Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Trinity College Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon 2023 (ID: 22190784)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
PartontheEdit
- Organization
Trinity College
- 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.
Trinity College Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon 2023
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-08-28 - 2023-09-30
- 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)
Art+Feminism
- 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 are applying for a Wikimedia rapid grant to fund an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Trinity College. We will host it as part of a program called the Public Humanities Collaborative offered through the Center for Harford Engagement Research. The Public Humanities Collaborative brings together students, faculty, individuals, and organizations in Hartford to work on public humanities projects. In the past, these have included the creation of walking tours that present local and community histories, arts programs with local theater companies and museums, and oral history projects. As a part of this program, students receive training on research education and information literacy to prepare them to work on faculty and community research projects. To support this broader work and reinforce the value of an awareness of the politics of knowledge production that affects issues such as representation in public humanities, we will invite students, faculty, and community partners to create a list of Connecticut-related women and non-binary artists and related organizations about whom we will generate content on Wikipedia. This focus will qualify the event as part of the larger efforts of the National Art+feminism nonprofit. We will invite two local artists to give a talk at our event to explain to students why this kind of representation in Wikipedia matters, and then invite students and community partners to learn how to edit Wikipedia and work on this list of topics.
In the past, we partnered with a student arts organization to produce events which centered art creation and student and community performance as much as teaching participants to edit Wikipedia and help address its larger issues of representation. While the events were a success in driving student interest, we learned that performance and art creation often pulled focus from the goal of introducing our campus and the broader community to Wikipedia editing, the gender and racial disparities inherent in representation on the platform, and the value of editing to redress these issues. By offering the event through a program that directly asks students to produce public knowledge on the humanities, we are hopeful we will generate more interest in Wikipedia editing as a means of making a meaningful contribution to the public humanities. This event will prove an important milestone in the program’s training efforts and offer participants an opportunity to contribute to public knowledge of our community. We also hope these students will become ambassadors to drive further engagement at future edit-a-thons. For our community partners, it's an opportunity to co-create community knowledge of underrepresented artworks and artists. Our budget asks for related food costs for the event and includes an honorarium for two artist speakers.
We want to bring the following changes to our campus and community with this event: 1) To create a community around co-creation. Our campus is located within the city of Hartford, and we see this event as one means of encouraging co-creation with the larger community of which we're a part. We recognize that knowledge can be siloed within hierarchies whether in higher ed or between our campus and the larger community. This event presents an opportunity to bring a broader Hartford community together in service of learning about and addressing larger issues of representation on a digital platform often used to communicate knowledge of our community to a broader audience. Inviting multiple constituencies together to contribute to public knowledge of our shared community is one way of developing co-creation between our campus and the Hartford community. 2) To recruit new editors by demystifying Wikipedia editing. By inviting community partners and campus partners into the practice of editing Wikipedia with a focus on local and underrepresented artists, we want to not only engage in co-creation but dispel any myth of specialized knowledge or gatekept practices associated with this work. Our community may be familiar with Wikipedia and associate it with democratized knowledge that is freely available online, but we want to further emphasize that the right to contribute is also open to all. We can do this by building on resources we’ve created for previous edit-a-thons to share tutorials that invite volunteers into every step of the editing process. 3) Present Wikipedia editing as a form of public humanities work. The PHC program emphasizes the value of work designed to benefit the public, whether drawing on faculty research or showcasing the work of Hartford and community non-profits. We want to draw a connection between the kinds of works traditionally affiliated with public humanities and the research and editing offered by Wikipedia. One area of clear connection is representation. Many of our previous projects have offered representations of underrepresented groups in our community, filling in gaps reflective of broader societal biases. This same presentation of neutrality that simultaneously reflects the societal biases of its edtiors is true of Wikipedia as well, as the national Art+Feminism initiative has made plain. We want our participants to understand a challenge within all humanities work to address biases and silences, and the value of doing so with attention to research and information literacy. Contributing content to Wikipedia that adds a greater representation of artists in Connecticut’s history is a meaningful and important contribution to public humanities. 4) To contribute to public awareness of art and artists in our community on Wikipedia. We are located in a community with art museums, arts non-profits and performance spaces, and an active community of artists on campus and in Hartford. We want to create a greater representation of the historic contributions of Hartford and Connecticut's women and non-binary artists on Wikipedia.
- 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 will host an edit-a-thon in early September for our program participants and community partners. We will work with community organizations to update a list of Connecticut women and non-binary artists and artworks. We will redesign our art+feminism website to reflect this updated list, provide resources on how to do research on these subjects, and further develop training resources on the site that educate volunteers on how to edit Wikipedia. We will create a wiki dashboard for the event which will allow us to provide resources and support for new editors training for the event, and allow us to focus edits on artists we select. Afterward, the dashboard will also be useful as a means of tracking the scope of edits created.
- 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.
Our event team consists of the following full-time salaried staff members:
Mary Mahoney, Digital Scholarship Strategist and Co-Director, Public Humanities Collaborative (Partontheedit on Wikipedia; m_mahoney on Wikimedia) Erica Crowley - Co-director, Public Humanities Collaborative and Director of Community Learning Center for Hartford Engagement & Research Joelle Thomas, Systems, User Experience, and Discovery Librarian (jethomes2 on Wikipedia) Jeff Liszka, Arts & Humanities Librarian
- 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)
We will invite student researchers, faculty supervisors, and community partners collaborating on projects in our Public Humanities Collaborative participants to learn about Wikipedia editing and to receive training on basic introductory editing practices such as adding citations, adding internal links, and working to add content to stub pages. We will offer introductory research skills training for use in surfacing citations and content to contribute to artist pages we identify and provide on the day of the event. We will provide artist talks to explain and emphasize the value of combatting issues of representation on Wikipedia and in our community. To promote the event to our campus and community partners, we will share a website we've used for art+feminism edit-a-thons in the past. We will do direct emails to these partners to emphasize no previous experience is required and welcome them to our campus.
In the week following the event, participants will receive a post-event survey to collect feedback on how the event changed their perceptions of Wikipedia, open learning, and the issue of representation in the politics of knowledge production. At that time, we will provide follow-up resources to participants on how to continue to edit Wikipedia and ask participants to suggest future themes for edit-a-thons for the 2023-2024 academic year. These resources will also include statistics on the page views edited pages have already received in the week following the event. We want to emphasize the contribution editing Wikipedia presents to public humanities.
- 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.
In the past, we have used a college site designed to support art+feminism edit-a-thons to serve as both a resource to share during email and social media outreach, and as an important support during the event itself. We have already reached out to the Connecticut Historical Society, and their staff will help us add new names and subjects for editing during the event. They will also help us spread the word about the event in the community. In addition, we will do outreach to our Public Humanities faculty, students, and community partners using email. Here is our event site from our last edit-a-thon that we are in the process of updating: https://dsp.domains.trincoll.edu/artandfeminism/
- 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)
Sexual Orientation
- 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)
Coordinate Across Stakeholders
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We would like to see how Wikipedia editing gets incorporated into the life of our campus and local community as a form of public humanities work. We want to get a sense for how our college community views Wikipedia editing and demystify any perceived gate keeping to this work, along with inviting participants into the work of increasing representation for women and non-binary artists in Connecticut on the site in the process.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
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| Number of participants | 30 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | 5 returning editors and 15 newly registered editors |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
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| Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 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)
We will create a post-event survey using Microsoft Forms for participants to share their experiences and offer suggestions on how to improve our training, resources, and event structure to create more effective onboarding of new editors and retain editors in the future. Our survey will be sent to all constituencies (students/faculty/staff/community partner) and ask each to identify themselves and answer all questions that apply: We will ask:
- How have student/faculty/ staff/ community partner perspectives about Wikipedia changed after they participated in our event?
- Are they using Wikimedia projects/open knowledge projects differently in their daily life, if so how or why didn't they? Do they share this with others, if so how or why not?
- Did the edit-a-thon invite volunteers to question how gender and race affect what information they consume online? Do they think differently about issues of representation and digital literacy?
- What factors motivated them to continue to connect and maybe contribute more actively? What factors act as barriers?
- How was our edit-a-thon effective in bringing in communities we hadn’t worked with before? What didn’t work out as expected?
- Were we effective in making people feel welcome, safe, not intimidated? What are some of the ongoing challenges?
- Have we been effective in guiding potential contributors to the different ways they can contribute and further develop the needed skills and support?
- Do new editors have the skills needed? What form of training and support was most/less useful in gaining these skills?
- How many people are continuing to edit after the events/activities?
- What motivates editors to continue to edit after activities? What are some of the existing barriers, are they receiving the needed support?
- What types of support and activities are most interesting to participants who want to learn more about the Wikimedia community?
To community partners, we will specifically ask:
- Does our wider community feel that they are actively participating in defining the plan and they feel ownership of it? Did our intention to co-create the event register outside our campus?
- Does our plan respond to communities' needs, our organizational vision, and the wider Movement Strategy?
- Has our plan strengthened our organization or relationship with communities in any way? Have we managed to bring underrepresented groups into the planning?
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LcvyogMyWHnliAU5UIb7fwdFJdPCfCUXu4IZqZU5TRY/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)
1400 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.
1400 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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