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Applicant or grantee: Wikimedia Canada

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Funding period: 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019

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Application

Background

Link to these documents, for the upcoming funding period, only if you have them.

Link to your organization's staffing plan, for the upcoming funding period. [1]
Link to your annual plan, for the upcoming funding period. wmca:Annual Strategic Plan 2019
Link to your strategic plan, which includes the upcoming funding period. [2]

Please add your grants metrics to this sheet. Note that requirements for shared metrics have changed for grants starting 1 January 2017 or later. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_qZxJ7B9U_Eo6pMG55ox-zCHppM9-lubQm0jKI2tn6g/edit#gid=596622640

Programs

Please describe any changes to your programs for the upcoming funding period, including the addition of new programs or any programs you are no longer doing. Include your rationale for any major changes to your programs here.

No major changes to the programs, just minor refining and tweaking within the programs.

Please use the templates provided to add information about each program you are planning for the upcoming funding period.

For more detailed information on each program, please refer to Wikimedia Canada Annual Strategic Plan 2019.

Programs

Program 1: Content, outreach, education and communities

Program 2: Indigenous peoples on Wikimedia projects

Program 3: Photographic content

Content, outreach, education and communities

Develop free knowledge about Canadian cultures, languages, history, geography, sports and other fields of knowledge, and increase the diversity of contributors.

Wikidata workshop in Montreal, Quebec during the International Francophone Contribution Month
Wikidata presentation in Montreal, Quebec during the International Day of Open Data
One of the regular monthly workshop held at the Cinémathèque québécoise
Wikipedia workshop at the Université de Montréal during the #1Lib1Ref campaign
Wikipedia presentation with BAnQ Gatineau during the International Archives Day
Wikimedia Commons scan-a-thon with BAnQ Vieux-Montréal during the International Archives Day

This program aims at increasing the quantity and quality of content on Wikimedia projects by increasing the number and the diversity of contributors, the number of partnerships with Galeries, Librairies, Archives, Museums and Universities (GLAMUs) in Canada, and conducting education with the Canadian public, mainly through universities, colleges and schools, as well as developing the contributor communities across the country.

Objectives

Augment, improve and diversify free knowledge about Canada, especially on Wikimedia projects.
Increase the number and the diversity of contributors from Canada on Wikimedia projects.
Increase the awareness and the knowledge of the Canadian public and institutions about Wikimedia projects, free licenses and open knowledge.

Activities

Hosting contribution workshops, education programs, outreach events and local activities
- Wikimedia Canada will continue its successful collaboration with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and the Cinémathèque québécoise to host regular monthly workshops
- In March, in partnership with WikiFranca, Wikimedia Canada will again lead the organization of the International Francophone Contribution Month
- In March, Wikimedia Canada will participate in the Art+Feminism campaign to organize workshops across the country
- In June, in partnership with BAnQ, Wikimedia Canada will organize a series of workshops for the International Archives Day
- In October, Wikimedia Canada will again organize the National Contribution Month in Canada.
- Wikimedia Canada will further develop GLAMU partnerships that were initiated in 2017-2018, namely with Library and Archives Canada (LAC), the Canadian National Museum of History, the Musée de la civilisation de Québec, the Bibliothèques de Montréal, the Ottawa Public Library, Amnesty International Canada and will also conduct outreach events to new GLAMU partners.
- Wikimedia Canada will continue to conduct training sessions about Wikimedia projects with partners such as the Acfas.
Providing individual support to improve content
- Wikimedia Canada will help Canadian contributors to have access to references necessary to improve content on Wikimedia projects.
Provide support to attend conferences to represent Wikimedia Canada
- Wikimedia Canada will provide financial help to volunteers to participate in and represent Wikimedia Canada at the WikiConference North America in October.

Metrics and targets

Number of participants to workshops and training sessions: 1,000
Number of content pages created and improved during workshops: 5,000
Number of different cities where contribution workshops are hosted: 10
Number of different GLAMUs in Canada involved with Wikimedia projects: 10
Number of active WikiClubs in Canada: 5

SWOT Analysis

Strengths		Weaknesses
Existing strong partnership with several GLAMUs partners including Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), the Acfas and the Cinémathèque québécoise Strong community of volunteers in Montreal, Quebec Established successful National Contribution Month with edit-a-thons all across the country		While activities have been expanded to other cities in the last year, the core of the activities are still concentrated only in Quebec

Strong interest from Canadian GLAMUs to be involved with Wikimedia projects and new partnerships being developed including with the National Canadian History Museum, the Musée de la civilisation de Québec and Library and Archives Canada Development of new WikiClubs to promote local volunteer engagement across the country Good relationship with other open knowledge communities, such as OpenStreetMaps, to conduct activities together		Exhaustion of volunteers due the load of work that is put on them for coordination, planning and management
Opportunities		Threats

Indigenous peoples on Wikimedia projects

Develop Wikimedia projects in the indigenous languages of Canada and increase quality free knowledge about Canadian First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

Fancy dancer during a pow-wow at the Manawan Atikamekw Community, picture uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during the Nitaskinan in pictures contest
An adult and a child in traditional regalia during a pow-wow at the Manawan Atikamekw Community, picture uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during the Nitaskinan in pictures contest
A volunteer of Wikimedia Canada recording words in Atikamekw language with an elder of the community during Wikimania 2017
A photograph of a traditional activity of the Atikamekw First Nation uploaded during the Nistakinan in pictures contest
A photograph of a traditional activity of the Atikamekw First Nation uploaded during the Nistakinan in pictures contest
A Wikimedia Commons workshops hosted by the Atikamekw Community of Manawan WikiClub

This program aims at increasing the quantity and quality of content on Wikimedia projects in Canadian indigenous languages and about Canadian indigenous peoples by hosting outreach events, training sessions and contribution workshops with indigenous communities.

Objectives

Augment and improve free knowledge in Canadian Aboriginal languages, especially on Wikimedia projects.
Augment, improve and modernize free knowledge about Canadian indigenous peoples, especially on Wikimedia projects.
Increase the awareness and the knowledge of indigenous communities about Wikimedia projects, free licenses and open knowledge.

Activities

Hosting outreach events, training sessions and contribution workshops with indigenous communities
- Wikimedia Canada will continue its successful partnership with the Atikamekw First Nation to support the continuous growth of the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin.
- Wikimedia Canada will continue to seek new partnerships with other indigenous communities in Canada, which is already started with the Innu First Nation in North-Eastern Quebec.
- Wikimedia Canada will continue to use Lingua Libre to record Canadian indigenous languages and upload the files to Wikimedia Commons to be used on Wiktionaries and other projects.
- Wikimedia Canada will seek and support new initiatives to develop content about Canadian indigenous peoples on Wikimedia projects, such as IndiginizeWiki in Yukon.
- Wikimedia Canada will again organize the Nitaskinan in pictures contest in partnership with the Atikamekw Community of Manawan to document the traditional activities and the territory of the Atikamekw First Nation with pictures and videos.

Metrics and targets

The number of content pages written in Canadian Aboriginal languages on Wikimedia projects: 200
The number of pictures and videos of indigenous peoples of Canada uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 200
The number of words recorded in indigenous languages of Canada using Lingua Libre: 300

SWOT Analysis

Strengths		Weaknesses
Strong partnership with the Atikamekw First Nation, including an active school program and WikiClub on the Manawan reserve A comprehensive toolkit on the creation of new Wikimedia projects in indigenous languages has been published by the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), in collaboration with Wikimedia Canada, under a free license and translated on Meta-Wiki Strong partnership with the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group		Some languages have very few speakers and most speakers are not technologically inclined Indigenous languages are mostly only oral Indigenous communities are often located in remote locations

Strong interest from the Atikamekw communities to continue to grow the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin Interest from the Innu First Nation in the Lingua Libre project		Lack of acceptance of the projects by the indigenous communities, which is mitigated by going often in-person to meet those communities and develop strong relationship which is very important to the success of such projects Lack of coordination with other organizations working with indigenous communities in Canada with the same goals due to the lack of time of volunteers to meet and communicate with those organizations
Opportunities		Threats

Photographic content

Increase free photographic content about Canada and educate Canadian photographers communities about free licenses.

Winning picture of the Wiki Loves Earth 2018 in Canada contest
One of the pictures uploaded during the Wiki Loves Earth 2018 in Canada contest
One of the pictures uploaded during the Wiki Loves Earth 2018 in Canada contest
A Wikimedia Canada volunteer taking the picture of an author during the Salon du livre de Trois-Rivières
A photograph of an author taken by a Wikimedia Canada volunteer during the Soirée Bédéis Causa 2018.
A photograph of the radio show La soirée est (encore) jeune.

This program aims at increasing the diversity, the quantity and the quality of free photographic content about Canada on Wikimedia Commons by organizing national photographic contests and supporting photographic activities about specific events and thematics in Canada. In this optic "photographic content" also include videos.

Objectives

Increase the quantity, quality and diversity of free photographic content about Canada.
Increase the number and diversity of photographers in Canada sharing some of their work under a free license or in the public domain.

Activities

Organizing national photographic contests
- Again this year, Wikimedia Canada will organize the very successful Wiki Loves Earth contest to document the protected areas in Canada.
Hosting local and thematic photographic activities
- Wikimedia Canada will further develop its Red Carpets Project which aims at increasing the quality of photographs of notable Canadian people on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
- Wikimedia Canada will continue to support individual photographers to attend events in order to document for Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
- Wikimedia Canada will organize a WikiCheese to document the local cheese on Wikimedia Commons.

Metrics and targets

The number of pictures and videos uploaded on Wikimedia Commons during activities organized by Wikimedia Canada: 2,500
The number of different photographers that uploaded pictures on Wikimedia Commons during activities organized by Wikimedia Canada: 300

SWOT Analysis

Strengths		Weaknesses
Successful established annual national photographic contests, including Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth Successful initiative called Red Carpets Project in Quebec to photograph notable people		The size of the country makes isolated parts of Canada not documented on Wikimedia Commons

Development of WikiClubs can foster the creation of local photographers communities uploading some of their work on Wikimedia Commons		Exhaustion of volunteers to organize and coordinate photographic contests at the national level
Opportunities		Threats

Staff and contractors

Please describe any changes to your staffing plan for the upcoming funding period. These should include increases in staff or contractor hours, new staff positions, or staff positions you are removing. Include your rationale for any staffing changes here.

Addition of a contractor for Institutional Advancement. See Staffing Plan for explanation and job description.

For each new staff or contractor position, please use the template provided to add information about each new staff or contractor you are planning for the upcoming funding period (or to describe significant increases in hours or changes in job descriptions for existing staff). You are not required to provide this information for existing staff where no changes are required.

Institutional Advancement Manager

Please link to a detailed job description, which shows how this staff person will help your organization achieve its goals.
Following the inclusion of a budget for contractuals in January 2018 to assist the Board of Directors and the chapter with administrative and logistical tasks, Wikimedia Canada is planning to retain the services of a contractor in July 2018 to support the development of the chapter in terms of capacity building, institutional advancement and communications strategies. The focus of this contractor will be on developing the chapter to bring it to the level of obtaining charity status with the federal government and to develop and implement an effective communications plan.

He/she will lead a full range of fundraising activities with a focus on developing multi-stream sources of revenue to support the existing programs and the growth of the chapter. The Institutional Advancement Manager will oversee all Wikimedia Canada’s fundraising, reporting, communications and partnerships efforts.

See Staffing Plan for complete job description.

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?
Contractor
Use a percentage of that person's total hours to show how they will spend their time on different programs and activities.
40% "development and institutional advancement", 30% "fundraising and reporting", and 30% "communications and partnerships"

Budget and resource plan

Link to a detailed budget for the upcoming funding period. This budget should include all of your organizations expenses. Please specify which expenses will be covered from your APG.

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