Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Korea Strategic Annual Plan 2025

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Applicant information

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

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

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/위키미디어_한국

https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:협회

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Wikimedia Korea Strategic Annual Plan 2025

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

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

N/A

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

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): No

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FB-uJIV-3AYLtoz905b5poTB_rFSZareB5KVMpYhZoQ/edit?usp=sharing

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

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)

The Wikimedia Movement is confronting uncertainty after generatie AI technology arises. We need to adapt ourselves to this new environment and research various ways to use AI technology to enhance Wikimedia projects.

Therefore, our next year’s strategies are:

Inclusive and healthy community
Diverse contents
Capacity building
and Response to changing online environment

For inclusive and healthy community, we will:

support voluntary and productive user activities
cultivate a welcoming and safe environment
provide support in accordance with user’s life cycle
support underrepresented group activities (e.g. women, teenagers, and disabled people)

To support voluntary and productive user activities, we listened to Korean user’s opinions, and developed a new process for voluntary event organization. Through this process, we could support online and offline voluntary events. In the past, we just supported the events financially, but we will provide human support to the organizers next year. For example, the supporter will advise about event organizing, and help to send souvenirs.

To cultivate a welcoming and safe environment, we revived Korean Wikipedia’s old and hard-to-read manuals. Next year, we will research a new form of Wikipedia manual for newcomers by conducting surveys, and launch a project to generate the manuals. They are highly likely to be easy-to-understand videos for newcomers, children, and neurodivergent people. We also hosted the Governance Meetup to deal with administration, policy and technology, and collected the voices of Korean Wikipedia users who are interested in those issues. Based on the opinions, we support development of new tools financially.

In particular, we supported neurodivergent people in cooperation with a disability organization. We employed an enthusiastic neurodivergent person and she promoted our envent for those people. This approach was very successful. We will maintain the approach and extend the collaboration.

For contents diversity, we will

reduce systemic bias
improve Korean-specific contents
enhance professional contents
and activate Wikimedia sister projects

We hosted photo walks outside of the Seoul metropolitan area to reduce Wikipedia’s systemic bias, and it was very successful. We will maintain this approach next year, we will provide human and financial resources to improve contents related to local areas out of Seoul.

We will launch projects on not only Korean Wikipedia but also Korean Wikimedia sister projects to enhance Korean-specific contents. For example, we are considering a project where Korean speakers contribute to Korea-related contents on English Wikipedia using generative AI. There are many Korea-related low-quality articles on English Wikipedia, but many Koreans are not fluent English speakers. We think AI technology can help more Koreans to contribute to English Wikipedia articles. We are also planning a project to create and edit Korea-related items on Wikidata.

We hosted many activities targeting women, including Fantisia Editathon, Wiki Gap Editathon, and women-related article editing events, the events targeting women were not successful this year. We think our approach was not effectful, and we need to change it. We will launch activities to attract more women. Because we gathered many women participants, when we hosted events related to art and travel, topics of our events targeting women are highly likely to be art and travel.

For the activation of Wikimedia sister projects, we are continuously launching and organizing novel activities including Old Hangul Document Digitization, and Holiday Challenge Project. We will extend these activities, and explore ways of using OCR (optical character recognition), and generative AI to boost up the activities. For example, we can use the technology to summarize, translate, proofread Wikipedia articles, and find references faster.

For capacity building, we will

support member’s voluntary activities
and strengthen partnerships

We rented our physical office to set up a base camp for Wikimedia users and Wikimedia Korea members, and we are successfully using it for editathons and offline meetups. We will use the venue to educate Wikimedia users and our members, and collect voices to confront the changing online environment.

We will strengthen our partnership with the National Library of Korea next year. We go further from digitization of Old Hangul documents to modern documents in the public domain. Moreover, we will plan a project to digitize massive documents the library possesses using OCR technology.

We successfully achieved collaborative projects with the Korean Research Center for Guardianship and Trusts, and we will expand the cooperation further. We will enlarge our events to invite more neurodivergent people, and help them settle down on Wikimedia projects safely. The projects will include consecutive editathons, workshops, and photowalks for neurodivergent people and we will also conduct a research on neurodivergent people behavior on Korean Wikimedia projects

These days we attempt to communicate with foreign Wikimedia users and affiliates more frequently. As a result, we could launch some international online editathon events. We will also reinforce international cooperation with other Wikimedia affiliates in East Asia. We will host an international conference where users from Korea, Japan and Taiwan attend. We will share ideas for international collaboration in the event and implement some of them. (It will be covered by Conference Grants)

To confront the changing online environment, we will explore ways to use generative AI to enhance Wikimedia projects. We listened to Wikimedia user’s opinions and planned some pilot projects. Based on them, we will create manuals for generative AI, and launch edit-a-thons and volunteer works using the technology.

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	No
Participation in campaigns and contests	No
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training, Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other Wikimedia project 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, Senior citizens; 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, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.: Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, 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
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WmF7MhfIff5web3-StGcoLD2KEsiz6d54Oy1e9bR52M/edit?usp=sharing

11. Describe your team. (required)

We have a team to implement our goals and activities. Our organization is composed of the general meeting, the board and the executive office. The board members are elected by the general meeting. We have eight board members and paid three full-time staff members. We employed one part-timer after we received addition funds from the Foundation to support neurodivergent groups. The board sets up our group’s strategies and makes decisions. The staff plans activities and executes them. The board members host some edit-a-thons and online events as volunteers.

Executive officer

Duties:

Submitting documents required by local laws as a non-profit incorporated organization
Managing financial accounts and writing financial reports.
Holding board meetings and general assembly meetings.
Fundraising
Planning and managing domestic and international programs

Program Manager

Duties:

Managing domestic programs
Developing programs to support sister projects
Providing support for local communities
Managing social media promotion

Partnership Manager

Duties:

Establishing and maintaining partnership with external organization
Training educators
Providing a technical advice
Helping teenagers to edit Wikipedia
Hosting offline meetups for teenager users
Holding editathons for underrepresented groups

Part-time Manager

Duties:

Planing and promoting events for neurodivergent people
Helping and supporting neurodivergent participants

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)

We will work with other affiliates in East Asia, and send our representatives to the ESEAP Conference. Our volunteers keep talking with users in East Asia to discuss collaborations. We are also planing to host an international conference, and invite users from East Asia.

We hosted a photowalk even for teenagers with Seoul Youth Center this year, and we will maintain this partnership. Thanks to the foundation's decision, we could start our significant collaboration project with Korean Research Center for Guardianship and Trusts, and support neurodivergent people's activity on Korean Wikimedia projects.

National Library of Korea is also our important partner. They shared scanned old documents with us and supported the promotion of our Wikisource projects. Thanks to the library's help, we could engage more participants than last year.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	600	N/A
Number of all editors	450	N/A
Number of new editors	N/A
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	N/A	N/A
Number of new organizers	N/A	N/A

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

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	500	600
Wikimedia Commons	500
Wikidata	100	100
Wiktionary
Wikisource	50
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics

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


Other Metrics	Description	Target
Number of volunteer hours	Volunteer hours awarded to volunteers through a government-run platform	600
Diversity of participants brought in	The number of women, disables or LGBT participants	100
Voluntary events	Online/offline events that users host voluntarily with WMKR's support	10
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

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

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

Membership contributions

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): 0

17. Your local currency. (required): KRW

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 164396000 KRW

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

Requested amount in USD: 120009.08 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.

We will employ 3 paid staff members, and one of them will be a part-timer. Her term will be 9 months.

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.

We will employ 3 full-timers.

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): No

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	116100000 KRW
Operational costs	15196000 KRW
Programmatic costs	33100000 KRW

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qPxl1CJCYNzYiTlGst6Jzi2sM54lb9UG7s-MRaMgPQ/edit?usp=sharing

Additional information

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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]