Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Exploring Wikiprojects at City Tech Library (ID: 22963660)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Perimeander

Organization

N/A

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N/A

Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Exploring Wikiprojects at City Tech Library

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2025-09-01 - 2026-05-20

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

United States of America

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)

I’m interested in changing faculty and student perceptions at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) about information on the internet, and I think that various Wikiprojects are the best tool for doing that. Wikipedia and related projects provide a concrete way to demonstrate that information on the internet is—or at least could be—by us and about is; we can take ownership for what is made available online. I’m interested in demonstrating how the internet can be a conversation rather than just an insurmountable wall of impenetrable information.

I will approach these issues approach this in a variety of ways:

-- By engaging faculty in a discussion of how they interact with the internet, how they teach their students to interact with the internet, and more specifically how they interact with Wikipedia. The goal of these conversations would be to introduce nuance to online information behavior and to teach new literacy skills for working with Wikipedia in the classroom. One outcome may be faculty interest in other Wiki Education programs in the future.

-- By engaging faculty and students in conversations with other Wikipedians, to put a face to Wikipedia and, to some extent, to the internet. We have great opportunities for that in New York City over the 2025-26 academic year, not only because we have an active and supportive local Wikimedia chapter but also because our city will be hosting Wikiconference North America (WCNA) in Fall 2025, which we expect to build local momentum for editing Wikiprojects. By connecting with these communities, we can have concrete conversations about how the internet is a real place populated by real people—and how we can all be part of that community.

-- By engaging students in Wikipedia editing about topics that are relevant to them. We’ve organized a few student-focused editathons in our library in the past, including a recent editathon with our LGBTQIA student club that we will look to repeat during this programming series. Our main goal with student-focused programming during the 2025-26 academic year will be to build momentum and gauge interest in deeper engagement through future student clubs, learning opportunities, or other types of programming.

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. Wiki Discussion for City Tech Faculty (August/September 2025). This event will engage faculty in discussion about Wikipedia; gauge faculty perceptions about Wikiprojects; share ideas for making use of various Wikiprojects in education contexts, and measure interest in future faculty collaboration.

2. Wikicurious about Wikidata, with Wikimedia NYC and the NYC400 Project (November 2025). Building on the success of Wikimedia NYC’s Wikicurious series, this event will focus on editing Wikidata and will specifically work on creating Wikidata items for individuals and neighborhoods identified through the current NYC400 campaign. Both City Tech students and the general public will be welcome to attend. Because City Tech brings together a diverse student population from across New York City, we think that the broad focus of the NYC400 campaign presents a great way for our student body to connect Wikipedia editing with a huge variety of diverse people and places across the city. NOTE: This event is part of this project series but will not be funded by this grant; our collaboration with Wikimedia NYC on this event means that funding for this specific event will come from Wikimedia NYC.

3. Wikipedia and Primary Sources: looking at how the City Tech Digital Archives can contribute to Wikipedia (February 2026). City Tech Library has been working on a digitization project specifically focused on student newspapers. This event will invite faculty and students to dive into the college’s history through these newly digitized materials and will engage participants in questions about the place of primary sources on Wikipedia, what constitutes original research, and how digital archives can support open knowledge projects.

4. LGBTQIA Wiki editathon (March/April 2026). Following the success of our 2024 LGBTQIA Wikipedia editathon with the City Tech Pride Club, we will again collaborate with the Pride Club to make use of City Tech Library’s LGBTQIA collections as a source for increasing representation of individuals, historic events, and more on Wikipedia.

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.

Jen Hoyer – UN Perimeander

In addition, we have confirmed a collaboration with Wikimedia NYC (through conversations with Pacita_(WikiNYC) ) on a Wikicurious event in November 2025. Wikimedia NYC has also been incredibly supportive of all local Wiki-events in the past, and we’ll invite members to attend and/or lend a hand with this event series as they’re able.

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 City Tech faculty and students. City Tech is a Hispanic-Serving Institution and most recent data for our student population shows that 21% identify as Asian, 26% as Black or African American, and 34% as Hispanic or Latino. All of our students are undergraduates.

We will do outreach to our students at each semester’s orientation and Club Fair events, as well as through our course management system event calendar, through social media, and via other notice boards on campus.

We plan to follow up with participants via email and social media during and after each event, to gauge their interest in future projects and to invite their input on organizing future programming.

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.

The ideas for this project have been discussed with library faculty at City Tech, with faculty connected to the Pride Club, as well as with leadership and members of Wikimedia NYC.

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)

Not applicable

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)

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)

Improve User Experience

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

I’m interested in learning the following: -- What current perceptions do faculty and students on my campus have about information online? How are the perceptions of these two groups different? -- How can Wikipedia programming on our campus support the work of teaching faculty? -- What strategies are effective for helping students connect online information ecosystems with their own lives and with the space and place they live in? -- How can Wikipedia programming on our campus support the needs and interests of our student community?

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	100
Number of editors	50
Number of organizers	4

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	30
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata	50
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 Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Return attendees across entire program series:	N/A	10
N/A	N/A	N/A
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)

We’ll use Programs & Events Dashboards for any events that involve editing. We will also make use of sign-in attendance sheets at all events to track attendance numbers and to communicate / follow up with attendees.

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

WMF Rapid Fund Budget Hoyer REVISED.xlsx

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

1700 USD

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.

1700 USD

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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