Grants talk:Project/Wiki’s global goals

Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2021 - Community Organizing proposal

This Project Grants proposal is under review!

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. If your proposal includes travel and/or offline events, you must ensure that all of the following are true:

• You have reviewed and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
• If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you can complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
• You are 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 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.

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.

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 05:42, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Wiki’s global goals

Scoring rubric	Score
(A) Impact potential Does it have the potential to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects, either in terms of content, contributors, or both? Does it have the potential for online impact? Can it be sustained, scaled, or adapted elsewhere after the grant ends?	4.2
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	4.0
(C) Ability to execute Can the scope be accomplished in the proposed timeframe? Is the budget realistic/efficient ? Do the participants have the necessary skills/experience?	3.4
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	3.2
Additional comments from the Committee: Ambitious project about the involvement of youth in a topic that is actual. It connects to our strategy and the vision fits with the universal values. 1. I do not think it fits with Wikipedia's strategic priorities, rather it fits with SDGs. 2. I do not think it can be adapted elsewhere after the grant ends, and so I do not think it makes a substantial enough contribution to the movement that it warrants continued funding. The evaluation plan is not clear; some of the goals lack context. Also, more quantitative indicators should be set for the Project impact section. I do not find innovation that would enrich the learning of the Wikipedia movement. The grantee does not have a lot of activity in the Wikimedia project. To a project of community management and training, this aspect (experience in the movement) is relevant. The budget is too high. The proportion of labor cost of the total is over 30%. Also, some items of the budget seem unnecessary or unreasonable, e.g. $5,000 for data cost, $5,000 for Training, and $600 for Zoom Pro. Especially while there are so many solutions or resources for free. I do not think the participants have the necessary skills/experience with regard to knowledge regarding the movement. It does have some clear target communities. However, we are not sure if it has enough community support so far because there are no endorsements from communities on the page until March 15th. Did not find any community support. They also did not put any notification in any village pump. The idea is interesting but there are several concerns about the capacity to realize the project. The applicants might need to re-examine their proposal to set more indicators to evaluate the results and revise the budget to make it more reasonable. I also like to suggest the applicants to try to get closer to the target communities to ensure you exactly understand what the communities want. Though SDG's are a strategic priority, the impact of this project with respect to the cost of the proposed budget, especially to Wikimedia projects is very minimal. Also, there is already extensive support for Spanish and Arabic languages for UN SDGs. Most importantly, the plan for content creation and community engagement on wiki is very weak. The plan should be more focused on what specific content will come to Wikipedia, which communities will be engaged etc. Some research on already existing content gaps and involvement from existing Wikimedians will be appreciated. This type of project could be executed with a rapid grant. The budget amount seems unrealistic.

Opportunity to respond to committee comments in the next week

The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal. Based on their initial review, a majority of committee reviewers have not recommended your proposal for funding. You can read more about their reasons for this decision in their comments above. Before the committee finalizes this decision, they would like to provide you with an opportunity to respond to their comments.

Next steps:

1. 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 carefully and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page by 5pm UTC on Monday, March 29, 2021. If you make any revisions to your proposal based on committee feedback, we recommend that you also summarize the changes on your talkpage.
2. The committee will review any additional feedback you post on your talkpage before making a final funding decision. A decision will be announced no later than Friday, April 22, 2021.

Questions? Contact us.

--Mercedes Caso (platícame) 05:11, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Round 1 2021 decision

This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.

We love that you took the chance to creatively improve the Wikimedia movement. The committee has reviewed this proposal and not recommended it for funding. This was a very competitive round with many good ideas, not all of which could be funded in spite of many merits. We appreciate your participation, and we hope you'll continue to stay engaged in the Wikimedia context.

Next steps: Applicants whose proposals are declined are welcome to consider resubmitting your application again in the future. You are welcome to request a consultation with staff to review any concerns with your proposal that contributed to a decline decision, and help you determine whether resubmission makes sense for your proposal.

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) 00:41, 23 April 2021 (UTC)