Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Levant strategic plan for calendar year 2022-2023/Midpoint Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2023-01-15T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Midterm
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.
- Name of Organization: Wikimedians of the Levant User Group
- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia Levant strategic plan for calendar year 2022-2023
- Amount awarded: 34390.87 USD, 23361.26 JOD
- Amount spent: 15599.03 USD
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?
- Wikimedians of the Levant is a user group volunteered from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan, which has run since 2015. This year it has a fallen point, but it is successfully achieved to react, having more GLAMs and achieving the Strategic goal which are:
- Capacity and community development : To upscale the community in both number and skill, ensuring a sustainable knowledge transfer and potential for further future scaling, as also suggested by the 2030 Strategy (recommendation 6).
- Support Wikimedia Projects content : To improve and expand Wikimedia projects, thus sticking to our primary goal of improving content and impact (related to recommendation 8 from the movement strategy).
- Partnerships in education and GLAM : To create long-term partnerships and outreach that support us in achieving our crucial mission and enhancing the rest of our goals altogether (related to recommendation 5 from the movement strategy).
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?
- The absence of Board members affected achieving the goal we were looking for. Even though we made good achievements and that was the first time we made a connection with a historical, feminist, and professor where we achieved to have an important documentary for our community. On the other hand, we achieved doing partnership with two Universities in Palestine and we run an educational program there.
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?
- 1. Absence of the final decision-making in the user group: While we made the communications and we started to mention workshops and competitions but as there were no board members to lead the communication with JOSA, it was challenging to make a good connection and reunite the group.
- 2. Absence of legal recognition of the user group: Having legal recognition from WMF of the user group is acceptable worldwide to have a legal partnership.
- 3. Sustainability of users to edit on Wikimedia Projects: We think the answer by having advanced edit-a-thon, workshops, and competitions oriented for them.
4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.
- 1. Arabic Wikipedia village pump
- 2. Social media channels for Arabic Wikipedia (Facebook & Telegram)
- 3. Wikipedia Banners
- 4. Social media channels for Wikimedians of the Levant (Facebook and Twitter)
5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.
- We share reflections in our monthly meeting online via Jitsi with the Levant community where we report the minutes of these sessions and add these results to its pages on Arabic Wikipedia or Meta page. We involved Arab women in our work and our organizers are from 4 countries and men and women.
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?
- Since we set our timetable, usergroup members worked to edit the policy of the user group, plus to being able to active more in the community. This effect was not very clear in the first half of 2022. But as we advanced until the end of the year, group members start to be more comfortable in the group and addressing activities to do.
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?
- We are looking to improve our user group by having new members and encouraging our members to be trainers and be more active in Wikimedia projects. Plus to introduce users to human rights, Gender Gap and the improve the Levantine culture in Arabic content
Part 2: Metrics[edit]
8a. Open and additional metrics data.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic Wikipedia | Articles Related to Middle eastern Kitchen: 20 - Articles Related to Medicine: 20, Articles Related to Engineering: 20. Articles related to Levant History: 20, Featured Articles: 5
Comptitions: 500 Article Articles in different topics: 100 |
785 | 684 | 130 Article in Medical
20 Article in History 20 Article in Engineering 500 Other article 14 Featured Article |
In-person meetings, Dashboard, Wikipedia pages. |
| Wikidata | The number of Elements added or edited to wiki data | 1000 | 700 | Articles added to Wikipedia which the users also improved its content on Wikidata | N/A |
| WikiCommons | Number of Pictures added or Arabic translated to Wikimedia commons. | 200 | 500 | * 311 images added in Wikimedia Commons
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N/A |
| New members | Number of new members from Educational program: 10, Number of new members from Social media: 10, New members from different way:5 | 25 | 5 | 5 people from the Workshops | N/A |
| Number of organizers | N/A | 20 | 11 | N/A | N/A |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | We hope to have >100 members active in WM projects after Educational programs, sharing booklets and doing comptitions. | 100 | N/A | We could not calculate or know the number as most of them are not members in Wikimedians of the Levant | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 20 | 20 | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | We will send the participants feedback after organizing it. | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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 | 8000 | 10202 | N/A | Facebook page |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | 6 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | 100 | More than 100 Hours as because of organizing education programs, Documentary, and competitions. | N/A |
8b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The number of participants in all activities: 100 as new participants. | 100 | |||
| Number of editors | The number of editors in all activities: 36 | 36 | |||
| Number of organizers | The number of organizers in all activities: 8
Our target that 3 will be a new organizers |
8 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 150 new articles created and 50 improved for all activities | 200 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 images uploaded to wikimedia commons | 100 | 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 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
- Some of them.
10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
- Yes
10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?
- By Wikipedia pages, and in Email, also in telegram channel of Arabic Wikipedia or related pages (such as annoucement or educational channels)
11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.
- Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).
- Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.
- We have done the documentary of Assad Rustom which you can find here:
Round four of the Educational program in Palestine: https://w.wiki/55AV Report of Educational program at Al-Najah university: https://w.wiki/6LwA Report of Al-Arz competition 2022: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_the_Levant/Reports/2022/%D9%90Al-Arz_Competition
Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 15599.03
13. Local currency type
- USD
14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Provide links to your financial reporting documents.
15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?
- No
15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.
- N/A
16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.