren't expecting. Please focus on the impact that you believe matters most.

We are incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to continue working to engage scholars in the humanities to edit Wikipedia as a form of social justice and public scholarship. This project grant has allowed us to build upon our pre-existing infrastructure and explore how scholars–amid already high volunteer labor–may be motivated to prioritize organizing Wikipedia programs and events. Our main focus with this project was to explore one pathway–developing the CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program–that fits into a traditional model of academic professional development for emerging scholars in writing studies and related fields (e.g. HASTAC Scholars and Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellowships).

When we started to develop the initial call for applications, we expected to gain a cohort of emerging scholars already engaged in Wikipedia editing and organizing. We had our own goals for infrastructure development, but more importantly, we were excited to learn from the expertise and interests of the fellows through the development of individual projects. Through the application process, we discovered that–although many graduate students were familiar with Wikipedia–most of them had little to no experience contributing to the site in a meaningful way and the concept of organizing other scholars in this work was difficult to grasp in a field mostly focused on individual production (e.g. publishing) as a means of professional development. Once the fellowship began, we found ourselves consistently reorienting tasks to help build an understanding of the goals of the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative, which required additional time and labor that we had not originally planned for.

Despite these challenges, we are extremely proud of the fellows! They came into this program eager to learn more about Wikipedia and immediately began thinking about how they could use their resources and networks to help us meet individual and group project goals. We made measurable progress towards our collaborative goals, including the establishment of the translation task force on WikiProject Writing, and learned valuable insights into what is needed (e.g. Wikipedia and Wikidata training) to host another cohort of graduate fellows in the future.

Since the graduate fellowship ended before the end of the project grant period, we decided to try out a new model of engagement modeled off of several organizations that lie at the intersection of knowledge equity and the Wikimedia movement (i.e. the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, AfroCROWD, and Black Lunch Table). They bring in experts to discuss a specific topic or theme and tend to bring in significant participation. We recognized the success of these initiatives and felt the small effects of this in our own circle when we invited scholars to edit Wikipedia on Twitch through our CCCCWI Coffeehouse series. We modified our traditional workshop series by inviting experts to speak on their research at the beginning of the event, followed by our WiR providing Wikipedia training in the second half of the event, and ending with an editing session on articles related to the scholar's talk. Using the connections we established with CCCC member groups, we invited their suggested scholars, as well as established CCCC Wikipedia Initiative participants and 2021-2022 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellows to speak. In the eight events we hosted throughout the 2022-23 academic year, we have seen our highest participant turnout yet!

Methods and activities[edit]

Please provide a list of the main methods and activities through which you completed your project.

The midpoint report documents the methods and activities of the first half of the grant term (April 2021-July 2022). This includes the 2021-2022 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program which concluded in July 2022.

This report captures methods and activities from the second half of the grant period (August 2022-January 2023).

CCCC Wikipedia Speaker Series[edit]

  • Designed the workshop to include (1) five minutes for an introduction, (2) thirty minutes for the speaker to present their talk, (3) fifteen minutes for Q&A, and (4) thirty minutes for training and editing. Revised this in October by shortening the presentation’s talk to twenty minutes and distributing editing exercises throughout Wikipedia training for a total of forty-five minutes.
  • Developed a timeline for each CCCC member group’s speaker with attention to national heritage/history months.
  • Reached out to a select number of CCCC member group chairs that the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative has had previous contact with. We provided information about the general format of the speaker series and inquired about speakers their members would be interested in.
  • Invited speakers (recommended speakers, dedicated CCCC Wikipedia Initiative participants, and former 2021-2022 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellows) for September, October, November, February, March, April, May, and June and communicated general expectations for the talk, event format and dynamics, and necessary pre-event materials needed from speakers to prepare marketing materials ahead of the event.
  • Synchronized WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlights with CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker events by catering article worklists to the topic, scholars, and scholarship reviewed in the speaker’s presentation.
  • Promoted events to the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative-L (initiative listserv), nextGEN (graduate student listserv), WRITINGSTUDIES-L (flagship professional listserv), and the @WP_Writing Twitter account.
  • Distributed promotional materials to upcoming speakers to distribute to their professional networks.
  • Developed and modified pre-existing workshop material from the “Wikipedia as Public Scholarship” and “Getting Started with WikiProject Writing” workshops to develop a training program that incorporates learning outcomes from both workshop formats.
  • Incorporated more accessibility materials in the workshop materials by creating a shared google drive with workshop presentation slides (i.e. speaker slides and Wikipedia training slides), a Wikipedia article worklist formatted on a google document, and presentation scripts (when requested).
  • Sent follow-up emails to participants after the events with the presentation recording, accessibility materials, and online resources.
  • Sent personalized emails to speakers thanking them for their contributions to the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative.

Other Programming & Events[edit]

  • Continued hosting our summer workshop series in July 2022 and August 2022 on how to engage with WikiProject Writing’s “Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy.”
  • Created weekly tweets (@WP_Writing) focused on engaging scholars with WikiProject Writing and promoting CCCC Wikipedia Initiative events and programs.
  • Continued hosting the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Coffeehouse on Twitch where the CCCC WiR edits Wikipedia on a different topic focus monthly. These continued to be hosted twice monthly until September 2022, when the CCCC Wikipedia Speaker Series began. We switched this to accommodate the added time and labor needed by the CCCC WiR to organize the speaker series.
  • Continued hosting weekly office hours by sign-up with the CCCC WiR.
  • Continued to announce programs and events to the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative-L (initiative listserv), nextGEN (graduate student listserv), WRITINGSTUDIES-L (flagship professional listserv), and the @WP_Writing Twitter account.
  • Continued hosting monthly WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlights in collaboration with scholars presenting in the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker Series.
  • Hosted a workshop at the 2022 CCCC Annual Convention: CCCC 2022 Edits Wikipedia!
  • Presented at WikiConference North America 2022 on Identifying Challenges to Scholarly Wikipedia Editing.
  • Developed, circulated, evaluated, and selected the recipient--Dr. Matthew Vetter--of the inaugural CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Award for Contributions to Public Knowledge.
  • Created the WikiProject Writing email listserv for participants to get help, ask questions, and find collaborators past the CCCC WiR's end date.

Project resources[edit]

Please provide links to all public, online documents and other artifacts that you created during the course of this project. Even if you have linked to them elsewhere in this report, this section serves as a centralized archive for everything you created during your project. Examples include: meeting notes, participant lists, photos or graphics uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, template messages sent to participants, wiki pages, social media (Facebook groups, Twitter accounts), datasets, surveys, questionnaires, code repositories... If possible, include a brief summary with each link.

Outreach dashboard campaigns[edit]

CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Wikipedia Pages[edit]

  • CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Meetup Page
  • WikiProject Writing
    • Discussion - WikiProject Writing talk page
    • Participants - List of active WikiProject Writing participants
    • Resources - CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Advice Manuals, style guide, editing basics
    • Events - Hosts WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlights
    • Open tasks - Current editing and organizational tasks
    • Translation task force - Resources and advice for translation across language Wikipedias. Developed by the 2021-22 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellows with support from the CCCC WiR and CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Chair.
    • Templates - Invitations to invite others to WikiProject Writing, welcome templates for new participants, userboxes, and barnstars
    • Assessment - Quality and importance assessment criteria
    • Popular pages - Top 100 most popular pages under WikiProject Writing’s scope

Programs and events dashboard and meetup pages[edit]

2023[edit]

2022[edit]

2021[edit]

NOTE: Workshops were cancelled in December 2021 for the winter break/holiday season.

Workshop and speaker series presentations[edit]

Conference Presentations[edit]

CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Coffeehouse Twitch Stream[edit]

Social media[edit]


  • June 30th CCCCWI Speaker Series - Queer Activism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
    June 30th CCCCWI Speaker Series - Queer Activism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
  • April CCCCWI Speaker Series - Anti-Racism and Racial Justice in Writing Studies
    April CCCCWI Speaker Series - Anti-Racism and Racial Justice in Writing Studies
  • March CCCCWI Speaker Series - Latin American Writing Studies in Higher Education
    March CCCCWI Speaker Series - Latin American Writing Studies in Higher Education
  • February CCCCWI Speaker Series - Genres of Memory and Asian/American Women's Activism
    February CCCCWI Speaker Series - Genres of Memory and Asian/American Women's Activism
  • CCCCWI Speaker Series Wikipedia Training
    CCCCWI Speaker Series Wikipedia Training
  • November CCCCWI Speaker Series - Multilingual Writers in Digital Space
    November CCCCWI Speaker Series - Multilingual Writers in Digital Space
  • October CCCCWI Speaker Series Presentation - Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom
    October CCCCWI Speaker Series Presentation - Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom
  • September CCCCWI Speaker Series Presentation - Identifying Challenges to Editing Wikipedia for the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative
    September CCCCWI Speaker Series Presentation - Identifying Challenges to Editing Wikipedia for the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative
  • Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Workshop
    Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Workshop
  • CCCC 2022 Edits Wikipedia Workshop
    CCCC 2022 Edits Wikipedia Workshop
  • Wikipedia as Public Scholarship Workshop - September 2021
    Wikipedia as Public Scholarship Workshop - September 2021
  • Getting Started with WikiProject Writing Workshop - October 2021
    Getting Started with WikiProject Writing Workshop - October 2021

CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellow Individual Projects[edit]

2Rath
  • Abir Ward: Developed and expanded 2Rāth, a project that addresses the necessity for digital collaboration between students and librarians to develop an online presence for Arab authors on Wikipedia.
  • 2Rāth Edit-a-thons Dashboards/Training Courses
  • Wikipedia Courses
  • Notable articles created/edited by 2Rāth participants
  • Alexandra Krasova: Focused on translating articles related to composition and languages provoking better and deeper understanding of writing studies. Engaged scholarly audiences by developing a WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlight and publicizing it by hosting a CCCCWI Coffeehouse stream on Twitch.
  • Translated articles
WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlight on Digital Composition
  • WikiProject Writing Spotlight
  • CCCCWI Coffeehouse
  • February 2022: Digital Composition (NOTE: Not saved due to technical difficulties and stream quality).
  • Andrew Yim: Focused on advancing the field of composition studies by focusing on articles related to writing transfer throughout different project outputs. Worked closely with the Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s (IUP) Writing Center to develop and host a Wikipedia Editing Workshop for faculty. With support from his mentor, began research on ownership and genre awareness on Wikipedia. Engaged scholarly audiences by developing a WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlight and publicizing it by hosting a CCCCWI Coffeehouse stream on Twitch.
  • WikiProject Writing Spotlight
Andrew Yim (2021-2022 CCCC Wikipedia Grad Fellow) editing the Wikipedia article on Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey
  • CCCCWI Coffeehouse
  • Notable articles created/edited
  • Interviews
  • Research on Wikipedia Ownership
  • Finalized a draft of a journal article with his project mentor and another student on editors’ sense of ownership over their Wikipedia article (Plan to submit to the Written Communication journal in July 2022).
  • Created a Qualtrics survey where over 100 Wikipedia editors had identified their opinions on their sense of ownership and genre awareness on Wikipedia.
  • Katie Bramlett: Focused on improving knowledge equity in relation to the history of cross-cultural allyship between African American and Asian American communities. Implemented Wikipedia learning in course material. Engaged scholarly audiences by developing a WikiProject Writing Content Development Spotlight and publicizing it by hosting a CCCCWI Coffeehouse stream on Twitch.
Katie Bramlett (2021-2022 CCCC Wikipedia Grad Fellow) editing the Wikipedia article on Dr. Haivan Hoang
  • WikiProject Writing Spotlight
  • CCCCWI Coffeehouse
  • Wikipedia courses
  • List of articles in need of edits
  • Notable articles created/edited

Learning[edit]

The best thing about trying something new is that you learn from it. We want to follow in your footsteps and learn along with you, and we want to know that you took enough risks in your project to have learned something really interesting! Think about what recommendations you have for others who may follow in your footsteps, and use the below sections to describe what worked and what didn’t.

What worked well[edit]

What did you try that was successful and you'd recommend others do? To help spread successful strategies so that they can be of use to others in the movement, rather than writing lots of text here, we'd like you to share your finding in the form of a link to a learning pattern.

What didn’t work[edit]

What did you try that you learned didn't work? What would you think about doing differently in the future? Please list these as short bullet points. For a more comprehensive list of challenges faced throughout the project grant, please review the section on “Learning” in our midpoint report.

  • 2022-23 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program: In consultation with the 2021-22 grad fellows and the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Committee, we developed an updated and revised call for applications for a 2022-23 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program that clarified the organizing work at the center of the project and incorporated Wikipedia and Wikidata training, but despite these efforts we received very few applications. We would love to host another cohort of graduate fellows because creating professional pathways for scholars to edit Wikipedia is vital to sustaining ongoing volunteer editing. Additionally, despite the challenges of navigating a new program during an ongoing global pandemic and mental health crisis–the 2021-22 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate fellowship was successful in curating an understanding of why contributing to Wikipedia matters and established agency and motivation for fellows to continue this work past the fellowship end date. In the future, we will consult with scholars unfamiliar with Wikipedia to revise and clarify the structure and goals of the fellowship, garner greater support for Wikipedia and Wikidata skill building, and revise and clarify language in our call for applications to reduce application labor and provide limited and clear parameters on what on-wiki organizing work may involve.
  • Wikidata-generated article lists: It has been a dream of the CCCCWI to develop Wikidata-generated lists of composition/rhetoric scholars in need of edits and creation on WikiProject Writing to showcase content gaps within writing studies both on English Wikipedia and across language Wikipedias. However, this process has proved more difficult to attain. When we began to build queries, we realized how challenging it was to find a comprehensive list of all composition and rhetoric scholars across different language Wikipedias since many scholars within writing studies (1) did not have properties specifying their field of work and (2) were labeled under an overwhelming diversity of fields of work with repetitive categories and great diversity in nomenclature. To meet these challenges, we need to begin standardizing language about fields across scholars within writing studies. First, this includes gaining an understanding of the common fields used by scholars in writing studies to describe (1) themselves and (2) others within the field. Next, we need to translate these categories onto pre-existing and new Wikidata items on and about scholars to create an accurate understanding of what scholars within writing studies are on Wikidata and which are not. With the support of the CCCC WiR conducting outreach to relevant members of the Wikidata community–particularly those with experience generating article lists using ListeriaBot–we aim to develop a clear plan establishing methods and outcomes to achieve our goals.

Next steps and opportunities[edit]

Are there opportunities for future growth of this project, or new areas you have uncovered in the course of this grant that could be fruitful for more exploration (either by yourself, or others)? What ideas or suggestions do you have for future projects based on the work you’ve completed? Please list these as short bullet points. Our goals to continue developing this project are:

  • Continue developing new models of scholarly engagement including (1) the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker Series in collaboration with CCCC member groups and international organizations the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative has initiated conversations with and (2) reaching out to interested scholars situated at different university writing centers throughout the country to host a Wikipedia writing group with the support of CCCC Wikipedia Initiative resources.
  • Further develop on-wiki organizing spaces by improving user experience and accessibility for Wikipedia newcomers who are interested in engaging but find it hard to do so. This will involve research into what has been done, what is currently being done, and how we fit into the broader picture of usability and accessibility within the Wikimedia movement.
  • Develop Wikidata-generated lists by beginning to standardize language about writing studies fields and subfields. First, this includes gaining an understanding of the common fields used by scholars in writing studies to describe (1) themselves and (2) others within the field. Next, we need to translate these categories onto pre-existing and new Wikidata items on and about scholars to create an accurate understanding of what scholars within writing studies are on Wikidata and which are not. With the support of the CCCC WiR conducting outreach to relevant members of the Wikidata community–particularly those with experience generating article lists using ListeriaBot–we aim to develop a clear plan establishing methods and outcomes to achieve our goals.
  • Host another iteration of the CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program. In order to do this, we would need to:
    • Revise and clarify language in our call for applications to reduce application labor and provide limited and clear parameters on what on-wiki organizing work may involve and how it differs from traditional academic research fellowships in the humanities.
    • Offer Wikipedia and Wikidata training as a part of the onboarding process with learning outcomes in the key areas of organizing work that exists within the Wikimedia movement.
    • Greater support in the form of more hours for the CCCC WiR and funding for the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative project lead to mentor and direct strong fellow-led community-engaged projects.

Part 2: The Grant[edit]

Finances[edit]

Actual spending[edit]

Please copy and paste the completed table from your project finances page. Check that you’ve listed the actual expenditures compared with what was originally planned. If there are differences between the planned and actual use of funds, please use the column provided to explain them.

Expense Approved amount Actual funds spent Difference
Wikimedian-in-Residence $23,000 $23,000 through 12/31/2022 $0
Graduate student fellowships $4,000 $4,000 through 12/31/2022 $0
Administrative costs @ 15% $4,050 $4,050 through 12/31/2022 $0
Total $31,050 $31,050 $0

Remaining funds[edit]

Do you have any unspent funds from the grant?

Please answer yes or no. If yes, list the amount you did not use and explain why.

  • No, there are no unspent funds from this grant.

If you have unspent funds, they must be returned to WMF. Please see the instructions for returning unspent funds and indicate here if this is still in progress, or if this is already completed:

Documentation[edit]

Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grantsadmin(_AT_)wikimedia.org, according to the guidelines here?

Please answer yes or no. If no, include an explanation.

  • No. Our understanding of the guidelines is that documentation only needs to be submitted if it is requested.

Confirmation of project status[edit]

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?

Please answer yes or no.

  • Yes

Is your project completed?

Please answer yes or no.

  • No, we are working on a separate grant extension agreement to continue working on CCCC Wikipedia Initiative programs and events.

Grantee reflection[edit]

We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on what this project has meant to you, or how the experience of being a grantee has gone overall. Is there something that surprised you, or that you particularly enjoyed, or that you’ll do differently going forward as a result of the Project Grant experience? Please share it here!

We are incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made in investigating new models of scholarly engagement this past grant period. Building off of the infrastructure we created in the 2020-21 CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Project Grant, we have successfully run the first iteration CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellowship Program and CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Speaker Series. We have–in at least one concrete way–reached our goal of creating sustainable pathways for scholars to continue engaging with Wikipedia, with all four graduate fellows expressing interest in continuing to contribute to Wikipedia past the fellowship end date. In our speaker series events, we have had the pleasure of hosting a diversity of scholars that have garnered our highest participation in CCCC Wikipedia Initiative events yet.

It has been lovely to interact with different scholars and learn about their research. Each group we work with, including CCCC member groups, former graduate fellows, and individual participants from universities around the world, connects us to an even larger network of scholars with unique motivations for contributing to Wikipedia. For example, the CCCC Wikipedia Speaker Series has allowed us to connect with scholars with different levels of involvement on Wikipedia, as well as their colleagues and professional networks that involve an even greater subset of scholars. We are excited to continue growing this network and the variety of motivations that drive scholars to contribute to Wikipedia. As we learn about and adapt to these motivations, we continue to create more sustainable pathways for scholarly involvement on Wikipedia and curate blueprints for other humanities organizations to adapt and adopt.

Reporting on extension activities[edit]

All other non-financial related reporting is embedded in the original final grant proposal details above.

Finances[edit]

Actual spending[edit]

Please copy and paste the completed table or list from your project finances page. Check that you’ve listed the actual expenditures compared with what was originally planned. If there are differences between the planned and actual use of funds, please use the column provided to explain them.

Expense Approved amount Actual funds spent Difference
Wikimedian-in-residence 80 hours/month at $2,370 x 6 months $14,220.00 $14,220.00 $0
Speaker series stipends $250/month x 6 months $1,500.00 $1,500.00 $0
Administrative costs $2,358.00 $2,358.00 $0
Total $18,078.00 $18,078.00 $0


Remaining funds[edit]

Do you have any unspent funds from the grant?

Please answer yes or no. If yes, list the amount you did not use and explain why.

  • No.

If you have unspent funds, they must be returned to WMF. Please see the instructions for returning unspent funds and indicate here if this is still in progress, or if this is already completed:

Confirmation of project status[edit]

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?

Please answer yes or no.

  • Yes

Is your project completed?

Please answer yes or no.

  • Yes.
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