Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Amical Wikimedia 2023 Grant
Gemma Aïsa: Gemma Aïsa Lluís Madurell: Lluis_tgn
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Applicant details[edit]
Wikimedia username(s):
- Robert Garrigós: Robertgarrigos
Gemma Aïsa: Gemma Aïsa Lluís Madurell: Lluis_tgn Núria Ribas: Kowalskyn
Organization:
- Associació Amical Wikimedia
G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?
- Applied previously and did receive a grant
H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?
- No
H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?
- N/A
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information[edit]
R. Where will this proposal be implemented?
- Spain
S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:
- Regional
S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- Our work will be focused in all the Catalan-speaking territories, which cover four countries: Spain, Andorra, France and Italy.
T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)
- Webpage: https://wikimedia.cat
Twitter: http://twitter.com/amicalwikimedia (@amicalwikimedia) Mastodont.cat: https://mastodont.cat/@amicalwikimedia (@amicalwikimedia) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Amicalwikimedia (Amical Wikimedia) Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Amicalwikimedia (Amical Wikimedia)
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Proposal[edit]
1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?
Amical Wikimedia is a non-profit organisation recognised as a Wikimedia Thematic Organisation, focused on Catalan language and culture. Our mission is to make the sum of all knowledge available in Catalan, and all knowledge about Catalan culture available in every language. We also work to make all this accessible through free knowledge and volunteering.
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
Our objective is for the sum of all human knowledge to be freely available in Catalan, and for all knowledge about Catalan culture to be available to everyone in any language.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Support all the activities that the volunteers propose and suggest initiatives whenever they solve any of these approaches:
- the strengthening of the community among the volunteers
- improving accessibility for users of Wikimedia projects (making it easier to edit, consult news, configure devices in Catalan, etc.)
- improve communication and initiatives around the Wikimedia movement
- promote the improvement of content
- increase readings
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1) Community:
- Increase the visibility of the entity
- Do more activities with active members
- Search for new collaborators
- Strengthen the presence of free knowledge in the field of education
2) Accessibility
- Continue making editing help videos
3) Communication
- Promote a report on the history of free knowledge and Amical
- Updating the static information of Amical's blog
- Regular posts on Amical's blog (12)
- Making our voice heard against regulations that go against Amical's principles
- A quarterly press release on activities or achievements
4) Content
- Promote Bibliowikis' online workshops
- Do a project each quarter creating women's articles
- Activities related to Wikidata and Wikicommons as a support to Viquipèdia
5) Readers
- Commission a study on web positioning and possible measures to improve the visibility of Viquipèdia
- Partnerships and collaborations with other entities and institutions promoting the Catalan language, Catalan culture and free knowledge
5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?
No
5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?
- N/A
6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, we do. The members of the Board are also the coordinators of the main projects, with the help of volunteers and currently our employee. We also team up sometimes with other entities (e.g. universities) that align with our values and help us achieve our objectives.
Among our volunteers, there are the usual workshop conductors (Konkordia, Docosong, Amadalvarez, Quelet,...), those who lead yearly projects (F3raN, Lluis tgn, Paucabot, Tiputini, TaronjaSatsuma,...), and those others who lead all-year projects (Leptictidium, Xavier Dengra,...) or occasional projects.
8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Content Gender gap, Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
Gender gap: creating projects about women's articles on diverse topics during the whole year.
Language: we try Catalan to be the preferred language in our projects, with projects such as the Viquimarató de la Llengua Catalana (Catalan Language Editathon), collaboration with administrations, etc.
Cultural background: promote all aspects of the Catalan culture that exist in the seven Catalan-speaking territories (Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Land of València, Andorra, Northern Catalonia, La Franja, and L'Alguer). We collaborate with other entities, such as universities, governments, cultural organisations, etc.
9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology
10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Gender Identity, Linguistic / Language, Age
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
Training volunteers and helping them take a step forward; empowering them by telling them that if they do a project they will have our support.
Organising dynamization activities to strengthen the community (example: the Wikimeet, where there are workshops open to everyone and even some are special to help beginners and encourage them to become regular Wikipedians).
Communication and diffusion of activities and news is also very important, so that everyone knows what we are doing.
We do this by using their language and promoting projects in related entities (universities, etc.), and we try to retain them with communication (newsletter, etc.), with training and workshops, activities,...
12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?
Until 2022 we had our own code of conduct. Currently we have the UCoC, we have translated it into Catalan, diffused it, and now we are ready to act in consequence if there is any non-compliance. From now on, we will try to include it in all Amical wikiprojects and make it reach the places where the wikiprojects are hosted.
13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
Yes
13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
We will work with everyone who shares our objectives in each of the projects to join efforts, as we have always done. Wikiprojects such as "Viquimarató Dies Internacionals" (International Days Editathon, with Wikimedia Spain, Wikimedia Portugal, and the Wikipedias in Basque, Galician, and Asturian languages) or "Viquimarató de la Llengua Catalana" (Catalan Language Editathon, with the University of Lisbon and Wikimedia Portugal), and Wikimedia Land of Valencia carries out activities that are at the same time shared by Amical Wikimedia and by Wikimedia Spain.
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
Yes
14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
Our usual partners are the institutions of the Catalan-speaking territories -Generalitat de Catalunya, Govern d’Andorra, Generalitat Valenciana, Govern de les Illes Balears, Govern d’Aragó, Government Delegation of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Italy, and the House of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Perpinyà- regarding the language, institutions such as Adifolk regarding folklore, libraries (Bibliowikis and GLAM), museums and archives (GLAM), universities, etc.
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.
- We believe there are no appreciable external risks. As for internal risks, yes there could be, given that a change of Board is expected at the end of this year. However, the strategic lines of the entity are agreed upon and the plan we are presenting is fairly consistent, with the exception of some elements that we think the new Board will want to implement.
17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
a) Has Amical Wikimedia helped to energise and empower the community of Catalan-speaking editors of Wikimedia projects? b) Has Amical Wikimedia helped to improve free knowledge training in Catalan-speaking society and the help available to users of Wikimedia projects? c) Has Amical Wikimedia helped to show the concerns related to free knowledge of the community of Catalan-speaking editors in society? d) Has Amical Wikimedia contributed to promoting content editing projects that are related to its objectives? e) Has Amical Wikimedia progressed in its desire to be a point of reference and maintain a dialogue between entities with similar objectives? f) Has Amical Wikimedia strengthened its reference position as a reference for free knowledge?
20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.
| Main Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Amical Wikimedia members | It is important to know the number of members in order to know whether they are satisfied with our work and if what we do attracts new people. | 120 |
| Number of people organising projects | We have many partners, but it is good to know how many of them are willing to promote and help in the activities. | 15 |
| Number of participants in the activities | This data will help us to know how many people we have reached with our activities. | 200 |
| Number of women participating in the activities | We have a few women and we think that there should be more women for the Wikimedia projects. | 30 |
| Number of participants under 20 years old in the activities | We have a few young people and we believe that more young people are needed for the Wikimedia projects. | 30 |
Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | Number of activities promoted by the entity | 20 |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A |
21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The number of participants in all the activities we organise. 200 participants, with at least 30 women and 30 participants under 20 years of age. | 200 |
| Number of editors | The number of editors in all activities. 300, with at least 50 women and 50 participants under 20 years of age. | 300 |
| Number of organizers | N/A | 15 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | New content contributions in several Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikidata,...), but mainly in Wikipedia. Create 300 articles of women to reach 20% biographies of women. | 300 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
N/A
22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
a) Participants: Manual system, list of participants in each project. b) Editors: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org But we don't know how to know the age and whether they are women. c) Organisers: Manual system. d) New Content Contributions: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org
Financial Proposal[edit]
23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.
- 99900 EUR
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 96085.49 USD
23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.
- N/A
Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s):
Final Message[edit]
By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.
We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- Yes
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