Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Growing the wiki spirit in Turkey, 2022
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Applicant details[edit]
Wikimedia username(s):
- User:Sakhalinio
User:Basak
Organization:
- Dijital Bilgi Derneği
G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?
- Applied previously and did receive a grant
H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?
- No
H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?
- N/A
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information[edit]
R. Where will this proposal be implemented?
- Turkey
S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:
- Local
S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)
https://www.instagram.com/wikimediaturkey/ https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaTurkey https://tr.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anasayfa https://www.dijitalbilgi.org.tr/
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Proposal[edit]
1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?
- Information Technologies allows every internet user joining digital knowledge and content production. Our organization works to support internet users in using this opportunity. We would like to support internet users share their knowledge on the internet and the proliferation of quality content freely accessible by everyone. We believe that such voluntary contributions of internet users would turn into personal and social wealth.
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
- Our country has good internet penetration and Wikipedia is a well-known platform as a knowledge source. However, the volunteer-based functioning of Wikimedia projects is not understood and contributions are very low when compared to consumption of the wiki-projects. We would like to overcome this situation by a series of year-round activities in partnership with academic institutions and civil society organizations aimed at increasing awareness on wikipedia-editing.
A second problem we would like to deal with is the lack of cooperation and connection between active contributors. We propose to overcome this by creating opportunities to get to know each other in regular meetings where people do share their wiki experiences and ideas.
We see the concentration of content-production on only popular culture topics as a challenge to be solved by bringing contributors from diverse backgrounds and fields as well as by organizing thematic-wiki-events in partnership with institutions from several fields.
Finally we would like to support open culture in the country by discussing with culture institutions the possibility of sharing some material through wiki projects. We don't expect big digital donations from any institutions but we are aiming at creating interest and sowing the seeds for the future.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- 1. Students Edit Wiki Projects Program
a. Wiki Assignments are class activities where students contribute wiki projects as an assignment and wikipedians visit their courses and support them and their instructors during the term. Our aim is to make this work in 15 courses in different education institutions throughout the country during the year and reach 350 students with this program. b. Wiki Club Activities are activities organized in partnership with student clubs. We would like to support students to establish a “Wikipedia Club” or “Open Knowledge Club” in their universities. We hope to see opening a club at least one university. If that would not be possible we support wiki activities realized by other student clubs.
- 2.Grow the content program
a.Photography contest. We'll organize Wiki Loves Earth as this is a proven way of bringing newcomers to the projects and increasing visibility for the group in the media. b.Article contests. We'll take part in two international article contests (CEE Spring and Turkic Wikimarathon) as a way of encouraging active contributors to contribute in different topics. c.Thematic-edit-a-thons. We'll organize 3 thematic edit-athons with civil society partners to develop content using their expertise.
- 3. Stronger Community Program
a.VikiSalı meetings are meetings open to all contributors and newcomers; and will be regularly held twice every month. b. Wikidata birthday party. We will organize a party for bringing the current editors to share their experiences with wikidata and celebrate the 10th birthday of wikidata.
- 4.Open Culture Partnerships Program
a.Glam visits involve talks with Glam institutions where we will be introducing Wikimedia projects and searching the possibility of sharing some material through wiki projects. We are planning to have talks with 6 institutions during the year.
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
- By the end of June 2023
- Make 15 presentations/workshops at university courses or university clubs in total
- Introduce Wikimedia projects to 3 secondary level education institutions
- Make 6 talks with GLAM institutions to introduce Wikimedia projects .
- Organize 3 thematic edit-a-thons with civil society and local government partners.
- Organize Wikidata 10th year birthday
- Organize 20 community-meetings with average 12 participants
- Organize 2 writing contests
- Organize 1 photo contest.
5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?
- No
5.1 If yes, 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?
- N/A
6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.
- Find a timetable document here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17FQqwWd-bxQbboYq8nEWTipZH1XSbAIBRRXMKHG4B74/edit#gid=0
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
- Adem Ünsal (User:Maurice Flesier)- Actively involved in partnership search and contest design (Volunteer).
Ali Mert Önal (User:Justinanus)- Providing legal support and active participation at on-wiki activities (Volunteer).
Başak Tosun (User:Basak) – Education and Partnerships Program Officer. Execution of Students Edit Wiki Projects and Open Culture Partnerships program. Social media management (Paid staff)
C.Ö (User:Jelican9) - Design visual material for the group's activities and support organizing wiki club activities in his university (Volunteer).
Koray Özbal (User:Pragdon) - Assist in organizing edit-a-thons (Volunteer)
Yağmur Yıldırım (User:Yagmurkozmik) - Support wikipedia Education program in her university and organize Art&Fem event (Volunteer)
Zafer Batık (User:Sakhalinio) – Community and Outreach Program Officer. Execution of Stronger Community and Grow the Content program. Organizing the contests (Paid staff)
8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
- Content Gender gap
8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
- Some part of the proposal include edit-a-thons designed for closing the gender gap by producing content on gender related issues through partnership with gender studies departments of universities and women groups. The prospect partners to work with are The Women's Library and Information Center Foundation (Istanbul), Women Filmmakers Association (Izmir), Istanbul University gender studies department.
9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
- Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM
10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
- Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Age
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
- In the "Grow the Content Program" we try to attract non-wikimedians from different fields of expertise by organising thematic edit-a-thons in partnership with related organisations on that field. We invite new contributors who would contribute on not so well covered topics with the support of the partner organisations.
Considering underrepresentation of women in wiki projects, at least one thematic edit-a-thon will be about women biographies and we expect participation and contribution particularly from women as we'll oranize it with women's groups. Istanbul Universiy Gender Studies Department and Women Filmmakers Association (izmir) are our potential partners. Another underrepresented group is senior citizend and we are planning to reach and encourage senior citizens to get involved in wiki projects by our partnership with the gerontology association in Antalya.
In the “Students Edit Wiki Projects” program, our participants have mostly been university students. This year we are willing to suggest students to establish wiki-clubs in their school. In this way, we’d like to try a student-initiated model for including university students in wiki projects and see whether it’s more effective than Wikipedia assignments given by instructors.
We further grow the program by including secondary schools as well and will be reaching a younger group. In addition to their contributions as editors, we are willing to get the perspectives of those younger participants on how they use the wiki projects, what content gaps they feel.
Our partner organisations do also serve to get feedback from the participants and re-organize more workshops and trainings when there is a request from the gorup. Additionally we invite the participants to our WikiTuesday meetings to keep them in the Wikimedia group; and include in the telegram groups to make sure that they will get support from the community when they need
12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?
- Periodic reminders of the existence and importance of the UCoC during the community meetups and in social media conversation. Not allowing on-wiki discussions to be moved to events and community meet up by clearly setting and reminding the agenda.
13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
- Yes
13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
- We connect with other communities in the Wikimedia movement by coordinating local competitions as a part of international editing competitions. There are two editing competitions included in the program and both are organized as a part of international editing contests. One is Turkic Edit-a-thon organized by Turkic Wikimedians Group, the other is the CEE Spring contest thatTurkish WP community has participated in every year since 2015. In addition, we plan to collaborate with Turkic Wikimedians in the Wikidata Birthday event as we did last year. Wikidata is a project where there is much need for in-community training both for Turkish community and for smaller Turkic communities; therefore we would like to use events around 10th birthday of Wikidata as an opportunity for such training and knowledge sharing for not only our community but other communities as we previously did.
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
- Yes
14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- Our Grow the Content Program involves partnerships with several non-Wikimedian organizations to organize edit-a-thons and trainings. The partners and events are not definitely set yet but we already have partnership talks with those organisations: UN-Women for making thematic edit-a-thon on “Gender Advertisement”, Museums Association to make a series of trainings with museum professionals in each city; "The Women's Library and Information Centre Foundation" for Art&Feminism edit-a-thon; Association of Aging Studies for developing a wiki module for their training program; Troy Museum for organizing "Ancient Troy" edit-a-thon. In those events, partners are expected to provide the space, cover the expenses related to promotion of the event and sometimes the food/snacks.
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
- As we get results from the works in this proposal, we expect thematic edit-a-thons with civil organizations, Wikipedia-editing assignments and wiki-clubs at schools and partnerships with especially museums grow in number largely. We expect the organizations already introduced with Wikimedia projects with this program to soon become self-sufficient about organizing the activities in the program they are involved in and continue similar activities using their internal sources. However, the need to introduce wiki projects to new groups and organizations all over the country would continue. We would like to make wiki-editing a part of digital competency training and workshops; and hope getting support from the organizations working on digital literacy, and funding-programs designed for upskilling and reskilling the digital competencies of individuals and organizations from different parts of the society
16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.
- Our proposal include both online and in-person events. We are planning to increase the number of in-person events; since we observe that people are becoming fatigue from overuse of videotelephony. However, this may not be possible if pandemic conditions do not get better. In this case we'll be having B Plan for making those events as online
17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.
- Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Manage Internal Knowledge
18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
- This year, we will be working with similar groups and organisations (universities, glam organisations, civil society organisations) we worked last year to grow the wiki sprit in Turkey, but we would like to try some new things and learn from those experiments (i.e trainings for people at different age groups, differenty types of university courses)
- 1. Which courses (i.e critical reading & writing, social responsibility projects, departmental required courses) are more suitable for wikipedia assignments at university courses?
We organize wikipedia assignments in different types of university courses at several universities. The courses can be grouped as: Wikipedia assignments at departmental courses; Wikipedia assignments at writing skills or digital competencies courses; Wikipedia assignments as a project work at social responsibility/voluntarism courses. Based on the number of edits and written feedbacks from the participants we'd like to understand in what sort of courses students feel they benefited from wikipedia assignment more.
- 2. How could we support the creation of a Wikipedia club in a university and its activities? Would that be more encouraging for students to contribute than wikipedia assignments?
This proposal includes an effort to create wikipedia clubs in universities. We would like to encourage our university student members to establish a wiki club in their school and set this experience as an example for others. In previous years, our activities focused on introducing Wikipedia editing only as a part of the courses. We'd like to see whether starting wiki contributions in club activities is a better motivator than editing as an assignments. We want to compare the number of editors gained through club activities and courses. We want to get feedback from members about their experience related to establishing a wiki club.
- 3. What sort of wiki-editing related activities could be tried at secondary schools? How could we encourage secondary school teachers to implement those activities?
In previous years we have been working only with university students. This year we have connections with secondary school teachers who would like to make wiki activities with their students. We'd like to make brainstorming to find relevant activities for different age groups try some of those activities and share experiences.
- 4. What are the main motivating factors for local administrations, governmental museums and private museums for sharing their digital assets on wiki projects?
Through our partnership with Digital Cultural Network (Ankara), the number of museums we introduce wikimedia projects increase. We would like to get feedback from partners about their level of interest in sharing their digital assets on wiki projects and their motivation.
20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.
| Main Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Museum professionals survey | It’s a survey intended to be conducted at presentations/trainings/edit-a-thons organized with the participation of museum professionals. The aim is finding out the attitudes of museum professionals about sharing knowledge on open platforms and their perception of Wikimedia projects. | 10 |
| Student feedback form | Feedback form designed for collecting data from university students who submitted Wikipedia assignments (or contributed to other Wikimedia projects as a course requirement) during 2022-2023 term, on the level of their satisfaction from their assignments on Wikimedia projects and their thoughts on the assignment.We would like to compare the results taken from different schools, different types of activities. | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | Participants who continue to participate in WMTR projects since last year. | 300 |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | Organizers of WMTR activities who continue to participate after activities.Partn | 5 |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | Partners of thematic-edit-athon + partners of Education activities + GLAM instution partners | 15 |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | Feedback received from participants via forms. | 50 |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | followers at Twitter + followers at instagram | 4200 |
| Number of activities developed | Biweekly community meetings + Thematic-edit-athons + Wikidata birthday event + writing contests + editing contests + talks at partner organisations + presentations/trainings at educational instutitons | 48 |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A |
21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The number of participants who will take part in all WMTR projects and programs.
Participants of VikiSalı meetings + participants of Thematic edit-a-thons + Participants of university students + participants of WLE contests + Participants of Wikidata Birthday + |
1200 |
| Number of editors | Number of editors who will contribute wiki projects at WMTR activities.
Participans of editing and photo contests + participants of thematic edit-a-thons |
500 |
| Number of organizers | Number of WMTR members oversee the activities of the programs. | 8 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | New/improved articles | 2000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | New images | 2000 |
| Wikidata | New/improved items. | 2000 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- The proposal includes year-round activities with different partners. Our main goal is to be able to build partnerships with different types of organizations to set examples for future collaboration with similar organizations. After the removal of the Wikipedia block, there are still some concerns about partnering with Wikipedians and we see that organizations would like to see concrete examples made with the same type of organizations to start working with volunteers of Wikimedia projects. Therefore, our main objective is setting those examples to facilitate future work for all volunteers, and we consider the increase in number of editors and content as not the main objective in the program.
22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
- Outreach dashboard for number of editors and content developed through workshops and edit-a-thons
Fountain tool to measure the editors and articles developed by editing contests Toolforge tool to measure number of new images uploaded and contributors.
Financial Proposal[edit]
23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.
- 720000 TRY
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 49020 USD
23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.
- N/A
Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s):
Final Message[edit]
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
Feedback[edit]
- Please add any feedback to the grant discussion page only. Any feedback added here will be removed.