Wikicite/grant/BOLIVIAN LITERATURE MARATHON: 21ST CENTURY

Project summary

Project Name: Bolivian Literature Marathon: 21st Century and 20th Century (Maratón de literatura boliviana: siglo XXI y siglo XX)
Start/End dates: From December 11 to January 20, 2021: dates to confirm
Amount requested (and the currency you wish to receive it in): USD 5300
Amount requested (in US$ equivalent): USD 5300

The people

Contact person name/Wikimedia username: --Alexisarguello (talk) 15:02, 1 October 2020 (UTC)Alexisarguello[reply]
Contact person e-mail address: sobrasselectasgmail.com

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Organisation (optional)

Wikimedistas de Bolivia
Editorial Sobras Selectas

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Project participants: Who is working on this project. For each member of the team, please describe any project-related skills, experience, or other background you have that might help contribute to making this idea a success.

--Alexisarguello (talk) 15:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)Alexisarguello (beginner in Wikipedia, Editorial Sobras Selectas's director with experience in the management of literary cultural projects)[reply]
Caleidoscopic (talk) 15:33, 1 October 2020 (UTC)(member of Wikimedistas de Bolivia with experience in Wikipedia workshops for article creators)[reply]

The project

Description

Describe the project or event.

For 2 days, 48 hours, and 8 days of prior invitation, Bolivian readers will fill out data on Wikidata, from their homes, mainly information about art and literature of Bolivia in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Why is this project needed? What will it solve or improve?

We have very little information on contemporary Bolivian writers (21st and 20th centuries) on Wikipedia, despite the fact that these writers published more than one book and even the most famous won national and international awards.

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing? What will you have done at the end of your project?

1. Launch the invitation for the application of participants for 8 days on social networks with banners and paid advertising
2. Register applicants to participate in the marathon
3. Buy bibliography (books) for distribution among selected registered applicants who have confirmed their participation in the marathon (books will remain with the participants as a prize)
4. Buy and distribute recharge cards for the cell lines of the marathon participants
5. Give a virtual Wikidata workshop for the participants
6. Send home lunch and dinner for 2 days to marathon participants
7. Count the number of articles in Wikidata modified and their delivery in sister projects
8. Socialize the results (new and modified items) for consultation on Wikidata and sister projects

Measures of success

What are criteria you will define success for your project, and how do you intend to measure for them? What are your targets for these measurements?

1. At least 33 marathon participants and at least 400 new or modified entries in Wikidata with proper bibliographic support (goals under record)
2. At least 20 new users to Wikimedia projects
3. At least 1 virtual Wikidata workshop aimed at registered participants

Community

Who is your target audience for this project, and how will you ? How will you engage the community you’re aiming to serve at various points during your project?

Readers of contemporary Bolivian writers (consumers of contemporary literary production published by national and foreign publishers).
Young readers from growing cities like El Alto and the Santa Cruz metropolitan area where access to libraries is limited and the local authors are unknowed.
Bolivian students who need to learn in their own laguaje about research, history and literature by their own way, because the scholar year has beeen closed by the government to prevent COVID-19
Marathon participants will be summoned through an alliance with independent Bolivian publishers and related cultural entities
The records of the trainings will be published in Wiimedia Commons.

The Budget

How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. (You can create a table or link to a separate (public) document if needed.

1. Organizers meeting place and headquarter : 500 (250x2)
2. Diffusion and banners: 500
3. Prepaid recharge cards for cell lines: 500
4. Food with home delivery to participants: 1600 [(20x40) x2]
5. Prize made up of books (bibliography used for the elaboration of the articles): 2000
6. Contingencies, operating expenses: 200

COVID risk assessment (for in-person events)

If the project is for an in-person event, you must complete the risk assessment tool and checklist, and provide a link to copies of these documents here. Events must not include any international travel, and must follow all applicable local health guidelines.

Online (non-face) event

Feedback

Community notification

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Please provide links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.

Notification to the members of Wikimedistas de Bolivia about the importance of this project during its execution. Everyone, participants and coordinators of the marathon, by email.
Notification to members of Wikimedistas de Bolivia through community list

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Questions

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