Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Houssem Abida/Write for the rights/Report

Report accepted

Hi, Kawayashu, thank you for submitting this final report and expense documentation. I have reviewed both and accepted both! Please note that this grant will not be complete until we make a decision regarding the remaining funds.

Comments and Questions

1. Congratulations on a successful project! It's wonderful that you were able to use the event to break some stereotypes about the queer community in Tunisia. I'm sure that that will ripple out into the wider community and have ongoing positive effects! And thank you for including photos — it was really fun to see the group together and I love your captions!
2. Even though you didn't get the number of participants you were hoping for, you were still able to create or improve an large number of articles. Do you have any tips for other edit-a-thon organizers on how to keep a group focused and motivated?
3. With the film festival happening at the same time it's understandable that many of the locals were not as involved as you would have liked. Is there anything you'd do differently next time to increase participation from people who are also involved in the festival?
4. Thank you for raising the important point about the conflict between Wikimedia's value of transparency and Mawjoudin's need for privacy. Do you have any ideas about how to reconcile the desire for transparency with the need for privacy?

Thank you for all your hard work on this grant, and for sharing what you learned with WMF and the community. WJifar (WMF) will follow up with you about the remaining funds from this grant.

Warmly, LSmith (WMF) (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi all. Thank you Lindsey for the positive feed-back.

Here are answers for your questions:

1. How to keep a group of editors focused: The organizer has to chose the specific topics before the editathon, and even make a list with the most important articles to write. You can assign each participant with an article in the begining, and repeat the same thing after they finish their articles. An english version of the articles to start with is very helpful as the majority of participants tend to translate articles instead of creating new ones during limited time events. So having an english one will make it possible to everyone to translate in their language.
2. I should probably do a seperate editathon for the locals before or after the festival, and keep the one simultaenous to the festival for the internationals.
3. The major point with the conflict between transparency and privacy is the reports actually: How can I prove to the foundation and the rest of the wikimedian community that I really worked with the LGBTQI+ community if there are no photos I can share, videos or any other kind of media support. Even the information about the participants was very restricted, and access to the workshops was limited to the Mawjoudin's members only. So for the reports, I suggest creating a private type of reporting for the foundation only with only 3 or 4 staff members having access to it. Also, maybe the LGBT+ User group can create its own safety policy when it comes to the events we organize.

Again, thank you so much all for the technical support you offered. I am waiting now to hear from WJifar (WMF) to see what I can do with the left amount. I hope I can keep it for 2020 activities as I cannot commit to do anything else in 2019.--Kawayashu (talk) 11:28, 13 May 2019 (UTC)