Grants:Project/Rapid/DarwIn/Fall 2018

What is the purpose of the meeting and why is it important to your community?
This grant proposal covers several events to which members of Wikimedia Portugal have been invited to and workshops we are organizing in relation to a GLAM partnership currently underway with the National Library of Portugal.

Wikimedia España has invited us to take part of several events so that we can exchange experiences, better know each other, and discuss future mutually beneficial common projects. This includes two volunteers to take part in Wiki Takes Zamora, a photo-walk to ensure coverage of all municipalities in Zamora.

We are organizing events to celebrate the 6th anniversary of Wikidata, in collaboration with other Portuguese groups with common interests such as open data.

Finally, we are co-organizing the 2018 edition of the Wikipedia Asia Month in the Portuguese Wikipedia, and we would like to support it with a prize for the winner, since experience shows that even a smal prize often has dramatic effects in the levels of community engagement.

The activities proposed are crucial for the development of activities in Portugal, allowing us to contact potential new editors, bring volunteers from Portugal and Spain closer together, which in turn will allow for the development of future collaborative efforts.

If applicable, what benefits have you seen from doing this kind of meeting in the past?
How will you let participants know about the meeting?
We will announce the public events through the Wikimedia Portugal mailing list and our social network accounts, the National Library will also advertise the event through their internal channels, and the Wikidata days will be advertised together with the co-organizers.
How will you keep participants engaged after the meeting is over?
We will continue engaging with Wikimedia España in view to organize future events and continue to learn from their experience. The GLAM project with the National Library will continue as pictures are uploaded to Commons and metadata to Wikidata.
Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Impact

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As these activities are quite different from each other, their impact will be measured independently, but they all share a common purpose to revitalize the Portuguese chapter. Impact will be measured mostly by new activities the next year, the successful continuation of the partnerships with the National Library, and by the transferable skills Ana will learn through contact with members from Wikimedia España and by participating in her events. On the other hand the events surrounding the anniversary of Wikidata will try to bring new editors to Wikidata, and establish lasting partnerships with groups with interest in open data.

Number of total participants
about 50

Number of people who will help organize the event
5-10

Budget

Wikimeeting "Wikinorte"

Late October / November

- Snacks: 25 €

Wiki Takes Zamora

5-7 October

2 people from WMPT, one of them Ana Cravo

- Fuel and tows: 200 €
- Food: 80 €
- Accommodation: 0 € (covered by Wikimedia España)
- ’’’Sub-total’’’: 280 €

BNP workshop / Lisbon meetings

1-2 workshops + Wikimeeting in Lisbon + meetings with a number of actual and potential partners in Lisbon (BNP, Hemeroteca de Lisboa, teachers of Lisbon universities, and also participants in the Art+Feminism events of March which want to go forward with further partnerships)

18-20 October (delayed)

- Flight tickets Funchal-Lisboa-Funchal: 100€ (Paulo Perneta)
- Train tickets Porto-Lisboa-Porto: 60 € (André Barbosa)
- Accommodation + food (2 nights) + transportation: 125€ (Paulo Perneta/ André Barbosa)
- Snacks for the wikimeeting: 25 €

- ’’’Sub-total’’’: 310 €

Prize for the wiki.pt winner of the Wikipedia Asia Month

WMPT is supporting/co-organizing the 2018 edition of the Wikipedia Asia Month. Past experience has showed that the existence of a concrete prize can make a significant difference with community engagement. We are contacting and dealing partnetships with a number of sponsors in Portugal (including Fundação Oriente) to help with the prizes, but we still need some financial help to get those prizes to the winners.

November

- Delivering fees: - 50€

- ’’’Sub-total’’’: 50€

Wikidata Day / Date with Data

3 November

- 30€ commemorative Wikidata Day cake
- 30€ transportation from Braga-Porto-Braga for Waldir Pimenta (Wikidata editor)

- ’’’Sub-total’’’: 60€

Participation in the International Congress “Rethinking Portugal, Europe and Globalization”

5-6 November
Place: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Communication by Miguel Garcia, from Wikimedia España, with the theme “Wikipedia and the utopy of the global democratization of knowledge”, a privileged opportunity for the divulgation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Movement with the the Portuguese civil society; some logistical support by WMPT; expenses partly covered by the Congress, as part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed last January between WMPT and two of the entities organizing the event.

- 200€ flight London-Lisbon-London
- 100€ hotel (1-2 nights)
- 50€ food / transport
- ’’’Sub-total’’’: 350€

Participation in II Festa do Software Livre - Moita 2018 + BNP GLAM event

23-28 November 2018

WMPT is helping the organization and being part of the second edition of the Free Software Party - Moita 2018, which includes the first Ubuntu Congress in Portugal. The event will take two and half days, and we’re planning to also celebrate the 6th wikidata birthday there. We’ll have a stand, participate on the conferences / debates and probably have a place for workshops / training. It’ll also be an opportunity to set ties with other FOSS community members and associations. Since a number of Wikimedians involved in the National Library (BNP) GLAM will be in Lisbon, a GLAM event is bound to happen at BNP in a third and fourth day after the Moita FOSS event. It includes a first day dedicated to Wikidata workshops and hackatons, and a second day of GLAM conferences and practical GLAM workshops.

- Flight tickets Funchal-Lisboa-Funchal: 100 € (Paulo Perneta)
- Train tickets Porto-Lisboa-Porto: 60 € (André Barbosa)
- Train tickets Porto-Lisboa-Porto: 70 € (Waldir Pimenta)
- Accommodation + food (3 nights) + transportation (inside Lisbon and Lisbon-Moita-Lisbon: 425 € (Paulo Perneta / André Barbosa / Waldir Pimenta)

- ’’’Sub-total’’’: 655€
Total - 1730€

Endorsements

By strengthening our partnership with Wikipedia Portugal, BNP is taking the next steps to share the data of our bibliographic information systems to the world of semantic web, thus contributing to reinforce the presence of Portuguese cultural content on the web. This is a very much necessary cooperation. Miguelmimosocorreia (talk) 15:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
These are key activities to the rebirth of an active and healthy local community. Alchimista (talk) 22:07, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
This series of events will be crucial to start to revitalize the Portuguese communities. GoEThe (talk) 22:07, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
This is a very useful initiative to increase awareness about Wikipedia in Portugal. Hipersyl (talk) 22:07, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Strong support I am very impressed by all this. Wikimedia Portugal has reached a new maturity level. Congratulations to everyone who is involved. Particularly, the initiative with the BNP --which could lead to over 30,000 contributions to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata very shortly-- is probably something the global community should pay close attention to. Best of luck! --Joalpe (talk) 00:09, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
These are all activities with great potential to strengthen partnerships with third-party entities, and to attract individual contributors to the Portuguese Wikimedia community. --Waldir (talk) 11:22, 16 September 2018 (UTC)