Grants:Simple/Applications/Noircir Wikipedia 2021-2022

Application or grant stage: Application

Applicant or grantee: applicant

Amount requested: 92'275.-CHF

Amount granted: TBD (to be added by WMF)

Funding period: 1 july 2021 - 31 July 2022

Midpoint report due: Half YEAR + 15 days

Final report due: 31 July 2022 + 30 days

Application

Background

The project have already a successful focused approach to financial resources:
2 rapids grants received and well concluded with WMF:

• Grants:Project/Rapid/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia and Noircir Wikipédia
• Grants:Project/Rapid/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia and Noircir Wikipédia Website/Report

We are in a process of being recognized as usergroup by WMF.
Noircir and Ennegreciendo Wikipedia work in several language versions of the Wikipedia, and with participants from all continents, which make us impossible to maintain over time a support limited to wikimedian chapters.
N.b: the group has a specific bank account dedicated to the Noircir/Ennegreciendo transactions.

Budget Plan

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Staffing Plan

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Introduction

(Introduce your organization, Give some context about it, Highlight your strategic plan and some activities to give an overview. (300 words limit)

Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia train to and contributes in Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and wiki data to reduce the existing racial gap. May we share with you a selected highlight of what we have done in 2020-2021:

• we held one edit-a-thons per week, increasing the quality of the existing articles under the evaluation grid of the project and creating an active group of 10 wikimedians present each week.
• Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia was the main topic of an entire TV program show in national Swiss TV.
• With participants in more than 15 countries, we have learnt from the online edit-a-thons modalities during the covid19.
• We managed and held seminars in two graduate schools with 2 to 4 sessions each (Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris, and Guyane University)
• Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikimedia have been invited to give conferences about racial gap in Wikipedia
• A co-director of Noircir/Ennegreciendo appears in the ARTE documentary dedicated to the 20 years of Wikipedia.

In 2021-2022, we would like to continue cultivating our relationship with the Wikimedian movement, continue to grow our project annually and sustainably, maintain and grow our edit-a-thons, collaborations, and initiatives. A global goal for this cycle is to develop the Latin America and Caribbean Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia part of the group. We would like to increase our collaboration with the team regional leader. Furthermore, Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia will held an in-person seminar at the National School of Visual Arts of Santo Domingo where we have been invited.

Programs and annual plan

Fondation pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (Fondation for the Memory of Slavery)

Description

The partnership Noircir/Ennegreciendo is developping with this foundation includes trainings on Wikimedian projects for their network of ~70 art and anthropology museums in Europe, African and the Caribbean region. The main theme of our trainings is slavery related articles/entries/illustrations/categories/elements... on Wikimedian projects.
Period: July 2021 - July 2022

SMART Objectives

1. Develop the content of 2 trainings on 2 different topics both related to a decolonialized Art History.
2. Give 6 training sessions to the employees of the museums making part of the foundation's network.
3. Give mentoring assistance to the participants after the training.
4. From all the participants of each training, try to obtain that at least one becomes a frequent participant of Noircir/Ennegreciendo.
5. Receive the label that the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery) awards with

Program metrics and targets

• Number of participants to workshops: 12
• Number of newly registered users during workshops: 10
• Number of content pages improved or created: 50
• Number of wikidata elements improved or created: 50
• Number of pictures and videos of places uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 12
• Number of agreements made with GLAM institutions to release public domain content: 1

Importance

This Foundation is a major European actor in the field of Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia. They are interested in awarding Noircir/Ennegreciendo with their label. For these reasons, this program is of maximum importance for Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia.

Journée de la Femme Digitale (Digital Woman's Day)

Description

The Journée de la Femme Digitale is both an European and African initiative to include women in the digital world. It has the sponsorship of the French National Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the support of Camélia Ntoutoume-Leclerq, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Higher Education. They organize an annual meeting that takes place ounce in a country of the African country and ounce in France each year. The event gathers notorious women active in digital technologies. In 2020, Noircir/Ennegreciendo was invited to Dakar, Senegal to participate in the Digital Woman's Day. AfricanadeCuba went and a new partnership has been established since then. This year, it will be held in Gabon and we will host online edit-a-thons to the African and african-diaspora leaders in digital technologies. Our participation will take place each year.
Period: July 2021 - July 2022

SMART OBJECTIVES

1. Realize a sustainable partnership with them
2. Give 2 training sessions to the notorious women leaders in digital technologies participating into the Digital Woman's day.

Program metrics and targets

• Number of participants to workshops: 12
• Number of newly registered users during workshops: 10
• Number of content pages improved or created: 10
• Number of wikidata elements improved or created: 10
• Number of pictures and videos of places uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 5

Importance

This institution is willing to sign a partnership agreement with Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia during this cycle. This would settle roots for a larger period partnership, instead of renewing each year.

Ennegreciendo Wikipedia Afrolatin Program

Description

In 2020, Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia gave basic Wikimedian trainings to 18 afrolatin women living in Abya Yala. In this cycle we believe it is important to train better regional coordinators and follow up/mentor their progress. To reach that program goal, Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia has to have the economic means to cover the internet expenditure of these participants/social groups. Indeed, Noircir/Ennegreciendo focuses on, for example, african colombian descendant, Cuban women artists and honduran garifuna population.
Period: October 2021 - July 2022

SMART OBJECTIVES

1. Do a monthly edit-a-thon with 5 to 10 afrolatin/autochthonous Abya Yala women participants each (in charge of one of the co-directors)
2. Build a strong relation with regional coordinators of Noircir/Ennegreciendo Afrolatin program
3. Give mentoring/assistance to the wikimedians after the monthly edit-a-thons if needed

Program metrics and targets

• Number of participants to monthly edit-a-thon: 5
• Number of newly registered users during monthly edit-a-thon: 2
• Number of content pages improved or created: 5
• Number of wikidata elements improved or created: 2
• Number of pictures and videos of places uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 10

Importance

The target of this program is population whose knowledge, history, culture and representation are insufficiently present on Wikimedian projects.

Noircir Wikipédia at La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris

Description

The lead organizer has successfully achieved an educational project at the Parisian University La Sorbonne, in the Master of German Literature. The courses are focused on learning how to and contributing in the wikimedian projects on the topic "Afro-German women". In this cycle the educational program should be renewed.
Period: November 2021 - January 2022

SMART Objectives

1. Develop the content of the Master courses related to the Afro-german women's topic
2. Give theory and practical trainings to the students
3. Evaluate the participants after the training by following-up their contributions.
4. From all the participants of each training, try to obtain that at least one becomes a frequent participant of Noircir/Ennegreciendo.

Program metrics and targets

• Number of participants to workshops: 10
• Number of newly registered users during workshops: 10
• Number of content pages improved or created: 10
• Number of wikidata elements improved or created: 1
• Number of pictures and videos of places uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 1

Importance

The Sorbonne University and specifically the Humanities faculty has a very good reputation. On the decolonial field too. As an educational program, we think it is very important to make University believes change regarding the free-culture movement.

Ennegreciendo Wikipedia at the ENAV

Description

The ENAV is the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales (National School of Visual Arts) of the Dominican Republic. Noircir/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia has been invited to give lessons about Wikimedian contributions to students, alumni-artists, and to the admistrative employees of the school.
Period: One month between October 2021 and February 2022

SMART OBJECTIVES

1. Make that the 2 co-directors of Noircir/Ennegreciendo go to the Dominican Republic to give the lessons
2. Develop the content of the training with focus on visual arts
3. Give 6 training sessions to the graduate students, employees and alumni of the ENAV.
4. Give mentoring assistance to the participants after the trainings.
5. From all the participants of each training, try to obtain that at least one becomes a frequent participant of Noircir/Ennegreciendo.

Program metrics and targets

• Number of participants to workshops: 50
• Number of newly registered users during workshops: 50
• Number of content pages improved or created: 100
• Number of wikidata elements improved or created: 100
• Number of pictures and videos of places uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 100
• Number of agreements made with GLAM institutions to release public domain content: 1

Importance

The Dominican Republic has a negligible quantity of Wikimedian contributors living in the island. We are a front door for creating a nucleus of active Wikimedian contributors there. The ENAV make available for Ennegreciendo Wikipedia the digital room with computers, and the library plus librarians during the days of the training. Noircir/Ennegreciendo has been invited by the Director of the School so perhaps we will have all the chances on our side to obtain an agreement for them to release public domain content.

Needs Request

No requests needed

• We have no additional request to the WMF staff for now.