Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Korea Strategic Annual Plan 2026

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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

Organizational website: https://w.wiki/CFx

-Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes: https://w.wiki/FFQT

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 2026

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): 2026-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2026-12-31

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/1Cob7pbl6nsH5tleFtvr5R0MCqvxxcTOBiRPdus8ywPQ/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)

Our vision is that people from all around the world, especially Korean-speaking people, share all knowledge developed by human-being and Korea-specific knowledge. To achieve our vision, we established our strategies, and planned our specific activities.

Our main strategies are:

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

For Inclusive and healthy community, we will:

Support voluntary and productive user activities
Respond to changing demographic structure
Cooperate with a technical community
and Educate newcomers and promote Wikimedia philosophy

We think supporting volunteer organizers is more effective for a voluntary and productive community, and it can contribute to the improvement of diverse contents. We will also help users organize small communities for specific topics, such as history, and support their activities including offline meetups and collective online editing.

We also make a continuous effort to support marginalized communities. In particular, our activities for neurodivergent people have been very successful. We hosted offline editing events and photowalks to encourage the neurodivergent people to have interest in Wikimedia activities. This year, we launched a small photowalk event, targeting women neurodivergent people. We need to hold the offline meetups less frequently and host smaller meetups, because some participants feel tired of the monthly repeated meetups.

Engaging newcomers in the community is very important for the sustainable movement. We are planning to launch special editathons for “those who have never edited Wikipedia before.” We will collaborate with some specific groups or use individual networks to reach out to that kind of people.

According to statistics from the Foundation, we can see the number of newly resisted users decrease, and the number of anonymous users increase. In this situation, the Wikimedia community is still run by highly active users; on the other hand, newly registered users and anonymous users are excluded from the operation of the community. We need to analyze user’s activity patterns and consider how to engage the anonymous users in the community.

The Korean Wikipedia’s technical community is maintained by a small number of users, and they are very individual. We will reform our existing supporting programs and focus on technical activities conducted by individual users. We need to build a collaborative community and structure a supporting system in the long term.

There is a possibility that newcomers misunderstand Wikipedia as not an encyclopedia, but a space for writing whatever they want. We think it is very important to educate newcomers on Wikipedia’s fundamental philosophy, and we will create educational resources on the principles, and structured courses on Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines.

For diverse contents, we will:

Activate Wikimedia sister projects
and Collect diverse contents

Although we have supported Wikimedia sister projects, including Wikisourse, and Wikiquotes for a long time, we need to develop projects with more association between Wikipedia and its sister projects. We saw some successful cases in Wikisource-targeted projects, but there is still a barrier when it comes to Wikidata. For example, it is difficult for non-technical users to understand how to edit Wikidata items. We can provide more detailed manuals to increase the connection between Wikipedia and Wikidata. We can also consider developing a bot for repeated data input when we host events on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.

Meanwhile, the Korean Wikisourse community was naturally organized in the wake of our activities and events. Wikisource volunteer organizers planned and hosted creative and productive events to collect modern Korean documents with our financial and human support. We will strengthen communication with the community members and support their voluntary activities.

For capacity building, and international collaboration, we will:

Use our office effectively, and support member’s activities
and Expand international collaborations

We are renting our office and use it for our regular meetups and offline activities. For example, we regularly host offline editathons for neurodivergent people and discussion meetups for Korean Wikipedia users. We also provide the office to users for free to encourage their voluntary activities.

We are actively engaged in international cooperation in the ESEAP region, by hosting collaborative events with Taiwan (2023), Japan (2024), and Malaysia (2025). In particular, we could significantly boost our Wikipedia Asia Month event, and strengthen friendship between two communities in cooperation with the Japanese Wikimedia community. We will expand our international collaborations and participate in the ESEAP community as a Wikimedia affiliate. We think we have accumulated a lot of experience when it comes to the creation and improvement of contents, and plan to share our experiences with other ESEAP community members. We will also build an international partnership to preserve local traditional cultures.

We also consider hosting international events, such as the ESEAP Summit to promote our position and expand our role in the international community. We are joining other core operating teams to help the organization and gain experiences from it.

These days, the online environment and market is rapidly changing as a result of the rise of generative AI technology. To respond to this change, we will focus on using the technology to enhance the community’s productivity in compliance with the Foundation’s AI strategy. This year, we financially supported individual developers and created manuals on the use of AI-based tools. For example, we supported the development of WikiVault powered by generative AI, and contributed to the improvement of Korean Wikipedia’s productivity. We will maintain this approach next year, and listen to the community’s opinion more carefully. Moreover, we will host an event to discuss Wikipedia’s roles in this changing circumstance. For example, we can talk about how to share more educational and verified information in response to AI-generated content.

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	No
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): 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): Secondary school students, 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 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

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, Offering micro-funding and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.); 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/1O-bpwLs8xzUE8SAYAorDnhrcEQgSC2tFA8hVuKb9gEo/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 three full-time paid employees. 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.

Next year, we will maintain our staff employment, but slightly change their roles.

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 and international collaborations
Developing programs to support sister projects
Providing support for local communities
Managing social media promotion

Partnership Manager

Duties:

Communicating with paid-up members and donators
Establishing and maintaining partnership with external organization
Developing volunteer programs

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 have been working with Wikimedia affiliates for several years. We constantly attended ESEAP events and hosted collaborative events withTaiwanese, Japanese, and Malaysian communities. In particular, our collaboration with the Japanese community was very significant. We hosted simultaneously friendship events in both Korea and Japan, and we can boost our Wikipedia Asia Month event by exchanging souvenirs.

Our partnership with a neurodiversity advocacy group, Three Ocean. We could promote our events for neurodivergent people, and extend partnerships with other neurodivergent groups based on the partnership. We are also working with Estas, a self help group of autistic people, and inviting autistic and neurodivergent people from the groups.

We also maintained our partnership with National Library of Korea. We collected scanned images from it, and promoted our Old Hangul Digitization project through its website. We could engage more people in our project in cooperation with the organization.

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, Identify Topics for Impact, 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	500	N/A
Number of all editors	400	N/A
Number of new editors	N/A
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	5	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	300
Wikimedia Commons	600
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource	40
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	N/A	500
Diversity of participants brought in	The number of women, disables or LGBT participants	70
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): Yes

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

Membership fees

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): 2000000

17. Your local currency. (required): KRW

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 176320000 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: 123424 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.

3 full-time employees

1 part-time employees (12 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.

3 full-time employees

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): None

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	120000000 KRW
Operational costs	15220000 KRW
Programmatic costs	41100000 KRW

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14GsXLUXlpCwNxGA6VcMeFcULCmtkCyoE0kf4_q1W2FY/edit?usp=sharing

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)

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]