Grants:IdeaLab/Establishing Wikimedia offices across the world.

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Establishing Wikimedia offices across the world.

Wikipedia can establish small offices in cities around the world to help close Wikimedia gender gap by training mostly young girls.

amount10200USD

grantee• Fred Timbee

idea creator• Fred Timbee

designer• 201.141.129.76

volunteer• Jesusalfonsoa

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created on11:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

To train female Wikimedia contributors.

What is your solution?

In the course of training Wikimedia contributors through the establishment of small training offices across the world, attention should be focused more on girls in order to bridge the Wikimedia gender gap. Wikimedia contributors in various communities of the world can be mobilized help achieve this.

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Participants

• Designer Provide graphic content for the training material 201.141.129.76 00:10, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
• Volunteer I would like to be part of this idea because it seems great. I think in most countries of Latin America, as in Venezuela setting an example, should have offices Wikipedia. Jesusalfonsoa (talk) 21:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Endorsements

• I endorse this. A sound idea. Tharthan (talk) 21:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Project plan

Activities

Training female Wikimedians in North Central Nigeria, Nigeria.

Budget

• Project Manager 3000USD
• Community Organizer 2000USD
• Researcher 2500USD
• Designer USD1500
• Volunteer USD300
• Adviser 400USD
• Developer 500USD

Community engagement

We’ll survey our target community at the start and end of the project, and host 3 live feedback sessions in between.

Sustainability

Kits we develop will be made available to the community for translation and global reuse.

Measures of success

Improve editor activity and retention in this part of the world by 50% compared to the existing program

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