Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Knowledge Equity-Supporting equity on Wikimedia projects/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2023-07-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results. See the midpoint report if you want to review the midpoint results.
- Name of Organization: Wikimedia Norge
- Title of Proposal: Knowledge Equity: Supporting equity on Wikimedia projects
- Objectives of Proposal: == Track one: Supporting the local community of Wikimedians and Wikipedians ==
In our local community support work, we have well-established programs for dispersing access to closed sources, press accreditation, travel grants and general-purpose microgrants, as well as organizing online meet-ups and workshops for volunteers. The Norwegian Wikipedia communities have expressed a wish for more in-person wiki meet-ups after COVID, so we will also try to facilitate that from our end too – both by hosting meet-ups ourselves, and supporting community members who wish to host meet-ups on their own initiative. In addition to local meet-ups, we will also continue to host workshops/training sessions for experienced Wikimedians to expand their skills and toolsets. We will also look into creating (or funding the creation of) Wikipedia editing training videos in Norwegian, which is something that has been requested in the community for some time. We will also establish a more organized system for lending equipment that WMNO owns. We already own some equipment (like cameras, microphones, computers) that can be borrowed free from charge by community members, but it's not easily discoverable, so that's something we plan on fixing.
Track two: Knowledge Equity in Norway[edit]
As for our work with knowledge equity in Norway, we will maintain and further develop the existing partnerships we have with several institutions; we will go into more detail about these partnerships in point 14.1 further down, but some examples include:
- Our Women in Red program in collaboration with Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). Every year, a group of students from OsloMet's library and information technology studies learn to edit Wikipedia and search the digital archives of the National Library of Norway. They write biographies on women, based on lists curated by GLAM partners, such as the National Library of Norway and National Museum.
- Our collaboration with the Norwegian Archive for Queer History, especially during 2022, which is the national "queer culture year" in Norway, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the abolishing of the law against sex between men.
- An ongoing collaboration with the National Archives of Norway and the Sámi Archive to bring Sámi archival material to the Wikimedia projects (primarily Wikimedia Commons).
Track Three: Knowledge Equity Internationally[edit]
For the Language Diversity Hub work, the main activities we will do in 2022 are covered in a separate MSIG grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WMNO/Language_Diversity_Hub , which was accepted in March 2022 and will run from May till November/December 2022. However, that grant only covers that project; on top of that, we will continue to hold meetings with the Language Diversity Hub steering committee, do more general outreach to the wider Wikimedia language diversity community, and attend relevant conferences and events both within the Wikimedia movement and outside.
Communication and information work[edit]
For all our tracks of work, we aim to have an increased focus on information work. We use newsletters, our own blog, the Diff blog, YouTube-videos and social media to talk about our projects, our partners and news related to our work The goal is to engage and create awareness among existing and potential contributors, make our partnerships visible and our work known to a wider audience.
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented. Were there changes made to your proposed activities that are important to highlight?
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations - things that you did very differently? If so, please describe them.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and were informed about your work. Provide any useful links that illustrate community engagement.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
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6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements about your efforts? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups? What did you find were effective strategies for doing so? What were some of your main challenges?
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Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities for this fund. What are you learning about these areas during this period?
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative (challenging/difficult) situations. What did you learn from those experiences?
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one fascinating thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedian organisations so that they can learn from your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others.
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Part 3: Metrics[edit]
13a. In your application, you outlined some core metrics and targets that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics that you measured and describe the qualitative or quantitative results. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results, such as a more detailed description of qualitative results, or explanations if certain metrics or targets were not met or had to be changed. Please also mention what tools and methodologies were used to measure each metric. If relevant you can link to the results of measurements using tools such as dashboards, as well as tools that you have designed such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, etc.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of participants | 1000 | ||||
| Number of editors | 250 | ||||
| Number of organizers | 20 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Wikipedia | N/A | 7000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | 5000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | N/A | 7000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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13b. In your application, you outlined some core metrics and targets that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics that you measured and describe the qualitative or quantitative results. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results, such as a more detailed description of qualitative results, or explanations if certain metrics or targets were not met or had to be changed. Please also mention what tools and methodologies were used to measure each metric. If relevant you can link to the results of measurements using tools such as dashboards, as well as tools that you have designed such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, etc.
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | Like we said above, we are planning to sustain the existing major partnerships we have nationally, but also to expand internationally with the Language Diversity Hub work. The target of 10 reflects the number of partners we expect to work closely with for various projects, but it may turn out that this number is too low. | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | (Used as a main metric) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | (Used as a main metric) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | This number includes readers of blog posts, views on Facebook posts, YouTube video views, Instagram likes and Twitter interactions. | 12000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | We intend to consistently send out standardized surveys to event and course participants on what their experience was like, asking about their motivations to join the event, and how much they got out of it – and how they plan to use what they've learned. Our target is to send out surveys to all participants of such events. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | With this metric we want to find out how many language versions of Wikimedia projects we work with through our international and national work. We will only focus on language diversity for this metric, as other diversity markers (such as gender or orientation) are more sensitive to measure. This metric will be very interesting to follow up for the future, to monitor the global reach of the Language Diversity Hub. Our target is to involve speakers of at least 20 different languages in this work. | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | It was decided during the general assembly 2022 that we should focus more on getting new members to the organization, in order to have a more solid membership base to draw input and talent from. The board will put together a commitee that will focus on this, with staff support. | 70 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
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14a. State what difficulties you had or why you felt it was best to change them.
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15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations of how to address them in the future.
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16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
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Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships[edit]
17. For the following aspects of organizational capacity, in which aspects have you grown over the fund period? For which aspects do you require support?
| A. Financial capacity and management | |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | |
| D. Partnership building | |
| E. Strategic planning | |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | |
| J. Governance | |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | |
| N. Accessing and using data | |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | |
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17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
17b Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support? Were there any training/tools/capacity-building resources that were important to help you grow?
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19. We are interested in learning more about your partnerships with other institutions. To what extent do you agree with the following statements? These can relate to new partnerships that resulted from this fund period or the further development of existing partnerships.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships?
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19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships?
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20. Is there anything else you would like to share about your efforts to build partnerships with other institutions and groups?
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Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration[edit]
21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement? Feel free to include an example if desired.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
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24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
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26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
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Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration[edit]
We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
27a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees? How did these relationships form and why? (e.g., whether there were common interests)?
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Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
31. Local currency type
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
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34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
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34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
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34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
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35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
37. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.