Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia ZA Multi Year Grant 2024/26

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Wikimedia ZA Multi Year Grant 2024/26

start date2024-07-01

end date2026-06-30

budget (local currency)10351068 ZAR

amount requested (USD)598705.77 USD

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

funding regionSSA

decision fiscal year2023-24

funding program roundRound 2

organization (if applicable)Wikimedia ZA

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)

Wikimedia ZA

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

Main proposal

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

Wikimedia ZA Multi Year Grant 2024/26

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year funding or renewal process? (required)

Yes, multi-year funding with similar program, budget, and structure every year (strategic plan can be provided but is not required)

2.1. For how many years of multi-year funding are you applying? (required)

3 years

2.2. 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)

Our chapter's most successful projects are ones that have been worked on for a number of years before we can see tangible results and impact. A good examples of these are the copyright advocacy, Afrikaans Wikipedia growth and support projects, SADiLaR+Wikipedia+ PenSaLB (SWIP) African language outreach & training project with universities and our internship program. The projects I've highlighted are part of the present proposal, and we are now witnessing their outcomes. For instance, the (SWIP) African Language Outreach & Training Project in collaboration with universities is yielding results after years of effort to secure partnerships with both universities and our two partners, PenSalb and Sadilar. Another example involves the internship program, which seeks to enhance Wikimedia ZA's visibility in the media, generate employment opportunities for unemployed graduates, and attract new users. This initiative demonstrated its efficacy and influence when, after a year, all our interns secured permanent positions in other NGOs and government due to the internship experience. Furthermore, we observed that they persisted in editing Wikipedia beyond the program, thanks to the training we provided during the internship.We would like to repeat these successes with other African language Wikipedias, university and science outreach projects.

3. Proposed start date. (required)

2024-07-01

4. Proposed end date. (required)

2026-06-30

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

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IrYYIAHSZwdjwn2dUbd-CbjeC_2C5QT8jXqKbcLxqtg/edit

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://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1p3EFyNIig3EbMzcJ831-uO0st0jk9AMM

• Wikimedia ZA 2023 Strategy Deck.pptx

• SWOT Analysis Wikimedia Strategy 2023 (1).png
• Wikimedia ZA Theory of Change 2023.pdf

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

South Africa

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)

In December 2023 we were held a strategic retreat to identify areas that Wikimedia ZA needs to improve upon. It emerged that we need to focus on our Administration, Programs and Communications ( Internal and External). It was proposed that in order to improve we need to professionalize the chapter to resolves administration concerns and manage the coordination of decision makers.

We need to be accessible to our communities for them to easily connect with us.

We need to communicate better internally. This will help us know ourselves better, understand our projects and help us build learning pathways for newcomers and other contributors.

We need to communicate better externally. This will help build our public image, showcase our story through the media so South Africa will know who we are, what we do and WHY.

The following are programs that will help us address some of our challenges and support our strategy. Most of these programmes have been ongoing for a couple of years, It was proposed on the strategy that we need to plan them better.

• Chapter meetups - Since 2020 Wikimedia ZA hosts a community meetup (both in Johannesburg and Cape Town) on the last Saturday of every month to strengthen community health.
• African language outreach - WMZA will continue partnering with SADiLaR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources within the South African government Department of Science and Innovation) and the The Pan South African Language Board (PenSALB) under the SWiP project to translate Wikipedia articles in African language Wikipedias by language professionals, students and language enthusiasts at all South African universities. SADiLaR has committed to continue providing a matching funding for this programme.
• The Afrikaans language community continues to thrive and the chapter has committed to continue its support for the growth of this langauge Wiki whilst working to repeat this success in other African language Wikipedias.
• WikiGap, Artfeninism, Whoseknoweldge, Afrocrowd, Black Lunch Table, & LGBTQ+ outreach edit-a-thons - WMZA has committed to continue our efforts to create articles that address the gender, race and sex imbalance on Wikipedia and female editors and grow the Wiki community in South Africa in partnership with these programmes.
• GLAM digitization - the tragic destruction of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town in a 2021 fire highlighted the need to digitise content for posterity. Making that content publicly available on Wikimedia Commons would mean it can be used freely on Wikipedia as well thereby expanding its public benefit. Both these goals seek to be met with this project. WMZA intends to continue our search for a collection to digitise with our partners at the University of Cape Town. This is an ongoing project that has yet to gain traction.
• University and regional community incubation – WMZA will embark on a number of projects to encourage the formation of Wiki communities at South African universities. Universities have been identified as ideal locations to encourage a new generation of Wikipedia editors. This commitment has also been extended to supporting community growth in the neighbouring countries of Namibia and eSwatini.
• Climate change outreach and content creation - WMZA hosted the first climate change edit-a-thon with climate change scientists in 2019. We would like to continue hosting these events in the future. Increasing and enhancing reliable climate change content on Wikipedia is important to use and something we have experience in.
• 1Lib1Ref - for the librarians, a project we have been running in South Africa since 2017 and would like to continue running and growing the librarian Wiki community. (awareness)
• Thematic edit-a-thons - we are often present with opportunities to do thematic events with partner organizations that were unforeseen at the start of the year. This project gives us the capacity and flexibility to do a small number of these events as they come up during the year. (capacity,flexibility)
• Wiki Loves:
  • Science - science related photos for Wikipedia
  • Plants - photos of plants for Wikipedia
  • Parliament - photograph of MPs for Wikipedia
  • Africa

The Wiki Loves events gives the chapter a change to enhance coverage of South African topics on Wikipedia by generating photographic content to illustrate relevant articles. We have a long of experience in hosting these events since 2012. Wiki Loves Plants (formerly Fynbos) is a South Africa specific competition designed to encourage photographs of plant species for use on Wikipedia whilst building partnerships with the iNatralist and botanical communities. (access, awareness)

• Wikipedia Bookshelf - this Wiki community specific project makes it easier for Wikipedia editors to edit by providing them free access to reliable reference sources that would otherwise cost money to access. (access)
• Kaapse, Xan, & Khoe Wikipedia incubators: working with the Kaapse language community to start a Wikipedia in incubator. Involves training and coaching the community in their efforts to start their own language Wikipedia. This is an ongoing process of community building and formation.
• Other events and activities the chapter will be doing in this period is assisting the Foundation with community feedback, facilitation, strategy development and advocacy. The WMZA, in partnership with the WMF, is still looking and considering the possibly becoming or assisting with the creation of a hub for Sub-Sahara Africa.

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)

Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training, Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Wikimedia Commons 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

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, 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, 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 knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards)

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 microgrants 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

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)

1Lib1Ref, Art+Feminism, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

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)

We are targeting the South African Copyrigh Act of 1978 to allow us to have Freedom of Panorama and Fair Use.

South Africa has no Freedom of Panorama, which prevents Wikimedia Volunteers from taking pictures of public art and heritage sites onto Wikimedia Commons. This is because of a law that was put in place in 1978 called the Copyright Act which prevents taking pictures of art or of historical importance to without acknowledging the author or creator of the art.

As an organisation that promotes free knowledge Wikimedia South Africa feels strongly compelled to support the reform of copyright law to allow for easier sharing of knowledge and thereby promote the public interest.

Wikimedia South Africa first got involved in our copyright advocacy efforts following the chapter's experience with organising Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 (WLM 2012). Initially it was hoped by the WLM 2012 organisers that we could accept photographs of both old and recently build monuments. Thereby allowing us to record both colonial era cultural heritage as well as more recent monuments to important events and people such as those celebrating the struggle against apartheid. However, whilst there were no problems with accepting photographs of colonial era monuments, it was correctly pointed out by some WMZA members that we could not accept photographs of more recent public monuments. This created an unacceptable situation whereby we were prevented from covering all of South Africa's public history.

The effort was initially, but always primarily, focused on getting Freedom of Panorama (ZA) included but later expanded to include support for Fair Use.

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)

There are over 30 local and international based organisations and interest groups that have declared interests in supporting or suppressing the Copyright Amendment Bill. We are collaborating with14 organisations who are also advocating for the Copyright Amendment Bill, we believe his collaboration with like-minded organizations, advocacy groups, and industry stakeholders will strengthen our collective voice. Some of our methods and tactics include the following:

• Working with journalists and media outlets to raise awareness about the challenges and issues surrounding current copyright law.
• Offer expert opinions, interviews, and write op-eds to contribute to the public discourse.
• Engage in direct advocacy with policymakers, legislators, and government officials by way of meetings, and do presentations, and briefings to communicate the importance of copyright reform and specific changes needed.
• Engaging the Creative Community to foster a sense of solidarity among creators and artists by involving them in the advocacy process.
• Actively participate in government consultations, hearings, and public forums related to copyright reform.

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

43200

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

[Event name] - [Date of project initiation]

• Kaapse Wikipedia incubation - ongoing
• Khoe & Xan outreach & incubation - ongoing
• African Langauges Support - ongoing
• School Librarians outreach - ongoing
• 1Lib1Ref - ongoing
• Copyright Amendment Bill - ongoing
• Thematic edit-a-thons - ongoing
• Afrocuration - ongoing
• Plants - ongoing
• Local Community Meetups - ongoing
• Bookshelf - ongoing
• WMF general engagement - ongoing
• Wiki Design Outreach - ongoing
• Afrocrowd , Black Lunch Table, Whose Knowledge participation events - 1st quarter
• LGBTQ+ events - 1st quarter
• University Wiki Club incubation - 1st quarter
• Wikimania scholarships - 1st quarter
• SADiLaR African language outreach & training project with universities - 2nd quarter
• Afrikaans Wikipedia birthday - 2nd quarter
• Afrikaans writing competition - 2nd quarter
• Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Rhino Heritage Park - 2nd quarter
• Parliament - 2nd quarter
• Afrikaans Schools Writing competition - 3rd quarter
• WikiGap & Artfeminism edit-a-thons - 3rd quarter
• University history workshops - 3rd quarter
• Science - 3rd quarter
• Africa - 3rd quarter
• Namibia road show - 3rd quarter
• eSwatini edit-a-thon - 4th quarter
• Hackerton - yet to be detarmined
• Climate Change editathon - yet to be detarmined
• Arts on our minds - yet to be detarmined

11. Describe your team. (required)

The current Wikimedia South Africa team includes:

• Administrator Cape Town: Shupai Mchuchu

• Expectations: remain largely the same as outlined in the 2021 WMZA staffing plan . The expectations for this position can be summarized as communications support, chapter membership tracking, community support project implementation, keeping track of chapter projects for monitoring and evaluation, assisting with report writing, and dealing with chapter bureaucracy. Although the Cape Town administrator can speak a number of African languages she is unable to speak Afrikaans which has created a capacity gap when serving that community that WMZA has sought to fill with the Pretoria Administrator position.

• Administrator Pretoria: Afrikaans Academy agreement

At the request of chapter board members WMZA has experimented with an administrative agreement with the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (here after known as the Afrikaans Academy) in Pretoria. In return for a modest remuneration of R5000 a month the Academy has lent one of their administrative staff for one day a week to assist in chapter administration in the Pretoria/Johannesburg area and with Afrikaans language projects. This has so far seemed successful but the search for a more dedicated administrator with Afrikaans language skills continues.

• Monitoring & specialized projects:

• Expectations: experience over the past year has proven to the chapter of the need for an experienced chapter member and Wiki community leader to provide both training and managerial oversight of the administrator. The addition of a remuneration line item has invigorated chapter members to fully participate in movement activities and feedback sessions.

People and time slots to be fill will be selected by the chapter board.

Currently the chapter wishes to fill the following position once funding is secured:

• Management

Although great progress has been made in develop partnerships and implementing projects it has become clear that the chapter has grown to a point where a CEO with a strong understanding of the movement’s culture, confidence of the chapter’s members and a proven ability to navigate the complex needs and competing demands of our diverse community, needs to be appointed.

In addition to paid staff, the chapter has a strong group of volunteer chapter members who are directly involved in the implementation of a number of projects that they have volunteered to implement. This has allowed the chapter to get a great deal of “value for money” when implementing projects and delivering on impact.

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)

Over the years we've manage to form partnerships which enabled us to achieve our goals. Some of these partners have remained dormant while some are active partners. Below is a list of the active partners that we are looking to continue engage for the duration of this grant application.:

Goethe Institut Johannesburg: This partner offers space, internet as well as light light snacks for us in case we would like to host a meet-up or edit workshop. They have also in the past sponsored us with scholarships for our community members to go attend Wikimania or WikiIndaba Conference. We continue to work with them on several projects such as African language support.

Randburg Library: provides us with free space and internet, we host monthly meet ups at the venue. We've also partnered with them in the 1Lib1Ref project.

We have partnered with SADiLaR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources within the South African government Department of Science and Innovation) to translate Wikipedia articles in African language Wikipedias by language professionals at all South African universities. SADiLaR has committed to securing matching funding for this programme.

WikiGap, Artfeninism, Whoseknoweldge, Afrocrowd, Black Lunch Table, & LGBTQ+ outreach edit-a-thons - WMZA has committed to continue our efforts to create articles that address the gender, race and sex imbalance on Wikipedia and female editors and grow the Wiki community in South Africa in partnership with these programmes. (diversity, awareness)

Afrocuration: this is an Italian partner with whom we've work together for a number of years training high school learners to edit Wikipedia. The focus on this partnershi is to raise awerness, African language support.

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, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, 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	10000	This number includes both the edit workshops planned throughout the year and the awareness generated by individuals listening to our radio interviews or reading media publications about Wikimedia ZA.
Number of all editors	700	The 400 individuals represent editors whom we anticipate will continue editing for at least a month following our edit workshops. The initial edit workshop has been conducted last month as part of the SADiLaR+Wikipedia+PanSALB (SWIP) African language outreach and training project with universities. We are already observing a significant number of editors continuing with their contributions even a month after the event. We attribute this sustained engagement to the fact that a majority of them are language researchers and specialists who are encountering Wikipedia for the first time. The project is scheduled to continue until the end of the year. For further details, please refer to the dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/SADiLaR,_Wikipedia,_PanSALB/SWiP_Workshops
Number of new editors	640
Number of retained editors	400
Number of all organizers	21	The 21 includes organisers who are board members and community members with which this fund will support. Among them, the 6 are newly onboarded organizers, including individuals who recently joined our chapter and new organizers affiliated with our mission-aligned partners.
Number of new organizers	6

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

Contributions to Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	400	800
Wikimedia Commons	200	50
Wikidata	20000	5000
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator	50	18
Translatewiki	400	400
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
N/A	Ten (10) organisers are involved to some degree or another in the projects WMZA intends to implement in the 2024/5 FY. These organisers are all either chapter board members, chapter volunteers, or chapter administrators. WMZA defines an organiser as an individual that is directly responsible for the successful implementation of a project. Each project has an assigned organiser. These organisers are: The Administrator Jan du Toit Coenraad Loubser Michael Graaf Khetiwe Marais Twin Mosia Bobby Shabangu Douglas Scott Deon Steyn Ingrid Thomson	10
# of volunteer hours	Number of volunteer hours donated to the chapter by community members for chapter activities.	5000
Main (3): Number of new Wikipedia articles	The number of new Wikipedia articles created in any of South Africa's 11 official language Wikipedias.	3500
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	This is a controversial metric that will require introspection and debate within the WMZA chapter to agree on what an appropriate measurement looks like. At the moment there is agreement that the chapter needs a better gender balance as well as racial representation. There is also agreement that at least two board members need to be Afrikaans language Wikipedia editors to give better representation to that Wiki community. More young (below the age of 30) board and chapter members are also needed to increase the chapter's diversity.	N/A
# of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	Success of the SADiLaR and PanSALB partnership to grow African language Wikipedias Build partnerships with science and technology organisations to improve articles on Wikipedia.	2

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)

We have annual membership contributions and in previous years we acted as fiscal sponsors for some of the Wikimedia Affiliates in Africa where we charged 13% fee. We hope to continue with this role.

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

250000

17. Your local currency. (required)

ZAR

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

10351068 ZAR

Multi-year funding request summary

Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	2843700 ZAR
Year 2	3412440 ZAR
Year 3	4094928 ZAR

Requested amount in USD

598705.77 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.

The following are the paid staff members we are planning to cover with this General Support Fund.

Administrator: This is a full time staff position based in Cape Town, expectations for this position can be summarized as communications support, Organize and coordinate meetings, including scheduling, agenda preparation, and minute-taking, Manage logistics, invitations, and participant communications especially in the Cape Town region.

Programme Coordinator: This is a full time staff position based in Johannesburg, and its expectation can be summarised as Oversee the day-to-day execution of programs, ensuring they are on schedule and within budget, Stakeholder Engagement, Assist in the preparation of grant proposals and funding applications, Ensure Chapter adheres to 5 year strategy and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Chapter, Coordination of Events and Activities especially in Johanesburg. Chapter membership tracking, community support project implementation, keeping track of chapter projects for monitoring and evaluation, assisting with report writing, and dealing with chapter bureaucracy.

Afrikaans Administrator: Although the Cape Town administrator can speak a number of African languages she is unable to speak Afrikaans which has created a capacity gap when serving that community that WMZA has sought to fill with the Pretoria Administrator position.

2 Chapter interns: Thier role is to amplify the visibility of the chapter in the media. We've also noticed that when we bring interns without prior knowledge of Wikipedia in the chapter, they tend to continue edit Wikipedia after their internship has finished. We also want to create employment for young graduates who may find it difficult to break the labour force due to lack of experience.

1 Afrikaans intern: Afrikaans is the 2nd biggest language Wikipedia in Africa. This role is to support this language Wiki and the Afrikaans community. The intern is to help during events as well as provide assistance to Deon who leads the Afrikaans projects.

Bookkeepers: They are not fulltime staff but we pay them as service providers per hour for the time they spent in meetings with us, doing bookkeeping fo us.

Auditors: They are not fulltime staff but we pay them as service providers per hour for the time they spent auditing our finances.

We also have a travel agency service that we use and pay when the need arises.

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.

Administrator: This is a full time staff position based in Cape Town, expectations for this position can be summarized as communications support, Organize and coordinate meetings, including scheduling, agenda preparation, and minute-taking, Manage logistics, invitations, and participant communications especially in the Cape Town region.

Programme Coordinator: This is a full time staff position based in Johannesburg, and its expectation can be summarised as Oversee the day-to-day execution of programs, ensuring they are on schedule and within budget, Stakeholder Engagement, Assist in the preparation of grant proposals and funding applications, Ensure Chapter adheres to 5 year strategy and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Chapter, Coordination of Events and Activities especially in Johanesburg. Chapter membership tracking, community support project implementation, keeping track of chapter projects for monitoring and evaluation, assisting with report writing, and dealing with chapter bureaucracy.

Afrikaans Administrator: Although the Cape Town administrator can speak a number of African languages she is unable to speak Afrikaans which has created a capacity gap when serving that community that WMZA has sought to fill with the Pretoria Administrator position.

2 Chapter interns: Thier role is to amplify the visibility of the chapter in the media. We've also noticed that when we bring interns without prior knowledge of Wikipedia in the chapter, they tend to continue edit Wikipedia after their internship has finished. We also want to create employment for young graduates who may find it difficult to break the labour force due to lack of experience.

1 Afrikaans intern: Afrikaans is the 2nd biggest language Wikipedia in Africa. This role is to support this language Wiki and the Afrikaans community. The intern is to help during events as well as provide assistance to Deon who leads the Afrikaans projects.

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

We are looking to hire an additional full time staff who will act as a Program Coordinator to ensure that our new chapter strategy is actionable and achievable within set timelines. This person will also be based in Johannesburg to support the community in the Johannesburg region since our chapter members are spread across South Africa with most active volunteers based in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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	1227000 ZAR
Operational costs	1616700 ZAR
Programmatic costs	2843700 ZAR

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VxD7rNh2YEKlGJ4g7kkOJQg_7b7uFLHY/edit#gid=1317624397

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