Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Norge 2026-2028

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Wikimedia Norge 2026-2028

Fluxx IDR-GS-2509-20397

start date2026-01-01

end date2028-12-31

budget (local currency)8228025 NOK

amount requested (USD)768497.54 USD

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

funding regionNWE

decision fiscal year2025-26

funding program roundRound 1

organization (if applicable)Wikimedia Norge

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)

Wikimedia Norge

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

- www.wikimedia.no/en (website) and no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hovedside (wiki used as documents archive)

• Financial reporting and audits: no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Budsjett_og_regnskap_Wikimedia_Norge
• Budgets and accounts for projects: no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prosjektbudsjett_og_-regnskap
• Bylaws (governance): no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vedtekter/en
• Board: www.wikimedia.no/en/about-us/the-board-of-directors
• 2025 Annual General Assembly Minutes: upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/no/a/a7/Protokoll_Aarsmoete2025_WMNO_signert.pdf

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)

Wikimedia Norge 2026-2028

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)

Years 2 and 3 we will continue the general operations, programs and projects described for year 1, but with a strengthened focus on the parts of the 2026 Annual Plan labelled "Stepping up" and "Developing opportunities". Year 3, which will be 2028, will be the final year of our six-year strategic period. So that year we will invest extra time and resources in evaluating our performance and making strategic choices for the future.

3. Proposed start date. (required)

2026-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required)

2028-12-31

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://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%85rsplan_2026/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

https://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategi_2023%E2%80%932028/en

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

Norway

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 2026 Annual Plan describes our programs and approaches in detail, and our strategies are given in the 2023–2028 Strategic Plan. The year 2026 marks the second half of our strategic period, focusing resources on areas that have yielded results in recent years while addressing long-term challenges in strengthening our organisational foundation and our efforts to ensure diversity in content and communities within the Wikimedia projects.

Our 2025 priorities will be continued in 2026, but with special attention to

• the Wikipedia 25th anniversary
• our goal of 40 % annual membership growth
• ongoing projects such as Growing the Female Ratio on Wikipedia and Wiki into Education
• one potential project where 0.2 FTE is made available for AI-RISK: Centre for the Analysis and Mitigation of Societal Risks from AI.

Efforts are planned across the four thematic work areas of our strategy: 1. Members and Contributors. We are governed by the needs expressed by our board and members as well as the Wikimedia communities at large. Activities include membership campaigns, an array of community activities and learning opportunities for Wikimedia beginners, admins, mentors and trainers. 2026 is the final year of our ambitious project Growing the female ratio on Wikipedia, and we will be exploring how to continue our long-term efforts to close the Wikimedia gender gap. Our Wikipedia 25th anniversary committee is planning events tailored for Wikimedians, but that will also raise awareness of the Wikipedia model in a time of disinformation and rapid AI development with the general public and academic communities. The anniversary will also provide an opportunity to start fundraising efforts directed at businesses.

2. Organisational Foundation. We are stepping up our long-term efforts to diversify revenues, develop multi-year projects and strengthen our organisation. The WMNO staffing situation in 2025 slowed these efforts down, but we are now picking up the pace again.

3. Norwegian partnerships and advocacy. We aim to position ourselves as the national number one non-profit that offers input on how to maintain public digital spaces and support free knowledge. Advocacy, the Wiki into Education project and our budding research collaborations will help us get there.

4. International Work. We are making a change of direction in how we support under-represented languages in Wikimedia projects, which will help us strengthen Nordic collaboration across Sápmi regions and languages. First step is to hire a Northern Sámi Coordinator on an hourly basis, while exploring opportunities for sharing a permanent staff resource between Nordic Wikimedia affiliates.

Our plan and strategy enable us to address challenges and limitations in our organisation’s operating environment and in the Wikimedia movement. In particular, we are navigating the following challenges:

• Low membership numbers restrict our impact, capacity and national funding opportunities.
• WMNO has a low (but budding) public profile.
• Our revenues are not sufficiently diversified and often come with hard earmarking.
• A shift from short-term non-committing partnerships to forging lasting, formal strategic partnerships is staff-intensive.
• Lack of diversity in content and amongst contributors in Wikimedia projects, especially female contributors.
• The number of volunteers for Northern Sámi Wikipedia is too low for long-term sustainability.

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	Yes
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)

Editing Wikipedia Training, Other activities, Wikimedia Commons programs

Other programs and activities if any: Our Wiki into Education project.

9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)

Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors, Other groups

Other groups if any: Groups of women from partnering organisations, GLAM and higher education.

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required)

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, Sensitize and educate for gender perspective among Wikimedia projects stewards and editors, Other

Other programs and activities if any: We are recruiting and training female Wikipedia editors, admins and mentors.

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

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)

Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary, Other

Other programs and activities if any: We organise a Women in Red campaign every March, as an addition to our three-year project Growing the female ratio on Wikipedia and our general gender gap activities. Our project "Fix it! Make Wikipedia Shine" will be continued, with editing competitions and GLAM outreach.

Public policy advocacy

9.6.1. What specific laws, or legislative topics, are you targeting with your advocacy plans? Please be as specific as possible. (required)

In 2026, our main focus is following up on national implementation of EUs Digital Services Act (DSA) and the AI Act.

9.6.2. What are the main methods and tactics via which you plan to advocate for this public policy change? Please be as specific as possible. (required)

We interact with public and non-profit sector entities that influence legislative processes. We will continue to participate in The Norwegian Open Government Partnership (OGP) stakeholder forum organised by the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance and other relevant forums. We will also consider whether WMNO should apply to join the political network Civil Society Norway, to gain help to amplify our advocacy efforts.

With limited staff-time available, we aim for our Board and Executive Director to spend the equivalent of one month's working hours on advocacy.

9.6.3. Approximately, how much of the requested budget will you dedicate to public policy advocacy (local currency)?

75600 NOK

10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C3crDmmYNCRzf9rg_T_-hH6rlIZVUxxB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115692081234995791268&rtpof=true&sd=true

11. Describe your team. (required)

The volunteers in our Board of Directors (www.wikimedia.no/en/about-us/the-board-of-directors) and the Audit Committee (no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kontrollkomité/en) support and guide our efforts, and members and Wikimedia contributors offer advice and help with events and projects.

The WMNO permanent staff (www.wikimedia.no/en/about-us/staff) in 2026 will consist of 2 FTEs (Executive Director and Communications Coordinator) and 1 FTE (Community Outreach Specialist) which will possibly be split between one existing and one new staff member. In addition, the project lead for “Growing the female ratio on Wikipedia” is hired in a temporary 0.5 FTE position. We occasionally hire people by the hour to help with projects or general operations, which is what we aim to do with our Northern Sámi Coordinator position, which has recently been advertised.

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)

Our initiative to formalise how we work with Nordic Wikimedia affiliates on Sámi knowledge has not yet taken shape and form. We currently collaborate on wiki efforts and training, but would like these partnerships to take a more strategic and systematic turn. In time, we could share a Sámi Coordinator position employed by WMNO or one of the other affiliates.

WMNO collaborates with GLAM partners, educational institutions and other non-profits. Currently we are prioritising research teams at the University of Oslo and Sintef, as disinformation and AI development/governance are burning topics to us.

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, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

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	375	Our annual plan and the project description for Growing the female ratio on Wikipedia has detailed numbers for recruting and retaining editors, admins, patrollers and mentors.
Number of new editors	100
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	30	N/A
Number of new organizers	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	12000
Wikimedia Commons	500
Wikidata	500	500
Wiktionary
Wikisource
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
Targets	Our targets are listed in detail in our 2026 Annual Plan. We also measure and document our performance, as well as selected aspects of the Norwegian and Sámi Wikimedia projects, at no.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistikkbank/en. All our projects have deliverables that we keep internal records for.	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)

Yes

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

In 2026, our other revenue sources will be VAT compensation, external project funding, donations, income from consultancy services and membership fees. Totalling NOK 1,490,000 for that year.

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

1490000

17. Your local currency. (required)

NOK

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

8228025 NOK

Multi-year funding request summary

Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	2610000 NOK
Year 2	2740500 NOK
Year 3	2877525 NOK

Requested amount in USD

768497.54 USD

Multi-year funding request summary in USD

Year	Amount USD
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.

We rely heavily on the General Support Fund to cover our permanent staff positions - currently three, but with the option of four (without growing the number of FTEs) from early 2026 and onwards. Wages and employer's costs for 2026 for those positions amount to NOK 2,400,000. In addition, up until the end of 2026, we have a project lead which is covered by external funding. Occasionally, when we need particular skill sets, temporary staff or contractors are hired by the hour.

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.

Three FTEs will be funded mainly with the General Support Fund, which is the same as in 2025. In addition, our 2026 temporary project lead has a 0.5 FTE position.

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

In sum there will be no changes, but one full-time permanent position may be split into two part-time positions.

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	2300000 NOK
Operational costs	250000 NOK
Programmatic costs	60000 NOK

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/no/a/a2/Budsjett_2026.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)

We are budgeting for a 5 % annual increase of the GSF grant in years 2 and 3 of the funding period. This is intended to cover price growth for our operational costs and moderate wage growth as we balance staff retention and shifting needs for skills and knowledge.

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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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