Grants talk:Project/Development of a teacher training series on the contribution of TK Notices and other cultural descriptive metadata to Wikidata, as faculty and researchers build and share college-level OER.

Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2021 - Community Organizing proposal

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Comment from Wikimedia Foundation GLAM & Culture team

It’s great to see a proposal dealing with Traditional Knowledge notices. Can you confirm the status of your partnership with Local Contexts, and provide examples of past projects where you worked with Wikidata and/or TK notices?

Do you know which educational institutions you will work with? If not, how will you recruit them to the project? Similarly, have you identified the specific Wikimedia communities that you will engage, and are they supportive of this project?

What is your method for evaluating positive impact on educators? Can you add some numbers to the participation goals section, e.g. number of editors, number of edits?

All my best,

FRomeo (WMF) (talk) 11:13, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Development of a teacher training series on the contribution of TK Notices and other cultural descriptive metadata to Wikidata, as faculty and researchers build and share college-level OER.'

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?	5.6
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	4.8
(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?	3.0
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	3.6
Additional comments from the Committee: I think the use and application of TK Notices, and other tools from Local Contexts, is very interesting and could have significant impact for the movement with regards to how we support/welcome/enable sharing of and access to Indigenous knowledge. However, the impact for the movement from this particular project, as articulated in the proposal, is unclear to me; most of the focus seems to be on the pedagogical opportunities for those engaging with cultural collections on a third-party website (MHz Curationist). Interesting project I am unclear exactly what this project is proposing. The project seems to be more innovative than iterative and may potentially provide learning for the movement but there are significant risks and more work needs to be done around evaluation and measuring outcomes. It is unclear. I really wish it would have been more developed. More details and project scoping are needed. It’s very unclear what experience the project team has with either Wikidata or TK Notices. I am familiar with TK Labels, but could not find much information about TK Notices or existing examples of how they are used. This makes me concerned for the feasibility of the project. My feeling is that there is not enough experience with Wikimedia projects. It is unclear what would be accomplished and what the proposed funding will actually fund. Great to see the inclusion of tribal elders in the budget, how will the project governance and delivery include the elders? No community notification, no endorsements. It would be helpful to know to what degree Local Contexts has been engaged around the project to date and whether the project team (in collaboration with specific communities) has already identified institutions or collections/digital assets/cultural objects for the project. There was no community engagement, participants, or endorsements provided. This suggests those who are proposing this solution are not connected with the overall community it seeks to contribute to. Limited community endorsements or notifications. What is the community this project is seeking to engage with? Is it the existing Wikidata community or OER community? How does the OER community already work with Wikidata? What is Curationist V2 not clear from the website? What is the partnership of Local Context and Curationist? I think there is some potential here, though the project has not been well-scoped (or at least is confusing for me to understand). The proposal leaves a lot of unanswered questions but I would be more inclined to fund if we could confirm 1) how and to what extent TK Notices are already being used outside of this project; 2) if anyone on the project team has wiki experience; 3) the role of Local Contexts in the project; 4) the role of Indigenous communities/partners/researchers in the project; 5) how Wikimedia communities will be supported/engaged around the use of TK Notices. My feeling is that there is not enough experience that would be relevant for a training program. The same application is incomplete and slovenly. I suggest to plan better and to apply to the next round. I wish I could support this, but it does not appear ready for a grant of this size. Great to see a project that centres Traditional Knowledge Notices.

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 Monday, March 29, 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 no later than Friday, April 22, 2021.

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--Mercedes Caso (platícame) 05:13, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Withdrawal of this proposal

Hi all,

I recently marked this proposal as withdrawn, and just wanted to explain the reasoning. In recent weeks, I've been advising MHz Curationist on a different project idea that we jointly designed: Grants:Project/MHz Curationist/Building a sustainable system that unlocks museum metadata for Wikidata use. I believe that proposal is their most promising one, because it directly involves Wikimedians and it is more clearly related to a definite benefit to Wikimedia projects; I also think what we have proposed there is more well-formed and achievable, because it relies on some of Curationist's existing technology. During the course of working on that project, we decided it would be better for them to focus efforts on that project, and treat the community organizing project grants they submitted as a learning experience. The following statement comes from the rest of the Curationist team:

Thank you to the Community for your interest, questions and feedback on our submission. Your responses have helped us better understand how to be part of the Wikimedia community, and what the committee is looking for. At this time MHz Curationist has made the decision to withdraw our submission of this project.

In the meantime, as part of our learning process, we’ve submitted a project proposal of "Building a Sustainable System that Unlocks Museum Metadata for Wikidata Use". We have made sure that we are working with people who have subject matter expertise and are ingrained within the Wikimedia community. In fact, that project idea actually originated from within the Wikimedia community, and was suggested to us as a way in which we could leverage the unique value of Curationist's platform to meet the Wikimedia community's existing goals (e.g. Sum of all Paintings). We look forward to Committee feedback and questions on this new submission.

Thanks again to everyone for the time spent in reviewing the proposals! Dominic (talk) 14:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)