Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Pangasinan WIkivoyage Project (ID: 21988205)

Follow-up questions for grant application

Hello @Lady01v,

Thank you for putting in an application for the rapid fund grant. It was so lovely to meet you and to learn about your project. These are further questions, we'll love to have your responses to:

Clarifications on your application:

a) Question 2: What are some potential risks which could happen with the project and do you have any mitigation strategies?

b) Question 5: Could you provide Wiki User Names for your team members? And further background and experience of the team? Have you worked together before? What are the different expertise each individual brings to the team?

c) Question 11: On "We announce the project to the media, we create promotional graphics and branding to engage even the citizens to take part and join" Could you provide more details on your i) media strategy, promotion and partners? ii) how you will be creating promotional graphics and branding? When you will be doing it and who will be doing it? Do you have budget for it? iii) how do you plan to engage the citizens to take part and join?

d) Question 15: The learning and evaluation questions that you suggested are very well tailored for the project i) Will the towns' tourism sector and economic activity be increased if we create a page for them in Wikivoyage? ii) Will the people appreciate this promotion of their towns and cities? iii) Will this project be adopted by other provinces? iv) Will communities continue this project internationally or at least its version of it

How do you plan to answer these learning questions? What type of data do you need? How will you collect the data? When will you collect it? Who will be working on reviewing and analysing the data? These can be a combination of qualitative and quantitative metrics. Here's a sample document, which we share with general support fund applicants, and could be useful for you too. Also, the metrics that you decide on from questions 15 can be captured in question 16.

e) Question 17: For the number of participants and editors could you provide a breakdown of targeted participants from tourism and cultural affairs officers from local government offices; Volunteers from Pangasinan State University students? In the sample document above, you can also find more information on ways to disaggregate the data further. For example: by age, gender, new, returning etc.

f) Question 17.1: These can be added onto the core metrics table in question 17. For the Wikivoyage pages that are to be created, Do you have a sample of how the page should look like? This would be a useful reference on the quality of content that will be created. You can also refer to the sample document on - Some tips for filling out metrics about content contributions.

I'll be returning your application to you via Fluxx so that you can may make further edits to your application (as needed).

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.

Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 07:41, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Jacqueline JChen (WMF),

Thank your for the enlightening meeting with you in Sydney. I will provide further answers to your queries by numbers so as to provide more context to our project proposal.

a) Question 2:

One of the potential risks of the project is the incomplete information from business establishments. However, we thought of making a Google document to share with our partner tourism officers so they will be the one to have it filled up by corresponding establishments that would want to be included in the project. Since inclusion would mean promotion for their establishments, then they will win if they provide the accurate information.If not, we will ask for the database available in the tourism office for reference and inclusion.

b) Question 5: Our team is composed of new editors but we have experienced Filipino Wikimedians as consultant. Their usernames are those in parenthesis.

1. Butch Bustria Exec8, Technical and Project Consultant
2. Vanj Padilla (Lady01) Project Designer, editor
3. Imelda Brazal Brazal.dang, Technical Consultant
4. Romeo Otadoy (BlueLabelNews), media coordinator, journalist and a writer, he is in charge of writing entries for the relevant categories
5. Jasverenne Ferrer (JasDoIt) - is the project lead, she is a graphics designer, video creator and partnership lead
6. Kenneth Jstn Padilla (KenJstn) - is a photographer and videographer, will lead the uploading of photos and videos if necessary
7. Lea Jane Diaz (BinJin26) - will do the research and data collection
8. Marian Estuesta (Hatchet11) - will be in charge of logistics
9. JR Padilla (KawayanPH) - is a project co-manager and also an editor
10. Janu Valencerina (KulturaNiJuan) - is an academic instructor and a volunteer coordinator
11. Kimmy Aquino (WaterflyPH) - researcher
12. Rem Dizon (DimasalangPH)- editor

Although, our team are new editors, we have worked with them in various projects such as events, writing gigs, blogging and documentation projects for years now, so we trust that we can make this project a reality with everyone’s contribution

c) Question 11:

Our media strategy is Coffee Talks with the Media kind of press conference. We gather media friends from reputable institutions and invite them for coffee to present the project and get some support and mileage for it. We are looking at Pangasinan Bloggers, Vloggers, Social Media Influencers too. Our Project Lead JasDoIt is a graphics designer and she will be creating and developing digital posters, tarpaulin/s and social media posts for the project. Branding will reflect our community as well as our partners. The budget is very minimal for the designs, and we will ask our partners to spend for it along with the initial media event. We create the pages first, we show the benefits of putting up those pages in WikiVoyage, ask our partners especially in the academe as well as our fellow Pangasinan people to use WikiVoyage Pangasinan as reference whenever the need arises. It is also part of the plan to ask people to contribute to those pages when we have taught a handful of them on how to edit Wikipedia.

d) Question 15:

The learning questions will come after the project has been turned over to the partner tourism officers. We will conduct a survey after six (6) months to know the initial impact. The necessary data will come from the Tourism Office’s Survey Form that they each give out to visitors asking them how they learned about the town or city. We can ask them to include Wikipedia or Wikivoyage in the selection. Upon receiving the reports, our team as well as our partners shall sit down and analyse the data and process it for further improvement. The survey will also reflect the project impact or if there is any failure or something needs to be improved or omitted. With regards to the other learning questions such as if others adopt the project in their province, the answer will come after the end of Phase 1. If we will be able to present the success of the project, we will network with our universities and local government units from neighboring provinces to do the same. We will use the "show and tell" strategy for others to replicate the project since we are just continuing a good Wiki project.

e) Question 17:

Composition of Participants and Editors

1. 25 Tourism Officers - can choose to be new editors or not, depending on age and digital skills. Age range, 35-50, 65% women and 35% men
2. 14 Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office Staff- new editors. Age range 21-40, 55% women, 45% men
3. 15 Hospitality and Tourism Students - all new editors. Age range 19-24, 60% female, 20% male, 20% LGBTQIA
4. 10 Babaylan PH Community Members- 9 new editors and 1 returning editor. Age range 18-60, 50% women, 30% male, 20% LGBT
5. Media Partners- non editors

f) Question 17.1:

We saw pages like this Alaminos City in Pangasinan, but it needs to be improved. We would want our pages to be like this page in Baguio which looks like a condensed and nearly complete WikiVoyage page.

I hope this additional information will help give clarity to our project proposal. Thanks for giving us a chance to add context to our project grant application.

Sincerely, --Lady01v (talk) 14:10, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Rapid Fund Grant proposal approved in the amount of PHP 234,900

Hello @Lady01v,

Congratulations! Your grant is approved in the amount of PHP 234,900 with a grant term starting 14 February 2023 and ending 30 August 2023.

Let’s continue having regular conversations over the course of your grant implementation. Do reach out based on your needs. For example: grant extension, budget reallocation, support for implementation, learning and evaluation, sharing the project with the wider wikimedia community etc.

The reporting requirements for the grant can be found here and templates are available here. Timelines for reporting can be found in your grant agreement or on Fluxx. All reports are to be completed and submitted via Fluxx.

We thank you for your participation in the grant application process and hope to continue to journey with you as you embark on this project.

Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 01:43, 10 January 2023 (UTC)