Grants:APG/Proposals/2019-2020 round 2/Wikimedia Norge/Impact report form

Purpose of the report

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December 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.

Overall

Explanation of grantee defined metrics:

Diversity: Number of new or improved articles on women's biographies on the Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk or Northern Sámi Wikipedias and number of Sámi-related items added to Wikidata. Starting with this progress report we are also including images upladed to Wikimedia Commons and pages added to Wikisource during as part of our two projects on Sámi knowledge and Women in Red.
Community hours: Hours community members spend on organizing activities or helping staff organize activities (not included are hours spend adding content)

Grant metrics
	Participants	Newly registered	Content pages	Diversity	Volunteer hours
Program 1 Community Support	Target this year: 500 Impact: 18,922 (this includes the reach of WikiTongues YouTubevideo)	Target this year: 50 Impact: 76	Target this year: 10,000 Impact: 22,130	Target this year: 5,000 Impact: 7,110	Target this year: 600 Impact: 1005
Program 2 Content	Target this year: 500 Impact: 575	Target this year: 200 Impact: 113	Target this year: 10,000 Impact: 3,440	Target this year: 10,000 Impact: 29,542	Target this year: 500 Impact: 460
Program 3 Free Knowledge	Target this year: 400 Impact: 240	Target this year: 20 Impact: 17		Target this year: 2,000 Impact: 4,650	Target this year: 100 Impact: 88
TOTAL FOR ALL PROGRAMMES	Target this year: 1,400 Impact: 19,737	Target this year: 270 Impact: 206	Target this year: 20,000 Impact: 25,570	Target this year: 17,000 Impact: 41,302	Target this year: 1,200 Impact: 1,553

Comments on metrics:
We very much welcomed the grantee defined metrics when they were introduced for the 2016–2017 funding period. Both metrics Wikimedia Norge decided on, diversity and community hours, have increased over the past three years. The development for the grantee defined metric Diversity for the period July–June is:

July 2017–June 2018: 21,836
July 2018–June 2019: 15,030
July 2019–June 2020: 39,740
July 2020–June 2021: 41,302

Telling your program stories - all programs

Impact of Wikimedia Norge's work in 2020–2021

This is the impact report for the funding period 2020–2020 for Wikimedia Norge. We will try to keep this report concise and focus on some highlights from our work the last year and their impact.

Wikimedia Norge has worked on 3 programs this last year. All three programs have been part of our work for several years, and have a strong focus on a selected group of partnerships and a set of activities and events we do on an annual basis. All the programs have diversity as an overarching theme:

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

2020/2021 has been a year where Wikimedia Norge has taken the experiences we have from national partnerships, and put them to use on an international level. For our organization to be sustainable over time, we think this is a crucial step to take. We see thematic areas, like inclusion of underrepresented groups and language diversity, where we can contribute to the wider movement. These thematic areas resonate with discussion in Norwegian public society, institutions, and academia. This gives Wikimedia Norge opportunities to continue our long term and fruitful partnerships with GLAM and education institutions like The National Library, The National Archives, The National Norwegian Archive for Queer History, The Sámi Archive, OsloMet University, The Arctic University of Norway, and international organisations and Wikimedia User Groups like UNESCO, Global Voices, Art Feminism, Wikitongues and Global Voices.

Wikimedia Norge will continue the next years to focus on a program for knowledge equity both in content and among contributors. We have learned over the past years that this work goes far beyond Wikipedia and the metrics of # of Wikipedia articles and editors. Working with underrepresented groups and content often means you must start with digitalizing archive material to make source material available. But it also means to welcome and take part in discussion on the power structures in society, like we did in the Arctic Art+Feminism project. In this report many of the highlights we describe are projects with video material as outcomes. This reflects the situation of working with underrepresented groups; there is no written academic tradition and hence a lack of source material to use on the Wikimedia projects.

And this goes back to when you look at the difference between, say, Western communities and Indigenous communities. Because a lot of the time what is thought of as literature, is very basic. Something that is written down and printed, or at least, written down on paper. This is literature as we know it, but you can’t really put that way of defining onto a Sámi society. I mean yes, of course we have literature that is defined as literature in a Western context, but we also have our literature, and our literature is oral stories, stories and anecdotes passed down through the generations.
— Arctic Art+Feminism film with Liisa-Ravna Finbog, Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, The University Of Oslo

Choosing to focus on thematic areas that resonate with discussion in Norwegian public society, institutions and academia also means that this is where we find national funding opportunities. The possibility of multiyear funding from Wikimedia Foundation would put Wikimedia Norge in an even stronger and more stable position in conversations with national funders. In this last funding period, we have reached 40 % of our budget being national funding, and with a multiyear funding model from Wikimedia Foundation our ambition will be to reach 50 % national funding over the next 4 years. The Wikimedia Norge strategy will be revised in 2022. Because of this revision, we will wait until 2023 to apply for a multiyear General Support Fund from Wikimedia Foundation to support our goals and objectives. We are very excited this funding model is being tried out, and we are looking forward to working with the Regional Committee.

The biggest project for Wikimedia Norge in the last funding period has been the Arctic Knot Wikimedia language Conference 2021, and our impact report will focus a lot on the outcomes of the conference on a national and international level. At the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021 we wanted to look at the future of indigenous and underrepresented languages and their presence and use on the Wikimedia projects. The conference aimed to provide space and focus for indigenous and underrepresented language communities to connect, learn from each other, and collaborate.

The impact of the conference is most prominent in new international collaborations and networks established during the conference on a possible Wikimedia Language Diversity hub that can support indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. For Wikimedia Norge, the conference was a very important starting point for the work we are preparing for the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022–2032. On a national level the impact of having both the President of the Sámi Parliament and the Minister of Education in Norway giving opening speeches and highlighting the importance of indigenous languages and their use in daily life, public life and digital spaces will play a huge role for our future partnerships and funding opportunities. The conference video pool will help us keep the momentum of the conference when we use them in wiki meetups, events and partnerships or as topics to dive into in more details in blog posts. We have already had requests about reuse of the conference design, about assisting other conferences in brainstorming on program design or practical help. Working with representatives from other chapters and user groups in the conference team made our network on an international level bigger, and will be helpful in future collaborations.

We did our best to make the conference a social space with multiple ways to interact. Having many conference participants from outside Europe joining made the conference program and discussions interesting and diverse, bringing new perspective to the table. The participants spoke a total of 58 languages.
— Quote from the Wikimedia Conference Grant Report

The Wikimedia Conference Grant Report summarize the impact of the conference and you can read it here. Link to Wikimedia Conference Grant Report.

For more detailed information about our work these links are useful:

In the last year, we have worked to document our work an impact by regularly writing blog posts and exploring using videos in different ways. Having this documentation is crucial in building new partnerships and for making social media post with content that are engaging and relevant for our followers. We kindly advise the reader to follow the links we share to blog posts and videos in the report for more in-depth information and details on our work the last year.

We hope you will enjoy reading about Wikimedia Norges’s work!

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

Arctic Knot Wikimedia Langauge Conference logo
Language spiral of languages spoken by participants of Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference
Wikimedia Norge took part in a Revitalization of Endangered Languages session at Hack4OpenGLAM

Highlights

The ongoing pandemic gave us an even bigger reason to celebrate Wikipedia turning 20 years. With the restrictions to fight COVID-19, occasions to celebrate and test out new digital ways of engaging have been important in our work in the last year. To mark Wikipedia's 20 year anniversary, we set up a page on wikimedia.no where everyone could send in their birthday card. Here is a link to the page. We also reached out to the President of the Sámi parliament, the Minister of Culture and the Minster of Education and got some great birthday greeting videos from all three. Having officials recognising all the volunteer efforts that is put into the Wikimedia projects is motivating for everyone who contribute in some way or the other.

The videos by the President of the Sámi Parliament; Aili Keskitalo, Minister of Culture; Abid Raja, and Minister of Education; Guri Melby, and a collection of birthday cards can be watched via this link. In addition, the Chair and the Vice Chair of Wikimedia Norge wrote a newspaper article that was published in one of the major Norwegian newspapers and staff member and volunteer were interviewed on national radio in January 2021 as well about the anniversary.

We have continued monthly digital wiki meetups the last year. Even after the pandemic is over, we will continue to do some of them online, because in many ways they are more inclusive. You can participate from wherever you are based, and you can also participate completely anonymously if you prefer. Every meetup focuses on one topic, and we try to include or reuse content from different partnerships in the meetups. For example, did we have a watch-a-long of the Arctic Knot conference submission on Abstract Wikipedia in August followed by a discussion. Before the wiki meetup we wrote a blog post based on the submission on Abstract Wikipedia to give an explanation both to attendees and those who could not participate. The topic for the September wiki meetup was new contributors. This topic was inspired by this Arctic Knot submission: Help your communities grow. In 2022, one of the meetups will be together with one of the staff members at The National Library presenting how to best search in the libraries archive material.

I care about information access and quality, which are the main reasons I joined as a member. I also know that information quality has been one of your projects, and I would like to support that work.
— New Wikimedia Norge member answering the question why they became a member of Wikimedia Norge

In the last year, Wikimedia Norge has initiated discussions on different levels, inside and outside of the movement, on future support for underrepresented and indigenous languages and their use and visibility on the Wikimedia projects. This support could be in the form of a hub. A starting point is the Wikimedia Language Diversity group and all the people involved in this group. We have put together an ad-hoc steering committee for this work, with representatives from different parts of the world and just recently we put up a Meta page to document what we have done so far. The next steps will be that the group applies for a Movement Strategy Implementation Grant to research some areas where a hub fulfills the strategy recommendations and how it could do it. This will of course depend on how the Movement charter will define new movement structures. Here is a link to the Meta page for the hub work.

The pattern in the logo consists of segments that are chosen from typical Southern Sámi engraving patterns, often engraved on pieces of horn which one can see on knives or on the guksi (wooden cups). Sámi craft practices are called duodji (Northern Sámi), duedtie (South Sámi) or duodje (Lule Sámi). More than being «just» art, the duodji practices are important bearers of knowledge, history and culture. The patterns used in the logo are a compilation of different types of patterns, just like this conference is a compilation of different languages, cultures and histories.
— Wikimedia Norge blog post on the design of the Arctic Knot logo

Impact

The goals we have been working on to achieve for the 2020–2021 funding period were:

WMNO will be an organization that works together with a diverse set of communities and is considered an influential organization in free culture and open knowledge.
WMNO will offer different types of support to new and active volunteers that enables contributions to the Wikimedia projects.
WMNO will support different community initiatives and share volunteers' stories in social media.

Our communication plan is an important tool for us to reach our goal of becoming an influential organization in free culture and open knowledge. The different communication channels we use are: Our website, wiki, blog, newsletters, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

The level of conflict on the Norwegian and Northern Sámi Wikipedias are for the most part low. We hope that the impact of both the direct support (scholarships, press accreditation, access to the Wikipedia Library, support for meet-ups, workshops, newsletters, telegram groups for discussions) and more indirectly support (giving support to volunteers who struggle in different ways, addressing complaints and safe space questions) helps to maintain a low conflict level We believe that finding occasions to celebrate anniversaries or other events and showcase the work of volunteers has an important impact on keeping a low conflict level.

It has been important for Wikimedia Norge to build on the momentum from the Arctic Knot Conference and work on the issues of more support for underrepresented and indigenous languages in the movement aligned with the 2030 movement strategy recommendations. We already have and will continue to share blog posts on Diff Wikimedia and wikimedia.no about outcomes and topics discussed. Another example is that we will reuse a lot of the Arctic Knot material during the Sámi Language week Giellavakkhu in the end of October 2021.

The Artic Knot Conference was an opportunity for Wikimedia Norge to lift partnerships and projects we have from a national to an international level. This expansion in our work will have impact in the next years in our program for Knowledge equity on the Wikimedia projects. Showcasing others and ours work from the conference also has impact when we apply for funding, by linking to video material or blog posts.

Wikimedia Norge blog posts that gives insight into the impact of this program

Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia. Link to blog post
Blog post for wiki meet-up in August 2021 explaining Abstract Wikipedia. Link to blog post
Explanation of the framing of the Arctic Knot conference. Link to blog post
The story about the Arctic Knot logo. Link to blog post
6 lessons learned from Arctic Knot Wikimedia Langauge Conference. Link to blog post

Lessons learned

Working more with volunteers and Wikimedians on an international level teaches us new ways of supporting the Norwegian volunteers and gives us new perspectives on our own work. A continued challenge is to build bridges between Norwegian volunteers and volunteers abroad. We would estimate that about 20 % of Norwegian volunteers have ever heard of Wikimedia Foundation and even fewer feel that strategy recommendations and initiatives are relevant for their contribution on Wikipedia. Our focus will be to continue to give support for volunteers in the areas where feedback it’s valuable and helps offline or online contributions and engagement. We must balance our resources between activities that give support for volunteers and activities that builds partnerships and where we can possibly get local funding.

The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference was the first international conference we have organized. We are pleased it went well. One of our key learning from the conference, and something that has also been part of a discussion with Wikimedia Norge’s previous Wikimedia Foundation Program Officer, is how we should differentiate more in our communication work. We will revise our communication plan next year because of this, and a big part of the revision will be to specify which channels we use to reach which target group. We also want to make sure we document the work we have started on underrepresented and indigenous languages well.

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

Maria Karlsen in conversation with Liisa-Rávná Finbog. Both wearing traditional gáktis. Screenshot from film.
Sámi Parliament President Aili Keskitalo opening speech of The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference
Keynote on Abstract Wikipedia at The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference by Denny Vrandečić, Wikimedia Foundation

As a politician, a Sámi language user and a mother, I want us to have the same chances of using Sámi everywhere.
— Opening speech by President of the Sámi Parliament, Aili Keskitalo, at the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021