Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Establishment of SKAP WikiClub Cebu (ID: 22765282)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

QueenCityCebu

Organization

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Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Establishment of SKAP WikiClub Cebu

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2024-10-08 - 2024-12-31

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Philippines

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

WikiForHumanRights

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

We wish to establish and grow the Cebuano Wikimedian Community to dispel once and for all the issue about Cebu Wikipedia being one of the biggest Wikipedia but there is no active community herein. After a few years of inactivity, we wanted to reactivate, revitalize and rebuild the Cebu WikiClub and populate the Cebuano Wikipedia with human editors and grow our numbers so we can contribute to Cebu's human knowledge on Wikipedia and its other sister projects.

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

Our planned activities until December 31, 2024 are the following:

1. Capacity Development (capacity-building for our prospective members and project leads ) - in order for the WikiClub to grow and thrive, we need our project leads as well our members to be trained on how to capacitate themselves in running a volunteer organization, how should we brand and present ourselves, immerse and familiarize ourselves our messaging, we need a SWOT analysis workshop, strategic alliances and partnership building, 2. Basic Workshop and Monthly Edit a-thons from October to December 2024 - teaching basic editing to our members, volunteers and editors. 3. WikiClub Cebu Loves Women and Sustainability ( November ) - Cebu women are very active not only in arts and culture and advocacy but also in the realm of history, sports, enterprise and leadership and we wanted to highlight gender recognition while promoting sustainability advocacies of Cebuano women. 4. Wiki Loves Living Heritage Cebu (December ) - in recognition and continuation of SKAP's living heritage projects in Northern and Central Luzon, we will also run a similar project highlighting Cebu province's rich and vibrant living heritage and culture which spans as early as the Spanish colonization by Ferdinand Magellan in the 15th Century.

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

This is our core team:

AileenNavi - @QueenCityCebu - WikiClub Lead - no salary, volunteer status Genevieve Ocampo- @Indayliburan - volunteer editor - no salary, volunteer status Ann Tisoy- @Prayinganntis - member - volunteer status Paul Jay Mendoza - @Cebudanggit -WikiClub Co-lead/public relations officer/ editor - no salary/ volunteer status Vanj Padilla- @Lady01v - Adviser/consultant -no salary

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)

Our target participants are college students and young professionals and women career personnel in Metro Cebu. We will engage them through our partnership with the media, school visits and partnership building, collaborating with various colleges who need internships and on the job trainings. We will target the women sector by attending networking events and giving talks about the Cebu WikiClub, about our Wikipedia projects and what benefit will the get if they join us. We will send partnership proposals before our activities so our academic partners may send participants. We will effectively use social media and video marketing to attract our target market ( volunteer editors). During the activities, we will explain and produce materials that state the benefits of being part of the WikiClub, by sharing knowledge and helping bridge the gap in the Cebuano Wikipedia and other projects. We will frame our messaging in such a way that it will stick to the participants it os important to care for open knowledge and protect human rights especially being involvedin sustainability projects that will benefit the young and the old alike.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

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11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

The founding chairperson of SKAP reached out to us, when we inquired about the Wikimedia community being inactive in Cebu and she informed us that if we want to start a WikiClub in Cebu as part of SKAP's expansion, we readily agreed. We knew that SKAP has had some interesting projects up their sleeve and we also wanted to replicate some of them in Cebu next in the near future. But acknowledging our little knowledge on Wikipedia projects and how the Wikiverse evolves, we decided that capacity development for our Wikiclub is imperative. We are aware of the fact that Cebu Wikipedia is among the biggest Wikipedias since the LSJ bot adn there has been discussions of shutting down or closing the Cebuano Wikipedia to give way for real humans to edit their own wikis. But since the challenge is that there is barely a community in Cebu which is one of the largest provinces in the Philippines in terms of population, language and economy, the we decided to heed the call and reactivate the Cebu community. However we also recognize that it might take a while for us to learn - but at least we are dedicated to learn and grow. So we seek patience from the Wikimedians to give us a short time to learn the ropes and after the capacity development, the we will gradually grow and expand to other towns in the province of Cebu.

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage or GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Linguistic / Language

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

We hope to learn to collaborate with other Filipinos in sharing the benefits of open knowledge by increasing human editors in Cebu to minimize being overtaken and outperformed by bots. We wish to learn how it is to grow the Cebuano Wikipedia using human editors not threatened by technology but can work hand in hand to provide better Wikipedia articles and contents.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	100	We will target 20 participants per edit a-thon and 40 from partners, advocates and part-time volunteer editors. All new participants
Number of editors	50	We will target 50-60 new editors until December 31, 2024
Number of organizers	2	We only have two organizers in the team who are both volunteers. Aileen Navi - Lead organizer, non paid /volunteer Paul Jay Mendoza - co- organizer/ media relations, non-paid/ volunteer

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	200
Wikimedia Commons	600
Wikidata	200
Wiktionary	100
Wikisource	100
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews	50
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

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19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

Yes

Main Open Metrics Data
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20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

We are not sure, we need support.

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hrXj5gSWVkqYA_BxBSdJXJjlBPQQJ7nn2z_6xFzILKQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

250000 PHP

22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

4961.3 USD

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

Yes

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