Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/WikiProject Specialty Tea in Taiwan
Create wikipedia articles for the main tea cultivars developed or discovered in Taiwan for tea production, the most important types of tea produced in Taiwan, including their manufacturing process and how to taste them, and the main tea producing regions, including the social-economic development of these regions.
We would also like to contribute to the wikiversity, wikispecies, and wikivoyage.This is an automatically generated page based on the applicant's application on the Wikimedia Foundation's Grantee Portal on Fluxx.
Overview
editWhat is the main objective of your proposal? Please state why you think partnering with Wikimedia Movement helps to achieve this objective?
- In our two-year proposal, we would like to achieve the following objectives:
Create wikipedia articles for the main tea cultivars developed or discovered in Taiwan for tea production, the most important types of tea produced in Taiwan, including their manufacturing process and how to taste them, and the main tea producing regions, including the social-economic development of these regions.
We would also like to contribute to the wikiversity, wikispecies, and wikivoyage.
Describe your main strategies to achieve this objective?
- To achieve the objectives mentioned above, we plan to directed out efforts into three broad components:
- Capacity building
Throughout the project and especially during the first 6 months of it, capacity building would be the foundation for the project’s overall success. Writing and editing Wikipedia articles are skills which can be acquired only through sufficient training and practicing. Instructions from experienced Wikipedians would be extremely valuable. During the first 6 months, we expected to acquire the necessary skills to start writing and editing articles on our own, while talented members may continue to learn to be instructors.
Besides, acquiring knowledge of different aspects of tea would be helpful not only for our members to produce high quality articles, but also to incentivize our members to stay onboard. Therefore, training such as introductory tea tasting for staff and volunteers would be an important component in our project.
We especially welcome volunteers with special ethnic backgrounds to join us, as differences in diet habits can largely influence one’s perception of tea and are valuable for offering fresh perspectives to us.
- Communication
We would implement two channels of communications throughout our project. First, as accessing literature for reference is expected to be challenging, we can benefit from keeping close contact with several key institutions in Taiwan, including Tea Research and Extension Station, Taiwan Tea Society, and National Taiwan University, where some of the rarest copies of books and journal articles can be found.
On the other hand, public visibility through press and social media can help us recruit more talents and deliver our content to the marginalized audience we strive to reach.
- Impact evaluation
Measuring the impact of our work will be important for keeping us on track, helping us learning from our mistakes, and motivating us to continue contributing to what we can deliver the most impact to the Wikimedia movement and the society.
Where will this proposal be implemented?
- Taiwan
Organization details
editOrganization name
- Taiwanese Specialty Tea Society in Europe
What is your organization or group's mission and how does it align with the Wikimedia movement?
- Taiwanese Specialty Tea Society in Europe aims at facilitating the development of an environment in which Taiwanese specialty tea culture can thrive in Europe through education, events, and collaborations with relevant stakeholders. However, unlike wine or coffee, information about tea is scant on the internet and even harder to access in the printed form, such as books and pamphlet. Such a lack of access, as we believe, has been a major obstacle we would have to address.
Please tell us how your organization is structured.
- Taiwanese Specialty Tea Society in Europe consist of five core members: one president, Angie Chen, one vice president, Hsiao-Pu Chen, two directors Dr. Yu-Wen Hsieh and Wesley Charles Fu, and a supervisor Su Hui-Hsin. All of the core members will be involved in the work.
Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
- Taiwan Tea Society and Tea Research and Extension Station will collaborately offer intensive introductory training program for our core members.
Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.
- No
Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?
- Did not apply previously
Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?
- No
- Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?
- Please state the size of these grants from the following options.
- What type of organization (s) did you receive grants from?
- What percentage of your program budget do other funders contribute to?
Project Proposal
editIndicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries?
- Local
- 1. 在理解台灣培育茶品種於其他茶區栽種的發展進程與現況；以及台灣茶文化與鄰近國家茶文化如何互為影響上，我們預計將與以下國家的相關學術研究機構或其他人民團體交換資料與心得：
越南、泰國、日本、中國、紐西蘭
2. 在理解台灣茶外銷足跡、飲用人口分佈地域；以及台灣茶文化在廣泛消費茶的國家裡如何與當地民情互動上，我們預計將與以下國家的相關學術研究機構或其他人民團體交換資料與心得： 波蘭、捷克、德國、法國、英國、美國、中國、俄羅斯
3. 在理解台灣茶區與其他產茶區如何互為影響而衍生栽種、製茶工藝的異同，以致如何彼此區隔並於市場上共生；台灣製茶產業投資者如何前往其他產茶區開闢新天地、產業交流；產茶區如何共同面對相似的環境挑戰如乾旱、洪災、氣候變遷等，我們預計將與以下國家的相關學術研究機構或其他人民團體交換資料與心得： 印度、斯里蘭卡、越南、泰國、中國、日本、紐西蘭、肯亞、南非、土耳其
Are there any specific sub-regions or areas where your proposal will be implemented? (optional)
Are you running any in-person events or activities?
- No
Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified content knowledge gaps?
- Geography, Socioeconomic Status, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select all categories that apply.
- Gender Identity, Geographic, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Socioeconomic status, Age
Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or thematic focus.
- Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM, Diversity
Please tell us more about your target participants.
- For their particlar tea cultural heritage, we especially welcome Taiwanese Hakka, Taiwanese indigenous peoples, and migrant to join our team. For people interested in tea, training sessions regarding different aspects of tea are expected to be able to incentivize our members to continue contributing.
Do you have plans to work with other Wikimedia communities, groups or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
- Yes
If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
- We have discuss our ideas with members in Taiwan Wikimedia Community based locally. We contacted Taiwan Wikimedia Community first through their Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/132122180308896). The connection is valuable as we learned from our discussion about the realistic expectation reagrding the steep learning curve in the initial capacity building phase. We also learned about in what way our project can be challenging and why it can be important.
If no, please tell us the reasons why it has not been possible to make these connections.
Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
- Yes
If yes, please describe these partnerships.
- Taiwan Tea Society
- National Taiwan University
- Tea Research and Extension Station
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
editWhat do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
- How to write wikipedia articles.
Core Metrics
editEnter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | ||
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers |
If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
What other information will you be collecting to learn about the impacts of your activities? (optional)
What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
- We consider all the main metric (Number (#) of participants, Number (#) of editors, Number (#) of organizers, Number (#) of new content contributions per Wikimedia project) relevant but need support for more appropriate selecetion.
How do you hope to share these results so that others can learn from them?
- Make a short presentation of the experience, Create a training workshop to show others what we learned, Share results on social media, Share results with our communities, Participate in one on one peer sharing session with other grantees, Develop learning material for other users, I would like to receive support from the Foundation to discover how I can share my learning, Share it on Meta-Wiki
Financial Proposal
editWhat is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
- 100000 USD
What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 100000 USD
Please share your budget for this proposal.
What do you do to make sure there is a good management of funds?
- The primary contact, Hsiao-Pu Chen, had been a project manager for a project funded by National Science Council in 2009, and currently worked as an assistant in Academia Sinica implementing another project funded by National Science Council. His experience in fund management ensure that the scarce resorce can be used wisely. The secondary contact, Angie Chen, is a competent organizers who has carried out numerous exhibitions and events during the past ten years.
How will you contribute towards creating a supportive environment for participants using the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy?
- Educated in Germany learning philosophy, one of the best practice I have learned during any discussion is to listen carefully to any speaker until he or she finish his or her talk, no matter how much you disagree. It will continue to be the most important part in our team. Such respect for individuality will be what we value.
By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.
I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friend Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- Yes