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Wikimedia UG Greece Annual Grant 2026-27
Fluxx IDG-GS-2602-22065
proposed start date2026-06-01
proposed end date2027-05-31
approved start date01 June 2026
approved end date31 May 2027
amount requested (local currency)57920 EUR
amount requested (USD)67540.51 USD [note 1]
amount recommended (USD)40901
amount recommended (local currency)35000 EUR
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding regionCEECA
decision fiscal year2025-26
funding program roundRound 2
organization (if applicable)Wikimedia Community Greece Association

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Applicant information

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Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
Wikimedia Community Greece Association
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://www.wikimedia.gr

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_zuaiy_kFy5Tzt0Bdj99MFINJbYkbXT/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hqc99CG-cbgLZNUx_MyurrOPmkd19kDw/view

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 UG Greece Annual Grant 2026-27
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)
2026-06-01
4. Proposed end date. (required)
2027-05-31
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
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
7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Greece
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)

For 2026, the approach of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece is based on our 2024-2027 Strategic Plan and a direct evolution of our experience hosting the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 in Thessaloniki. That landmark event provided us with the networking and organizational "know-how" that we are now institutionalizing, and represents the next step in our maturation as an organization. Having over a decade of activity behind us, we are now focusing on transitioning from a strictly volunteer-based group to a transparent, functioning, and professionally supported Civil Society Organization.

The Challenges we are trying to address this year:

  1. Administrative burnout & lack of central organization: As a community relying 100% on volunteers (all of whom hold full-time external employment), organizing high-frequency events poses a significant risk of burnout and often results in inconsistent documentation and reporting.
  2. Geographical fragmentation: Our active members are dispersed across various Greek cities. This hinders regular physical interaction, increases event logistics costs, and weakens community cohesion.
  3. Gender Gap: There is a significant underrepresentation of women; for example, all current board members are male, which requires active and targeted work to attract more women to the core group.

Our Programs, Approaches, and Strategies for 2026: To address the above challenges, our programs and budget for 2026 are structured around three central strategic pillars:

Strategy 1: Organisational Capacity

  • Approach: We are investing in the organization's sustainability by training our members into project management, time management, communication practices, and long-term planning.Simultaneously, we are securing essential operational needs with professional legal and accounting services, maintaining a physical office (as required by Greek law), and upgrading our digital infrastructure by migrating to a Google Workspace subscription for centralized collaboration and developing organizational practices to ensure that user group documents stay accessible for ever.
  • How it addresses the challenge: It relieves the volunteer Board members from time-consuming administrative tasks, allowing them to focus on strategy and content creation. Centralized organization ensures consistency and professionalism when engaging with external partners.

Strategy 2: Strategic Partnerships & Advocacy

  • Approach: We are formalizing our long-term relationships by signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with ministries (such as the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education) and international institutes (such as the Goethe Institute) that will establish a more formal cooperation between institutions rather than persons, and they will suggest the institutions under them to cooperate with us. Concurrently, we are implementing a lobbying strategy—including awareness events and meetings with policymakers—to achieve an amendment to the copyright law (N.2121/93) regarding Freedom of Panorama in Greece and Government Directives that require fees for some uses of photos of archaeological sites, and prohibit use of professional equipment (including a tripod!) even for non-commercial purposes.
  • How it addresses the challenge: It tackles the immediate legal problem regarding monuments and ensures free access to information. Furthermore, formalizing partnerships increases the social impact of Wikimedia, provides sustainable income, and secures institutional support that can attract more users from educational and cultural sectors.

Strategy 3: Events & Community Building

  • Approach: We will continue to run our successful annual campaigns, such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth, CEE Spring, 1Lib1Ref, Wikimedia Asian Month, Ionian Wikithon and other regular editathons. Furthermore, for 2026 we are planning:
    • Diversity Initiatives: Reiterate a Wiki Gap / Women event to boost women's participation and cover gender-related topics together with feminist organizations and others (e.g. some university departments with a large majority of women).
    • Innovative Wikiexpeditions: Expeditions to rural Greece (in collaboration with the OpenStreetMap community) for photographic and cartographic documentation, utilizing new audiovisual equipment, including a car-mounted GoPro 360 camera.
    • Wikimeetup: Organizing a large gathering for all Greek Wikimedians.
    • International networking scholarships: Funding travel for community members to attend Wikimania and WMCEEM 2026.
  • How it addresses the challenge: The national wikimeetup and regular community meetups bridge the geographical fragmentation, keeping energy and interest active across Greece. The targeted Wiki Gap activities proactively counter the gender gap. Finally, the Wikiexpeditions feed the projects with much-needed open data while simultaneously offering incentives for new volunteers to participate.
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, Translation
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
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
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.
Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.)
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, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiGap
Other programs and activities if any:
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n9LQKaonM8SxHqDbxM46ygkRU7zo70vF3vVv6hGdYlM/edit?usp=sharing
11. Describe your team. (required)
  • Marios Magioladitis (Board President), User:Magioladitis, Volunteer
  • Dimitris Liourdis (Board Vice President), User:Diu, Volunteer
  • Konstantinos Stampoulis (Secretary), User:Geraki, Volunteer
  • Markellos Stevis (Treasurer), User:MARKELLOS, Volunteer

and other members of the group

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

  • CEE Hub
  • Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus

External

  • Wikiellinisti
  • Ionian University
  • International Hellenic University
  • Aristotle University
  • Goethe Institute
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, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

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 300 N/A
Number of all editors 180 N/A
Number of new editors 150
Number of retained editors 50
Number of all organizers 17 N/A
Number of new organizers 5
14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Created Edited or improved
Wikipedia 800
Wikimedia Commons 3500
Wikidata 200 500
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia
Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)


Other Metrics

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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

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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 contributions

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)
100
17. Your local currency. (required)
EUR
18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)
57920 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
67540.51 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.

1
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.

6
19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees)
Hiring one (1) part time staff. Currently none (0).
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 8000 EUR
Operational costs 10992 EUR
Programmatic costs 40000 EUR
21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ITGBkbEF0A0GMLh_QL7c2-MtT9Vi3kfn0fWhG3YAZNA/edit?usp=sharing


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)



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