Grants talk:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia Chile/2017-2018

Eligibility

Hello, Wikimedia Chile colleagues:

Thank you for submitting your request for an annual plan grant. After reviewing your past grants we've determined that you are eligible to apply for a Simple Annual Plan Grant for a period of 6-months and an amount of up to 15,500 US dollars. We are glad to see that your chapter is building momentum, and that you have overcome some of the barriers to your eligibility by submitting your past due financial, activity, and grant reports. We are looking forward to working together with you on this grant application. Here is some of the work we looked at while evaluating your eligibility for a Simple Annual Plan Grant. Wikimedia Chile has received four grants from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2012. These include two large annual grants through the Project and Event Grants program (in 2013-2014, and in 2015).

• Grants:PEG/WM_CL/Start-up
• Grants:PEG/WM_CL/Ibero-American_Wikimedia_Summit_2012
• Grants:PEG/WM_CL/Annual_Program_Plan_2013-2014
• Grants:PEG/WM_CL/2015_Projects_and_Activities

In the past, Wikimedia Chile has struggled to remain in compliance with previous grant agreements. While many projects were completed, timelines for grants were extended and the organization had difficulty submitting its financial reports. We are looking forward to working regularly with you in the next few months to make sure that checkpoints are established and best practices kept in place.

We hope that entering the APG process will be a helpful step in stabilizing the chapter, and appreciate WMCL’s approach of requesting a smaller 6-month grant as they enter the APG process. We believe this will help the chapter establish a good track record with both reporting and program execution, providing a solid foundation for their future plans. Best regards, Delphine (WMF) (talk) 13:58, 1 September 2017 (UTC) and Winifred Olliff (WMF)

Questions and comments from the SAPG Committee

From Becksguy

Hello Wikimedia Chile.

• The link to the grant metrics, which is intended to include targets for the requested grant period, points to a spreadsheet with completed 2016 metrics, and is not identified as applying to Wikimedia Chile, as best as I can tell. I am assuming this is an inadvertent mistake. If the correct metrics sheet is available, would you please link to it. Thank you. - Becksguy (talk) 07:34, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_qZxJ7B9U_Eo6pMG55ox-zCHppM9-lubQm0jKI2tn6g/edit#gid=2102550192

Thanks Wolliff (WMF) send the correct link, I tried to correct it, but I can't get the link from Google Docs. Thanks again! Superzerocool (talk) 18:48, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Yep, that was totally my mistake, not yours :) Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 20:53, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Done - This link has been fixed in the application. Thank you all involved in fixing it. The metrics look doable - Becksguy (talk) 01:51, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

• I would also like to see answers to the questions posed by Winifred below. However, there is no point in repeating any of them here. - Becksguy (talk) 01:51, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Becksguy. We are working on the answers to Winifred's questions and we hope to publish them in the following days. --Warko (talk) 02:32, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

From Rohini

Hello,

• Is the Wikipuentes website a wiki or based on other open source software? Do you intend to upload the course to MOOC platforms for better dissemination or visibility, once it is finalised? -- Rohini (talk) 07:22, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
• Is there a plan to monitor how many new editors recruited from the "Wikipedia in the University" programme continue to edit after the completion of the course? I have observed that students abandon contributing to the Wiki projects once the course is over and they have received their credits, especially if Wiki contributions are made mandatory for them to receive their credits. Do you plan to evaluate the quality of their contributions? -- Rohini (talk) 08:52, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @Rohini: for your questions. Regarding your questions:

1. Wikipuentes is an off-wiki project developed by Wikimedia Argentina, that uses the Moodle platform (written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License) to generate courses focused on teachers, and is available under a MOOC. We agreed with WMAR’s decision to require a previous registration, which is a way to engage teachers and aim them to complete the course. This does not mean that the materials will have a closed visibility when the course is finished; they will be publicly released. It is only a way to avoid the phenomenon of joining MOOCs just to have access to materials during the course, but never finish it (e.g. Coursera model).
2. Certainly, long-term impact of our editing activities and programs is an important challenge for us, as well as it is for the rest of our affiliates. For this, we are considering the inclusion of the retention rate for the evaluation of programs like Wikipedia en la universidad. However, it presents several issues we have yet to decide: what we will consider as ‘retention’? when we will evaluate? the week after the activity, a month later, six months, a year?
   At the time, we haven’t tracked the evolution of the participants in past activities but we expect to do it in the future. We don’t have either a system to provide support for participants once the activity has ended. For the 2017 plan, however, we expect to change that creating material that can support the continuation of the activity once the participant arrives at home (using booklets or flyers) and creating a newsletter providing information of future events and other important content. The material will be designed and created in 2017 and will be used in the 2018 events. Also, we expect to start working on editing clubs or ambassador programs in universities so we can create a more clear path for students to move from mandatory courses to volunteering.

Hope that makes everything clearer! :) --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 12:49, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Questions from WMF Staff

Hello, WMCL colleagues! I thought this discussion page seemed a little bare, but I think you've proposed some very interesting programs! I've added a few questions here, and I think that answering them may give the committee some additional context when they review your work. This is an opportunity to explain some aspects of your proposal in more detail. Normally, committee members would be the ones posting these questions, but I think it's been difficult to do since this proposal has been happening at the same time as Wikimania. So I've posted some questions here, to make we don't miss out on the opportunity to have more dialogue together about your proposal. Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 16:34, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Winifred! Thank you, I will answer to each questions below:

Competitions and events

The WikiArabia contest seems like an exciting initiative! Glad to learn that WMCL will be participating. It would be helpful to clarify a few points, to better understand WMCL's role in the initiative:

• Can you link to a larger contest page that includes a list of participating chapters, timelines, etc, or is this still in the early stages of planning?

We are in the planning stage of the contest, although there is a page available on Meta and a private mailing list for coordination. Last Wikimania we had a meeting with Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia México (representing Latin America-Iberocoop) and Wikimedia Levant, Iranian Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (representing Middle East & North Africa, MENA), to define the contest dates and also the tasks the participating countries must do before October, including a national selection of 10-20 articles to represent geography, history, culture or other aspects of each country as diverse as possible. We expect to include more countries for both regions in the coming days.

• Can you offer the committee some more details about exactly what WMCL's role will be in the contest?

Our role in the contest is acting as one of the main organizers and also as representative for Iberocoop, coordinating the Spanish-speaking committee for the evaluation of articles. There is a good chance other languages spoken by Iberocoop members (as Portuguese and Italian) could also join the contest, because we’ve invited them to do so in the Iberocoop meeting held on Wikimania. In this role, we will manage the prizes that will be decided by the juries (for example, buying and delivering them to the winners).

• It's good to have the general contest goals listed here, but can you provide us with some WMCL-specific goals for contest participation from your community? Or did we misunderstand, and are the goals listed here specific to WMCL? Excited to learn more about this!

The contest has three main goals for WMCL, besides the general increase content in different Wikipedia projects. First, to have more articles about Chile in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and potentially other MENA region languages, as a way to spread our culture in countries with low awareness about Chile and Latin America. This way, we expect to address the geographical unbalance predominant in the Wikimedia projects, where most of the content available is related to Europe and North America. Second, we want to (re-)engage the Chilean community as contestants, writing in Spanish about MENA topics. In the past, this kind of activities as allowed us to contact our community and engage them, so we see them as a good opportunity to approach them. And third, we want to use this opportunity to contact some local institutions related to the Middle East. In particular, we expect to approach some organizations related to the resident Palestinian community in Chile, which is the biggest one outside the Arab world, so we can organize some activities related to the contest.

• Finally, about sports and events coverage, can you describe the support that WMCL will be offering?

This is an ongoing project started two years ago, with one of our members leading the project. The photos taken in this program are available here. WMCL has already acquired equipment (included in a past grant) for local sports and events coverage and also has established a partnership with the Photographic Academy of Chile, which donated us two photo courses that were taken by the project lead last year. In this new phase of the program, we expect to improve our equipment including a telephoto lens and other accessories, so the photographer can take pictures in long distances with higher resolutions, increasing the quantity and quality of the images related to events where volunteers don’t usually have access without the institutional support of the chapter. --Warko (talk) 02:22, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Outreach

This is an important area for many chapters, but also a challenging area to measure. This program takes up the majority of your budget (more than 50%), and yet the goals you've added here focus more on outcomes and don't tell us much about the larger change you are hoping to achieve. So I've added some questions here, which I hope will help the committee better understand why you are focusing your budget in this area.

• First, I think it may help the committee if you offered some general context about the situation in Chile. For example, how aware are people in general of Wikipedia? What are some of the changes you are seeking to make through doing this work? This is so different in every country, and so additional context is helpful.

There is a medium awareness about Wiki[p/m]edia in Chile. Wikipedia is broadly used by Internet users, which is the majority of the population (a 2016 IMS study showed that Chile is the Latin American country with the highest Internet penetration rate, 71.1% vs. the regional average of 56.1%). Some people know that it is a non profit site thanks to the fundraising campaign (and we know there is a decent amount of donations from our country), but it also confuses them, even thinking that Wikipedia is under risk. In our outreach work (including people with different backgrounds), we have seen that most Chileans know Wikipedia but don’t know exactly how it works, some of them thinking is written by experts or paid editors (many times people ask to our social media accounts to fix some Wikipedia articles!). We think that a good outreach campaign through short videos, which is a simple way to provide information, could help us to increase the awareness of the collaboration principles of our projects. We have good connections with institutions in the knowledge ecosystem (GLAM, education, open knowledge), which are our natural allies, but the next step it is to reach the common citizen who uses Wikipedia, but don’t know (s)he can also build it. That’s why we want to engage them using short videos that can be shared, considering most of the casual Internet users don’t have a long attention span and is already a very used way to spread information directly.

• In your outreach work, are you targeting specific groups that you think are likely to engage more with Wikimedia? If so, how are you doing this?

There is a clear trend in the use of technologies, towards the massive use of video and social media, especially among youngsters. In the past years we have seen that new generations (so-called "millennials") are not joining our community, even though they are probably the ones with most opportunities to actively engage in our projects given their access to technology and time availability; in fact, most of our members entered our projects at that age. We think the best way to reach them is increasing our communication using the channels they already use; that is why we are proposing short videos that could be easily shared on social media. We also think this kind of resources will help us to engage the university students (18-22 years old) participating in our Education program. Of course, other generations can be very important to incorporate in our projects, given their knowledge and expertise. However, we have seen that it is more effective to them to engage them with particular activities (such as edit-a-thons or workshops), where they can participate in topics they are already interested. That is why we are also proposing those activities in our plan.

• Can you offer some additional explanation about what a "mass outreach activity" is? We see you expect 100 participants, and 30 new users. Do you mean that you expect that 30 out of these 100 participants will be new to Wikimedia (meaning that 70 have already edited)? Or do you mean that you expect that 30 of 100 participants will go on to continue editing Wikipedia in some way? It would be useful to understand if you see a link between these outreach activities and getting new editors more involved.

In general, we consider "mass outreach activities" those that are open to general audiences and their main goal is to raise awareness of our projects, in contrast to those that are more focused in specific goals, in particular spaces (such as workshops for some institutions) or are part of larger projects (such as Wikipedia en la universidad). Regarding the metrics proposed, in general we have three groups of different people participating in this kind of activities. We have active members of the chapter that are recurrent in our activities, members that used to be active in the past, and people that are interested in our projects but are not members yet. These mass activities have different goals for those three groups: maintain the current community active and engaged, reactivate those former members and transform those interested in new users for our projects. The metrics evaluate the capacity of congregate the three groups (in this case, 100 participants in total), but also evaluates the capacity to convert new users in the third group (in this case, 30 new users).

• Regarding the production of outreach videos, do you have a plan to track how many people these videos are reaching? How do you plan to distribute and promote the use of these videos? What is your plan for designing the content for these videos? How is that influenced by the work other chapters have done, and how do you plan to adapt it to your own context? Will these videos be in Spanish? Would these videos be useful to other Spanish-speaking communities?

Most of the social media services (such as YouTube, Facebook or Twitter, which are the ones that we have used) have analytics systems that allow us to keep track of the reach of our campaigns. This also could help us to see which platforms are more effective and focus our efforts on those. The distribution of the outreach videos will be through social media platforms, as we said before, but also in other communication channels, such as the newsletter we will design in the following weeks and that will be sent to all the registered participants in our past activities. Also, the videos could be used as support for workshops and other activities. The design of the videos will be inspired by other products created in the past by some local institutions and also by other Wikimedia chapters, as Wikimedia Argentina. We decided to create our own videos to be in line with our national context and language (Chilean accent is very particular so the usage, for example, of Argentinean Spanish and its voseo is not helpful in our activities). We hope that the script and format could be replicated by other Spanish-speaking countries like Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela, as part of the Iberocoop initiative. Considering the accent problem, we expect to design the videos in a way that adaptation could be easier (for example, using animation or recording two voices, one with local accent and other with neutral Spanish). --Warko (talk) 03:04, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Education

This program area seems like an important emphasis for WMCL. It appears you are learning from the work of other chapters and adapting it to your context, and that you are planning to utilize the "pilot approach" so that you can learn more about how education work is happening in your local context before expanding.

• On a general level, can you give us some examples of the changes you plan to make to the Wikipuentes materials to adapt to your context in Chile? Can you also describe how your work in this area has been influenced by Wikimedia Argentina's?

Among the changes we plan to make to WMAR’s Wikipuentes are the language adaption from voseo to tuteo (see previous answer) and giving some local context to the examples used in the platform (for example, articles about Chilean geography or history). We also want to align the MOOC with the national educational curriculum. This will be done in two steps: first, the platform will be analysed by one primary teacher who is also member of WMCL. The second phase will be a trial period where 5 people related to education will be invited to use the platform. We hope to include some experts from Enlaces, the digital department of the Ministry of Education, with whom we have had meetings during this year. Our goal is to start our first Wikipuentes version in March-April 2018 (start of the school year) with the help of the Wikimedia Argentina’s Education Manager. We are following WMAR steps in this area, given the success of their Education program, which we hope to replicate in our country.

• We see you are developing the Wikipuentes approach, and producing videos at the same time, both targeting outreach in education. Can you explain how these two approaches are different, and why you think it's necessary to pursue both approaches simultaneously? How do these two approaches relate, if at all, to the work you are doing in the university program?

As we have explained above, outreach videos are more focused on young people and occasional users to invite them to understand how Wikimedia and how they can be involved. In the case of educational videos, the audience is different: it will be used in workshops or MOOCs with teachers and/or students. Thus, the videos could be longer and more detailed, regarding some particular aspects of our programs (Wikipedia en la universidad or Wikipuentes) or focused in other topics such as free culture, free licenses, the Wikimedia projects and its policies, which is very important if we expect teachers to tear down the myths that drive them away from the Wikimedia projects.

• How are you measuring or addressing article quality as part of your Wikipedia in the University programs? Why have you chosen to target three programs? Will these programs take place with three different institutional partners? Are you already engaging with these educational partners, or do you have these partners in mind already?

We are aware that the quality of some Education programs (even in Spanish Wikipedia) have been disputed. In the past years, we have build a system to create good-quality contents using the Education tool to control the student’s contributions, who build their articles in the user’s sandbox page, and we only move them to the main space when reviewed by the teacher and/or our team. Our article deletion rate in the past two years is nearly zero. We also expect to introduce in Chile the evaluation guidelines produced by Wikimedia Israel and translated by Wikimedia Argentina. Regarding the amount of education programs, we consider there are not three but two: Wikipuentes, focused on teachers, and Wikipedia in the University, focused on students. The third item in the Education program ("outreach materials") is just a complement for the previous two. The partnerships are different for these programs: for Wikipuentes we hope to confirm the support of the Ministry of Education’s Enlaces program, institution we have engaged during this year in different meetings and activities (including our participation in the event Virtual Educa 2017). Enlaces could help us to reach teachers of the entire country through its network and promote Wikipuentes. For “Wikipedia in the University” program we already have contact with some teachers in different universities, even outside Santiago (e.g. Playa Ancha University in Valparaíso), and we hope to extend our university network in the next months. --Warko (talk) 03:14, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Budget questions

These questions are designed to help the committee draw the link between the funding you are requesting and the impact you hope to achieve.

• I see you've budgeted for four local trips. Can you please explain the purpose of the four local trips? Which program work are they tied to?

We have included four local trips in our budget as a way to secure the possibility to participate and produce activities not only in Santiago. In the past, we have received invitations and opportunities to participate in several activities in other regions. However, most of them were subject to our own capacity to fund the travel. Usually, public institutions and other organizations are not allowed (or it is very difficult or exhausting for them) to pay for the expenses related to participation, even if they are in charge of everything else in the activity. This fund reserve allow us to take these opportunities and be able to participate more with these organizations. In particular, we are already planning to organize an edit-a-thon (tied to the Outreach program) in Arica -which is the Chile’s northernmost city, located 2,041 km (1,265 miles) from Santiago. We are in conversations with Vlado Mirosevic, deputy for Arica, which is acting as a link with local institutions (universities, GLAM institutions) that could be interested in hosting or joining the activity. If we don’t use totally/partially the budget in Arica’s edit-a-thon or other activities, we could reallocate those funds to buy trips for our members who live far away from Santiago (e.g., one of our members lives in Coyhaique, located 1,696 km from Santiago) to activities held in the capital. This is part of our efforts to decentralize WMCL’s work.

• You've budgeted almost $2,000 USD for printed materials and another almost $4,000 USD for video materials (education program and general outreach), yet you've not included any outcomes-oriented goals for these activities, which makes it hard to understand how these expenses will lead to impact. It would be useful to understand how you plan to now if these outreach materials are effective, and if there are some details about your context that make these expenses necessary for you.

This would be the first time Wikimedia Chile can produce its own printed materials. In the past, we have asked funds for materials but that was denied, and we didn’t received outreach materials from the WMF either. Currently, after our activities, the participants leave them without any reminder of it. They don’t get a booklet or flyer explaining how to continue his/her participation once he/she is at home. Not even a simple pen recognizing his/her participation in the activity. Without those reminders it is very difficult that our spot activities can result in a more long-term impact. It is not easy to give concrete metrics related to the future impact of those materials for two reasons: first, because we don’t have a point of comparison yet, and second, because considering the time it takes to design and produce those materials (both video and physical), probably they will be available in the last portion of the grant (Southern Hemisphere summer) where activities will be very limited. In fact, we have seen the creation of these materials more as an investment for 2018, using 2017 as a space to create the materials that will be used for next year activities, according to our work plan for 2017-2018.

• We see you've budgeted $500 for catering for each event (4 events total for GLAM and outreach, or $2,000 total). Can you offer us some detail about what this cost covers? For instance, how many people are you expecting to attend each event? How many meals to you expect to serve them and why?

Considering our goal of 100 participants for our 4 events, we are expecting 25 participants on average per activity. In addition, we should consider 5 people more from the organizing team and in general an overhead of 5 more people in case the event is more successful than expected. That makes 35 people per event for catering purposes. In past activities, the average cost has been around 10-13 USD per participant, depending on the characteristics of the service, time of the event, etc. As an example, for the Strategy event organized by WMCL in June 2017, the cost per expected participant was 12.58 USD; that included a basic coffee break service, with some sweets and cocktail sandwiches. --Warko (talk) 03:58, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for taking some time to respond to these questions. If anything is unclear, please let me know and we can take some time to go over these questions in a call or by Email. It's been a pleasure to review your proposal, and learn more about what you are planning for the next six months. Best, Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 16:34, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

We hope to have answered all your questions, and also apologize for the delay. Best, --Warko (talk) 04:33, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

You have, thank you. Delphine (WMF) (talk) 14:00, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee recommendation

Wikimedia Chile

Committee recommendations

Funding recommendations: The committee recommends funding this application in full, in the amount of $15,500 US dollars for 6 months. To be implemented immediately, We recommend that the applicant immediately revise the budget submitted to better align the budget and the program plan presented. For example, the categories in the budget and the program plan are currently inconsistent. We recommend that the applicant develop (or share if these are already developed) policies around the use and storage of photographic equipment purchased with the grant, and also clearly link this purchase to program results in future grant reports. To consider for future grant applications, Ensure that the budget and program plan are aligned, and that costs are clearly linked to results. Wikimedia Chile can focus on improving their ability to measure and evaluate their work. Wikimedia Chile should clarify their approach to partnerships and the logic behind each of their programs.

Strengths identified by the committee: Wikimedia Chile's diverse program plan contains a range of proven, low-risk activities, which appear to reasonably build on the applicant's current programs and the experiences of neighboring affiliates. Wikimedia Chile is experimenting with new ways to do outreach, including building educational materials for this purpose. Wikimedia Chile’s plan emphasizes collaboration with other groups. Wikimedia Chile has an annual plan in place that covers the grant period.

Concerns identified by the committee: See recommendations above.

Kai Alexis Smith (talk) 18:15, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

WMF Decision

Decision from WMF

Funding decision: Thanks to the committee for their review and to Wikimedia Chile for their hard work in getting everything done and answering the numerous questions. WMF will fund this grant as recommended in the amount of 10,100,000 CLP (15,500 USD) for 6 months, starting 1 September 2017. Given the concerns noted by the committee, we will work together to address these as a priority, starting with reviewing the budget to make sure that it is consistent with the Program Plan and working on making sure that the necessary policies and safeguards are in place for euqipement. We will also review the questions asked by the committee members and WMF and make sure we extract the important points to address in priority. We're looking forward to working with you! Delphine (WMF) (talk) 14:13, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Extension of midpoint reporting deadline until 31 December

WMF has approved an extension of the midpoint reporting deadline until 31 December. It is mostly ready now, and we are waiting on some financial information. Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 17:15, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Comentarios sobre el informe de punto medio / Comments on the midpoint report

Hola, colegas. Muchas gracías a ustedes por este informe excelente. Fue un placer repasarlo, y voy a mostrarselo a los otros como buen ejemplo. Ya hemos discutídolo juntos en nuestro llamado, y ahora escribo un resumen de mis comentarios aquí para todos.

Por lo general, nos gusta mucho el formato de este informe. Su progreso hacia adelante sus metos es muy facíl a comprender a cuasa de las barras de progreso y su usa de cuadros. Pero más importante, contó una historia muy efectiva y destacaron los puntos más importantes de su experiencia.

En la primera mitad de su grant, hubo éxitos y fracasos.

Felicitaciones por su éxito de la edit-a-thon con el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Lograron un gran número de participantes y artículos creados, y más importante, generaron mucho entusiasmo con el museo. Podrían cultivar un buen ambiente para actividades futuras con el museo, y con otros. Fue un placer leer la experiencia del museo en sus propias palabras en el artículo que adjuntaron. Tambíen, parece que el concurso Iberocoop-WikiArabia fue un gran éxito. Nos gustó su explicación que pone este éxito en el contexto de la dirección estratégica, y es muy bueno ver tantos grupos que están trabajando juntos. También todos los artículos sobre empanadas me dieron mucho hambre. Me como todas las empanadas... ¡Y 832 artículos — que bien! Y nos alegramos que están generando impulso para empezar más colaboración con la comunidad científica en Chile. Tambíen, hasta el momento, tuvieron buen resultados del programa de fotografía deportiva.

Pero sabemos que su trabajo educativo no fue bien, porque no podrían empezarlo antes del comienzo del semestre. Sabemos que se preparan ahora para empezarlo en marzo. Fue un lastima, pero esparamos lo mejor por su trabajo en marzo.

Y por eso, no gastaron lo que planearon. Dígannos si necesitan redistribuirlos a otras actividades.

Saludos :) Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 23:32, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, colleagues! Many thanks for this excellent report. It was a pleasure to review, and I plan to offer it to your other colleagues as an example. We’ve discussed the report together on our call, and I’m writing a summary of my comments here for all to read.

Overall, we really liked the format of this report. The progress bars made it very easy to understand your progress toward your goals, as did your use of tables. Even more importantly, you told your story effectively and emphasized the most important aspects of your experience.

In the first half of your grant, there were both successes and failures.

Congratulations on your success with the edit-a-thon with the National Art Museum. You achieved a large number of participants and articles created, but more importantly, you generated a lot of enthusiasm with the museum. This could lead to future collaborations with this museum and with others. It was a pleasure to read about the museum’s experience in their own words in the article you included. Also, it seems as if the Iberocoop-WikiArabia competition was a big success. We really liked your explanation that placed this in the context of the strategic direction. It was so nice to see so many different groups working together toward a common aim. Also, the articles about empanadas made me really hungry. Yum... 832 articles! Wow! :) We were pleased to see that you are generating momentum to launch more collaborations with the scientific community in Chile and we also saw good results in the sports photography program so far.

On the other hand, we know that your education work did not go as planned, because you couldn’t start the work before the beginning of the semester. We know that you are preparing yourselves now, in order to launch more education work in March. It’s too bad, but we hope for the best in March :)

And therefore, you didn’t spend as much as you planned. Let us know if you need to reallocate any of these funds to other activities.

Best, Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 23:32, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Use of underspent funds

According to the published Final Report of this grant, Wikimedia Chile spent a total of 5,764,166 Chilean pesos, so 4,335,834 pesos from the original grant were not used. Wikimedia Chile formally requests that this amount should be distributed in the following way:

• CLP 2,610,834 would be "returned" to the Wikimedia Foundation; this will be done by discounting that amount from the disembursment of the 2018 grant.
• CLP 1,725,000 would be kept by the Wikimedia Chile to build their financial reserves (increasing them to CLP 2,907,138).

Thanks for your support. --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 04:18, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

This change is approved. Winifred Olliff (WMF Program Officer) talk 18:09, 8 May 2018 (UTC)