Wikimedia CEE Hub/Microgrants/Applications 2024/MG-01

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CEE Hub Microgrant

Ionian WikiSprint – part of the Ionian Wikithon 2024

Ionian WikiSprint is a part of the Ionian Wikithon 2024 and its main aim is to strengthen and extend the wikimedia community's ties with the students of the Ionian University and the Department of Informatics in particural.

targetWikidata, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons

proposed start date8 May

proposed end date31 May

budget (EUR)500 EUR

grant typean individual

applicant• Eleni.Christopoulou

organization• Wikimedia Community User Group Greece

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Basic information

You are applying as

• Individual

Your name(s)/Organisation name

• Eleni Christopoulou

Your username(s)

• Eleni.Christopoulou

What is your role in the movement?

• Editor

If you are a part of a WM community, please state its name here

• Wikimedia Community User Group Greece

Have you applied for any Wikimedia Foundation grant or any other grant before?

• No

Name of your proposed microgrant project

• Ionian WikiSprint – part of the Ionian Wikithon 2024

Proposed start date of the project

• 8 May 2024

Proposed end date of the project

• 31 May 2024

In which CEE country/ies will the project activities be implemented?

• Greece

Project information

What is the main goal of your project?

• Ionian WikiSprint is a part of the Ionian Wikithon 2024 and its main aim is to strengthen and extend the wikimedia community's ties with the students of the Ionian University and the Department of Informatics in particural. One of our challenges is to welcome and engage more students and volunteers to join the wikimedia community and become active and regular users.

• Ionian Wikithon is a satellite event of the Wikimedia Hackathon and has taken place the last two years, 2022 and 2023, in Corfu, Greece.Ionian Wikithon 2024 will be the 3rd iteration of this event. An overarching goal of the Ionian Wikithon is to strengthen the partnership among Wikimedia Foundation and academia. The Ionian Wikithon 2024 will also be one of the events that will take place for the 20th anniversary of the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University.

• This event is co-organized by the Networks, Multimedia and Security Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics in collaboration with Dr. Eleni Christopoulou and Dr. Dimitrios Ringas, members of the lab teaching staff of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University and the Wikimedia Foundation / Wikimedia Community User Group Greece, in collaboration with Marios Magioladitis, long standing Wikipedian and president of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece.

Describe which activities you plan to implement

• We have designed two different kind of activities; the first is a community meet-up and the second one is a workshop-challenge. Following we present the program outline; the dates are indicative.

• Organizing team and volunteers meet-ups: up to two (2) community meet-ups in May 2024, Corfu, Greece

The organizing team and volunteers meetups will be held as in-person activities and will give us the opportunity to get to know each other, discuss and share ideas and form a creative team. Organisers have already contacted students of the Department of Informatics, Ionian University in order to support us as volunteers.

• Ionian WikiSprint - Challenge - | 15 May 2024 | Corfu, Greece

The Ionian WikiSprint – Challenge will take place on 15th of May 2024 in Corfu, Greece at the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University. It is an event focused on our local community and it will be part of the 20th anniversary of the Dept. of Informatics, which will be celebrated with various activities during 15-17 May 2024.

• A draft program of the Ionian WikiSprint – Challenge follows:
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Open welcome
  • 16:00 – 16:15 Presentation of the Ionian WikiSprint - Friendly Space Policy Explained, by Eleni Christopoulou
  • 16:15 – 16:30 Outcomes and participants' experience from Ionian Wikithon 2022, Ionian Wikithon 2023 and Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, by Eleni Christopoulou, Marios Magioladitis, Dimitrios Ringas
  • 16:30-16:45 Introduction to Wikimedia world. Specially addressed to academics, researchers and newcomers. Wikipedia, Wikidata...., by Marios Magioladitis
  • 16:45 - 17:00 Creating and Setting up new accounts, by Dimitrios Ringas
  • 17:00 - 17:30 Presenting the Ionian WikiSprint – Challenge: WikiShootMe in Corfu, by Eleni Christopoulou
  • 17:30 - 19:30 Hacking time - WikiShootMe in Corfu
  • 19:30 – 20:30 Challenge results / Discussion / Ideas / Proposals for future events
  • 20:30 - Group photo
  • 20:30 - 21:30 Dinner

• The event will be organised by the Networks, Multimedia and Security Systems Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Ionian University and a number of resources will be provided from the Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University.

• The Dept. of Informatics is located in the building “Aretaios” in the center of the city which is directly accessible using public transportation. The airport and the port are within a 15-minute distance.

• The department has two computer laboratories and three lecture halls, which can facilitate participants to work on their projects. The Dept. of Informatics is offering us the venue for all events for free.

• From all the halls participants will have access to the Internet via the local Ethernet 1 Gbps network. The building is wirelessly connected to the central hub of Ionian University. Participants may also have access to network printers if they need to print work or material.

• The event will be supported from the Wikimedia Community Greece as the president, Marios Magioladitis, is member of the organising team, and others members of the Wikimedia Community Greece will be invited to share their experience and knowledge.

Describe your team

• Organizing Team
  • Dr. Eleni Christopoulou, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University (user:Eleni.Christopoulou)
  • Dr. Dimitrios Ringas, Lab Teaching Staff, Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University (user:DimitriosRingas)
  • Marios Magioladitis, president of the Wikimedia Community Greece and long standing Wikipedian (user:magioladitis)

• Eleni Christopoulou is in charge of the success of the event and each member of the organizing team will take the following roles:
  • Eleni Christopoulou: Project lead, Program manager, Volunteer coordinator, Participant manager
  • Marios Magioladitis: Communications manager, Social liaison
  • Dimitrios Ringas: Technical coordinator, Venue logistics coordinator, Sponsors manager

• A number of students of the Dept. of Informatics will join as volunteers.
• All participants, both the organizing team and students, will act as volunteers.
• The Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University as well as the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece participated in the organisation of the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and Dr. Eleni Christopoulou, Dr. Dimitrios Ringas and Marios Magioladitis were volunteers of this great event that took place in Athens, Greece.

For which Wikimedia projects is the project relevant? For which communities is the project relevant? What is your target group?

• The Ionian WikiSprint is relevant with Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons projects.

• Our main goal is to maintain the collaboration that we have already established among the Department of Informatics and the community of the Ionian University with the Wikimedia Community and engage students to be active and regular members of this community. Participants of the last two previous Ionian Wikithons have joined and participated in Wikimania 2022, Wikimania 2023 and Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and have applied for future events. We believe that the participants of this event, too, will play a catalytic role and will eventually be our ambassadors for future events.

Do you have any metrics for the proposed grant proposal? If yes, please fill in the number of participants, editors, organisers and content contributions (Wikipedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, Wikidata items, etc.)

• Number of participants: 30
• New participants: 20
• Returning participants: 10 (We will carry out a number of events/activities, so we count the total number of

participants.)

• Number of editors: 10
• Number of organizers: 3
• Wikipedia articles: 10
• Wikimedia Commons images: 30
• Wikidata items: 20

Financial information

What is the amount that you are requesting for this grant proposal?

• 500 EUR

Please provide the budget of your grant proposal

Expense type	Expense details	Number of Units	Unit Price	Expense Total
Communications and materials	Printed posters	10	€2.00	€20.00
Food and beverages	Brunch for the organizing team and volunteers meetups (9 participants) (~2 meetups)	2	€90.00	€180.00
Food and beverages	Dinner / Drinks for the Ionian WikiSprint - Challenge (~30 participants)	30	€10.00	€300.00
TOTAL				€500.00

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Any additional comments or remarks about your project

• The Ionian Wikithon 2024 hasn’t received a grant for this year due to budgetary constraints in the Rapid Fund program, so the microgrant for the Ionian WikiSprint will help us continue our event series.