Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Finland Annual Plan 2025

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Wikimedia Suomi ry

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required): Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required): Yes

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?: No

Fiscal organization name.: N/A

Please provide links to the following documents if they are available

These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.

Organizational website
Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan

Homepage

https://wikimedia.fi

Wiki

https://fi.wikimedia.org

Financial statement 2023

Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes

Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Wikimedia Finland Annual Plan 2025

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants): No

2.1. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2025-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2025-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toimintasuunnitelma_2024

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategia_2024–2026

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required): Finland

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

Wikimedia Finland's strategy for 2025 is to continue organizing traditional yearly events such as the Women's Day edit competition, Punaisten linkkien naiset, and Wiki Loves Monuments campaigns. We will also continue supporting the Sami Wikimedia community in Finland and collaborating with the National Library's Finto service. Additionally, we will support Finnish Wikimedia community projects such as Viikon kilpailu, Elokuun kuvitustalkoot, and the Public Art Documentation Project. There are no substantial changes in these initiatives.

As a new initiative to increase the visibility of our work, we are preparing to participate in the Oulu European Capital of Culture 2026 program. It is proposed that the public art documentation project will include an open data release and publish an end-user-friendly, Wikidata-based public art map. Another proposed idea is to organize a Wikimedia meetup in Oulu. Preparatory work for these initiatives will require substantial time in 2025.

Our strategic goal has also been for Wikimedia Finland to have a second funding source in addition to the Wikimedia Foundation. This would provide more resources, as well as stability and skills in project management and fundraising. To achieve this, we will apply for external funding for a project related to crowdsourcing image metadata together with Ajapaik, or alternatively seek external funding for a language-related Nordic project or an Oulu Culture Capital-related project.

For this our main targets are

1.) CONTENT AND OUTREACH

Our goal is to facilitate Wikipedia editing in areas where biases and imbalances are present. We focus on women-related articles as a broad and neutral topic to highlight deviations and their underlying mechanisms, which are also present in topics which are harder to describe such as biases on how minorities are written about. We also use events related to these topics as a method to attract new contributors so that the community can renew itself. We also aim to support active contributors in these topic areas—such as participants in weekly competitions, event organizers, and editors writing in Sami languages—by providing technical assistance and participating in their events as tutors. An important aspect of our strategy is collaborating with Finto to promote the integration of the YSO ontology with Wikidata and to enhance support for the Northern Sami language.

Strategies

Collaborative Engagement: Collaborate with gender equality groups, cultural associations, and other Wikimedia communities to enhance the diversity of content on Wikipedia. Such groups include the Inari Sami Language Association (Anarâškielâ servi), Muijii Wikipediaan, and the Marginaalimerkintöjä project. Align events with theme days such as European Heritage Days, International Women's Day, International Roma Day edithaton, and Sami National Day to achieve higher visibility and participation.

Support for contributors: Provide technical support to active participants in weekly competitions, as well as to event organizers and editors contributing in Livvi-Karelian and Sami languages. Offer technical support for competitions operated by Ukbot throughout the year, ensuring they run smoothly. Assist in community-organized events when necessary, foster a supportive environment for content creators, and ensure that someone with admin rights is available to solve issues such as IP blocks in real time.

Focus on Wikidata localizations: Actively participate in Finto's YSO initiative to promote the linkage between the YSO ontology and Wikidata, as well as in the initiative to improve Northern Sami support as a formally supported language. Increase the use of Kartographer maps in Livvi-Karelian and Sami Wikipedias to facilitate the improvement of place name localization through the active use of labels..

Results

Organize at least two workshops in northern Finland with Sami Wikipedias.
Organize the Punaisten Linkkien Naiset (Women in Red) competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, and the Wiki Science Competition in Finland.
Participate to international International Roma Day edithaton
Ukbot will support the weekly and monthly competitions organized by the fiwiki community (54 in total).
Promote and participate as a tutor in the Marginaalimerkintöjä project's women's biography workshop(s) for university students.
Yupik will continue to be as a member in Finto's steering group.
New Northern Sami translations from Finto are synced from Finto to Wikidata.

1.2 ) Addressing long pending changes backlog in Finnish Wikipedia

Finnish Wikipedia is using Flagged Revision for reviewing new changes. Currently, the pending changes queue has expanded to over 5,000 articles with a delay of approximately 140 days. Even though edits are visible by default to readers, this backlog presents two major problems:

1.) Delayed Vandalism Detection: Vandalism remains in articles for an extended period before being addressed. Also when edits from multiple users aggregates to the same article it makes reviewing substantially more complex. 2.) Reduced Review Quality: With more articles in the queue than can be effectively reviewed, less time is spent on each individual edit compared to when the queue is short. Reviewers opt to revert changes rather than spending time correcting errors and adding proper sourcing.

Our objective is to reduce the backlog to under 500 articles and decrease the review delay to less than 7 days. By automatically reviewing clear cases we plan to reduce the amount of changes going to reviewers. To measure the effect we measure it as an effect on the trend of the number of new unsourced articles.

Strategies

Bot Optimization and Language Model Integration: rewrite the fiwiki’s reviewerbot to handle effectively the edits which are out of RecentChanges database table (ie. older than 30 days). Utilize large language models to assess the content of edits, enabling more accurate and efficient evaluation and prioritization of changes. Use 'revert risk' machine learning model in addition to older goodfaith/badfaith. Utilize Wikimedia Foundations Automoderator tool.
User interface fixes: Streamline review interface and make batch reviewing possible. Hide non-relevant review information from non-reviewers as they cannot do anything with it.
Hypothesis Testing: Our hypothesis is that as the screening process slowed down after 2022, the number of unsourced articles increased. If we can accelerate the review process, we anticipate a reduction in unsourced articles, contributing to overall content quality.

Results

Pending changes backlog in Finnish Wikipedia is under 500 articles
Monthly average review delay in Finnish Wikipedia is less than 7 days
Hypothesis is either confirmed or declined

1.3) Streamline the organization of Wiki Loves Monuments:

Adopt Wikimedia Italy's Wiki Loves Monuments map to streamline future event organization and contribute to the development of a shared international WLM map tool. This will require additional effort in 2025 for translations, updating Finnish WLM targets to use new properties, and developing Wikimedia Italy's map tool to support areas and lines. However, this shared map which is used by multiple Wikimedia chapters will reduce organizational work in the long term.

Result:

Finnish, Swedish, Skolt sami, Northern Sami, Inari Sami translation for the Wikimedia Italy's WLM map tool
Finnish WLM targets are included to Wikimedia Italy's WLM map
Wikimedia Italy's map will support areas and lines (roads, rivers) as targets in addition to points
Wikimedia Finland pilots the Wikimedia Italy's map in Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 in Finland

2.1) OULU AS EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2026

- Public Art Documentation Project **

To increase Public Art Documentation Projects impact and initiate new collaborations, we plan to participate in the Oulu European Capital of Culture 2026 program. By publishing the public art database as open data and developing a mobile map, we will enable people to explore public art in their surroundings. This initiative also involves transferring public art lists to Wikidata, making it machine-readable and extending multilingual accessibility, as most information is currently only available in Finnish.

Strategies

Database Sharing: prepare the public art database of Oulu and in neightbouring 39 municipalities area to be published in 2026 as linked open data on Wikidata, making information about artworks widely accessible and encouraging the use of the data.
Map tool: Create a mobile map application that allows users to discover public art in Capital of Culture municipalities. Use machine translation to show artwork information in Swedish and English when translations are missing and make it easy for people to see original text and edit the translations. Publish the mobile map by 2026 when Culture capital year starts.
Community and Institutional Engagement: Work with local neighborhood and heritage associations to supplement missing information and report new artworks. Engage regional museums, cultural institutions, and tourism departments to utilize and update the national public art database, integrating it into their operations. Local associations and institutional organizations can give us more visibility to the target groups.

Results

The public art database for Oulu and 39 neighboring municipalities will be transferred to Wikidata and published as linked open data in 2026, making information about artworks widely accessible and encouraging its use.
A mobile map will be created to allow users to explore public art across the Capital of Culture municipalities.

Machine translation will be used to display artwork information in Swedish and English when translations are missing, and these translations will be editable.

We will collaborate with local and heritage associations in 10 of the 40 municipalities in the target area.
Submitted a successful event plan to the Oulu European Capital of Culture program

- Small languages Wikimedia meetup in Oulu 2026 **

Our strategic goal is to strengthen the development of small and indigenous languages within Wikimedia projects. To support this objective, it is proposed to participate in the Oulu European Capital of Culture year by organizing a Wikimedia event focused on Finno-Ugric and other small languages. This could be a meeting for Finno-Ugric Wikimedians or an Arctic Knot conference dedicated to supporting and promoting lesser-used languages within the Wikimedia movement. Organizing such an event exceeds our current capacity, so we need local partners in Oulu for its organization. Wikimedia Finland is discussing and coordinating the event plans with AvoinGLAM and Wikimedia Eesti.

Strategies

Partner Collaboration: Seek partnerships with local institutions in Oulu such as the Giellagas Institute for Sami Language and Sami Culture at the University of Oulu and the student organization GieKu to co-organize the event.
Resourcing: Throughout 2025, focus on detailed event planning, budgeting, and securing external support to the conference, as organizing event exceeds our current capacity. Apply for funding from cultural foundations, government programs, and international organizations that support linguistic diversity and cultural events.
Capacity Building: Work with WMEE, WMNO, WMSE, AvoinGLAM, WMCEE and Anarâškielâ servi to share experiences on organizing events. Provide a platform for Wikimedians working with Finno-Ugric, Celtic Knot and other small languages to connect, share experiences, and collaborate on projects. Engage local communities, language speakers, and cultural groups to participate in the event.

Results

Local partner in Oulu for the event
Submitted a successful event plan to the Oulu European Capital of Culture program
Secured funding for the event

3.) EXTERNAL FUNDING

We are seeking external funding for the Ajapaik Interoperability and Image Hashing projects. If funded, these projects will be implemented accordingly. If external funding is not secured, the projects will be promoted within the bounds of available resources, but they will not be completed in 2025. Long term plan is to do image and metadata uploads from Ajapaik to Wikimedia Commons together with Wikimedia Eesti. Since the WMF has a related project involving image hashes (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362352), our image hash project will focus on complementing the WMF's work and will be carried out in collaboration with them.

Imagehash project

Our strategic goal is to calculate imagehash identifiers for images on Wikimedia Commons, Finna and Ajapaik.ee for matching images. This will enable efficient verification and matching of images across different archives without the need to download the actual image files. By advancing this project, we aim to improve metadata accuracy, and interoperability between image repositories.

The Imagehash project involves maintaining a perceptual hash index of images from Wikimedia Commons and Finna. Perceptual hashes like phash and dhash generate compact representations of an image's visual content, allowing for efficient comparison and identification of duplicate or similar images. Currently, our database utilizes phash and dhash identifiers. However, with the proposal of the ISCC (International Standard Content Code) identifier as an ISO standard—which is a variation of the phash identifier—we aim to transition to this standardized system. Adopting ISCC identifiers will facilitate wider use and interoperability among different platforms and institutions.

The ability to verify whether an image is the same as one in another archive without downloading the image file is crucial, especially when image metadata lacks machine-readable identifiers or when verifying the correctness and currency of existing identifiers. To broaden the applicability of these identifiers, we need to ensure they can be calculated not only with Python libraries but also in other programming languages like Java, enabling usage in reconsiliation tools such as OpenRefine.

Ajapaik Interoperability Project

Ajapaik.ee is a website that has, over the past 14 years, collected detailed metadata on historical photographs, including locations, dates, and content descriptions. While the majority of the photos are from Estonia, the site also hosts a significant number of images from Finland. The platform's database includes approximately 1 million images from museum collections, categorized by photo type (e.g., aerial photos, interior shots, ground-level photos, portraits). For example, about half a million of these images are geotagged with coordinates by Ajapaik. For photos featuring known individuals, the metadata specifies who is depicted and their exact location within the image, with some metadata linked to Wikidata identifiers.

Similarly, the site has focused on confirming the dating of the photos. However, it currently lacks a proper method for exporting data to Wikimedia Commons, museum collections, etc. We have been seeking external funding to implement these channels, with the export to Wikimedia Commons serving as a pilot for this effort. We are also seeking external museums for the project and seeking funding through Central baltic interred small projects.

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)


Category	Yes/No
Education	No
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required): Documenting or incubating languages on Wikimedia projects, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.: Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, Sensitize and educate for gender perspective among Wikimedia projects stewards and editors; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.: On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering micro-funding and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required): VisibleWikiWomen, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): Q1 in general

Public art wikidata imports and data cleanup for importing to Wikidata
Finding partners for Oulu meetup in 2026
Finto steering group meeting
Wiki Loves Monuments map update to Wikimedia Italy Map and translations

Q2 2024 in general

Public art wikidata imports and proof-of-concept map tool for Oulu is the European Capital of Culture in 2026
Preparation of Oulu meetup in 2026
Punaisten linkkien naiset campaign, Roma Day Edit-a-thon
Finto steering group meeting.

Q3 2024 in general

Public art wikidata imports and proof-of-concept map tool user testing
Preparation of Oulu meetup in 2026
Public art projects' primary photoshoot season
Finto steering group meeting

Q4 2024 in general

Public art wikidata map tool user testing & refining & publication materials
Preparation of Oulu meetup in 2026
Documentation, uploading photos, wrapping up the year
Finto steering group meeting
Wiki Science Competition

EVENTS

January

Writing final report
Sami Wikipedia editathon

February

Sami National Day competition

March

Women's Day, Open Data Day, Open Education Week, Wiki4WorldHearingDay
Finto steering group meeting
European heritage days opening

April

International Roma Day Edit-a-thon
Financial statement
Punaisten linkkien naiset (Women in Red) monthly competition + Punaisten linkkien naiset workshop

May

WMFI Spring Meeting
Wikimedia hackathon
Finto steering group meeting

June

International World Refugee Day Edit-a-thon
Helsinki day event

July

Celtic/Arctic Knot
WMEE Summer Days participation

August

Wikimania
August Illustration Month (Elokuun kuvitustalkoot)
Wiki Loves Monuments preparation

September

European Heritage Week theme days
WMCEE Meeting
2025 grant application
Wiki Loves Monuments

October

WikidataCon + Wikidata’s birthday
Wiki Loves Monuments Jury
Finto steering group meeting

November

Wiki Indaba
Writing WMFI action plan for 2025
Wiki Loves Monuments Awards

December

WMFI Autumn Meeting
Finto steering group meeting

11. Describe your team. (required)

Job title: Administrator Who is filling this role: Kimmo Virtanen Brief description: Organizing projects, strategy work, reporting, tracking day-to-day finances, and doing financial reports. Lead coder and project organize, Wiki Loves Monuments lead. Indication of FTE and duration of work: FTE 50% (2025/01/01 - 2025/12/31) Linkages: Zache Kimmo Virtanen is an admin in the Finnish Wikipedia Kimmo is a long-time Wikimedia Finland active. Started in Wikipedia 2005 and Wikimedia Finland 2013. Kimmo has been working part-time in Wikimedia Finland since 2018. His background is in software development. Wikidata and linked data encaustic.

Job title: Wiki Technician/software developer Who is filling this role: Ilkka Prusi Brief description: Public art project Wikidata imports, Pending changes refactoring, technical support for Ukbot Indication of FTE and duration of work: FTE 50% (2025/01/01 - 2025/12/31) Ilkka Ipr1 is an active Finnish Wikipedia editor. His background is in software development, and he is an active template developer in Finnish Wikipedia. Ilkka has been fiwiki-editor from 2016 and working part-time at Wikimedia Finland since September 2022.

Job title: Event coordinator Who is filling this role: Mika Virtanen Brief description: Wiki Loves Monuments, Punaisten linkkien naiset coordinator, competition help: FTE 50% (2025/01/01 - 2025/12/31) Linkages: Mika Virtanen is brother of Kimmo Virtanen Mika has been a computer hobbyist since the 1980s, and now he has been studying programming, and he would need work experience in the field. Mika has been working part-time in Wikimedia Finland since October 2023.

Job title: external project lead (WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING ONLY) Who is filling this role: Kimmo Virtanen Brief description: Project leader, implementing interoperability between Wikimedia Commons and Ajapaik : FTE 50% (2024/02/01 - 2024/12/31) Kimmo is a long-time Wikimedia Finland active. Started in Wikipedia 2005 and Wikimedia Finland 2013. Kimmo has been working part-time in Wikimedia Finland since 2018. His background is in software development. Wikidata and linked data encaustic.

Job title: Interreg project intern (WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING ONLY) Who is filling this role: TBD Brief description: Software development / data importing : FTE (2024/06/01 - 2024/12/31) Potential student project or unemployed person eligible for pay-subsidity if interreg project application is successful.

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

In Wiki Loves Monuments, the Finnish Heritage Agency is our long-time partner. Our collaboration includes, for example, communication and organizing award ceremonies. Since 2022, our WLM themes have been the same as the European Heritage Days theme. Other notable panthers in WLM have been the Ministry of Environment and Finnish Local Heritage Federation.

WMFI uses the Ajapaik.ee platform for crowdsourcing and rephotography, and this continues in 2025. We have also done joint software development and student projects. Fotki.com is donating the hosting for Ajapaik (1500€/year). Google API/Maps services are donated by Google NonProfits (5000€/year). WMFI runs one of Ajapaik's offsite backup nodes.

With Wikimedia Estonia, we are participating in their Summer days meeting and we are planning to do mutual visits in 2025 where Estonian wikimedists visit in Helsinki and Finnish wikimedists visit in Tallinn. We also have active communication with Wikimedia Eesti where we share experiences, ideas, questions related projects and grant applications.

In the gender equity project, we have collaborated with the Muijii Wikipediaan group, which advocates for improving skills and abilities as editors and has organized editathons in April together with Punaisten linkkien naiset for multiple years in a row. In 2024 and 2025, there is also the Marginaalimerkintöjä project, which focuses on writing biographies of female artists for Wikipedia and organizing workshops for librarians and higher education students. With Muijii Wikipediaan, WMFI has participated in workshops as speakers and wikitutors, and we have also helped promote the events. WMFI has also provided assistance when organizers needed advanced user rights, such as removing IP blocks

Wikimedia Suomi board member Yupik is an active member of the Northern and Inari Sami Wikipedias where she is a bureaucrat and administrator respectively. Her work transcends the state borders splitting the Sami homeland as she helps organize workshops for the Wikimedia community on the Finnish side of the border and also works with Wikimedia Norway and the community on the Norwegian side. The companion organization for organizing workshops in Inari has been the Inari Sami association Anarâškielâ servi.

Within the Wikimedia projects, Yupik is also a member of the language committee and is a member of the steering committee of the Language Diversity Hub. Outside the Wikimedia projects, she serves as WMFI's representative in the steering group of the Finnish ontology service Finto at the National Library of Finland, which meets four times a year.

Editors can participate in our Wikipedia weekly competitions by editing Wikipedia in Finnish, Inari Sami, Northern Sami, or the Livvi-Karelian language. For our monthly themed competitions, Skolt Sami is also included; edits in this language need to be calculated by hand since Ukbot does not work in the incubator. Points for these edits are calculated by the Ukbot, which is operated by the Norwegian Wikipedia user Danmichaelo, but active maintenance and development is transitioned to Zache from WMFI and Jon Harald Søby from WMNO.

We are also working with Open Knowledge Finland (OKFI) and AvoinGLAM Network. WMFI and AvoinGLAM have members in common. AvoinGLAM and WMFI have shared Slack channels for joint communication and we are discussing and sharing our plans.

We are collaborating with Project Fredrika, which is a project that focuses on writing about Finnish topics in Swedish in the Swedish Wikipedia and Swedish topics in Finnish in the Finnish Wikipedia.

Collaboration with Villa Karo and Benin Bilateral Companionship program with Wikimédiens du Bénin have been working through direct personal contacts and Wiki projects. As an association Wikimedia Finland is a member of the Villa Karo support association, Kapsi internet users Finland, Wikimedia EU, and Wikimedia Northern Europe.

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	400	120 Punaisten linkkien naiset + workshop + women's day 100 Public art documentation project 100 Wiki Loves Monuments, Elokuun kuvitustalkoot, drone photography 80 other workshops and events
Number of all editors	350	50 Punaisten linkkien naiset + workshop + women's day 30 Wiki Loves Monuments + Elokuun kuvitustalkoot 20 other events
Number of new editors	100
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	20	N/A
Number of new organizers	10	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	1500	3000
Wikimedia Commons	5000	30000
Wikidata	10000	40000
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki	50	50
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

In editing campaigns and editathons, it is expected that 1,300 new articles will be created. For public art, 200 new articles are anticipated. We are importing a public art database to Wikidata, which will include 10,000 to 20,000 Wikidata items (works, authors, and locations). In Wikimedia Commons, our target is not to mass upload new images but to upload specific sets of images upon request. However, we will manage image metadata and automatically categorize images. Our target dataset is 70,000 Wikimedia Commons images.

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes


Other Metrics	Description	Target
Number of cites where we have events	Number of different cities where Wikimedia Finland organize events	5
Percentage of Wikimedia Commons Images Hashed with dHash and ISCC	he percentage of Wikimedia Commons images where the latest version is hashed with dHash and ISCC image hash	100
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): Yes

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

Wikimedia Foundation grant for external project pre-funding 30000€ (limited to this only) Wikimedia Finland 5000€ (for Interreg project pre-funding)

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): 35000

17. Your local currency. (required): EUR

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 134000 EUR

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A EUR
Year 2	N/A EUR
Year 3	N/A EUR

Requested amount in USD: 145714.28 USD ^{[note 1]}

Multi-year funding request summary in USD
Year	Amount USD ^{[note 1]}
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

↑ ^a ^b ^c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required): Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

3

If external grant application will go through then there is funding for potential intern with unknown FTE (it is depending the project)

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

1.5 FTE ( Admin: Kimmo Virtanen, 0.5 FTE, Wikitech: Ilkka Prusi 0.5 FTE, Event coordinator: Mika Virtanen 0.5 FTE)

In this application, there are potential external projects, and if they are funded, then FTE could be increased.

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): Mika Virtanen's FTE is reduced from 0.65 to 0.5. In the 2024 grant, Mika Virtanen and Ilkka Prusi were funded for only 9 months, with the rest funded from other sources. In this grant application, they are proposed to be funded for 12 months.

In this application, there are potential external projects, and if they are fundedn, then some employees' FTE will be increased.

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).


Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contractor costs	96120 EUR
Operational costs	15700 EUR
Programmatic costs	22180 EUR

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BWaDNra9LrefB20CqpbDspEV7wLBqoYqm9gY9tmtIL8/edit?usp=sharing

Additional information

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We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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[fixedrate-1] The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

[note 1]