User:Econterms/Grants/Wikidata:Showing networks of civil society organizations on Wikispore

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Econterms

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
  • Econterms, Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) -- Outreach and Content developer (for WMF institutions)
  • Zblace -- Outreach and Content developer (for Croatian cultural organizations)
  • Pharos (WMNY) -- Wikispore lead (Wikispore newsletter/promo and community for oral history?)
  • Volunteers and WMF staff doing Wikispore software installation, tech support, development support
Organization

WMDC can run Wikisporean events with WMNY We do not appear to need a fiscal sponsor but perhaps WMNY can do that.

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.
  • Wikisporeans - Wikispore-gardeners informal user group
  • Wikimedia DC officer

Grant Proposal[edit]

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

Wikidata:Showing (CSO) networks of civil society organizations on Wikispore

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
  • International and multilingual
Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
  • United States, Croatia, as primary case studies, but including all countries
R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
  • We would prototype (during hackaton) a Wikimedia system using Wikidata information to display information about networks of nonprofit organizations, such as Wikimedia institutions themselves. Our aim is to display them counted on charts over timelines, maps, and perhaps in other types of network graphs according to different information criteria, that are insightful for different aspects of their work.
  • This would (1) illustrate how many such organizations there are in networks, (2) projects they have in common, and (3) rates of their growth or change. If done well, such visual displays communicate more quickly than lengthy paragraphs or tables. They can visually convey an understanding as to expansion, retraction, and shifts of geographical, lingual, thematic and other coverage of institutional networks.
  • In particular, we want to show Wikimedia Movement Strategy events in these ways. The Wikimedia affiliates cooperate on various projects (e.g. Hubs) and we can show in reports which affiliate is participating in what established or experimental project or Hub.
  • Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday is a milestone in the formation of a powerful data and querying resources; we seek to expand the possibilities of new generative content, by using the experimental Wikispore project to display relational information, drawing (we hope) directly from both Wikidata live and pre-made queries.


2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
  • Wikidata for many years was the least understood project and this way its generative potential in Wiki making is becoming generative, explicit and visually appealing, but also tangible to participants in existing projects like Wikipedia and Commons.
3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
  • We will host a development hackathon and show a demonstration at different events including (but not only): WikiConference North America and Wikimedia CEE Meeting. Wikidata's tenth birthday will have fallen on 29 October 2022, between those two events.
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.

Other (please specify)

Wikidata 10th birthday
Movement Strategy
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
  • We have content developers. Several tech experts need to update software on Wikispore, notably so that it can bring in snapshots of data from Wikidata. We can fill in copies of data from Wikidata in the short run. We will depend on the Cargo, Page Forms, and Data Transfer extensions, possibly needing to update them. Volunteers are doing some of this. Yaron Koren has been helping.
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.
  • Content on NGOs is less present and less updated in Wikipedia, while some aspects of it like Gender gap, Language, Socioeconomic Status, Topics considered to be of impact or even formatively important in the specific context, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial...
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.
  • It will help show language neutral and multi-lingual information from Wikidata as relations among entities as visually reach wiki pages and potentially even interactive displays.

We can add other Wikimedia organizations to this table and create a similar one (or extend this one) for Croatian cultural organizations. Then we can get reports on how many or how big the network is and some relations or projects among the organizations.

Pages on Movement Strategy have been added by Pharos and Yaron Koren. These can be wikilinked to and from the pages about affiliates. See https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Category:Movement_strategy_activities

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.
  • Geographic, Generational but also potentially Gender related focuses.
8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
  • Yes - at least Croatian, but hopefully other CEE also. If we are able to illuminate Movement Strategy topics, which is one of our ambitions, we hope to get interest from other affiliates, and we budget for joint events with them (online, and using staff time).
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?
  • It is a research and development activity, designed to prototype new capabilities in a site which feeds off of Wikidata information.
10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
  • The Friendly Space Policy from Wikimedia technical and online events (like WikiConference North America) applies. We may update it by consensus.
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.
  • Recent Wikispore meetings, on Wiki discussions and in Telegram groups + WM Chat channels. (to be done further before submission)
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?
  • We don't know what else from Croatia or US has been submitted for the Wikidata 10th birthday.

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

If no:

12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
  • We reached out to all Wikisporeans. This is the joint proposal of those who actively responded.
  • Note that this is the first effort to do a funded project on Wikispore, a Wikimedia site.
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.
  • There are no formal partners, but Croatian group of Open GLAM and its Wikidata contributors was developing WikiProject CSO cultural networks beyond its initial interest of uploading information on Croatian Cultural CSOs (civil society organizations) in Wikidata. This way work is both internationalized and expanded for potential follow-ups.
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.
  • (1) Innovate in Free Knowledge, as it offers novel way to generate language neutral content using Wikidata as the prime source
  • (2) Improve User Experience, as it visualizes complex histories of organizational networks (with a Manage Internal Knowledge byproduct because of the chosen prototype data)
  • (3) Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, through collaboration seeking network (multiplier) effects in CSO. We anticipate that we can illuminate Movement Strategy projects and relationships with our system.

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
  • We want to show that we can understand and display information about networks of Wikimedia and cultural organizations better using information already available on Wikidata, adding value to our secondary site Wikispore and perhaps updating and adapting some of the curated information on Wikidata.
  • We want to permanently improve Wikispore by advancing technical efforts with upgrading and testing its capabilities, including a live connection to Wikidata.


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
Data records filled in from Wikidata about Croatian cultural institutions Number of such records 60+
Data records filled in from Wikidata about Wikimedia organizations Number of such records 60+
Count of projects associated with Croatian cultural institutions Number 100+
Count of Wikimedia projects, notably Movement Strategy efforts Number 50+
Count of locations associated with either kind of organization Number 100+
Kinds of display of information, e.g. timelines, charts, maps Number 3
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
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.
  • This is qualitative and experimental research, development and prototyping work with no fixed quantitative plan, aside from at least 2 distinct case studies (keeping the options open for more).
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.
  • Wikispore pages linked or visible in the same online report.

Financial Proposal[edit]

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

$3520 USD

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency?

$3520 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
  • $1000 content development of Wikispore pages and templates about Wikimedia institutions and networks and Movement Strategy
  • $1000 content development on Wikispore about Croatian cultural organizations and networks
  • $700 outreach and participation tokens (coupons, stroopwafels) for hackathons, overhead, zoom hosting, fees
  • $500 software upgrades, installations, and tech support
  • $320 10% Contingency
We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback[edit]

  • Support I have been going to public meetings for this group for a few years. This project has already made significant technical progress, organized a community, done documentation, and designed a vision for the future. I think it has never received funding from WMF. Sponsorship would go far to advance the shared dream of the ~100+ people who have participated in the programs of this group, many of whom have themselves been asking how to use this model to recruit their own communities and do their own wikispore projects. Bluerasberry (talk) 12:03, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
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