Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/2021 Shared Knowledge Grant.
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Applicant details
[edit]Wikimedia username(s):
- Dandarmkd, Kiril Simeonovski, Ehrlich91, Инокентиј, Иван Ж
Organization:
- Shared Knowledge
G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?
- Applied previously and did receive a grant
H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?
- Yes
H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?
- Grant by the Government of Republic of Macedonia, and by Goette Institute.
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information
[edit]R. Where will this proposal be implemented?
- North Macedonia
S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:
- Local
S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)
- N/A
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Proposal
[edit]1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?
Organization with the main goal of managing the initiatives and projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the territory of Macedonia. Shared Knowledge deals with multiplying at Wikipedia articles in Macedonian language, spreading the grid of wiki users, promoting Wikipedia and its use and knowledge, uploading images and other media for greater and better illustration of Wikipedia articles and sister projects.
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
Hence the Wikimedia is all about human interact, the relative problem is gathering or acquiring people, whether they would be for editing, photographing, external collaborators, experts at some field, logistics personnel, that Shared Knowledge i.e. Wikimedia would have high final outcome, productivity and accomplished metrics.
In order to overpass this issue, Shared Knowledge and it's activists should be exact in their activity of invocating the in future current objectives, to the regular people, no matter they are old or new Wikipedians, be active on the social media, making big media outreach in TV and radio stations, newspapers, websites. etc. With making popular our ideas and goals, and making true connection to the community. We would overcome and check 2022 as a successfull year.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- Expeditions are adventurous wiki activities intended for covering the unexplored regions or micro regions, that are rural by characteristics, by the Macedonian Wikimedians. These engagements are highly productive in images and content. With taking essential media/images, we are bringing closer the visited places and the Wikipedia visitors or Internet users in general. So, again, they will be our main focus. Expeditions are divided to Wikiexpeditions with four editions, Veloexpeditions with two editions, Geoexpeditions with one edition, Archaeoexpeditions with two editions. Wikiexpeditions are logistically by SUV, the Veloexpeditions are by bicycle. Geoexpeditions and Archaeoexpeditions are themed based and cover geographical and archaeological sites, respectively.
- WikiVillage is about promoting village buildings listed as Cultural Heritage of Macedonia. This had an inaugural engagement in 2021. The plan is to intall QR-code plaques, leading to an article of the respective house and/or other building. The plaques are inserted in the proximity of the house. WIth this action we highlight the national cultural heritage buildings, promote them and the village itself and Wikipedia of course. In 2022, we will cover one or two villages depending on the number of buildings listed as cultural heritage.
- Wikiexperiments as a project has high productivity and there is a big interest of cooperation among the university professors that make the experiments program and present it in their respective videos. According to the statements of the professors and/or their assistants, these kinds of videos really ease the time and energy at the teaching of the students, and they admit the real need for a recorded presentation of experiments for the students.
- WikiLectures will be a brand new activity consisting of video recording of a professor solving a math or physics equation. This is very helpful and much more illustrative due to the entire process being explained. These videos later will be put on proper articles and our organization will promote them among the teaching community for greater usage and implement of the made lectures.
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?
No
5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?
- N/A
6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
- University professors due to Wikiexperiments, WikiLectures and Mentorship of University professors objectives. They have proper education, expertise, and working conditions for realization of objective such as Wikiexperiments and WikiLectures at filming natural science videos and lectures in mathematics and physics.
- University and high school students due to Mentorship of University and High School Students objective. The connection with the professors can ease the reach towards the students in order to make valuable content on Wikipedia.
- Members of various associations, societies, federations, groups that have the proper knowledge and expertise. The people are from many fields of activities and can provide us with certain number of their activists, staff, external people that can make valid in information articles.
- Amateur and professional photographers for the Photo Competitions and Photohunt objectives. These are people that are enthusiasts for the outdoor and both side benefit at some activity that is being implemented.
- Executives of institutions and/or organizations, and their staff, in which we see collaboration in the Partnership program. Every year, some GLAM institution is being visited by Shared Knowledge and we tend to have full support of institutions at approval of the activity, photographing notable exhibits/objects that belong to the institutions, handover of literature and other material that can be used as references, and editing activities in big or small scale.
12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?
13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
N/A
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.
17. 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.
18. 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.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
[edit]19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We would get to know new contacts and people that can help us in new possible activities and objectives, directly and indirectly.
20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.
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Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target |
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| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A |
21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
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| Number of participants | N/A | N/A |
| Number of editors | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers | N/A | N/A |
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21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
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22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
Financial Proposal
[edit]23. & 23.1 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.
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 0 USD
23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.
- N/A
Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s):
Final Message
[edit]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.
We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- No
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