Purpose of the report

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their progress after completing the first 6 months of their grants. The time period covered in this form will be the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Community (metrics)

Metric	Achieved outcome (Annual plan target)	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	157 out of 270	Let's fill the gender gap project (20) + Approved micro-grants (5) + New Year's Brunch (40) + Wikipedia Writing Ateliers (15) + Wikimania scholarship recipients (16) + Idea workshop's participants (14) + Zurich Stammtisch (16) + Support for 24th writing contests in DE:WP (31)
2. # of new editors	55 out of 1330	Let's fill the gender gap project (54) + Wikipedia Writing Ateliers (1)
3. # of individuals involved	404 out of 1700	Let's fill the gender gap project (74)+ Approved micro-grants (6) + New Year's Brunch (42) + Wikipedia Writing Ateliers (16) + Wikimania scholarship recipients (16) + Youth Hackathon (39) + Wikipedia Stammtisch Zurich (17) + Attendees of the Frontenders' Wikidata event (40) + Attendees of the training for Librarians of Italian Switzerland in Lugano (25) + Attendees of Wikidata trainings during Opendata Conference (30) + Support for 24th writing contests in DE:WP (31) + Community Village at Wikimania (32) + General Assembly of Wikimedia CH (36)
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	1063 out of 8000	Wikimedian portraits at Wikimedia (599) + Photos of Wikimania by Bobo11 (231) + photos of Wikimania "supported by Wikimedia CH" (200) + OSCAL 2016 (33)
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	152 out of 2300	Let's fill the gender gap project (89) + Wikipedia Writing Ateliers (20) + Support for 24th writing contests in DE:WP (43)
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	(n/a)	n/a (out of program scope)

Content (metrics)

Metric	Achieved outcome (Annual plan target)	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	44 out of 210	Art+Féminisme à Genève (7) + Art & Feminism Basel (2) + Edit-a-thon sur le pouvoir des mots à la HEG Genève (6) + Wiki Loves Earth 2016 (28) + Photo accreditation (1)
2. # of new editors	123 out of 155	Art+Féminisme à Genève (11) + Art & Feminism Basel (9) + Edit-a-thon sur le pouvoir des mots à la HEG Genève (22) + WikiWeek at the University of Basel (30) + Wiki Loves Earth 2016 (51)
3. # of individuals involved	166 out of 400	Art+Féminisme à Genève (11) + Art & Feminism Basel (11) Edit-a-thon sur le pouvoir des mots à la HEG Genève (28) + WikiWeek at the University of Basel (30) + Photo accreditation (1) + GLAM Wiki Collaboration Group (11) + Rhaeto-Rumantsch GLAM (9) + Small GLAM (Italian Switzerland) (6) + Youth Hackathon (attendees & volunteers) (59)
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	17'346 out of 50'000+	Wiki Loves Earth 2016 (926) + Sailko's upload as Supported by WMCH (9'564) + Photographer project Lillehammer 2016 (658) + contribution thanks to photo accreditation (15) + Media uploaded by GLAM Wiki Collaboration group members (6145) + Curling Championship (13) + Pictures related to food (25)
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	1'006 out of 2'900	Art & Feminism Geneva (10) + Art & Feminism Basel (27) HEG Edit-a-thon (21) + Texts uploaded in Wikisource for Rhaeto-Rumantsch project (845) + WikiWeek at the University of Basel (103)
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	n/a	n/a (out of program scope)

Outreach (metrics)

Metric	Achieved outcome (Annual plan target)	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	4 out of 215	Wikipedians attending at 1st event with ATED (4)
2. # of new editors	0 out of 20
3. # of individuals involved	395 out of 3000	Attendees at 1st event with ATED (40) + Open Energy Data Hackays (55) + Opendata.ch Conference (200) + Attendees at the ATED General Assembly (100)
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	34	Swiss Public Domain Music Records added to Wikimedia Commons (34)
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	min 2000	n/a (out of program scope)
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	0	n/a (out of program scope)

Tools (metrics)

Metric	Achieved outcome (Annual plan target)	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	n/a	n/a (out of program scope)
2. # of new editors	n/a	n/a (out of program scope)
3. # of individuals involved	413'000 out of 750'000	413'000 downloads of KIWIX
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	n/a	n/a (out of program scope)
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	out of n/a	n/a (out of program scope)
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	out of n/a	n/a (out of program scope)

Telling your program stories - all programs

Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.

We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.
Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.
We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.
We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.
You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.

Executive Summary

The last 6 months in Switzerland have seen quite a number of changes:

First of all, at the end of July 2015, the Executive Director left for personal reasons after a turbulent period of time
Afterwards, the association was led by volunteers which did not allow for launching any new sustainable project initiatives or strategies
The arrival of the new Executive Director only by mid-February 2016 (meaning an underspending of 15'000-20'000 CHF compared to planned budgets on salary and social contributions)
The on-boarding of the new management and re-organisation process as detailed below, very much needed before being able to look into the future and plan effectively ahead.

As a consequence, WMCH is now actively engaged in rendering its processes transparent and comprehensible as well as in producing strategies, plans and ongoing communications/reports that ensure impact and foster dialogue with the community. WMCH will by no means re-invent the wheel and follows a mind-set of "fixing the basis" rather than focusing on growth. Learning from and exchanging with other Chapters in Europe as well as our active community in Switzerland has proven extremely fruitful.

On a programme/project side, WMCH has chosen to engage in fewer projects and initiatives than originally planned in order to allow for strategic alignment. It is deemed wiser to invest in quality and sustainable development rather than in one-shot activities that would not lead to the desired impact and outcomes in the future. We realize that our planning process last year did not allow us to forecast realistic and achievable goals. You will see that a number of results in this report are not on target and that currently, we are only at a 32% of our annual spending. As much as possible, we will re-evalute targets and proposed activities as we go on this year, ensuring that what we do sends the right signal to our Swiss community and the Wikiverse in general. Thanks for your understanding and for reading our report!

Introduction

When the new Executive Director started in mid-February 2016, the whole WMCH organisation went through turmoil; not only in terms of the Swiss Chapter where:

The whole Board got re-shuffled bringing in a majority of Swiss Germans
Two Board members announced a possible conflict of interest; one of them did not stand for re-election while the other one got re-elected during the General Assembly.

But also on the international scene, at the Wikimedia Foundation, where a major organizational change happened within a couple of months prompting many senior figures to leave the organization and the Executive Director to resign.
All these events had an enormous ripple effect throughout the community in Switzerland, affecting trust on one hand and kicking off various waves of negative publicity throughout the web and wiki channels on the other.
In order to re-build WMCH and to re-gain the trust from its members and wider community, the following process was engaged in, adhering to the overarching principles that:

The impact of programs/projects in Switzerland would need to be commensurate with spending (human resources included)
Programs/projects to be focused on in future need to add value to the Swiss operations meaning that a volunteer or community member could not (or only with difficulty) possibly work on the project/program on his/her own.

Workflow of Wikimedia CH annual plan made by Jenny Ebermann, CEO of Wikimedia CH

Staff/Board Workshop

The objective of this workshop on June 22, 2016 in Bern was to creatively brainstorm around the vision of WMCH as well as the main directions of impact/focus for the years to come. 11 members of staff and Board attended the workshop which was conducted in a participatory and open format in Bern.

The first question to be addressed was: “Please draw a vision for the years to come; also think about three main directions of impact”. Participants received a flip chart paper and had access to a variety of colours; no talking was allowed. Once finished, all ideas were hung up on the wall as if in a gallery so that everybody could walk by and appreciate what the others had drawn. To continue, participants had to choose one (max. two) pictures that were not their own, observe what they’d see and write a number of appropriate key words, impressions, ideas around the drawing on moderation cards.

Finally, these cards were collected by the moderator and shuffled. Sitting down in small, pre-defined groups, participants would now receive a stack of these shuffled moderation cards and were asked to come up with a maximum of 10 key words/impressions per working group as a summary. These cards were then presented in the plenary and a final output drawn together by the moderator (regarding the directions of impact):

Partnerships (collaboration, networking, lobbying/influencing, linking, outreaching)
- Volunteers
- Institutions (i.e. GLAM) and authorities
- Chapters
- Like-minded organizations
- Schools: enable and drive educational projects

Community (support, bridge, respect and train)
- Volunteers
- Members
- Contributors

Content (sharing, curating, collecting)
- Free knowledge

Another impact direction, directly linked to the WMCH as an organization was also identified:

Professionalizing the organizational structure
- Financial tools and processes
- Securing funding
- Technical platforms and processes
- Communication
- Soft skills (environment)

To continue before going back into smaller groups, the essence of what participants’ thought a vision for WMCH should contain was gathered on a flip chart:

Now going back into small groups, the task was to come up with a concrete wording that would engage and at the same time represent the uniqueness of Switzerland in the landscape of chapters within the Wikiverse.
At the end of the workshop, the concrete vision wordings were presented and weighted by participants with coloured dots. The outcome reads as follows:
"As WMCH we are a stable collaborative multicultural and accountable association. We represent the interest of the communities in Switzerland, open doors and bring people together with the aim of disseminating free knowledge for a smart & open society. We do that on one hand by enabling our communities to share knowledge and on the other hand by connecting that various stakeholders of the Wikimedia Universe."[1]

[1] During its meeting of July 14, 2016, the Board decided on a final wording for the WMCH vision. It can be found below.

Community Workshop

On Saturday July 9, an open idea creation workshop was hosted in Olten to which 14 community members (German, French and Italian Speaking Switzerland), 2 Staff members and 1 Board Member attended.
The objective of this workshop was to consult the Wikimedia community about ideas, programmes/projects that could be taken forward by WMCH and thus inserted into its strategic plan for 2017. In order to set the stage for the discussions, the overall framework of the Wikimedia Foundation (Annual Plan 2017) as well as the impact directions and draft vision of WMCH (see chapter 2.1) was presented to the participants. Staff members and their percentage of work were introduced and emphasis laid on the fact that WMCH with its current resources and staff is not in a position – and also not intended – to support all projects/programs that the community values but rather that a prioritization will take place in order to be able to deliver quality and impact for Switzerland.
What is more, the overarching aim of the workshop was also to begin acting as “glue” for the communities in Switzerland, a goal prominently highlighted coming out of the vision finding workshop. It was indeed the first time such a workshop was conducted for the whole of Switzerland involving all major communities.
As format for the workshop, the “Open Space Technology” was chosen so that all issues/ideas could be addressed and tabled. A summary of the various discussions can be found here.

Participants felt grateful at the end of the workshop and definitely felt that such a format and gathering should be conducted again in a year’s time, when preparing the annual plan for the next year. They especially welcomed to reach out to participants from other parts of Switzerland and were astonished about the richness of ideas and projects conducted and put in place.

Another outcome of this day which will most certainly be implemented was the recommendation to hold either a public or a members’ only session during the General Assembly (as is currently done in Italy) to:

Promote the city in which the Assembly is held and reach out to/sensitize the General Public in terms of the purpose and projects of Wikimedia CH
Use the time of participants in a valuable way by engaging them in purposeful side workshops/discussions.

Board and Staff Meeting

On July 14, the Board met again in Bern to discuss good governance issues and the way forward. At the same time, the vision crafted at the vision finding workshop was refined and finalised. It now reads as follows:

As Wikimedia CH we open doors and bring people together with the aim of disseminating free knowledge for a smart & open society.
We enable our communities to share knowledge and connect them with the Wikimedia universe. We are a collaborative and accountable association representing the interest of our multilingual communities in Switzerland.

What is more, from July 19-20 staff met in Lugano to consolidate the diverse findings and inputs. This will lead to drafting a multiyear strategy that will form the basis for the annual plan, foreseen impact and budget that will be submitted in September. That being said and in order to align ourselves with the wider movement and in particular with the Wikimedia Foundation, it is of outmost importance to address the different priorities outlined in the WMF Annual Plan (2016/2017) while drafting our own plans. WMCH strongly believes that the growth and evolution of the movement as well as changes in global connectivity and knowledge seeking all underscore the need to develop a united strategy and ultimately a common vision for the future.

Vision Finding in Bern
Vision Finding in Bern
Vision Finding in Bern
Vision Finding in Bern
Idea workshop in Olten
Staff meeting in Lugano

Community

Stories

On top of servicing our three respective language communities by providing them the utmost support for their projects, our intention was to push the enveloppe further this year and empower our communities. As already highlighted above, we have been faced with an unprecedented turmoil within our communities starting from early April onwards. Even though we have been dealing with a complex situation in which members of our communities deeply disagreed on the definition of paid editing and what it entails, we also witnessed strengthened collaborations and a variety of positive outcomes over the last 6 months. Also, several informal in person meet-ups were organized which suggests that we were able to maintain communication lines with the community, which given the circumstances is very positive for us. Within our community program, a focus on diversity remains a key component that we successfully drive forward. We hope to be able to pursue more projects in that field in the coming years. Indeed, we believe that the association provides an added value to the movement's mission statement by supporting projects that enable and engage with a diverse crowd of contributors and content.

Providing a voice to visually impaired and blind users
The visually impaired community has a natural obstacle to overcome in order to use or participate in the Wikimedia projects. Currently, we are on one hand unfortunately missing valuable content and knowledge from that specific community and on the other hand maintaining entrance barriers preventing it from becoming an active part of our movement. Wikimedia CH hence decided to attempt to tackle this phenomenon by providing a voice to the visually impaired community. Indeed, the idea is to ask the final endusers, either suffering from blindness or visual impairment to provide feedback on the issues they face when using or contributing to the Wikimedia projects. WMCH is right now working with a visually impaired expert called Simone Mignami to help analyze and understand what could be done in future to reduce this gap. We also would like to understand if the efforts that would have to be made to transform the Wikimedia projects into user-friendly platforms for blind or visually impaired people would be sustainable. The project planning phase establishing an adequate approach was kicked off during the month of June. The objective here is to have reliable statistical data to analyze and answers available by the end of the year 2016. Stay tuned for the outcomes of this exciting and innovative project!

Learnings

This project has been suggested after a presentation done by Simone Mignami to a group of frontenders (web developers) where he gave a different point of view to solve the problem of usability for blind/visual impaired users. After that presentation we assumed that the solutions suggested in the past by the Wikipedian community (i.e. the development of a text-to-speech) may not solve the final problem. We will explain a more general approach to the tools development in the related section, but this experience suggested us that a project must be started by a preliminary better analysis of the problem which involves the final users and not based on some assumptions which may be inefficient.

Wikisource, partnerships with small local alpine communities and institutions
Even though Switzerland is geographically speaking a small country, it is nevertheless composed of a large mosaic of different communities. Diversity is a major challenge in Switzerland and now also found its entry into the Association's vision statement. Indeed, with 3 official national languages we, as a chapter, already have to build many bridges for our Italian, French and German speaking communities to connect and develop initiatives around the Wikimedia community. All the languages spoken in Switzerland are also spoken (more or less) in neighbouring countries but there are also additional languages in our linguistic landscape that still persist in valleys and small towns in the South-East part of the country. Those local languages are twinned with similar languages spoken in some valleys of Trentino and South Tyrol and are categorized as the Rhaeto-Romance languages. They are of utmost importance for the safe keeping of our national heritage as they are direct derivatives from the Latin language and still work with an original collection of words which has been kept uncorrupted from external influences thanks to the isolation of these valleys. The local administrations are putting in considerate efforts to protect and to maintain these languages, but the pressure and the immigration from the neighboring linguistic communities is debilitating the strength of the Rhaeto-Romance community. Despite the fact that these languages are less used over time, a considerate amount of Rhaeto-Romance literature exists and is also of great historical importance. WMCH is providing support to help to save the heritage of small libraries and communities of the Alpine valleys by building the biggest Rhaeto-Romance on-line open library. Indeed, with the support of Italian WikiSource community and specifically Mizardellorsa), we are collecting all those texts in Wikisource and therefore saving the content of books that are now only to be found in specific local libraries which are under threat of closure because of the reduction of contributions by the local administration. At the moment the online library comprises 1'143 texts (845 uploaded during 2016) and we are projecting to add another collection of 500 texts following the donation of a research department of the Free University of Bozen (a formal partnership is being discussed). Eight additional associations and institutions have been contacted (Biblioteca Claudia Augusta of Bozen, Biblioteca civica of Bruneck, Biblioteca civica of Toblach, Istituto Ladin Micura de Ru di Tor of Val Badia, Istituto Cultural Ladin Jan of Val di Fassa, Istituto Ladin de la Dolomites of Borca di Cadore, Union de Ladis d'Anpezo, Union Generala di Ladins dla Dolomites) to check their availability to donate additional content and to invite them to collaborate and to help to prevent the dissolving of this alpine culture.

Bridging the Gender Gap: Piloting the French speaking Wikipedia
Already back in March 2015, Wikimedia CH participated in joining the international campaign Art + Feminism with the strong intent to focus its activities in the coming years on bridging the gender gap. In parallel to this WMCH initiative, Natacha Rault User: Nattes à chat was at about the same time looking for partners for a gender gap related project she was mounting at the office for Equality of the University of Geneva, on a mandate initially given by the Emilie Gourd Foundation. She was told that WMCH had an interest in the question too and registered at the Art+Feminism event in Lausanne to meet Gabrielle Marie. We quickly realized that there was a common interest in tackling gender related issues on Wikipedia, and that our different competences were complementary: Gabrielle Marie from WMCH was bringing the knowledge of the wikipedian movement and tech contributing skills, User:LaMèreVeille the knowledge to find information on internet, and Nattes à chat the managing, writing and coaching skills . A 14 months partnership emerged which resulted in “let’s fill the gender gap“ project. The initiative was structured around a conference and 4 (3 were initially planned) sessions of 6 workshops each spread out across 2015 and 2016. You may find all the relevant information about the project here. A detailed mid-review report is also already available here. Whereas until December 2015 the participation of WMCH entailed a heavy human resource investment in a train the trainer perspective, in 2016 WMCH retired from the workshops, which were then carried out by the two trainers until the end. The Chapter continued providing support through communication initiatives and occasional on site participation but did not engage in any more logistics or administrative activities in order to be able to invest the resources in other projects across the Romandie. Moreover, institutional partners provided their strengths to the project and supported the initiative by committing important resources. As a matter of fact, the University of Geneva as a teaching entity and the Emilie Gourd Foundation as an expert in the field of gender gap issues together with the Wikimedia Foundation provided important support through the Inspire Campaign grant: please find more information here.

Learnings

Firstly, we learned that there was a real hands-on role to play for our Chapter in the field of gender gap, helping the two trainers by providing professional knowledge and support to structure the workshops as well as providing relevant information and insights about the Wikimedia movement as such. Please be reminded that the workshops were free of charge and that in exchange we would only ask for the completion of an article on an important woman personality related to Switzerland. Participants also received a certificate from the University of Geneva at the end of the sessions. Thanks to this rule, participants had a clear objective and target to complete throughout the workshops which also provided a source of constant motivation for them. They were eager to learn and interestingly had very diverse background, horizons and ages. Indeed, between librarians, academics and field experts as well as the cultural blend of a variety of nationalities, we could tap into a wonderful pool of competences and skills within the workshops that of course also participated to its final success. The sessions as such were a wonderful opportunity for transverse knowledge sharing and enrichment within a diverse group of contributors.
It has proven to be extremely helpful to encourage participants who were keen on carrying on developing their contribution skills to mentor new contributors, a train the trainer approach. Now that he project has been completed and seeds sown we hope to see more initiatives in the third and fourth quarter of 2016 especially in the Geneva area.
The workshops were open to all, although our metrics mainly focused on reporting people who identified as women, 7 new contributors who identified as men were brought onboard the Wikimedia projects.
Although it took over 3 completed sessions, so over 18 workshops, to get active contributors involved in the project, we are delighted to report that we reached one of our initial targets which was to include senior contributors within the project. We can't possibly name all the usernames of the contributors who helped online for which we are very thankful but those who registered on the project page such as User: Tulipanos,User:Abbadon1337 and User: GastelEtzwane officially supported the initiative. A huge "thank you" to them!
Finally, great synergies were built online with members of the international community abroad such as for the "coolest project for Wikimania" and with the "Women in red" group on wikipedia and via their twitter account which now finds it's homonym in french, an initiative entitled "lessanspagEs" (meaning the ones without articles). This helped promoting the workshops and making them very visible. We hence learned that it is always worth expanding horizons and borders to find support in other language communities as there are often similar ongoing projects that can cross-fertilize each other.

One major challenge so far...

Reflecting back, it was indeed quite a challenge to accommodate the mind-set of the community as some members perceived the workshops as a potential threat to the quality and neutrality of articles. We were confronted with some members of the community being very uncomfortable with the ongoing "let's fill the gender gap" workshops and voicing their thoughts publicly, even questioning their value. Although the activities were open to both male and female registration, some contributors perceived them as feminist conspiracy. Both the trainers and the new contributors experienced some difficulties on their learning paths with certain scenarios that echoed harassement situations. As of today, some members of the community continue being pretty much against the concept of the initiative and in particular the WMCH's involvement with the project. So far, it took a lot of time and many exchanges with the community to reach a certain level of acceptance of the initiative. This still needs to be enforced in future and more efforts will have to be made in that direction. We believe that the Chapter has a role to play in supporting new editors to join the Wikimedia movement; however as we do not have any editing role on the Wikimedia projects, some volunteers may perceive the efforts as being limited when it comes to accompanying concrete change.

Impact

Quantitative metrics

The impact of this project exceeded by far our expectations both on quantitative and qualitative metrics. Out of 4 workshops, which include the data from the last quarter in 2015, 74 people participated in the courses, which in effect enabled the creation of 54 accounts. 704 pages were created out of which 89 biographies involving women in Switzerland: the language here was mainly in French but also English, Spanish and Hungarian. Hereunder you will find the detailed metrics that we have collected for each session:

Session	Participants	Accounts created	Pages created	Articles created	Total edits	30 day retention rate
October/December 2015 (1)	27	17	203	21	6320	48%
January/April 2016 (2)	28	18	128	22	3950	22%
March/May 2016 (3)	13	9	89	11	3034	46%
April/June 2016 (4)	20	10	284	32	3940	Not available yet

Note: The 30 day contributor retention rates are impressive and WMCH will be calculating the 90 day retention rate during autumn 2016 to be able to analyse the impact of the workshops in depth.

Qualitative metrics

Following each workshop, a questionnaire was sent to the participants to improve the teaching approach of the program and its content from session to session. The learning curve was steep and most of the participants provided excellent feedback; here is a snap shot of their results:

Session	Net Promotor Score	Appreciation of the trainers (average)	Intention to carry on contributing (average)	Improved awareness on the theme of Equal opportunities (average)
October/December 2015 (1)	54.67	8.6/10	40%	7/10
January/April 2016 (2)	81.8	9.1/10	90.9%	7.7/10
March/May 2016 (3)	57.2	8.3/10	100%	7
April/June 2016 (4)	50	8.5/10	75%	7.8/10

Note: we decided to opt for the NPS as a qualitative metric in order to be able to compare the results from one session to the next, as it is a useful tool to provide a sense of growth. Participants had to answer the following question: "How likely is it that you would recommend our workshops to a friend or colleague? " on a scale from 0 to 10. A calculation is then required and the final figure, as detailed in the Wikipedia article, can be interpreted as such "NPS can be as low as −100 (everybody is a detractor) or as high as +100 (everybody is a promoter). An NPS that is positive (i.e., higher than zero) is felt to be good, and an NPS of +50 is excellent."

The project was contacted 21 times by media over a period of 10 months: not only written press but also radio and tv coverages were the result, thanks to an efficient communication strategy which of course also contributed to spreading the Wikimedia name in the local area. All the links to the articles, podcasts and videos are available on the project page.

We believe that the success of this initiative was on one hand due to the diversity of strong institutional stakeholders which invested financial resources and in kind contributions. On the other hand, without the hard work and dedication of the users User: Nattes à chat and User:LaMèreVeille this initiative could not have had such a high impact. Last but not least, a strong communication strategy also enabled the project to gain visibility. Following the completion of the project, we hope that the participants of the workshops remain motivated to carry on contributing to the Wikimedia projects on the long term. We are also confident that they will be joining future offline community get-togethers which will enrich the discussions and exchanges. A detailed official report is currently being compiled together with all the partners of the project. It will be included in the final 2016 impact report.

Learning patterns

Gallery

Gender gap picture
Gender gap picture
Art & Feminism, Basel
Gender gap picture
Community Village
Community Village

Dorian Crede, photo supported by WMCH
Rho, photo supported by WMCH
Singh, photo supported by WMCH
TFlanagan, photo supported by WMCH
Patricio Lorente, photo supported by WMCH
Larsson, photo supported by WMCH
Sonia Caravia, photo supported by WMCH
Quim Gil, photo supported by WMCH
Andrea Balzarini, photo supported by WMCH
Jan Ainali, photo supported by WMCH
Ester Pantaleo, photo supported by WMCH

Progress table

Target

Last year (if applicable)

Progress (at end of Q2)

Projected (end of year)

Comments

Microgrants:

Award a total of 20 micro-grants to 10 different users, resulting in the upload of 500 pictures and the improvement of 50 articles

14

5 out of 20

Slightly below target

Each grant out of the 5 provided has been attributed to a different contributor, all of whom are active members of our community. Although we communicate about the financing option through a variety of channels (wiki projects, WMCH newsletter & social medias) only a few contributors apply to them. We will be communicating even more actively during the second half of the year in order to reach our targets. The impact of this supportive action will also be measured through our yearly satisfaction survey. Please consult all the micro-grants requests here.

Trainings:

Conduct four separate Wikidata (Q1, Q3, Q4) and bot wrangling (Q4) trainings, involving 20 active users in total. Several thousand articles impacted as a result (hard to quantify).

n/a

4 out of 4

On target.

4 Wikidata trainings/presentations took place during the first six months of the year. A total of 135 people (40 + 25 + 30 + 40) were reached during the following events: ATED conference to software companies, Lugano Cantonal Library presentation to librarians, Opendata.ch yearly conference to the association's members and Frontenders for front-end developers.

Writing ateliers and reunions:

12 meetings over the course of the year, involving a total of 150 contributors (15 new), 500 new pictures uploaded, about 40 articles created or impacted.

n/a

7 out of 12

On target.

2 New Year Brunches organized in parallel in Geneva and Zurich to kick-off the year, with a total of (30 + 12) 42 attendees.

3 Wikipedia ateliers with a total of 16 people attending (whereof 15 are existing editors and 1 new editor, a total of 535 edits and 20 new pages created).

Writing contests:

3 writing contests directly sponsored by WMCH (Q1 & Q4). Around 70 users involved, 200 to 300 articles created or impacted across three languages. We expect around 10 Good Articles and 20 Featured ones.

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1 out of 3

On target.

Wikimedia CH provided 3 prizes for the 24th writing contest in the German-speaking Wikipedia. 31 active editors participated and 43 articles were created or improved. Thereof, 7 articles were accepted as “featured articles” and a total of 3 as “good articles” (and 2 more articles are in the review process at the moment). For Q3 & Q4, we are going to support 2 more writing contests.

Gender-gap ateliers:

A total of 18 wikipedia trainings to teach people how to contribute on wikipedia, specifically women's biographies, over the course of October 2015 to June 2016. This project was carried in collaboration with the following institutional partners: the Emilie Gourd Foundation and the office for Equality of the University of Geneva. Around 100 new female users, 5 active contributors.

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18/12

On target

This is the continuation of a program we have started 18 months ago and that picked up momentum in 2016. The workshops were specifically targeted at increasing the editorship of women on Wikipedia as well as at building content on Wikipedia by providing visibility to women who meet the admission criteria. For better understanding, please note that one session comprising 6 workshops in total was already carried out in autumn 2015 and that 3 sessions of 6 workshops each were carried out between January and June 2016. Originally, only two sessions were scheduled in the first two quarters of 2016, however, with a high demand from participants, a third session was implemented at the HES-SO in Lausanne. Whereas our original target of 100 new users might not be completely reached, more than 7 active contributors could be gained and are now part of the community thanks to the workshops. We will be calculating additional metrics in Q4 to verify the 90 day retention rate of each workshop carried out over the course of 2015 & 2016. (Please see story section above for more information).

Community Surveys:

Run two separate surveys in Q3: one directed at Italian editors having left the movement, for which we expect a 20% response rate among those contacted. Another broader, Switzerland-wide (als, de, en, fr, it) which we will use to measure our impact vis-à-vis the editor community (150+ respondents, 80% satisfaction rate).

1 Community Survey in 2015

0 out of 2

On target

The association has scheduled to carry out the surveys during the fourth quarter of the year. The reason behind this is to be able to connect the results of the surveys with the revision of the WMCH strategy following the conduct of internal and community workshops during the second quarter of the year.

Scholarships:

Award a total of 30 scholarships for users attending Wikimania (Q2) or the German Wikicon (Q3). 1/3 of these grantees will join the event for the first time. The impact of our support will be measured through a satisfaction survey for which we hope for a 90% satisfaction rate.

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21 out of 30

On target.

Wikimania:
Wikimedia CH awarded a total of 15 scholarships to Wikimedians living in Switzerland and 1 scholarship to a Wikimedian from Ghana. 7 of the scholars attended Wikimania for the first time, which equals 46%.

WikiCons
The french speaking Wikiconvention taking place in Paris in August was not originally anticipated as our annual plan was already set but we decided to engage more actively over the course of the year and provide the opportunity to the community to attend the event. WMCH is supporting a total of 9 scholarships for members of our local community to travel to the event, including 2 contributors from Algeria and Sweden. With the upcoming German speaking Wikiconvention taking place in September in Stuttgart, WMCH will also be supporting the German-speaking community to attend the event. This will enable us to reach our targets for the year.

Wikimania:

7 to 800 attendees in Esino Lario in June 2016 which we will support with our full staff on site and a dozen volunteers. We will also help 20 to 30 Global South users (or 95% of demands) attend the conference through facilitating visa procedures with the Swiss authorities. The metrics collection rests with the organizing committee, but we'll stand by them. The qualitative impact will be measured through a satisfaction survey for which we hope for a 90% satisfaction rate.

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Wikimedia CH provided the possibility to support participants traveling from abroad with the processing of their visas. However, only a few participants requested that support, our initial target detailed in the annual plan is therefore no longer relevant and categorized as non-applicable. The staff time allocated for this service was re-invested within the organization of the event's Community Village and communications with a total of 32 booths, which attracted several hundreds of visitors throughout Wikimania.

Last but not least, by sending out press releases in three languages we were able to mobilize the Swiss National Radio as well as major newspapers and magazines in Switzerland to cover Wikimania. We also calculated the the estimated PR value, it corresponds to the price Wikimedia CH should have paid in order to get the articles published. As they are not advertising and offer added-value content written by independent journalists, their value is estimated to be 2.5 times higher than regular advertising spaces. This document provides you the clips of the 10 media coverages as well as a detailed measure of this value for each press coverage, the total PR value equals CHF 414 100.