Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Growing the wiki spirit in Turkey, 2025

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Dijital Bilgi Derneği

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

Growing the wiki spirit in Turkey, 2025: https://www.dijitalbilgi.org.tr/

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Growing the wiki spirit in Turkey, 2025

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants): No

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)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2025-06-30

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2026-07-01

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): No

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): No

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

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)

Wikimedia Community User Gorup Turkey (WMTR)’s main strategy for 2025 is to continue its organizing regular yearly events including education activities at schools and universities, thematic edit-a-thons with civil society partners and photo contests such as WLE.

WMTR will continue the Education Program in universities as usual. Additionally, observing how important it is to have students get better acquainted with Wikimedia projects before higher education, in turning them active contributors during university years; our strategy will be increasing secondary school partners. In partnership with academics from Bursa Uludag University, our group has already started to design a 4-week program for introducing Wikipedia editing 10-11-12th grade students. We'll continue seeking external funding to have the program implemented it in Bursa high schools and testing the results. One of the strategic goals of the group is to increase the coverage of undercovered topics, particularly at the Turkish Wikipedia and our approach is building partnerships with culture institutions and NGOs. The topics to be focused are to be determined during the year; however, the” accessible museums” project carried out with Bongo Art social enterprise and the ongoing work with KulturEnvanteri.org on entering cultural heritage items to Wikidata are two examples which are likely to be continued.

Another strategic goal is to motivate and support community of active editors in their contributions to Wikimedia projects. This year, rather than initiating local off-wiki events such as photo-walks and edit-a-thons and inviting the community members to join, we plan to respond to the support demands of those community members willing to become organisers. The group started to receive such demands upon the success of some events - such as a 3-day tour of 3 Wikimedians photographing 40+ historical mosques in Edirne and uploading 1000+ photos-. Our approach will be responding to the demands from individual community members and the wiki clubs at universities to organize similar events. The support provided to community members is planned to include covering some travel expenses and requests for expenses related to skill improvement trainings. Organizers/participants of those activities will be motivated to contribute preparation of small guidelines related to their work, such as “how to edit Wikipedia articles about archeological sites” or “how to photographing objects at museums”.

WMTR organizes biweekly meetings for the members and the editor community, mostly held online. We plan to continue online meetings for enabling participation from the whole country, while increasing the number of face-to-face meetings in Istanbul where most user group members live. We will use the office in Kadıkoy for Istanbul meetings. The format of the meetings has been informing/discussing the status of current projects and events, chatting informally, and answering Wikimedia projects related questions. Our plan is inviting speakers to talk to participants about relevant topics. The topics and speakers are to be determined by the community demand.

Our group’s approach to bring new contributors for the Commons project is organizing Wiki Loves contests. Getting international prizes from those contests is very motivating for the photographers. Therefore, we increase the number of contests organized. WLE was organized for the fifth time and WLF was organized for the first time in 2024. For the next year, the plan is to organize a new photo contest.

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
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Wiki Club, Wiki Camp, Editing Wikipedia Training; 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, 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, 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.: 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): Art+Feminism, CEE Spring, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiGap; 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://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_eIqxU991_apVjI3dBEE5ixGJM2T5pBmEUt2StAODA0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

11. Describe your team. (required)

Adem Ünsal (User:Adem)- Actively involved in partnership search and contest design (Paid staff).
Başak Tosun (User:Basak) – Education and Partnerships Program Officer. Execution of Students Edit Wiki Projects and Open Culture Partnerships program. (Paid staff)
C.Ö (User:Kurmanbek) - Design visual material for the group's activities, meaning group’s social media accounts, organisint events (Paid staff).
User:HakanIST: Organizing wikidata events, supporting wiki camp organisations.
İsna Sevinç - Lead activities of the Wikipedia Student Club in her university (Volunteer).
Koray Özbal (User:Pragdon) - Assist in organizing edit-a-thons (Volunteer)
User:Piyanist- Lead activities of Wikipedia Student Club in his university
Selman Utku (User:Selman_Utku)- Support community activities in Istanbul (Volunteer)
User:Sadrettin - Commons Wikimedia and Wikidata partnerships
User:ToprakM - Lead activities of Wikipedia Student Club in his university
Yağmur Yıldırım (User:Yagmurkozmik) - Support Wikipedia Education program in Kadir Has University and organize Art&Fem event (Volunteer)
Zafer Batık (User:Zafer) – Community and Outreach Program Officer. Execution of Stronger Community and Grow the Content program. Organizing the contests (Paid staff)

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)

Universities and secondary schools together with which we work to organize the Wikipedia Education Program constitute our Education Partners. The number of Education partners is expected to be 15 in to fall and spring terms. One example is our partnership with Kadir Has University. We have a protocol with this university. Our group gives training on Wikimedia projects in English and Turkish for the required KHAS 110 Civic Responsibility Project Course for all first year students. Uludag University Psychology Department is our partner for developing a 4-week program to teach Wikipedia editing to 10th-11th- 12th grade studetns.

Second group of partners are the civil society organizations we organize edit-a-thons with. Some examples are Bongo Art together with which we organize Accessible Museums project, Women's Library and Information Center Foundation as a partner for Art&Feminism event. We work with Digital Cultural Heritage Network, KültürEnvanteri.org, Troya Museum for GLAM related events.

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact

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	600	Participants of education activities and edit-a-thons
Number of all editors	800	500 students +100 edit-a-thon particpants + 200 photo uploaders of photo contests
Number of new editors	700
Number of retained editors	50
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	400	600
Wikimedia Commons	2000
Wikidata	800
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): Yes

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

Funding from TÜBİTAK, Sivil Düşün, Akbank

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): 500000

17. Your local currency. (required): TRY

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 3105395.97 TRY

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A TRY
Year 2	N/A TRY
Year 3	N/A TRY

Requested amount in USD: 89777 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.

3 full time, 1 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.

3,5

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): Currently there are 2 full time 2 half time staff. With this proposal, one of the half time staff becomes full time.

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	54600 TRY
Operational costs	12000 TRY
Programmatic costs	18500 TRY

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NrHWyuKUSEBAOTFnoGi8iZ38z5bNqIxWNJqWShFOw3I/edit?gid=2099383086#gid=2099383086

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)

The budget categories above (section 20) and the budget is submitted in US dollars because of the hyper inflation in the country. In case approved, we would request payment in USD, not local currency.

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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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]