Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2026 in Serbia (ID: 23750010)
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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 2026 in Serbia
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-04-15 - 2026-09-15
- 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)
WLE is an international photo contest, and Serbia took part in it seven times, so far. WLE 2025 in Serbia was very successful: Sevent place in landcape cateogory, and winner in video category and Human Rights and Environment campaign. Previously, Serbia took first and 15th place in photo contest in 2016, third place in #WikiForHumanRights and second place in video-category in 2024. Last year (2025) was by far the most successful with ranking in all three main categories on international level.
WLE 2026 in Serbia will have challenges in securing the continuity of the number of photos at the same level, atracting more organization and attracting new participants.
First and third challenge will be covered with stronger social networks and public campaigns, especially via our partners (institutions). Second one will be developed through stronger dialogue and connections within the possible partners, especially on government level, if possible.
- 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 3 and 4 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
- Seceletion of the best video
- 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.
- Running social media (Instagram, Youtube)
- 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 Matejić (Ivan25) - main organizer
- Nikola Terzić (Nter25) - tech support
- Nevena Matejić (NenaMat) - photo tours
- Anđela Zec - media and Wiki content
- 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)
WLE 2026 is open for all photographers, both professionals and amateur, and also nature lovers, no matter how experienced they are in photography. Local Wiki community is also gathering around the project. All participants and volunteers will be included in preparation of the photo-contest (promo campaign, social media interactions, public media communication etc), then during the contest there will be a few photo-tours, and Wikipedia edit-a-thons in favor of promoting WLE movement and improving and expanding related articles and themes. Also, there is a small high shool studnet community in development which will be suported in any activities they decide to implement this year.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
Cooperation with schools will be again one of the priorities in this WLE edition. During the WLE 2025, two high schools took part in photo tours. All activities are in compliance with Wikimedia Youth Policy.
- 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.
Local Wiki community on Serbian Wikipedia is informed on Village Pump and also via internal mailing list (for local chapter). Representatives from Institute for Nature Conservation are contacted again, and they are interested in another engagement in the WLE project. WP: https://w.wiki/HcUk
- 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)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 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)
All potential learning outcomes from this WLE edition are listed as follows:
- How does changes in video categories affect potential contestants and will that attract other competitors?
- Does this project attract new participants from different areas on interests?
- What are the effects of WLE in Serbia on the development of the project in schools?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 2500 |
| Wikidata | 20 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | 10 |
| Wikispecies | 10 |
| 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 | 10 |
| 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/18QMXJdOYwdYz1VAX7wNM-8LZncchhnnvj6bOBjy1YKY/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)
4230 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.
5000 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
- 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).