Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia town by code for Yamashiro 2024 Project (ID: 22458710)
Add topic--Ujigis (talk) 06:45, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Follow-up questions/ comments
[edit]Hello @Ujigis,
Thank you for putting in a grant application.
As this is the first time applying for the rapid fund grant, would you be able to share more about:
1) Your experience and participation in the Wikimedia movement;
2) Your previous experience in accessing and managing a grant of similar budget, editing and movement organising experience etc.
3) What are the different wikimedian communities you are working in Japan? How are you interracting/ collaboraing with them (individuals/ recognised or unrecognised groups)?
4) How did you learn about the Wikimedia Foundation grants and what motivated you to put in an application?
5) You mentioned in your grant application that you would like to know more about tools to support event organisers. You'll be able to find more details here:
Rapid fund application/ guide/ report templates
Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Applications and Guides#Application Forms 2
The following tools may be of interest:
- Programs & Events Dashboard (Guideline on how to use) Commonly used for editathons, campaigns, individual projects, etc. Provides an easy way to organize groups of editors who are working on common projects, and to keep track of what they are doing and what they've contributed. Good for new edit events, it has some limitations in terms of design and for more experienced editors.
- Event Metrics (Guideline on how to use) Enables organizers of events like editathons and content drives to get metrics about those events to understand and demonstrate the scale and impact of their contributions. Wikimedia grantees can use the program to provide grant documentation. Event Metrics works with the following projects: Wikipedias, Wikivoyages, Wiktionaries, Commons, and Wikidata.
- Wikimedia Hashtags tool: (Guideline on how to use) Built by volunteers. Most accurate tool for working with experienced editors involved in lots of different editing activities. Doesn’t support new articles/ images/ items or edits on Wikidata
- Wiki Loves Competitions Tools: tracks Categories on Commons to produce various statistical data sets.
As we may require more time to review your application and schedule a 1-1 time to connect following your responses. We'll be moving your application to the next cycle (see timeline for more details) to give us more lead time to connect.
Thank you.
Regards,
Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 03:53, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Follow-up questions and feedback from the ESEAP Funds Committee
[edit]Hello @Ujigis,
A gentle reminder to respond to the earlier post.
An update: We have moved your application forward through the review process and are consolidating the feedback and questions from the application.
A) Clarity of proposal - change it wants to make; value and impact potential
1) Need to clarify how the historical information will be passed on by the elderly? Are they going to record oral content etc? Not sure if it is language barrier (some documents are also still in Japanese and google translate might not doing their job), but this proposal is not clear.
2) The proposal is clear in terms of its impact. There is educational potential. Potential regarding Wikipedia and viability for Wikipedia is mixed, unsure of ja.wiki standards, but the proposal contravenes en.wiki expectations.
3) Yes. The WikiTown initiative is a well known Japanese community led project. It is indeed shown impactful.
4) Yes, and the proposed implementation method is a traditional and time-tested approach
B) Applicant and project team's experience
5) I suggest learning exchange from other WikiTown past organizers or participants to further improve the project
6) Applicants have some experience in the Wikimedia movement but not much. For example, the main applicant Ujigis has only accumulated about 1,200 edits.
C) Community Engagement
7) Suggestion: invite any more feedbacks or supports from Japanese Wikimedian.
D) Budget
8) The link to the following two documents were not showing up on meta. I am including them here: Budget: [1]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wkGiCMvK0Lxm6kcM5uRiuNFJI0DNtWIt/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113250753325927899714&rtpof=true&sd=true
Proposed schedule: [2]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vdUijn0Y5IqbU6fWe4M4pqyXl6JhroWr/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113250753325927899714&rtpof=true&sd=true
E) Learnings - Does the applicant show clarity in what they hope to learn from their work given the change they are hoping to achieve?
9) There is clarity in intention, but it does not match the proposed metrics at all
F) Feedback/ additional questions or comments
10) The target of content contributions are too low, especially with only 2 articles on Wikipedia
11) Are there other mediums that could be used for this? Is there a local university or research/cultural institution that would be interested in helping shape and refine this proposal?
12) You may use resources available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivibrance
13) a. What does applicant mean when they say: ask the participant to learn themself? How will they learn? In the library only? b. Will there be workshops? c. Will there be a training for trainers? d. The budget included accomodation costings for one person, for who? and travel from where to where?
14) Of the 6 events in the proposal, will the venues be the same? If so, how do you plan to differentiate each event to make them more attractive?
Thank you for working with us and looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Jacqueline on behalf of the ESEAP Funds Committee JChen (WMF) (talk) 09:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your question.
- I will answer it below.
- Thank you.
- This is my first time applying for a Rapid Fund grant, so could you please tell me more about the following points?
- 1) Your experience and participation in the Wikimedia movement.
- answer
- As a pioneering organization of Wikipedia Town in Japan, we have been holding Wikipedia Town events in cooperation with local residents since July 2014.
- https://ujigis.wordpress.com/2014/08/
- 2) Previous experience in obtaining and managing similar budget grants, editing, and organizing the movement.
- answer
- Code for Yamashiro was established in July 2014.
- Until now, we have continued our activities as a voluntary effort, self-funded by the organizers and participants.
- 3) What kind of Wikimedian communities are there in Japan? How do you interact/collaborate with those communities (individuals, recognized or unrecognized groups)?
- answer
- I work with Wikimedian
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%answer9%E7%94%answer8%E8%80%85:Miya.m
- as a key member.
- 4) How did you find out about the Wikimedia Foundation grant? What motivated you to apply?
- answer
- I learned about the application case of Grants:Project/Rapid/answerraisyohei/Biography Edit-a-thon in Kanagawa, Japan 2021
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/answerraisyohei/Biography_Edit-a-thon_in_Kanagawa,_Japan_2021
- Grants:Project/Rapid/Soseki's Cat/wikigap by edit Tango
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/%E6%BC%B1%E7%9F%B3%E3%81%answerE%E7%8C%answerB/wikigap_by_edit_Tango
- with whom I am working on Wikipedia Town in Japan, and I applied because there are limitations to what I can do with my own funds.
- 5) In your grant application, you mentioned that you would like to know more about tools to support event organizers. For more information, see below.
- answer
- Understood
- A) Clarity of proposal - what change you want to achieve, what value and potential impact you have
- 1) It is necessary to clarify how the elderly communicate historical information. Will they record what is communicated orally? I don't know if it's a language barrier (some documents are still in Japanese and Google Translate may not work), but this proposal is not clear.
- answer
- Specific methods of the proposal.
- step1. Local elderly people will ask local children to communicate local history and culture information orally. (Communication between people in the community will be activated.)
- step2. The children, together with their parents, will check the contents of the local history and culture information that they have communicated orally in the local library's local materials.
- step3. The children, together with their parents, will write on Wikipedia based on the confirmed local materials, clearly citing the source of the local materials.
- step4. As a result, local children themselves will create and post information about their town on Wikipedia, a well-known medium, stimulating children's interest and motivation in the local area and fostering attachment to their town.
- B) Experience of the applicant and project team
- 5) We encourage you to learn from and interact with other past WikiTown organizers and participants to further improve the project.
- answer
- Understood
- 6) The applicant has some experience with Wikimedia activities, but not much. For example, the main applicant, Ujigis, has accumulated only about 1,200 edits.
- answer
- Ujigis plays the role of organizer, so he does not have many edits.
- The role of Wikipedia trainer is played by Miya.m, who has many edits.
- F) Feedback/additional questions or comments
- 10) The content contribution goal is too low. In particular, there are only two Wikipedia articles.
- answer
- The goal for content contributions per Wikipedia Town is two Wikipedia articles. We are applying to hold six Wikipedia Towns, so the goal for content contributions is to create 12 Wikipedia articles in total. We will make amendments if necessary.
- 11) Are there any other mediums that can be used for this? Are there any local universities or research/cultural institutions that would be interested in helping to materialize and improve this proposal?
- answer
- Yes. We have collaborations with Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan) and Fukui Prefectural University (Hukui, Japan).
- 13) a. What does the applicant mean when he says "We ask participants to study on their own"? How will they study? Only in the library?
- answer
- It is to confirm the content of the local history and culture information that we have heard orally with local materials at the public library.
- We will confirm mainly at the public library, using local materials at the public library.
- b. Are there workshops?
- answer
- Wikipedia Town in Japan is held in a workshop format.
- c. Are there training programs for trainers?
- answer
- Currently, we are training trainers as part of Wikipedia Town activities.
- We will consider training programs for trainers in the future.
- d. Does the budget include accommodation for one person?
- Who is the accommodation for?
- Also, what is the transportation cost from where to where?
- answer
- Includes accommodation for two people: organizer and trainer.
- We have included the transportation cost from the Kansai region of Japan to Wikipedia Town locations across the country.
- 14) Are the proposed six events held at the same venue?
- If so, how will you differentiate each event to make it more attractive?
- answer
- The venues for the six events are separate.
- We will increase Wikipedia articles in different areas of the Chubu region of Japan. Ujigis (talk) 06:11, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Ping to respond
[edit]Hello @Ujigis,
This is a ping to respond to the questions on the talk page. We hope to hear from you by 27 September 2024.
If you need more time, please let us know.
Thank you.
Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 03:16, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Your grant application has been approved
[edit]Hello @Ujigis,
Congratulations! Your grant application has been approved in the amount of JPY 600,000 from 2 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. Could you adjust your proposed timeline accordingly? You can do that by You can do that by adding a new tab to the existing excel sheet and labelling it revised. Once you have made the revisions, please reply to this talkpage post.
Observations/ Recommendations
- 1) We recommend putting up a Diff post to share your experiences post project. Here are examples of Diff blog post that may be of interest:
- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/19/event-report-2024-%e2%84%967-wikipedia-town-inazawa/
- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/11/launching-of-a-wikipedia-town-in-the-far-remote-settlement-of-ozuchi/
- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/16/wikipedia-town-held-in-hokkaido-breaking-japans-northernmost-record/
- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/17/on-an-attempt-to-use-wikipedia-town-in-university-education/
- 2) As this is your first grant application, here's also a final report sample which you may find helpful.
- 3) Before putting in your next grant application, I'll encourage you to meet with the Programme Officer for a conversation and discussion about your proposed plans. The intention of this is to hold space to reflect on the learnings of this grant and to inform/ feed into the next project. The rapid fund cycle timelines can be found here. Do note that for this to happen you will need to proactively plan ahead so that there is sufficient lead time for the conversation(s) to happen as part of your next proposal iteration process.
We know even the best thought through plans may change
In the event that there are changes to your implementation schedule, you can reach out to request for a grant extension (i.e. extend end date). Similarly, if there is a surplus budget or changes to your planned budget, you can reach out to me about reallocation (via email and on this talkpage). There is also the option to have the unspent funds deducted against a future grant. More details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Return_unused_funds_to_WMF
Additional resources which may be useful
- The reporting requirements and templates for the grant can be found here. All reports are to be completed and submitted via Fluxx.
- Timelines for reporting can be found in your grant agreement or on Fluxx.
- Instructions for post award: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Processing/Grantee_Portal/Post_award
- Documenting project expenses: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Documenting_project_expenses
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. Let’s continue having regular conversations over the course of your grant implementation. Please let me know if you require support in any way or would like to share your experiences with a wider community through the Let's Connect Programme or at ESEAP community meetings.
Thank you.
Regards, Jacqueline on behalf of ESEAP Funds Committee JChen (WMF) (talk) 09:02, 2 October 2024 (UTC)