Grants:Project/Rapid/World Pulse Series of Edit-athon Trainings

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Rapid Grants

World Pulse/Edit-a-thon Training for World Pulse Leaders

World Pulse proposes to conduct edit-a-thon training for our global members who have achieved our highest level digital badges so they can conduct their own in-person or digital training sessions in the future. The training will focus on how to upload media to Wikimedia Commons and encourage members to post content that gives visibility to global women leaders.

targetWikiGap: Closing the gender gap in Wikipedia.

start dateMarch 17, 2021 April 13, 2021

end dateJuly 1, 2021

budget (local currency)$1550 USD

budget (USD)$1550 USD

grant typeorganization

non-profit statusyes, a 501 (3) C

grantee• World Pulse

contact(s)• kayworldpulse.com• anaworldpulse.com

organization (if applicable)• World Pulse Voices DBA World Pulse

website (if applicable)• worldpulse.com

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Review your report

Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

1. Recruit new editors: 10

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

an editathon training conducted and recorded for future training purposes

2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.

World Pulse regularly communicates with our leaders by e-mail several times a month, through our weekly Thriving Thursday calls, and through our WhatsApp group. Once we confirm funding we can start sharing this opportunity with our community.

3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?

We are partnering with Whose Knowledge? and their #VisibleWikiWomen campaign trainers to conduct this editathon training.

4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

This training on how to add to the Wikimedia Commons is how we will support our participants to have the skills to participate. As these are our World Pulse top leaders, they often have access to the equipment to contribute high quality content and already do so on World Pulse.

5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

The participants are active members of World Pulse’s online community, overwhelmingly from the global south, who are regularly engaged. In 2020, World Pulse piloted a “Training Tuesdays” program that occurs about once a month where training opportunities are made available for our top World Pulse leaders with a badge. This is not a one-off relationship for them, rather it is an increasing engagement in a community where they already feel like they not only belong, but are creating collective change together.

6. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

N/A digital events only

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

In addition, to the live session, the training will be recorded and the recordings will be shared with our network of 500 of our top World Pulse leaders for asynchronous learning. Building the capacity of World Pulse women leaders who are leaders within their own communities enhances the mission Wikimedia’s WikiGap on access and representation as well as World Pulse’s mission of digital leadership acceleration and connecting women online for social change.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

1. Number of events: 1 session
2. Number of participants: 30 people in session, more following the recorded session
3. Number of new editors: 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved: N/A
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events: 15

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

World Pulse’s Community team staff will be directly organizing this project with our World Pulse members in our top leadership programs who have achieved the highest levels of digital badges. The primary team will be the Director of Community Engagement, Digital Advocacy Manager, and Community Engagement Coordinator. Organizational general operating support funds covers the staff time needed for this project.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

• Contingency: $150
• Communications and graphics: $800
• Partial webinar platform fee: $200
• Project management tool: $400
• Total budget: $1,550 USD

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I know World Pulse and I have been a member for 7 years. I know and trust the World Pulse team for very impactful work.
• I believe that World Pulse is helping to advance the mission of Wikimedia, especially around the WikiGap project.
• I have participated in an edit-a-thon with fellow World Pulse Digital Ambassadors and my learning from that experience has strengthened my Wikimedia editing skills.
• I trust that the project that World Pulse is proposing will be effective and create the content and leaders that Wikimedia is looking for in Wikipedia.
• Great project! Good luck Sorora e.V (talk) 16:47, 24 February 2021 (UTC)