Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Sustaining Wikimedia LGBT+ 2025–26
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Applicant information
[edit]- Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
- Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
- 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)
- No
- Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- Yes
- Fiscal organization name.
- Kiwix
- 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
- Our organisational website is on Meta at Wikimedia LGBT+
- Financial reporting for the calendar year 2024 can be found in our annual Affiliate’s report at Wikimedia LGBT+/2024
- Governance structure and board membership can be found on Meta at Wikimedia LGBT+/Governance
Main proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)
- Sustaining Wikimedia LGBT+ 2025–26
- 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)
- 2025-12-01
- 4. Proposed end date. (required)
- 2026-11-30
- 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
- Our annual plan is integrated into this grant application. The resources we’ve requested will enable us to further develop a robust annual plan, with a focus on programme monitoring and evaluation, partnership and community growth and development.
- 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://docs.google.com/document/d/1dgz6k3Zivxu-vzRDjpZRnXjRtVgKj__QRF3s0Mzh8IE
- 7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
- International (more than one country across continents or regions)
- The Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group has a global scope, and represents a disbursed, international membership. We have members and volunteers across the world. We are currently building systems to measure our volunteer engagement numbers more accurately and, as you know, it is a Movement-wide problem to measure volunteer numbers with any sense of accuracy, while protecting users’ anonymity and safety. We can say that several dozen editors are known to us as consistently engaged in editing in our thematic area every month and we had over 100 contributors involved in our 2025 Wiki Loves Pride editing competitions.
- 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)
History
[edit]Wikimedia LGBT+ is a Wikimedia Movement Affiliate and international, multilingual community. The Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group became a Wikimedia Affiliate in 2014, and was an early model for minority population-based thematic organisations. Wikimedia LGBT+ organisers have been centrally involved in campaigns and initiatives to increase diversity in the Wikimedia movement for 10+ years. Wikimedia LGBT+ members have organised a range of projects, from improving Wikipedia articles, Commons, and Wikidata, to participating in Wikimedia policy discussions. The User Group maintains communication channels (Telegram groups, mailing lists, etc.) and organises monthly community meetings to engage in content discussions, develop projects, and support and celebrate LGBTQ+ Wikimedians.
Wikimedia LGBT+ has organised numerous conferences, events, and campaigns. Core organisers developed Wiki Loves Pride in 2014, a campaign of photography events, edit-a-thons, and other content improvement projects. Wikimedia LGBT+ has organised Queering Wikipedia events — an LGBTQ+-focussed conference to advance connections between LGBTQ+ Knowledge partners, the User Group and the wider Movement — in 2021, 2022, and 2023, with ~200 participants attending QW2022, and ~400 participants attending QW2023; an online QW event is currently being planned for October 2025.
We have also facilitated LGBTQ+-focused GLAM initiatives (edit-a-thons, mass uploads to Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata/metadata projects, etc.), and promoted participation in LGBTQ+ focused Wiki Loves Monuments projects, Wiki Loves Libraries, WikiProject LGBT studies, WikiProject Medicine, and WikiProject AIDS across multiple languages. We ran our first World AIDS Day editing event in 2024 and are planning a second event this year with other Affiliates, including Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia UK.
Programmes, approaches, & strategies
[edit]In April 2025, we employed our first two part-time staff: an Executive Director and Director of Programmes and Community Engagement, with the mandate to lead the group from volunteer-based informal group to an incorporated staffed organisation, expand our membership base, seek external funding, solidify our relationship with the foundation and build robust tools to monitor and evaluate the work that we do within WMLGBT+. This mandate will play a role in the direction of our user group as well as this budget.
The following are the focus areas for us in 2025–26.
- Organising programme monitoring and reporting: Implementing systems to track and report on program effectiveness.
- Seeking external funding: Actively seeking and securing external financial support.
- Learning and development: Develop fun, interactive learning modules for new and existing contributors within our User Group
- Programmes and events:Organising annual programmes and events like Wiki Loves Pride, Queering Wiki, World AIDS Day editathon and others.
1. Organising programme monitoring and reporting
[edit]Our organisation needs good annual reporting because transparency and good financial reports are foundational for seeking funding from Wikimedia Foundation and non-Wikimedia Foundation sponsors. We know among ourselves that the Wikimedia platforms are the world’s most requested, published, accessed, and consulted sources of information for LGBTQ+ topics.
As we go through our strategic planning for the next 3 years, we will use the opportunity to define and clarify certain areas of our work, including
- Member definition
- Programme focus
- Data and metrics collections
2. Seeking external funding
[edit]As our User Group is dedicated to growth, there is a need for our financial capacity to meet up with the expected growth and it is clear that the WMF funds, while creating a solid foundation for the work we do, can not fulfil all the financial needs we have. It is in view of this that we will be focusing on developing a robust fundraising strategy to increase our income base and give us the opportunity to carry out our ambitious plans. We know that the WMF is equally encouraging organisations within the Movement to expand their fundraising base and it is important, for us as a User Group and for the work that we do, to tap into the global fundraising opportunity that exists for LGBTQ+ groups.
3. Learning and development
[edit]WMLGBT+ is a powerful contribution to the Free Knowledge ecosystem by curating Queer content to increase the global knowledge base, however, it is important that we equally invest in the learning and development of our members and that this should not be an afterthought, but an intentional focus of the group. It is for this reason that building the capacity of our members will be a leading focus for us in 2026 and going forward. We are keen to make sure that our members have the tools and knowledge to be active both within the Wikimedia Movement and outside of it.
Also, we will be focusing on expanding the number of people interacting with the User Group. In the last 3 years, we have worked with Wiki For Human Rights Nigeria and the Bisi Alimi Foundation to carry out training for LGBTQ+ individuals in Nigeria and this has resulted in, an over 40% increase in LGBTQ+ content from Nigeria. During Wiki Loves Pride, we were able to fund training programmes for groups in 9 countries across the Global South. In 2026, we plan to add at least 2 more countries to this expansion drive.
It is with this in mind that our Learning and development officer, a new role in this budget, will be tasked with the responsibility of creating fun, interactive and exciting ways to introduce and teach new people wiki tools. In 2026, we hope to identify up to 3 countries to work with and help build a local community of LGBTQ+ groups that will have the opportunity to tell and share their own local Queer content on Wikimedia sites, to expand on the model used by Wiki for Human Rights Nigeria. This will not only expand the content we have in the LGBTQ+ topic area, it will also expand our community and open us up to more translation and new languages, making our community richer, stronger and more impactful.
Also, we have recently become a member of ILGA World; this means we can use our membership to engage with more LGBTQ+ organisations globally.
Language accessibility and translation
[edit]Because we have a very active and engaged community of editors from the Spanish-language Wikipedia, we have already established Spanish as a working language for publicly-facing media and created parallel internal channels also for Spanish contributors on Telegram.
As a part of our continuing efforts to decenter the Anglophone Global North and increase our contact and engagement with the Global Majority, we are looking into translating key documents and establishing (at least partial) support for activities in other languages. We have also increased LGBTQ+ related content and number of activities in multilingual wikis (primarily Wikidata and Commons, but also other Movement sites) and we hope to advance this further as we advocate for language accessibility, data diversity, media rich representation (including alternative textual media descriptions) and alike in all our activities.
Beyond Spanish and English, we will be expanding our knowledge around and increasing translation into more languages — from conversations at Wikimania in Nairobi this year, we have a specific offer of support for Swahili, which is a regionally important language in East Africa and we already have connections to Les sans pagEs and the Francophone community; connections we hope to deepen at Wikimania 2026 in Paris.
Other languages where we are aware we need to put effort into expanding our work and outreach include Arabic. We are already in discussions with the founder of Beirut Pride and we are looking to expand in the Arabic sprachraum, as it is both a regionally important language and one understood across a large region of hostile jurisdictions, with little access to LGBTQ+ information. (Arabic is the 16th-largest Wikipedia edition by articles and Egyptian Arabic is 11th-largest.) And while Japan is less hostile to LGBTQ+ people than the SWANA region, Queer identities are still less well-understood and LGBTQ+ information less available in Japanese than it is in the Anglosphere. Given that Japanese is a top-20 Wikipedia edition by articles, has the 4th-largest number of active users and has the 8th-largest WikiProject LGBT, this is another language where we are evaluating effort against potential impact.
Partnership and collaboration
[edit]As a community, as we expand, there will be an opportunity for us to partner and collaborate within and outside of the wiki ecosystem. This partnership and collaboration will range from chapters that include countries and regions, to affiliates around gender, climate change and other areas. This is recognising that LGBTQ+ people exist at the intersection of other forms and connecting this to empower members and build community will be pivotal in our development. Over the years we have partnered with Chapters like Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Österreich and we have recently taken advantage of geographic convenience to run editing events with Wikimedia UK. We have also worked closely with User Groups such as Wiki For Human Rights Nigeria, Art+Feminism, Les sans pagEs and several others. We will be exploring more opportunities in the coming years to add depth to the story we tell and also open our members to learning.
Our budget includes a modest amount allocated to staff travel, to enable our team to attend conferences such as the Executive Directors Group meet-up, Wiki Indaba and WECUDI2025 and bring back their learnings and partnership opportunities to the wider User Group.
4. Programmes and events
[edit]Wiki Loves Pride
[edit]Wiki Loves Pride is an annual campaign to improve LGBT+ content across Wikimedia projects and advance equity and diversity in the Wikimedia movement. Wiki Loves Pride activities primarily take place between June and August, the months when most communities around the world traditionally celebrate Pride.
The Wiki Loves Pride campaign was created to recognize the value of contributing LGBTQ+ resources to Wikimedia and the work of LGBTQ+ wikimedians in combating systemic bias, but organisers face the challenges of limited administrative resources among our community for facilitating impactful international, multilingual projects and events and documenting the work. We are seeking funding to tackle this limitation by supporting programme coordinators who can organise Wiki Loves Pride events to celebrate LGBT+ culture and history, and promote free knowledge. In particular, our budget plan includes hiring a member of the existing community as a project manager for the overall campaign for a period of 9 weeks; this staff cost is effectively a programmatic cost in order to ensure the effective delivery of the Wiki Loves Pride campaign in 2026.
Wiki Loves Pride in 2025 was truly global with over 20 workshops and edit-a-thons connected to Wiki Loves Pride — 12 local nodes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America. Over 450 participants (considering online and people attending to local nodes). We recorded over 280 in English, over 150 in French, and over 350 in Spanish) new and improved articles on Wikipedia and over 1′000 images uploaded to Commons. We are hoping to build on this by increasing the number of articles, participating countries and communities and conducting more learning opportunities for 2026.
World AIDS Day
[edit]Also, December 2025 to March 2026 will be the 30th anniversary of the FDA approval of 3 novel anti-HIV drugs that kicked off the “protease revolution”, dramatically improving our ability to control HIV infection. We have observed that, while medical information about HIV/AIDS is covered to some detail in Wikipedia instances, information about the social history of the AIDS pandemic is poor at best and mainly absent altogether, even in the top-10-language Wikipedias.
Building on the small editathon we held on Sat 30 Nov 2024, which was organised quickly and with minimal capacity but worked on over 100 articles across 17 editors, we intend to run a higher-profile World AIDS Day editing events, hoping to work with Wiki Project Med and partners outside the Movement, as well as in-Movement partners such as Wikimedia UK. For the World AIDS Day editathon in 2025, we hope to run panels, workshops and local nodes around the world, to allow us to get more information, collaboration and partnership.
Other programming
[edit]As can be seen from the proposed budget, we have also planned budgets for a wider Queer history programme (including activities around LGBTQ+ History Month) and supporting existing programmes, such as Wikiproyecto LGBT+’s monthly editing campaigns on the Spanish-language Wikipedia. In addition we are allocating a budget line for wider programming, to allow for us to react to unforeseen needs and opportunities, as well as to organise around other calendar events, such as International Transgender Day of Visibility
We are also hoping to host a hybrid (in-person and online) Queering Wiki event in 2026, for which we would expect to look to the Conference and Event Fund for support.
Planning for future work
[edit]Developing safe space support
[edit]Building our capacity to offer response and support for safe space complaints to protect the safety of our membership is another element of our strategy and work to uphold the Universal Code of Conduct. Our intention is that establishing some basic safety measures for LGBTQ+ wikimedians and contributors to LGBTQ+ topics can increase volunteer participation in community citizenship and governance. Providing safety measures for Safe Space complaints will help our community accomplish other strategic priorities with less fear of danger and more confidence in safety support in the likely case of threats. In order to respond to the Safe Space requests we receive, we require administrative support resources to engage in long-term planning, including workflow design. Our limited resources put limitations on our organisation’s ability to assess the needs of our membership as participation scales.
We currently hold regular meetings with the WMF Human Rights Team to share feedback and develop strategy to keep LGBTQ+ wikimedians safe, and provide feedback on WMF activity such as advising on the Universal Code of Conduct and inclusion, safety and risk assessment at Wikimania events. We also maintain contacts with other WMF teams including Trust and Safety and Community Resilience & Sustainability more widely. Increasing our administrative capacity will allow us to move away from relying on volunteers to handle this vital work, and increase the quality and sustainability of our work by adequately compensating administrative work that goes beyond what volunteers should be asked to do. With increased support, we additionally plan to develop accessible and privacy-centered ways to survey our community of LGBTQ+ wikimedians and allies and gather feedback about the issues they might be facing to help inform movement strategy and agenda-setting. A new intervention — in possible partnership with the WMF Human Rights Team — is hiring a dedicated staff member to look at safety and conflict issues, including safe space support so that we can begin collecting records to understand the problem; this is a proposal that came in too recently to be included in this grant proposal, but we expect to explore the possibility and seek funding for it in future. We aim to prepare a risk database for organisation risks and conduct risk assessments of safe space support protocols as we design them. Our Executive Director will lead the team in the design of a harm reduction plan, involving conducting a needs assessment, building our safe space workflows, and creating community resources.
We are building towards the design of conflict management and prevention initiatives to serve our members, focusing on action and education that will prevent future harm. We will continue to provide volunteer and community-building support to LGBTQ+ wikimedians and allies through the existing monthly User Group meetings and additional skillshares and workshops for volunteers and community organisers. Staffing User Group meetings with facilitators and translators will allow us to gather community ideas for organisational improvement and programme strategy.
Public policy work
[edit]In many parts of the world where our members reside, sexual orientation and gender identity are criminalised and in some instances, the penalty includes death penalty. Being able to have access to free knowledge and/or achieve queer content could be a matter of life and death, and lack of knowledge allows for harmful myths that further put our community at right. At WMLGBT+ digital education, free and open knowledge will be a powerful tool for advocacy and dismantling certain myths that are dangerous for LGBTQ+ people globally.
Our organisation has not begun public policy development, but LGBT+ issues are at the center of public policy discussions at the top level of many governments. Right now, we need to do research on how Wikimedia projects overlap with existing LGBTQ+ public policy issues, list our opportunities and resources, and advance strategic conversation on what we can meaningfully do after planning and exploration.
Culture, heritage and GLAM
[edit]As more LGBTQ+ museums and archives are opening around the world, there is an important role that WMLGBT+ will play. Over the next year we will start exploring cultural heritage and GLAM institutions for potential partnerships that we can hope to expand on in 2026–27.
- 9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)
| Category | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| Education | No |
| Culture, heritage or GLAM | No |
| Gender and diversity | Yes |
| Community support and engagement | Yes |
| Participation in campaigns and contests | No |
| Public policy advocacy | No |
| Other | No |
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, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, 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
- 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/document/d/1CfAOU_NzhSR9kzkL7rueNQAEZVzjIXzoqdmG8RE2_6o
- 11. Describe your team. (required)
Bisi Alimi (User:Bisi Alimi (WMLGBT)) is the Executive Director of WMLGBT+; he joined the organisation in April 2025 from the Bisi Alimi Foundation. He has over 20 years experience in global LGBTQIA advocacy. He has been instrumental in expanding wiki training in Nigeria through his foundation and in a personal capacity. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Bisi lives in London with his husband and dogs. Bisi’s responsibilities include:
- Organising and fostering partnerships
- Fundraising
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Soliciting feedback from the User Group Board
- Hiring and staff management (with advice from the User Group Board)
- Strategic planning
- Reporting
- Communication with the WMF Affiliations Committee
- Communication with WMF Trust & Safety and WMF Human Rights Team (with Director of programmes and community engagement)
- Communication with WMF Grants teams and other WMF departments
Vic Sfriso (User:Vic Sfriso (WMLGBT), also User:Vic Sfriso (WMAR)) is our Director of programmes and community engagement. Also being responsible for Wikimedia Argentina’s cooperation and decentralisation programme and gender campaigning on the Spanish-language Wikipedia for several years, they joined the Wikimedia LGBT+ staff in April 2025. They are based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vic’s responsibilities include:
- Programme direction
- Communication with members, the Wikimedia Movement at-large and the public
- Membership and elections management
- Communication with WMF Trust & Safety and WMF Human Rights Team (with Exec director)
- Advising and assisting the Executive director with grant proposals and applications
Owen Blacker (User:OwenBlacker) is the chair of the board of WMLGBT. Owen is a technologist working with the UK public sector. He has around 25 years’ experience of non-profit governance in the civic tech and digital rights spaces and has recently completed Wikimedia UK’s Train the Trainer course. His interests include Queer history, especially the cultural history of the Early AIDS Crisis, Queer popular culture, and science fiction, human rights and labour rights, languages and language rights. He is owned by 2 cats. He is based in Cardiff, GB.
New roles we are seeking to hire are listed, with their roles and responsibilities in §8 and §19.
- 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)
Partners are important to the success of our organisation, and have supported our past projects, such as Queering Wikipedia 2021, 2022 and 2023. Wikimedia LGBT+ has a 10-year history of fostering relationships with organisations, including Wikimedia community organisations such as national Chapters, Les sans pagEs, Art+Feminism, and Whose Knowledge?, and cultural partnerships with GLAMs and other institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of American History and New York Public Library. We also aim to expand partnerships with health organisations that share our mission to improve online health information relevant to LGBT+ communities. We have partnered with allied organisations to develop awareness of the impact of contributing to Wikimedia projects for issues including sexual and reproductive health, transgender health issues, and mental health needs around harassment and anti-LGBT+ discrimination, in addition to human rights, fighting disinformation, celebrating arts and culture, and education. Our focus on cross-cultural collaboration is key to the success of our partnerships, and WMF funding to support translation will help us strengthen our capacity to communicate and form relationships with global partners. A significant partnership we are working to expand is collaboration between the core Wikimedia LGBT+ staff and Wikiproyecto:LGBT, a highly active group of Wikimedians organising content development and other initiatives across the Spanish-speaking world (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:LGBT).
We have also dedicated valuable volunteer efforts to meet with teams at the Wikimedia Foundation, including WMF Human Rights Team and Trust and Safety (and Community Resilience and Sustainability more widely) to share mission-relevant feedback and advising. We have been regularly meeting with the Human Rights Team since late 2024, to discuss strategies to keep LGBT+ wikimedians safe, and to provide service recommendations. Our Board members have also helped shape WMF policy, serving as advisors on the Affiliations Committee, the Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee and the Future of Affiliate Gatherings Committee. We have also worked with WMF Board members and staff, including the WMF Research team, to present to and talk with the Wikimedia LGBT+ community at Queering Wikipedia events.
Outside of the Wikimedia Movement, we will be exploring the opportunity of working with groups like ILGA World and their regional affiliates, LGBTQI groups globally and other likeminded organisations.
- 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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact
Metrics
[edit]Wikimedia Metrics
[edit]- 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.
| Metrics name | Target | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 1000 | We aim to reach 1000 participants across the globe with our programmes and events. |
| Number of all editors | 150 | We aim to engage 150 editors in our programmes, of which 20 will be new editors. On our previous grant we didn’t specify a target amount of editors, as we were still mapping this. This year we are confident in stating 150 editors will be collaborating with Wikimedia projects via Wikimedia LGBT+ activities. |
| Number of new editors | 20 | |
| Number of retained editors | N/A | |
| Number of all organizers | 20 | Wikimedia LGBT+ has an active community including organisers. Our 20 organisers involved with Wikimedia LGBT+ target will be achieved by getting wikimedians involved in local nodes during Wiki Loves Pride and other events, as well as providing workshops and organising edit-a-thon for our community. |
| Number of new organizers | 5 |
- 14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
| Wikimedia project | Created | Edited or improved |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 800 | 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 are committing to the same target metrics around LGBTQ+-related Wikipedia articles as we committed to last year, and expanding our target at Commons. We are also adding Wikidata as a new target project. We want our community to engage more with Commons and to explore Wikidata as a valuable project to work with LGBTQ+ knowledge.
Other Metrics
[edit]- 15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)
- Yes
| Other Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| International support and solidarity | International support and solidarity with emerging communities, mostly in hostile contexts or in countries where Queer communities are not fully connected to local Chapters. Our impact will be measured by: topics which required support, Wikimedia projects where editing took place, and feedback from editors who were supported by WMLGBT+. Our target is at least 1 emerging LGBTQ+ community of editors contributing to at least 1 Wikimedia project | 1 |
| 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
[edit]- 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)
- USD
- 18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)
- 141480 USD
| Year | Amount (local currency) |
|---|---|
| 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.
- 2 existing staff contractors (Executive director, and Director of programmes and community engagement)
- 2 new staff contractors (Learning and development officer, and Social media officer)
- 1 short-term contractor will be hired for Wiki Loves Pride, estimated for 9 weeks.
- 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.
- 0·5 FTE for Executive director, already in-post with roles and responsibilities described in §11 above.
- 0·5 FTE for Director of programmes and community engagement, already in-post with roles and responsibilities described in §11 above.
- 0·4 FTE for Learning and development officer, expected to start from March 2026
- As the UG continues its migration from volunteer led to staff led, we are focusing more on how to engage our community and develop programmes and training that will bring them up to date with latest learning, while at the same time, making it fun and interesting for new contributors to learn about wiki tools.
- The Learning and development officer will lead the User Group’s training, workshops and development workstream with the mandate to develop fun, interactive and engaging training manuals and toolkits for already existing and new contributors.
- 0·2 FTE for Social media officer, expected to start from February 2026
- The Social media officer will assist our Director programmes and community engagement in online interactions, including creating fun and interactive posts that aim at increasing knowledge about Queer Wiki content. The officer will work with the team to have a weekly social media content calendar that will align with the vision and mission of the User Group.
- 0.4 FTE for Wiki Loves Pride coordinator, over 9 weeks between May and July
- June is Pride month, and every year WMLGBT+ runs Wiki Loves Pride for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. This project is very demanding and to be able to run it smoothly and to a very high quality, we will employ a consultant for three months with the support of the programme director to design, deliver and report on the activities of WLP. This is a short term contract for 9 weeks.
- 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 Learning and development officer and the Social media officer are new contractor roles. The Wiki Loves Pride coordinator is directly equivalent to a role in our previous grant.
- 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 | 100417 USD |
| Operational costs | 15500 USD |
| Programmatic costs | 12700 USD |
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
Additional information
[edit]- 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)
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
Feedback
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