Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Seniors Create Wikipedia Bratislava (ID: 22458834)/Final Report

Seniors Create Wikipedia Bratislava

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Draft

Due date: 31 May 2025

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

Applicant username: Jetam2
Organization name: N/A
Amount awarded: 4992.05
Amount spent: 5374.12 USD, 4654.85

Part 1: Project and impact

1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)

The purpose of the grant was to fund a project aimed at seniors writing Wikipedia. It was called "Seniori píšu Wikipédiu" in Slovak, "Seniors writing Wikipedia" in English. There were two runs of the project, one in fall 2024 and one in spring 2025. Both involved an in-person workshop composed of 6 (fall) or 5 (spring) sessions. These sessions were 3 hours long with about 20 minutes of a break in approximately the middle. They were attended by a number of seniors. In both cases, the number of registered people was 10 but the actual attendee numbers varied. For the fall run, 8 people attended and made edits; for the spring run it was 9 people who attended and made edits. We learned to run workshops more efficiently (more on that later). Working with the Bratislava City Library also proved quite fruitful as they were able to provide a well-equipped room with a great location, promoted the event somewhat and were rather flexible and welcoming. Renting a space for the fall run from a school ended up being more expensive, more crammed and less flexible (doors had to be open manually for people joining later etc.).

2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)

Share links to:

Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.

You can also share links to:

Important social media posts
Surveys and their results
Infographics and sound files
Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects

FALL: project page; https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Seniori_p%C3%AD%C5%A1u_Wikip%C3%A9diu_2024 dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Slovakia/Seniori_(2024)/ survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1j1EuLch91NSADifZUcTG--Lj8GVyNnf377FI6LiT9yI/edit#responses

SPRING: project page: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Seniori_p%C3%AD%C5%A1u_Wikip%C3%A9diu_2025 dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Slovakia/Seniori_(2025_03-04) survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1npPDfw3CL7ROOhZ3lJHHrOjMbTWhnqGEsfh40veFap4/

OVERALL: Photos (from both runs) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Seniori_p%C3%AD%C5%A1u_Wikip%C3%A9diu

Web story: https://wikimedia.sk/seniori-pisu-wikipediu-2025

Radio story: https://reginazapad.stvr.sk/clanky/ludia/396110/ako-sa-stat-wikipedianom

Some examples of resulting articles: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikt%C3%B3ria_Chlado%C5%88ov%C3%A1, https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Josef_Kappeller or https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3merov_dom and the person also uploaded several photos to Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:R%C3%B3merov_dom

Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)

For example:

Training materials and guides
Presentations and slides
Work processes and plans
Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others

We made a curriculum draft for the fall run: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udUMVuq8udXpWZO_mYJLquNeFaNyhG44Cbk1stkGxjY. It was not followed strictly. For the spring run, we followed https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redaktor:KormiSK/Prv%C3%A1_str%C3%A1nka and intuition a lot more. There was not enough capacity to develop a full-scale guide.

3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups	Strongly agree
B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community	Agree
C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups	Disagree
D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives	Agree
E. Encourage the retention of editors	Agree
F. Encourage the retention of organizers	Strongly agree
G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement	Agree
F. Other (optional)

Part 2: Learning

4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)

You can recall these learning questions below: We can use this project as another learning opportunity for further similar projects in the future.

Over the course of the project we learned that it is best not to talk too much. Somehow we tended to do that, to give the seniors (or other interested parties) a good explanation of what the core principles of Wikipedia are, how things work, how to edit. A lot of questions were asked and answered which led to many other question. Eventhough we wanted to speak less we somehow ended up speaking more. For the second run, we did explain the idea behind Wikipedia and how things are done but focused a lot more on the practical demonstrations rather than the theoretical. After a demonstration, we let the seniors do the work and provided mentoring as needed. The spring run had better availability for mentors and so each was able to help 2-3 seniors which proved quite effective. There was also a bigger emphasis on suggesting work they could do between the sessions. Another thing we learned is that we have to do the preparatory phase even earlier than we think. There are often last-minute complications and uncertainties that come up, in most cases, the venue. It is also good to have someone write notes as to what happened during the course of the event. This was helpful many times since, also in writing this review. The notes can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ecWqGiGErUS-iwazp-s4ew9RcTKctRuH/edit

5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)

The synergy was actually greater than expected. One of our members, Filip, did a great job with 1on1 mentoring. He is the youngest but worked very well with the seniors. I think it brought out a talent in him. During the first run, we were able to recruit a new member to WMSK. We were likewise glad for the word-of-mouth that spread about the project since Facebook was not really as effective as we had hoped. The hosting library was also able to spread the word quite well. And lastly, a higher than expected number of mentors was able to take part in the project.

6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)

We discussed the learnings and results internally. Matej also submitted a talk proposal to Wikimania 2025 (which was not accepted) and to the 2025 CEE Meeting (yet to be decided).

Part 3: Metrics

7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)

In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.

	Target	Results
Number of participants	20	17
Number of editors	20	17
Number of organizers	4	7

Wikimedia project	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia	10	59
Wikimedia Commons	30
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

8. Other Metrics results.

In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.

Other Metrics name	Metrics Description	Target	Result	Tools and comments

9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)

No

9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

Part 4: Financial reporting

10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

4654.85

11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)

5374.12

12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)

Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1okdPwyWKyc4bBUslsRxvTMG_MAwGxZ-y9RjHpdTns4k/edit?gid=0#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vKzGrA1mU4OvkRPxujbARAVsJ8i00rNenS-KwUtQWho/edit?gid=0#gid=0

12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)

13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

No

13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

N/A

13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

N/A

13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

N/A

14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?

Yes

14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?

Yes

14.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.

Yes

15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)

Thank you for the grant.

Review notes

Review notes from Program Officer:

N/A

Applicant's response to the review feedback.

N/A