Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Les sans pagEs 2023/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2024-02-29T00:00:00Z
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.
- Name of Organization: Association les sans pagEs
- Title of Proposal: Les sans pagEs 2023
- Amount awarded: 104291 USD, 95000 CHF
- Amount spent:
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
Working on the harmonisation and structuration of events has been useful in securing new parterships and trainig facilitators. We have worked on the design of events including the use of the UCoC, the naming of a person responsible for applying our charter, and we have systematised the way each of our events look with eahc time a single event page proposed. See two exemples here :
We worked very close to other affiliates to adress the communicaton and financing of the events in various parts of the world,
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
Having very regular meetups and online session helps to knit a community together. It takes time and patience but pays in the long run even if there are only a few persons around. Regularity and systematic reporting help to have a view of what is going on. Communicating on our future activities has helped increase engagement, and documenting past events thoroughly has helped engage new institutional partnerships willing to organize gender gap events,
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
We have our own particular way of organizing events without collecting personal details, using exclusively the dashboard (and testing the new event metrics tool) and a project page, and on top of that every event is the object of a repéort on our newsfeed here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs#Actualités. Each time we delagate the marketing of the event to the partnering institution to achieve outreach. This in turns allows us to build our community transversally : we have local groups who search and train new editors, but the main activities remains online on wikipedia. The coordination of ideas and people is achieved with the telegram group, the discussion page on wikipedia being used mainly for editorial purposes. We also teach newbies early on how to discuss things on Wikipedia to make sure they integrate the community fast and know where to find help. We also hold an annual convention which is pretty much appreciated by our members. In 2023 for the first time we had to refuse people because of the lack of funding rresources. This event is considered as a focal point during the year, bringing motivation and inspiration. We also hold weekly online meetups since 2020. This has allowed the african and haitian community to participate and be trained on many tech nical aspects on Wikipedia and Wikidata,
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
We publish our agenda here, and have designed a monthly recap that people can stick on their fridge or on their social network timeline. The montly recaps are twitted, tooted ect and made visible at the top of the project page, See here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Les_sans_pagEs/Calendriers.
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 regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Strongly agree |
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?
Africa : Having more and more participants and groups from Africa is both motivating and challenging. Motivating insofar asa we learn other perspectives from them, are obliged to make our processes (exemple : creating daschboards, project pages and documenting expenses) more understandable. Among the challenges : 1- internet access in Africa is an impeding factor 2 - getting documentation on expenses is sometimes difficult as well as reliable banking information 3 - the wikipedia community does not value the bilinguism of African contributors and is not very pedagogical in its approach to new contributors. Once an article is speedily deleted, we find it hard to explain to newbies what exactly the problem was and spend too much time in having drafts reinstated for pedagogical reasons.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
- We found out that the African community is increasingly and energetically interested in launching LSP events- This has led to learning how to navigate with these communities from afar.
- More and more GLAM institutions are asking us to provide gender equality events and are constituting an independant source of revenue
- Les sans pagEs are increasingly under scrutiny of the wikipedian community who does not appreciate affiliates intervening even just for events organizing on wikipedia. This has incresed with the professionalisation of the association.
- we did a poll to which 56 participants responded. we learned that LSP contributors are in average 25 to 35 years old, have accounts 3 to 5 years old and are composed of 60 % of women and 10% non gender conforming people. Peaple are overwhelmingly satisfied and among the things they did not appreciate at all was the press articles in novembre 2023 about the project (mostly in far right newspapers) and the fact.
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?
- Following increasing envolvement from african communities we discovered that there is a great need for learning to understand what wikipedian mean by "sourcing". We will have to design pedagogical approach and time to mentor these new african communties in our project.
- We might lead in the future to put the documentation of our events on meta or on our website, but would be detrimental to transparency and outreach in our opinion. We might also require help from a lawyer and have to budget this supplementary cost as well as acquire more knowledge in that field. A diversity hub providing legal counselling for gender gap and diversity projects in the movement would be a must have.
- the poll made us realise our community does not mainly consist of newbies anymore but experimented contributors. With that comes the need to reflect on staying a friend
- we need to strenghten our accounting skills among board members strengthen our internal processes. We need to elaborate documentation on board onboarding.
- we need to strngthen a diversity of revenue streams and find more funding to support african and lgbt projects
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon 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. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
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Part 3: Metrics[edit]
13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Events | number of dashboard events per year | 100 | 133 | link to dashboard 2023 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/lsp_2023/overview
link to event metrics https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs/913 |
dashboard
event metrics |
| GLAM events | number of GLAM events per year | 10 | 26 | link to dashboard for LSP GLAM events https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/lsp_glam_2023/programs | dashboard + event metrics |
| Online weekly sessions | online weekly meetups and maintainance sessions of approx 2 hours | 70 | 65 | 30 documented Wikimidis ouee weekly session allowing contributors to drop in and chat or ask questions
35 documented maintainance sessions where we evaluate all created articles and solve most urgent problems on articles We have reached the target but not documented all sessions thoroughly. |
dashboard
event metrics |
| Fundraising | Fundraise outside the Wikimedia movement | 25000 | 7000 | This alas was our weekedt point this year. The level of harrassement experienced and the development of oprerational activities did not allow us to fill these objectives, although we increased our autonomy financilally by increasing our own revenue streams with GLAM intstitutions who pay for trainings, conferences and editathons focused a gender gap issues. | accounting |
| Press coverage | press article and interviews per year | 6 | 31 | Our press review is here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Revue_de_presse#Revue_de_presse_2023
Some articles published by conservative media turned out to be toxic, especially around the support of WMFR to les sans pagEs. These articles emanating from far right journalists targeted our director namely. We are concerned about the fact that informations seemed to have leeked allowing such toxic targeting. À Wikimédia France, les mauvais comptes font les bons amis, Paul Sugy, Le Figaro, 11/11/2023 https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/a-wikimedia-france-les-mauvais-comptes-font-les-bons-amis-20231111 Guerre d’édition, censure, militantisme… Wikipédia, une encyclopédie sous influence ?, Le Point, Erwan Seznec, 09/11/2023 https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/guerre-d-edition-censure-militantisme-wikipedia-une-encyclopedie-sous-influence-09-11-2023-2542506_23.php Some targeted individuals like our director with false accusations. We are not equipped legally to intervene efficiently to protect our staff from such toxic interference, This though became less virulent as an entry was created about these journalist on the Obresvatoire des sources here :
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Document on project page on Wikipédia fr |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | percentage of editor retention | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | percentage of organiser retention | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | number of strategic partnerships obtained | 4 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | one annual poll conducted to get feedback from participants | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | percentage of non male participants | 50 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | number of twitter followers | 4000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | maintain current level of engagement (number of hours as estimated in the infind documentation provided) | 1800 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | new participants in 2023 | 100 | 267 | based only on event metrics, this number is higher if we take into account the new participants on wikipedia but we have no simple way of calculating that | event metrics |
| Number of editors | Newly registered users | 100 | 267 | ||
| Number of organizers | number of trained organizers | 15 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 130 new articles per month responding to notability criteria | 130 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | labellised quality articles per year | 4 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | number of trained new editors to wikidata | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | number of trained new editors to commons | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikisource | number of trained new editors to wikisource | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
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15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on 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. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| N. Accessing and using data | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
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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.
Lack of volunteer time to participate in capacity building/training
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
Our organisation has been growing fast and we need to build more capacities at board management level. The learning curve for volunteers is steep and maintaining activities on Wikipedia and the sistrer projects while also assuming board responsibilites is high. The time devoted to board supporting has increased with the professionalisation of the association which brought more responsibility to board members and the growing number of board members from diverse regions which in turn brought more need for staff support. The professonalisation has also brought more challenges with the wikipedian community, and time needed to adress these issues has increased. Les sans pagEs would benefit from regular sessions with other affiliates to learn how to adress these issues.
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Strongly agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Permanent staff outreach, Staff hired through the fund
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of staff to conduct outreach to new strategic partners
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
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?
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?
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you 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?
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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.