Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Community Malta 3-Year Plan 2025–2027

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Wikimedia Community Malta

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

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Wikimedia Community Malta 3-Year Plan 2025–2027

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

2.1. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

The key concepts guiding Year 2 and Year 3 will be the same as Year 1. We are seeking to establish stability for our organisation and activities, while also seeking to reduce the burden of having to re-apply for funding every single year.

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2025-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2027-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://wikimalta.org/organizational-annual-plan/

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

Wikimedia Community Malta_ Strategic Plan 2025–27.pdf

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

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)

We are particularly active in producing more online text written in the Maltese language, which has been identified by the European Commission as in danger of digital extinction. This is particularly relevant across mt.wikipedia and Wikidata. We are also active in the area of sharing information about Malta and anything directly related to Malta around the world, while also ensuring that knowledge about Malta and anything Maltese is available to everyone, through working to make knowledge accessible to all to Malta and in the Maltese language.

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): Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Research, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required): 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): Documenting or incubating languages on Wikimedia projects, Introducing new approaches to underrepresented culture and heritage, e.g. decolonising or reparative work; oral and visual knowledge; outreach to communities of origin, indigenous and first nations self-determination, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

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

Community support and engagement

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

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required): 1Lib1Ref, Art+Feminism, CEE Spring, Feminism and Folklore, VisibleWikiWomen, 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://wikimalta.org/organizational-annual-plan

11. Describe your team. (required)

Wikimedia Community Malta has an appropriate team to implement this proposal.

User:Nevborg, the Wikimedia Community User Group Malta President, chairs regular meetings to ensure smooth strategic and operational procedures. Furthermore, along with User:ToniSant (who is also a Wikimedian in Residence with Times of Malta and mt.wikipedia interface administrator) we have a small number of active volunteers who work closely with us. Aside from Claire Sinagra, who's a board member since 2023, these include experienced Wikimedians like (listed alphabetically): User:Dans User:John_Cummings User:Mtanti User:Trigcly

These community members have worked directly with WCM over the past years and continue to work with us to deliver and enhance our program of activities. Furthermore, User:Chrisportelli and User:Leli_Forte remain active bureaucrats on mt.wikipedia with occasional interactions with WCM.

Most significantly, since 2022 we have also engaged Enrique Tabone (User:EnriqueTabone) as Program Coordinator. It is planned that she will continue in this role, Throughout 2024 we have discussed the need for enhanced capacity for this role, which we're aiming to implement from January 2025.

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)

INTERNAL

CEE Hub / CEE Spring - User:ToniSant is a Steering Committee member for the CEE Hub
Wiki Loves Earth - see https://wikimalta.org/annual-photo-contests/wiki-loves-earth/
Wiki Loves Monuments - see https://wikimalta.org/annual-photo-contests/wiki-loves-monuments/
GenderGap - see https://wikimalta.org/wikinisa
Wiki World Heritage User Group - see https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorija:Siti_ta%27_Wirt_Dinji, which through WCM efforts contains a larger number of good quality encyclopedic articles on mt.wikipedia
Wiki Loves Folklore - see https://wikimalta.org/annual-photo-contests/wiki-loves-folkore/
Wikimedia MA User Group - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Malta_Morocco_collaboration which outlines a collaboration we started with our fellow Wikimedians in Morocco following on from an open call at Wikindaba 2023. We are hoping to extend this to other affiliates around the Mediterranean basin from 2025, with the aim of developing a regional article writing contest similar to CEE Spring, focused on languages in southern Europe, the near East, and northern Africa.

EXTERNAL

M3P Foundation - with whom we have a standing collaboration agreement based on joint aims relating to MediaWiki use in Malta. We aim to continue getting internet service and office space through them while making a reasonable financial contribution towards these services, which evidently involve 3rd party costs, as we've done since 2022.
Times of Malta - with whom we initiated a long-term Wikimedian in Residence program in 2023. This partnership is ongoing and we’re expecting it to start yielding publicly visible outcomes in 2025, such as the inclusion of their pay-walled new archives in the Wikipedia Library, and the release of significant photos from their substantial image archives to Wikimedia Commons.
University of Malta - our Education program is directly related within our Language Project and our GenderGap initiatives, wherein we collaborate with two academic programs at this higher education institution: one is for Translation Studies and the other is Gender Studies.
Heritage Malta - with whom we have re-initiated contact after Covid-19 interruptions through the International Museum Day in May.

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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, 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	100	This number is approximate and fluctuates from year to year.
Number of all editors	70	These number are approximate and fluctuate from year to year. Activities involve editors on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
Number of new editors	35
Number of retained editors	5
Number of all organizers	4	This number is fairly steady from year to year. It involves the three board members along with our one part-time employee. We seek to keep this number stable and/or grow it slightly to ensure appropriate capacity to enable the delivery of our planned program of activities, especially as funded by the grant.
Number of new organizers	0

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

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	500	1000
Wikimedia Commons	1000	500
Wikidata	2000	2000
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki	100	50
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

These number are approximate and fluctuate from year to year.

Other Metrics

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


Other Metrics	Description	Target
Continuity	This is a major metric for our user group. We give great importance to whether we're able to resume a photo or article editing contest from year to year and whether we're able to maintain a baseline level of activity, more so than number of uploads or edits.	N/A
Retention	This is another major metric for our user group. We find that it's better to engage with existing editors and uploaders to ensure that they're happy to continue to engage with Wikimedia projects than it is to seek new editors and uploaders, even if we still do the latter, to some degree or other, as indicated in Metric 3, below.	N/A
New participants	While we are aware that the retention rate of new participants is low across the movement, we do not overlook the need to recruit new editors/uploaders. This is particularly because we understand that the recruitment of new participants is one essential way to ensure that the number of editors/uploaders we're able to retain does not deflate too quickly.	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

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

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

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

17. Your local currency. (required): EUR

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 147968 EUR

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	48679 EUR
Year 2	49317 EUR
Year 3	49972 EUR

Requested amount in USD: 160903.36 USD ^{[note 1]}

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

↑ ^a ^b ^c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

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

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

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

1

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.

0.4 FTE

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): We've had one employee at 0.2 FTE for the past 3 years, and we're now planning to increase the time for the same one employee to 0.4 FTE to sure up our administrative/organisational capacity and provide adequate compensation for the time the employee actually works for our organisation.

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	19360 EUR
Operational costs	14850 EUR
Programmatic costs	14469 EUR

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

Wikimedia Community Malta_Budget Plan 2025-27.pdf

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)

This application builds on similar work we've conducted over the past three years (2022–2024) on annual simple plan grants. We seek to continue our activities at about the same capacity over the next three years but require that our sole employee is compensated for the equivalent of two days of work rather than just one day. This is better aligned with the level of service that is required to ensure sustained delivery without awkward over-dependence on volunteers.

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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[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]