Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Advancing Wikipedia, wiki projects, and free knowledge in Ukraine, 2024 and beyond/Yearly Report (2025)
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Part 1: Understanding your work
[edit]Per the recent update on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy process, Wikimedia Affiliates that are General Support Fund grantees will fulfill their affiliate reporting requirements through their final or yearly grantee report.
If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate, you will use this form for your affiliate reporting and to address the affiliate health criteria. You do not need to submit a separate report to AffCom. Follow the guidance in the green boxes to report on how you met the corresponding affiliate health criteria.
If you are not a Wikimedia Affiliate, aligning your responses with the affiliate criteria is optional and not required.
1. Please share to what extent your programs, approaches, and strategies contributed to addressing the challenges you shared in your proposal. If they did not contribute as you believed they would, please share what obstacles you faced and what, if anything, you learned from them? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 1.) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 1.1 (Goal delivery). Describe how you actively delivered on mission goals, e.g. content creation.
Overall our work was effective to address the four challenges we outlined in our proposal, which match our four strategic directions. Here's a short overview across each of the four directions, followed by a brief reflection of the key obstacles and learnings Wikimedia Ukraine faced & acquired.
1) Challenge 1 — help enrich content of Wikipedia and its sister projects
In 2025, Wikimedia Ukraine continued its comprehensive strategy to enrich content across Wikipedia and sister projects, combining large partnership campaigns, community-initiated thematic weeks, photo contests, and new efforts in Wikisource development.
A few examples:
- Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month, now in its fifth edition, engaged 153 participants who worked on 1,620+ articles across a record 70 language versions of Wikipedia — surpassing the previous year's record of 66 languages and further expanding global knowledge about Ukrainian culture.
- Our photo contests achieved remarkable results: Wiki Loves Monuments attracted 265 participants who submitted 38,365 photos (first place globally among 57 countries), while Wiki Loves Earth saw 124 participants upload 7,436 photos of protected natural sites (third place globally). We also coordinated the international stage of Wiki Loves Earth across 57 countries.
- We supported 10 community-initiated thematic weeks through microgrants, collectively engaging around 170 participants who worked on nearly 1,900 articles on topics ranging from Ukrainian cuisine to Switzerland to sports.
- Ukrainian Wikisource development received a systematic boost, with seven thematic campaigns engaging dozens of contributors who proofread thousands of pages.
2) Challenge 2 — increase the number and diversity of Wikimedia volunteers in Ukraine
In 2025, Wikimedia Ukraine made significant strides in expanding and diversifying our volunteer community through scaled-up programs and several new initiatives.
A few examples:
- Our annual Wikimarathon engaged 309 participants (including 52 newcomers) across approximately 40 wiki-meetups in Ukraine and abroad, remaining an important gateway for new contributors.
- Our education program continued to expand: for example, approximately 2,000 people enrolled in our online course course on Prometheus (around 1,160 completed it), while university partnerships with institutions like Taras Shevchenko University, Lviv Polytechnic, and others brought students into Wikipedia through structured practice programs.
- In July 2025, we launched a long-awaited online course “Wikipedia for Beginners” on the WikiLearn platform. By the end of the year, ~120 people registered and 70 completed the course and received a certificate. The course is currently in its pilot stage, with updates planned based on user feedback before a wider promotion.
- We scaled up the “Wikipedia for 55+” program for senior citizens, conducting two large offline courses in Kyiv, one in Poltava, and opening registration for an online course — expanding from a single pilot the previous year.
- The first technical skills course for women attracted 30 participants (14 completed it), accompanied by six publicly available webinars. We also helped establish a WikiWomen chat with 20+ members and regular online meetups.
- Crimean Tatar Wikipedia development continued through a dedicated marathon, individual events in partnership with the Office of the President’s Representative in Crimea, a large community survey, and a new partnership with the Turkology department at Taras Shevchenko University to integrate Crimean Tatar Wikipedia into student curricula. (However, Crimean Tatar Wikipedia development is one of the few programs where we achieved less than we’d hoped for, we think largely because the Crimean Tatar language community in Ukraine is small and overstretched by a lot of important non-Wikimedia work).
3) Challenge 3 — provide support to the community of Wikimedia volunteers in Ukraine
In 2025, Wikimedia Ukraine deepened its community support through more targeted programs and new initiatives aimed at sustaining motivation and developing skills.
A few examples:
- We organized the annual Wikiconference in October — combining an online conference, an in-person conference in Kyiv, and satellite meetups in Kharkiv and Poltava. A record ~130 participants joined, the highest attendance in Wikiconference history.
- A new program supporting Wikipedia administrators and patrollers was launched, including a comprehensive needs assessment survey and four dedicated online events for training and experience exchange.
- The “wiki condensed milk” motivation program continued rewarding active contributors: over 10 months, 59 awards were given to 54 users.
- We provided scholarships for community members to attend international events including Wikimania in Nairobi, Wikimedia CEE Meeting in Thessaloniki, Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul, and several others.
- Regular online training sessions for the community covered topics from generative AI in Wikimedia work to writing about scientists in Wikipedia.
4) Challenge 4 — boost awareness about Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and free knowledge in Ukraine
In 2025, Wikimedia Ukraine significantly expanded its public outreach and advocacy work, with notable progress on several fronts.
A few examples:
- A major focus was the development of a video course about Wikipedia and sister projects: 11 new episodes were published, covering topics from interface basics to writing about military personnel, aimed at making Wikipedia accessible to a broad audience. We also began work on repurposing these materials into short-form vertical videos for social media.
- Media work included 13 national press releases, proactive media pitching, and regular responses to journalist inquiries. Some of the most prominent topics included results of Wikimedia Ukraine’s photo contests, the annual top Wikipedia articles ranking and the growing discourse around AI and Wikipedia. We also supported an array of social media channels; for example, just our main Facebook page content received 1,383,417 views in January–November.
- We continued advocacy efforts: for example, we established contact with the Office of the President regarding free licensing of materials, engaged with the public broadcaster Suspilne on the same topic, joined the international Wiki Loves Broadcast initiative, and continued monitoring legislation on SLAPP lawsuits and freedom of panorama.
Reflection on key obstacles & learnings
Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine continues to present the biggest obstacle to our work, both in a narrow operational sense (e.g. in-person events are more complex and expensive due to safety measures) and in the sense of its broader impact on the community (it’s harder for people to volunteer for Wikipedia while they face physical risks, power blackouts, and other effects of the war). In the case of Crimean Tatar Wikipedia, where the community is so small to begin with, this is particularly obvious. For our other projects, this wide impact of the war on community capacity is more subtle but still considerable.
Despite this, 2025 was a year of notable institutional growth. We successfully launched several new large programs — OpenGLAM in Ukraine (with a pilot funded by the Swedish Institute and a larger project secured for 2026–2027), the scientific community development project, the administrators and patrollers support program, and the course for beginners on WikiLearn. The OpenGLAM grant from the Swedish Institute marked our first large grant from a non-Wikimedia donor, an important step toward funding diversification. Overall, we applied for six additional grants beyond our main GSF fund, with three approved.
Our key learning this year is that investing in new programs and partnerships can drive both organizational growth and community impact simultaneously — even during wartime. The challenge is balancing the ambition of new initiatives with the capacity constraints our team and community face. Conscious planning, which we continued through our annual planning process in October, remains essential for navigating this balance.
2. Is there a plan to build on the key successes you had? If yes, please describe the plan and if no, please share the limitations to do so. For instance, did the activities lead to any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future? (required)
We continue executing on our 2025–2026 strategic plan, while making adjustments and improvements where relevant based on the results and learnings of 2025.
For content enrichment, a major priority is significantly developing our GLAM program thanks to the OpenGLAM in Ukraine project, which moves from a successful 2025 pilot to a full-scale initiative in 2026–2027 funded by the Swedish Institute. This will include in-depth training for several dozen GLAM specialists, a guidebook, and an online course — formalizing and scaling the institutional partnerships that have been among our most effective tools for content growth. We will also keep investing in our major photo contests and other content campaigns that consistently deliver strong results.
For increasing participation, a key priority is finalizing and promoting our online course for beginners on WikiLearn, which we aim to develop into a full-fledged tool for acquiring new editors. We also plan to scale successful diversity initiatives, such as the technical skills course for women, which showed promising results in its first edition. For Crimean Tatar Wikipedia, we will try to shift our approach toward educational partnerships — particularly the integration of Crimean Tatar Wikipedia editing into university curricula — as a more sustainable path for growing this community, given the challenges we discussed in question 1.
For community support, we plan to continue our strong work across existing programs while putting significant resources into scaling up support for Wikipedia administrators and patrollers. In 2025, we launched this program with research and four online events; in 2026, we aim to move beyond occasional online events toward continuous support spaces and, ideally, a hybrid in-person event — scaling up the support so it matches the critical role these volunteers play in maintaining the quality and health of Ukrainian Wikipedia.
For outreach, we plan to invest more in short-form vertical video content for social media while continuing to produce longer-form educational videos. In advocacy, a key focus will be anti-SLAPP legislation in Ukraine, which is both locally relevant and of significant interest on the European level, where EU-wide anti-SLAPP measures are also advancing. This builds on our participation in the relevant roundtable in December 2025 and our ongoing engagement through Wikimedia Europe.
On the institutional development side, we are growing to account for new non-Wikimedia funding streams, including expanding our team for the OpenGLAM project in early 2026. A new multi-year strategic plan is expected to be developed in mid-to-late 2026, as a next step after our current 2025–2026 strategy.
3. Please provide a link to reports that detail the activities that took place in the last year. This can include an annual report, Meta pages, and websites. If there are no links available, briefly describe the implemented activities and programs below or upload any files. (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 3.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.1 (Affiliate health & resilience), 4.1 (Internal engagement), 4.2 (Community connection), and 4.3 (Partnerships and collaboration):
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
- Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
- [1] — detailed annual report in Ukrainian
- [2] — high-level overview in English
Affiliate Health Criteria:
2.1. We’re constantly welcoming new members to the NGO, where they have decision-making authority at NGO General Meetings (list of members: https://ua.wikimedia.org/?curid=17). NGO members and other volunteers are encouraged to join organizing committees for various projects WMUA is running, which serves as an important training ground for getting elected to Wikimedia Ukraine’s Board & Audit Committee (example of one such public call: [3]). We’re offering training and capacity building for members and volunteers, as shown in our annual report.
4.1. The biggest venue for engagement among members is our Annual General Meeting. But we’re also offering other spaces, such as regular online meetings ([4]) and asynchronous onwiki discussion (e.g. public discussion of our 2026 plans: [5]). Community conferences like the annual Wikiconference or the conference for educators offer another valuable avenue.
4.2. All of the avenues discussed in 4.1, with the exception of the General Meeting, are open to all Ukrainian community volunteers, not just our members. Announcements to join them are distributed across multiple public-facing channels like Village Pumps, mailing lists and social media.
4.3. We have robust partnerships with multiple other affiliates and dozens of non-Wikimedia entities. Some examples are incorporated in the detailed annual report linked in question 3.
To highlight a few major examples here:
- Among affiliates two of our strongest partners are Wikimedia Sweden (which is our partner for the OpenGLAM projects and some others, such as Wiki Loves Monuments) and Wikimedia Poland (we have multiple common projects, such as a joint nomination for Wiki Loves Monuments and a planned Open Knowledge conference in October 2026).
- We have multiple longstanding non-Wikimedia partnerships, but two of the most interesting ones we developed in 2025 include partnership with educational NGO Osvitoria, which helped us reach thousands of new educators, and the National Antarctic Scientific Center.
4. Are you interested in sharing what you achieved or learned this year with the wider community through different peer learning programs (e.g. Let's Connect program, Diff)? (optional)
Yes, we’ve shared a lot about our work with the international community.
Most notable channels are:
1) Diff. We published around two dozen articles in 2025, but key examples of sharing expertise include [6] and [7]
2) Thematic newsletters, such as [8] and [9].
3) Presentations at international conferences, such as Wikimania & Wikimedia CEE Meeting. We presented around 20 sessions across all conferences in 2025 — for example, just at Wikimania we presented Wikimedia Ukraine’s programs through five main program sessions, one side event session, and four posters. A few specific examples include [10], [11], and [12].
4) Standalone events, such as presenting our program of support for users with extended rights at a quarterly meeting for the Wikimedia Foundation staff from the CEE/NWE region in October 2025.
5) Responding to ad-hoc questions and requests, such as [13] and [14]
5. Did you collect feedback from your community or target groups on how the activities implemented impacted them? If yes, please attach/provide information on the results (e.g. community surveys, stories, impact booklets/reports, interviews with partner institutions, etc). Did you collect other impact-specific data? (required)
For affiliates, the response to Question 5. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criteria 4.1 (Internal Engagement), 4.2 (Community Connection), or 4.3 (Partnerships & collaboration), where applicable.
We’re routinely collecting feedback from the community and other stakeholders, both overall & as part of the cycle for every major project.
A few public examples:
- Stories of participants of our “Wikipedia for 55+” course: [15]
- Stories of participants of our wiki technical course for women: [16]
- Interviews with participants of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest: https://wlm.org.ua/category/історії-учасників/
- Survey for administrators and patrollers, which, among other things, included an assessment of how they benefited from Wikimedia Ukraine’s activities in the past: [17]
- Report from Wikimedia Ukraine’s CEE Meeting scholars: [18]
For non-public examples, typically wrapping up every major event (like Wikiconference) or campaign (like a photo contest) entails a survey for participants where we ask to share how they benefited from the activity, how we can improve it in the future etc.
6. During the fund period, did your efforts do any of the following? (required):
For affiliates, the response to Question 6. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criterion 2.2 (Diversity balance).
- 6.1 Bring in participants from the following groups: women, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, indigenous groups , young people, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA), other
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: women, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, indigenous groups, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Editors, Organizers, Partnerships
7. What, if any, effective tactics or approaches can you share that worked well when dealing with the programs under points 6.1-6.3 that you selected? (optional)
We shared learnings in our Wikimania presentation about the “Wikipedia for 55+” program, which we think are relevant for all programs around increasing diversity. Here’s a brief recap:
1) Analyze needs (e.g. look for potential partners, survey targeted audiences)
2) Start small, then scale up (for example, we started the “Wikipedia for 55+” program with one pilot, then expanded to multiple courses)
3) Keep in mind motivation and engagement (e.g. praise for every contribution, mentions on social media, certificates and souvenirs)
4) Ensure longer-term sustainability (e.g. online group for mutual assistance, meetings during contests on Wikipedia, regular informal wiki meetings)
8. If you developed partnerships, which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors (optional):
Permanent staff outreach, Volunteers from our communities, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics for Year 2
[edit]| Wikimedia Metrics | Target (Year 2) | Results (Year 2) | Comments and tools used |
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| Number of all participants | 5790 | 9630 | Two notes relevant for all metrics:
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| Number of all editors | 4820 | 6330 | |
| Number of new editors | N/A | 4060 | |
| Number of retained editors | N/A | 2270 | |
| Number of all organizers | 220 | 240 | |
| Number of new organizers | N/A |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages (Year 2) | Target - Number of improved pages (Year 2) | Result - Number of created pages (Year 2) | Result - Number of improved pages (Year 2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 6456 | 1947 | ||
| Wikimedia Commons | 120451 | |||
| Wikidata | 216 | |||
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | 8620 | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | 441 | 15 | ||
| Wikivoyage | 47 | |||
| Wikibooks | ||||
| Wikiversity | ||||
| Wikinews | ||||
| Wikispecies | ||||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
Tool used and comments (optional):
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes
11.1. Other Metrics.
In your application, you outlined some other open metrics that you would like to measure. Please fill out the achieved results for each of the open metrics you defined.
| Other Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnerships | Number of partnerships that contribute to long-term growth, diversity and sustainability of Wikimedia Ukraine's work.
Please see a more detailed distribution of our metrics across all programs for 2025 in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rc9_zh9d0vOyFILpBMsvU3znLqo9IJaDKDealYo5l18/edit?gid=621326607#gid=621326607 |
134 | 103 | N/A | N/A |
| Sharings with the international community | Number of pieces of content (newsletter articles, Diff posts, conference presentations) that share the useful learnings and experience from Wikimedia Ukraine's work with the international community. | 15 | 40 | 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 |
Part 3: Skill Development / Capacity Building
[edit]12. Reflecting on your programmatic (external) and organizational (internal) work, did your grant support you to undergo any skill development that made a difference to your success? If yes, what skill was developed, and how did it lead to success? (e.g. received coaching on public speaking, attended training on nonviolent communication, hosted professional development conversations on leadership, learned and used a new tool for project management, etc.)? Can you share any materials? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 12.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.2 (Diversity balance) and 3.1 (Diverse, Skilled, and Accountable Leadership):
- Describe actions taken to prioritize gender balance in affiliate leadership, as well as any areas of diversity relevant to your affiliate's context (2.2).
- Describe the management, financial, or other leadership skills of your affiliate leaders. If you have a succession plan, please include it here (3.1).
- Describe any training or skill development (as outlined in the question above) (3.1).
- Incorporate into the annual report a disclosure of conflict of interests (if any) from the leadership (3.1).
We’ll address the question itself & Affiliate Health Criteria separately.
Skill development:
In 2025, Wikimedia Ukraine did undergo a lot of skill development. We would divide into development for the internal operational team (staff and leadership bodies) and development for our wider volunteer community.
1. For the internal team, a significant area of skill development was grant acquisition and financial management. With 2025 being a year of considerable fundraising growth — we applied for six additional grants beyond our main WMF funding, secured our first major non-Wikimedia grant (from the Swedish Institute for OpenGLAM), and managed multiple funding streams simultaneously — our staff and board members developed skills in writing grant proposals for diverse funders, managing budgets across parallel projects, and navigating the reporting requirements of different donors. This experience built organizational capacity that will be important as we continue diversifying our funding base in 2026 and beyond.
2. For our wider volunteer community, we organized a broad range of skill development opportunities throughout the year. We conducted regular online training sessions for the wiki community on topics ranging from generative AI to digital safety. Within our education program, we held a three-day in-person workshop for 19 educators in Kyiv. We also ran the first technical skills course for women (30 participants, six public webinars), a course for wiki-event organizers in December, and the new administrators and patrollers support program which included training events on topics like patrolling best practices and combating global vandalism. Notably, our community’s skills were also recognized internationally — at Wikimania 2025 in Nairobi, Ukrainian Wikimedians presented five sessions and four posters about our projects, and our administrators support program drew significant interest at the Wikimedia CEE Meeting in Thessaloniki as one of the most comprehensive in the region.
Affiliate Health Criteria:
2.2. Our leadership bodies – board & audit committee – are diversified across some key areas, including representing different skill sets, different geographical areas of Ukraine (and Ukrainians abroad), and different levels of engagement with the Wikimedia community (e.g. we have both Wikipedia functionaries and people who’ve become part of the community more recently).
Gender diversity still needs improvement – 30% of leadership bodies members are women – but we improved it in 2025 & will do so further by proactively inviting more women to become members of the NGO, which opens a path to becoming part of leadership bodies further down the road.
Efforts to increase leadership diversity, both in gender and otherwise, include inviting people to become part of project organizing committees, which offer important training ground for serving on leadership bodies, as well as holding capacity building events for NGO members and the wider community.
3.1.
- Skills mapping: please see detailed skills mapping for members of Wikimedia Ukraine’s board here (in Ukrainian): [19]
- Training and skill development: It’s customary for us to organize a detailed training session for leadership bodies and staff; the most recent one took place in January 2026: [20]. Individual board / audit committee members are also participating in individual training events and programs, including events at Wikimedia movement conferences (such as Wikimania & CEE Meeting) and external ones.
- Conflict of interest: Overall CoI disclosure is governed by the board’s rules of procedure: [21]. Specifically, board members have filled out a questionnaire aimed to determine potential conflicts of interest; text of the questionnaire is available here (in Ukrainian): [22]
(responses are available to Board & Audit Committee members).
13. What is one capacity/skill area that you would like to focus on for the next year? And how do you plan to achieve this capacity? (required)
A key capacity area we’d like to focus on in the coming year is strategic planning and impact measurement. With our current 2025–2026 strategy concluding and a new multi-year strategic plan to be developed in mid-to-late 2026, we want to invest in building stronger skills in needs assessment and evaluating the impact of our programs. As the organization grows — with new funding streams, new programs like OpenGLAM and the scientific community project, and an expanding team — having a more rigorous framework for understanding what works and why becomes increasingly important. We plan to achieve this through a combination of learning from peers in the Wikimedia movement, engaging with relevant training opportunities, and dedicating time within our planning process to develop these skills intentionally.
14. If you have additional information or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. Use the space below to upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your report.
For affiliates, also use this section (Question 14) to fulfill the Affiliate Health Criteria requirements.
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for affiliate governance, including affiliate leadership and membership with a breakdown of the demographics; how elections are conducted; how conflicts of interest are declared; and how decisions are made and communicated (2.2, 2.3, 3.1).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for activities incorporating, promoting awareness about, or enforcing the Universal Code of Conduct in your affiliate's activities (3.3).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for internal membership engagement, such as notes from your regular meetings and how you communicate to or involve your membership (4.1).
Affiliate Health Criteria:
2.3. Affiliate leadership is elected by members at General Assemblies. The latest election took place in December 2025.
The board makes high-level decisions, which are published on the website. More operational decisions are delegated to volunteer-led committees and staff, overseen by individual board members responsible for each strategic direction.
Links:
- Leadership bodies: [23]
- Latest General Assembly: [24]
- List of members: [25]
- Board’s decisions: [26]
- Examples of volunteer-led committees making or helping make more operational decisions:
1) choosing recipients for scholarships for international events: [27]
2) awarding book grants: [28]
- Example of staff members making an operational decision:
1) awarding grants to organize a small community-initiated content campaign:
3.3. Abiding by the Universal Code of Conduct is mandatory for participants of Wikimedia Ukraine’s activities. For example, participants of our conferences are asked to confirm they would abide by the UCoC when signing up for the conference & reminded about it during the conference, with specific organizing team members being designated to follow the implementation of the friendly space policy.
Examples:
- Wikiconference registration form: [30]
- Slides for Wikiconference’s opening: [31]
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]For affiliates, also use this section (Part 4: Financial reporting) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 3.2 (Financial & Legal Compliance).
| Description | Amount spent (USD) |
|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 63205.75 |
| Operational costs | 23326.87 |
| Programmatic costs | 63847.38 |
| Total (Year 2) | 150380 |
| Other revenue | 16680 |
| Remaining funds (Year 2) | N/A |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
150380 USD
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 23326.87 USD
- Programmatic costs: 63847.38 USD
- Staff and contractor costs: 63205.75 USD
17. Did you have any other revenue sources (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): Yes
- 17.1. Provide the total amount received from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 18071 USD
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 16680 USD
18. Provide a financial report document which will provide the details of funds received and spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
- Report in Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sBuCZkQlHRn-PxD4XCbZbrHI-PaeiAOG/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113014253224719184206&rtpof=true&sd=true
Note: since Fluxx doesn't allow numbers with decimal points in questions 17x, numbers there were rounded up to the nearest whole number.
18.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
There were no major changes to the budget overall, but there were some shifts between programs.
We spent more than planned on several lines within the participation and community support programs. Wikipedia in Education saw significantly higher spending because the program was much more active than originally planned, with a three-day in-person workshop, an annual educators' conference, expanded university partnerships, and other activities. The Wikimarathon also exceeded its budget due to the large number of meetups organized across Ukraine and abroad, as well as rising costs of hosting in-person events. Similarly, community event organization – particularly the Wikiconference and the Annual General Meeting – cost more than anticipated, as organizing safe and high-quality in-person events in Ukraine during the ongoing war continues to get more expensive.
By contrast, we spent less than planned on awareness and advocacy. The awareness program was quite active throughout the year, but its costs were driven mostly by staff time rather than direct program expenses, which is why the programmatic spending appears lower. Advocacy was less active, and to the extent it was active, it was driven by volunteer/staff time and partnerships rather than dedicated program costs.
19. Do you have any unspent funds from this funding?: No
20. Final confirmations (required)
- 20.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement? You must be in compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement. In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
- 20.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
- 20.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
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