Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Knowledge Equity-Supporting equity on Wikimedia projects/Midpoint Report

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Report Status: Draft

Due date: 2023-01-15T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Midpoint

Application Final Learning Report

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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 midpoint results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.

  • 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 strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these.

3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered? What will you do differently going forward?

4. Please describe how different Wikimedia communities are being informed about your work. Provide any useful links that illustrate community engagement.

5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups?

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6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities for this fund. What are you learning about these areas during this period?

7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your project?

Part 2: Metrics[edit]

8a. In your application, you outlined some core metrics that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics and describe the qualitative or quantitative results to date, if applicable. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results and mention the tools used.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Number of participants 1000
Number of editors 250
Number of organizers 20
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target Results Comments Methodology
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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8b. In your application, you outlined some additional metrics that you would like to measure and the targets for each metric. In the following table please highlight the metrics and describe the qualitative or quantitative results to date, if applicable. You can also provide any comments or analysis regarding these results and mention the tools used.

Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
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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9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?

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10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?

10a. Please describe how and what has proved to be most effective.

11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.

  • Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.).
  • Below is an additional field to type in link URLs. You can include any monitoring tool links (dashboards, etc), surveys, training materials, presentations, and other URLs. We also recommend you share your findings in the form of a learning pattern. Click on this link to find out more. If you create any learning patterns, please link them below.

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]

12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

13. Local currency type

14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

  • Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
  • Report funds received and spent, if template not used.

15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?

15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.

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16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.