Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Centre A x Wikipedian in Residence (ID: 23099972)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Dianehywong
- Organization
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Centre A x Wikipedian in Residence
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-07-01 - 2025-11-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Canada
- 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)
For Centre A’s inaugural Wikipedian in Residence program, we are focusing on highlighting stories that too often go unacknowledged in the art world. The change we are trying to bring is increased visibility, representation, and authorship of Asian and Asian diasporic perspectives within public knowledge platforms and the broader art historical narrative. We want to empower our own community to actively shape and share their own histories through open-access platforms like Wikipedia.
This project will place particular emphasis on creating new and updating existing Wikipedia pages related to Asian and Asian diasporic art and culture, using the resources available in Centre A’s Reading Room and archive. In doing so, we aim to address the ongoing lack of documentation and recognition of these communities in mainstream narratives. The program will also promote the Reading Room by generating open-access research and making its unique holdings more visible to the public. As we grow the collection through this project , the Reading Room will continue to support our annual Art+Feminism editathon and serve as a space for community collaboration and education.
As the only public art gallery in Canada dedicated to Asian and Asian diasporic artistic practices and with a mandate to platform marginalized and underrepresented voices Centre A is uniquely positioned to take on this work. Our Reading Room and archive house a significant collection of books and documentation, particularly focused on Asian diasporic art in Vancouver. Through this project, we will continue to share and expand that knowledge through an intersectional lens that acknowledges the complexity of lived experience across race, class, privilege, disability, gender, and sexuality.
The program will provide a paid opportunity for an emerging Asian or Asian diasporic GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) worker to access research materials, gain experience, and receive mentorship from staff with years of experience running Wikipedia edit-a-thons. The Wikipedian in Residence will contribute to our ongoing Wikipedia initiatives, bringing their own lived experience to the work and helping develop a more inclusive approach to knowledge-sharing and documentation. By equipping both the Resident and participants with the skills to navigate and contribute to Wikipedia, this program aims to break down exclusionary barriers and empower more people to participate in building open and representative sources of knowledge.
- 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.
This project will consist of a three month long Wikipedian in Residence program in Centre A’s reading room. It will provide an opportunity for an emerging Asian GLAM worker to engage with our vast source of research material that is currently under utilized. They will also receive hands-on training on Wikipedia editing from skilled staff members and unrestricted access to the Reading Room five days a week between 10:30AM to 6:00PM, the Fraser Finlayson Collection of rare books on Classical Chinese and Japanese Art with publications dating back to the late 19th century as well as the organization’s archives which include publications and ephemera related to Vancouver’s local arts programming dating back to its conception. Throughout the project, the Wikipedian in Residence will also have the opportunity to acquire books and materials for the Reading Room.
Our Reading Room and archive is filled with books and catalogs documenting not only local art movements and practices, published locally by organizations in the community but also knowledge on Asian and Asian diasporic art from a national and international perspective. This project aims to mobilize it in order to raise its visibility amongst the community and globally and to enhance its contents. The Wikipedian in Residence will have two major tasks, first, they will work with volunteer librarians and the gallery’s Programming Coordinator to review and identify any related research and archival materials that could be made available to the public as an open source material through Wikimedia Commons. Second, they will identify gaps in knowledge within Asian and Asian-diasporic artists, cultural workers, institutions, art movement on Wikipedia and work alongside the Programming Coordinator, who is experienced in coordinating Wikipedia edit-athons, to plan a series of small monthly Wikipedia Edit-a-thons and “How to Edit Workshop” throughout the duration of the residency.
Working alongside experienced staff members, including Centre A’s Artistic Director, Diane Hau Yu Wong, who have been coordinating Wikipedia events for the gallery for the last 5 years will allow us to plan and coordinate successful Wikipedia Edit-a-thon that will increase and improve open source knowledge on Asian and Asian diasporic art.
- 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: Maliv.kh (Program Manager, Contractor) User: Dianehywong (Program Supervisor, Salaried) User: HIlahi (Program Supervisor, Salaried)
- 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)
The target participants for this project will be members of the Asian and Asian diasporic community of youth arts scholars, researchers and GLAM workers that we are mandated to serve as an institution, who can contribute the unique lens of their lived experience to the innovative approach to knowledge-making and documentation that Wikipedia edit-a-thons embody. For the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and Workshops that we will also be reaching out to students from post-secondary institutions in the Greater Vancouver area such as University of British Columbia, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Simon Fraser University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langara College, and many more. We will also be sharing our events to different grassroots organizations in the Chinatown community such as Yarrow, Youth Collaborate for Chinatown, the Vancouver Black Library, Rungh Cultural Society and many more, to encourage cross-cultural and intergenerational conversations. We will also be sharing our programming with neighbouring local galleries such as Gallery Gachet, Access Gallery, Or Gallery, Artspeak, and others, to further connect with the local arts community The organization’s existing marketing capabilities and network of collaborators with ties to this community will be deployed to aid the Wikipedian in Residence in outreach and recruitment of participants. A survey will be conducted after each Wikipedia edit-athon to gain feedback about participants' experiences attending them to identify potential barriers to accessibility and participation and make recommendations to alleviate them. Towards the end of the project, a questionnaire will be provided to the Wikipedian in Residence in order to gain feedback from them that we will use to improve future programs like this. Through this questionnaire, the participant will be encouraged to openly discuss their experience working in our Reading Room and any insights from their time planning and coordinating the Wikipedia edit-a-thons that they feel will help us enhance our community engagement strategies.
- 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.
Our organization has successfully conducted annual Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons since 2022. These events are always well attended and we have amassed a significant following. There have been a number of returning participants who we reached out to to gauge interest demonstrated enthusiasm and excitement for such a project. Past collaborators like Rungh Magazine and the Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery were approached to discuss potential partnership on this project and were eager to become involved. Rungh’s 2024 Wikipedia Scholars program has served as a model for the way we wish to run this project and Rungh has expressed a willingness to consult on its delivery.
Our strategy to recruit a Wikipedian in Residence and other participants will also entail engagement through social media across several platforms and through different arts student groups at post-secondary institutions in the Greater Vancouver area such as UBC, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Simon Fraser University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langara College.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Identify Topics for Impact
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
How can Centre A better deploy its Reading Room and archives in service of raising visibility and awareness of Asian and Asian diasporic arts, culture and history globally ?
What has prevented or limited this documentation and dissemination of these histories in the past? To what extent has / can Art and Feminism events help combat this?
What are some culturally appropriate community engagement strategies that encourage and facilitate the participation of members from these communities in such a knowledge-making endeavor?
What are some alternative methods of documentation and knowledge transference that these communities engage in? How can we as an institution facilitate them?
What are some essential skills that Asian and Asian diasporic youth aspiring to work in GLAM and other knowledge- creation and dissemination sectors should gain?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 45 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of new pages made for Artists, Curators, and cultural movement from equity deserving groups | Number of new pages made for artists, curators, and culture movement and organizations in equity deserving groups | 10 |
| Number of existing pages updated for artists, curators, and culture movement and organizations in equity deserving groups | Number of existing pages updated for artists, curators, and culture movement and organizations in equity deserving groups | 80 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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)
15 new pages created and 100 pages updated (can be measured through the dashboard tracking)
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
6920 CAD
- 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.
4995.12 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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