Grants talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014 round1/Amical Wikimedia/Progress report form/Q2

Report received

Thank you, Amical Wikimedia colleagues for submitting this complete report on time! We look forward to reading it and offering some comments in the coming weeks. Best regards, Winifred Olliff (FDC Support Team) talk 16:49, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Comments from FDC staff

Thank you for this report, and for sharing your successes and challenges this quarter with us. Congratulations on receiving the National Culture Prize and its accompanying 15,000 Euros! It seems like an important achievement, and we are glad to know that it is generating more positive attention for the Catalan language projects and for Amical. We are also excited to see the 54% increase in readership on Catalan Wikipedia.

In terms of your challenges, we look forward to learning more about your strategies for increasing community participation in discussions on your evaluation page, and for the strategies you come up with to improve the success of meetups outside of Barcelona. In future reports we would love to learn more about how you are able to overcome your challenges in working with teachers for projects like Wiki Classics, or to have more details about why this is an ongoing challenge.

Thanks for sharing that coordinating online contests with other events has been a successful strategy. This would make a good learning pattern, since others could benefit from it. We are glad to learn that the shared office space has generated new contacts for Amical.

Finally, please let us know how much WMCAT spent on staffing this quarter and in quarter one, as distinct from program spending. We understand that your staff time is devoted to program work, but we do currently track staff spending separately across all entities.

Thanks again! Winifred Olliff (FDC Support Team) talk 22:57, 26 August 2014 (UTC)