Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Finland Annual Plan 2023/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 30 January 2024
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information
[edit]This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results.
- Name of Organization: Wikimedia Suomi ry
- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia Finland Annual Plan 2023
- Amount awarded: 139517.44 USD, 128000 EUR
- Amount spent: 128000 EUR
Part 1 Understanding your work
[edit]1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
Our long-term target has been increasing community engagement, fixing content gaps, and getting new users. To accomplish this, we organized writing events such as the Women's Day weekly competition, "Punaisten linkkien naiset" (Women in Red), participated in Muijii Wikipediaan event and International Roma Day Edit-a-thon 2023 and Tiede Wikipediaan writing competition, and some smaller events. We also facilitated discussions on how content translation tools should be used in the wiki and solved a cross-wiki spamming campaign using content translation.
Another long-term target has been to facilitate Wikidata usage inside Wikimedia projects in a community-acceptable way. For this, we picked tasks that community members requested. For example, we mass-added requested templates, normalized the wiki code of the article pages, fixed maps and location templates, and created shortcuts for adding missing property values to Wikidata. As a result, we doubled the number of articles showing information from Wikidata in Finnish Wikipedia.
As Finnish museums have published images with higher resolution, we re-uploaded Wikimedia Commons images with an improved version. We also added updated file identification information to the photos during the process. As a result, images got working links to the images' web pages in the source repository and image metadata information in structured data on commons format.
Our primary photography outreach campaigns were the Wiki Loves Living Heritage campaign in the summer of 2023 with Museovirasto and Kotiseutuliitto, organizing European Heritage Days in Finland. We could not simultaneously organize the Wiki Loves Living Heritage and Wiki Loves Monuments, so we decided to focus on the first. The second international photography campaign was the Wiki Science Competition in autumn, which included photo and article-writing competitions. As community photographers, we participated in drone and public art photography.
One of our main internal targets was to update our strategy. For this, we got feedback and updated our strategy document for the 2024-2027 period. We also started to use Phabricator and Toggl and increased the usage of GitHub for project management tools and planning. We did iterative experiments on how we should organize the tasks.
As for funding, we participated in Suvi-säätiö, Eesti-Finland Foundation, and the EU communication funding calls. These didn't pass. We also prepared an Interreg Baltic Sea small grants application. For this reason, we decided not to submit the final application, so this remained a means of learning how Interreg calls worked.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
Aiming for activities that produce wiki edits, Phabricator tickets, or GitHub commits made the activities allowed us to break down the activity into series of actions. It also made it easier to measure them and to allows us to follow the long-term impact in the future.
Using wage subsidies was an effective way to finance tasks. However, it also requires more management and planning at the same time. Free online university courses were valuable for learning the skills needed. (such as using GitHub, entry-level programming, etc.)
Combining photo and writing competitions will increase the number of participants and the quantitative results of the activity without increasing the organizing work too much. The impact will improve if the event is linked to national theme days or international competitions.
Our Sami language Wikipedia active Yupik has been a member of the National Library's Finto's (Finnish National Ontology Service) steering group. In 2023, Finto added Northern Sami as a formal language to YSO (General Finnish Ontology). Finto also published its general Wikidata guidelines.
The beneficial aspect of Finto's work is not only the increased use of Wikidata in institutions but also that while organizations are using Wikidata, they update and add information to it. Additionally, this provides CC0-licensed linked term and place name data (for example, in Sami languages) that can be further utilized in Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap projects.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
Utilizing the perceptual hashing to match the Commons images to images in external repositories and store the result in Wikimedia Commons is innovative. Märt Häkkinen developed the method in 2020 in his thesis work for Ajapaik.ee's duplicate detection during the Helsinki rephotography project. However, for 100M Wikimedia Commons images, we scaled the method to work with a huge number of hashes, made hashing more robust, and used Toolforge's Tools database as the backend.
Hiring long-term unemployed persons or persons with barriers to employment using Finnish government salary compensation was new to us. Also, using free university courses as part of tutoring was new. We were also focusing on aspects that would enable social inclusion so that there would not be barriers preventing people from participating in the association.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
For Finnish Wikipedians, we used the Finnish Wikipedia's Current Events page, Newsroom (Uutiset Kahvihuone), and site notice to announce and discuss, reaching an audience already using Wikipedia. The Wikipedian Ystävät group on social media and Facebook groups, in general, were used for a broader audience. Organizing events were also coordinated through OKFI/WMFI/Ajapaik Slack channels. Slack was also connecting the wikipedists in different countries.
A specialized wikiproject focusing on statue photography (Patsasvalokuvausprojekti) had discussions inside Wikipedia, including explaining technical needs and planning. The Sami-speaking community was engaged through Sami Language Wikipedias and using their channels.
Wiki Loves Living Heritage conducted webinars jointly and separately by different organizers. Most notable partners were The National Board of Antiquities (Museovirasto) and the Local Heritage Federation (Kotiseutuliitto), which organized webinars and events. They also utilized their press channels and web pages. WMFI participated in webinars with them and worked as a Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons helpdesk in Finland".
"Muijii Wikipedia" and "Women Journalists Editathon" organizers were communicated to their peer groups through social media. We also had the information wiki project page, and the request was to draft text with sources before the event so that the participant could focus on transforming text and photos into a Wikipedia article with the help of tutors if needed.
In the Wiki Science Competition, we actively contacted potential new partners, which generated organic promotion for the event; we got three jury members for the photo competition and one science education event in February 2024. We promoted the event on Wikipedia with a site notice banner. In the competition pages, there was advice on how to join the competition, and in the writing competition, there was also a leaderboard.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
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- Yearly report in finnish and strategy 2024-2026 prepared in 2023
This month in GLAM posts
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/May_2023/Contents/Finland_report
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2024/Contents/Finland_report
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Neither agree nor disagree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Neither agree nor disagree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
We are satisfied that active actives have gathered around the women's theme and organized editing events with us.
Heikki participated in Villa Karo's annual meeting. Heikki also had a Villa Karo presentation at the WikiInbada meeting.
WMFI participated in organizing a workshop with Anarâškielâ servi and Inari Sami, Wikipedia editors. We supported one Inari Sami editor's participation in the Wikimedia Hackathon. Supporting Finto's Wikidata work seems to be a helpful way to make Wikidata and especially Sami languages to the mainstream.
The National Board of Antiquities (Museovirasto) played a significant role in organizing Wiki Loves Living Heritage events, like the opening and closing ceremonies of the Living Cultural Heritage year. These included participation from non-mainstream groups. Similarly, the Local Heritage Federation (Kotiseutuliitto) coordinated the European Cultural Heritage Days in Finland, enhancing Wiki Loves Living Heritage outreach.
Part 2: Your main learning
[edit]8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
One of our strategic focuses was moving our work to the inside Wikimedia platforms so that the change and impact could be measured. Focusing on managed platforms was also vital as it reduced the time required for maintenance.
At the same time, we wanted to have targets that would allow us to improve our skills and technical capabilities in areas we think will be needed in future tasks.
In this process, we used platforms like Mediawiki, Toolforge, programs that can run locally, Pywikibot, Phabricator, and free Fitech courses by Finnish universities and LLM's such as ChatGPT, but also open source AI tools. With this, We learned much about project work and project working tools and about using AI, such as ChatGPT and open LLMs, as supporting tools.
Tasks we selected that required editing Wikipedia and Wikidata utilizing Pywikibot because it was important for people to learn howto automate tasks. At the same time, we did some pywikibot fixes whose dual purpose was to improve needed features and understand and document how to publish patches through Wikimedia's Gerrit review.
Other technical tasks included passing OAUTH login credentials from an external service (in our case, web apps) to the pywikibot library. Another update was to move our Toolforge apps from the grid engine to Kubernetes and transfer skills to more people related to how to do SPARQL and SQL queries and use other wikidata tools such as QuickStatemens, Petscan Cradle, etc.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
In 2023, there were multiple overlapping events. For example, at the beginning of 2023, Nanna got an offer for a full-time job from a museum project with a short notice from an offer to start. At the same time, Kimmo got Covid-19 and was sick for some time.
Both of these events were things that we did know would happen. People will get sick, and as Nanna graduated in 2022, we did understand that having a full-time job would improve her professional career. However, we would not have prepared that these two events were happening simultaneously, and as the tasks from Nanna were transferred to Kimmo or postponed, our backlog increased.
In 2022 and 2023, we also hired persons who had been unemployed for a long time; we noticed that there were needs we didn't have before. One such thing was that switching tasks needed to be better defined and gradual, and there needed to be enough time to learn new tasks. There were also health needs such as age-related sight problems (i.e., presbyopia), which made using laptop screens unsuitable.
Another was that our occupational healthcare contract covered only certain things; the rest was done in public healthcare. The separation of service providers generated a slowdown from the employer's point of view, and we needed to figure out how things would go forward. We learned these things by doing.
To compensate for these issues, we needed to design projects and tasks to be much more personalized than before.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
The overlapping events highlighted the need for redundancy planning. Implementing a system where multiple team members can do critical tasks can mitigate such risks. Cross-training and documentation of processes can be an effective way to prepare for unforeseen circumstances.
Moving work to in-wiki platforms (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Phabricator, Github) and using tools like Pywikibot is effective for constructing project plans and measuring how we implement them. With this, we also have a broader community to support the projects.
Aligning tasks with future skill and technical capability requirements creates a path for continuous learning. This can be further expanded by identifying emerging technologies and having training sessions or workshops to address these areas.
Since maintaining infrastructure (social, technical, etc.) is resource-intensive, it is prudent to use Toolforge, in-wiki projects, and free courses and focus on platforms with existing support communities. Using these will focus the required skills to ones used in Wikimedia platforms.
We also need to resource enough time for personalized project management to accommodate diverse team needs and well-being, including gradual task transitions and health accommodations.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
I would talk about the "Punaisten linkkien naiset” competition and the Muijii Wikipedia article writing event on biographies of women. I would also discuss Wiki Loves Living Heritage and UN Living Heritage Year as an outreach campaign. I would tell them about our Finna import project and updating images in Wikimedia Commons using Pywikibot. I would also tell them how we technically matched the images using perceptual hashes and feature vectors generated using machine vision. I would also talk about WMEE’s Wikimedia Summer Days event and its follow-ups, such as WMEE visits in Helsinki and WMFI participating in the Wiki Science Competition organized by WMEE. One notable thing would be telling our work in Sami languages, especially in Wikidata and Finto.
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
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- Kulttuurinavigaattori's presentation in Wiki Indaba 2023
Part 3: Metrics
[edit]13a. Open and additional metrics data
- 16.-18.6.2023 Fotosafari (Seinäoki, Alavus, Kuortane, Ähtäri, Ylöjärvi)
- 23.–24.9.2023 — Anarâškielâ servi, Inari
- 4.9.2023 OKFn - The Tech We Want to Open Governments, Tallinna
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geographic diversity of events | The number of municipalities where events have been organized either directly by us or by our partners. | 8 | 8 | ||
| manually counted | |||||
| Number of mediafiles used in wikiprojects | How many media files uploaded by Wikimedia Finland events are actually used in the article namespace | 500 | 2309 | Images in use and uploaded in 2023. There is are users whose images are missing from SQL queries as there were no clean way to separate uploaded images from non wmfi project images.
651 public art photos in use 1647 wikimedia commons uploaded photos in use 11 images from competitions in use |
direct SQL |
| Editor retention | How many users uploaded photos to Wikimedia Commons | 100 | 70 | includes Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_in_Finland, Wiki Science Competition, Photowalks, | sql and manual counting |
| How many users continue editing | How many users started in Wikimedia Finland events have edited after 30 days of the their first edit | 50 | 2 | from punaisten linkkien naiset, roma edithaton, womens day weekly competition, public art project, wiki science competiton there was 2 new registered user who had registered during event and edited 30 days after first edit. | sql and manual checking from edit history |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A | 6 | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | 3 | Journastic photoarchive uploads, request based wikidata additions in fiwiki, enriching the wikimedia commons photos (higher resolution, imagehash matching and adding better identification info to photos) | manual counting |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Target for WLM , edithatons, drone flying, weekly competitions where idea is to directly edit wikimedia projects 250. Target for photowalks, meetups, webinars where a significant number of participants are followers 350, but not doing edits in Wikimedia projects.
56+70+20+27 |
600 | 520 | 210 content editing participants, 520 participants if we include also users and events where there was no editing | ukbot stats, direct sql, notes, custom scripts |
| Number of editors | 250 | 210 | 210 content editing participants. Ie Punaisten linkkien naiset, public art project, drone photography, weekly competitions etc. | ukbot stats, direct sql, notes | |
| Number of organizers | 40 | 50 | number total estimated number of unique organizers | manually counted |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | number of media files uploaded or SDC geolocation improved | 4000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | number of wikidata items created or improved | 10000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | Number of pages created in Women's day and Women in red event (1000), 400 number of pages improved in Public art documentation project, peer-review project and Benin project | 1400 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
No
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
Toolforges database replica is still too slow to all required queries. Least in some cases only way to do the queries are to use mediawiki api which makes collecting the data more complex.
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
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- N/A
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships
[edit]17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| N. Accessing and using data | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Formal training provided by a Wikimedia Movement organizing group (i.e., Affiliates, Grantees, Regional or Thematic Hub, etc.), Peer to peer learning with other community members (but that is not continuous or structured), Using capacity building/training resources online from sources WITHIN the Wikimedia Movement
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of staff time to participate in capacity building/training, Lack of volunteer time to participate in capacity building/training
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
It was unclear what "17. Organizational Capacity" values actually meant. However, values what we used was
- "capacity is low" = this is currently seen as bottleneck. It is most likely already focused
- "capacity has grown, but it should be developed" = neutral
- "capacity is grown over last year" = capacity is high, no problem here
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Board members’ outreach, Volunteers from our communities, Staff hired through the fund
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of staff capacity to respond to partners interested in working with us
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
The bottleneck is not getting good quality partnerships but designing activities to attract new editors. For example, it is easy to get people to show up at the events, but it is much harder to get them to register an account, upload photos, and edit articles. Even more complex is to get them to continue editing. And if we are doing as many events or partnerships as possible, we do not have time to think about what is required to make the getting new editors part successful.
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration
[edit]21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
WMFI is part of the free knowledge movement as a whole. It is important to have a full stack as open, which means that open knowledge includes open source, open documentation, open data, open hardware, open APIs, etc., so everyone can take advantage of open knowledge and build on it. It is building blocks which is equally available for all. Wikimedia Finland's place in this is that we can also support volunteers in producing and utilizing free knowledge. We can also promote open knowledge by showing how free knowledge is used and why it is so valuable that organizations open their content.
At the same time, we need to discuss inside editor community what is fair in context of other part of movement. For example, not all information can be published as it can be seen as private or it can put people in danger. WMFI is one facilitator for community discussion, which is needed to create best practices.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Stayed the same
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
N/A
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
Stayed the same
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
On a personal level, the focus varies from person to person. Core persons have a long-time background in the free knowledge movement, and their involvement is deep but varies between years. For example some core person's personal investment has increased significantly as there were more complex things to solve, and the focus has been on in-wiki projects. There are also core persons whose sense of personal investment is decreased as their activities are focused on work or personal life outside Wikimedia.
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
We are working with Villa Karo's support group. We have also long collaboration with Ajapaik.ee actives. Also working with swedish, sami and other indigenous language groups are important motivator to us.
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration
[edit]We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
Yes
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
Kulttuurinavigaattori had presentation about Villa Karo in WikiInbada, Yupik organized workshop with Anarâškielâ servi. Kimmo also participated to WMEE Summer days. We had also regular discussions with Ivo and Vahur of WMEE on how to organize photography events, what we learned and what we are trying to do.
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
We do this occasionally (less than once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
We have also done joint events with WMEE. WMEE members have visited in Helsinki where we had meeted them and we have gone to Tallinna, Eesti. We have also joint slack channels where we are discussing. Sami wikipedia have cross-chapter editors. (mostly WMNO and WMFI)
WMFI also have active communication with AvoinGLAM and OKFI which includes a monthly meetings with OKFI's executive director and we also have regular communication with AvoinGLAM. This consist on practical level skill sharing and questions how something technically can be done on wiki or wikidata. There is also log of general information on interesting activities.
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
128000
31. Local currency type
EUR
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
The main change in terms of budget was that Nanna got a full-time job outside Wikimedia Finland. As a result, we split the WLM and photography coordinator task funding between Kimmo and Ilkka and per project allocated tasks. For example, the Wiki Science Competition, Wiki Loves Living Heritage, and some competitions. This also had broader changes in what we did on photographing projects, including focusing on Wiki Loves Living Heritage and skipping WLM.
Another visible difference was that the COVID-19 effect has been diminishing, and people are traveling more; we expect this to be a long-term trend.
AI datathon in Estonia, where WMFI was participating, was not organized in 2023 and ideas related to that are postponed to Wikimedia Hackathon Tallinn 2024 and related AI Hackathon in Helsinki.
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
37. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.