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 grant 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.

Metrics and results 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 Grant Metrics. We understand not all Grant or grantee-defined 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/results 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 Grant Metrics. Explanation of grantee defined metrics:

No. of new files used on Wikipedia - the number of multimedia files that were used to illustrate Wikipedia articles.
No. of partnerships - these metrics imply the number of accomplished collaborations with educational institutions and cultural institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations within the projects and activities of Wikimedia Serbia. Cooperation can mean the implementation of various projects in these institutions, the organization of edit-a-thons, workshops, lectures, and exhibitions. We believe that these metrics are important because they show the growth of our programs and the expansion of the network of associates, and therefore affect the greater visibility of our organization and projects.

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. number of total participants	854	1670 planned for the whole year
2. number of newly registered users	825	1360 planned for the whole year
3. number of content pages created or improved, across all Wikimedia projects	769	1160 planned for the whole year
4. number new files used on Wikipedia	147	300 planned for the whole year
5. number of partnerships	29	35 planned for the whole year

GLAM PROGRAM

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. number of total participants	311	208 planned for the whole year
2. number of newly registered users	139	143 planned for the whole year
3. number of content pages created or improved, across all Wikimedia projects	1138	3590 planned for the whole year
4. number new files used on Wikipedia	527	300 planned for the whole year
5. number of partnerships	10	16 planned for the whole year

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. number of total participants	202	116 planned for the whole year
2. number of newly registered users	35	35 planned for the whole year
3. number of content pages created or improved, across all Wikimedia projects	7885	9550 planned for the whole year
4. number new files used on Wikipedia	1863	2400 planned for the whole year
5. number of partnerships	18	5 planned for the whole year

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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

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Wikipedia in schools Goal: introducing wiki projects into the academic environment Description: students are writing seminar papers on Wikipedia or other wiki projects and for this they get points within the course/exam at their school or faculty. Accredited seminars Goal: enabling teachers to independently implement wiki projects in their institution Description: the project involves the organisation of accredited seminars Application of online wiki tools as didactic tools in teaching and learning in secondary schools throughout Serbia. Seminars are accredited by the Institute for the Advancement of Education (state accreditation body for professional development of teachers) and teachers receive 8 points for professional development by attending it. It consists of all-day workshops on editing Wikipedia and highlighting how to implement wiki projects in teaching and learning. Seminars are intended exclusively for teachers. Edu Wiki camp Goal: attracting new Wiki ambassadors and Edu volunteers and strengthening ties between them Description: This camp is organized within the Education program and serves for additional education of current Wiki ambassadors and attracting new ones, as well as strengthening the network of Edu volunteers. The program is diverse and includes education in terms of editing Wikipedia, cooperation with educational institutions, and technical things necessary for the realization of the Education Program.

Education Program in pictures
Workshop at "Sveti Sava" Primary school, Kikinda
Workshop at Regional center for talents, Belgrade
Accredited seminar at "Moma Stanojlović" Primary school, Kragujevac
Workshop at Faculty of Biology, Belgrade
Edu panel at WikiLive 2018

Overview

During the first half of 2018, Wikimedia Serbia renewed cooperation with elementary schools on the project Wiki Pupil. We also started the development of video tutorials for editing Serbian Wikipedia. Beside this, we developed Tutorial for Wiki ambassadors (11 active for the time being) and we have established cooperation with several non-governmental organizations working on education of children and youth. As part of the Wikipedia in schools project, 34 workshops were held in schools and 12,300,000 bytes were uploaded in total. These workshops were held in 24 educational institutions with which we cooperated in the first half of this year.

Work on Wikidata has continued, and the interest in getting involved with Wikidata has been shown by even more partners this year. Two partnerships with educational institutions have also been achieved within the Community Support Program since they applied for annual grants with educational activities.

Wikimedia Serbia also received a new accreditation for the program of professional development of teachers. New accreditation for the "Application of Wiki Tools in Teaching and Learning" program will be valid for the next three school years, until the 31st of August 2021. Within the framework of the current accreditation, six seminars for teachers were held in the first six months of this year, attended by 134 teachers, and they have written 130 articles on Serbian Wikipedia.

These results were presented at the conference New Technologies in Education in 2018 in Belgrade, the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, the Wikipedia and Academia Conference in Dublin and at the WikiLive Conference, where a very attended roundtable was held on the topic of the Education Program of Wikimedia Serbia. The rest of the results can be found on the Outreach page.

Successful stories

Story: Accredited seminars brought cooperation with elementary schools

One of the seminars’ participant, Sanja Ječmenica, responded on WMRS’ invitation for the cooperation, which was sent during the event. She was one of the participants at the accredited seminar held at the elementary school "Jovan Sterija Popovic" at the end of 2017, and she decided to share her acquired knowledge with students and use it in class. The project was then expanded to other schools, so cooperation was also agreed with the "Sveti Sava" elementary school in Kikinda and the Regional Center for Talents from Belgrade.

"At the same time, we want to motivate students to explore, enrich and create pages on Wikipedia, but also to acquire functional knowledge," said Dragana Videnov, a teacher who implemented this project at the Sveti Sava Elementary School in Kikinda, and also one of the participants of the accredited seminars of Wikimedia Serbia.

Story: The Institute for the Advancement of Education has again recognized the significance of accredited seminars this year

Wikimedia Serbia received a new accreditation for the seminar "Applying Wiki Tools in Teaching and Learning" for the next three school years. The accreditation is issued by the Institute for the Advancement of Education, which is the official body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, established for the purpose of monitoring, securing and improving the quality and development of the education system. The aim of the seminar is to promote the Wiki tools for educational purposes and raise the competencies of teachers for their use in teaching. This is the third accreditation that Wikimedia Serbia received.

Challenges and lessons learned

Challenge: Decentralization of the program

Decentralization of the Education Program’s activities is one of the challenges we face in our work, primarily in the context of the diversity of project activities already implemented and their planning. The goal of program decentralization is that Wikimedia Serbia strategically positions the activities of the Education Program as activities of relevance to education that are available to educational institutions outside of Belgrade. In the previous period, we visited many cities throughout Serbia, which was very challenging for us, especially considering the technical equipment of institutions in smaller towns. Through these activities, we realized that there is a very strong motivation of teachers from smaller towns in Serbia to participate in the project Wikipedia in schools, but also that Wikimedia Serbia needs to provide more technical and organizational support for their realization.

Lesson Learned:A Round Table on the Education Program during WikiLive helped create a more solid network of associates

During the local Wikipedian conference, we organized a round table on the Education Program with the aim of gathering teachers, professors and assistants with whom we cooperate in order to exchange experiences and create a more solid network of associates. Attendance to the round table was higher than expected, with participants from elementary schools, high schools and faculties. This event reminded us that it is very important to regularly assemble our associates and organize similar events, because it is obvious that the best way to learn something is by hearing others’ experiences. After this round table, during which a large number of questions were asked by the audience, the motivation of the participants to continue or renew the cooperation increased greatly. Therefore, we will organize similar events in the future as we have seen that they are the basis for further activities that contribute to the expansion of our Education Program.

What’s next?

By the end of the year, we are planning to complete a part of tutorials for editing Wikipedia, which we are creating in cooperation with the College of Electrical Engineering and Computing. We are going to use these tutorials for educational purposes later on. In the coming weeks, we will work on the preparation of the Edu Wiki Camp, which will have a diverse program. One of our goals is to get new Wiki ambassadors who will spread the Wiki idea and help us in the implementation of new partnerships and the expansion of the entire program. Our plan is to explore the possibility of awarding Wiki ambassadors with additional ECTS points for their volunteer work.

In view of the new accreditation for the seminar of professional development, we will work on the design of a new seminar, its organization, presentation and the work enhancement during the seminar. In addition, we will work on better monitoring of students' input, their labeling and quality. In addition, our goal is to include more Wiki projects in the Education Program in the next academic year.