Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Uzbekistan (ID: 22071232)

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Artemev Nikolay

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Nataev, Jamshid Nurkulov

Organization

Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

Wikimedians of the Uzbek language User Group

Grant Proposal[edit]

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Uzbekistan

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2023_in_Uzbekistan

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

We want to organize Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Uzbekistan. By this approach we want to meet 2 goals: enlarge number of quality pictures for nature monuments of Uzbekistan and bring newcomers into local Wikimedia movement.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

Our main strategy is to stick to international competition with access to in-project tools (like CentralNotice) and at the same time lead small campaign in Uzbekistan media to bring participants. Also we want to make small person-to-person campaign inbetween expierienced wikimedians.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We've already made lists of nature monuments of Uzbekistan that are available in 4 languages: Russian, English, Uzbek and Karakalpak — to make participation easy for both locals and tourists visiting Uzbekistan. Also we've made local landing page with rules and instructions (also in 4 languages).

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Wiki Loves Earth

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

We're planning to hire 5 jury members and a tech consultant to make tools (or transfer them from Kazakhstan WLE) for jury convenience. Team of 6 persons also needs an organizer, so we've added this role to our list.

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Geography

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

Uzbekistan nature lacks of any free media, and its representation in Wikimedia project is still poor compared to other countries. For example now there are only few low quality pictures in the category of protected areas of Uzbekistan. Our work is very simple: we will encourage people to upload quality images of Uzbekistan nature.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Climate Change and sustainability

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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?

We are not aiming on some groups of participants, our effort is more global: we have all materials in 4 languages to support both local (using Uzbek, Karakalpak and Russian) communities and tourists (using more likely Russian or English).

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

Making all materials in 4 languages in our opinion is the best way to make more equitable environment for all who wants to participate.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

We're planning to submit articles to local news in Uzbekistan both in Uzbek and Karakalpak and make CentralNotice banner in Uzbek and Karakalpak Wikipedias.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

No

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

N/A

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

N/A

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

No

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

We plan to evaluate the results of Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Uzbekistan to understand how can we bring more participants to the contest in next year and implement this data on other countries in Central Asia.

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
photos in articles	number of photos used in articles in different wikiprojects	200
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	number of participants who uploaded photos	150
Number of editors
Number of organizers

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikimedia Commons	number of photos uploaded to commons	2000
Wikipedia	number of photos used in wikipedia articles	100
Wikivoyage	number of photos used in wikivoyage articles	30
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

We will use general tool for WLE contest called Wikiloves

Financial Proposal[edit]

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

50973654.07 UZS

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4587.63 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VlVVYerKgCkdZ3Wfy7hP_Lo6MjAQfF4E8tQ6kDD3rpQ/edit#gid=0

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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