Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Les sans pagEs 2023
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Applicant details
[edit]Wikimedia username(s):
- Natacha LSP (professional account of Hyrupex)
Sinkra
Organization:
- Association les sans pagEs
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?
- University of Geneva
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information
[edit]R. Where will this proposal be implemented?
- Switzerland
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:
- International
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)
- Web site : https://sanspages.org/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/lessanspages/ Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/les-sans-pages/ Telegram : https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1379345371 Discord : https://discord.gg/57ev3xCjDq Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKeCR7Nt65TWFQ7sdFq31g mailing list : https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lessanspages
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?
Les sans pagEs is a francophone community effort, a non-profit & non-governmental organization and a Wikimedia affiliated user group. The association was founded to receive funding to financially support members of the Wikipedian project. The user group was founded in 2020, and support users who aim at reducing the gender gap and work on issues related to women, gender issues and are more generally dedicated to diversity and inclusion within the Wikimedia movement from a francophone perspective, adding to the sum of all knowledge. We seek to proactively
- Reduce the gender gap in Wikipedia articles by meeting, attracting and training contributors who understand gender gap issues in Wikipedia and create content accordingly
- Seek for more gender equity and make the Wikipedia community more inclusive by meeting, attracting, training, and showing appreciation to new contributors from all genders
- Make the Wikimedia community more diverse and engaged by promoting cross-project cooperation and synergy on gender gap issues and encouraging participants to find resources and support in the Wikimedian movement to facilitate scale-up.
Les sans pagEs started as a project (with another name in 2015) in partnership with Wikimedia CH, the University of Geneva and the Wikimedia Foundation in order to tackle gender gap issues in the francophone community and work towards more inclusivity and diversity. Our initiatives have been largely successful (more than 12 000 articles produced on fr-wp (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/%C3%89valuation) and the geographical scope has expanded to France (2016), and Africa (Tunisia : 2019, Bénin : 2020, Côte d'Ivoire : 2022, Sénégal : 2022) and America (Haïti :2022, Canada : project for 2023). The gender gap issues however still remain, as well as lack of representation of women and other underrepresented regional or thematic groups in our francophone communities. The project has grown, helping contributors to set up local groups and projects, with a need for more ressources to enable local groups to initiate events and meetups. Many GLAM institutions and universities are reaching out to us to set up more collaborative initiatives as well. Online dashboard tracking reveals than in 5 years 1019 contributors participated to 308 events and close to 300 contributors have actively added newly created articles on the Wikipedia project. (see https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/les_sans_pages_/programs, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Articles_r%C3%A9cents_et_am%C3%A9lior%C3%A9s). The expansion and professionalization of our activities mean that we beed more funding needs to insure a sustained activity and avoid volunteer burn out. We aim to diversify the funding sources, both maintaining the very appreciated support from our historic partners Wikimedia CH, Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Foundation and University of Geneva, and finding additional support from external partners (mostly public institional funding from teh Geneva canton), to support diverse contributors, offer them training and general assistance to facilitate their integration in the Wikimedia community at all levels.
User Group : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Les_sans_pagEs (fr) Wikipedia project : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
• -1- Reduction of the gender gap and more diversity The problem of the gender gap and the lack of diversity and inclusion have been well identified from years within the Wikimedia community, and we have been actively addressing these issues during the last 6 years within the francophone community. We are approaching 20% of women biographies on fr-wp but it took 5 years to get there. The biases & gaps are still very present, and we feel the need for yet more action in this field. Women contributors on fr-wp represent 10 % of all contributors, and there is only 5% of women approx. among top contributors. This leads in turn to biased content. To change this, we believe in bringing more diversity within francophone communities by actively encouraging BPOC, LGBTI+, women, neurodivergent and special need persons to contribute. This is important because a more diverse representation will bring about better coverage of contents that are for the moment not well documented on the projects, as well as more equity within the Wikimedia movement leadership and governance. We also want to bring awareness to underrepresented communities that their contribution to the sum of all open knowledge is precious and very much needed, and empower individuals and organizations that we partner with to spread their wings and start new projects in their local communities, especially in Africa.
- -2- sustainability of our initiatives
The challenges we face are currently brought about by the growth of the project on Wikipedia and its successes. We have received good press coverage, and this has led to more opportunities to work with GLAM and universities that are involved in gender studies and LGBTIQ+ topics, as well as new local leaders willing to organize local initiatives and project pages. To address increased solicitations, we need human resources that are available throughout the week, thus we need to back up volunteer work with professionalized staff. We need to structure our association, bring in more volunteers, and consolidate sustainability at leadership level (this year as for the first time we move from 3 to 4 board members to 7). We have also produced guidelines for facilitators but we still need to work to improve governance and communication, as well as structure future strategic orientations and establish better metrics for the future.
- -3- Inclusion
We face the challenge that many people participating in the user group, the project and the association are new in the Wikimedia movement and that time, empathy and training is needed for them to be fully able to make their voices heard within the complexity of our movement. More transversal communication and outreach activities are needed to convey the many ways in which one can get involved in the movement. To be able to manage multiple communication channels (telegram, discussion pages, Instagram, Twitter, Discord etc.) takes time and strategic thinking that the turn over of volunteers makes difficult to sustain in the long run if a project grows. We have moved from a community of 50 contributors within the first two years to 200, documented the history of the project on Wikipedia and on a fanzine. In July 2022 we had already trained 160 newbies. We also feel the need to address moderation of contributing spaces, which are often conflictual for minorities and newbies, and to push towards the promotion of a culture of respect and inclusion within the francophone community.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- 1- Strategy 1 Improving Inclusion and diversity in the francophone community.
We will continue to build a structured and welcoming environment to empower contributions from underrepresented communities and partner with NGOs that have the same objectives. This is important to achieve a better balance and equity in the diversity of our movement to foster better representation of knowledge that are currently not available on our projects.
- 2- Improving coverage of Gender gap and under-represented contents
We will continue our efforts to reduce the gender gap at content level within the francophone community by maintaining and expanding our activities. We want to sustain our efforts to partner with GLAM and universities to reach out to potential contributors and offer editathons and trainings on topics of gender studies, women and LGBTIQ+ history, intersectionality and feminism. We also wish to assess what contents are missing for LGBTIQ+ topics as this has not been to our knowledge been done on Fr-WP. We also want to initiate more events to cover the african gender gap, an area which is most of the time forgotten. This work includes wikipedia but not only : we plan to continue organizing Wikidata, Wikisource trainings and continue our work with les sans images on Commons.
- 3- Improving sustainability with professionalization of the association
We want to be able to sustain our actions in the long run to tackle diversity & inclusion issues within the francophone Wikimedia movement and gender gap and underrepresented contents so that the sum of all knowledge is more diverse. We want to provide support to leaders of local groups and avoid burn out of volunteers in the long run to tackle all financial, managerial and coordination aspects, as well as provide adequate resources and guidelines to leave them free to contribute and facilitate. We also want to gather concerns from underrepresented communities and empower them to participate more in the leadership of the movement. We think these strategies have proved efficient in the past and that the continuing professionalization of the association will bring more sustainability and regularity to our projects to anchor them in the francophone community. Past in-kind contribution for the leadership of the project has been evaluated to a full time position in 2019. We have already moved to a professionalization of the accounts since 2019. Now we want to avoid volunteers to be burned out and provide professionalization for training, reporting, and general management of the association. We also want to share our nowledge and best practices, as well as our challenges with other similar groups tacking gender gap in other langages. To achieve this is time and human rssource consuming, but croos community support and knowledge sharing is fundamental.
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. Activity 1 Improving Inclusion & diversity To achieve this we will :
- provide help to leaders of local projects and offer them training
- Build best practices within the francophone community concerning underrepresented communities
- Collect concerns expressed by minorities and advocating bringing more attention to these concerns
- Bring more women*, and underrepresented minorities to contribute and participate in the governance of the movement and commit to bringing more african representation in the francophone community
- Train new contributors
- Train our pool of regular contributors to contribute to other projects than Wikipedia (Wikisource, Wikidata, Wiktionnary, Wikiquote, Commons)
2. Activity 2 Improving coverage of Gender gap and under-represented contents To achieve this we will:
- Sustain our quantitative efforts to produce articles about women, feminism, LGBTIQ+ topics and BIPOC history in editathons and online & offline events
- Increase content and quality by maintaining weekly online evaluation, training sessions and organizing thematic edithatons
- Continue producing illustrations for women biographies
- Continue outreach activities to increase readership
- Enable contributors to buy books and subscription to access sources
- Organize events in collaboration with GLAM institutions around the international women's day, and LGBTIQA+ history month, pride and special remembrance days
- Continuing current partnering with GLAMs and universities to teach Wikipedia
- Continue partnering with archives to liberate content around gender, feminist and LGBTIQ+ history
- Seek other meaningful collaborations with GLAM and education organizations to train new contributors
3. Sustainability and professionalization activities To achieve this we will :
- Professionalize the association to sustain the project in order to respond to increased solicitations
- Secure revenue streams
- Achieve adequate fundraising in order to enable professionalization
- Work on improving the governance aspects of the user group
- Provide adequate reports and document the history of the project on Wikipedia by designing fanzine every year and creating historical categories and documenting precisely all activities with reports
- Work on producing better metrics including retention rates
- Maintain the organization of regular annual, monthly and weekly events
- Work on guide lines, best practices and a written guide in French on how to write about women and using an inclusive approach
- Maintain online regular evaluation sessions of the produced contents and make sure an up to date yearly calendar is adopted, communicated for all organized
- Provide technical trainings for project leaders and facilitators
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.
- First semester : organize, plan, and fundraise
(regular monthly and weekly events happening all year round are not mentioned)
- Fundraising (WMFR, WMCH, WMF, canton and city of Geneva) : sept 2022 - March 2023
- Structuring of the association : writing newcomer welcome booklet and documenting all channels of communication, explaining the various processes
- Establish bi lingual annual reports of the user group in French and English : Jan 2023
- Establish sound financial reporting published on the user group (needs to be addressed in the next general assembly) : Jan 2023
- establish sound working environment in Geneva
- support and plan the activity of the board of the association, which has been increased from 2 members to 7 to support the work of the volunteers
- Strengthening and planning collaboration within the Wikimedia movement
- calendar of Wikimedia events in Switzerland with Wikimedia CH
- participate in public meetings of Wikimedia strategy implementation with a special focus on gender related subjects and inclusivity
- plan collaboration work in collaboration with other Wikimedia user groups and hubs : Wikifranca, Wiki loves Africa, Wikidonne, Women in red, Art + Feminism, LGBT user group.
- Continue to provide feedback on the implementation of the UCoC to the French community
- Blogging about learned patterns and events
- publish annual calendar of events on the
- Communicate efficiently on future events and reporting about past events on various platforms (social networks, website...)
- plan calendar for broad communication broadly about the francophone gender gap to the various communities and set up regular reporting practices to document the gender gap from a francophone perspective. (15 activities are already planned but dates have to be defined)
- print flyer with these events
- Send out invitation to African members of LSP in order to let them plan their visas for July (end February)- Set up Annual convention project page with basic logistic details
- help local groups define their needs and provide feedback on the financing their might obtain from les sans pagEs
- Finalize accounts, documentation and invitations for General Assembly to be held in July
- Have the accounts verified (may)
- Finalization of the program for the annual convention
- Mois des fiertés and LGBTIQ history month (June)
- Organize working session concerning website and communication (June)
- Midterm reporting for WMFR, WMF
- March : Women history month (always full of GLAM institution reaching out at last minute to organize an "8th of March event so we leave that month generally free to be flexible)
- wikigap event with UN agencies
- Festival les Zébrures in Limoges (local LSP group)
- Wiktionnary event dedicated to the gender gap with the Cabale de Lyon where there are many Wiktionnarists + event with local archives concerning minorities (April)
Second semester: Fundraise, events, start end reports
(regular monthly and weekly events happening all year round are not mentioned)
- Annual LSP convention in July : finish consequence ladder, start reflecting on further strategic orientations + General assembly of les sans pagEs
- Wikimania Singapore in August
- Start reviewing state of quality articles to push work to have 4 AdQ at the end of the year (work done during evaluation sessions one every two weeks throughout the year)
- grant subscription to fill out for WMCH and WMF
- Les sans images Drawtober (October)
- Annual events around LGBTIQ subjects : Euro pride (September)
- satisfaction poll (November)
- printing of the fanzine and writing guide (monthly session of work will be organized throughout the year)
- Wikimedia Summit ?
- Present activity report at Francophone Wikiconvention (unknown date)
- Vigneronnes and Brasseuses event (October or November)
- Zagreb French institute event in Autumn (date not defined)
- Planning of events for 2024 (November)
- Start preparing March events with GLAM institutions
- Prepare thank you message to post on participants discussion page for the end of the year
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Board members of the association les sans pagEs Sinkra : President, responsible for the Toulouse local group, press relations Wikipucine : treasurer, strategic thinking, trainer and coach, responsible for the Paris local group Etty N, local group Meyrin (Switzerland) Alacoolwiki : secretary, respponsible for the local group Limoges), founder of les sans imagEs Celinea33 : communication expert (based in Chile), active with les sans imagEs Adu229 : responsible for Bénin (Africa) Tyseria online wikipedian with a history of 157 588 edits on Wikipedia, organiser of the 2021 event Commune Month, has written many quality articles Natacha LSP, hired by the association, founder of Les sans pagEs project, 65 340 edits on fr-wp, management of the association, reporting, training facilitators, runs teaching courses and coaching sessions, local group Geneva
Volunteers Tatakdh, board member of WMFR, led monthly events in Montpellier with the archives of the Herault department, archivist Anja, sysop on fr-wp, runs evaluation sessions and online weekly meetings (does not belong to les sans pagEs but helps with the online sessions) Tambuccoriel, musician, organiser of online competition on the subject of female composers Members of the user group : Anthere, helps with the verification of the accounts each year Opsylac, local group Grenoble, organises edithaton with La Casemate (GLAM) Suzy1919, Geneva local group, Ash Crow, wikidata sysop kvardek du, wikipedian AfricanadeCuba, founder of Noircir Wikipedia Kawayashu active in Tunisia AwkwardChester active wikipedian (has produced over 1000 articles of the project), local group Paris Lewisiscrazy, helps on the wikipedia project LurKin membr of Noircir Wikipedia --Insomnie15bis active in Geneva Wikilover90 ( Rajeeb active on LGBT user group Camelia, wikidonne (joint project of Diversity hub) --Lupin~frwiki, helps on wikipedia, organizes monthly Wikisource events Psychoslave Okhjon, wikipedian Adoscam, active in Bénin, Africa Mina Kara, previous student who followed our course at the University of Geneva Lepticed7, board member of wikimedia France, wiktionnary sysop, active on esperanto subjects, Toulouse local group Zblace, croation LGBT contributor, project with Institut Français Zagreb (GLAM) Bluerasberry, LGBT user group
Volunteers on the projects Freecorp, organises Wikisource events Pronoia, active wikipedian, local group Paris, helps on the project on fr-wp
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.
Content Gender gap, Sexual Orientation, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
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.
Our work is mainly focused in fine to produce content that is not yet well documented on the projects such as subjects evolving around women, LGBTIQA+ history and communities and intersectionnal subjects.
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.
Education, Human Rights, Diversity
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.
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
We work closely with groups NGO, archives and libraries and institutions that are dedicated to organize events around underrepresented communities (for example the Zébrures festival in Limoges has events to promote francophone literature of African countries, the gender studies department of the University of Geneva is currently running a 3 year project around Wikipedia contribution) because first of all we need to reach out to potential new editors. We have found that the best way to reach them is by pairing with GLAM and NGOs where these groups are well represented : gender studies department, feminist and LGBTIQA+ archives and organizations as well as libraries provide access to people who love to read and write. Then we have set up a structured approach to welcome them, making sure they are followed in their first steps and find a welcoming atmosphere, and have places in between IRL events to ask questions and get answers. We also offer first tasks to new contributors that follow community rules and founding principles, and have weekly maintenance sessions to follow newly created articles, as well as maintenance tools. Then to increase retention, we plan regular events so that people can come back to the initial setting, and we showcase newly produced articles by tweeting them. We also show case our produced contents on social networks (all produced articles are tweeted via a bot and we blog about events regularly since September 2022), gaining new contributors that way
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?
We try to support respectful communication and moderate the spaces where we are actively involved. As the project grows this is not always an easy task, but some contributors have joined the project especially because of this effort of creating a safe and respectful setting. To ensure this means that all the spaces where we are active are checked every day and all questions answered and issues addressed. We have also designed our own internal code of conduct (we call it "Charte") mentioning explicitly what behaviors are not accepted and we get facilitators and people who intervene in the name of les sans pagEs publicly to sign an engagement to abide by these principles.
13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
Yes
13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
We discussed within the association the proposal to hire paid staff. We had evaluated in-kind contribution in terms of management, reporting, organizing events to the equivalent of one full time position already in 2019, when we presented a budget to WMFR and a partnership was signed. We increased in-kind contributions by electing 7 board members this year, and faced a situation where human resources were needed for management reporting and fundraising, tasks that could not be completely handed out to volunteers without risking burnouts. We have announced the hiring, and that led to both criticism and support (see https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sujet:X29p3n060zjk6rtb&topic_showPostId=x29p3n04gz1z2p1r#flow-post-x29p3n04gz1z2p1r, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_letter_of_support_for_Les_sans_pagEs, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Appel_%C3%A0_commentaires/Sujets_soulev%C3%A9s_par_la_professionnalisation_de_l%27association_homonyme_du_projet_LSP)
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
Yes
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.
We will continue our regular partnerships with the University of Geneva that has long been supportive of our initiatives by providing spaces for contributions and communication of events. We are mostly engaging new contributors through the joint organization of events with GLAM institutions (Gaité Lyrique in Paris, Médiathèque and Zébrure festival in Limoges, University of Geneva Lyon and Paris 8) , and will maintain these activities while also trying to seek new collaboration (in 2023 we are planning new collaborations with the French institute in Zagreb, the UN agencies in Geneva, and the municipal library in Meyrin, LGBTIQ+ archives in Marseille). To these partners we offer our expertise in running events and editathons to teach the public Wikipedia editing around gender gap issues, and we have moved from organizing one-shot events around the 8th of March to proposing more sustainable and regular events in the long run. Diversity issues are part nowadays of a more general effort of society to bring about more diversity and inclusion, and this is a way for these institutions to engage proactively in promoting these issues.
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
Our most basic need at the moment is to ensure the structuring and sustainability of the association which has been gradually moving towards professionalization, first by offering compensation for project managers, then by professionalizing the establishment of the accounts and now by integrating fully management, fundraising, networking and outreach activities in a more structured way. The next year will be dedicated to fund more financial support in Geneva. In 2020 we were asked to lead municipal workshops in Geneva libraries, but did not have the internal capacity to provide volunteers during the week on a regular monthly basis. Now we have that capacity and will be able to respond to such opportunities more regularly. We might also if we need to ask multiple year funding in 2024 if this first APG experience goes well. we are aware that the amount that we are asking for is high given the salary rates in Switzerland. However, we believe that maintaining a Wikimedia constant presence in this international city, were many NGOs and international organizations are found is important for our movement.
We spend time networking outside our project in the Wikimedia movement : Les sans pagEs is a member of Wikifranca. We participated in the francophone wikiconvention, the wikimedia summit. We presented our wikiwitch project to WMCH and to the north american conference, visited Wikimedia Netherlands to take contacts to organize a francophone Wikitechstorm in Switzerland.
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.
- - backlash from Wikipedians who often confuse paid editing and diversity work on the projects
- another pandemia like in 2020 would result in refocusing on online events and diminishing activities
- difficulty maintaining the level of engagement among local volunteers to sustain activity (see increase in participation below)
- adversity on the projects towards new contributors of underrepresented communities leading to leaving the projects
- incapacity of raising sufficient funding to maintain a paid staff over the year
- risk of relying on one person only to maintain administrative, coordinating managing activities
To mitigate these risks we have to document and structure the association and the processes to allow smooth transition of staff in the future. The level of in-kind contribution (not counting the content production) is high and geographically diversified (France, Switzerland, Africa). Participation to our events according to dashboard metrics : total since 2017 1019 participants (see https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/les_sans_pages_/programs)
2017 : 51 participants 2018 : 175 2019 : 384 (need of professionalization identified) 2020 :190 (pandemia) 2021 : 203 2022 : 275
The mitigation plan for us is to sustain the level of activity by fundraising to be able to maintain a full time staff. This person was dedicating 60% of their time throughout the years, and there was also a need to professionalize accounting. The risk if we can't have access to paid staff is facing volunteer burn out and stopping the expansion of our projects and association, which is already showing impact disseminating underrepresented content and empowering women*, LGBTIQA+ and BIPOC and African communities throughout the francophone Wikimedia movement.
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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
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 like to gain more knowledge in how to reach out to potential new contributors and how to retain them.
We would like to learn more about efficient fundraising techniques outside of the movement to achieve secure revenue streams to consolidate our professionalization.
We hope to learn how to retain contributors and encourage them to participate more in governance discussions at all level.
We hope to learn how to sustain the current level of engagement without burning volunteers out.
We hope to learn how to secure strategic collaborations with GLAM institutions over the year.
We hope to learn how to successfully achieve the necessary structuration and professionalization of the association and to beneficiate from other affiliate experience.
We hope to continue learning how to promote a culture of mutual respect within our movement.
We hope to continue learning how to train new and older contributors with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
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.
| Main Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Events | number of dashboard events per year | 100 |
| GLAM events | number of GLAM events per year | 10 |
| Online weekly sessions | online weekly meetups and maintainance sessions of approx 2 hours | 70 |
| Fundraising | Fundraise outside the Wikimedia movement | 25000 |
| Press coverage | press article and interviews per year | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | percentage of editor retention | 5 |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | percentage of organiser retention | 30 |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | number of strategic partnerships obtained | 4 |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | one annual poll conducted to get feedback from participants | 1 |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | percentage of non male participants | 50 |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | number of twitter followers | 4000 |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | maintain current level of engagement (number of hours as estimated in the infind documentation provided) | 1800 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | new participants in 2023 | 100 |
| Number of editors | Newly registered users | 100 |
| Number of organizers | number of trained organizers | 15 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 130 new articles per month responding to notability criteria | 130 |
| Wikipedia | labellised quality articles per year | 4 |
| Wikidata | number of trained new editors to wikidata | 10 |
| Wikimedia Commons | number of trained new editors to commons | 10 |
| Wikisource | number of trained new editors to wikisource | 10 |
21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
We focus on training and retaining new editors, while also training facilitators (best practices, technical knowledge).
22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
We usullay use dashboard systematically since 2017. We would appreciate to learn more about other tools to calculate retention rates. We are planning to get better in metrics. These are the metrics that are important to us and that we plan to continue gathering : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Natacha_LSP/Metrics
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.
- 163721 CHF
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 174661 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.
- We have include the following documents :
- Inkind contribution for management, accounting and facilitating (does not include communication work done on the Wikipedia project which is extenve as each event leads to a report and dashboard see here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs#Actualités) and the financial hourly rate used is the minimum in Switzerland). We have a n average of 25 000 CHF inkind contribution from volunteers, this amount being estimated at 45 000 CHF in 2022 already.
We have also included the evolution of our budget since 2016, which shows a regular increase of amounts throughout the years and subsequent professionalization of accounting and management.
We realize we are asking for a high amount, an amount that would enable us to continue on a sustainable basis in an ideal world. Please note that this budget contains differrences with the document presenting the evolution of the budget from 2016 to 2022, as this one was established before getting feedback from local groups and sollicitations for new 2023 projects.
Please feel free to reach out if you have more questions.
PLease find here an attempt to start working on global metrics so that you have a better image of the global progression in all fields (this was asked on the discussion page) : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Natacha_LSP/Metrics
Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Natacha_LSP/Metrics
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