Grants talk:Project/Sudanese Content on Wikimedia 2021
Add topicHello! Ola.mahadi, have you considered asking for a Rapid Grant instead? You would have to cut your budget ot $2000, but the process would require less effort both in request and reporting. --Papuass (talk) 16:37, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Reminder: Change status to proposed today to submit
[edit]Hello Ola.mahadi, today is the deadline for the 2020 Project Grants Round. If you would like your proposal to be considered for funding, the status=
field of the Probox template will need to be changed from draft
to proposed
, per the instructions at the top of the application page. We have a strict deadline, so make sure to make this change by end of day today (February 20, 2020). With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:18, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Proposal Clinics
[edit]Thanks for posting your draft proposal for the Project Grants open call! I wanted to make sure you are aware that we are hosting proposal clinics for applicants to discuss, ask questions and get feedback about their proposals. Participation is optional. If you would like to attend, you can find the dates, times and videoconference links posted at this link. Let me know if you have any questions! Good luck finishing and submitting your proposal for the February 10 deadline!
Warm regards,
--Marti (WMF) (talk) 14:12, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Reminder: Change status to proposed to submit
[edit]IMPORTANT: Please note that you must change your proposal status from "draft" to "proposed" by the submission deadline in order for your proposal to be reviewed in the current round. When your proposal has been successfully submitted, it will show up in the "Open proposals" list (it may take several minutes for the list to update after you submit it). Applications that are not completely filled out and correctly submitted by the deadline will not be reviewed. To submit your proposal, you must complete all fields of the application and then:
- 1. Click on "edit source"
- 2. Change "|status=DRAFT" to "|status=PROPOSED"
- 3. Click the "Publish changes" button.
Thank you,
--MCasoValdes (WMF) (talk) 02:32, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Dates need to be updated
[edit]Hello Ola.mahadi,
We are happy to mark this proposal eligible, provided that you update the dates listed in the project plan, which are currently in the past. We assume you have repurposed this proposal from a previous iteration. This is fine to do, but please make it clear when you intend to do the work using future dates. Please email us at projectgrants wikimedia · org when you have made the revisions and we will mark your proposal as eligible for review. If we don't hear from you by February 28, 2021, we will need to mark your proposal withdrawn.
Also make sure that you have reviewed our COVID-19 guidelines. Proposals that include travel and/or offline events must ensure that all of the following are true:
- You must review and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
- If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you must be able to complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
- You must be able to postpone any planned offline events or travel until the Wikimedia Foundation’s guidelines allow for them, without significant harm to the goals of your project.
- You must include a COVID-19 planning section in your activities plan. In this section, you should provide a brief summary of how your project plan will meet COVID-19 guidelines, and how it would impact your project if travel and offline events prove unfeasible throughout the entire life of your project. If you have not already included this in your proposal, you have until February 28 to add it.
Also, as noted by Papuass above, if you can bring your budget down to $2,000 USD, you will be eligible for review in Rapid Grants, which is a much simpler process with easier requirements than Project Grants. You may have a better experience in that program with a project at this scale. You are welcome to stay in this process if you prefer, however. It is up to you to decide which you prefer.
Thank you! --Marti (WMF) (talk) 06:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2021 - Community Organizing proposal
[edit]We've confirmed your proposal is eligible for review in Round 1 2021 for Community Organizing projects. This decision is contingent upon compliance with our COVID-19 guidelines. Proposals that include travel and/or offline events must ensure that all of the following are true:
- You must review and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
- If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you must be able to complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
- You must be able to postpone any planned offline events or travel until the Wikimedia Foundation’s guidelines allow for them, without significant harm to the goals of your project.
- You must include a COVID-19 planning section in your activities plan. In this section, you should provide a brief summary of how your project plan will meet COVID-19 guidelines, and how it would impact your project if travel and offline events prove unfeasible throughout the entire life of your project. If you have not already included this in your proposal, you have until March 3 to add it.
The Community review period is now underway, from February 20-March 4. We encourage you to make sure that stakeholders, volunteers, and/or communities impacted by your proposed project are aware of your proposal and invite them to give feedback on your talkpage. This is a great way to make sure that you are meeting the needs of the people you plan to work with and it can help you improve your project.
- If you are applying for funds in a region where there is a Wikimedia Affiliate working, we encourage you to let them know about your project, too.
- If you _are_ a Wikimedia Affiliate applying for a Project Grant: A special reminder that our guidelines and criteria require you to announce your Project Grant requests on your official user group page on Meta and a local language forum that is recognized by your group, to allow adequate space for objections and support to be voiced).
Please feel free to ask questions and make changes to this proposal as discussions continue during the community review period. By March 4, make sure that your proposal has incorporated any revisions you want to make and complies with all of our guidelines. If you have not already done so, you can make use of our project planning resources to improve your proposal further, too.
The Project Grant committee's formal review for round 1 2020 will occur March 5 through March 20, 2021. We ask that you refrain from making any further changes to your proposal during the committee review period, so we can be sure that all committee members are scoring the same version of the proposal.
Grantees will be announced Friday, April 22, 2021. Sometimes we have to make some changes to the round schedule. If that happens, it will be reflected on the round schedule on the Project Grants start page.
We look forward to engaging with you in this Round!
Questions? Contact us at projectgrants wikimedia · org.--Mercedes Caso (platícame) 18:30, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
We look forward to hearing from you Thank you for your support Ola.mahadi (talk) 10:25, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Aggregated feedback from the committee for WIki Love Africa Sudan
[edit]Scoring rubric | Score | |
(A) Impact potential
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8.4 | |
(B) Community engagement
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7.6 | |
(C) Ability to execute
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7.7 | |
(D) Measures of success
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7.5 | |
Additional comments from the Committee:
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This proposal has been recommended for due diligence review.
The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal and recommended it for due diligence review. This means that a majority of the committee reviewers favorably assessed this proposal and have requested further investigation by Wikimedia Foundation staff.
Next steps:
- Aggregated committee comments from the committee are posted above. Note that these comments may vary, or even contradict each other, since they reflect the conclusions of multiple individual committee members who independently reviewed this proposal. We recommend that you review all the feedback and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page.
- Following due diligence review, a final funding decision will be announced on Friday, April 22, 2021.
Round 1 2021 decision
[edit]Congratulations! Your proposal has been selected for a Project Grant.
The committee has recommended this proposal and WMF has approved funding for the full amount of your request, $10,000
Comments regarding this decision:
The committee is pleased to support training for new users in Wikipedia (Arabic and English), Wikidata, and Commons, with a focus on librarians and photographers. They appreciate the background, experience and dedication of the project coordinators will bring to building the local Wikimedian community.
NOTE: Funding of any offline activities (e.g. travel and in-person events) is contingent upon compliance with the Wikimedia Foundation's COVID-19 guidelines. We require that you complete the Risk Assessment Tool:
- 14 days before any travel and/or gathering event
- 24 hours before any travel and/or gathering event
Offline events may only proceed if the tool results continue to be green or yellow.
Next steps:
- You will be contacted to sign a grant agreement and setup a monthly check-in schedule.
- Review the information for grantees.
- Use the new buttons on your original proposal to create your project pages.
- Start work on your project!
Upcoming changes to Wikimedia Foundation Grants
Over the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has been undergoing a community consultation process to launch a new grants strategy. Our proposed programs are posted on Meta here: Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021. If you have suggestions about how we can improve our programs in the future, you can find information about how to give feedback here: Get involved. We are also currently seeking candidates to serve on regional grants committees and we'd appreciate it if you could help us spread the word to strong candidates--you can find out more here. We will launch our new programs in July 2021. If you are interested in submitting future proposals for funding, stay tuned to learn more about our future programs.Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:47, 23 April 2021 (UTC)