Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Korea Strategic Annual Plan 2023/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-02-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results.
- Name of Organization: Wikimedia Korea
- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia Korea Strategic Annual Plan 2023
- Amount awarded: 64928 USD, 80000000 KRW
- Amount spent: 80536361 KRW
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
Last year, we struggled to maintain current partnership and build new ones. We hosted a photowalk for teenagers in cooperation of Seoul Youth Center, and an editathon for autistic people in collaboration of Estas, an autistic people group. We also run some project to support sister projects. For example, we ran Old Hangul Digitization Project to enhance Wikisource Contents, and hosted some ediathons on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Especially, We launched Wikidata Challenge Editahin during the Chuseok holiday season to draw skilled users and it was more successful than we expected.
One of our essential strategies was to improve professional contents on Korean Wikipedia, and we launched an editing program to enhance medical articles in cooperation with a Korean Wikipedia user.
Internationally, we collaborated with Wikimedia Taiwan, and hosted a sub-event of Wikimedia Asia Month. We sent souvenirs to the winners of the events in South Korea and Taiwan. We think it was a significant step for other international collaborations.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
Korean Wikipedia dose not have enough professional contents including medicine, because it has much less users than English Wikipedia. We set up a strategies and plans to improve those articles. We awarded volunteer hour to participants through a government-run platform to encourage them.
We used this approach for other projects including editathons and photowalks for teenagers or new users. It was a very good motivation for students, and most of schools in South Korea asked their students to do voluntary service for local society and earn volunteer hours through a government-run platform We could also promote that editing Wikipedia is a voluntary activity through that approach.
Our member also bridged between us and our partners. For example, we maintained a partnership with a neurodiversity advocacy group that our member joined, and we also built a new partnership with a research center through the member.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
As we mentioned, we maintained partnerships with a youth organization and nerodiversity advocacy group. We hosted a offline photowalk and editathon in cooperation of them. Especially, we launched an international event for the first time in collaboration with Wikiemdia Taiwan. We are planning to expand our international work with Wikimedians of Japan User Group and wikiemdia Taiwan.
Last year, we built a meaningful partnership with National Library of Korea. The organization was interested in our Old Hangul digitization projects, and we agreed that we would cooperate with each other to develop offline programs to digitize and type old documents owned by the organization.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
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- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:KIWI/2023년_2호 https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:KIWI/2023년_3호 https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:KIWI/2023년_4호 https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:KIWI/2023년_5호
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Disagree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Disagree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Agree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
N/A
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
We learned our new strategy was effective. Last year, we implemented our strategy for the first time. According the strategy, we set up plans and launched new activities. For example, one of the our strategies was to improve professional contents, and we planed to enhance cancer-related article in cooperation with a Korean Wikipedia user. We also planed to support underrepresented group activities (e.g. women, teenagers, and disabled people), and employed a part-timer to achieve it. The staff member successfully planed and hosted events for teenage users.
We also developed a new activity called Callenge Editathon. It was held during a holiday season on Wikidata, and we awarded volunteer hours and souvenirs according to how long they attended the event. We estimated this approach was very successful.
Moreover, we learned that we need to host events regularly to retain new users. For example, we run the Old Hangul Digitization project twice a year, and some of the participant keep joining the activity.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
Originally we planed to launch a new event including a photowalk or build a new partnership to support sexual minority groups. Unfortunately, Korean society became more conservative about the sexual minorities, and many events for them were reduced and canceled. In this situation, we had to cancel or change our plan.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
We will use our learning to evaluate which approach is effective to support skilled users and retain new users. We will host the Challenge editathons during holiday seasons to support sister projects. We also use a similar approach to the Old Hangul Digitization project for other projects to retain new users and improve articles related to minorities.
We realized we need to discover new marginalized groups and support them. We concluded the one of the groups in Korea is people living in the noncapital region. We will host event for them and support their activities.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
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- N/A
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of members | The number of paid members | 40 | 35 | Three new members joined but four members was inactivated. | manual |
| Number of events in which members participant | 3 | 7 | The number was much more than we expected. After Covid-19 pandemic, active members resumed organizing events | manual | |
| Number of professional articles related to medicine and engineering | 70 | 35 | 35 articles was improved and 12 articles was created. Originally, we planed two events, but we run one event last year. We think the event was very successful, and we will keep the approach this year. | manual | |
| Number of articles related to underrepresented groups | Number of articles related to underrepresented groups such as sexual minorities and disabled people | 50 | 1 | We canceled our plan to host events for sexual minorities, because of Korean society's conservative shift. Instead, we hosted an offline editathon for autistic people in cooperation with Estas. | manual |
| ' | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 4 | 5 | N/A | manual |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | 4 | 3 | Last year, we established new partnership with National Library of Korea and Korean Research Center for Guardianship and Trusts for long-term cooperation. | manual |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | 10 | 0 | We are preparing an online survey for attracting and retaining contributors this year. | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | 2 | We launched two new activities last year. One was a photowalk and targeted teenagers. We awarded volunteer hours to the participants. Other one was a online editathon for skilled user, and we hosted the event during a holiday season to support Wikidata, and we awarded souvenirs and volunteer hours to the winners. | manual |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | 400 | 845 | N/A | maunal |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 200 | 219 | manual | ||
| Number of editors | |||||
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 | manual |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | 400 | 360 | N/A | manual, Dashboard, and Fountain |
| Wikimedia Commons | images and videos uploaded | 120 | 1067 | N/A | manual |
| Wikisource | Wikisource pages created or improved | 30 | 30 | N/A | manual |
| Wikiversity | Wikiversity pages created or improved | 5 | 0 | N/A | manual |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
No
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
N/A
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
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- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships[edit]
17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| D. Partnership building | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events, Peer to peer learning with other community members in community/ies of practice* (structured and continuous learning and sharing spaces)
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of knowledge of available capacity building opportunities, Lack of staff time to participate in capacity building/training, Lack of training that fits contextual needs and interests, Lack of financial resources, Barriers to access training because of language
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
N/A
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Permanent staff outreach, Volunteers from our communities
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of interest from partners, Difficulties specific to our context that hindered partnerships, Lack of institutional support from the Wikimedia Foundation
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
We have struggled to build a long-term partnership with women and sexual minority groups. We hosted some successful event with women groups, but we failed to maintain the partnership, because they were just interested in hosting short-term events and promoting their campaign. In Korea, people are not aware of Wikipedia gender gap issue. Building partnership with sexual minority groups are more difficult than women groups, because South Korea is still conservative, and the sexual minorities don't want to open up their identity in public.
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration[edit]
21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
Feeling a sense of belonging means that users can join our online/offline events, feel free in our events and organize their own events without hesitation. We employed a part-time staff member to communicate with users, especially teenage users last year. Moreover, we regularly hosted offline events to help community members to feel free when they talk with other users and about Wikimedia issues. We also hoped that they bonded in the events.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Somewhat increased
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
N/A
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Somewhat increased
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
N/A
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
N/A
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration[edit]
We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
Yes
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
We do this occasionally (less than once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
N/A
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
80536361
31. Local currency type
KRW
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CPg2zf5ekSXkNCqhRXiYVUTzQ9wVnYgTFK67MfOcOG0/edit?usp=sharing
33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
N/A
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
37. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.