Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/AvoinGLAM 2024/Final Report
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Part 1: Understanding your work
editPer the recent update on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy process, Wikimedia Affiliates that are General Support Fund grantees will fulfill their affiliate reporting requirements through their final or yearly grantee report.
If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate, you will use this form for your affiliate reporting and to address the affiliate health criteria. You do not need to submit a separate report to AffCom. Follow the guidance in the green boxes to report on how you met the corresponding affiliate health criteria.
If you are not a Wikimedia Affiliate, aligning your responses with the affiliate criteria is optional and not required.
1. Please share to what extent your programs, approaches, and strategies contributed to addressing the challenges you shared in your proposal. If they did not contribute as you believed they would, please share what obstacles you faced and what, if anything, you learned from them? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 1.) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 1.1 (Goal delivery). Describe how you actively delivered on mission goals, e.g. content creation.
AvoinGLAM has worked with a program consisting of unique projects as well as consistent advocacy groundwork. Both of these approaches are different means to advocate for open access to cultural heritage in the current digital environment.
Responding quickly to signals in society and in our communities may make our programming volatile and unpredictable. However, it also allows us to deliver high impact, topical and innovative activities. These are core values that we have wanted to cherish.
Our work is appreciated in the GLAM-Wiki community within Wikimedia and other open knowledge networks, and in the GLAM sector in Finland and internationally. We hope to be valued for the impact we have been able to create with the limited resources we have had at our disposal.
The following text compares our output and outcome with the submitted plans.
Living Heritage
editContinue maintaining the Wiki Loves Living Heritage pages
editLiving Heritage pages continued to be maintained, and new inventories added. However, as the active project period has ended, it is not attracting visitors and contributions similarly. Without a dedicated program, we keep the project in maintenance mode.
Continue supporting and facilitating data imports of ICH inventories
editWe prepared data imports for inventories in a dozen countries, with a goal of inviting the local communities to identify and enrich the entries together with the local authorities and heritage communities. The data imports reached different levels of maturity, but none of them grew into a full-blown local collaboration around the data.
The new UNESCO ICH inscriptions in December 2024 were added to Wikidata and the Living Heritage pages. This was done independently using the existing import practices, which is what the detailed documentation aims at. The announcement on LinkedIn gained positive visibility for it.
Transfer knowledge and responsibility
editThe idea to continue a global program needs to be rethought in a way that also includes Wiki Loves Folklore and other initiatives that would benefit from it. Currently, there is not enough interest in keeping Wiki Loves Living Heritage active.
Continue facilitating introductions
editThe introductions in Ghana lead to collaborations between the Ghana Folklore Board and the Ghanaian Wikimedia communities. This collaboration was already started during the 2023 festive year.
- Wiki Loves Living Heritage: Building Partnerships for Knowledge Equity in Ghana [3]
The active contribution of the professional network of focal points was crucial for the success of Wiki Loves Living Heritage in 2023 and similar global collaborations can be really fruitful.
Wikidocumentaries
editRealize use cases
editDeveloping Wikidocumentaries further has been dependent on a specific developer contribution making the environment ready for new contributors. This did not happen, and we ask that the funding allocated for this can be transferred to 2025 with a different responsibility.
We see Wikidocumentaries being brought up in discussions as an inviting example of a direction Wikimedia Foundation could take with the amazing linked data, media and text assets it manages.
Use Wikidocumentaries as a component in collaborations
editThe opportunities are postponed until the project contribution workflows have been assessed.
Media Art History
editContribute to an in-person seminar in Helsinki
editThe final seminar of the MEHI project took place in January 2024. Susanna Ånäs ran one of the conversations discussing the use of Wikimedia platforms for archiving media art. It allowed explaining reasoning behind open sharing and dealing with differing opinions.
- Media Art History in the Future Seminar [5]
European webinar with European partners
editThe plan to arrange a European webinar evolved into a European in-person workshop in Amsterdam in partnership with LIMA. The meeting gathered a dozen experts from around Europe. The sessions were used to prepare a blueprint for contributing media art history materials to Wikimedia projects. The seminar sparked a network that continues work at further occasions to finalize the blueprint and to promote the approach to use Wikimedia projects for archiving media art. The event was supported by three European Wikimedia chapters (WMNL and WMCH with direct support and WMNO with a travel grant to one of the participants).
- Media Art History Expert Meeting 2024-10-17 [6]
The project has several spin-offs. The newly created network participates in further workshops and presentations in an international context in 2025.
- Workshop on New Media Art Archiving 2025 February 5th to 8th, 2025, at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany [7]
- Transformation Digital Art 2025, 20 March 2025 - 21 March 2024, LIMA, Amsterdam [8]
In the Finnish context, Andrew Paterson / Pixelache and the Finnish Media Art Network are prepared to continue disseminating the best practices.
Continue the work of collecting archival information about media art and artists in Finland and internationally
editThe project pages on Wikimedia Meta were created to display the content of the Finnish database and to allow new contributions of artists and organizations, both in the Finnish context and internationally. This was meant for the Finnish Wikimedia and Media Art communities. This work has not been active yet, but there is interest in advancing it in 2025.
- Artists page Media Art History/Artists
- Form to add an artist [9]
- Artworks page Media Art History/Artworks
- Form to add an artwork [10]
In addition, another type of data display was prepared as a wikiproject in the Finnish Wikipedia.
Visualizing Wikidata with Aalto University Design
editStudy project
editAvoinGLAM’s Tove Ørsted, Sophea Lerner and Susanna Ånäs gave a lecture about open culture at Aalto University in preparation for this collaboration. It was a positive step in connecting with academic studies.
- Open Culture. AvoinGLAM – Susanna Ånäs, interim ED at Open Knowledge Finland; Tove Ørsted, archivist/IT specialist at Aalto University; Sophea Lerner, Phonebox Productions [12]
The project itself was not started and the resources were allocated to AI Sauna. We remain interested in collaborating in a practical setting with academic studies in information visualization, making data in Wikidata and all the connected data and media repositories understandable and actionable, especially if we can serve them through the Wikidocumentaries project.
Wikidocumentaries contributions
editThe opportunities are postponed until the project contribution workflows have been assessed.
Advocacy for Open Culture
editFacilitate deliberations in the GLAM community
editThis is a pivotal moment for the Wikimedia GLAM community. The looming threat of cutting support for Wikimedia Commons mass uploads and metadata enrichment features is jeopardizing all GLAM activities in the Wikimedia ecosystem from partnerships with memory institutions to global Wiki Loves campaigns.
With this pressing issue on our agenda, we have been active in the joint activities of the global Wikimedia GLAM community by contributing to GLAM pages revamp on Meta and the global GLAM calls.
- GLAM pages revamp [13]
- Global GLAM calls [14]
The GLAM activities account for a major part of chapter activities in the Wikimedia movement and connect Wikimedia effectively with organizations with aligned missions. We see these collaborations as fundamentally important in preparation for the future of open content in the age of AI.
Participate in international strategic activities and working groups
editIn 2024, we have additionally been involved in the activities of Creative Commons and Open Knowledge Network, connected with the European networks in the context of European Heritage Hub bringing together Europeana and Europa Nostra, and participating in the TAROCH initiative. We hope to leverage this unique position for the benefit of Open Access to cultural heritage globally.
We participated in the parallel sessions of "Common(s) Cause" and the "Global GLAM-Wiki meetup" in Wikimania, Katowice.
AI Sauna was noted in the Wikimania panel
- Susanna Ånäs joined "Wikimedia & GenAI: A 360 movement panel one year later" panel at Wikimania [17]
Susanna Ånäs was invited to speak in the panel discussion "A socially responsible digital transformation in Europe’s heritage sector" at the European Heritage Hub Forum in Bucharest, Romania about AI and open culture and AI Sauna.
- Event details [18]
Susanna Ånäs continued to participate in the workings of the Content Partnership Hub Helpdesk Expert Committee, The Heritage Guard Network, and joined the jury of the Wiki Loves Earth contest.
- Presentation “Cultural Heritage at Risk” to the Heritage Guard Network regarding AvoinGLAM’s activities around the topic [19] AvoinGLAM members are active in the Creative Commons network
- Susanna presented “Community and the Cultural Commons” on the Open Access week in the session initiated by a Creative Commons working group. [20] AvoinGLAM joined the TAROCH Coalition by Creative Commons. Susanna Ånäs joined the Advocacy Planning and Materials Workspace.
- "Creative Commons Launches TAROCH Coalition for Open Access to Cultural Heritage" [21]
- "TAROCH Coalition - Statement of Commitment" [22]
Local community, advocacy and public policy
editIncrease the understanding of Wikimedia projects in our peer communities in Finland.
editWe advocate for sharing materials openly using Wikimedia projects whenever possible. We look for ways to participate in R&D initiatives to advance federated approaches for archiving, when materials are out of scope for Wikimedia projects. We prefer to direct labour-intensive content contribution projects to Wikimedia Finland.
In the Media Art History project we do all of these: we contribute materials to Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, make Wikipedia contribution workflows, promote the use of Wikimedia projects, and advocate for domain-specific repositories when they are needed.
Collaborate on advocacy and public policy for Open Access to cultural heritage
editAvoinGLAM collaboratively produced an Open Access policy for Espoo City Museum as part of their digital policies initiative.
This policy acts as an example for all museums in Finland. The policy was written by Tuomas Nolvi and Susanna Ånäs. Tove Ørsted translated it to Swedish and Susanna Ånäs to English, and we shared it in the Creative Commons working group on Open Access policies as an example.
Links to the materials on Espoo City Museum "About" page
- English [23]
- Finnish [24]
- Swedish [25]
KAMU Digital Policy publication
- English [26]
- Finnish [27]
- Swedish [28]
Toolkit Open knowledge recommendation for cultural heritage organizations
- English [29]
- Finnish [30]
- Swedish [31]
Creative Commons working group outputs
- Lucy Moore, Conner Benedict: Terms of Use. Creative Commons [32]
- Lucy Moore: A Ready-to-Use Policy Template for Launching Open Access. Published in Creative Commons: We Like to Share [33]
AvoinGLAM has written policy statements. We participated in the creation of key policy endeavours in Finland and participated in the statement regarding the implementation of the AI Act in Finland. We must strengthen our policy work going forward. Tove Ørsted, Tuomas Nolvi and Susanna Ånäs participated in preparing the statements and Tove and Susanna joined workshops.
AvoinGLAM members represent in the Finnish GLAM sector working groups. This is an important way to be connected, but is not sufficient for advocacy.
- Finna Steering Group. Member Tove Ørsted, deputy member Jessica Parland-von Essen
- Time Machine Organization Finland network, Susanna Ånäs
- The Round Table of Digital Cultural Heritage, Susanna Ånäs
AvoinGLAM assumes the coordinator role in the Finnish Advocacy Network for Open Knowledge. The network was launched at the end of 2024 and the activities are just starting. The initial group will agree on the nature of the network.
AvoinGLAM members are active also in the revival of the Finnish Creative Commons chapter.
AI Sauna (Previously: Hacking AI with Finnish GLAMs)
editOriginal goal: Organize a smaller hackathon focusing on the use of AI with the Finnish GLAMs
editAvoinGLAM arranged AI Sauna in Helsinki 6–7 May after the Wikimedia hackathon in Tallinn 3–5 May, 2024. The goal was to envision the relations between GLAM, the open ecosystem and AI together with the Wikimedia GLAM & tech communities, major Finnish GLAM institutions, AI research projects and companies.
The Wikimedia Hackathon was going to be organized in Tallinn, and the organizers were inviting fringe events. We had considered a European or regional hackathon after being encouraged to seek funding by arranging such an event, but had not allocated resources to it. We decided to put the local AI hack event and an international Wikimedia & GLAM initiatives together.
Unfortunately we were not able to apply for WMF events funding anymore at that date. However, with small program changes to cover for our work and sponsor funding from participating organizations we were able to arrange the event. The program officer was kept informed of the proposal from the initial enquiries on in November 2023.
The event was unique in its composition of speakers and attendants. The speakers represented the National Library of Finland, Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) & Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), Culture & Heritage and Future Audiences teams at the Wikimedia Foundation, Flickr Foundation, MariaDB Foundation, Open Culture program at Creative Commons, and Open Future Foundation. We were proud to have such a good representation from key organizations for open access to cultural heritage. We would have liked to attract more GLAM participants, but understandably the lack of travel support affected that. Shifts in our fundraising responsibilities influenced our ability to engage companies.
The hackathon day produced a dozen projects with teams made up at the event. The projects are all documented on Wikimedia Meta.
- AI Sauna on Wikimedia Meta [38]
- AI Sauna quick reflection on This Month in GLAM [39]
- AI Sauna quick reflection / Open Knowledge Foundation blog [40]
Saami languages
editContinue our collaboration in the Support for Sámi languages in digital services of the National Library of Finland
editThe National Library of Finland project has translated the General Finnish Ontology along with many of their services into Northern Saami language. AvoinGLAM continued as project partner until the project’s end at the end of 2024. It allowed us to advocate for the use of Wikidata to share results of the project as well as use data already in WIkidata in the project. We had an unique opportunity to familiarize with key institutions stewarding Saami heritage.
Kimberli Mäkäräinen was awarded for her volunteer work to support the Support for Sámi languages in digital services project by the National Library of Finland as part of the Finto 10 years anniversary seminar.
AvoinGLAM congratulates the creation of the Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group, which will be instrumental in managing Saami language and culture on Wikimedia projects.
AvoinGLAM plans to focus more on Saami cultural heritage beyond language. The goal is to work on this in the 2026 GLAM event in Oulu. In addition, our advocacy has led the National Library of Finland to consider Traditional Knowledge Labels for indigenous materials in Finland.
- Support for Sámi languages in digital services, National Library of Finland [41]
2. Is there a plan to build on the key successes you had? If yes, please describe the plan and if no, please share the limitations to do so. For instance, did the activities lead to any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future? (required)
AvoinGLAM’s activities are rooted in a decade of organizing co-creation events, cultural hackathons. We work across networks of practitioners and are accustomed to varying our usual playbook by bringing different people together in different setting to solve problems and to make unexpected encounters.
We hope to build on our experiences by creating our biggest in-person event so far in the context of the cultural capital of Oulu in 2026. If our plans are realized, we will be able to collaborate with Wikimedia Finland and provide a framework for joint program streams.
3. Please provide a link to reports that detail the activities that took place in the last year. This can include an annual report, Meta pages, and websites. If there are no links available, briefly describe the implemented activities and programs below or upload any files. (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 3.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.1 (Affiliate health & resilience), 4.1 (Internal engagement), 4.2 (Community connection), and 4.3 (Partnerships and collaboration):
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
- Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
In addition to the links above, the links to AvoinGLAM’s 2024 documentation are listed below.
This Month in GLAM reports
Annual plan
The annual report will be prepared later this spring.
4. Are you interested in sharing what you achieved or learned this year with the wider community through different peer learning programs (e.g. Let's Connect program, Diff)? (optional)
As members of the global GLAM Wiki community, we are creating pages on Wikimedia Meta for knowledge exchange for all GLAM activities. The GLAM community still has a predominantly Western makeup. We would like to invite more people from across the movement to join the Global GLAM-Wiki community, and we imagine that we could reach emerging groups and programs through channels such as Let’s Connect and Diff.
5. Did you collect feedback from your community or target groups on how the activities implemented impacted them? If yes, please attach/provide information on the results (e.g. community surveys, stories, impact booklets/reports, interviews with partner institutions, etc). Did you collect other impact-specific data? (required)
For affiliates, the response to Question 5. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criteria 4.1 (Internal Engagement), 4.2 (Community Connection), or 4.3 (Partnerships & collaboration), where applicable.
AI Sauna feedback has responses from a small number of participants. The results are shared in AI Sauna/Documentation.
6. During the fund period, did your efforts do any of the following? (required):
For affiliates, the response to Question 6. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criterion 2.2 (Diversity balance).
- 6.1 Bring in participants from the following groups: indigenous groups , speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: indigenous groups, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Organizers, Partnerships
7. What, if any, effective tactics or approaches can you share that worked well when dealing with the programs under points 6.1-6.3 that you selected? (optional)
Indigenous culture
editAvoinGLAM has worked in the project Support for Sámi languages in digital services of the National Library of Finland as partner, which has effectively been an advisory position. It has been a great opportunity to build trust and share our previous learnings among the project parties, the National Library and the Sámi representatives.
As proponents of open environments, we must ensure that participation is built on informed choice and trust. When working with vulnerable groups, it’s essential to create a gradual and supportive pathway into open collaboration. This means clearly communicating what openness entails, providing opportunities for informed consent, and ensuring that contributors understand both the benefits and potential risks.
AvoinGLAM has been engaged in discussions about shortcomings of open licensing and pitfalls of public domain materials regarding indigenous knowledge. We have been able to liaise between these discussions and the National Library Finna.fi service successfully, inspiring them to investigate labeling options for Sámi materials.
While the work has emphasized linguistic rights, we are gradually also addressing issues about open sharing of visual materials, and wish to continue this discussion in the context of the Oulu 2026 GLAM event.
Living Heritage
editThe Living Heritage activities continue gradually. In addition to the big campaign of 2023, database additions take place either in collaboration with the local communities or without that contact.
The most fruitful way to incorporate essential bodies of knowledge into Wikimedia projects is through collaboration with the respective professionals or communities – even when it may be legally permissible to use the data or content without their consent.
The practice of collaborating with a partner professional network and instigating local collaborations across the world has been very effective in arranging the Living Heritage activities.
However, there are pitfalls. The local communities (Wikimedia, partner, or heritage community) may have limited capacity to respond to the request. This could be due to resource constraints, competing priorities, or a lack of the necessary expertise. Connecting people from a distance without knowing the full context can backfire. Misunderstandings or mismatched expectations might lead to confusion or missed opportunities. A thoughtful, informed approach works best.
GLAM Wiki community
editWe are participating in activities that aim at increasing the sense of community among GLAM-Wiki advocates in the Wikimedia movement. GLAM activities are distributed across the movement, often taking place in chapters that are capable of managing partnerships with external organizations. However, Wikimedia GLAM activities extend to all culture and cultural heritage, and different organizations, communities and individuals working on it within the Wikimedia movement and beyond. To highlight the diversity of the subject matter, we tend to replace "Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums" with "Global Languages, Art and Memory" at AvoinGLAM. With this in mind, we would like the language communities to identify themselves as GLAM as well as the Wiki Loves campaigns.
Secondly, we wish to gather resources to increase visibility of our work in the GLAM-Wiki community, share learnings more efficiently, and facilitate collaborations by providing contact points for actors in the movement and beyond.
The activities also aim to ensure the GLAM community is represented in Wikimedia movement decision-making on platforms, tools, and resource allocation. The intensive work of gathering data and media, revitalizing languages, fostering global participation and engaging communities creates a unique linked knowledge ecosystem that enables new ways of producing and consuming information. The GLAM Wiki community is well-placed to develop these ideas further.
8. If you developed partnerships, which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors (optional):
Permanent staff outreach, Board members’ outreach, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics
edit| Metrics name | Target | Result | Comments and tools used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | N/A | 245 | See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AvoinGLAM_2024/Report#Metrics |
| Number of all editors | N/A | 21 | See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AvoinGLAM_2024/Report#Metrics |
| Number of new editors | N/A | ||
| Number of retained editors | N/A | ||
| Number of all organizers | N/A | 79 | See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AvoinGLAM_2024/Report#Metrics |
| Number of new organizers | N/A |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages | Target - Number of improved pages | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
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| Wikipedia | ||||
| Wikimedia Commons | ||||
| Wikidata | ||||
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | ||||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | ||||
| Wikivoyage | ||||
| Wikibooks | ||||
| Wikiversity | ||||
| Wikinews | ||||
| Wikispecies | ||||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes
11.1. Other Metrics.
In your application, you outlined some other open metrics that you would like to measure. Please fill out the achieved results for each of the open metrics you defined.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
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| Individual metrics for each program | This document contains a theory of change for each program, and the chosen metrics for them. View column OUTPUT/METRICS
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-r9Mp9B_ao0c9jopwbT3csQTqPlzs_K0eJgWF2hhWao/edit |
1 | See documentation | |
Part 3: Skill Development / Capacity Building
edit12. Reflecting on your programmatic (external) and organizational (internal) work, did your grant support you to undergo any skill development that made a difference to your success? If yes, what skill was developed, and how did it lead to success? (e.g. received coaching on public speaking, attended training on nonviolent communication, hosted professional development conversations on leadership, learned and used a new tool for project management, etc.)? Can you share any materials? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 12.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.2 (Diversity balance) and 3.1 (Diverse, Skilled, and Accountable Leadership):
- Describe actions taken to prioritize gender balance in affiliate leadership, as well as any areas of diversity relevant to your affiliate's context (2.2).
- Describe the management, financial, or other leadership skills of your affiliate leaders. If you have a succession plan, please include it here (3.1).
- Describe any training or skill development (as outlined in the question above) (3.1).
- Incorporate into the annual report a disclosure of conflict of interests (if any) from the leadership (3.1).
No
13. What is one capacity/skill area that you would like to focus on for the next year? And how do you plan to achieve this capacity? (required)
We wish to strengthen wiki skills within our open knowledge networks, and reciprocally learn from aspects that the network members bring to the table. We can partly achieve this through increased communication through the new advocacy network, and use OKFI community events for that.
14. If you have additional information or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. Use the space below to upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your report.
For affiliates, also use this section (Question 14.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.3 (Good governance & communication) and 3.3 (Universal Code of Conduct compliance).
- Describe and link to any public-facing information on affiliate leadership, membership, elections, and/or decision-making processes (2.3).
- Describe any activities incorporating, promoting awareness about, or enforcing the Universal Code of Conduct in your affiliate's activities (3.3).
Part 4: Financial reporting
editFor affiliates, also use this section (Part 4: Financial reporting) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 3.2 (Financial & Legal Compliance).
| Description | Planned / received budget for this category (EUR) | Amount spent (EUR) |
|---|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 55283 | 50256 |
| Operational costs | 3000 | 3000 |
| Programmatic costs | 1716 | 1497 |
| Total General Support Fund | 60000 | 54753 |
| Other revenue | 18468 | 18487 |
| Remaining funds from General Support Fund | 5515 |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
54753 EUR
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 3000 EUR
- Programmatic costs: 50256 EUR
- Staff and contractor costs: 1497 EUR
17. Did you have any other revenue sources (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): Yes
- 17.1. Provide the total amount received from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 18468 EUR
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 18487 EUR
18. Provide a financial report document which will provide the details of funds received and spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- AvoinGLAM 2024 financial plan - AvoinGLAM consolidated report.pdf
- books.pdf
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
18.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
AI Sauna event was confirmed only after the submission of our application. Further funding was not possible to apply for it from the Wikimedia Foundation at such a short notice (5 months). We allocated more working hours to AI Sauna from the annual budget and raised further funding for expenses through sponsorships.
Wikidocumentaries-related activities were not carried out as a consequence of the missing developer contribution. We removed the dependent activities from our plans.
We sought further funding also for the Media Art event. The AvoinGLAM coordinator's work in AI Sauna and the Media Art Expert Meeting were covered by the GSF funding while we needed to raise more funding to cover all the expenses and the project coordinator's salary. We were successful in raising the salary subsidy for the project coordinator from the Local Employment and Economic Development Offices (TE Offices). In the annual plan, we had only included the employer costs for it, as the salary subsidy would not cover it.
19. Do you have any unspent funds from this funding?: Yes
- 19.1. Please list the amount of unspent funds in your local currency. (required)
- 5515
- 19.2. Explain why you did not use the amount. (required)
- Developing Wikidocumentaries further has been dependent on a specific developer contribution making the environment ready for new contributors. This contribution did not happen, and we ask that the funding allocated for it can be transferred to 2025 for the same task but with a different responsibility.
- 19.3. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
- A. Propose to use the underspent funds within this Fund period with PO approval
- 19.4. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
- We wish to use the unspent resource to hire a developer to work on the pending task.
20. Final confirmations (required)
- 20.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement? You must be in compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement. In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
- 20.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
- 20.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
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