Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Women of Wikipedia 10th Annual Editathon (ID: 22988586)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Jenniferjuniper
- Organization
Emory University
- 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 a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee).
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Contact person and event organizer for North Georgia/Atlanta area Wikimedia meetups and events.
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Women of Wikipedia 10th Annual Editathon
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-04-18 - 2025-04-18
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
United States of America
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Art+Feminism
- 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)
Emory University/Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians has been a long-time participant in the Art+Feminism Editathon to bolster representation of women on Wikipedia. Only 19.77% of English Wikipedia biographies profile women, according to the Women in Red Project. The Women of Wikipedia Edit-a-thon strives to write more articles about notable women of all races, nationalities, and ethnicities (including transgender and nonbinary individuals).
This is the 10th year that the Emory Libraries and Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) will host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to improve the coverage of women in Wikipedia by training new Wikipedia editors. This year’s Edit-a-thon will be hosted in person.
- 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.
Planning and organizing for a Wikipedia editathon that we have held at Emory University for 10 years. We will spend 2 months preparing for the event which will include education/training, catering, prizes, and discussion/reflection on the experience of editing Wikipedia, social issues related to Wikipedia content, and using Wikipedia in an academic context. Additionally we hope to incorporate for the 10th anniversary some interactive marketing components leading up to the event, such as short online trainings, announcements at student events, and a game/scavenger hunt. In the past we have primarily focused on the aspect of women's representation on Wikipedia, but will put special emphasis on women who belong to other underrepresented groups such as BIPOC and LGBTQ+.
- 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.
1. Jennifer Sutcliffe - Wikipedia editing educator and event organizer, Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians primary contact, Instructional Designer at Emory University. Salaried for this event at Emory. Username: Jenniferjupiter 2. Jennifer Elder - event organizer, Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians member, Librarian at Emory University. Salaried for this event at Emory. Username: JenniferJElder 3. Kim Collins - event organizer, Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians member, Librarian at Emory University. Salaried for this event at Emory. Username: Kcolli2
- 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)
The target participants are Emory students (undergraduate and graduate) as well as Emory staff and faculty. We particularly hope to introduce Wikipedia to faculty as a potential tool for teaching by having students edit Wikipedia as a course assignment. We also will encourage students to bring their editing skills to any campus organizations that they belong to. We have multiple marketing and outreach streams we currently use and plan to add to our strategy. We do print and digital advertising across Emory campus and in relevant blogs and newsletters such as the Emory Libraries blog and the student newspaper. We email student and campus organizations and attend relevant meetings and/or share information to get word out about the event and pre-event activities. Librarians and instructional designers at Emory reach out to their respective academic department faculty to invite them and their students to attend.
- 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.
We have organized this event for 9 previous years and work with Emory Libraries and Teaching and Learning Technologies teams, which the three core organizers are a part of. We have declared our intention to participate again this year with our internal Emory departments and Art+Feminism. We are organizing our strategy to reach out to student and campus organizations we have worked with in the past, and reviewing other potential campus partners.
- 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)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. What ways can we best engage with and motivate students to learn to edit Wikipedia and continue as editors? 2. What feedback and questions do faculty have about the idea of using Wikipedia editing assignments, and how can we support their interest and success? 3. What pre-event engagement activities (games, interest sessions, short workshops, digital interactions) are successful in recruiting participants for a campus editathon?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 15 | We have had as many as 30 participants at past events, but that number can vary. This is the minimum but we hope to exceed our record attendance. |
| Number of editors | 15 | We hope to recruit at least 5 new editors. |
| Number of organizers | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 1 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We will primarily be editing Wikipedia articles but we may have some contributions to add to the Wikimedia Commons, particularly image from Emory's digital library collections.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
The WMF outreach dashboard.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6lzRRIlcu3DMPQXGi0FwQy_GfsVd0EfqjDbNlhWSzk/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)
600 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.
600 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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