User:Vsuarezp/Bimenes

status: proposed

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project:

WikiBimenes

project contact:

wikimediast@gmail.com

participants:

Víctor Suárez (Vsuarezp)

summary:

Collaboration with several institutions of Bimenes to improve and increase the available content and media of these institutions with a free license in several Wikimedia projects. The purpose is to further develop the Wikimedia projects expanding the number of contributors and consolidating the experience using a minority language in a rural setting with an older population.

engagement target:

Asturian Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, Wikisource and Wikivoyage

strategic priority:

Increasing Reach, Improving Quality and Increasing Participation

total amount requested:

USD

2017 round 1

Goal

The goal of this project is to develop a new collaboration with institutions of Bimenes to improve and increase the available content and media of this municipality with a free license in several Wikimedia projects. The purpose is to further develop the Wikimedia projects expanding the number of contributors and consolidating the experience using a minority language in a rural setting with an older population. I want to develop a pilot project for future collaborations in Cider Commonwealth.

Plan

Situation ot Bimenes municipality

La Rubiera Town

Bimenes city council

Inside Spain, there have been a number of successful collaboration efforts, but this provides a unique opportunity in Asturias to create a long-term collaboration in en:asturian language. This is not the first collaboration with Bimenes since in June of 2016 I realized a training workshop on Wikipedia that was attended by several neighbors and the mayor of the locality. After contacting the local institutions they are willing to free as much content as their legal department allows them, including old documents, pictures and recordings.

• Casa les radios (The Radio House) The Radio House is located in an avant-garde building in en:Suares. The exhibition consists of two unique collections, one collected by José Alonso Onís and ceded by the municipality of en:Oviedo, which, according to inventory, consists of 340 pieces (phonographs, jukeboxes, microphones, records, etc.) and one collected by the Suares Neighbourhood Association, consisting of 144 receivers. There are 156 pieces on display that will be gradually renewed.

• http://www.mancosi.es/es/servicios/servicios-sociales/2-uncategorised/31-archivo-municipal-de-bimenes Historical archive of Bimenes] has catalogued over 849 boxes and 385 books archive collections mostly from the 20th century but unique to know the history of the municipality. The oldest documents that are conserved are the four volumes of the en:Catastro of Ensenada, dated 1761, minutes of the plenary session since 1859 and general replacement files and enlistment records since 1888.

• Bimenes library, source of fundamental documentation to refer bibliographically.

Initially, this project will last 3 months, but this could be extended by the institutions. Vsuarezp will be dedicated exclusively (full-time) to this task; 6 days per week.

Activities

This project includes:

• Wiki training sessions where participants learn to edit Wikipedia and WikiVoyage, use tools such as Visual Editor and the Content Translation Tool, and create and improve articles of the relevant exhibits and artefacts in the museums and topics about their municipality.

• Creation or improvement of articles about Bimenes (very poor presence in Wikipedia and other projects), focused in history and geography, parishes, culture (language, feasts and traditions, clothing and Ethnography...) economy and climate. Both in Asturian and Spanish.

• Talks about Wikipedia and the sister projects of the Wikimedia movement for the council staff and public.

• Highlight and focus on the most important Female figures of Bimenes.

• Catalog in Wikidata and publish articles in Wikipedia about the local archive and upload most relevant documents to Wikisource (including valuable Catastro of Ensenada)

• Catalog in Wikidata and publish articles in Wikipedia and museum's radios.

• Donation of old images by the Town Hall and the neighbors in the different activities.

• To establish a long-term productive relationship between the council and the Wikimedia movement.

Impact

Target readership

The project will benefit Wikipedia (Asturian and Spanish principally), but also sister projects such as Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and Wikivoyage.

Fit with strategy

What crucial thing will the project try to change or benefit in the Wikimedia movement? Please select the Wikimedia strategic priority(ies) that your project most directly aims to impact and explain how your project fits. Most projects fit all strategic priorities. However, we would like project managers to focus their efforts on impacting 1–2 strategic priorities. Examples of strategic priorities can be found here.

• This project fits the strategy by increasing participation from new contributors to edit and with content donations (text/images/audio).

• Improvement of the image of Wikipedia associating its name with these institutions.

• Some of population are women; if we increase the number of female editors, public or staff, we can improve the ratio of women editors in the Wikimedia movement.

• Improving the quality of content thanks to the collaboration of cultural institutions and re-licensing of content with Creative Commons.

• This project will increase reach by working in a location that have historically it has been separated from the edition and to which we arrived through its local language.

• The project will increase reach through the use of social media, to engage in a wide and diverse audience through social media content.

• The project fits with the Foundation's goal to increase participation by holding wiki training sessions, following up on these editors and using this information to create a best practices handbook that will allow others to utilize this information to build on successful participation events.

Measures of success

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• Articles and items
  • The goal is 100 new articles and and extensive improvement of all existing.
  • Create at least 500 new Wikidata items during wiki training sessions.

• People involved
  • Between 50 and 100 people (Rural and mostly old speakers of a minority language)
  • Have at least 30% female participation
  • Staff training: 1 per each institution
  • Wiki training sessions for the public: 1 weekly distributed in the largest populations of the municipality

• Images and documents
  • Between 500 and 700 new valued images.
  • Tens of XVIII, XIX, XX and XXI century documents.
  • Evaluation of the quality of the images and products obtained.
    • The use of images in several languages Wikipedia's pages and their suitability to content.
    • The reuse and derivative works, adaptation or translations from images and materials produced.

• Bookshelf, Guidelines and support materials
  • 2 spreading materials

• Exhibition
  • Exhibition produced
  • Exhibitions presented around the municipality
  • A program-calendar of places to go done
  • Feedback from people where the exhibition travels

• Qualitative feedback and coverage
  • Feedback from all local people and wikipedians (using surveys, given out after each event, improve the quality of the wiki training session to session)
  • Media coverage
  • Facilitate an official agreement between the Conceyu Bimenes (Bimenes municipality) and local wikimedians to future collaboration.

Resources and risks

Resources

Vsuarezp: Wikimedia user since 2006, mainly in Asturian Wikipedia, over 25000 contributions including more than 4.000 new Articles. Collaborator of BiblioWikiAsturias project, training and assisting more than 50 librarians from Asturias. Member of Wikimedia España (since 2014), participating in the organization of various activities such as edit-a-thons, talks and training sessions (University of Oviedo, San Martín del Rey Aurelio and Gijón Municipality...) Degree in Schoolteaching (with specialty of Asturian language), with additional formation and experience in translation, research and web design.

Risks

• Technical difficulties (WiFi) in the local places to develop activities; may be necessary to find another venue to celebrate any of them.
• Little knowledge of the new technologies by the elderly participants.

Budget

Project budget table

Expense	Per month	Total	Notes
Staff expenses as freelancer	€ 1,300	€ 3,900	(including taxes) for full dedication from June to September excluding August* * In august some institutions are closed and I'll spent only some time in online tasks, then I prefer not including this month
Support materials and office supplies and		€ 150
Events hosting		€ 150	Food, brochures, other expenses
Business lunches		€ 100	Possible meetings with representatives of the institutios
Travel spending		€ 400	Car or bus, Oviedo-Bimenes and Bimenes-Oviedo. Around Bimenes (most small ones)
Total		€ 4,700

Total cost of project

• € 4,700 / $ 5.022

Non-financial requirements

See a description of non-financial assistance available. Please inform the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) of any requests for non-financial assistance now.

Requests for non-financial assistance, if any

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