Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Reducing the gender gap for public domain authors on Wikimedia with Wikisource editathons (ID: 22760031)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
LeDeuxiemeTexte
- Organization
Le deuxième texte
- 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.
Reducing the gender gap for public domain authors on Wikimedia with Wikisource editathons
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-09-30 - 2025-09-29
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
International (more than one country across continents or regions) France, Haïti, Benin, Switzerland, Cameroon
- 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)
Our association Le deuxième texte aims to achieve gender equality in literature in French. There is a specific gender gap for writers especially before the 20th century, especially in France where the literary canon teached in class is often 100% male, and the major part comes from the French metropole. We want to produce open knowledge contents enabling the teaching of women writing in French for teachers in secondary and higher education and for the French-speaking public. The resources and content published would be accessible on digital platforms. To achieve this visibility, we research content and sources available on digital websites or on paper sources and make them available on Wikisource and Wikipédia.
To provide a broader and more inspiring overview of French literature, we aim at increasing the number of available literary books in the public domain online. We also want to increase the diversity of French literature. This means having more women, but also trying to find authors who were LGBTQIA+, holding not normative views and stemming from different classes, races, taking into account ageism, handicap and other intersectional aspects. We want to share what we discover about them on Wikipedia, Wikiquote and Wikimedia projects in general.
We hope that this holistic approach will inspire young girls to become successful writers, on more globally, will know that the history of the world was also shaped by powerful stories told and written by women* and underrepresented communities.
- 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.
We plan several activities based on wikis:
• organisation of 15 hybrid (IRL + online) workshops and editathons to teach mainly Wikisource (see photos of previous events at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikisource_Autrices), but also Wikiquote, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia on a regular basis to a diverse audience, open to a wide geographical audience thanks to visioconference • promotion of the values of digital commons in these workshops • democratize the access to these workshops, especially by bringing a few supplementary laptops • document regular meetings, organise documentation for these workshops, discussion about best practice and documentation of those • set up outreach campaigns to promote created contents on social networks, our websites and in the context of our partnerships with the French speaking community (chapters, user group Les sans pagEs, Violette & Co, April, Les Missives) • creation of a timeline game about women* writers (ChronAutrices, https://github.com/PhilippeGambette/ChronAutrices), using and contributing to Wikimedia Commons and Wikiquote for pictures and quotes.
• TO PRODUCE STATISTICS ABOUT THE WORKS OF WOMEN AUTHORS:
◦ by producing or reusing open data gathered on the Histoires d’autrices website (https://citedesdames.github.io/histoires-autrices/)
◦ by using and contributing to Wikidata (to be able to use Wikidata identifiers on the website)
• TO BRING INTO LIGHT WOMEN AUTHORS:
◦ by enriching and democratizing the web literature set for internet users, but also students, professors and researchers of the field
◦ by complementing the Gallica offer of the French national Library (BnF) adding proofread texts to their scans and OCR versions
◦ by increasing the diversity of representation of French-speaking women* writers
• TO HIGHLIGHT WOMEN AUTHORS IN A CREATIVE MANNER:
◦ to stimulate creative ways to rediscover women authors: #JeLaLis challenge (https://jelalis.ledeuxiemetexte.fr/)
◦ to make it easier to remember information about women writer names and works: ChronAutrices (timeline of women authors’ quotes) (see link above)
• TO BUILD ON ACADEMIC EXPERTISE:
◦ by collaborating with researchers and organizations to bring into light the works of women authors and their biographies
◦ by inviting researchers or other experts when focusing on topics where we lack expertise, or on women writers for whom they have a particular expertise
◦ by collaborating with Les sans pagEs, Wikimedia France and other national chapters for the organisation of these workshops
◦ by holding meeting sessions with our main partners to contribute to an inclusive and healthy community online on the Wikimedia projects
- 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.
Volunteer team (with date of first contribution to Wikimedia projects):
• Chairwoman: LadyBirdy38, contributor since 2022 on Wikisource:Autrices, Wikipedia Les sans pagEs, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, member of Wikimedia France, Les sans pagEs, chairwoman of Le deuxième texte • Chief wiki officer: Nivopol, contributor on Wikisource:Autrices (2019), Wikidata (2022) , Wikimedia Commons (2019), fr Wiktionary (2024), fr Wikipedia (2024), member of Wikimedia France, Les sans pagEs • Chief financial officer: Lupin~fr, contributor on Wikisource:Autrices (2018), Wikidata (2016), Wikimedia Commons (2016), Wikipedia (2006), WikiQuote (2023), member of Wikimedia France. • Vice chief administrative officer: FreeCorp, contributor on Wikipedia (2003), Wikisource (2015), Wikisource:Autrices (2018), Wikidata (2018, with account LeDeuxiemeTexte), Wikimedia Commons (2018), WikiQuote (2018, with account LeDeuxiemeTexte), Les sans pagEs (2018), member of Wikimedia France (2018); • Intern in the association: Stef6375, new contributor since 2024.
- 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)
Considering our previous workshops, our participants are interested either in literature (teachers, students, people who work in GLAMs, editors), in feminism or in free software and content. We therefore target these communities either with the newsletters of the chosen locations (Violette and Co is a lesbian and feminist library, Cité Audacieuse a building dedicated to projects by and for women, the headquarters of April host several events about free software and digital commons) or with specific online spaces (agendadulibre.org, page of the Wikisource:Autrices project for regular participants). After our workshops, active members of Le deuxième texte usually check, and possibly improve, the pages already proofread by participants to help them progress and to thank them for their work, or even to send them a message on their discussion page if we notice some misunderstanding about the contribution to Wikisource. We use our social network accounts and our blog to follow up with the participants, and we will send them messages for special occasions (to announce most of the dates of the workshops, to wish a happy new year).
- 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.
• Regular meetings within the association Le deuxième texte,
• Convention Les sans pagEs 2024 in Meyrin (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Convention_LSP_2024/; especially the discussions on Sunday about the common goals and values of the participants and strategy for the future), • meeting with Natacha LSP, Lupin~fr, Nivopol, LadyBirdy38 to review the grant during the Wikicamp 2024 Saint-Malo (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCamp_2024/) organised by Wikimedia France.
- 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)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 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)
• Broaden our knowledge of works written by women from the activities organized during the workshops
• Learn how to promote our activities accross multiple stakeholders of the Wikimedia Movement • Increase interactions between underrepresented projects like Wikisource with other projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikimedia Commons) • Identify and learn how to use the numerous tools providing by the Wikimedia movement (dashboard, microfinances, community calendars) • Learn how to manage a grant (fundings and reporting) from the Wikimedia Foundation • Learn about online violence: participate in the training provided by Wikimedia France and participate to the task group of Les sans pagEs
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | See answer to question 9 above. We possibly expect 20 returning participants and 30 new participants |
| Number of editors | 50 | See answer to questions 9 and 18.1 above. As people who participate in our workshops have to create a Wikimedia acount, we expect 20 returning editors and 30 new editors. |
| Number of organizers | 5 | See answer to question 8 above. The first 4 members of the team already have experience in workshop planning and facilitation and the 5th one, our future intern, is willing to learn |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 15 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 40 |
| Wikidata | 10 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | 1500 |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 5 |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
◦ FR Wikisource: 1 500 pages created on the days of workshops, contributions to the proofreading of 15 new books
◦ FR Wikipedia: 5 created, 10 improved
◦ Wikidata: creation of 10 pages dedicated to book editions
◦ Commons: 20 imports about women writers (books, portraits or signatures) and 20 photos of workshops
◦ Wikiquote: creation of 5 women writer pages
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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 systematically prepare reports of our editathons (see e.g. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Autrices/20240629) in the absence of an appropriate dashboard tool. Indeed, the current version of the dashboard tool does not provide relevant statistics for Wikisource editathons, such as the number of pages proofread for the first or for the second time. We have prepared a spreadsheet to help aggregate all editathons metrics and provide the ones described above.
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)
4600 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.
4984.15 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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