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statusfunded
Celebrating Wikidata during the Open Access Week
Celebrating 12 years of Wikidata by editathons and training (+cake)
targetRomania
proposed start date15 October
proposed end date30 October
budget (EUR)500 EUR
grant typean affiliate


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Basic information

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You are applying as
  • Wikimedia Affiliate
Your name(s)/Organisation name
Your username(s)
What is your role in the movement?
  • Editor, user group member
If you are a part of a WM community, please state its name here
  • Romanian Wikipedia
Have you applied for any Wikimedia Foundation grant or any other grant before?
  • Yes
Name of your proposed microgrant project
  • Celebrating Wikidata during the Open Access Week
Proposed start date of the project
  • 15 October 2024
Proposed end date of the project
  • 30 October 2024
In which CEE country/ies will the project activities be implemented?
  • Romania

Project information

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What is the main goal of your project?
  • Celebrating 12 years of Wikidata by editathons and training (+cake)
Describe which activities you plan to implement
  • Event 1: editathon for the Open Access Week targeted primarily at public policy activists in collaboration with Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet (apti.ro). Mainly targeted at Wikidata, but open to Wikipedia/Commons contributions.
  • Event 2: OpenRefine/Wikidata training seminar at the geo-spatia.org conference in Bucharest (https://pretalx.geo-spatial.org/seminar-bucuresti-2024/me/submissions/LERWMK/)
Describe your team
  • Elena Damian (WMROMD) - main organizer and trainer
  • Andrei Cipu (WMROMD) - trainer
  • Bogdan Manolea (ApTI) - organizer and speaker (event 1)
  • Octavian Borcan (Here/geo-spatial.org) - trainer (event 2)
For which Wikimedia projects is the project relevant? For which communities is the project relevant? What is your target group?
  • The project is relevant for Wikidata and (possibly) Wikipedia/Commons. Each event is targeted at a different group:
    • the editathon is targeted at public policy activists from Bucharest (and outside, but we won’t cover travel)
    • the seminar is targeted at students from the Faculty of Geography and Tourism at the University of Bucharest
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.)
  • ~1000-1100 wikidata edits (based on the dataset we plan on importing in Event 2 + manual edits in Event1)
  • up to 15 Wikipedia articles improved or translated (based on interest in Event 1)

Financial information

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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
Food and beverages Food and beverages for both events 30 12.4 €371.4
Cake Birthday cake 1 80.3 €80.3
Swag 1 50.1 €50.1
TOTAL €501.80

Other

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Any additional comments or remarks about your project