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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Centre A x Wikipedian in Residence (ID: 23099972)/Final Report

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Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Dianehywong
Centre A x Wikipedian in Residence
01 January 2026 - 31 March 2026
Report ID: 12996
Report status: Draft
Report due date: 30 April 2026
Grant ID: G-RF-2505-19054
Amount funded: 6920 CAD, 4995.12 USD
Amount spent:  CAD
Rapid Fund 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)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
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: 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?


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 45
Number of editors 20
Number of organizers 4
Wikimedia project Target Result - Number of created pages Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
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
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

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

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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)