Grants talk:Project/Arumeru Wikimedia Movement

Questions from Superzerocool

Hi @Idd ninga: thanks fro create this proposal. nice to read about initiatives to reach new users to Wikimedia projects. About your proposal, I will ask some questions and make some recommendations to improve it, ok?

1. Provide more context about Arumeru. If they have article in Wikipedia, you could link it to understand the context.
2. About the solution, elaborate more about what's is your solution: edit-a-thons, online training, outreach local communities...
3. About measure the impact, I suggest elaborate more the ideas, because are too vague and it doesn't have a plausible way to see if the project is successful or not.
4. About the budget, write as a table, to be more easy to see the costs per item.
5. AFAIK you're including some venue to offline meeting, please follow the COVID-19 Risk assessment before change the status proposal. You could ask to Project Grant team before send the proposal.

Please, feel free to continue improve your project, and if need more help, you could assist to any Clinics to be held in the next days. Kindly Superzerocool (talk) 00:44, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Proposal Clinics

Hello @Idd ninga:

Thanks for beginning to draft your proposal for the Project Grants open call! I wanted to make sure you are aware that we are hosting proposal clinics for applicants to ask questions and get feedback. If you would like to attend, you can find the dates, times, and videoconference links posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics. These are optional opportunities to get support improving your proposal. Let me know if you have any questions! Good luck with finishing your proposal for the February 10 deadline!

Warm regards,

--MCasoValdes (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Reminder: Change status to proposed to submit

IMPORTANT: Please note that you must change your proposal status from "draft" to "proposed" by the submission deadline in order for your proposal to be reviewed in the current round. When your proposal has been successfully submitted, it will show up in the "Open proposals" list (it may take several minutes for the list to update after you submit it). Applications that are not completely filled out and correctly submitted by the deadline will not be reviewed. To submit your proposal, you must complete all fields of the application and then:

1. Click on "edit source"

2. Change "|status=DRAFT" to "|status=PROPOSED"

3. Click the "Publish changes" button.

Thank you,

--MCasoValdes (WMF) (talk) 02:21, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2021 - Community Organizing proposal

This Project Grants proposal is under review!

We've confirmed your proposal is eligible for review in Round 1 2021 for Community Organizing projects.

This decision is contingent upon compliance with our COVID-19 guidelines. If your proposal includes travel and/or offline events, you must ensure that all of the following are true:

• You have reviewed and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
• If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you can complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
• You are able to postpone any planned offline events or travel until the Wikimedia Foundation’s guidelines allow for them, without significant harm to the goals of your project.
• You include a COVID-19 planning section in your activities plan. In this section, you should provide a brief summary of how your project plan will meet COVID-19 guidelines, and how it would impact your project if travel and offline events prove unfeasible throughout the entire life of your project. If you have not already included this in your proposal, you have until February 28 to add it.

The Community review period is now underway, from February 20-March 4. We encourage you to make sure that stakeholders, volunteers, and/or communities impacted by your proposed project are aware of your proposal and invite them to give feedback on your talkpage. This is a great way to make sure that you are meeting the needs of the people you plan to work with and it can help you improve your project.

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Please feel free to ask questions and make changes to this proposal as discussions continue during the community review period. By March 4, make sure that your proposal has incorporated any revisions you want to make and complies with all of our guidelines. If you have not already done so, you can make use of our project planning resources to improve your proposal further, too.

The Project Grant committee's formal review for round 1 2020 will occur March 5 through March 20, 2021. We ask that you refrain from making any further changes to your proposal during the committee review period, so we can be sure that all committee members are scoring the same version of the proposal.

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--Marti (WMF) (talk) 06:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Arumeru Wikimedia Movement

Scoring rubric	Score
(A) Impact potential Does it have the potential to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects, either in terms of content, contributors, or both? Does it have the potential for online impact? Can it be sustained, scaled, or adapted elsewhere after the grant ends?	6.4
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	4.4
(C) Ability to execute Can the scope be accomplished in the proposed timeframe? Is the budget realistic/efficient ? Do the participants have the necessary skills/experience?	4.2
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	4.4
Additional comments from the Committee: This project tries to reach new local communities in Arumeru district and develop some training to increase the local content. There are a lot of chances to develop this project, in a second version, in the future. Project in education The proposal is looking to improve the diversity of the Global Wikimedia community and to decrease the cost for receiving knowledge. This fits within Wikimedia's overall priorities. The activities are well known by the Wikimedia movement. There are few risks underestimated but every affiliate knows about that (no interest, no time, etc.). There is no clear way to measure the proposal success. Their solution does not seem to have the adequate context. Even though the proposal has some big goals and some specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), we could not know how the applicant designed them. I am not clear what exactly they are proposing to do or how they will measure its success. While a modest amount of funding is requested, I am not clear what exactly will be done with it. The project could be done in 12 months, but it depends on local conditions: good internet access, time from schools and universities, etc. The budget seems underestimated. There should be a team which is organised by several experienced editors for executing this proposal, however, there is only a volunteer that created a page since registered. We are not sure if there is a partnership between the applicant and those targeted schools. Some items of the budget seem unnecessary. I am not convinced this is doable as it is too vague and lacks clear goals. The project aims at external communities. The project does not include on-wiki announcement to reach feedback of ideas. There are some endorsements from community, but it is not enough to confirm the proposal has strongly and enough support from the local community I saw little evidence of community engagement with this. Seems a good project, but it could be improved by developing what is considered a successful project. There are no metrics associated and how to measure. The relation costs/benefits is acceptable. Anyways the grantee seems not to have experience in Wikimedia projects. The details of the proposal should be extended. To get a comprehensive solution they need to do more brainstorming. I think the topic itself is valuable, though the proposal was short on specifics and as a result, its lack of clarity results in my recommending this does not get funded. I am not clear if this is due to a lack of ability of those who proposed this or because they had the information but for some reason did not communicate it.

Opportunity to respond to committee comments in the next week

The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal. Based on their initial review, a majority of committee reviewers have not recommended your proposal for funding. You can read more about their reasons for this decision in their comments above. Before the committee finalizes this decision, they would like to provide you with an opportunity to respond to their comments.

Next steps:

1. Aggregated committee comments from the committee are posted above. Note that these comments may vary, or even contradict each other, since they reflect the conclusions of multiple individual committee members who independently reviewed this proposal. We recommend that you review all the feedback carefully and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page by 5pm UTC on Monday, March 29, 2021. If you make any revisions to your proposal based on committee feedback, we recommend that you also summarize the changes on your talkpage.
2. The committee will review any additional feedback you post on your talkpage before making a final funding decision. A decision will be announced no later than Friday, April 22, 2021.

Questions? Contact us.

--Mercedes Caso (platícame) 05:07, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Response to committee comments

I see some comment on my talk page about grants, i would like to add something, In partnership with the school that i plan to work with them, we can do it when the project start, this is because here in Arumeru we are allowed and we can receive permission to work with the government and private school when the project start, the only thing that they need is permission from local government that can be provided after receiving fund, and when the project start. And also, i have the team i miss to put them in my proposal, we are can work together to make sure we do this project as team, and in partnership with other organization, i can work with Voice of Youth Tanzania, This is an organization that located in Arusha and its registered, and sometime i use this organization for the digital and internet training here in Arusha, so they are ready to work with me. Thank you Idd ninga (talk) 21:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Round 1 2021 decision

This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.

We love that you took the chance to creatively improve the Wikimedia movement. The committee has reviewed this proposal and not recommended it for funding. This was a very competitive round with many good ideas, not all of which could be funded in spite of many merits. We appreciate your participation, and we hope you'll continue to stay engaged in the Wikimedia context.

Next steps: Applicants whose proposals are declined are welcome to consider resubmitting your application again in the future. You are welcome to request a consultation with staff to review any concerns with your proposal that contributed to a decline decision, and help you determine whether resubmission makes sense for your proposal.

Over the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has been undergoing a community consultation process to launch a new grants strategy. Our proposed programs are posted on Meta here: Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021. If you have suggestions about how we can improve our programs in the future, you can find information about how to give feedback here: Get involved. We are also currently seeking candidates to serve on regional grants committees and we'd appreciate it if you could help us spread the word to strong candidates--you can find out more here. We will launch our new programs in July 2021. If you are interested in submitting future proposals for funding, stay tuned to learn more about our future programs.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 00:37, 23 April 2021 (UTC)