Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Localization and Internationalization of Wikidata Taiwan Community (ID: 22972239)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hunghoro
- 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)
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.
Localization and Internationalization of Wikidata Taiwan Community
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-04-11 - 2025-12-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Taiwan
- 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)
Wikidata Taiwan community continues to grow and is healthier than ever, however, we are reaching a bottleneck both strategically and tactically, which pose a great threat to our long-term development plans; Therefore, this project aims to remedy such issue. Straight to the topic, in short, the challenge we face has 2 facets: First and foremost is the fact that there is only a limited supply of documentation and resources available in Chinese. This issue greatly hinders our work in expanding and fostering a sustainable community since language is quite a barrier to cross, especially around more technical topics. Without easy access to important documentation proved to be a reoccurring issue that keeping us from reaching greater productivity and effectiveness.
Second, as the Taiwan wiki community was working closely with local communities in the past few years, establishing a strong connection with the small language communities in Taiwan, we ultimately face the question of what we can do with the resources reside in the communities. Without a clear vision on how to contribute to the movement, many feel lost and purposeless and ultimately find no reason to stay. Without a doubt, this is a big obstacle on our journey to support a diverse and sustainable growth for the underrepresented communities in Taiwan.
Therefore, in this project, our goal is to tackle the 2 challenges mentioned above by: 1. Identify potential documentation such as white papers, scholarly writing, reports, etc. which could be useful for expanding our work knowledge and translating them into Chinese and later other local languages. By doing so we aims to increase our work knowledge reservoir and, 2. Establish cornerstones for future development in the small language communities.
With these two goals in mind, we hope to, through this project, strengthen the health and sustainability of the Taiwan community as a whole, allowing us to keep expanding both in size and depth; by hosting cooperation to bring more knowledge into the communities, we wish to establish a closer tie with the local language communities, forming a mutually benefiting relationship to serve as the start of greater opportunities in the future.
- 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.
In this project, we plan to: 1. Translate 1 (or more) documentation from English to Chinese and later into other local languages (for other languages, we seek to first abstract the documentation then move forward from there if resources are available); to expand communities' knowledge reservoir and assist future works. 2. Hold at least 3 (or more) talks/meetings (currently planned to participate in COSCUP, Wikidata birthday, and additional talks at local language communities); to share our results and bring more awareness from both inside and outside the communities.
- 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.
1. Consultants: Allan - Allenwang6212a 2. Translators:
A. EN/ZH - Brown Hung - Hunghoro B. ZH/NAN - Dennis - Supaplex C. ZH/TRV - seediq Wikipedia Community
- 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 project's main goal is to benefit both current and future participants in the Taiwan community. Our aim is to strengthen the community's health and sustainability, and improve the infrastructure for future progression.
Currently, we are in contact with multiple local language communities and wish to, through this project, bridge up more people from these underrepresented communities. We hope that by translating strategic documentation, we can not only help build up a functional infrastructure but also create a tangible experience of contribution and foster a stronger sense of community, ultimately strengthening the connections between peoples.
- 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.
Mostly the preparation of this project will be communicated in person as that translation doesn't require complicated interpersonal interaction. Still, we will keep in close communication by means like social media or other internet channels. After the translation is completed, all of our work will be released and open to the community on Wikidata page.
- 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)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Manage Internal Knowledge
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
As this project stems from a practical need for more documentation and knowledge to support our work, those would be the most straightforward learning we expected to achieve. Besides that, the main learning we expected to acquire is the how-to related to working with small language communities, What do they need? What would be useful, and how can we help to facilitate a smoother experience to encourage further participation in the movement?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 45 | Besides the translators who will be directly participate in the project, we wish to, conservatively estimate, reach out to at least 10 people per meeting we hold/participate. |
| Number of editors | 0 | We do not intend to edit items but to provide documentation support to Wikidata Community. |
| Number of organizers | 2 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 0 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We do not intend to edit items but to provide documentation support to Wikidata Community.
- 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)
The main performance of this project is qualitative and cannot be easily measured in quantitative metric; as for the participants this metric can be easily counted.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yw9abJQ585eMZjKU6FBiyO4xwDBvhx6Did7WN7Taonc/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)
164000 TWD
- 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.
4993.47 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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