Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/LSP funding request 2025 (renewal in 2024-25)/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.
1. Improving Inclusion & diversity
[edit]We continued to build a structured and welcoming environment to empower contributions from underrepresented communities and partner with NGOs that have the same objectives. We initiated new cooperations with the centre LGBT of Paris (LGBT contents) , Institut Pasteur (scientific women), Bibliothèque Marguerite Yourcenar in Paris (source verification), Bibliohtèque municipale de Lyon (Wiktionnary), Premier Samedi du libre (free software movement notably APRIL), Musée d'Art et de Design de Lausanne,
and continued with previous collaborations : Loreley Films, Le deuxième texte (wikisource, 9 workshops in Paris), Library Violette and co ( feminist and LGBT contents). For more information see our news feed here [1] and our annual report here : [2]
We organized training sessions on subjects such as how to verify notability criteria and how to search for reliable sources for our african community ([3]), on how to proceed to participate to the Quinzaine des autrices campaign during our weekly online meetings [4], and sessions to train new organizers (BFM Limoges [5], Centre LGBTQI+ de Paris, Institut Pasteur), Lycée Louis le grand in Paris ([6]). Training new organizers has been developed systematically, we believe it is essential to achieve better retention of new contributors after events.
Build best practices within the francophone community concerning underrepresented communities
[edit]Throughout the year we have provided a constant stream of support to local leaders of LSP groups by maintaining regular weekly online sessions where they could drop in and ask questions (wikimidis). We held 156 events online among which 45 Wikimidis, 43 maintenance sessions and 51 évaluation of new articles sessions. We maintain a strong presence on wikipedia with these regular sessions, and are able to detect if program leaders, newcomers and contributors experiment problems by a regular scrutiny of produced articles on Wikipedia. During these sessions we are able to collect concerns by underrepresented communities and also offered friendship and emotional support in the cases where they experienced microaggressions and harassment. The community of les sans pagEs is now used to these regularly held sessions, offering 8 hours of online support each week (even during holidays). These sessions can be joined from everywhere in the world, and we have noticed a strong presence of members of the African community throughout the year, especially during the Wikimidis.
We think that this grassroot approach of taking time to care for our community is very important to the project’s success and that rather than massive campaigns achieving massive results in an anonymous and impersonal way, this alternative way of knitting progressively a community is very important for the future of the movement, especially for underrepresented communities.
We have also focused on easy to deliver practices :
1 Guidelines for reimbursement : One of our board members has undertaken writing guidelines for reimbursement as this aspect is challenging for organizers from outside of Europe see [7]
2 - Harmonized presentations for organizers : We have proposed for each event harmonized presentations to train new contributors that organizers could use. These are uploaded on commons [8]
3- Promotion of the Universal code of conduct : We have continued promoting the Universal code of conduct and our own charter, asking organizers to design somebody responsible for their application in each event. The person usually does a report at the end of the event that is entered on the project page. See for example : [9]
4 - Contact with mistreated contributors : instead of focusing on punishing the alleged abusers, which leads to nothing more than backlash and accusations of not being “neutral”, we focused on an approach to support the alleged victims. We have made sure, when we identified a contributor targeted by wikihounding that we maintained a caring attitude and that this person could have access to someone to confide to. We provided strategical counselling on how to reduce stress from contributing on Wikipedia (one of them is simply to rename your user name to reduce hounding without losing your account). We have made sure to help them reach out to chapters and Trust and Safety if needed.
5 - train new contributors first to communicate on the projects before even learning how to contribute. This is because we noticed that new contributors seldom notice when they are pinged or receive messages on their talk page. By teaching them to communicate first, and get to know the community, we believe they are more empowered to contribute serenely, knowing how and where to ask for help if they experience problems.
These might not be big extraordinary revolutionary practices, but repeated constantly throughout time and documented, we believe they can make a difference in retaining contributors from underrepresented communities. It also gives us the notion that we are trying to do something useful and promotes the concept of shifting the paradigm of policing behaviors to supporting empathy and caring.
Train new contributors
[edit]We have achieved a lower number of new contributors (120) during events, but a remarquable retention rate that we had never equalled before : 46%. We think it is best to focus on retaining contributors than organizing massive anonymous campaigns or events without personnel connections, in a grass root approach (not top / down). We believe human interactions are possible even on online projects, and tend to focus on building and knitting ties within our community. New contributors now join a community of experienced LSP contributors who are able to help them more significantly, having gained knowledge and know-how. Unfortunately we don't have the resources to dig more into this result to analyse it thoroughly, but we believe it is the result of small instituted best practices such as described above which made it possible.
The regular meetings online and in person allows us to collect concerns informally from people of unrepresented minorities. There is a stark variation from what these communities say informally and what is expressed on wikipedia, demonstrating the power of a mainstream culture to silence minorities. The most telling example that comes back again and again is the misgendering of non binary people and the constant use of deadnames. These issues are impossible to manage for LGBTIQ+ people, who feel the constant violence of being addressed with incorrect pronouns (“iel” is not accepted on the French Wikipedia) and so called “biological gender”. For the moment these issues are too politically heated for any calm discussion, so we just advise not to try to contribute to changing pronouns or other issues related to trans culture if the contributor is not prepared psychologically for a round of microagressions. It is up to the individual to choose what level of stress while contributing they are ready to undergo.
LBGTIQ+ events
[edit]We continued our involvement with feminist and LGBTIQ+ communities, most particularly by holding monthly events in queer and lesbian places like the library Violette and Co in Paris or the bar la Gougnotte in Toulouse and organized an editathon with the center of LGBT in Paris. A new LSP group was born in Montreal, Quebec, with a financial support from Wikimedia Canada who started with an LGBTIQ+ editathon Wiki aime les femmes queer, 20 août 2025, Montréal.The leader of this group is a professor at UQAM.
Quinzaine des autrices francophones
[edit]With the Quinzaine des autrices francophones campaign, held in March 2025, we hoped to engage more contributors from the francophone area, especially Africa. However, we realized this year that most of the group leaders needed to upgrade as contributors to be effective group leaders within this campaign. Managing the financial aspects of financing events in Africa is increasingly challenging and places us in a situation where we, as Europeans, are asking for justification of expenses in a way that is challenging for African communities. Some group leaders took over a year to be able to produce the requested documentation, leading us to believe they needed more training in managing financial aspects of wikimedia events. Furthemore, the workload which is imposed on our volunteers to read and correct the produced articles was overwhelming, leading us to believe that big campaigns imposed from outside of Africa to local groups might not be the best way to proceed. We plan to propose training next year in establishing working lists, which ensures that organizers know how to select and document subjects that lead to no deletion for newbies. We also plan in the future to focus more on training events for this population target, as we have noticed that some group organizers barely master basic contribution levels needed to organize an event (finding reliable sources, knowing how to source on Wikipedia, correcting articles produced after an editathon). These are areas to work on to increase the autonomy and know how of our African communities, who also expressed in our annual survey that they wanted more events in Africa. The cost of these events is however very high compared to european standards in the Wikimedia movement : internet costs, renting of a space with wifi are substantially higher than in Europe where these resources can usually be found for free. The financial flow also does not seem to benefit African women contributors in the movement and we are revising our strategic goals to focus more on transmission of knowledge rather than cooperation with chapters where women contributors may experience discriminating factors.
Smaller projects : Wikisource, Wikidata, Wiktionnary, Wikiquote, Commons
[edit]Wikisource
[edit]Our community participates to monthly editathons and workshops with Le Deuxième texte at the bookshop Violette and co in Paris. 22 events were held in 2025. We have developed a very close and special relationship with this association. The report of the Wikisource activities with Le Deuxième Texte (which are mainly financed by a grant from Wikimedia France) is to be found here : [10]
Wikidata
[edit]Wiktionnary
[edit]A new project page was set up on the Dictionnaire in november 2025 to manage activities done by LSP on the Wictionnaire [11]. This was initiated by the local LSP group in Toulouse, who has decided to organize half of their events with the Wictionnary to document queer and feminist entries in fr-wiktionnary.
A new boardmember of LSP, Danya is our key resource for developing this new activity. She also created and coded the new entry plugin of the Wiktionary, that has been tested during the Toulouse sessions.
Alcoolwiki, founder of La Quinzaine des autrices francophone and secretary of the association, has also set up a new activity after his visit to the francophone Wikiconvention in Abidjan : document the vivorian vocabulary used in the cartoon of Aya de Yapougon : [12]
We also held an editathon with the Municipal Library of Lyon with the local wikimedians on a specific color (pink) aiming at creating entries Wikquote during our annual convention in Lyon in 2025. Our members lived the ideas, and we offered also pink books on LGBT and feministe subjects as rewards.
Francautrices et #SheSaid
Commons
[edit]We bought a camera and some contributors have borrowed to take pictures. we also hired a professionial cartoonist to draw drawings for the Francautrice project.
2- Improving coverage of Gender gap and under-represented contents
[edit]LGBT contents : We had events dedicated to LGBTIQ+ content this year at the municipal library in Lyon during our annual convention in June 2025, and we financed an “LGBT queer camp” in Paris organized by Lena, an experienced contributor who wished to have an event dedicated to experienced contributors to work on LGBTIQ+ topics : [13]
During the year, we noticed fewer implication on the LGBT project on Wikipedia due to what was perceived by many as wikihounding. We advised targeted contributors to step back from subjects related to transidentity and misgendering. On the francophone Wikipedia, inclusive languages is not accepted, and wording in the introduction of articles such as “assigned female/male at birth” is systematically reverted to include the deadnames and the initial biological gender. Contributors who engage in debates perceive the situation as problematic, but at this stage not much can be done without risking being targeted for micro aggressions and wikihounding. Targeted contributors have in general moved on to less polemic articles, and emotional support and special sessions were set up to tackle emotivity on these subjects. A Contributors who are not concerned by the subject but wish to engage for a more inclusive treatment of linked subjects seldom engage in the debates, and generally tend to shy away from lengthy and heated debates.
3- Improving sustainability with professionalization of the association
[edit]Having one paid staff in the long run for a community of 400 hundred contributors is challenging in the phase where members of the association and the board are still on the learning curve of either contribution and / or implication in the Wikimedia movement... Contributors and members of the association tend to reach out at times when they are most available, that in the evenings and during week-ends, and staff is quickly overwhelmed by numerous demands.
Reporting and follow up of financial accounts is very time consuming, and we have accumulated a back log that we are slowly recovering. However, some projects launched are less autonomous than other. They are time consuming for staff with a heavy financial workload of monitoring expenses in Africa, where accounting standards are different.
The most challenging event in the year in this aspect were the Quinzaine des autrices campaign in March on Wikipedia and the official participation of LSP in the She Said campaign in october-december 2025 on Wikiquote. The community of contributors of both projects have reported being flooded with articles not meeting the standards of the project :
Quinzaine des autrices
On Wikipedia, it was noticed that contributors from Africa needed more training on admissibility criteria and sourcing (too many used primary sources such as babelio and booknode which are not accepted, and have a problem understanding what is the difference between primary sources and secondary sources and how to find them). Together with the contributors who corrected the produced articles, we set up a feedback form to list the various problems encountered to improve these aspects in the 2026 session. What was identified is the need to get more volunteers from outside the LSP board to participate, and include them in the dedicated telegram channel as we also noticed that African contributors tend not to answer directly on Wikipedia, being flooded with notifications of problems on their talk page and not knowing exactly what to answer. We decided to target the organizers to provide them more training on how to constitute working lists with a clear designation of subjects meeting admissibility criteria and providing formatted sources that could be used, in order to increase their capacity in these domains.
However, the question was raised internally of the possibility of continuing to organize this event as LSP does not usually work on a model of campaigns. We tend to have a more grassroot project attitude, supporting local contributors to slowly build a group meeting regularly. Campaigns tend to include one shot events, with low retention rates of newbies, whereas regular weekly or monthly meetings tend to knit a community in the long run, establishing local systems of support for experienced contributors and newbies. In a large event with more than 10 newbies it is difficult to provide an adequate level of support to be welcoming. We increasingly believe that the personnel connections to build a network of support for a gradual inclusion of newbies, like what we are doing in Strasbourg (Waltercolor), Toulouse (Sinkra and Danya) and Meyrin (Natacha LSP) is more efficient in the long run in building a resilient and sustainable community.
This leads us to strategically in the future reflect on how to train leading African contributors who will be able to develop their own projects, instead of running high level activities campaigns who achieve a mass of poor quality content. In the long run, training a few skilled contributors to encourage them to build their own projects will put less strain on volunteers and bring a more sustainable arrival of new content to be checked on the projects. Big campaigns are also typically not the kind of events that new inexperienced contributors can initiate, and are usually organized by senior members of the Wikimedia community who mostly live in the more developed countries. This lead to finances staying in the occidental world, reproducing patterns of neo-colonialism that is most unfortunate if the wish is to give more autonomy to contributors from Africa.
We have experimented problems in transferring funds due to the fact that we cannot legally just send a grant, we have to document expenditures in a way that proves difficult to enact by African contributors. We also face the fact that a physical event tends to be more costly in Africa : whereas most of the time we are able to find rooms in universities or libraries that do not charge wifi or room rental, we never had one single event during La Quinzaine in Africa where room rental was not charged, even when occurring in a wikimedia chapter. The same applies with wifi connection and internet availability.
Training of the LSP board
[edit]Accounts
We struggle to find people competent in financial management for the position of treasurer. This therefore requires a lot of staff time to train board members in accounting procedures, although our accounts are done by a swiss association, there is a documentation part that has to be done internally. Before the professionalization, this documentation work was done pro bono by the treasurer and the president. Since 2022, this is no more the case. Our treasurer was elected as president of Wikimedia France and no longer had the time to review the documentation, leading to an increased back log. In 2023, we elected a new treasurer, but being from Benin, with no experience in swiss accounting, long hours of training are needed to train her to the way things are being done in Europe. Recognizing we needed more help, we elected a vice treasurer in December 2025 to help our treasurer with the task of verifying current expenditures, as the task is time consuming and requires regular checks to update the committee on the current financial situation. Training is to be provided to the treasurer to give the monthly update to the committee, this task was being done by the paid staff until the end of 2025.
A member of the board was tasked with providing a yearly resume of all decisions and meetings to facilitate a synthetic approach. Members of the committee in 2026 will be required, following advice given by board members of other entities (mainly WMF and Wikimedia France) to provide short slides indicating what they did and what they intend to do so that all board members know what is done and where we are heading.
We have initiated a strategic reflection for the board organized in collaboration with Cedric Tarbouriech, board member of Wikimedia France.
She Said campaign
Wikiquote is a very small project with only 3 admins, and a small community. The She Said campaign was extended unilaterally without consultation, and the francophone community was flooded by articles made using IA and / or seldom using books to source citations. The correction of the articles created within the subsection of the Francautrices project aiming at making a game of card for Wikimania 2026 in Paris took over 4 months.
Following the decision of the regional grant committee to reduce the salaries of the Wiki In Africa staff, which were publicly qualified as “injustifiable” (which is a very problematic statement to make openly concerning paid staff), our burden on this project was increased, both for staff and volunteers, and also financially, as a designer was hired unilaterally by Wiki In Africa with the final cost being covered by les sans pagEs. Furthermore, the paid staff of Wiki In Africa dedicated to the project declined as a result.
The consequences of this was also that our treasurer, who sits jointly on the board of LSP and the regional grant committee for Africa, was asked to answer a question of conflict of interest during our general assembly. However, in 2023, LSP had asked our treasurer to notify both the regional grand committee (Veronica) and the LSP board of the existence of these interest, to prevent future conflict of interests.
This has led to a reflection on limiting board members of other chapters, as it is often a source of problems with bigger organizations importing their situations in our smaller and lesser staffed association. We had this in the past in 2023, when a French journalist published articles mentioning our previous treasurer, who became president of Wikimedia France.
Our board members tend to be recruited elsewhere on the basis of their involvement in LSP, and their dedication level is impacted. We bring this to your attention in this report, to highlight that board members should maybe not take too many roles at the same time if they cannot support the workload and the resulting possible problems of conflicting interests. However, we lack a clearer and more generalized process for declaring interests to limit this type of problem in the future.
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)
After the success of the new LSP Wictionnary group, the sucessfull collaboration with the Deuxième texte, and the collaboration with #SHESAID for Wikiquote, we wish to continue working on these sister projects. we have taken two main contributors on wiktionnary and wikiquote to help us build more collaboration in the future.
Inspite of the issues mentioned above, we are very proud of the Quinzaine des autrices francophone campaign and we want to train the local african leaders of the campaign to help them to create their own local group.
We also plan to continue our best strength: our strong programmation for physical and online events. We plan to help our local groups to grow and continue their work.
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).
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
We organized multiple events during the year, with an eclectic panel of level in the Wikimedia projects. Our conversion rate at 7 days is 46% showing a huge impact of our training.
The monthly Paris Violette & Co event is particularly representative of this diversity. There are experienced contributors and newbies working together and exchanging questions and good practices. However experienced contributors don't want to take the lead of the event. We work to convince them or train new leaders.
The online events are complementary to the physical events and are a huge help to improve the level of contributors and contributions. They permit us to focus on different aspects of contributions and help to answer specific questions. They maintain a weekly link to the community and are the best places for people to talk about their feelings, signal harassment and support each other. The core team of these events is particularly dedicated and has maintained the events on celebration days.
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
As we say, all our events online and IRL are designed to encourage collaboration and engagement of our members. Anymore we use to organise every year one gathering (our Convention). Where we focus on these topics. This year we asked Cedric Tarbouriech, member of the board of our partner Wikimedia France, to give us a workshop about the strategy. The objectives was to create small units of volunteers to reach our goal which was defined the year before. We forged bonds and got to know each other through a museum visit, a polymer clay workshop and activities such as a karaoké competition or a game night. We also contributed to the Wictionnaire about the pink colors and have an editathon in the public library of Lyon. As every year it was a huge moment of fun and sharing. And for the first we were joined by the local wikimedians of Lyon (la cabale de la quenelle). This event was very appreciated by the participants.
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
As an association paired with a wiki project we are very involved in the contributing community. With only one staff member, we must engage with volunteers. We organized a lot of events and supported any contributors who wanted to create one.
We maintain and encourage the use of several digital tools such as a discussion page, actuality reports, an agenda of the project and some digital chat channels (discord and telegram). Everyone can write on it and ask their questions. We announce project events and those of our movement partners in the discussion channels.
During our evaluation sessions online, participants thanked the contributors for their contributions. This creates a very friendly atmosphere and is very encouraging and appreciated by the contributors.
Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
We have a lot of partnerships in the movement and outside.
Our main partner in financial terms , except the Wikimedia Foundation, are Wikimedia Switzerland and Wikimedia France. Each of them have different modality of partnership but they are very important to us and we are glad to have their support. We used to work a lot with them and their members (staff and volunteers). We are very proud of their support and happy to implicate them in our activities. For example we organized training sessions for Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Switzerland. We also ear their feedback and have with us regularly coordinating meetings. We share their events and for Wikimedia France, we send to their training sessions some members of our board.
In the movement we work with some other affiliates like Wiki In Africa, Wiki LGBTIQ and association of the movement like Noircir Wikipédia and Deuxième texte… With those organizations we organized some events like the monthly parisian event at Paris with le Deuxième texte and some projects like Francautrices with Wiki in Africa. We speak of their subjects and initiative in our presentation and have very good relationships.
We also work with a lot of cultural and educational organizations to organize events and training like the Photo Elysée Museum in Lausanne, the high school Louis le grand at Paris, the local archives in Côte d'Armors and Aude (two French departments), the National Archives in Paris, the Public Library of Lyon and many other.
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. (required):
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)
We would love to --- but in the near future we have to work on financial management of the association because we have a backlog. However, we will be present at Wikimania and present what we do.
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 led a satisfaction survey at the beginning of 2026 for the year of 2025. Results can be found in our annual activity report on meta. Overall people were very satisfied and expressed that they felt the project was better accepted on wikipedia and was now seen as a ressource rather than a pov pushing feminist entity. we are very proud of this result, because it took time to build this with the community.
Here is a link where the results of the survey were shared : [22]
Key results are :
- A majority are aged 25–35: 40%
- France: 60% - Africa: 16.7% - Switzerland: 12.5%
- 50% are women - 34.8% are men - 15% other
- 37% have been contributing to Wikipedia for 2–5 years
- 22% have been experienced contributors for ten years
- 22% have been experienced contributors for five years
- 17% are new contributors
The project’s welcoming atmosphere and overall environment are rated as the most satisfying:
- 80% rate the atmosphere as satisfactory or very satisfactory
- 73% rate the welcome as satisfactory or very satisfactory
- 70% find the proposed activities satisfactory or very satisfactory
The lowest-rated aspect is the training offered (but still with a good satisfaction level)
- 48% rate it as satisfactory or very satisfactory (37% have no opinion)
Finally, 13% find the project’s atmosphere and training courses somewhat unsatisfactory or not at all satisfactory (6 people out of 45 in total).
Here is a brief summary of the qualitative questions:
- Favorite articles:
The Time of Fire Will Come - Lud-en-Brume - Palestinian Feminism - Catherine de Medici - Reversal of the Stigma - Olena Chevtchenko - Mass Sexual Assault in Egypt - Enforced Disappearance - Aïchatou Kané Boulama - John Rykener - Anne-Marie de Schurman - Sita Valles - Miriam Lewin- Rosario Ibarra
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, LGBTQ+ groups, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: women, neurodiverse people, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Editors, Organizers, Partnerships, Wikimedians in Residence positions
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 have adopted a resolute grassroot approach considering that caring is more important than "fighting". We try to bring joy and fun to our endeavours and also many of us are from disadvantaged or underrepresented communities in real life.
We also have a practical step by step approach (described more in detail above)
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):
Staff hired through the fund, 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 | N/A | ||
| Number of all editors | N/A | 400 | event metrics |
| Number of new editors | N/A | 120 | |
| Number of retained editors | N/A | 55 | |
| Number of all organizers | N/A | ||
| 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) |
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| Wikipedia | 1309 | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | 8000 | |||
| Wikidata | 1150 | 17164 | ||
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | 40 | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | 100 | |||
| Wikivoyage | ||||
| 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): No
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 |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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 have had to reflect on to retain new editors while also keeping our community motivated. We believe we have achieved this by having a grass root approach organizimg small and regular events online and offline where people meet and are able to share concern and achievements while contributing.
We also had to develop a strategical approach to being aceepted as ressource on the french wikipedia. We focused on outreach to confirmed contributors, inviting them to our online sessions and making sure they understood our processes. This has been very successful, bringing more and more members of the community to particpate to the project. This success was evident in our online survey for 2025.
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)
We need to focus more on the financial management of the association to overcome our backlog. To achieve this we need to recruit more board members capable of managing accounts and reporting procedures. We have recruited one valuable board member who has experience in financial management. We could also do with hiring an administrative person if we manage to secure more funding.
To achieve this means that we will focus less on operations and events and dedicate more time to getting over our backlog and structuring our financial management. We could do with board member training on these aspects.
We also need to build strategic orientations for the future.
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).
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 (CHF) |
|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 126961 |
| Operational costs | 3617 |
| Programmatic costs | 11242 |
| Total (Year 2) | 141820000 |
| Other revenue | 39659 |
| Remaining funds (Year 2) | N/A |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
141820000 CHF
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 3617 CHF
- Programmatic costs: 11242 CHF
- Staff and contractor costs: 126961 CHF
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): 24300 CHF
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 39659 CHF
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.
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)
We have important deviation from the initial budget.
management staff : initial amount 105,612.00 actually paid amount 90,090.00Benefits and social costs 25,200.00 actually paid 36,871.00Travel and transportation for staff initial amount 4,000.00 actually amount 6,000.00Accounting and legal fees initial amount 5,000.00 actually spent 3,617.00Travel and transportation for staff initial amount 1,000.00 actually spent 5,400.00Travel and transportation for staff initial amount 1,000.00 actually spent 1,500.00
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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