Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Conference Fund/Wikimedia Youth Conference 2024
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Applicant details[edit]
- A. Are you applying as a(n)
Group of individuals not registered with an organization
- B. Full name of organization presenting the proposal.
Wikivibrance
- F. Do you have an account on a Wikimedia project?
Yes
- F1. Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
TaronjaSatsuma
- F2. Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
James Moore200, CaliBen ,Douglaseru, Mrb Rafi
- G. Are you legally registered?
If you are applying as an individual or your group is not a legally registered nonprofit in your country, we require that you have a fiscal sponsor.
Objectives and Strategy[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal.
Wikimedia Youth Conference 2024
- 2.1. When will the event begin? Please enter the event start date.
2024-06-07
- 2.2. When is the last day of your event?
2024-06-10
- 3.1. When will you begin preparing for your event?
2024-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 3.2. When will you expect to complete your last event payment?
2024-09-30T00:00:00Z
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? Where will the conference take place?
Spain
- 5. Is it a remote or in-person event?
Hybrid event
- 5.1. What will be the total number of participants at the event? (including scholarship recipients + organizing team + other guests + self funded guests) (required)
105
- 6. 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.
International
- 6.1. If you have answered regional, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
It's a global event, with people around the world participating.
- 7. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_WikiVibrance_Project
- 8. Do you work with any thematic or regional platforms such as WISCom, CEE, Iberocoop, etc.
Yes
- 8.1. Please describe what platforms and your work with them.
Through our work and campaigns, we collaborate with communities in diverse regions to engage young wikimedians We're in contact with several platforms, and WikiVibrance works as a platform of our own.
- 9. Please describe the target participants for this event.
The target audience will be youth involved in the movement; youth members and leaders of communities; experienced wikimedians or communities who mentors or advocate for youth; people working on youth-related topics and those who are passionate about youth matters. Outside of the movement, we hope to bring in youth representatives from youth movements, organizations, and other mission-aligned groups.
- 10. Please provide the link to the event's page if you already have one.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Youth_Conference_2023
The following questions (11-14) will refer to the Community Engagement Survey which is required in order to submit a proposal. Here is the survey form that you can copy and use (if the link does not work): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ieEI8EFf2vxjD9wN_h8-srYeRCp4fhSp7_1_wiR2jh8/edit. This survey is required to access a Conference grant.
- 11. How many people did you send the community engagement survey to?
400
- 11.1. When did you conduct the survey, and for how long?
The survey was launched for about a month between late december 2022 and January 2023
- 12. How many people responded to the survey?
141
- 13. What are the main objectives of the event?
For the past 2 years, we have been mobilizing, engaging and interacting with young people in diverse communities in the movement. From then to now, we see how this is raising youth voice in the movement and inspiring people and communities to lead youth focus work. As our activities ignite growing energy among the youth, it is important to build a structure that coordinates, supports and builds a youth open movement that even attracts other young people to open knowledge work in the movement. We want to use this conference to; gather young wikimedians, youth communities, people working with youth or focused on youth related topics, and people supporting the journey of youth from diverse regions in the movement. Kickstart conversation on the design of a youth charter that defines the organizing structure, youth definition, and strategy for building a thriving open youth movement
- 14. Based on survey responses, what are the most important things your community should do at the conference to achieve these objectives?
Discuss and co-create a draft project implementation plan based on the youth charter Build strategic partnerships to grow visibility for youth and her work as well as attraction for other young people to join in our mission.
From this objectives, we want to have a final youth charter and implementation plan that guides us to; Implement a defined youth structure and outreach strategy in the movement in the short or medium term Implement defined programs based on the adopted youth structure and strategy in the short or medium term Institute a working youth definition in the movement
We will engage in varying forms of strategic discussions, brainstorming sessions and design work with young people, people with experience in youth engagement, youth mentors and other relevant groups to learn and gather ideas for the stated objectives. From our survey, respondents have demonstrated the need to engage youth voices in focus group-like discussions to share and participate in decision making
- 15. 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, Age (regency) , Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 15.1. In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge. (optional recommended).
WikiVibrance is a group dedicated to carving a path for young people in the movement understanding how important young people are to the success of the 2030 movement strategy. In a bid to increase youth participation and capacity, we have engaged wikimedia youth in various ways through annual campaigns such as International Youth Day, Africa Youth Day and European Youth Day, to contribute to a knowledge gap that speaks to youth-related topics on wikimedia projects. Through these campaigns, we have engaged about 1000 youth and people supporting their journey across 17 communities, creating 6,143 articles, improving 22,168 articles, 22606 wikidata items and 3,661 commons uploads.
- 16. 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.
Diversity, Other
- 17. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Age
- 18. Do you intend to invite or engage with non-Wikimedian individuals or organizations? If so – can you explain your intention for this outreach?
Collaborating with mission-aligned organizations and youth movements is important for growing the youth population in the movement through recruiting new members, particularly for wikimedia communities with little youth presence; identifying mutual gaps to fill; sharing experience necessary for growth of both such parties; funding opportunities and building visibility for the work of young wikimedians.
- 19. What will you do to make sure participants continue to engage in your activities after the event?
Prior to now, we have annual campaigns such as the International Youth Day, Africa Youth Day and European Youth Day that engages young wikimedians through collaboration with communities in the movement. Our meta page is a clear demonstration of youth participation. During the conference, we would learn and co-create best ways to make these activities more fun for wikimedia youth. We would also share and adopt new people into the telegram, whatsapp and mailing list for those already engaging in our programs.
- 20. 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, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Logistical Aspects[edit]
- 21. Do you have any proposed venue for the event?
In our previous grant application we had mentioned the La Marina, as we had a significant in-kind support offer from the IVAJ for provision of free accommodation for 90-100 conference participants Since we did not go through with the conference at that time considering the conference grant team recommendation to postpone to allow time to provide more support for the conference, we are not sure yet if this offer will still stand for this new time, but we are still exploring this with the partner
- 22. Is the event venue and hotel accessible for people with physical disabilities?
Yes
- 23. How many scholarships would you like to offer?
WikiVibrance as the organizer of the conference, would like to offer 80 scholarships that will be given with consideration for equal regional distribution. The figures may slightly change depending on the needs. We will be welcoming local participants. We intend to consider equal regional representation in the scholarships. And this will be easily ascertained from the number of regions we will receive scholarship applications once a call is made. This is the easy part.
- 24. What expenses will the scholarship cover?
The scholarship includes costs for traveling, accommodation, social events, as well as feeding during the conference.
- 25. How will scholarship recipients be selected?
Recipients will be selected with consideration for age (prioritizing 18-35 years old), equitable representation across groups and countries, gender, experience and involvement in youth related topics and in the wikimedia movement,and willingness to contribute value to the conference.
We will create a detailed list of criteria for scholarship awardee selection together with the conference team and make it public on meta for the sake of transparency. Our documents will include criteria, possible score distribution, sample answers and sample evaluation of those answers depending on the criteria and some guidance to answer the scholarship application form.
- 26. In which ways can Wikimedia Foundation staff support your event onsite?
We seek support in partnership, outreach and communication efforts, to help assure broad international representation at the event, being the first Wikimedia Youth Conference. We also seek support (to lead sessions) about youth-focused work, policies and agenda. We would appreciate a travel insurance letter and support letter to aid the travel of selected participants and also welcome other ideas about WMF involvement.
- 26.2. Do you intend to invite any WMF staff members to your event? (please note that all WMF staff travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the foundation). Please indicate what is the limit number of WMF staff members you would like to welcome at your event.
We would like to have about 5 WMF staff from varying departments that work on Policy, Future Audiences, Movement strategy, Movement charter, community development, research and communications. WMF Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team, as the youth development of the movement is very crucial for the movement strategy and youth needs should be reflected on crucial movement documents like UCOC or the Charter. WMF Research team, as we intend to include professional and academic researchers in the youth advocacy process of the movement and collect crucial insights through research collaborations. WMF Community Development team, as the community development team has a lot to contribute and has the knowledge and the skill set to help us in the youth development of the movement. We hope to learn from WMF staff from departments that are community-faced, to share knowledge around their learnings or research about youth participation/engagement in the movement, some of the ways youth have been reflected or would like to be reflected in strategic documents or programs such as movement charter, UCOC, and community development or even how the Foundation communication efforts strategically targets young people in the movement. We will love to learn about relevant objectives that will be useful for us to plug in to the work we are doing, and the kind of support we could seek or get working on youth related matters in the movement. Beyond this, we would really love to have WMF staff from community programs particularly those with a focus on Wikisource to share their knowledge about the project, some of the work done and skills needed to contribute.
- 27. Please outline the roles and responsibilities of the organizing team for the conference.
Grant Writing and Submission - Francesc Fort, Euphemia Uwandu, Ceslause Ogbonnaya, Joy Agyepong, James Popoola, & Bhuvana Meenakshi
Grant Review - Eben Mlay, Mrb Rafi
Budget - Euphemia Uwandu, Francesc Fort, Ferdinando Traversa
Organizing Committee (logistics and Programming) - Francesc Fort, Douglas Ssebaggala, Euphemia Uwandu, Eben Mlay, James Popoola, Mrb Rafi, Ceslause Ogbonnaya, Winnie Kabinte
Wikimedia Foundation Liaison - Francesc Fort, Euphemia Uwandu & Winnie Kabinte
Scholarships - Eben Mlay, James Moore, Mrb Rafi
Volunteer Coordinators -
Other team members - Bhuvana Meenakshi, Ferdinando Traversa, Maxwell Baganim
Advisors/Mentors - Gnangarra Lake, Sherry Antoine, Zana Strkovska, WisCom
- 28. Do you have plans to co-organize the event with other Wikimedia communities, groups or affiliates?
Yes
- 28.1. If yes, can you please explain how you are going to co-organize the event and what responsibilities each partner will have.
WikiVibrance will be the main driver of the conference from constituting a COT, Subcommittees, Scholarship criteria & selection process, liaising with different stakeholders/partners, logistics, program design, onground conference activities to communications around the conference.
Wikimedia CEE Hub - CEE Hub will serve as a bridge that connects the Conference with multiple communities active in Central and Eastern Europe and promote the conference in the CEE region. They will also assist in co-creating the conference program by sharing their youth related perspectives. Given that they just established the CEE youth group, they would share their experience establishing and facilitating the work of a regional youth group.
Kiwix*: Kiwix will be responsible for receiving, disbursing and managing the conference funds.
We are also currently exploring partnership opportunities with Wikimedia Europe, and Wikimedia Deutschland which might not conclude by the time of the submission of the grant application but we will surely share updates on the progress of this as it unfolds via email.
Also to mention our previous commitment with WM-ES and our willingness of partnering with them.
- 29. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these?
Volunteer Support: We foresee difficulty in having the desired number of volunteer community members to support the conference organizing. We would work with a pool of young Wikimedians who have shown interest in support. There are also experienced conference organizers who will work with the WikiVibrance core team.
Youth Safety: We hope to engage youth aged 18-35 and will refer to the WMF youth safety policy and also identify any youth laws in the host country where available for reference. We have also developed a youth safety plan in addition to these considerations.
Financial Risks: We envisage this due to factors such as changes in prices such as accommodation, travel, documentation and others from the time of application, approval and conference time. Other factors could also be in exchange rates and cost overrun. We have a contingency budget and a 10% increase budget to the travel tickets for participants.
Language Differences: We might have cases where youth participants are not proficient in English language. We might select participants fluent in English while learning how to provide other language support in future conferences.
Visa Requirements: We might have cases where participants from certain regions find it difficult to secure visas for the conference. We will work with a professional in the immigration service or travel agency to support the visa application process.
- 30. Friendly space policy - Please add the link to the friendly space policy that your community will be using for this event.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 31. What do you hope to learn from your work organising this conference?
We would like to see the diversity of participants we were able to pull to the conference in terms of age, geography, language, gender, educational qualification and subject knowledge among others. In addition, we want to understand the existing ways young people are engaged in their different communities, the particular activities they find useful and why. We would also like to learn about the best ways to engage and attract more young people in the movement, and how WikiVibrance can build a youth open movement that mobilizes, engages, connects, attracts, and supports youth in building open knowledge in the movement. Lastly, we would love to garner consensus on what the youth definition in the movement should look like.
- 32. Main open metrics
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity of participants | Conference attendees in terms of age, geography, language, gender, educational qualification and subject knowledge among others. | N/A |
| Youth engagement | Existing ways young people are engaged in their different communities, the particular activities they find useful and why. | N/A |
| Youth topics | Exciting activities or programs that we can build to engage Wikimedia youth in a meaningful way while attracting more young people to the movement | N/A |
| Youth Definition | Consensus on what the youth definition in the movement should look like. | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 33. What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
195215.93
- 34. Select your local currency.
EUR
- Requested amount in USD
- 212009.35 USD [note 1]
- ↑ a b The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.
- 35. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ohYe9myem7w_u9Vn2VA23IeSOE9xPv_L1wqsYjHfDrU/edit#gid=0
- 36. Do you expect to receive funding for this conference from other organizations to support your work?
Yes
- 36.1. If yes, what kind of resources are you expecting to get?
We do not have this but are open to exploring its possibility where it exists.
We are working to guarantee the use of the venue for free by the IVAJ, as in the previous proposal.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
- Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s): Other public document(s):
Youth Safety Plan - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qrgaitNS30Hp0L2fLvGK7m3-8zL6A7-WhFwSCNII9p8/edit
Please see endorsement from previous grant here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Conference_Fund/Wikimedia_Youth_Conference_2023
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