Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Russian PEPs data donation to wikidata (ID: 23475008)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
jvirblis
- Organization
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- 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)
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- 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.
Russian PEPs data donation to wikidata
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-05-10 - 2025-08-01
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region) In this project I propose to work on data that is related to Russia and personlities from my origin country. However myself I am located in France and I will rely to my network which is located in different countries, including but not limited to: France, Germany, Georgia, Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia, Russia.
- 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)
We want to make information about Russian politically exposed persons (persons of interest, that occupy important positions in the public sector) more accessible and searchable by it donation to wikidata. This will contribute the construction of more open society in Russia, as well as provide tool for research and enhance personal responsability of those persons.
- 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 expect to create several thousand items in wikidata to represent Russian person of interest, working in public sector. This information will be donated from the database declarator.org, which consists of data collected from official sources (asset and income declarations, trade registry). We already similar work and added over 6000 records to wikidata and want to continue. This include a check of existing items with the same family names and names to avoid possible duplicates, data treatment and cleaning.
Main Activities: 1. Data Preparation and Extraction (Weeks 1-2) Define and extract target datasets from the Declarator.org database (2010-2022 records) Scrape and collect complementary data from EGRUL (Unified State Register of Legal Entities) Generate a list of responsible persons (public officials holding key positions) Extract items from WikiData with same names to check for volounteers
2. Data Cleaning Perform automated data cleaning to standardize names, dates, positions, and other fields Prepare datasets for volunteer review
3. Volunteer Mobilization and Training
Cross-reference existing Wikidata records by searching for matching family names and given names to identify and avoid potential duplicates
Organize at least two offline and two online training sessions in partnership with volunteer groups:
Pomoch Delom (https://pomochdelom.ru/) - a volunteer platform connecting activists with civic projects Sakharov Center Virtual Community (https://vc.sakharov-center.ru/) - human rights organization's online community
4. Documentation and Knowledge Sharing
Document the complete methodology for transparency data donation to Wikidata Prepare and publish a report on acitivities Engage with Wikidata community for feedback and sustainability planning
The check for duplicates will be done by volounteer teams on specific offline and online events. Offline events will be organized in two different spots: in Paris and in southern France, where a large Russian speaking community is present. A presentation on Wikidata will be included in every offline and online event.
- 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.
Tony Bowden: Oravrattas WD member https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Oravrattas Pomoch Delom: Will help recruit volunteers with data verification experience and provide offline workspace for training sessions Sakharov Center Virtual Community: Will provide access to their volunteer network interested in transparency and human rights, and help organize online Wikitons
- 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 is the members of Russian Russian-speaking community exiled outside of the country. We will engage with them via our partners, mentioned above, that will be in charge with managing voulounteer community.
The volounteer engaged in the project will participate in two online presentation, where we will talk about wikidata and declarator architecture, present the goals of this work, made them familiiar with wikidata tools and principles.
- 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.
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- 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.
This project builds on our previous successful data donation of 6,000+ items about Russian officials, which was welcomed by the Wikidata community. We consulted with partner organizations Pomoch Delom and Sakharov Center Virtual Community, who endorsed the initiative and agreed to help mobilize volunteers. The project aligns with existing WikiProjects (Government, Russia, Human Rights). Upon approval, we will create a Wikidata project page and post announcements for broader community input.
- 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)
Human Rights
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
I do not know
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We aim to learn: (1) Best practices for bulk importing governmental transparency data to Wikidata while maintaining quality, (2) Effective methods for engaging exiled community volunteers in structured data projects, (3) How researchers and journalists use this data once available in Wikidata's queryable format, (4) What processes enable volunteers to sustain and update these records long-term, (5) Whether this meaningfully reduces knowledge gaps about Russian governance structures.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | We expect to engage a group of at least 30 volounteers |
| Number of editors | 10 | We expect that some of the volounteers will create they own accounts in wikidata to refine / provide data details. However, this is not expected as a requirement to contribute the project, as volounteers will manage data on a side collaborative platform and the prepared dataset will be uploaded by the organizers. |
| Number of organizers | 3 | Myself and partners from Pomosh Delom and Sakharov volounteer center will faciliate the events organizations |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 5000 |
| Wiktionary | |
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| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Myself and Tony Bowden will work as editors to finalize the data donation after the datasets have been prepared by voiulounteers.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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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)
I expect that the working process will be done in google sheets with a further upload to wikidata by organizers, that allow us to have quite precise statistics on number of created items. However, I do not know how to count the minor changes to wd record done by the participants involved in process
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qiqrc3Vr7iQkYMeLL-XXIEZZ7e1vLh8YYlPVoWaTf_c/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
4000 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.
4796 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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