Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Funded/2023-24
Regions are in alphabetical order.
Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia
[edit]Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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Wikimedia MKD (GLAM Macedonia & Shared Knowledge) | $81,161.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Estonia (Mittetulundusuhing Wikimedia Eesti) | $85,772.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Polska | $108,998.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Ukraine | $146,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia User Group Georgia | $58,358.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group | $47,206.00 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Serbia | $164,159.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Czech Republic | $229,124.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Republic of Srpska | $54,087 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia User Group Turkey | $72,912 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
CEE Spring User Group | $10,946 | Full funding | Renewal application |
Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group | $22,342 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Armenia | $152,549 | Partial funding | New multi-year funding decision |
TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $1,233,614.00 |
East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific
[edit]Grantee organisation | Country | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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User Group Malaysia | Malaysia | $57, 000.00 | Partial funding | Returning |
Wikimedia Korea | Korea | $117,968.40 | Full funding | Returning
Includes additional funding of $15,314 |
Wikimedia Taiwan | Taiwan | $137,321.00 | Full funding | Returning |
Wikimedia Thailand | Thailand | $40,347.00 | Full funding | Returning |
Hopengiu Wikimedians User Group (not a recognized affiliate) | Taiwan | $11,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific (SKAP) Inc. | Philippines | $20,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
Wikimedia Indonesia | Indonesia | $368,500 | Partial funding | Returning |
Wiki Advocates Philippines | Philippines | $69,730 | Partial funding | Returning |
Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group | Philippines | $47,527 | Partial funding | Returning |
Wikimedians of Japan User Group | Japan | $65,399 | Partial funding | Returning |
漱石の猫 | Japan | $24,000 | Partial funding | Rapid to GSF, First GSF grant |
Wikimedia Asian Month | Taiwan | $39,795 | Partial funding | Rapid to GSF, First GSF grant |
Progress Gateway NGO (Alliances) | Mongolia | $40,000 | Partial funding | Returning |
Creative Commons Indonesia (Alliances) | Indonesia | $67,000 | Partial funding | Returning |
Wikimedia Australia [Multi-year] | Australia | $266,376 | Full funding | Existing multi-year |
Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand [Multi-year] | New Zealand | $212,337 | Full funding | Existing multi-year |
TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $1,584,300 |
Latin America & Caribbean
[edit]Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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Wiki Movimento Brasil | $527,511 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant |
Wikimedia Argentina | $375,000 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
Wikimedia México | $365,126 | Partial funding | Partial funding based on persistent concerns about long-term strategy, internal capacity, and historical underspending. Grant conditional on meeting specific deliverables
Renewal application |
Wikimedia Chile | $284,953 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
Wikimedia Colombia | $195,858 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant. For year 2, funding increased followed by the request for adjustment based on inflation and other unforeseen expenses |
Wikimedia Uruguay | $154,258 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
Wiki Acción Perú | $121,496 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
Wikimedistas de Bolivia | $110,096 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
Groupe d'Utilisateurs Wikimedia d'Haiti | $80,305 | Full funding | New multi-year funding decision*
Renewal application |
Wikimedistas Wayúu (Colombia & Venezuela) | $70,688 | Full funding | Renewal application |
Wikimedistas de Perú | $58,129 | Full funding | Renewal application |
Mais Teoria da História na Wiki (Brasil) | $51,448 | Full funding | Renewal application |
Equipo de Wikimedistas de La Universidad de La Plata (Argentina) | $36,300 | Partial funding | Partial funding due to some costs considered to be elevated
Renewal application |
TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $2,431,168 |
*The LAC Regional Fund Committee has decided to keep the funding amounts the same for both years until information about the regional budget for FY 24-25 is available.
Middle East & North Africa
[edit]Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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Algeria Wikimedians User Group | $28,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant, partial funding due to some high equipment costs and some work needed related to community leadership |
Egyptian Wikimedians User Group | $29,364.61 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
Iraqi Wikimedians | $12,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant, partial funding to test new leadership and ambitious timeline |
Wikimedia Libya | $14,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant, partial funding to test new leadership and ambitious timeline |
Wikimedians of the Levant (Jordan) | $34,050.00 | Full funding | |
Wikimedians of the United Arab Emirates User Group | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | MEA Committee wanted to see greater impact before approving larger funding |
Wikimedia MA (Morocco) | $108,800.00 | Full funding | First multi-year funding approved for MENA until 2026 |
Jordanian Digital Arabic Content Association | $20,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $296,214.61 |
North America
[edit]Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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Wikimedia DC | $42,450.00 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant, funded for 1-1/2 years to support affiliate to switch future funding rounds. |
Wikimedia NYC | $177,000.00 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant |
Art + Feminism | $404,689.00 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant |
Black Lunch Table | $301,793.10 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant |
Whose Knowledge? | $200,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning multi-year grant |
Wikimedia Canada | $211,740.98 | Full funding | Returning grant |
Wiki Education Foundation | $445,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning multi-year grant |
WikiTongues | $58,000.00 | Full funding | New annual grant |
WikiProject Medicine | $145,000.00 | Partial funding | With $15,000.00 amendment included |
AfroCROWD | $150,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia LGBT+ UG | $131,000 | Full funding | New grantee |
WikiJournal UG | $32,000 | Partial funding | Six-month grant, see proposal talk page for details |
TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $2,298,673.08 |
Northern & Western Europe
[edit]Grantee organization | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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Wikimedia France | $465,676.75 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant Y2 with no change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application |
Wikimedia France | $40,541.27 | Partial funding | Direct costs of a one-year project mitigating the effects of the conflicts of French Wikipedia for the wider francophone community
Amendment |
Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group | $132,351.00 | Partial funding | Annual grant - also awarded a Conference Grant |
Wikimedia Norge (Norway) | $123,062.73 | Full funding | 6 months bridging request due to changing application Rounds from R2 to R1
Amendment of 2023 grant |
Wikimedia Portugal | $136,588.66 | Partial funding | Annual grant awarded with the condition of a strategic review |
Wikimedia Österreich - WMAT (Austria) | $358,297.17 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant Y3 with change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application, difference compensated from Alliance Funds |
Wikimedia Sverige - WMSE (Sweden) | $409,353.26 | Full funding | Existing multi-year grant Y3 with no change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application |
Wikimedia Sverige - WMSE (Sweden) | $34,500.00 | External fundraising support | External fundraising support: one-time partial funding of a CRM system’s upfront costs
Amendment |
Wikimedia UK | $549,887.78 | Partial funding | Existing multi-year grant Y2 with small change in budget compared to approved amount at the time of application, difference compensated from Alliance Funds |
Wikimedia Nederland (Netherlands) | $451,258.85 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
Wikimedia Nederland (Netherlands) | $46,458.20 | External fundraising support | External fundraising support: self-fund of a project on decolonizing work in Aruba and the Caribbean
Amendment |
Wikimedia Israel | $396,262.22 | Partial funding | Annual grant |
Wikimedia Israel | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | Extra funding for the maintenance costs of the GLAM-Wiki Dashboard, compensated from the Tech Budget. |
Wikimedia España (Spain) | $273,928.50 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
Les sans PagEs (Switzerland) | $155,694.14 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
Wikimedia Suomi (Finland) | $115,049.97 | Partial funding | Annual grant awarded with the condition of a strategic review |
Wikimedia Suomi (Finland) | $32,871.30 | External fundraising support | External fundraising support: self-fund of a project on gamification of outdoor photography
Amendment |
Wikiesfera (Spain) | $76,699.98 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
AvoinGLAM (Finland) | $65,742.84 | Partial funding | Annual grant |
Wikimedia Belgium v.z.w (BE) | $21,914.28 | Partial funding | Annual grant awarded with the condition of a strategic review |
Wikimedia Belgium v.z.w (BE) | $16,435.00 | Full funding | Support to hire a part-time consultant for 4 months (the chapter has had no paid staff at all).
Amendment |
Wiki Editoras Lx (Portugal) | $65,742.84 | Partial funding | New multi-year grant, awarded for Y1 |
Wikimedia Community Malta User Group | $46,602.91 | Full funding | Annual grant |
Basque Wikimedians User Group | $54,785.70 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
TOTAL SPENDING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR: | $4,084,705.35 | ||
Compensations from other budget lines: | $52,759.67 |
South Asia
[edit]Grantee organization | Country | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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Atudu/Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase VII & Phase VIII | India | $ 23,193.40 | Full funding | Returning |
Wiki Loves Folklore International Organizing Team | $ 22,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning | |
Pavanaja | India | $ 19,814.00 | Partial funding | Returning |
Boli Cheto The Language And Livelihood Foundation | India | $ 11,917.40 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
Indic MediaWiki Developers UG 2024 Annual Plan | India | $ 46,158.21 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
Karavali Wikimedians User Group | India | $ 13,068.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group | India | $21,255.00 | Full funding | Returning |
CIS | India | $123,132.00 | Full funding | Returning (6 month grant extension) |
Oral Indic Cultural Project | India | $21,815.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
TOTAL OF AWARDS IN USD | $480,679.01 |
Sub-Saharan Africa
[edit]Grantee organization | Country | Awarded amount in USD | Level of funding | Comment |
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African & Proud (Afroyanga Cultural Enlightenment Initiative) | Nigeria | $22,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Global Open Initiative | Ghana | $79,000.00 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
Hausa Wikimedians User Group | Nigeria | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Igbo Wikimedians User Group | Nigeria | $81,000.00 | Partial funding | Multi-year grantee - 3 years |
Open Foundation West Africa | Ghana | $156,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wiki in Africa | South Africa | $194,282.00 | Full funding | On-going multi-year funding with a 19% increase in year 2 |
Wiki Kouman | Cote d'Ivoire | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedians of Kenya UG | Kenya | $19,570.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
Wikimedia Community User Group Cote D'Ivoire | Côte d'Ivoire | $150,000.00 | Full funding | Multi-year grantee - 3 years |
Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda | Uganda | $91,000.00 | Full funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Nigeria User Group | Nigeria | $139,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia South Africa | South Africa | $100,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia User Group Rwanda | Rwanda | $33,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Yoruba Wikimedians User Group | Nigeria | $60,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedians of Arusha | Tanzania | $42,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Tanzania University Students Wikimedians User Group | Tanzania | $30,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Access to Knowledge Africa Initiative | Nigeria | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group | Ghana | $50,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedians of the Democratic Republic of Congo User Group | Democratic Republic of Congo | $36,960.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos | Nigeria | $11,800.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group | Cameroon | $30,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Wikimedia Ghana User Group | Ghana | $45,000.00 | Partial funding | Returning grantee |
Tyap Wikimedians Organisation | Nigeria | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
WAFTAI - Women's Association For Technology And Innovation - Wiki N'zuñdeuh | Cameroon | $14,817.00 | Full funding | First GSF grant |
Wikimedia Community Kilimanjaro | Tanzania | $15,000.00 | Partial funding | First GSF grant |
TOTAL SPENDING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR: | $1,530,429.00 |
Conference Funds
[edit]*For the ESEAP Conference, Wiki Indaba, CEE Meeting, WikiCon North America, Wiki Arabia, Wikimedia Libraries Conference and the Celtic Knot Conference a % of the funding was paid directly by the WMF travel team which will handle flight and accommodation for specific conferences.