Art+Feminism User Group/Reporting/FinalReport2019-2020
Final report[edit]
2019-2020 Art+Feminism Simple APG Grant Application
2019-2020 Art+Feminism Simple APG Midpoint Report
Program story[edit]
We highlighted a few events on our website from this year's campaign.
Programs Impact[edit]
2019-2020 Annual Campaign[edit]
When we selected the theme of Art+Activism for the 2020 campaign, we could not have imagined what has happened this year. Despite the fact that many of our events were forced to be canceled due to the global pandemic, there is still much to celebrate! In 2020, we celebrated Art+Feminism events in 6 continents, in 27 countries and 20 different languages.
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Participants this year created articles for Irma Poma Canchumani, Mavi Doñate, Rhina Toruño, Group Material, Hertha Sponer, Marian Pastor Roces, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Ingeborg Kahlenberg, People's Flag Show, Anne Marie Komissar, Kasturba Gandi, Guadalupe Rosales, Jota Mombaça, Bety Reis, Joana D'Arc da Silva Cavalcante, Djuena Tikuna, Olga Mariano, Lina Bögli and Anne Boyer, to name a few
We also want to acknowledge and thank all the organizers and partners whose events, unfortunately, weren’t able to move forward this year as planned. We recognize and celebrate their labor and efforts, as well. We are truly thankful for our global community!
Establishing nonprofit operations[edit]
In addition to the work reported in our mid-point report, we've set up important structural systems like payroll, worker's comp, and board insurance. We continue to establish and document protocols and procedures as we shift from a collective to an official non-profit.
As noted in our 2020-2021 Annual Plan, we’re on the long journey of decoloinzing and centering anti-racists practices with an intersectional feminist lens. We started doing restorative practices training this summer facilitated by harp+sword and purposefully sought out a strategic plan facilitator, Wayfinding Partners, that operates with a social justice lens. We are thankful for the ability to reallocate funds to training this year and plan on keeping that as a permanent budget line moving forward. This work along with the work of truly being anti-racist in practice is ongoing.
Community & Office Hours[edit]
To support our growing global community, this year we introduced online "Community Hours" on a variety of topics that might be useful for our community of organizers like promoting your event or offering case studies from our global community. We continued and expanded "Office Hours" which focus on wiki skills like "Introduction to Editing Wikipedia" (which we are offering in a variety of languages.) Since our mid-point report, we held an additional ten Community Hours. Here is a full list.
- 11/30/2019: Kick-off + Intro to Community Hours
- 01/11/2020: Funding and Dashboard, with A+F staff and guest Sage Ross from Wiki Edu
- 01/25/2020: Promoting Your Event with Regional Organizer, Megan O'Hearn
- 02/24/2020: Reglas básicas de edición en Wikipedia (Basic Wikipedia's editing rules) with Melissa Tamini, A+F Co-lead and Gisselle Giron, Latin America Regional Ambassador
- 02/25/2020: l'édition de Wikipedia with Amber Berson. A+F Co-lead and Dominique Yao, Francophone Africa + France Regional Ambassador (Initial session did not record correctly, Dominique Yao redid the session that is recorded on 3/6/20).
- 02/28/2020: Anti-Harassment Working Group Toolkit
- 02/29/2020: Intro to Editing with Sophie Reverdy, Mid-Atlantic Regional Ambassador and Zita Ursula Zage, Anglophone Africa Regional Ambassador
- 03/24/2020: Virtual Events (2 case studies) with Amye McCarther + Derek Wright, New Museum and Amanda Meeks, Southwest + Midwest Regional Ambassador
- 03/25/2020: Reglas básicas de edición with Melissa Tamini, A+F Co-lead and Gisselle Giron, Latin America Regional Ambassador
- 04/16/2020: Articles Marked for Deletion with Mohammedi Sadat Abdulai, A+F Co-lead and Melissa Tamini, A+F Co-lead
- 04/20/2020: Introdução à Edição da Wikipédia (Portuguese) - Juliana Montierra, Regional Ambassador - Lusophone
- 04/29/2020: Introduction to Wikidata with Jaison Oliver, Regional Ambassador - US/South
- 05/4/2020: Case Studies: Articles for Deletion with Michael Mandiberg, A+F Co-founder, acting board president
- 05/7/2020: Εισαγωγή στην επεξεργασία της Wikipedia (Greek) with Athina Petsou, Regional Ambassador - Europe/UK
- 05/30/2020: 2020 Art+Feminism Closing Celebration with A+F Leadership
- 06/16/2020: Case Studies: A+F in the Classroom with Sophie Reverdy, A+F Mid-Atlantic Regional Ambassador, Distance Learning Librarian, Anne Arundel Community College, Jen Schuster, Professor, Anne Arundel Community College, Jennifer Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, and Johanna Amos, Professor, Queen’s University
- 06/22/2020: Case Studies: Extending the Collective with Daniela Brugger, Regional Ambassador - Europe and Zofia Resnik, Art+Feminism local organizer
Anti Harassment Working Group[edit]
Since our mid-point report, this working group has organized conversations and surveys in multiple languages around the WMF Universal Code of Conduct and put forth a statement containing our support and our hesitations in August 2020 as well as a formal response to the Draft in October 2020.
Research and Advocacy[edit]
In July, we received confirmation that we have been awarded funding from WikiCred for the research project "Reading Together: Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities," a multilingual, six-month research project that studies reliable source (WP:RS) guidelines and related content policies on English, French, and Spanish Wikipedia pages. This study is being conducted by Art+Feminism co-leads Amber Berson and Melissa Tamani, with Monika Sengul-Jones, with the support of an international advisory committee.
In March we mobilised to produce a Collaborative Resources for Virtual Events, which we're currently transiting into the larger scope Virtual Meeting Resource to also share widely.
Covid-19 & Civil Rights Movement Impact[edit]
As noted in our midpoint report, we canceled all in-person events. With how the virus lasted longer than anyone anticipated in March, many events that were initially postponed ultimately ended up being canceled, including our annual flagship event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Combined with a civil rights movement, it was not effective nor appropriate to continue with "business as usual." The pandemic is allowing us to focus internally and be less number driven. We want to work on intentional care and deepen our relationships within our community. We intentionally pulled back on our data collection methods, aiming for less bureaucratic approach to our communications with organizers.
We created a Collaborative List around the George Floyd Uprisings along with a brief statement that Black Lives Matter.
And whereas, the work of our edit-a-thons can somewhat easily translate to virtual space, the aspect of community care of an in-person event can be harder to replicate. We understand that some of our organizers are simply not able to organize an event in these times, due to concrete access to resources. Further, we believe that many members of our community are engaged in critical off-Wikipedia work and activism as we find ourselves in the midst of a Civil Rights Movement. Additionally, as many individuals are faced with both of these factors, capacity to participate in an edit-a-thon is likely not at the top of the priority list for some of our community. These factors combined have had an effect on our overall numbers, but we're moving with intention to shift our focus to community building and community care.
Spending update Final[edit]
Due to the pandemic and establishment as an official non-profit, there were both unexpected new budget lines (ie Worker's Comp and Board Insurance) and budget lines that weren't fully exhausted (ie flagship event) from the initial budget. We worked closely with our WMF Program Officers to reallocate funds accordingly throughout the grant cycle. The final budget can be viewed here.
The total amount of Simple APG funds spent during the grant period:
- 243,993.14 USD/Local currency
It was realized in the last days of the granting period that a miscalculation was made around the Executive Director salary line. With that position starting on October 1, 2019 and the fiscal year starting September 1, 2019 - there was a month of underspent salary. A conversation with I JethroBT (WMF) allowed us to put that money toward Phase 2 strategic planning / programming needs (e.g. anti-racism trainings).
Grant Metrics Reporting Final[edit]
During our 2020 campaign, we failed to meet all of our metrics goals: 164 events out of 244 created in the dashboard took place in 27 countries on all six inhabited continents and online. At least 2890 participants created or improved over 26900 content pages. More than 5300 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, of which, 1000+ were used in articles. A little over 1% of all articles were deleted.
This year, half of all events happened in the United States (56%). As there is not a simple way to determine the proportion of newcomers, we estimate based on recent edits that about 1145 participants were new users who created their accounts by March 2020. More than 34% of our 2019 organizers returned to hold events with us in 2020. This is nearly equal to the 35% proportion of 2019 returning organizers we had in 2019.
In 2019, we introduced a map as part of our final reporting giving a quick visual representation of all event locations and number of participants at each of them. This year, we went ahead and added our metrics data to Wikidata just, so we can write queries to ask more complex questions of the numbers. This query is an example of what is possible; a map showing the location of events, date of event, dashboard link and number of participants.
Detailed outcomes from 2020 are on this wiki page and on our WMF Google Sheet. Our metrics goals for 2020 are predictions based off of our model which you can view in this google sheet.
- Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.