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Ensuring the thorough documentation of WH, especially in countries with no affiliates,
Ensuring the optimal use of the created content on Wikimedia projects.
Fostering collaboration with Heritage institutions.
Ensuring through a capacity building plan the reinforcement of capacities and skills of the group' members.

To cover our goals, Our core objectives include the following:

Add/improve more than 1000 items to Wikidata
Recruits at least XX new volunteers to the community
Train at least XXX new editors
Add at least 5000 media files to Wikimedia commons
Partner with at least 10 mission aligned organizations.
Add/imporve 300 new articles to Wikipedia
Schedule at least 10 training sessions for members

What are the main challenges you are trying to solve and your proposed solution?

Many countries with WH sites but with no affiliates: there are many countries in the world and in different regions with WH sites but with no affiliates. The coverage of World Heritage sites belonging to countries with no affiliates is poor and many sites do not even any Wikipedia article in any language. Through collaborating with local partners, we will ensure that the communities that are not yet part of Wikimedia movement are involved in the process of documenting their own heritage.

Affiliates priorities & choices: Huge disparities are witnessed also between countries with affiliates : Being multidimensional, many affiliates can have other priorities and fields of interest (sometimes for several years) and thus they may not implement the project quickly (or at all).

Emergency: Unlike many other thematic, the scope of World Heritage is quickly changing : Many parts of World Heritage sites are endangered and many are lost every year before being documented. Hence, the existence of activities around WH in danger will help tackle this problem.

We believe that World Heritage is a potent tool for development and empowerment, that’s why we aim to make knowledge about it widely available and to engage local communities in documenting their own heritage.

A successful documentation of World Heritage requires a good mastery of several Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia, Commons, Wikivoyage and Wikidata), tools(such as Petscan, Quick Statements, Wikidata Query Service)and other management skills (e.g. project management) thus we will setup like we did for the previous year a capacity building program to equip our members and partners with these needed skills.

Documenting World Heritage requires also the use of the best formats to show the importance of our heritage and that 's why we are looking forward this proposal to collecting videos about UNESCO cultural heritage as we believe that this is the best format that can be used for documentation besides that fact that our wiki projects lacks video content.

Communication is a key factor and can help to drive sharing and collaborations around heritage documentation. Thus we are looking forward to announcing during the world heritage day (18th of April)the launch of the Wiki Heritage Hour, a monthly video podcast that aims to connect volunteer with Heritage professionals, promote the achievement of the wiki community in documenting the World Heritage and promote sharing ideas and developing collaboration.

In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.

Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Where will this proposal be implemented?

Worldwide

Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?

No

Project Proposal[edit]

Describe your main strategies to achieve the objective and the activities you will be developing as part of these strategies.

Contents generations

WHindangerː World Heritage In Danger: Many parts of World Heritage sites are endangered (e.g. conflicts,Climate Change..)and many are lost every year before being documented. Hence, the importance to continue the project that we started last year (c.f. group report https://w.wiki/4UT2 )and which helped documenting several sites especially in countries without affiliates like Libya (www.whindanger-libya.wiki).

TOldCitiesː WH Cities: Told Cities consists in documenting the significant buildings of cities listed as World Heritage on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Despite the cultural importance of WH cities, some of them are poorly documented on Wikimedia projects.

Wiki Loves Dataviz: We live in a era of data and Wikidata is an amazing free base with millions of data items. Hence the importance of visualizing these data in a more comprehensible and intelligible way for the human mind. Dataviz provides a clear idea to interpret data and understand it. Bear in mind this importance we are looking forward to organizing 2 contests to collect dataviz around built and cultural heritage. These dataviz can be used in the Wikipedia articles to improve the quality of the content or by other external sources providing more visibility to Wikidata project.̩

WHintangible UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage: Intangible world heritage are very important as they are a representation of our traditions, ethnic lifestyles and culture. Despite this importance, they are less documented than tangible heritage and even when documented they are documented in a format that don't reflect a clear idea of it (mainly text). Our objective is to document this part of our heritage in more innovative way with a focus on video production and within countries located in the global south.

WH2B World Heritage To Be: a proactive project to document future WH sites listed on the UNESCO tentative list.

For 2022, the scope of the activities will focus on at least 10 countries(50% without a Wikimedia affiliates) and will includes the following Key activitiesː co-organizing editathons with local partners (Wikipedia and Wikivoyage), campaign on commons with a photo contest for each country, enhancing content on Wikidata and a webinar with Heritage professional to discuss the impact of Climate Change on World Heritage to be coordinated with the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development User Group.

Capacity Building, community support and volunteers recruitment

Training Sessions
Wiki Heritage Hour: promote the achievement of the wiki community in documenting WH

What is your organization or group's mission?

Our mission is the collaborative creation of free online content about UNESCO WH (tangible and intangible),through designing and implementing creative projects that are based on participatory activities,and on the use of open platforms,tools and licenses,in collaboration with local partners in different countries.We believe that World Heritage is a potent tool for development and empowerment,that’s why we aim to make knowledge about it widely available and to engage local communities.

Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries?

International.

Wiki World Heritage UG (WWH) aims to document UNESCO WH around the world especially in countries with no affiliates. The activities of the group involve several countries with a special focus on countries in the global south or countries without affiliates through collaborating with local partners. For 2022 the group is looking to initiate activities in the following countries: Kenya,Senegal,Uganda,Egypt,Uzbekistan, Russia, Croatia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, RDC, Tunisia etc..

Please state if you will be carrying out any of these activities within your programs? Select all that apply.

Organizing Meet-up online, Organizing Meet-up offline, Workshops, Edit-A-Thons, Train-the-Trainer, Photowalk, Contest, Photo/Media campaign, Wiki Loves campaign, Media outreach campaign

Are you running any in-person events or activities?

Yes

Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified content knowledge gaps?

Language, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context), Cultural background.

Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select all categories that apply.

Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or thematic focus.

Culture, heritage or GLAM, Advocacy, Diversity

Please tell us more about your target participants.

The Wiki World Heritage is an international open movement accessible for anyone interested in documenting the Tangible and Intangible world heritage. This proposal has no discrimination on the basis of age, gender, color, geographic location, sexual orientation.

Strategy to continue engage with participants

Do you have plans to work with other Wikimedia communities, groups or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

Please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

Like we did in 2021, we are planning to collaborate with existing Wikimedia Communities.

For 2022, we are looking forward to collaborating with the following communities: Wikimedia Uganda, Wikimedia Egypt, North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group, Wikimedia Tunisia, Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development User Group and Wikisource Community User Group.

Worth-noting that the approach of our group is not to bypass the local affiliates, but to provide them with help and necessary tools and skills in order to ensure a successful implementation of projects.

Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal? Please describe these partnerships.

Yes

Yes we are planning to collaborate with external non wikimedian partners in the same way we did in Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan. We are planning projects in 5 countries without affiliates and we are sourcing possible NGOs / universities that we can collaborate together.

How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Yes

Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Name: Nassima Chahboun
Username: User:Nassima Chahboun
Role: Chair (unpaid staff)
Responsibility: Preparation of the annual action plan, Building partnerships, Designing Capacity Building program

Name: Benoit Soubeyran
Username: User:Mazuritz
Role: Vice Chair (unpaid staff)
Responsibility: Preparation of the annual action plan, Building partnerships, external communication in French.

Name: Habib Mhenni
Username: User:Dyolf77
Role: Secretary (unpaid staff)
Responsibility: meetings reports and annual report.

Name: Yamen Bousrih
Username: User:Yamen
Role: Treasurer (unpaid staff)
Responsibility: Keeping financial records up to date

Name: Imelda Brazal
Username: User:Brazal.dang
Role: Members liaison (unpaid staff)
Responsibility: Managing membership applications, Internal communication (mailing list), Supervising external communication in English.

Name: To be hired from the community
Username: TBD
Role: Whintangible coordinator (paid staff)
Responsibility: coordination, design, and oversight the execution of the contests and the organisation of the editathons

Name: To be hired from the community
Username: TBD
Role: Wiki Heritage Hour host facilitator (paid staff)
Responsibility: prepare the vodcast content, liaise with the guests and host it.

Name: To be hired from the community
Username: TBD
Role: Group coordinator (paid staff)
Responsibility: promoting events, update websites, write blog post, assist in report writing and coordinate volunteer activities, learning and evaluation.

Name: Nassima Chahboun (being the coordinator of Whindanger last year and taking into account the similarity between the 2 projects)
Username: User:Nassima Chahboun
Role: Whindanger and Told Cities coordinator (paid staff)
Responsibility: coordination, design, oversight the execution of the two projects, provide training, source partners in countries without affiliates, coordinate content creation (templates, categories, graphic material, dashboard...), assistance of the jury ...

Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here. (optional)

Wiki World Heritage User Group/Strategic plan 2021 2023

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

What Wikimedia projects interest participants the most?
What training strategy yielded the best results?
What is the best strategy to engage volunteers?
What is the best approach and strategy to retaining volunteers?

Core Metrics[edit]

Enter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	Participants from at least 10 countries will benefit from our activities. We target about 340 participants throughout the year. more than 50% new participants	340
Number of editors	The number of editors in all activities throughout the year with the objective to have more than 50% new accounts created.	250
Number of organizers		XX
Wikipedia	Wikipedia articles created or improved throughout the year	500
Wikimedia Commons	number of photos uploaded and categorized throughout the year	6000
Wikimedia Commons	number of videos uplaoded	100
Wikidata	Wikidata items created or improved throughout the year	1000

If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

Additional Metrics[edit]

Enter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.


Additional Metrics	Description	Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	We will partner with at least XX mission aligned organizations
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	There would be at least X surveys to evaluates our strategies	At least XX people will participate in the surveys.
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees
Number of people reached through social media publications	At least 3 social media handles will be active (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
Number of activities developed	At least XX activities will be developed	at least XX of the activities would be sustained

What other information will you be collecting to learn about the impacts of your activities? (optional)

What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

Hidden categories on Commons for photos uploaded via campaigns.
Hashtags for Wikipedia updates that will be tracked via the hashtag tool https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/
Google forms to register participants
The property P5008 to help organize and track items related to this proposal on Wikidata
Wikimedia Outrach Dashboard will be used to track other contributions (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org

How do you hope to share these results so that others can learn from them?

Create a video of our experience, Share results on social media, Share it on Meta-Wiki

Financial Proposal[edit]

What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

Please share your budget for this proposal.

Budget overview[edit]

Line	Line item name	Subtotal
1	Project & Contests costs	$xxxxxxx
1.1	WHindanger		$XXXX
1.2	TOldCities		$XXXX
1.3	Wiki Loves Dataviz		$XXXXX
1.4	WHintangible		$XXXXX
1.5	WH2B		$XXXXX
2	Capacity building & Community Development	$XXX
2.1	Capacity building		$XXXX
2.2	Wiki Heritage Hour		$XXXX
3	Administration and services	$XXXX
	Total	$XXXXX

costs breakdown[edit]

Please find the breakdown of the budget via this linkː

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wFxvsqG7oD5GcNSnfqaL4zKTb3g-0e_QUCfbTRWccss/

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friend Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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