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Welcome to this project's final report! This report shares the outcomes, impact and learnings from the grantee's project.

Part 1: The Project

Summary

We have focused on enlarging the community working on the gender gap in francophone wikimedia projects both through local initiatives and events and trying to maintain an active wikipedian page reporting all events, sharing information and insights. We identified local leaders who could be encouraged to build their own group and projects locally, this part being one of the the most challenging, as well as grow the online community on the project page.

All local groups have planned and organized events at their local level to reduce the gender gap on the francophone Wikipedia and Wikisource.

The activity of all groups has been tracked on dashboards program here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/les_sans_pages_/programs

Link to annual report (more complete for 2019) ː Les sans pagEs/Report 2019

Project Goals

Our goals were :

To reduce the gender gap in Wikipedia articles by meeting, attracting and training contributors who understand gender gap issues in Wikipedia and create articles accordingly
To make the Wikipedia community more diverse and inclusive by meeting, attracting and training contributors from all genders, who understand gender gap issues in Wikipedia and proper care of gender minorities
To make the Wikimedia community more diverse and engaed by promoting cross-project cooperation on gender gap issues and encouraging participants to find resources and support in the Wikimedian movement.
takeoff of 4 new locations:
- Nantes (FR) The group beneficiated from financing by les sans pagEs until june 2019, after which it functionned independently securing a partnership with Wikemedia France.
- Paris (FR) The group constituted aroud the Gaité Lyrique events was sucessfully launched and kept activities aftrwards, securing a succesful partnership with the Gaité Lyrique.
- Grenoble (FR) this group held one event in collaboration with La Casemate, but volunteers were not able to use their budget, which was transferred to Maerseille.
- Marseille (FR) a local group was launched in Marseille that held regular events in Urban Prod.
- Montpellier : al local group emmrged aroud the Archives départementales de L'Hérault in Montpellier.
- Sion (CH) the group was sucessfully launched securing a partnership with Via Mullieris, a local association concerned with the local history of women. We held our first annual event in Sion in june 2019.

Project Impact

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Targets

In the first column of the table below, please copy and paste the measures you selected to help you evaluate your project's success (see the Project Impact section of your proposal). Please use one row for each measure. If you set a numeric target for the measure, please include the number.
In the second column, describe your project's actual results. If you set a numeric target for the measure, please report numerically in this column. Otherwise, write a brief sentence summarizing your output or outcome for this measure.
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Metrics collected through the dashboards through 2018 https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/les_sans_pages_2018/overview

Planned measure of success (include numeric target, if applicable)	Actual result	Explanation
Achieve 1000 new articles on les sans pagEs	2,632 articles created, among which 1684 articles added proactively to the project in 2018.	see here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Articles_r%C3%A9cents/Archives/2016-2018 and https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs/771

Train past participants to wikidata and commons	one specific event organized in Marseille, with plans to do more in 2019-2020. 8,485 files uploaded in use and 4,731 wikidata items created	source : https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs/771
Train from 3 to 10 regular contributors in each location	Sion : 3, Grenoble : 3, Paris : 10 , Nantes : 4	3 regular contributors is a very good result for Sion, as this is a town of 30 000 inhabitants.
Train 50 new contributors globally	most participants were newbies.	Our edithatons and events attract maily new editors
Achieve a total of 250 contributors on the project, both new and experienced	510 participants
launch 4 new locations	5 new location launched (Marseille, Sion, Paris, Nantes, Grenoble)	unused budget from Nantes and Grenoble was allotted to a new emmerging group in Marseille.

Story

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This should not be a list of what you did. You will be asked to provide that later in the Methods and Activities section.
Consider your original goals as you write your project's story, but don't let them limit you. Your project may have important outcomes you weren't expecting. Please focus on the impact that you believe matters most.

We managed something difficult to quantify in metrics, but impactful for organizers : having female contributors smile after publishing their first article. We were able to train many new contributors and to maintain events that people enjoyed and liked coming to in diverse geographical locations in Switzerland and in France.

The people from the local groups were able to travel, connect and meet each other, creating an emulating spirit and helping the exchange of experiences and practices. During this period we structured the way we were working, using systematic reporting of events using the dashboard and also establishing good practices of reporting on ever single event to document the history of the project.

We were also able to exend contribution to Wikidata, Wikisource and start constituting a pool of facilitators and leaders for the Wikimedia movement. While participation to governance issues is difficult to envisage for new women francophone contributors, organizing annual events helps to connect people having a leadership position in local groups and to start elaborating a common strategy which led in 2019 to the desire to constitute a user group.

We had many dreams and ideas emmerging from groups that may not have the highest impact in terms of metrics, but provided an occasion to gather and have far reaching conversations concerning diversity and inclusion issues.

Survey(s)

If you used surveys to evaluate the success of your project, please provide a link(s) in this section, then briefly summarize your survey results in your own words. Include three interesting outputs or outcomes that the survey revealed.

We did not make any surveys, we were pretty much concentrated on dashboard systematic tracking of events, and reporting.

Other : final remarks from geographical groups

Geneva

Geneva continued weekly events at the university of Geneva every thursdays. Two contributors came over to get help to establish a new project, and this was probably the most valuable achievement in terms of diversity, leading to Noircir Wikipedia, a project dedicated to bring more content about afro descendant people on Wikipedia.

Grenoble

We had planned to organize 3 edit-a-thons + 1 workshop around female youtubers and wikipedia + "keep in touch" with other Les sans pagEs groups

"3 editathons : create a local movement"

2 edit-a-thons on "Women and Science" and "Women and Astronomy" with our partner La Casemate (04/25/2018 and 03/08/2019)
1 edit-a-thon on the Gender Gap within the #EllesFest festival with our partner Le Magasin des Horizons (09/08/2018)
1 mini-edit-a-thon about "Juliette Bertho" (female film director from Grenoble) with the Cinémathèque of Grenoble (11/21/2018)

We managed to get a range of Grenoble actors aware of the Gender Gap issue and establish links for the future.

"Workshop : Women on Wikipedia through Women on Youtube"

This project coulnd't be organized because of a series of reasons :

personal reasons took time out of my agenda and this project demanded a lot of organizationnal work
our main partner (La Casemate), which was supposed to host it, had their venue burned down by a criminal fire (still not fixed after one year and a half)
the WikiConvention Francophone took place in Grenoble (WMFrance announced it only after the grant was confirmed), which took energy from the local group and saturated the calendar for partners

Fortunately, a new Les sans pagEs group ("Méditerranée") was created in the meantime, and the remaining of our funds could be transfered to them.

I still hope we can make such an event happen in the future, maybe gathering more partners in order to have everything properly financed (including organizational work).

Keeping in touch

I (Opsylac) could participate in two edit-a-thons, one in Paris and one in Sion.
I was trained to use the dashboard instruments at the WikiConvention
Aude, other user from Grenoble, participated in the MAMCO edit-a-thon in Geneva.

Nantes

Getting reports from Nantes and feedback was challlenging. The group has a strong desire to be independant and to function independantly from les sans pagEs. The ties remain strong, many contributors contribute both to les AFFs and Les sans pagEs (especially LGBTIQ+ contributors active in the partnership between Les sans pagEs and Queer Code).

Marseille

This group was launched in June 2018. In 2019, it was very active with events with various goals, outreach, visibility, training etc. Its main focus was to get more visible in the Mediterranean space and bond with local groups in the open source mouvement (AïoLibre). An event was also organized in the city University Library. The hope of the local group was to recruit more participants and expand the group for more impact. Whilst expanding partnerships and opportunities was quite successful and long lasting, the recruitment did not really follow.

Amongst other elements worth of mention, a representant of Wikidonne, Camelia Boban, came over to visit, and the group organized a wikidata training for the 6 years anniversary of wikidata.

Montpellier

Description / History

2017 : Beginning within the framework of the GLAM agreement between the Hérault Departmental Archives and Wikimedia France The Women and Feminism (Hérault) Contribution Workshops on Wikipedia are offered by the Hérault Departmental Archives, It is a friendly moment, each person brings what they want to eat and drink for a shared meal. Wikipermamence of February 6, 2017 Wikipermamence of February 6, 2017 Wikipermamence of February 6, 2017

2018 : Increasing skills The workshops "femmes et féminisme (Hérault)" is an event proposed as part of the partnership between the Hérault Departmental Archives, Wikimedia France and Montpel'libre. These workshops aim to bridge the gender gap, make women more visible in Wikipedia and bring more women into the contribution. It is a time slot where people gather to discover Wikipedia, write, edit, translate or illustrate an article. Participants can either create an account on Wikipedia in advance, or create one the same day, and come (if possible) to the Wikipermanence with a computer. The space has a few computer workstations but you should not hesitate to bring your own equipment. The Archives offers documentary files ready to be used to feed existing pages or to create new ones, but all proposals for articles and biographies are welcome. The idea is to write about what affects us first and foremost.

September 2018 : Participation in the creation of a group specific to the Mediterranean : lsp med The Hérault Departmental Archives wanted to join the movement of those without Mediterranean pages. The event is then always proposed as part of the partnership between the Hérault Departmental Archives, Wikimedia France and Montpel'libre. In the form of wikipermanences, the stated objective is to help bridge the gender gap, make women more visible in Wikipedia and bring more women into the contribution. The new title of the wikipermanence is "History of women in the Hérault". The Archives offers documentary files ready to be used to feed existing pages or to create new ones, but all proposals for articles and biographies are welcome.

2019 : Setting up Archiwiki Matrimoine workshops The Hérault Departmental Archives continue their participation in the movement of the non-Mediterranean pagEs, and maintain the holding of recurrent workshops to help contribute to the history of Hérault women, taking the name "Archiwiki" from January 2019 onwards: understanding the contraction of the term Archives and Wiki. The Archives also confirms its place within the overall GLAM project (acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). New in 2019: the workshops are held on the first Saturday of the month

Events

Significant

September 2016: signature of the Wikimedia France agreement and the Hérault Departmental Archives - GLAM project
November 14, 2016: Wikimedia conference in pierresvives
November 25, 2017 - 1st Editathon "Women and Feminism in Hérault" organized in pierresvives
March 17 2018 - 2nd Editathon "Women of science" with Montpellier University, Montpel'libre, les sans pagEs and the Hérault Departmental Archives " at the University Library

Recurring

January-June 2018 - Monthly workshops in the form of wikipermanences "Women and Feminism in Hérault" organized in pierresvives, every first Tuesday of the month 6pm-9pm. As part of the SanspagEs project. Animation provided by Montpel'libre and the mediators of the Hérault Departmental Archives
September-December 2018 - Monthly workshops in the form of wikipermanences "History of women in the Hérault" organized in pierresvives, every first Tuesday of the month 6pm-9pm. Within the framework of the project of the SanspagEs/Méditerranée. Animation provided by Montpel'libre
January-July 2019 - Archiwiki Hérault workshops, every first Saturday of the month 10am-1pm. Alternating between the Archiwiki Patrimoine and the Archiwiki Matrimoine de l'Hérault (animation provided by the SanspagEs and the Hérault County Archives)

Assessment after 2 years of workshops

40 items created
About twenty wikipedien.ne s trained in the contribution
A Wikipedia woman trained to train and supervise new contributors, and elected to the Board of Directors of Wikimedia France in November 2019

Paris

The Paris group held monthly sessions which are reported here.

Here a the events, themes (in French) and links to the dashboards :

Samedi 20 janvier 2018 : Femmes sportives
Samedi 17 février 2018 : Afrocyberféminismes
Jeudi 8 mars 2018: wiki4women, session multilingue spéciale à l'UNESCO
Samedi 24 mars 2018: Femmes en biologie et écologie
Samedi 28 avril 2018 : Femmes et musique → inscription
Samedi 19 mai 2018 : Femmes, transmission, éducation → inscription
Lundi 21 mai 2018 : hors-série en extérieur, sur les poétesses au Parc de Belleville
Samedi 16 juin 2018: Femmes et danse
Samedi 20 octobre 2018: Voix de femmes (Wikipédia + Lingua Libre)
Samedi 17 novembre 2018 : Feminina non data (Wikipédia + Wikidata)
Samedi 15 décembre 2018 : Femmes et jeu vidéo

Vendredi 4 janvier 2019 meeting with France 2 Télévision for a TV show Projet:Les sans pagEs/Paris/Femmes au Père Lachaise.
Samedi 12 janvier 2019 : Femmes dans le domaine public
Samedi 9 février 2019 : Femmes, musiques et cinémas
Samedi 16 mars 2019 : Femmes et informatique
Samedi 6 avril 2019 : Art+Féminisme
Journée de la femme digitale à la maison de la radio
Samedi 25 mai 2019 : Cyberféminisme
Samedi 15 et dimanche 16 juin 2019 : Afrocyberféminismes #2 week-end de conclusion de l'année !

Partnership with the Gaité Lyrique has strengthened in the meantime enabilng the group to be a meeting point far all the project members in Paris.

Sion

The events and activities of the group were organized regurlarly throughout the grant, with a major final event in June 2019 regrouping all the local project leaders and project members who wished in Sion for our first ever annual meeting on the theme of burned witches. All the events and dashboards are listed here

Methods and activities

Please provide a list of the main methods and activities through which you completed your project.

organize events in diverse locations in France and Switzerland
organize one annual event to help local groups to connect
provide training to local facilitators on how to set dashboards, project pages. These activities were structured throughout 2018 and 2019
provide information about governance within the Wikimedia movement
coach female contributors willing to set up their own projects
provide food and conviviality to convey a positive mindset and a sense of communtity

Project resources

Please provide links to all public, online documents and other artifacts that you created during the course of this project. Even if you have linked to them elsewhere in this report, this section serves as a centralized archive for everything you created during your project. Examples include: meeting notes, participant lists, photos or graphics uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, template messages sent to participants, wiki pages, social media (Facebook groups, Twitter accounts), datasets, surveys, questionnaires, code repositories... If possible, include a brief summary with each link.

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Learning

The best thing about trying something new is that you learn from it. We want to follow in your footsteps and learn along with you, and we want to know that you took enough risks in your project to have learned something really interesting! Think about what recommendations you have for others who may follow in your footsteps, and use the below sections to describe what worked and what didn’t.

What worked well

What did you try that was successful and you'd recommend others do? To help spread successful strategies so that they can be of use to others in the movement, rather than writing lots of text here, we'd like you to share your finding in the form of a link to a learning pattern.

I've tried three times to build a learning pattern. 3 times i rewrote everything and everything was lost upon publishing. I dont have the time and energy to restart again, sorry.

developping synergies among participants and create a sense of community around the francophone gender gap issue
the number of events, pubished articles and press review
we noted that events organized around partnersphips with a local GLAM organization helped to reach out to potential new contributors and led to more participants

Your learning pattern link goes here : Learning patterns/Building a community around gender gap issues

What didn’t work

What did you try that you learned didn't work? What would you think about doing differently in the future? Please list these as short bullet points.

budgeting by geographical group turned out to be time consuming, difficult to enact remotely, and not flexible at all. Some groups are very active and develop finacial needs whereas others were not able to fulfil the objectives and we had to reallot the budgets to other geographical locations which took time and energy.
we did not manage to write quality articles, this objective was not met, because the project worked so well that we were caught in activities of training newbies.
There was a will from some local projects to manage things at local level, even financially. This led to a reflection on how to promote intersectional solodarity, while in turn not centralizing too much. We moved towards an approach of distinguishing between "sans pagEs projects" which all have a subpage on our project, and "allied independant projects" that we help to get established but who wish to be independant in the long run (Noircir Wikipedia, Les Affs). Once again, the goal being diversity and inclusion flexible approaches have to be adopted.

Other

If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please list them here.

There is an expressed need to secure revenue streams to be able to sustain efforts in diversit and inclusion issues. Women from the diverse local groups expressed the difficulty in managing to learn contribution, project management and participate in govrnance of our Wikimedia movement : these are all time consuming activities that are not all sustainable with a volunteer perspective. Some activities such as organiszing, facilitating and managing projects should be retributed.

Next steps and opportunities

Are there opportunities for future growth of this project, or new areas you have uncovered in the course of this grant that could be fruitful for more exploration (either by yourself, or others)? What ideas or suggestions do you have for future projects based on the work you’ve completed? Please list these as short bullet points.

have a more flexible approach towards local project financing to avoid time consuming activities of changing budget allocation
constitute a francophone community dedicated to reducing the gender gaps and biases on our projects and form a user group
working on issues concerning harrassement and microaggressions
develop more partnerships with GLAM institutions

Part 2: The Grant

Finances

Actual spending

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DRAFT: it has not received final approval from Nattes à chat

Expense	Approved amount	Actual funds spent	Difference
Nantes local group funding - CHF	2,028	1,448.80	- 579.20
Grenoble local group funding - CHF	505	684.55	+ 179.55
Paris local group funding - CHF	1,507	1,994.97	+ 487.97
Sion local group funding - CHF	3,269	3,569.95	+ 300.95 variation under 10%
Mediterranean local group funding - CHF	3,095	4,526.98	+ 1,431.98 due to 1- wrong forecast as 2018 expenses reported lately when updating budget/expenses at 2018 review 2-actual costs of 1,500 CHF per half year. i.e. 4,500 spent over Grant duration
Geneva local group funding - CHF	1,200	1,284.88	+ 84.88 variation under 10%
Web site - CHF	250	1,175.21	- 925.21 due to 1- annual cost underestimated (587 CHF per year) 2- renewal period in 2nd Qt --> two period considered over Grant duration
Travel cost - CHF	7,486	8,013.67	+ 167.67 variation under 10%
Project manager - CHF	2,000	2,299.80	+ 299.80
Total	21,700	24,998.81	+ 3,298.81

Remaining funds

Do you have any unspent funds from the grant? No

Please answer yes or no. If yes, list the amount you did not use and explain why.

No

If you have unspent funds, they must be returned to WMF. Please see the instructions for returning unspent funds and indicate here if this is still in progress, or if this is already completed:

No unspent funds.

Documentation

Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grantsadminwikimedia.org, according to the guidelines here?

Please answer yes or no. If no, include an explanation.

Yes

Confirmation of project status

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?

Please answer yes or no.

Yes (apart from being late in reporting due to personnal impediments and technical issues around learning patterns)

Is your project completed? Yes

Please answer yes or no.

Yes

Grantee reflection

We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on what this project has meant to you, or how the experience of being a grantee has gone overall. Is there something that surprised you, or that you particularly enjoyed, or that you’ll do differently going forward as a result of the Project Grant experience? Please share it here!