Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Asian American Literary Edit-A-Thons hosted by the Asian American Writers Workshop (ID: 22896104)/Final Report
Application type: Standard application
Part 1: Project and impact
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| 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 | |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: We hope to see if there is still the interest and energy for Asian American literary Edit-A-Thons, as there were in 2018 to 2021, which often attracted dozens of people. If so, AAWW would like to make this an annual series or events. In addition, the Wikipedia Immersive Training program is always looking for candidates who want to invest more heavily in contributing to the Wikiverse.
We operate with a theory of change in that our activities can address racial, ethnic, and cultural gaps in knowledge on Wikipedia by bringing awareness to the issue, bringing in various members of the Asian and Asian American community in New York City and beyond, and inspiring a new group of editors from various underrepresented backgrounds. We hope to teach many people who are new to Wikipedia and provide editing skills to our communities so that these absences in the encyclopedia can be addressed by experienced, knowledgeable, and thoughtful members among us.
Just as we are learning from past Edit-A-Thons of this nature from 2018 to 2021, we hope to keep building upon this practice, finding better ways to teach editing to diverse groups of people, and searching for new editors among these cohorts to develop longer-term, in-depth relationships between Wikipedia and our communities. We take feedback, and analytics, seriously, and we hope to probe the following questions: What are the existing perceptions of Wikipedia and the make-up of its editors and their contributions? What draws people to an Edit-A-Thon, especially without prior experience in Wikipedia? What keeps people invested in Wikipedia, such that they become editors after attending a Wikipedia event? What kinds of content on Wikipedia require more attention from Asian and Asian American editors with knowledge and expertise in those areas? How do we offer training as a long-term practice rather than a limited series of events, thinking about how we can specifically utilize the Asian American Writers’ Workshop space for this purpose?
With regard to analytics, we hope to monitor the number of participants, the number of articles created/updated, as well as how many images and Wikidata items are created. Depending on whether we shoot over or under our predictions, we will seriously consider how to recruit, how to train, how to host and promote events, and how to otherwise promote satisfaction among participants.
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
Part 3: Metrics
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | ||
| Number of editors | 4 | ||
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 | ||
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 | ||
| Wikidata | 50 | ||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
14.3. 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.
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)