Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Serbia (ID: 22458956)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Ivan25
- Organization
N/A
- 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.
Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Serbia
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-04-01 - 2024-10-15
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Serbia
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Wiki Loves Earth
- 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)
Wiki Loves Earth is an international annual photo-competition. It was organized in Serbia for four consecutive years (2014-2017), but since then competition has been on hiatus, until 2023. Some very noticeable results have been made on the local level, especially in 2016, when one photo from Serbia won the international title for the best WLE photo.
Edition 2023, was returning for Serbia and with over 2,700 uploaded photos and 80+ participants, we put Serbia on the global WLE map again, and made the biggest success in the history of Serbian WLE edition so far. One photo from WLE Serbia secured 3rd place on #WikiForHumanRights, which is a significant success after the long break. Revival of WLE has attracted a lot of interested people from the Wiki community but also outside of it, especially Nature protection Institute’s representatives.
Main challenges in 2024 are: severe 2023 storm in Serbia, cut down millions of trees, and a certain number of protected areas are affected or destroyed, so this leads to another deep revision of the List of protected natural areas, and check of articles up-to-date status in Wikipedia; increment of project visibility (locally and globally); continuity in high results and goals; bigger Nature protection Institute involvement; attracting new participants from different groups.
- 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.
- Review and revise the entire database of existing protected natural heritage and compare them with new lists.
- Updating lists and adding new protected natural areas
- Make statistics on the coverage of protected natural heritage in Serbian Wikipedia. This can be useful for tracking the metrics of how many new protected natural assets will be covered by new articles. Also, this information may be useful for one of the next CEE Spring projects, where articles would be translated into other languages.
- Updating the website and entering all relevant information
- Updating guides and instructions with tips on how to take quality photos and how to upload them.
- Looking for a local GLAM/or other partner.
- Editing and creating templates
- Attracting the community
- Organizing between 2 and 3 photo tours. (making lists and maps, finding sites, organizing tours, etc)
- Organization of competition in May-July and monitoring its process
- Providing technical support during photo-uploads.
- View and select all submitted photos.
- Search and selection of jury members
- Prepare tools for the jury
- Selection of photos for the jury
- Selection of top 10 photos on local level.
- Organizing two exhibitions. The first exhibition will be related to the Award ceremony. The second exhibition will be the promotion of the project and the continuation of good practice for the future projects and cooperation.
- Send a photo to an international selection.
- Creating promotional material.
- Running a PR campaign and cooperating with the media.
- Regularly sending press clippings and running pages on social networks.
- Organization of an edit-a-thon (creation of pages and events, monitoring, providing support, etc.)
- Other ad hoc jobs
- 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.
- Ivan M, main organizer, (Ivan25)
- Nikola T, tech support (Nter25)
- Nevena M, photo-tour coordinator (NenaMat)
- other potential volunteers
- representatives of Institute for Nature Conservation
- 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)
Target users are photography lovers and admirers of nature. They don't have to be Wikimedians. It is enough if they like the idea of WLE and the concept of Wikimedia, and that they want to participate in the competition. They can be professionals or amateurs/enthusiasts from different spheres. The target group for the edit-a-thon are existing and new users of Wikipedia in the Serbian language who are willing to write about natural heritage.
- 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.
Community is informed via internal mailing list and in Village Pump on Serbian Wikipedia. Members are very interested to get involved and help in any way, especially in Wiki projects. Link to discussion: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B3/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8#%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%99%D1%83_2024!
Also, representatives from Institute for Nature Conservation are contacted again, and they are interested in another engagement in the WLE project.
- 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)
Geography
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Climate Change and sustainability
- 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)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Our Learning question would be:
- Can this project still be organized on an individual basis, as was the case last year, and as is the case in several other WLE organizations around the world? How enthusiastic are the organizers?
- During summer 2023, Serbia was hit by one of the strongest storms ever recorded, which grounded over a million trees around the country. This natural disaster affected significant number of natural protected areas. Conditions of these areas are changed, so this should be applied on WP articles also. Could this project improve accuracy and be up-to-date with articles on WP?
- Does this project attract new participants?
- What are the effects of WLE in Serbia on the development of the informal Wiki community in Serbia?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 90 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 30 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 2500 |
| Wikidata | 50 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | 10 |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Used photos (%) | percentage of used photos in Wiki projects in first three months following the competition | 15 |
| Photo walking tours | number of organized tours | 4 |
| Exhibitions | number of the exhibitions following the competition | 2 |
| 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 will use Wiki statistics on WP, WC, and WLX jury tool for voting. Also for all core statistics https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/ will be used. We also intend to use Wikimetrics and Programs and Events Dashboard tools for the edit-a-thon and other tools such as GLAMorous for category monitoring and tracking image usage.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Utj0Wn7HCsJDo1tHWmiP_bOGb41PVoxJQmnsqBmuK90/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)
4555 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.
4994.15 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).