Application or grant stage: approved

Applicant or grantee: applicant

Amount requested: 42,702,000 KRW

Amount granted: 42,702,000 KRW

Funding period: 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2019

Application created: TBD

Recommended application date: 1 November 2018

Midpoint report due: 15 July 2019

Final report due: 30 January 2020

Please link to or provide your annual program plan and annual budget here, and add your targets to the grants metrics worksheet.

Programs

Community support

All of Wikimedia projects are being created and maintained by communities. As an affiliate of Wikimedia movement, it is the most important for us to support the communities. We annually hold a conference to help Korean Wikimedians to improve their Wikimedia-related knowledge and share their experiences. We also award dedicated users to encourage the Korean Wikimedia communities. We thinks it is critical to maintain community heath or diversity. To achieve that, we will host serial editathons for women and new users.

WikiConference

We annually hold a national conference for both skilled users and new comers in Seoul. We will mainly talk about how Wikipedia editing can give students special and various experiences in our annual conference, because many students don't have opportunities to have various experiences because they usually have to stay in their classroom in South Korea. We will invite a high school teacher as a speaker and request them to share their experience. We are also planing to invite an education expert or researcher from Wikimedia Foundation or other organizations to explain Wikipedia's advantage as an educational tool to teacher and parents.

Objectives:

delivering new knowledge related to Wikimedia project
introducing usefulness and publicness of the project.
sharing and discussing users' experience related to the project.

To evaluate the goals, we will conduct a survey for the participants. Before the conference, we will talk with users on Korea Wikimedia projects to know what the community needs.

The program will include:

what students can experience on Wikipedia when they submit their assignments.
introduction to Wikidata-driven infoboxes
presentations delivered by Wikimedia users

Measure of Success:

over 80 participants
20 active users
over 5 presentations
3-4 videos
one new project for the new infoboxes

Wikimanina Scholarship

Since 2017, we have granted a travel scholarship to a Korean Wikimedian. We will also offer the scholarship to share global issues related to Wikimedia projects and inspire them to launch new projects.

Objectives:

We will choose one grantee from Korean Wikimedia Community and request he/she to submit a report to share global issues regarding Wikimedia.
We expect the report to inspire users to launch at least 1 new projects. To know it, we will require the grantee to report if he/she launch a new project and keep track of new Wikiprojects.

Awards for Dedicated Users

Since 2016, we have given a prize money to dedicated users, which is called "Wikimedians of the Year." In 2018, we expanded categories from two to four, and we will maintain it next year. A ceremony event for the winners became one of the most important events in Korean Wikimedia community, and it will be held in the form of an unconference.

Objectives:

We will award cash prizes to 4 users from 4 categories. We expect the prize to encourage active users. To measure long-term impact of this program, we will interview the recipients and keep track of their activities for one year.
we will held a winning ceremony with an unconference. We evaluate this ceremony became a place to talk about Wikimedia-related issues.

Editathons for New and Women Users

Since we established, we have held an editathons for new and women users. We know that serial editathons are more efficient than a single editathon, but it was very hard to motivate new users to attend follow-up events. We think we need find other community or organizations or create a new community to achieve it. We think Wikimedia Taiwan's A Room of WikiWomen's Own project is a good case, and we will model our own project after it.

Objectives:

To draw women users and maintain their own community, we will hold at least one offline meetup for women users a month. We expect 5 women users to participate in per event, and we will edit or create 1-2 articles related to women. We also have a plan to join in Art&Feminism project as a part of this program.
To draw new users, we will host over 2 serial editathons. We anticipate total 10 people attending. We think it is the most effective to help them to edit articles they are interested in, and encourage them to upload their own pictures.

Partnership

To draw new users and collect new contents, we need to build partnerships with outer organization including libraries, museums and schools. We are cooperating an association for libraries and educating librarians. We think this cooperation is successful and we will maintain it next year. We are also planning to teach staff members in museums to improve Wikipedia articles and collect images. To draw potential users, we help teachers and their students to use Wikimedia projects as an educational tool.

Libraries and Museumes

We are cooperating with Korea Library Association (KLA) to educate librarians and develop new program. We evaluate that the cooperation has been successful until now. We will educate Wikipedia to 12 groups of librarians in 2018. We will strengthen the cooperation with them, and promote 1Ref1Lib project to librarians.

Objectives:

To draw new librarian users, we will hold 10 editathons or seminars. We expect 5-10 librarians to attend per event.
To draw libraian users, we will promote 1lib1ref project and Wikitown project and host at least 2 events at libraries.

This year we are educating staff members of War and Women Rights Museum. Our goal is to grow them into Wikipedians-in-residence and help them to donate their images or other resources to the Wikimedia projects voluntarily. We will also seek for other museums which are willing to donate their resources.

Objectives:

To collect image and video files, we will upload over 100 images from GLAM.
To improve quality of articles, we will grow Wikipedians-in-residence and improve over 10 articles with them. We will use our own metrics to measure the quality, because article evaluation system is not active in Korean Wikipedia. You can see our metrics here.

Non-governemt Organizations

We had a meeting with a Korea-Africa cooperation organization and talked about cooperation to share information about Africa in Korea. The organization will introduce to us people who are willing to edit Wikipedia articles about Africa

Objectives:

To draw new users and share information on Africa in Korean Wikipedia, we will hold 1-2 Africa-related editathons. We expect total 10-15 people to participate in.

Schools

As I mentioned above, many Korean students don't have various experiences, although universities request the students to do that. We realized some high school teachers are willing to use Wikipedia to give to their students special and educational experience. This year, we are helping two high school teacher and their students to submit their assignments to English and Korean Wikipedia. We will support the teachers and their students, and we will also suggest to them experimental programs such as a photo walk.

Objectives:

To draw potential users, we will help 100-150 students to submit their to English/Korean Wikipedia. We expect over 50 girl students to be involved.

Support for sister projects

Unfortunately, Korean Wikipedia sister projects are not active and they don't have as much volunteers as the Wikipedia. To support the sister project as well as the wikipedia, we need to develop various programs including camps, workshops and photo competitions.

Wikisource, Wikidata and Wikivoyage

There are many old Korean books under public domain. Unfortunately, Wikisourse collects just a few of typed old Korean books, because almost of them contain old characters which are not used. We collected scanned old books from National Library of Korea, but they have not been typed in Wikisource. We will find volunteers or employ editors to digitalize and type the books with our own funds.

We will hold 1 or 2 workshops to promote Wikidata, and we will collect and correct Wikidata's data in the event. We also plan to host a camp to improve Wikivoyage and Wikimedia Commons. We will support skilled editors' travel to regions about which Wikivoyage articles don't explain or introduce thoroughly.

Objectives:

Wikisource
- To improve the contents of Wikisource, we will digitalize and type over 5 books in old Korean
Wikidata
- To promote Wikidata, we will hold 1-2 relevant workshops. We expect 5-10 participants.
- In the workshops, we will edit over 30 items, and we will modify Wikipedia templates to improve the contents of Wikidata.
Wikivoyage & Commons
- To promote Wikivoyag and Wikimedia Commons projects, we will host 2 camps, where we will improve 3-4 Wikvoyage articles, and uploade over 200 images on the Commons. We expect total 10 skilled users to participate in.

Photo Contest

We have organized Wiki Loves Monuments biyearly since 2016. In 2017, we collected total 999 photos, and 252 of them are being used in Wikipedia and other projects.^[1] To collect more high-quality photos of Korean cultural heritage, we will host the photo competition next year again.

Objectives:

To improve Wikipedia articles and promote the Wikimedia Commons, we collect over 1000 images of Korean cultural heritage from the photo contest. We expect 20-25% of total photos to be used in the wikis.
To promote the event, we will hold an exhibition.

Fortress Wall of Seoul
User:Van sinsy
Yeonsangunmyo Grave
User:Black207
Janganmun, Hwaseong Fortress
User:후니훈
Silsangsa Three-story stupa
User:Mansegmj

Staff

Executive Officer

Please link to a detailed job description, which shows how this staff person will help your organization achieve its goals.
See Grants:Simple/Applications/위키미디어 대한민국 (Wikimedians of Korea)/2019/Staffing plan
How long is this staff person or contractor's planned engagement with your organization, and how many hours will they work over the course of this grant?
We have hired one full time employee since we were established in 2014. We will maintain this employment throughout the year.
Use a percentage of that person's total hours to show how they will spend their time on different programs and activities.
40% administration, 20% partnerships, 15% community or event management, 15% education program, and 10% fundrasing or other works

Program Manager

Please link to a detailed job description, which shows how this staff person will help your organization achieve its goals.
See Grants:Simple/Applications/위키미디어 대한민국 (Wikimedians of Korea)/2019/Staffing plan
How long is this staff person or contractor's planned engagement with your organization, and how many hours will they work over the course of this grant?
We think we need to professionalize tasks to expand our movement next year. We will employ one more person as a program manager, and he/she will work at 0.5 FTE throughout the year. We won't use WMF grants for the salary of the second employee next year.
Use a percentage of that person's total hours to show how they will spend their time on different programs and activities.
10% administration, 30% partnerships, 30% community or event management, 20% education program, and 10% other works

Budget and resource plan

Link to a detailed budget (that also includes a plan for raising the resources you need): 2019 Budget

Mid-point Report

Program Story

“위키백과에 여성 인물정보는 왜 부족하죠?”

Progress

Community support

WikiConference

Not yet. We will hold it in October.

Wikimanina Scholarship

In progress. We chose one grantee in June. He is preparing to attend the conference.

Awards for Dedicated Users

Not yet. We will begin the vote in November.

Editathons for New and Women Users

To draw women users and maintain their own community, we will hold at least one offline meetup for women users a month. We expect 5 women users to participate in per event, and we will edit or create 1-2 articles related to women. We also have a plan to join in Art&Feminism project as a part of this program.

In progress. We hosted an edit-a-thon event for new women user in May, but only one famale user attended the event. We are looking for other venue which is more attractive for women users.

To draw new users, we will host over 2 serial editathons. We anticipate total 10 people attending. We think it is the most effective to help them to edit articles they are interested in, and encourage them to upload their own pictures.

Not yet. However. we hosted a single editathon event in cooperation with the Ambassador of Sweden in Seoul in March.

Partnerships

Libraries and Museumes

To draw new librarian users, we will hold 10 editathons or seminars. We expect 5-10 librarians to attend per event.

In progess. We launched the project in May, and we will wrap it up in July. The project was achieved by 80%.

To draw libraian users, we will promote 1lib1ref project and Wikitown project and host at least 2 events at libraries.

In progess.

To collect image and video files, we will upload over 100 images from GLAM.

Not yet. We are finding appropriate partner for the project.

To improve quality of articles, we will grow Wikipedians-in-residence and improve over 10 articles with them. We will use our own metrics to measure the quality, because article evaluation system is not active in Korean Wikipedia.

Not yet.

Non-governemt Organizations

To draw new users and share information on Africa in Korean Wikipedia, we will hold 1-2 Africa-related editathons. We expect total 10-15 people to participate in.

In progress. We are going to meet members of a non-government organization for common knowledge in the coming days. We assume we cannot build a partnership with the Korea-Africa cooperation organization this year.

Support for sister projects

Wikisource, Wikidata and Wikivoyage

To improve the contents of Wikisource, we will digitalize and type over 5 books in old Korean

No yet

To promote Wikidata, we will hold 1-2 relevant workshops. We expect 5-10 participants.

Not yet.

To improve the contents of Wikisource, we will digitalize and type over 5 books in old Korean

Not yet.

To promote Wikivoyag and Wikimedia Commons projects, we will host 2 camps, where we will improve 3-4 Wikvoyage articles, and uploade over 200 images on the Commons. We expect total 10 skilled users to participate in.

In progress. We launced the Wiki Tambang (Wiki exploration) in June, and we will host the second event in September.

Photo Contest

Not yet. We will participant Wiki Loves Monuments in September. We are planning other additional photo competition.

Spending

We spent 14,092,089 KRW of funds that Wikimedia Foundation granted this year.

Final report

Program story

Please tell or link to one program story that showcases your organization's achievements during the reporting period. This can be another meta page, a blog post or any other source that tells your program story.

w:ko:사용자:이강철 (WMKR)/소식지 시안 (in Korean)

Learning story

Please link to one learning story that shows how your organization documents lessons learned and adapts its programs accordingly.

Learning patterns/It doesn't need to be always feminist to attract women users

Programs Impact

Community support

Although participants in this year's conference were less than last year, we evaluate it was successful in terms of an impact on Korean Wikipedia. The participants agreed that Korean Wikipedia needed to more familiar with new comers and change its old convention. Some users suggested to improve Korean Wikipedia's old-fashiond main page. As a result of the event, the main page was changed last December.

We planned to host consecutive editathons for women users, but the first event was less successful than we expected. We needed to modify our strategy, and we supported some events voluntarily hosted by women users. We should develop attractive editathon topics to draw women users.

We supported a series of editathons for new users, which were combined with book discussion. New user were motivated to read a book and edit relevant articles by the event, because book discussion is getting popular among Koreans. In addition, we supported eight on/offline editathons hosted by users for new users, and our financial support activated user offline activities.

Sub-Project	Goals	Status	Description
Annual Conference	over 80 participants	Partial	Total 51 participants attended
	20 active users	Reached	20 active users attended
	over 5 presentations	Reached	Total 8 presentations were delivered.
	3-4 videos	Not reached
	one new project for the new infoboxes	Not reached	Instead, a follow-up event for innovation of Korean Wikipedia was held by a request of the conference's participants.
Wikimanina Scholarship	1 report	Reached	The grantee submitted his report in Korean Wikipedia and gave a video presentation in the conference.
Wikimanina Scholarship	1 new projects	Reached	He was inspired by Wikipedia's new interface project presented in Wikimania, and invovled himself in improving Korean Wikipedia's main page and other facility pages design.
Awards for Dedicated Users	4 winners	Reached
Awards for Dedicated Users	Holding a winning ceremony	Reached	Over 20 people came to the event. It was run in a unconference format.
Editathons for New and Women Users	1 offline meetup for women user a month	Partial	We held two editathons which only women users could attend, and we supported two editathons hosted by women users.
Editathons for New and Women Users	2 serial editathons for new users	Reached	We supported 4 serial editathons for new users, where total 37 people joined. We also helped eight on/offline editathons hosted by users for new users.

Partnership

We had difficulty in building new partnership with GLAM and non-profit organization. We contacted two museums, but we failed to establish partnership with them. We also attempted ot find a non-profit organization which was willing to join in free knowledge movement, but it was not successful. Korean society is not familiar with the notion of free knowledge yet. We will focus on promoting the movement to researchers and governors next year.

We achieved most of the goals in terms of partnership with libraries. Although many public librarians attended the seminars we provided, they didn't seem to be willing to plan and host Wikimedia-related projects. We will concentrate on building partnership with university librarians who can plan projects autonomously.

Partnership with Yangjung Girl's High School was extended. More girl students edited Wikipedia articles than last year, and three student from the school shared their experience in the conference. We evaluate that the relationship provided the students with useful experience. We will maintain the partnership with Yangjung and find other school next year.

Sub-Project	Goals	Status	Description
Libraries	10 editathons or seminars	reached	Total 12 editathons or seminars were held.
	5-10 librarians to attend per event	reached	9.8 librarians attended on average.
	Promoting 1lib1ref project and Wikitown project	Not reached
GLAM	over 100 images from GLAM	Not reached
GLAM	Raising Wikipedians-in-residence	Not reached
Non-governemt Organizations	Holding 1-2 Africa-related editathons	Not reached
Schools	100-150 students editors	reached	Total 140 students from Yangjung Girl's High School participated in the project.
Schools	50 girl editors	Reached	Total 140 girl editors attended.

Support for sister projects

We hosted two camps for skilled users, and they exceeded most of the goal we set up. However, we failed to inspire them to edit Wikiyage articles, because they were not used to it. We realized we need a specific motivation to achieve that.

Photo Contest is less successful than we expected. We think it was because the total amount of the cash prize was decreased and users lost an interest in the contest. We will plan a new contest to attract user's interest.

Sub-Project	Goals	Status	Description
Wikisource	Digitalizing and typing over 5 old korean books	Not reached
Wikidata	Holding 1-2 relevant workshops	Not reached
Wikivoyage & Commons	Hosting 2 camps	Reached	We hosted 2 camps in June and November. First camp was held in Daejeon City, and Second one was held in Incheon City.
	Improving 3-4 Wikvoyage articles	Not reached	Any participants didn't edit Wikvoyage articles. Instead, they edited total 131 Wikipedia articles.
	Uploading over 200 images on the Commons	Reached	Total 546 images were uploaded.
	10 skilled user participants	Reached	Total 10 skilled user participated in the camps.
Photo Contest	over 1000 images	Partial	329 images were submitted.
	20-25% of the images usered in Wikis	Partial	11% of the images were used in Wikis
	Holding an exhibition	Not reached

Spending update

Please link to a detailed financial report for your spending during the grant period. This should be in the same format as your detailed budget from your Simple APG application.

Spending in 2019

Please include the total amount of Simple APG funds you spent during the grant period:

35,481,944 KRW

Grant Metrics Reporting

Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.

references

↑ https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2017

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