Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Cyprus User Group Annual Plan

statusUnder review

Wikimedia Community Fund

Wikimedia Cyprus User Group Annual Plan

Fluxx IDR-GS-2408-16704

start date2025-01-01

end date2025-12-31

budget (local currency)58100 EUR

amount requested (USD)63179.1 USD ^{[note 1]}

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

funding regionCEECA

decision fiscal year2024-25

funding program roundRound 1

applicant and people related to proposalAProdromou

organization (if applicable)Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Wikimedia Community User Group CyprusAProdromou

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): No, it is my first time applying for 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

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Wikimedia Cyprus User Group Annual Plan

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

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): 2025-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2025-12-31

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

Annual Plan Log frame.docx

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

Revised Strategic plan Wikimedia Community Cyprus.pdf

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

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)

As a newly established community user group, the Wikimedia Cyprus (WM Cyprus) user group has already achieved significant milestones in the first eight months of 2024. As the background preparations have been ongoing since 2023 in terms of recruiting the admin team as well as the volunteers, after being formally established as a user group, outreach activities and promotions have been taking place. The informal group has existed since 2018. The strategic plan was the next step in the formalisation of the group.

Based on the analysis in the strategic plan, three main areas were determined on which the Wikimedia Cyprus group will concentrate in the 2024-2027 period.

These areas are: i. Wikimedia Community Building in Cyprus, focussing on gender and underrepresented groups. ii. Develop initial collaborations with higher education institutions iii. Awareness raising on open knowledge and Wikimedia through events in Cyprus These objectives have been developed through community consultations with the relevant stakeholders. The aim of these objectives is not only to raise awareness regarding the Wikimedia Movement across Cyprus, but also through free sharing of knowledge to motivate the communities across the island to get closer through a common purpose. We would like to involve especially underrepresented groups across different communities in Cyprus to work towards the same goal of knowledge for everyone. WM Cyprus is suitably placed to achieve these goals as people involved in the group are representatives of various communities on the island and have outreach potential in their own communities. The following activities have been planned for 2025:

Wikimedia Community Meetups: First Tuesday of every month. Meetups for the Cyprus Wikimedia community to foster networking and collaboration among individuals interested in content creation and dissemination. Provide a platform for sharing ideas, discussing challenges, and initiating joint projects.
Partnership with Educational Institutions: Collaborate with schools, colleges, and universities in Cyprus to integrate Wikipedia editing and content creation into educational programs. Encourage students and teachers to contribute knowledge to Wikipedia, while enhancing digital literacy skills.
Gender Equality Edit-a-thons: Organize edit-a-thons, once per quarter, focused on improving gender representation on Wikipedia. Provide training and resources to participants on how to create and edit articles about notable women and address gender bias in existing content.
Wiki Gap Cyprus: Host Wiki Gap events in Cyprus in celebration of International Women’s Day to raise awareness about the gender gap on Wikipedia and encourage women's participation. Collaborate with local organizations and institutions to organize workshops, panel discussions, and editing sessions.

Wikimedia Cyprus is very fortunate as there are many international organisations on the island as well as prestigious universities that share common values with the Wikimedia Foundation, with whom partnerships can be established. Regular meetings will be organised with the universities to raise awareness among students who may be interested in joining the group, while edit-a-thons will also be arranged within the universities. This is one of the main goals of Wikimedia Cyprus. One of the short-term goals is to register Wikimedia Cyprus as a civil society organisation in Cyprus, in order to become more organised, hire a part time staff and also to have access to more funding opportunities to be able to be involved in more Wikimedia projects.

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	No
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	No
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, 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; Other groups 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; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)

WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap, CEE Spring

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)

timeline uploaded

Timeline Cyprus.xlsx

11. Describe your team. (required)

Anna Prodromou (username:AProdromou) Founder/Project Manager- volunteer Sezis Thompson (username: OkutS) Founder/Project Assistant- volunteer Zahra Mashy- volunteer

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

We will be working with Wikimedia Greece, we have already applied for a EU funded grant in the northern part of Cyprus and waiting for the results. We will also be cooperating with the CEE Hub. Anna Prodromou has been recently elected to be a member of the CEE Steering Committee

External

Wikimedia Cyprus User Group has been closely working with a non-profit organisation based in Cyprus called WICZ Foundation that share similar values and objectives.

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

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	We will aim to attract 100 new participants in the events that will be organised throughout the year. We will focus on attracting as many women participants as possible.
Number of all editors	9	We will aim to get 4 new editors during the lifetime of the grant.
Number of new editors	4
Number of retained editors	5
Number of all organizers	4	We will aim to add 1 new organizer to the existing 3 organisers.
Number of new organizers	1

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

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	20	60
Wikimedia Commons	200	50
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki	20	50
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No


Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): 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): 58100 EUR

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

Requested amount in USD: 63179.1 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.

There will be 1 part-time staff hired for the proposal period.

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.

None

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

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	9600 EUR
Operational costs	23100 EUR
Programmatic costs	35000 EUR

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

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)

we will aim to hire a female employee if possible focusing on underrepresented groups

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

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

Yes

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[fixedrate-1] The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

[note 1]