Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Basque Wikimedians User Group (2026-2028)

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Basque Wikimedians User Group (2026-2028)

Fluxx IDR-GS-2509-20351

start date2026-01-01

end date2028-12-31

budget (local currency)108576 EUR

amount requested (USD)119519.16 USD

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

funding regionNWE

decision fiscal year2025-26

funding program roundRound 1

organization (if applicable)Euskal Wikilarien Kultura Elkartea

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)

Euskal Wikilarien Kultura Elkartea

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

- WEBSITE: https://wikimedia.eus/

• EWKE: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euskal_Wikilarien_Kultura_Elkartea
• EWKE GOVERNANCE, PLAN, REPORTS, ETC. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Basque_Wikimedians_User_Group/eu
• MINUTES: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Basque_Wikimedians_User_Group/Aktak
• FINANCIAL AUDITS: Annual financial audit is made with an external company (Alter Consulting), available if required.

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)

Basque Wikimedians User Group (2026-2028)

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)

Year 2 and 3 will be an interation from the outcomes of year 1. As we are trying to improve our resilience with more external funding, many of the non regular works done in years 2 and 3 will be dependant on those. However, our main projects will remain the same: working on education, finalizing our GLAM project, trying to improve usability and experience for Basque readers and continue with our multi-year multimedia plan centered on Ikusgela.

3. Proposed start date. (required)

2026-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required)

2028-12-31

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/Basque_Wikimedians_User_Group/Annual_plan/2026

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/Basque_Wikimedians_User_Group/Strategy/2024-2028

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region)

Mainly Basque Country (Spain and France), but some activities can be done with the Basque diaspora elsewhere.

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)

Our programs focus on five main areas: strengthening organizational resilience, engaging and improving the capacities of the community, improving the experience of Basque readers, innovating in free knowledge, and identifying topics for impact. We combine classical Wikimedia projects, such as workshops with universities and museums, with more innovative approaches, as multimedia initiatives like Ikusgela, or cultural heritage work like "History of the Basque Country in 100 Objects", and we add international collaborations, both online and onsite.

Our approach is based on partnerships, capacity-building, and innovation. By working with schools, museums, the University of the Basque Country, the Basque Government, and international Wikimedia communities, we are able to identify knowledge gaps, create high-quality resources, and ensure that free knowledge reaches diverse audiences. The addition of a Communications Officer to our team allows us to systematize documentation and expand outreach, making our work more visible and sustainable.

We will address several challenges during the next year, as improving the knowledge of our projects in the education context, and trying to build a new ecosystem with University and GLAM partners so we can pitch innovative ways of collaborating with them. Our strategies (developing multimedia content, connecting with institutions, searching for external funding, and exploring new tools) directly respond to these challenges. Together, they help us make knowledge more accurate, engaging, and accessible while building a resilient organization capable of sustaining this impact.

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	No
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)

Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Research, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other activities

Other programs and activities if any: - Ikusgela project, free videos designed for education.

• Ikas-egoerak, our project to implement education resources to use Wikimedia in the classroom
• Txikipedia activities not directly related to writing

9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)

Primary school students, 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)

Introducing new approaches to underrepresented culture and heritage, e.g. decolonising or reparative work; oral and visual knowledge; outreach to communities of origin, indigenous and first nations self-determination, 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, Other

Other programs and activities if any: Creation of OER materials related to GLAM collections, within the project "History of the Basque Country in 100 objects", especially a podcast and free comics for children.

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, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards)

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, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences

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)

The timeline is at the Annual Plan, as we have made it using OKRs. A Gantt graph can be consulted here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Basque_Wikimedians_User_Group/Annual_plan/2026#Timeline

11. Describe your team. (required)

There are currently five full-time salaried employees working at the association. In September 2025, we made an adjustment to our staff due to a vacancy that we have just filled. Currently, these are the salaried employees:

• Galder Gonzalez (Theklan) is the Executive Director and is responsible for managing and coordinating all the projects we are working on, carrying out design and supervision tasks, along with many other tasks. He is also responsible for seeking out and developing new fundraising opportunities.
• Aiora Mujika (Aioramu) is responsible for the Ikusgela project, the multimedia educational project we have been developing since 2022. She is in charge of coordinating all content, scripts, video recordings, supplier coordination, editing, and monitoring publications.
• Edurne Agirre (Edagit) handles all tasks related to the association's accounting, administrative work, and reporting. Her main tasks are based on managing the various grants received by the association and seeking out new opportunities.
• Anabel Arraiza (Anarrarti) is responsible for our projects in Navarra. She designs and develops multiple cultural projects in the area and, thanks to the help of WMF, she is also in charge of developing the educational project throughout the territory.
• We also have a new Communication Officer, whose tasks are based on the proper communication of the projects we develop, campaign design, communication with the press, etc. In addition to providing support for the projects we have in different areas.

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)

Every year we try to collaborate with other associations in the movement. For four years we have been developing an Erasmus project with Wikimedia Ireland, together with colleagues from the Friesland region. Together with Wikimedia Ireland, we applied for another Erasmus project, which we did not obtain. We are currently working on a project on ethics that we intend to submit to CERV for funding. In addition, we collaborate with Wikimedia Europe to seek new opportunities and projects together with other partners.

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, Identify Topics for Impact, 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	Most of the participants will be in education programs, which are partially helped by this grant.
Number of all editors	400	We hope to have around 400 editors, mostly in education activities, which are partially helped by the grant.
Number of new editors	350
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	N/A	N/A
Number of new organizers	N/A

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

Contributions to Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	200	1000
Wikimedia Commons	100
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

We will upload videos for Ikusgela and audios for the Podcast, but we hope to have donations from museums too.

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)

Yes

Other Metrics	Description	Target
Ikusgela videos	At least two videos during the lective course per week.	60
100 objects	Half of the podcast chapters uploaded by Q4	50
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)

Yes

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

- Eusko Jaurlaritza, Basque Government

• Nafarroako Gobernua, Government of Navarre
• We submit applications every year for various grants, both local and European. However, they are not guaranteed.

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

330000

17. Your local currency. (required)

EUR

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

108576 EUR

Multi-year funding request summary

Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	108576 EUR
Year 2	108576 EUR
Year 3	108576 EUR

Requested amount in USD

119519.16 USD

Multi-year funding request summary in USD

Year	Amount USD
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

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.

The aim is to cover the cost of three staff members working half-time.

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.

In total, this would amount to 1.5 full-time staff members.

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

The cost of a part-time employee has been introduced, as due to the high workload, this is necessary in order for us to continue working on all projects.

The grants we receive from other sources have not been updated since 2017, and every year we have more problems covering structural costs.

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	69576 EUR
Operational costs	11000 EUR
Programmatic costs	28000 EUR

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18gO_6q-k01fPXkYRjmfOL3a5tVTi9red/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114650507919827819253&rtpof=true&sd=true

Additional information

22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)

With this grant, our goal is to be able to carry out our annual plan in its entirety, as it is impossible to cover everything with the external funding we receive.

We have had external support since 2017, which is mainly directed towards the educational project and Ikusgela. This support has remained virtually unchanged since that year, which means that our capacity to develop new projects is reduced every year. In addition, the Basque Government and the Government of Navarra have serious limitations on covering expenses related to projects other than those they finance, as well as travel and organizational expenses, the Annual General Meeting expenses, etc. This means that we have limitations not only in terms of spending, but also in terms of the projects we can develop.

With the help of WMF, we aim to cover part of our staff's dedication, so that we can increase our operational capacity and also work on all the projects we are developing, without the limitations imposed in the other fundings sources. By expanding our sources, we can justify the time we devote to both educational and cultural project. For example, the project "History of the Basque Country in 100 Objects" is fully funded by this grant, both in terms of the time dedicated by employees and all the needed collaboration with external partners.

However, all other projects, such as the educational project and Ikusgela, are also made possible thanks to this WMF grant, which covers part of the personnel costs that make them possible. Without this contribution, it would be completely impossible for these projects to be carried out, so even though it does not explicitly cover them, the distribution of expenditure that it provides is what makes them possible.

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