Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Amical Wikimedia Multianual Grant 2026 - 2029

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Amical Wikimedia Multianual Grant 2026 - 2029

Fluxx IDG-GS-2603-22263

proposed start date2026-07-01

proposed end date2029-06-30

approved start date01 July 2026

approved end date30 June 2029

amount requested (local currency)301800 EUR

amount requested (USD)349517.6 USD ^{[note 1]}

amount recommended (USD)352683.48

amount recommended (local currency)301800 EUR

grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

funding regionNWE

decision fiscal year2025-26

funding program roundRound 2

organization (if applicable)Associació Amical Wikimedia

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Associació Amical Wikimedia

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required): Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required): Yes

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?: No

Fiscal organization name.: N/A

Please provide links to the following documents if they are available

These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.

Organizational website
Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan

Amical Wikimedia website: https://wikimedia.cat/

Amical Wikimedia site on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia Twitter: http://twitter.com/amicalwikimedia (@amicalwikimedia) Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Amicalwikimedia (Amical Wikimedia)

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Amical Wikimedia Multianual Grant 2026 - 2029

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants): Yes

2.1. 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? (required)

In the following link we provide our 2030 strategic plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Pla_estrat%C3%A8gic_2030

Here we cover our new strategy, and what we intend to implement the following four years. The first year is available on the annually plan, and the following are also detailed on the strategic plan.

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2026-07-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2029-06-30

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Activities_Plan_2026/en

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Monthly_Activities_Plan_2026/en/

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Pla_estrat%C3%A8gic_2030

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required): Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region); Spain, Andorra, France, Italy (Catalan Speaking regions), plus other affiliates where we intend to open new collaborations, such as last year Estonia. We are working to establish new collaborations with other international affiliates to disseminate the Catalan Language and Culture.

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

- Establishing the "local edition points" which can be adapted and transformed by the local community. With involvement of local allies such as libraries, museums and community centers.

Making sure our voice is heard in the Media and social networks, by promoting our contests, specially on improving the presence of women, which gets us important headlines in the Media and over key segments of our society. Projecting ourselves as a diverse and action-driven group who continuously cares and looks forward to "close the gap" when talking about the presence of women in Catalan Wikipedia articles. "We need you for a more equal Wikipedia"
Linking together the growing activism in favor of the Catalan language with an "act of responsibility/activism" towards Wikipedia.(ie. "do you care about the future of your language? Edit Wikipedia and keep it alive". "Give back for all those years Wikipedia served you, give back by editing now.").

In this sense we aim towards:

  - Increase the visibility of the association
  - Do more activities with active members
  - Search for new collaborators and members
  - Strengthen the presence of free knowledge in the field of education
  - Project explicitly aimed at secondary education students ("Viquibatx, Viquilíder, Viquifesta")
 - Improve internal relationships and welcome mechanisms to the community
- Continue creating videos promoting open knowledge
- Update the static information on the Amical Wikimedia blog
   - Regular posts on the Amical Wikimedia blog (1-2 per month)
   - Making our voice heard against regulations that go against Amical's principles
 - One press release per month
 - Projects related to universities and secondary education (Viquibatx, Viquilíder, Viquifesta)
- Keep on with the Bibliowikis online workshops
- Promote a project every quarter dedicated to creating women's articles
- Follow up on regular and new projects promoted by members
- Activities related to Wikidata and Wikicommons as a support to Viquipèdia
- 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 open knowledge

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)


Category	Yes/No
Education	Yes
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Public policy advocacy	No
Technology (software development)	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training, Editing Wikipedia Training, Research, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required): Secondary school students, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors; Other groups if any: N/A

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required): Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.: Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards), Sensitize and educate for gender perspective among Wikimedia projects stewards and editors; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.: On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering micro-funding and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required): 1Lib1Ref, Art+Feminism, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/Monthly_Activities_Plan_2026/en/

11. Describe your team. (required)

We have a contractor that we would like to hire as staff, and have budget to hire a part-time contractor when we have work peaks, so our team of volunteers does not suffer from work overload.

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

We are building new alliances with Catalan speaking partners such as Fundació Accent Obert, with whom will start common programs, Catalan speaking universities, and GLAM institutions. We provide mentoring on wiki knowledge, help them implementing new open knowledge strategies and, on a near future, build common programs.

Our collaboration with other Wikimedia chapters, particularly the Basque Country editors, has been invaluable. Their extensive knowledge and experience in video creation and curating educational content have significantly influenced our methodologies. We are also actively involved in multilingual initiatives such as 100 Women of the BBC, where we have consistently been the first language to fulfill the goal. Additionally, we participate in other multilingual initiatives within the Iberian peninsula, promoting Catalan Language and culture outside the Catalan-speaking territories.

Another key event is our annual in-person Viquitrobada. Our community gather together for a full weekend. This will be our 19th edition. We have other in-person events as a way to take care of the health of our community. Furthemore, we will start on summer 2026 a two week cooperative residence at Konvent in Berga as a edit-a-thon, but also to build new in-person communities.

Referring to other external partners, we team up with the main Catalan speaking universities (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Girona, ESMUC), and some of the main museums (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, among others) and archives.

Amical Wikimedia is member of Wikimedia Europe and participates in some of the in-person activities.

We are also working to establish new alliances within the Wikimedia community and with external partners. One of the 2025 challenges will be to keep up the good work with women-focused content by expanding our collaborations. The second important thing to us will be forging new alliances with LGBTIQA+ associations and diversity to establish regular programs to close these biases. (the 2030 strategic plan and the anual plan cover this section as well).

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	1000	The 2025 Anual report is a reflection of the hard work that we have been implementing. We have been testing new approaches to the communities, building new strategies, and it has paid off. We will build on this the following years, so we expect to keep growing.
Number of all editors	N/A	N/A
Number of new editors	N/A
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	N/A	N/A
Number of new organizers	N/A	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	1000	9000
Wikimedia Commons	5000
Wikidata	3000
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No


Other Metrics	Description	Target
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

Budget

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): N/A

17. Your local currency. (required): EUR

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 301800 EUR

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	100600 EUR
Year 2	100600 EUR
Year 3	100600 EUR

Requested amount in USD: 349517.6 USD ^{[note 1]}

Multi-year funding request summary in USD
Year	Amount USD ^{[note 1]}
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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.

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required): Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

1,5

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

1,5

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): N/A

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).


Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contractor costs	47700 EUR
Operational costs	8200 EUR
Programmatic costs	44700 EUR

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

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[fixedrate-1] 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.

[note 1]