Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Monuments St. Eustatius (ID: 22212470)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Tvculture
- Organization
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Monuments St. Eustatius
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-09-01 - 2023-10-10
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Netherlands
- 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 Monuments
- 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)
In September 2023, St. Eustatius will participate for the first time in the world's largest digital photography competition aimed at promoting cultural heritage. The island is part of the Netherlands (was formerly a part of the Dutch Antilles, until 2010) but we could not select it in the Rapid form. St. Eustatius is a 21 Km2 island in the northern Caribbean with a population of 3200. The island does not have tropical beaches or a lot of tourists, but it does have a long and important history. Once about 20-25.000 people lived on the island and it is estimated that about 700.000 enslaved people were sold on the island, which was the central hub in the international slave trade. The island is an open air museum. Some call it the Pompeii of the Caribbean because so much of its history is still unescavated and undiscovered. The participation in Wiki Loves Monuments is an important step in putting the island's history on the map and reconnecting the local population to its cultural heritage.
Objective 1: The contest stipulates that registered monuments should be photographed. This is a challenge on the small island. Although the island has hundreds of monuments and archaeological sites, the official registration is not up to date. The competition creates a timely momentum to digitally revamp the lagging monument registration (since the 1990s) in St. Eustatius,
Objective 2: The photo competition is an excellent way to interest the local population, especially the youth, in the rich history of the island. It promotes cultural knowledge, interaction and creativity. The WLM concept promotes active participation in the digital recording and description of cultural heritage and this subject is relatively new to the island. Although the island is an open museum and played a key role in slavery past in the Caribbean, its history is relatively unknown to the outside world and even on the island itself.
Objective 3: By participating in this competition, a large number of photos of St. Eustatius will become digitally available on Wikipedia for general use, thereby making the important history of the island better known to the outside world.
Together with the Department of Culture and Events of the public entity of St. Eustatius, in collaboration with the local schools and representatives of Wiki Loves Monuments in the Netherlands, I will (as a volunteer) help to coordinate the competition on St. Eustatius. We hope that participation in WLM will not only jumpstart interest in cultural history in the younger generations but that in working with their parents (through the schools) we can also stimulate child/parent co-creation. Many kids will have to use their parents' phone and camera's. The hope the project will also trigger an oral history project in which stories from (elderly) residents related to the monuments are recorded.
- 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.
Based on the preliminary list of monuments (as compiled in the 1990s) enlarged by monuments that have since then been discovered, we will photograph the island's many monuments and sites. Although the competition is open to everyone, of course, this project is geared towards involving schools (through the department of culture and events of St. Eustatius), the students and their parents or caretakers. Through the department of culture, the project will also involved SECAR (archaeology, NGO) and the Historical Foundation (supervises the local museum, NGO), as well as STENAPA (Natural Heritage, NGO). Also, the local library will be involved
Partners: Department of Culture and Events of the Public Entity (through them SECAR, the Historical Foundation, STENAPA), the directorate of Social Domain of St. Eustatius, and the Gwendoline van Putten School (the sole secondary and vocational school in St. Eustatius), the public library, the government information service
Timeline: Schools: A) Inform the parents and caretakers of the project (over the summer) B) Start with several instructional classes in early September: 1) on photography with a professional photographer of the island 2) on how to work with Wiki Loves Monuments and how to upload in the right way (via videolink with WLM Netherlands) C) Create flyers and share with the general public (digitally via Social Media and in print) in early September and informing the owners of the heritage sites when necessary. As September is also the international heritage month, activities in other 9neighbouring countries and for instance Aruba) will also be shared. D) Large get-together with all kids and parents/caretakers before the start of the project, with the Government Commissioner and the Island Council, and all partners, around 15 September E) WLM St. Eustatius (3 days 22/23/24 September), during this time the students, accompanied by their parents/caretakers and teachers will take photographs of cultural heritage monuments and sites, based on a list created by the department of culture. A local camera team will film some of the aspects of the days and conduct interviews. F) A local jury of experts will select the best photographs and these will be printed and shown in an exhibition in the local library during a special event (1-10 October). All aspects of the timeline will also be shared with WLM and the results and promo material will be shared with them too.
- 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.
Team leader (and applicant, username Tvculture) Wolter Braamhorst - volunteer WLM Netherlands instructional classes - volunteers Cultural coaches Social Domain - salaried (but not part of the budget) Consultants Department of Culture - salaried (but not part of the budget) Teachers Van Putten school - salaried (but not part of the budget) Photographer - contractor
- 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)
Secundary school children and their parents/caretakers of the local island community We will engage the participants through their schools and through special instructional lessons and through the event itself, Wiki Loves Monuments St. Eustatius
- 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.
All school children will accompanied by a teacher, a parent or legal guardian during the project. The project will be embedded in the school environment.
- 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.
I have been working in the field of international cultural heritage for the last 15 years. I helped to establish the MOU between WLM and the European heritage organisation Europa Nostra back in 2012. I was on the international jury for several years. Before I started my job on the island (January 2023) I had contact with representatives of Wiki Loves Monuments to bring the competition to the island for the first time and they encouraged me. After discussions with the department of culture, they immediately understood and embraced the idea to involve the only secondary school on the island. The organiser of the Most Remarkable Teens (a validation for teens who are active in the community) also immediately saw the potential of the idea to involve the young people and their parents/caretakers in the rich cultural heritage of the island, especially now in the year of commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
I hope to learn if this approach to WLM: working with secondary schools and bu involving the children involving the parents/caretakers is a good way to reach the set objectives (generate more interest and sensibility for cultural heritage, create a positive school/parent/caretaker/child cooperation, realize a body of photographs of monuments and sites which will help in protecting them against uncontrolled development). I hope to learn if this approach will also help to jump-start the process of monuments protection: it could be a model that can be successful in some African countries and in the Caribbean, as many do not have elaborate lists of protective monuments and sites.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 250 | Secondary school children, parents/caretakers, teachers and also other individual participants who participate in the project |
| Number of editors | 4 | At least 4. I am registered and we would require at least 3 others to register: a teacher at the Van Putten highschool, a representative from the department of culture or one of the NGOs connected to it, a volunteer from the Remarkable Teens competition |
| Number of organizers | 14 | 2 teachers (salaried), 2 cultural coaches (salaried), 2 representatives of the Department of Culture/Directorate of Social Domain (salaried), 1 organiser/project leader (volunteer), 2 representatives of local NGOs (volunteer, salaried), 1 professional photographer/trainer (contractor), 1 professional videographer (contractor), 1 youth leader (volunteer), 1 parent-leader (volunteer), 1 WLM representative/trainer(volunteer) |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 500 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies |
- Optional description for content contributions.
500 is based on the absolute minimum of 2 useful photos per participant. There are at least a 125 monuments on the island, so 4 photos per monument, which means 2 participants per monument/site
- 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)
Not sure and we need support
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
4200 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.
4200 USD
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Yes
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