Purpose of the report

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their progress after completing the first 6 months of their grants. The time period covered in this form will be the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

4. # Diversity = Number of new or improved articles on women's biographies on Wikipedia Bokmål, Nynorsk or Northern Sami and number of Sami-related items added to Wikidata
5. # Community hours = Hours community members spend on organizing activities or helping staff organize activities (not included are hours spend adding content)

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. # participants	843 + 824 watched streaming of one event	Two events have attracted a much lager audience then we expected
2. # of newly registered	94
3. # of content pages	3,218	Wikidata-projects will happen during this spring as well as a mass upload from a Glam institution
4. # diversity	400
5. # community hours	472

Table 1 notes:

Content pages: We are adding the Sami bibliography from The National Library (about 17,000 items) to Wikidata and will also during the spring add Sami place names we have access to from The Norwegian Mapping Authority. We have worked this first half of the 2017-2018 funding period to get these collections of data, and will during spring work on adding them to Wikidata. There has so far in this funding period not been a mass upload bot adding images from a Glam institution, but there is a project planned here as well on images from the World War II from The National Archive. That is why the number of content pages so far this funding period is lower compared to previous years, but it will be on the same level as previous years at the end of the funding period.

Telling your program stories - all programs

Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.

We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.
Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.
We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.
We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.
You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.

Target	Last year (if applicable)	Progress (at end of Q2)	Projected (end of year)	Comments
Example	Example	Example	Example	Example

Overall progress

Northern Sami Wikipedia project. Photo taken by Karin Beate Nøsterud/norden.org [CC BY 2.5 dk) used on WMNO stickers and postcards
Joy and Stella from Wikimedia Ghana User group and Felix from Open Foundation West Africa visiting Oslo and WMNO, at Nobel Peace Center
Mulatu Astatke at the stage at Cosmopolite in Soria Moria, 9. November 2017. Image by Commons photographer Toresetre

The progress we report on in this report reflects the rewritten APG proposal for WMNO from January 2018. The program's section was completely rewritten.

With the staff increase from 1,7 FTE till 2,3 FTE WMNO has had its busiest 6 months ever, and in this progress report we have tried to summarize both learnings, challenges and successes. For a quick overview of over work, take a look at the

Wikimedia Norge have three programs for the 2017–2018 funding period:

Program Supporting communities
Program Closing content gaps
Program Raising awareness of free, trusted knowledge

Each program has three main axes to give the programs a clear strategic direction:

A: Community involvement
B: Partnerships
C: Diversity

WMNO was asked by WMF staff to rewrite over application from April 1, 2017. The rewritten application (the program section is rewritten) is published here. Program 3 in our rewritten application is about: raising the awareness of free, trusted knowledge on the Wikimedia projects and beyond by partnering with others in the knowledge ecosystem. Program 3 consists of work we have done to some extent in the past funding periods as well, but it has not been separated into a program on it's own and reported on. We hope the rewritten program section is a clarification of our work and reads as an improvement from the application from April 1, 2017.

The impact of WMNO’s work is achieved through collaborations between a diversity of communities, partner organizations and for the remaining 6 months of this funding period WMNO will

give relevant support to contributors on the wiki projects
continue established partnerships, nationally and internationally
build on already established partnerships in our work on Northern Sami Wikipedia
participate at international wikimedia events and share our learnings

Community involvement and programs

We are continuing our focus on community involvement, something both the FDC and WMF staff has commented upon in the past as lacking in WMNO’s work. We are building trust among our communities. It takes time, but now we have a set of supporting activities that has been in place for 1-2 years, that community members know about and use. This gives as a much more solid foundation for our future work. The hiring of a full-time community manager since July 2017 has been crucial in achieving this, but also for WMNO’s participation in international collaborations, conferences and workshops. We have participated at:

Wikimedia Norge and Wikimedia Armenia collaboration
Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh (volunteer and staff)
Wikimania in Montreal (staff and board members)
Wikimedia Diversity Conference in Stockholm (volunteer and staff)
Wikidata Conference in Berlin (staff)
Volunteer Supporters Network in Berlin (staff)
Partnerships workshop in Berlin (staff)

As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege.

– 2017 movement strategy direction

Our Northern Sami project is progressing on plan as scheduled. The timing for a Northern Sami project is excellent: 2017 was the 100th anniversary for the first Sami assembly, which has been celebrated as Tråante 2017 with various events all over Norway, giving a boost to Sami issues. We also feel that this project fits extremely well with the new Wikimedia-wide strategic direction, especially when it comes to Knowledge Equity. As such we in Wikimedia Norge have a special responsibility (also according to our bylaws) to ensure the success of this Wikipedia. Phase 1 of the project, which was mainly about reaching out to potential partners, contributors and institutions, has finished (but of course that doesn't mean we'll stop doing outreach), and we have started phase 2 a bit ahead of schedule. We have started this project by devoting resources on working with Glam institutions on Wikidata, the crucial point in this project is not getting partners but editors and volunteers. We will report on that in our impact report. This project is also depending on national funding because of high travel expenses to the northern part of Norway.

We held a survey in November–December 2017 to learn more about former and current contributors to the Northern Sami Wikipedia, and are very satisfied with the results we got (read more about it under the section Program Closing content gaps). Holding a survey to reach out especially to former contributors helps us learn more about what specific issues the Northen Sami Wikipedia is facing, and what obstacles we need to address in order to bring in more contributors. As part of the outreach work, we also had our entire website translated professionaly into Northern Sami, to be able to reach Northern Sami-speaking people in their native language. We are in touch with three Sami language centers, and will hold our 2018 general assembly in one of them. We have also been accepted to be part of the program of the two biggest Sami festivals in Norway (both in July), Riddu Riđđu and Márkomeannu, to hold workshops and talk about Wikipedia.

Strategy

To align our work to the new movement strategic direction with service and equity as the two cornerstones WMNO will

focus on improving community involvement and giving community support
continue to develop and strengthen partnerships with a selected group of Glam and higher education partner institutions
expand our work on diversity issues by making these an integrated part of each of our programs
WMNO hope to bring an important piece of the puzzle to move toward the new strategic direction.

For WMNO this means in our context to add missing languages and knowledge to the wiki projects, as we are working on in our Northern Sami project but also to try to work with refugee communities as we will do as a test project in February 2018. Diversity work is time consuming, and a long-term commitment is needed to get results. Progress is blocked primarily by lack of resources in terms of infrastructure, access, capacity and people, and perceptions of Wikimedia as a closed community. We need to work on our own organizational structures on diversity, as described here:

Wikimedia boards by default should also become inclusive and diverse (gender, ethnicity, ability, etc.) as soon as possible in their organisational development process. This can be encouraged by according bylaws as mentioned above, but also through incentives grant making schemes and coaching processes from WMF or specific working groups who can share best practices.
— Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2017, The Way Forward Session

WMNO is becoming a trusted and valuable partner in our local context. This is why we can take on the challenge of expanding our work with the Northern Sami project. It has taken time and a lot of work to build this trust. Staff did have a tricky starting point in 2014-2015 that effected how we could do our work and how may doors would be open for collaborations and not. The fact that we are a 2,3 FTE organization means that we have to be very clear on what we can bring to the table as many people at big partner institutions assumes WMNO is a lot bigger than we actually are. Since WMNO the last 2 years has focused on fewer partners, this has given the partnerships more stability and complexity, but at the same time the consequences if a partnerships ends will be bigger. Our partnerships are depending on a small group og people which also can be a risk. During the partnerships workshop WMNO participated at in Berlin in November a statement was written that will be important for WMNO’s work on further developing partnerships, both national and cross-affiliate partnerships:

We need to learn how to build and maintain better internal cross-affiliate partnerships, to avoid parallel, duplicate actions, increase sharing and learning and multiply the effect of human and financial resources available in the movement. Also we need to be strategic and systematic in establishing and maintaining external partnerships. We need to establish common ground with allies, as well as learn from each other and adapt, if needed, our own goals, structures, and dynamics. This will help us to reach out more and provide better service for wider audiences.
— Statement from Partnerships workshop in Berlin 2017

Stability
WMNO is currently working on revising our strategy and there is a gap between the international wikimedia movement, WMNO and our volunteer community. We need to work on bridging this gap and keep our work going on community trust and involvement. We have a 50 % increase in inquiries from community members and also the general public compared to last year, which tells us that more people want our help, wants to report issues, ask questions or share ideas. During the Wikipedia fundraiser, there is also a peak in inquiries on how the fundraiser is presented and executed. We do use social media to tell stories about our work, but among active editors many do not use social media.

WMNO’s annual meeting is March 3 and the election committee has had meeting with the staff and they do have a strong focus on a continued gender balance in the board and committees. There is currently a discussing among community members on the number of members in WMNO. The discussion is sparked by the upcoming annual meeting of WMNO March 3, 2018. This discussion taps into the ongoing international strategic discussion on movement roles, governance and resources.

We have been approved VAT compensation after applying in September 2017 (72,000 NOK) and we have been granted funding from The Arts Council (100,000 NOK). We have also been granted a travel grant from the NUUG (16,000 NOK). We are very happy to report that we have made a huge progress in diversifying the funding of WMNO as this has been a concern for both WMF staff and WMNO. We are on budget on our spendings. Our travel expenses are higher than budgeted, but for some travels we have received national funding and planned travels are depending on getting national funding.

The increase from 1,7 FTE till 2,3 FTE is a major change for WMNO. 2 full time positions gives us a much better stability with one of us is it always possible to reach and it makes us more efficient in our work when staff have contact on a day to day basis. The salaries at WMNO is below the average level of salaries in Norway. If current staff members leave WMNO it will be a challenge to recruite new staff members with the same level of experience and qualifications. The alternative will be to recruit new staff members who are young and without experience, this will require a long period of learning and filling a position and this is a potential threat to the stability of WMNO. Another important question is also: How diverse is the leadership in our movement? Is the high ratio of female EDs and employees in (especially smaller) chapters something to celebrate, or also a symptom of a gender pay gap?

Program Supporting communities

This program will strength and support the work done by and the collaborations between a diversity of communities, partner organizations and Wikimedia Norge

Wikipedians at a WMNO guided tour at The Munch Museum
Wiki meetup at Oslo House of Literatur, January 2018
Intern from Oslo Metropolitan University working on a Wikidata / The National Library projcet

Status

WMNO is an organization that works together with a diversity of communities and the hire of a full-time community manager has enabled us to expand our community work. The community manager is himself an experienced wikipedian /wikimedian and this has helped us in:

responding to requests from editors
discussing technical issues with partners, for example the possibilities wikidata offers
guide our work in questions on what work should be done by staff and what work should or could be volunteer led
ensure community involvement in projects with Glam partners, for example by using Phabriactor
networking and contacts beyond the rather small group of (Norwegian) active editors the rest of the staff had. This again helps us avoid volunteer burn out

We have worked on having a realistic project managing, saying no to possible partnership that requires too much resources, but are trying to scale activities that do work. We do more work online than offline than we did a few years ago and stick to our rule to not organize events without partners and volunteers involved. The wiki meet ups in Oslo (4 times a year) are entirely community led. As the number of people attending is increasing (100 attendees at the last meeting), we will have to evaluate how WMNO can help. This is also a question about the obligations we have on Safe space policy and whether it’s fair for volunteers to ensure this policy alone with that many attendees.

The number of applications for wiki grants and travel grants have maybe not increased significantly, but now we receive applications without having to work hard to get editors to apply. The committee that reviews the grants are a mix of editors, staff and board members.

Community involvement is also a question of telling our stories to both people inside and outside the wiki community and building trust with our partners. With the help from both volunteers and partners we try to tell about work done on the wiki projects. All recipients of wiki grants write blog post for the WMNO blog and our interns also contribute to the blog. For the interns, it’s a way of show casing the experience they have from their internship. We focus on promoting diverse voices in social media and at events we take part in.

The gender gap on the wiki projects is an issue that gets a lot of public attention when discussed and WMNO has a unique position in Norway to raise this question. One example is the social media attention the event at the Researcher Days got. 3,600 clicked interested on Facebook. The event even led to an invitation for a WMNO staff member to be interviewed for a soon to be published nonfiction book on feminism in Norway. This event is also an excellent example of how we worked with 3 different partners (from Glam and education sector) and how we try to integrate our different programs and link our partners to hopefully inspire them to do further work together. But this event alone does not lead to many active new female contributors unfortunately. Our Gender gap work is very much built on former partnerships and this work is done step by step and we have a long-term perspective on what we can achieve.

We still have challenges on community involvement from active editors and this is a challenge that needs to be discussed and addressed both by staff and the board of WMNO as part of our ongoing strategy talks. In our work, we don’t differ between support given to members or non-members of WMNO. We don’t expect to make many changes to this program next year. We have expanded this program the last 6 months by starting our work on Northern Sami Wikipedia. This project is building on going GLAM and education partnerships. So far, we are very happy with the responses form possible partners and we are exploring different funding opportunities. Still, there is a challenge in how we can help revitalize an active Sami community, create activities and ensure involvement, and the project requires both monetary resources and staff time.

We are on track with this program. One target we will not meet is work on #1lib1ref /#faktajakt. The intern from Oslo Met who would have worked on #faktajakt has excellent technical skills so she has instead worked on a Wikidata project; adding items to Wikidata from the Sami bibliographies from The National Library. Both photo and online writing contest are a good way for WMNO to involve both community and partners. By improving and adding content partners have an interest in they get an example of how the wiki projects work and how content immigrates from wiki to wiki. We often tie offline events to contest to connect offline and online work and to engage both editors and partners. We also connect different events and contest to topics that are discussed in the public, for example the state election or The International Women’s Day. This gives a greater momentum to our activities and WMNO makes our voice heard in the public when we link events to ongoing discussions in society.

As a library student I was an intern at Wikimedia Norge's office in January 2018. I worked a lot with Wikidata projects and learned a lot of what I would like to include in my studies also. It's a wonderful project that many can benefit from in the other Wiki projects. Thumbs up!
— Anette Isabel Jahns Faksnes, intern from Oslo Metropolitan University

Progress

A: Community involvement
Target	Last year (if applicable)	Progress (at end of Q2)	Projected (end of year)	Comments
Award 12 wiki scholarships and travel grants	13	10	16
Award access (done twice a year) to online resources through the Wikipedia Library	10	5	10
Apply for press accreditation for volunteers	7	9	14
Share 10 stories written by editors on our blog about community initiatives, 5 of them in English	11 (5 in English)	8 (4 in English)	12
Help community members organise 5 wiki meetups for volunteers and 2 editing trainings for newbies	9	5	10
Organise 2 technical wiki meet ups	0	1	2
Provide streaming of 2 events	1	1	2
Organize or coorganize online editing contests	7	3	6
Continue our intern program	2 interns	1 intern	2 interns
Organize #faktajakt/#1lib1ref	Participated in #1lib1ref			This year's intern worked on a Wikidata project instead of #1lib1ref
Announce events on the village pump so active editors can help out online				We did this in 2016–2017 as well as this year

So far, we have awarded 4 wiki grants: Two grants to Norwegian volunteers and two grants to Wikimedia Diversity participants from Bolivia and Bangladesh. All grants support diversity work. Already two applications have been handed in for the next deadline 15. February 2018.We have also awarded travel grants to editors to participate at wiki meet up in Oslo in September, #wikinobel in October and wikidata workshop in November in Oslo.

Then I shared the challenges we face in Bengali Wikimedia as we have very limited resources. I talked about how we are facing difficulties to allocate resource to ensure the diversity in wiki projects. Such as, in Bangladesh we lack enough active editors, so we do arrange workshop to make people (mostly students) aware about Wikimedia movements. In doing so, sometimes we could not target female students or other groups such as indigenous people due to unavailability of resources. Mobility is an issue for Bangladeshi women and girls. They sometimes may not have access to computer and internet. Same goes for indigenous group. (...) In Bangladesh, in order to ensure diversity in wiki projects we must include the voices from all marginalized group. As we have limited resource, we are facing difficulties to prioritize on effective distribution.
— Afifa Afrin, Community Director, Wikimedia Bangladesh, travelled to Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2017 on a wikigrant from Wikimedia Norge. Blog post on wikimedia.no

In September, we award access to online resources through the Wikipedia Library which we twice a year. Access to The National Library's service bokhylla.no from a foreign IP-address can be applied for throughout the year. Editor applies to WMNO, and then WMNO will apply to The National Library on behalf of the editor.

The number of requests for press accreditations have increased as the number of photographers involved. The images are used on many Wikipedias and have high quality.

At the celebration marking the first 25 years of Cosmopolite Concert Scene we have counted the concert photos taken in the recent years. Thanks to the cooperation and a generous access to the venue, our contributors have been able to illustrate 403 articles and biographies in 35 language editions with photography from Cosmopolite!
— Email from Commons photographer to PR manager at Cosmopolite Concert Scene

The new home page we made in 2016 is updated on a regularly basis and blog posts are written by several different people and both in Norwegian and English.

So far 5 wiki meetups have been organized, and these events are volunteer led and attracting more and more people. We do have to consider volunteer burn out as bigger events means more work and planning. This page gives an overview over wiki meetups.

November 18. we did a Wikidata workshop. It was organized by staff and volunteers together. 12 active editors participated and we will, based on the evaluation, do a follow up workshop in March, the same weekend as we have our annual meeting in Oslo. The feedback on the workshop was good and can be reviewed here.

With the help from volunteers we will stream our annual meeting March 3 so people who can’t join us in Oslo can participate.

We did an online editing contest during Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 from 11.-24 September, 2017. It generated 140 new articles. 2.-8 October 2.-8 we did an online editing contest on peace, linked to #wikinobel and the announcement of The Nobel Peace Prize. It generated 65 new articles. The article on the laureate, ICAN, we used as a show case article in the Open access event we did at The University of Oslo a month later. The Nobel Peace Centre sponsored a prize for the contest.

23.-29. October, we did an online editing contest during Open access week on publications. The contest generated 66 new articles. The intern program we run welcome two intern a year from Oslo Metropolitan University and provides valuable help at our office. The intern in January 2018 has worked on a Wikidata-project on authors from the Norwegian National Library's database instead of #faktajakt /#1lib1ref as planned. It was a better use of her skills to get offer the student an opportunity to work on a Wikidata project. We are discussing with Oslo Metropolitan University and The National Library how we can possible develop the intern program together, or expand it. WMNO is a valuable partner for both institutions here since we have put a great effort in making the internships pay off for both the student and WMNO. For example, we use social media and our blog to promote the student’s projects and write articles on their work in a national journal for librarians.

All events and edit trainings are announce on the village pump so active editors can help newbies online or take part.

B: Partnerships
Target	Last year (if applicable)	Progress (at end of Q2)	Projected (end of year)	Comments
Get 3 partners as coorganizers for online editing contests	5	2	3	A decline here reflects that we have concentrated on fewer partners and that there's a limit to how many contests it's interesting to co-organize
Get 4 sponsored prizes from partners for online editing contests	5	1	3	A decline here reflects that we have concentrated on fewer partners and there is a limit to how many prizes they will sponsor
Get 5 venues to use for events as in kind donations	9	7	11

The Nobel Peace Centre sponsored a prize for the online editing contest on peace. A decline in co-organizers and sponsored prizes reflects that we have concentrated on fewer partners. Besides paying for a venue for the wiki meetups in Oslo, all other venues are sponsored. Tøyen Start up Village is one of our next-door neighbours and have great venues we have use both for staff and board meetings, as well as the Wikidata workshop. The Start-up Village and is also an interesting discussion partner for WMNO when it comes to open access and technology issue.

C: Diversity
Target	Last year (if applicable)	Progress (at end of Q2)	Projected (end of year)
Organise an online editing contests in collaboration with Wikimedia Armenia on female biographies on Norwegian and Armenian Wikipedia	4 week long contest		2 week long contest in March 2018
Host an Art+Feminism workshop together with partner institution	Workshop at Oslo National Academy of the Arts		Planned workshop at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Hold a survey among editors on Northern Sami and establish contact with former and active editors		Survey is published here
Provide translations of information about WMNO and Wikipedia in Northern Sami	Bylaws translated	Wikimedia.no and survey translated	Translation of results survey and blog post
Establish 2 new partnerships with Sami institutions			2

We are very happy to continue our collaboration with Wikimedia Armenia and following what we learned from last year’s editing contest (learning pattern wrote together after the contest) in Norway and Armenia we are planning an online editing contests in collaboration with Wikimedia Armenia on missing female biographies on Norwegian and Armenian Wikipedia. Both chapters will set up a wish list for the other countries on missing biographies. As with most of our other activates, we are building on past years work and will also this year do an Art+Feminism workshop together with Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

As part of our Northern Sami project, we conducted a survey in November/December 2017 amongst current and former contributors to the Northern Sami Wikipedia. The survey was available in Northern Sami, Norwegian and English. We targetted all users who had made more than 10 edits, and sent out the survey links by email (via Wikipedia) in order be able to reach those that are no longer active contributors to Wikimedia projects. Out of the 40 users we reached out to (who had enabled emails from other users on Wikipedia), 10 answered the survey, which we consider a pretty good response percentage-wise, even though the absolute number is quite low. The aim of the survey was to figure out the demography of the contributors, and to ask for their input and ideas about how to best achieve our goals. Despite a low number of respondents, we got a lot of valuable feedback that will be used in furthering this project. Seven out of the ten also agreed to be kept updated on the project's progress via a mailing list. This survey was specifically targetted at contributors, but we are also planning to do a separate survey targetting readers, but this is still on the planning stage.

We have also had some material translated into Northern Sami by professional translators. This includes our bylaws (as required by the bylaws themselves – we already had a translation, but it had not been updated to reflect changes to the bylaws since our foundation), the aforementioned survey and most pages on our website. In addition to this, we have made some technical changes that benefit the Northern Sami Wikipedia. The name of the language itself has been changed in MediaWiki from Sámegiella ("Sami") to Davvisámegiella ("Northern Sami") – there are many Sami languages, of which Northern Sami is the biggest. We have fixed the collation (sorting) of categories on the Northern Sami Wikipedia, and enabled the Article Placeholder, which uses data from Wikidata to create automatic entries on subjects that don't have an article yet. We are tracking the project on Phabricator under the tag WMNO-Northern-Sami, this being the first project we use Phabricator for.

We have applied to the organizers of two major Sami and indigenous people festivals (Márkomeannu festival and Riddu Riđđu Festival) to be part of their festival program 2018 and are very excited to be accepted at both. One of the strong recommendations we got during our workshop at The Celtic Knot Conference was to join big events that attracts the same target group as we want to get to know and connect with. In a meeting with the Sami parliament in the city of Tromsø in September they recommended WMNO the same. WMNO have a new meeting with The Sami parliament in February 2018. This is an important chance for us to advocate for our work and find ways of working with important Sami institutions. The representatives from the Sami parliament were very enthusiastic about our work and this gives us an opportunity to continue our dialog with them to consider doing efforts in making Northern Sami language and knowledge used and known. The Sami parliament already supports a number of initiatives related to promoting Sami languages. We are planning for workshops and activities during the festivals with the excellent help from the Sami advisory group we have put together. Our plan is that one volunteer and one staff member will join each festival. However, the festivals are in remote locations in the northern part of Norway so travel expenses are very high and we are considering options to get funding for travels. In fact, our participation will require additional funding but we do think this will be the best opportunity we get in 2018 to connect with the Sami community and a chance to work closely with one or more Sami volunteers. So far our work with the Northern Sami project have proven to be an unique opportunity for WMNO to also connect and learn from wikimedians around the world and truly benefit from the international dimension of the Wikimedia movement. We welcome the new strategic direction which we read and understand as a motivation for the Northern Sami project. By setting up an advisory group we hopefully can share our learnings with other Wikimedians as the project develops.

Metrics and targets for this program

See metrics and targets listed for this program in our rewritten proposal from January 2018

Participants: 424
Newly registered: 40
Content pages: A: 5,677 B: 271 new articles, 51 of them on Northern Sami Wikipedia, the number would be significantly higher if we knew how to calculate the number of improved articles in weekly editing contests as well. C: 810. Total: 6,758
Diversity:
Community hours: 290

Program Closing content gaps

This program will add high quality content to close content gaps on the Wikimedia projects by partnerships between Wikimedia Norge, volunteers and major Norwegian institutions

Protest to mark support for Sami reindeer herder Jovsset Ante Sara in Oslo
Sabine Rønsen, former intern from Oslo Metropolitan University, during her Lightning talk at Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2017
Image from the Bodil Biørn collection, project on transcription of image descriptions funded by The Arts Council