Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/CIP101 Wikipedia Project for Sustainable Development (ID: 22451751)
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Applicant Details[edit]
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Egezort
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
CIP101 Wikipedia Project for Sustainable Development
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-03-16 - 2024-05-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Turkey
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
This project is a refined version of these two previous applications, so some things said in those apply here too. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/CIP101_Wikipedia_Project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/CIPedia_(ID:_22282891)
CIP stands for Civic Involvement Projects, and it is our university's department that runs volunteer projects. Every student has to pass the CIP101 course at least once. Sabancı University has hundreds of students enrolling in the CIP101 course every term. CIP focuses on gender equality, disability awareness, ageism, environmentalism, human rights, and many other such subjects.
I am currently a supervisor in the CIP program, supervisors are volunteers who facilitate workshops and discussions to a CIP101 class, and they’re chosen from previous CIP101 students. Supervisors and Overvisors in CIP are unpaid positions.
We have started a Wikipedia related project (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIP_Wikipedia_Project) two terms ago with a small pilot project in the first term and a full project in the second term. I want to make sure that the project continues on and is sustained in the long run.
I think that the success of this project has a few potential benefits. First of all, it’s a way of introducing 40-50 students each term to Wikipedia editing, and it’s a way of doing so with a specific focus on the values of Wikipedia and the change it’s attempting societally, which is parallel to UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (which is already a part of the CIP curriculum). So this means that not only will students become editors, but that they will also be learning about open culture, the 5 pillars of Wikipedia, verifiability and fighting against misinformation, and the topics relating to SDG’s.
Another benefit is that every term, 5-6 Wikipedia supervisors are trained, this may be in the case of new supervisors, who would become new organisers, or in the case of supervisors who have been Wikipedia supervisors in the past, who would both share their experiences and help in training others and also continue their own training. The retention for the supervisors is also to be realised through CIP-wide events, like if someone transfers into the Gender project of CIP from the Wikipedia project this term, they would help in the collaboration for the Wikipedia project. This would mean that even the people who transferred from the Wikipedia project would host a Wikipedia related event each term, provided they have the means to do so.
Another thing that I’m aiming for is the creation of lesson videos and slides for this project (The slides for the previous term can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CIP101_Wikimedia_Presentations_in_Turkish) which will primarily be used for the following terms but can also be watched separately by editors since it will contain subjects that haven’t been dived into in video format yet. These videos will make the project sustainable and will also be a good resource to show others what the project is about since that may be needed in the future for partnerships and collaborations. I have written a budget item about technical equipment within the budget which will probably be used for making better videos. (I will also use the lights and mics that I bought in a previous project)
I also want to make sure that the project can have an identity on its own, which will be ensured through the use of a logo, stickers etc. so that the project is immediately recognisable. I will also buy roll-ups and flags so that we can publicise the project in orientation programs and club promotion events (in which CIP already takes place in).
Another thing that I would like to happen is forming bonds with the school’s different functions, such as the library, some lessons, other programs etc. This is outside the scope of this project but the success of the project would also help with that in the future.
I also want to increase CIP’s focus on SDG’s, because currently, even while being the backbone of much of the content of lessons, they aren’t talked about enough to paint a good enough picture in the students’ minds.
Some problems that we had experienced were that, it was difficult to show the connection between social progress and Wikipedia editing, which ended up in some students not feeling fulfilled. We want to solve that by more clearly focusing on the benefits of open content. I am planning to gather some resources I got from User:Flanoz’s slideshow, like applications that let you travel the world online and seek out open content from places, which will show concretely what open content is capable of. I will also gather open content resources about things that create societal ease, such as the way Wikipedia provides education to marginalised communities, or how Creative Commons licences help in creating content that won’t get copyright striked, which has an equalising function in society.
There are some changes from the previous term that are reductions in size, we plan not to have an online Wikipedia CIP group within the scope of this project (even if we end up having one in CIP, it won’t be a part of the project) because handling an international group along with the Turkish-language groups is really difficult and hinders the progress in both, also I won’t be supervising for each team this time and supervisors will use the pre-created resources instead, which I will have created by the end of the holidays (regardless of the budget). The latter is due to my not having as much free time as last term.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
There will be a preparation stage for the term (that will be done regardless of the budget), which includes:
- The creation of slideshows and lesson videos for usage in the future (some slideshows are already ready from last term, and the contents of some videos are also ready)
- The finalisation of the plans for training sessions, which will consist more of informal and conversational ways of learning together with supervisors, but I’ll do more preparation as to derive as much efficiency as possible
- The creation of the application forms for the student club events
- The refinement of the syllabus and the finalisation of the timeline
There are lots of different activities that will be done within this project, a breakdown is given below:
- Lessons consisting of 6 in-class lessons, one guest speaker lesson, one in-campus mapping session and one out-of-campus mapping session
- 7 events in collaboration with student clubs or other CIP projects
- Participation as the CIP Wikipedia Project in the CIP fair/bazaar event, which is the event in which all CIP projects set stands and sell things/play games, it is one of the most visible things that CIP does in campus. It is not yet certain what we will do there, I intend to come up with something not on my own but in a brainstorming session with group of supervisors so that everyone feels invested in it.
- Two 3-4 hour training sessions for CIP Wikipedia’s Supervisors so that they can run the lessons
- One CIPs Academy seminar (CIPs Academy is when many supervisors go to our campus on the European side of Istanbul and listen to a seminar together, I intend to arrange one about open culture and open mapping)
- Weekly meetings with the supervisors
Lessons: Lessons will be given by the CIP supervisors, there are 1 or 2 supervisors for each group. In-class lessons will be 2 hours, 1 hour will be CIP’s usual activities, 1 hour will be Wikimedia related, I intend to connect them when I can. The basic formula is, watching a video together, having a discussion about it, break, watching a Wikipedia related video together, doing Wikipedia related activities together.
How the guest speaker lesson will function is dependent on the guest speaker.
For the out-of-campus mapping sessions, I am thinking of mapping some places in Kurtköy.
Events:
There will be 7 microgrant opportunities at 100 dollars each for events with the collaboration of clubs or other CIP projects. Some could also be used by a club that I co-run or the CIP Wikipedia project. These will all be events that are aimed at the whole school. They will be similar to club events that other clubs in our school do. I foresee around 10-40 people participating in each event. I will publicise each event on the CIPedia Whatsapp group that we created for the project, which includes 5 groups of students (1 from the pilot project, 4 from the project last term).
Some ideas for events are; a Women in Red event with the CIP Gender Project, a natural disaster related edit-a-thon with CIP’s natural disaster project, music theory and/or the showcasing of different instruments with our school’s music club etc.
These ideas are intentionally not well developed so that we can leave more room for what the entity we our collaborating with would want. Trainings: There will be two training days that last around 3-4 hours, they will probably be on weekends, first will be open to all supervisors before they choose which project they will work on so that they can get an idea of what the Wikipedia project will be about and what a supervisor does in it. Second training will be aimed at Wikipedia supervisors and will be more specifically geared towards how the project will be run. Both trainings will be casual and therefore without much preparation, they will include editing things together, talking about different Wikipedia projects, sharing our experiences from the previous term, brainstorming about ideas etc. They’re basically a more condensed version of the weekly meetings. Weekly Meetings: We are going to do a 1 hour meeting every week after the project starts so that supervisors know the subject of the week and that we can talk to each other about how the lessons went, what went well and what didn’t etc. There will be a note-taker (the note-taker will be paid per meeting, there may be different note-takers for different meetings/events) for each meeting and the notes will be uploaded on Meta. A detailed breakdown of the 9 lessons is given in the link below:
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
User:Egezort - Project Lead - Paid role Coordinating the project: This involves; training the other supervisors, arranging and moderating the weekly meetings, joining lessons when necessary, communicating with guest speakers, arranging events etc. Creating content for future use: I will refine the already existing syllabus and upload videos on Youtube which will be the backbone of the project for this term and the following terms, I will create resources for use in lessons, which will also be used in the future.
User:YaprakDökümüLeyla - Documentation, Translation, and Communication - Paid role
YaprakDökümüLeyla is not an experienced Wikimedian yet but she has expressed interest in learning. She is studying English Language Teaching in University and has experience working with dealing with documents. She will make sure that each lesson and activity is documented on Meta. (This was one of the things I struggled with the most last term) She will also keep in communication with supervisors so that the lesson contents and plans are documented properly.
User:Ozge.akbal and User:Orey Bey - They were two of the supervisors in CIP’s Wikipedia projects last term, they have expressed willingness to be a Wikipedia supervisor next term too. Orey Bey also plans to host a Wikeys boardgame event with our school’s boardgame club.
At least 2, at most 5 more supervisors
All supervisors will be responsible for the following:
- Conducting a 2 hour lesson each week of CIP
- Participating in two 3-4 hour education seminars run by Egezort (will be optional but highly recommended)
- Participating in the 1 hour meetings each week
User:DeliMali and User:Agunduz5 - Were students in the CIP Wikipedia project, they have expressed willingness with helping with the project. The details of their roles and their commitment is not certain yet.
If there is interest, I may do an unaffiliated WhatsApp group within the CIPedia community so that people can follow our activities.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Our target participants are mainly CIP101 students but also students who are active in clubs. CIP101 is a lesson that every student has to pass once, and the passing grade is determined by attendance. There will be 4 Turkish language groups of around 10-12 people each. Generally 7-8 students tend to be active enough to join the lessons.
Since we couldn’t succeed much in having a productive term with the International group last term, I am planning to keep the International project of CIP outside our scope (even if we do end up having an English-language Wikipedia project, which is not certain currently).
For CIP101 students, the question is not if they will attend the lessons or not (because they have to attend a certain amount), but how interested they will be in the content. My past experience has shown me that an uninterested student will do the bare minimum (if at all) and that there have to be ways of engaging them. I have also seen that the general interest of the group reflects on individuals, so it is important that most students in a group feel invested in the lesson.
The way we plan to engage with the CIP101 students is primarily through the lessons but also through extra attendance opportunities if they wish to help out with events. I have seen that people can be interested in doing extra work given that that work helps in points to pass the lesson, even in cases that they don’t need the extra points to pass. (It’s a pass/fail course so the final point only matters for to-be supervisors and not for students)
Students from the CIP101 courses can also apply to be supervisors, so a person who passed the Wikipedia project and enjoyed it has the chance to become a Wikipedia supervisor later on. Even if they don’t become supervisors, they are much more likely to participate in or organise a club event related to Wikimedia.
Also, as with the previous terms, they will be included in a WhatsApp community group called CIPedia, which will help retention in the following terms with the extra events.
The way to plan with other students in campus is through the events and the CIP fair. The target groups are as follows:
One of the most prominent pool of participants is the ~60 people in the CIPedia group and former supervisors. Both are groups that will keep growing as each term passes. I assume that some people from those groups may join the events because they already have some understanding of Wikipedia.
Another pool of participants is the members of student clubs and of other CIP projects, whenever we do a collaboration themed event with them, they would be interested in the event that their club/project is a part of.
All students, the way to reach them will be through social media and through posters hanged in the campus (that will be paid either by the clubs’ budget of our school or through the microgrant we provide them)
If there is interest, I may do an unaffiliated WhatsApp group within the CIPedia community so that people can follow our activities.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Apart from User:Gufo46, who helps me when I need it, and has given two guest lectures in classes, I hosted three community members (User:Sezoz, User:Piyanist, User:Flanoz) as guest speakers on the last weeks of the projects. They have all expressed willingness to come again as guest speakers the following term. I talked briefly about this project during one of the Wikituesday meetings, which is the meeting that WMTR organises bi-weekly, I also notified the Turkish Wikipedia community through a village pump post: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:K%C3%B6y_%C3%A7e%C5%9Fmesi_(ilginize)#c-Egezort-20231223124700-CIP_Vikipedi_Projesinin_sonraki_d%C3%B6nemi
I have received and engaged with feedback from the following people. (Their feedback is not to be taken as endorsements, they provided the feedback due to my reaching out to them)
Toni and Barbara from the CEE Hub, Alex Stinson from Organizer Labs, Jan Ainali from Wikimedians For Sustainable Development, Başak from the WMTR.
They have all helped me refine and clarify my responses to the 6th and 7th questions, I had focused too much on the context of the project and what I was able to do within my conditions, and failed to talk extensively about the project itself, which I believe that I have fixed. Some other things that came out of the feedback process are, I was convinced to use open-source alternatives instead of subscribing to proprietary software, I explained the usage of my budget better in the proposal, and I gave some details regarding some things in the project that I had glossed over.
I am communicating regularly with User:Mahir256, especially during Lexeme related weeks. I intend to continue that communication this term too.
I also introduced myself and this project to the Wikimedia Education Telegram group but didn’t get a chance to ask them for feedback because I started communication with them very late. I hope to communicate more with them during the project.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Would people be convinced that editing Wikipedia is a way of furthering social progress? (This is especially relevant because one of the criticisms from one of the students was that the project didn’t connect these much) Is it possible to make a sustainable course for Wikipedia?
Will the next generation of supervisors be able to continue?
How much involved do I have to be each term and how will my workload decrease as we have more content? How many of the students will be encouraged to continue editing after they pass the course? How many people outside the CIP101 course will be interested in what we’re doing?
How will only using open source software affect the ease of production of content?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 150 | Total number of people who will participate in events, such as the CIP fair, or the club activities. They will only be one-time participants so checking their edits will be very easy. Some may not even create accounts, but they will be participating in the events with a Wikipedia/Open Culture focus. |
| Number of editors | 50 | Almost all will be new editors, some will be returning editors from the previous term. The new editors will all be from the CIP Wikipedia groups. I haven't had trouble keeping up with their edits last term and I don't think I will this term either. |
| Number of organizers | 10 | Most will be new organisers, the returning organisers will be the supervisors from last term, some organisers will be students from the previous term. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia/Open Culture related events | Events open to all students run in collaboration with student clubs and other CIP projects | 7 |
| CIPs Academy event | A big event in which many supervisors go to the Sabancı University campus on the European side and listen to a seminar and do activities | 1 |
| Lesson videos | Videos of the presentations of slideshows that will be used in the projects | 8 |
| Lesson slides | 1 will be a recreated version of the first lesson (about what the lesson will be like), 4 will be new slides | 5 |
| Outside mapping event | Mapping activities outside of campus that will be related to OSM, one for each project, will be preceded by an in-campus mapping activity in the weeks before | 4 |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
I have learned how to use Event Metrics so I’ll be using that, I will ask everyone in every group to fill in a participants list beforehand (Like here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIP_Wikipedia_Project/Participants/Fall_2023) so it will be easy to keep track of contributions. For physical events, I plan to use SparQL and related tools to keep track of physical contributions.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XpkqW9ZWkgeZ5lPyqS48QRGx8LbSOakMrnmwS2qqdmU/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
150000 TRY
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
4986 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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