Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Bay Area Wikipedians:New Generation (ID: 22640981)/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)
April 10 2025: monthly meetup. Introduced four new editors to English Wikipedia and one new editor to Wikidata. Attendance: 22 people.
May 8 2025: monthly meetup and introduction to Open Street Maps and projects crossing Wikimedia and OSM. Introduced 5 new editors to English Wikipedia. Attendance: 25 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_May_2025
June 12 2025: monthly meetup and presentation of Wiki Women in red. Introduced one new editor to Wikidata. Attendance: 21 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_June_2025
August 2025: monthly meetup and Wikidata tutorial (open refine, wikibase). Introduced 5 new editors. Attendance: 22 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_August_2025
September 2025: monthly meetup and coworking tables. Introduced 1 new editor. Attendance: 15 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_September_2025
October 2025: monthly meetup and GLAM wiki presentation. Attendance: 15 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_October_2025
November 2025: monthly meetup and Wikidata birthday. Attendance: 33 people. Introduced 4 new editors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Bay_Area_Meetup_November_2025
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
- Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/bay_area_wikipedians_20252026/programs
- Pictures: see event pages above.
New project:
- Art map
- Local Pages Project
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
We have used the existing materials and guides:
We have created these materials:
- Presentation at North Beach Library:
- Wikidata Birthday:
- WikiGameJAM:
- GLAM lunch and learn
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 | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly agree |
| 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: While we have been successful in reaching out to and mentoring new editors, we have not focused on tech so far. This is a missed opportunity given the Bay Area's status as a tech hub. We hope to learn how to best reach and engage technical contributors. We also want to learn how to best evaluate such a capacity-building initiative. It is harder to track the number of changes since they might be happening on different platforms and are not tracked by dashboards. We will track the number of attendees to the meetup and do a narrative report on their contributions.
Learning questions that emerged during the year:
- How to ensure proper funding?
- How to prevent organizers' burnout?
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)
- WCNA presentation: [link]
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 | 200 | ||
| Number of editors | 12 | ||
| Number of organizers | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 | ||
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 | ||
| Wikidata | 300 | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diversity of editors | We will aim that 30% of the event attendees be non-men identifying contributors. During 2023-2024 events, this fluctuated between 10 and 20%. Hosting the meetups at Double Union will help us reach that goal as they will advertise events to their community. | |||
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)
Upload the financial report
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)