Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth Italy 2024 (ID: 22588546)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Civvì
- Organization
InFormAzionI - associazione culturale
- 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)
I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
- User:CristianNX - chair
- User:Civvì - treasurer
- User:Yiyi - member of the board
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Earth Italy 2024
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-06-15 - 2024-10-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Italy
- 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, we are organizing it in Italy since 2018. The contest will focus on pictures of natural protected areas and natural monuments in Italy, to do this we have published a complete list of protected areas based on official lists on Wikidata and we update it every year. This year we would like also to experimentally support some local volunteers in the organization of two regional contest in Southern Italy supporting them with prizes and coverage of possible cost for phototours and local award ceremonies. Southern Italy is the area where we have a lower number of participants and uploads.
- 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.
Before 15 June - updating website, promotion on social media 15 June - 15 July - contest, regional phototours July - August - Jury work September/October - sending prices and awards September/October - regional award ceremonies
- 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.
- User:CristianNX - volunteer (organizing, promotion)
- User:Civvì - volunteer (organizing, protected areas list)
- User:Yiyi - volunteer (organizing, jury)
- 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)
Italian Wikipedia Commons
- 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.
Advertising via central notice banner arranged by the international team. Communication through our social media accounts Contact with local volunteers Communication via dedicated website
- 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)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
None of the above
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
In our opinion the most interesting part of this grant request is the regional support we thought to offer to local trusted and experienced volunteers, who asked us for support to organize a local contest in their region. We have agreed to support them with prizes, coverage of phototours and supporting a local award ceremony.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
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Number of participants | 200 | |
Number of editors | 200 | |
Number of organizers | 3 |
Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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Wikipedia | |
Wikimedia Commons | 2000 |
Wikidata | |
Wiktionary | |
Wikisource | |
Wikimedia Incubator | |
Translatewiki | |
MediaWiki | |
Wikiquote | |
Wikivoyage | |
Wikibooks | |
Wikiversity | |
Wikinews | |
Wikispecies | |
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Based on the numbers of the previous years we estimate around 2000 uploaded pictures of protected areas. In the previous years we were always able to have at least one of the participating pictures in the international winners, hopefully we will continue to do so. We hope to increase the number of uploads through the two regional contests.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
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N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
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)
https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/earth Statistics on Commons
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wxRG--mgqOfVFTdjRvlWAX_4HQiIe5JZXqgwpi0Fzj0/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)
1600 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.
1731.76 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).