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statusUnder review
Wikimedia Slovakia 2026-27
Fluxx IDR-GS-2603-22124
proposed start date2026-07-01
proposed end date2027-06-30
amount requested (local currency)32760 EUR
amount requested (USD)38201.44 USD [note 1]
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding regionCEECA
decision fiscal year2025-26
funding program roundRound 2
applicant and people related to proposal[[User:|]] ([[User talk:|talk]] • accounts • contributions • edit count)
organization (if applicable)Wikimedia Slovensko

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Applicant information

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Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
Wikimedia Slovensko
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)
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://wikimedia.sk/

Main proposal

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1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)
Wikimedia Slovakia 2026-27
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)
2026-07-01
4. Proposed end date. (required)
2027-06-30
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
link to AGM: https://wikimedia.sk/valne-zhromazdenie-2026/

link to Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Slovakia/Annual_agendas/2026/en Naturally, the plan will expand if we receive the General Support Fund.

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/1m3iRJcob4iSUh_p7mBmgAhgXK1-8osK1W8FQXIBHkmg
7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Slovakia
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)
to move beyond owhat we are already doing
to do things volunteers generally do not enjoy doing such as accounting and reporting
to do some of the stuff that we do not have volunteer capacity for (such as talks in more remote cities)
to promote our organization and activities more in the media (social networks, our own website, press)
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 Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests Yes
Public policy advocacy No
Technology (software development) No
Other No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)
Editing Wikipedia Training
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, Other groups
Other groups if any: Librarians.

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
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, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences
Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)
1Lib1Ref, CEE Spring, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki Loves Earth, 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)
Periodic events:

July-August 2026: Wiki Loves Earth July-August 2026: Wiki Loves Film November-December 2026: Wikipedia Asian Month March 2027: WikiGap March-May 2027: CEE Spring

One-time events (estimated timing): October/November 2026: Workshop: students September/October 2026: Team meeting (depends on members’ options) January/February 2027: Workshop librarians April/May 2027: Photo exhibition

Upkeep activities: September-December: applying for 2% of taxes Throughout the year: Video production as promo and educational (how to edit Wiki etc.)

11. Describe your team. (required)

Our affiliate is currently 100% volunteer-run and it has 7 members. The formal set up of our affiliate is a bit different than what is usual in the movement. The Board is an executive board: the chairperson and the two vice-chairs have unique responsibilities: full access to the bank accounts, signing legal documents on behalf of the organization and being representatives to government offices. The Audit Committee has a supervisory role. This is similar to the German style of a two-tier board with the Vorstand (Q897395) and Aufsichtsrat (Q759969). The final instance is the membership that usually meets at an Annual General Meeting. In practice, aside from the unique responsibilities mentioned above, the Board does not have a special role in the day-to-day running of the organization: our bi-weekly (and sometimes weekly) meetings are attended by Board members, Audit Committee members, regular members and non-members but active volunteers. The situation would change only slightly after the grant is approved: two new paid positions would be created, an administrative and a marketing position. Neither position currently has a specific person in mind, but these would highly likely be people who are already part of the user group and thus understand how it works and what it requires to run. They might have a position already or they might not. We are open to changing the structure to create a more formal and top-down approach to management but would like to do that only when it becomes necessary and we know that the staff is here to stay and/or might have to be recruited from outside of our current membership.

User group administrator Name: TBA Paid: Contractor Role: Administrative work for the internal working of the user group, including accounting, communication with other affiliates and local organizations, preparation for internal meetings, reporting, budgeting, calling meetings and preparing their agendas, representing the organization.


Marketing director Name: TBA Paid: contractor Role: Advertising position including PR, social media management, creating and managing web content including videos. These two positions would be about 0.4 FTEs in total.

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 biggest partner at the moment is the City Library in Bratislava (Q101421270). We envision that our cooperation would grow. So far, we have hosted our seniors project (Seniors Writing Wikipedia: (Q137300765) last year there. We are also planning to host the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia event there.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge

Metrics

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Wikimedia Metrics

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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 5 EDUCATION, COMMUNITY: For each workshop, we assume 10-15 active participants per workshop. For competitions, we also assume 10-15 participants per competition, with up to 20 for Wiki Loves Earth. We thus assume the participation of ~80-100 people total for the planned activities. These numbers are based upon our previous estimates of participants, where for online competitions, we generally have around 10 participants per activity, which is a good result considering the size of the project. Similarly for in-person workshops, the number of people that can attend is partially limited by the number of WMSK organizers, who can reliably and properly conduct the workshop. However, with younger participants, such as students, the number of participants could likely be higher despite a lower number of organizers, as they are more likely to work independently.

INITIATIVES: It is hard to estimate the number of participants in the initiatives, as these are entirely new projects for us. During the photo exhibitions, we would like to reach at least 50-100 outside people who might be interested to learn more about the presented images. As for the WikiGap editathon, we also assume around 10 people who would participate. This would put this section at 60-110 participants.

Number of all editors N/A EDUCATION, COMMUNITY: Most of our programs are aimed at editors, hence most participants would be editors. This puts the estimate at ~80-100 people.

Workshops are intended to bring in entirely new editors to learn how to contribute to the projects. In this, we assume all participants of these workshops would be new users, totalling about 30 people.

Retention is unfortunately one of the challenges that we are facing with our programs. However, with a dedicated employee of WMSK, we think reaching out and checking in with new editors would be much easier, thus potentially raising editor retention. We would like to retain at least 50% of the new editors, although this number is hard to estimate. From our previous workshops, our retention rate was about 10%.

Number of new editors N/A
Number of retained editors N/A
Number of all organizers N/A The whole WMSK User Group would help organize most activities, either more actively or by bouncing ideas and providing support. On top of the User Group, we have several community members who help judge articles in some of the programs for the community. In this sense, 10-12 organizers total would be involved in our activities.

We would like to on-board 1-2 new people from the community who could help us organize new events for the community. In the past, community members have been involved in judging the articles or images uploaded to Commons. We’d thus like to keep bringing members of the community who know the projects to take part in these activities further.

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 160 100
Wikimedia Commons 500
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia
Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Created: 150-170 1 per person per workshop = 1x10x2 = 20 Estimates: Wikipedia Asian Month 60, Wiki loves film 33, CEE Spring 60 Edited or improved: 100 We do not track edits or improvements during our contests as prizes are usually given for new articles, so this number is hard to estimate. However, during workshops, each user should edit at least 5 articles before trying to make their own article. In the estimate, we assume different articles, not how many edits were done to each article, as that is difficult to estimate. 5 per person per workshop = 5x10x2 = 100 Commons: Created: 500 We assume about 450 images uploaded during Wiki Loves Earth, estimated by the last several years. We also assume some new images might be uploaded during Wiki Loves Film, as there will be movie festivals happening around that time.

Other Metrics

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15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)
Yes
Other Metrics Description Target
600 000 Views reached on social media. 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

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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 Donations of 2% from income tax scheme Other donations

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)
500
17. Your local currency. (required)
EUR
18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)
32760 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
38201.44 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
  1. ↑ 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 plan to cover one or two people as contractors for the User group. These people would likely be some of the current members of the User Group. Depending on the activity, such as for workshops, we might use a few more members from the Slovak community for a given activity as organizers, contest judges, etc.
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 intend to cover a total of 0.4 FTEs, which would be split among two positions. External staff, as mentioned in the previous section, would only be a small portion of the staff compensation.
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 10800 EUR
Operational costs 8440 EUR
Programmatic costs 13520 EUR
21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14rGubXlQZF8z1vT64kiQ81d7eoZWvJjzJo8IZYg1VUo


Additional information

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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)

Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group are a long-standing affiliate within the Wikimedia world. We are a stable albeit smaller group, we participate in international events and are a part of both the CEE Hub and Wikimedia Europe. We are known by the groups in our regions and try to participate in multinational contests, such as Wiki Loves Earth, when possible. Although we have received Rapid Grants from Wikimedia Foundation previously, as new applicants, we might need a bit of help, but we are very open to feedback and collaboration.

Thank you for consideration!


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