Grants talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014 round1/Amical Wikimedia/Progress report form/Q1

Comments from FDC staff

Dear Amical Wikimedia Colleagues:

Thank you for submitting this complete, detailed report on time. We are excited to learn more about your work during the first quarter of your grant, and we appreciate that there is a lot of activity included in this report, including your blossoming work in the education sector, interesting projects like your work on public domain poetry, good press generating potential future partnerships and possibly encouraging growth in readership, your continuing work with GLAMs and edit-a-thons. Thank you also for including the photos! They give us a better understanding of your work.

• Congratulations on securing free office space through a local partnership with a like-minded organization. We hope this enables a lot of successful future program activity.
• Congratulations and on the programming feature on 30 minut. We enjoyed watching some of it: even though we don’t understand Catalan, it was nice to see some of the faces behind your work. Improvement in public opinion is very difficult to measure, but we are glad to hear that you feel it will enable your program work.
• We too are excited by the 5-7% increase in readership, and are interested to learn more about how Amical’s programs are contributing to that increase in the future.
• 782 or 792 articles through the Catalan Culture challenge in 92 languages is an impressive achievement. Thank you for sharing that with us, and we encourage you to share more metrics that show the amount of content Amical is supporting through its work in future reports.
• Your education work is impressive and we are excited to see it develop as you think strategically about how to plan your partnerships.
• We appreciate your observations around the self-sustaining nature of the work you have been doing with museums and libraries that are now self-organizing workshops.
• We appreciate your challenge to organize wiki meetups in non-urban areas. It will be interesting to see how you navigate this challenge and what kinds of solutions you come up with for working across a large geographical area, and we encourage you to connect with organizations that may be doing similar work: for example, Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimédia France are both making efforts to extend their reach beyond the urban centers where they are located in different ways. This can be a big challenge, and we encourage you to share your learning around this with the wider movement by documenting your learnings through reports and learning patterns.

Thanks once again for your work and best regards from FDC staff! Winifred Olliff (FDC Support Team) talk 23:11, 2 July 2014 (UTC)