Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Decolonizing Wikipedia/Midpoint Report

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Report Status: Draft

Due date: 2023-01-15T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Midpoint

Application

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General information[edit]

This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their midpoint results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.

  • Name of Organization: Whose Knowledge?
  • Title of Proposal: Decolonizing Wikipedia
  • Amount awarded: 357964
  • Amount spent: USD,

Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]

1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these.

3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered? What will you do differently going forward?

4. Please describe how different Wikimedia communities are being informed about your work. Provide any useful links that illustrate community engagement.

5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups?

N/A

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities for this fund. What are you learning about these areas during this period?

7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your project?

Part 2: Metrics[edit]

8a. In your application, you outlined some core metrics that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics and describe the qualitative or quantitative results to date, if applicable. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results and mention the tools used.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Number of participants This metric includes users who participated in our campaign by joining online or in-person workshops with Whose Knowledge? and partner organizations, from feminist networks to GLAM institutions.

The total for 2022 is 350 participants and for 2023 is 450 participants.

800
Number of editors Newly registered editors who have created their accounts during/as a result of workshops organized/co-organized by Whose Knowledge?. The number will be later complemented with the metric for returning members, as a means to identify who the contributors are, who keep coming back to Wikipedia and what strategies have worked to retain them.

The total for 2022 is 75 editors and the total for 2023 is 100 editors.

175
Number of organizers The total for 2022 is 15 organizers and the total for 2023 is 20 organizers. 35
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Wikimedia Commons *5000 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and at least 150 edits to Wikimedia projects by 2022
  • 7500 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and at least 200 edits to Wikimedia projects by 2023
  • ⅓ of the images uploaded featuring women from/in the Global South
 12500 N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

8b. In your application, you outlined some additional metrics that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics and describe the qualitative or quantitative results to date, if applicable. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results and mention the tools used.

Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability Strategic partnerships with organizations that work with Wikimedia projects, as well as community-centered initiatives and GLAM institutions in the Global South.

The total number will be 40 strategic partnerships in 2022 and 60 partnerships in 2023.

100 N/A N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors Post-event forms collected from all activities listed in this application (10 events/year in 2022, 15 events/year in 2023)

Participants’ feedback from pre- and post-event forms and surveys, and other ways of involvement, including quotes and interviews to be featured in reports and blog posts.

N/A N/A N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees Target: at least ⅓ of participants are in/from the Global South, ½ identify as women or non-binary, are indigenous/black/people of colors in origin.

Number of participants who are in/from the Global South, identify as women or non-binary persons, and are indigenous/black/people of color(s) in origin. Information will be collected as part of registry forms.

N/A N/A N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications *6000 followers on Twitter by 2022, and 7000 followers by 2023;
  • 300,000 impressions on Twitter in the months of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign in 2022;
  • 400,000 impressions on Twitter in the months of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign in 2023;
  • 300 mentions on Twitter in the months of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign in 2022;
  • 400 mentions on Twitter in the months of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign in 2023
 7000 N/A N/A N/A
Number of activities developed Number of workshops and edit-a-thons organized in partnership with organizations in the Global South, GLAM institutions, and feminist networks.

10 #VisibleWikiWomen events organized by 2022 15 #VisibleWikiWomen events organized by 2023

15 N/A N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?

N/A

10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?

10a. Please describe how and what has proved to be most effective.

11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.

  • Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.).
  • Below is an additional field to type in link URLs. You can include any monitoring tool links (dashboards, etc), surveys, training materials, presentations, and other URLs. We also recommend you share your findings in the form of a learning pattern. Click on this link to find out more. If you create any learning patterns, please link them below.

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]

12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

13. Local currency type

14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

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  • Report funds received and spent, if template not used.

15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?

15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.

N/A

16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.

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