Esperanto kaj Libera Scio/Reports/2020
Draft of the Annual report 2020 of the Wikimedia User Group Esperanto and Free Knowledge (in Esperanto Esperanto kaj Libera Scio, shortly ELiSo).
The official version will be published after its approval by Meeting of General Assebly.
Talks, Workshops & Edit-a-Thons
[edit]| Topic | Event | Date | Place | Volunteer/s | Resume/Report |
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| Ilustrate Wikipedia, help and win a campaign | International Youth Congress of Esperantist (IJK) | 13th July | online |
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Invitation to the competition "Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos" and speed course of adding images to Wikipedia. |
| Ilustrate Wikipedia, help and win a campaign | Summer Esperanto Study (SES) | 24th July | online |
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Invitation to the competition "Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos" and speed course of adding images to Wikipedia. |
| Presentation of Esperanto and Free Knowledge on a Movement Fair | Virtual Congress of Esperanto (VK) | 2nd August | online |
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| Chat with... KuboF about Wikipedia | Virtual Congress of Esperanto (VK) | 3rd August | online |
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Organised session for free discussion, Q&A etc. |
| Presentation of Esperanto and Free Knowledge on a Movement Fair | Virtual Congress of Esperanto (VK) | 7th August | online |
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| Libre education as an catalyst of sustainability | Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology (KAEST) | 1st October | online |
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| Translate Wikipedia simply | Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology (KAEST) | 3rd October | online |
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Training on using ContentTranslation |
Contests
[edit]| Activity | Date | Place | Volunteer/s | Resume/Report |
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| Wikimedia CEE Spring | March 21 - April | Worldwide (with thematic focus on Central and Eastern Europe) |
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Participation in a federativelly organised contest.
Second time in a row that we run this contest in the Esperanto Wikivoyage. Both on Esperanto Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Participation in a federative grant from WMF. |
| African Month | May | Worldwide (with thematic focus on Africa) |
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Participation in a loosely federativelly organised contest.
First time participation. Both on Esperanto Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Sponsors: Vinilkosmo, Amukumu. |
| Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos | July - August | Worldwide |
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Participation in a federativelly organised contest.
Half-participation because our primary target group was (internationally) excluded from participation soon after beginning (because of abused on other language projects). Esperanto Wikipedia, Commons Provision of international prizes. |
| American Month | canceled | The Annual plan called for 1 article-writing contest at the end of the year. The elected contest was the Asian month. We have considered and started planning also for the American Month but canceled it in order to focus on organisational development. | ||
| Asian Month | November | Worldwide (with thematic focus on Asia) |
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Participation in a federativelly organised contest.
Both on Esperanto Wikipedia and Wikivoyage Sponsors: Vinilkosmo, Amukumu. |
| Wiki Science Competition | canceled | We have planned to participate in the Wiki Science Competition in 2020. But on the international level it is a biennial competition and not occurring in 2020. |
Community & Activists Development & Engagement
[edit]| Activity | Date | Place | Volunteer/s | Resume/Report |
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| Consultation of Wikimania scholarship applications | February-March | Worldwide |
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| Construction of the Annual plan and Annual budget for ELiso 2021 | November | Worldwide |
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Collective and community construction of the annual activity plan of ELiSo for the year 2021. |
| Activists' handbooks | thru the year | Worldwide |
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Start of creation of handbooks for our activists (e.g. using the Outreach Dashboard, organising a contest, organising Meeting of General Assembly etc). They are intended to boost experience transfer and organisational sustainability. |
| Volunteers enlistment | postponed to 2021 | Worldwide |
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Postponed to 2021. |
| Preparation of the strategic plan of ELiso for 2021-2022 | October - December | Worldwide |
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The first ever Strategy plan for ELiSo. It is intended to span only 2 years in order to learn the lessons about creating it and fastly iterate.
To be approved during the 1st Meeting of General Assembly of 2021. Consultation for the process by Mark Fettes (former Chair of the Universal Esperanto Association), and Klára Joklová (ED of WMCZ). |
Sponsored projects
[edit]| Activity | Date | Place | Volunteer/s | Resume/Report |
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| Europe-America project on Sustainable development | February |
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We intended to participate as a partner in a project from European Commission's Erasmus+ Programe, Key Activity 2.
We couldn't participate because the Ministry of internal affairs (the national institution for incorporating civic associations) haven't provided the documents about our incorporation in timely manner. | |
| Efficient outreach for youth | May |
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We intended to participate as a partner in a project from European Commission's Erasmus+ Programe, Key Activity 2.
The project proposal was rejected. | |
| Efficient outreach for youth (revised) | October |
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We intended to participate as a partner in a project from European Commission's Erasmus+ Programe, Key Activity 2.
The project proposal was rejected. |
ELiSo inside the Wikimedia Movement
[edit]| Activity | Date | Place | Volunteer/s | Resume/Report |
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| Wikimedia Summit | canceled |
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We have elected KuboF Hromoslav to attend the Wikimedia Summit as our representative. The Summit was canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions. | |
| Wikimania | canceled, preparatory work done | We have provided consultations for scholarship applications for interested Esperanto speaking wikimedians. An, already traditional, Esperanto meet-up was intended. Wikimania was canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions. | ||
| Wikimedia CEE Meeting Online | 2–4 October |
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Wikimedia CEE Meeting Online as an physical meetings was canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions. The meeting was transformed to an online event with zero participation fee. ELiSo invited Esperanto speaking Wikimedians to participate. | |
| Esperanto Wikidata Conference | canceled | We have planned to organize a virtual Esperanto version of a Wikidata Conference. Later we have canceled it because of busyness of activists. | ||
| IberoConf | canceled | As IberoConf is intended for geographically focused affiliations, we (as a thematic focused affiliation) can not participate by principle. As the Conference was canceled because of COVID-19 pandemic, we haven't done the planned contact with Esperanto speaking participants.
In 2020 we have set up basics of the technical infrastructure to help us search and stay in contact with Esperanto speaking African wikimedians. | ||
| WikiIndaba | canceled | As of 2020, we do not have strong connections with Esperanto speaking wikimedians in Africa. WikiIndaba was meant as part of our outreach to them and as a context to search new ones.
In 2020 we have set up basics of the technical infrastructure to help us search and stay in contact with Esperanto speaking African wikimedians. | ||
| Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting | canceled | As of 2020, we do not have strong connections with Esperanto speaking wikimedians in Northern Europe.
In 2020 we have set up basics of the technical infrastructure to help us search and stay in contact with Esperanto speaking Northern Europe wikimedians. |
Organisation development
[edit]| Activity | Date | Place | Volunteer/s | Resume/Report |
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| Registration for a European organisation ID | May |
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It is mandatory in order to participate in projects funded by Erasmus+ programe of the European Commission. We have applied for several such project in 2020 and plan to apply also in the future. | |
| Web site | since May |
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Creation of our own web site on the domain https://esperanto.wiki | |
| Membership application form and management | May |
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In late 2019 we was formally incorporated. As so, we have transitioned from open on-wiki membership to formal membership. | |
| First General Assembly | May 16th | Worldwide |
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Approval of Bylaw, elections of the Board and the Audit Committee, approval of Annual report 2019 and Annual plan 2020.
The Assembly was fully virtual to enable a world-wide participation, as planned even before the COVID-19 travel restrictions. |
| Time tracker | September |
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Providing time tracker software (Kimai) for our activists in order to have better overview of used time for future improvements. | |
| YouTube channel | since September |
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We have had our YouTube channel for years, but it was inactive. In 2020 we have started to create and present our videos on it. | |
| On the way of recognition as a Wikimedia Thematic Organisation | Thru the year |
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We have applied for the recognition in late 2019. In 2020 we have mostly approved our Bylaw, translated it to English and provided to Affiliations Committee. | |
| Second General Assembly | November 28th | Worldwide |
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Approval of Annual budget 2020, Annual plan 2021 and Annual budget 2021. |
| Opening of bank accounts | December |
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This is especially important, because in the past we had difficulties working with fiscal sponsorships for WMF grants. That have prevented us from asking for grants more often.
Opening was bit complicated from administrative point of view because of delays from the national registrant of civic associations, and also becuase the preferred bank is not friendly for documents from virtual General Assemblies, and general COVID-19 travel restrictions. Both bank accounts are transparent. | |
| Registration for a national fundraising campaign | December |
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The campaign is a nation-wide, national government organised for non-profits based in Slovakia. ELiSo participate to increase our financial sustainability and to use a non-WMF revenue source (in accordance with Wikimedia Strategy 2030 recommendation).
We have asked and received a grant from the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO) for a registration and a grant from WMF for executing the campaign itself. | |
| Community Capacity Map | postponed to 2021 | We have planned to translate the page to Esperanto, map our organisation and facilitate mapping of Esperanto Wikimedia projects. | ||
| Graphical identity | postponed to 2021 | We plan to change our name with a recognition as a Thematic Organisation. Graphical identity depends on the name. As the recognition haven't happened in 2021, we have postponed creation of the graphical identity for time we are recognized as a Thematic Organisation. | ||
| Membership in other organisations | postponed to 2021 | We have considered to ask to be an associative member of the UEA - Universal Esperanto Association and TEJO - World Esperanto Youth Organization. Because of busyness we have postponed it to 2021. | ||
| Partnerships | postponed | We are working with several organisations, but mostly in non-formal relationship. We have planned to formalize our relationships.
Because of busyness we have postponed it. | ||
| Technical infrastructure development | thru the year |
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All technical infrastructure proposed for development in 2020 is working (see above in this section). Some parts was proposed for further development, what is now planned for 2021. |