Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Child Safety Workshop of Project Editors at Wikimania (ID: 23055316)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
dimi_z
- Organization
N/A
- 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)
I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group., I'm a staff member or contractor in a Wikimedia Affiliate, group, or allied organization.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
I am policy director at Wikimedia Europe. I am an active editor of Bulgarian Wikipedia. I am active within the Bulgarian Wikimedia community (but the user group is defunct). I am active and a board member of like-minded organisation with a Wikimedia mission - Digital Republic Bulgaria, which also acts the local Creative Commons chapter. I am a founding member of Wikimedia Belgium.
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Child Safety Workshop of Project Editors at Wikimania
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-06-27 - 2025-08-16
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Kenya
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) A new initiative to hosting an in-person training for Wikimedians to better identify concerning behaviour or content related to child safety. This pilot should then be developed into a series of trainings and support & awareness sessions depending on third party funding.
This builds on the child safety workshop lead by Ricky Gaines at Wikimania in Katowice in 2024. Wikimedians were asked to prioritize which of the recommendations of the Child Rights Impact Assessment (commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation) we should work on together.
The recommendation "Provide training to any volunteers who have contact with children" was selected and I took the intiative, together with a Franziska Putz from the WMF, to organise a workshop at Wikimania 2025.
- 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)
Child protection and content moderation are very topical discussions now in the public policy field, globally. This is how both Wikimedia Europe's and the Wikimedia Foundation's advocacy teams came to work on this issue.
As Wikimedia projects are predominantly edited by volunteers, one of the most sensible, most requested and most recommended actions we came across was to provide support & training for volunteer editors.
- 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.
1. Have project leads and agree on milestones. [done in September 2024] 2. Consult with the Wikimedia Foundation Trust & Safety teams and chapters within Wikimedia Europe [initiated in October 2024, ongoing] 3. Find a professional who is able and willing to work with us on this and particularly give a workshop & session at Wikimania. [done in March 2025] 4. Find funding for the pilot stage (i.e. workshop and session in Nairobi). [current task] 5. Organise the workshop (tickets, accommodation, programme planning). [current task] 6. Book and confirm everything. [tbc, June 27th] 7. Wikimania activites [August 2025] 8. Follow-up by distributing sessions documentation, plan additional sessions if pilot is successful and approach third-party funders for support.
- 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.
Dimitar Zagorski, Policy Director, Wikimedia Europe Franziska Putz, Senior Movement Advocacy Manager, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation Andrew Briercliffe, Online Harms / Trust and Safety / Online Child Protection Professional (see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-briercliffe-760621191/?originalSubdomain=uk)
Andrew has over three decades of experience with law enforcement and then also years of experience working on trust & safety for a major platform. He is now a consultant. He needs to give the workshop and session and hence we need funding for him.
- 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)
Active users from across language versions and projects, but in particular Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Users with extended rights.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
I do not think the users we want to provide this training for are children, rather editors who need to learn how to protect children and how to deal with distressing situations.
I have answered yes, because it is a child safety training.
- 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.
We have discussed it withing Wikimedia Europe meetings and calls with members.
- 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)
Age (recency)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Public Policy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Age (diversity of age groups)
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
- How can we better support volunteers in protecting children and how to deal with distressing situations?
- Are the chosen trainer and the format a good fit for our community and needs?
- Is there interest to continue offering such support?
- Are the gaps and support that community members need/request that we don't have on our radar?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 15 | We would like to organise two things:
1. A workshop during the pre-conference day that is more detailed and thorough and engages participants actively. 2. A general information and awareness raising session as part of the main Wikimania programme (submitted) |
| Number of editors | 15 | |
| Number of organizers | 3 | Dimitar and Franziska will be at Wikimania and are funded.
We are looking for a way to get the trainer to participate. |
| 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.
This is a workshop and a session about child safety . It aims to help active editors cope with potentially distressing situations, rather than directly at content creation.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 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)
- Participation at workshop and sessions
- Feedback from participants
- Number of follow-up trainings and events (at other gatherings)
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gYQXD0-tpVeNtrK2N4Qy6KqgCfx113OdThojWdD336s/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)
3700 EUR
- 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.
3990 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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