Application or grant stage: withdrawn

Applicant or grantee: Wiki Education Brazil User Group

Amount requested: USD 34,640.00 (34,640.00)

Amount granted: ()

Funding period: 1 January 2018 to 30 June 2018

Application created: 26 October 2017

Recommended application date: 1 November 2017

Midpoint report due:

Final report due:

Application

Background

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Link to your organization's staffing plan, for the upcoming funding period. Wiki Education Brazil
Link to your annual plan, for the upcoming funding period. Wiki Education Brazil
Link to your strategic plan, which includes the upcoming funding period. Wiki Education Brazil

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Programs

Please describe any changes to your programs for the upcoming funding period, including the addition of new programs or any programs you are no longer doing. Include your rationale for any major changes to your programs here.

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Wiki Loves Earth

Since the user group was created, the Wiki Loves Earth has been one of the projects that generates more results and repercution in Brazil, opening doors for many interviews and news articles published in the main local communication channels with more than 40.000 new pictures uploaded to commons during the last editions. This project aim to result in new quality content being contributed to the Wikimedia projects in targeted content areas, and attract new good contributors for our movement.

SMART OBJECTIVES

Main focus

Creation of new content for Wikimedia Commons and improvement of articles on Wikipedia with focus on natural heritage.

Goals

Increase awareness of Wikimedia projects
Increase contributions
Increase quality of content available on commons

Metrics and targets

From January to July, 10.000 images uploaded and 900 in use on a Wikimedia projects.
From May to July, 100 articles created or improved.
500 new accounts created, and 5% of users brought in through these contests continue contributing 3 months after creating a new account.
Engage at least one participant in a GLAM project through a personal/private archive, uploading 100 new high quality files to commons

Measures of success

number of edits
new accounts
photos uploaded
photos usage
new users engagement
high quality pictures promoted

Activities

Contest planning and execution
Group and partners meetings
Improvement of the lists of monuments
Promotion of the contest through press releases and social network campaigns
Promote the usage of the photos on Wikipedia in Portuguese and other languages
Promotion of the CC licenses
Creation and improvement of articles
Photo exhibition
Promote thematic Edit-a-thons

Community Building

This program will focus on improving Wikimedia awareness in Brazil, recruiting new contributors and engaging current members of our community to participate in Brazilian and lusophone Wikimedia projects.

SMART Objectives

Main focus

To create awareness about the wikimedia movement and its projects using different communication channels. Promote the sense of belonging to a global community with a common goal, engaging our current and new contributors, with frequent off-line activities, by providing opportunities for contributors to meet face to face and by experimenting with ways to recognize the outstanding work of contributors. On a more broad sense, we will carry out these activities always with the wikimedia gender gap issue in mind, always trying to minimize its presence.

Goals

Increase quantity and quality of content
Increase contributors

Metrics and targets

10 new members contributing to our user group (currently 25) and more 20 in our mail list (currently 110)
2 new technical contributors for pt.wiki and wikimedia projects with knowledge in AI, bots, scripts and wikidata (currently 2)
100 new contributors registered
3 community meetings with at least 6-8 active members each
4 edit-a-thons/workshops with the participation of at least 20 members each with 60% of new users engagement.

Measures of success

community participation
key contributors identification
improvements in on-line activities and communications between the contributors

Activities

translate content produced by WMF and other affiliates, create new instructional and informative materials, like: videos, interviews, brochures, infographics to engage and support current and new contributors
organize the user group agenda with monthly meetings to keep the Wikimedia movement moving forward
create thematic meetings and workshops (edit-a-thons, hackathons and informal conversations), both on general topics and more specific ones to promote diversity and reduce the gender gap.
promote the results of the current activities/programs
develop proposed activities and programs with off-line/local participation engaging old/new members in real activities through local cooperation
work with other communities around the world, improving the international relation between the user group members, international communities, other chapters and groups.
produce video interviews with key contributor identified through our online and offline activities to motivate new contributors and spread the history of our movement

GLAM and Institutional Partnerships

Reinforcing the importance of institutional and GLAM partnerships on Wikimedia projects and contents, this program focuses on developing initiatives and activities that will generate useful content for the wikimedia projects. In the next semestre we intend to achieve this by strengthening current partnerships and searching for new opportunities in Brazil, and in international cooperations.

SMART Objectives by project

GLAM Partnerships

This project will result in quality content contributed to the Wikimedia projects, and increased participation of new contributors in Wikimedia-related activities.

Main focus

Partnership with cultural institutions and professionals to create and improve GLAM projects, promote events and cultural mapping to identify potential partners.

Goals

Increase partnerships
Increase quantity and quality of contents uploaded to commons

Metrics and targets

1 GLAM institutional partnership executed and documented, laying the foundation for future GLAM work, and resulting in 600 files uploaded to commons improving at least 100 articles.
1 GLAM event with potential partners, students and museologists, resulting in at least 1 new partnership
1 GLAM edit-a-thon for training and content usage
2 new GLAM partnerships with private archives/photographers, resulting in 400 new images upload on commons impacting in at least 100 articles.

Measures of success

number of partners
number of participants in meetings and GLAM events
amount of content loaded on commons/wikisource

Activities

Disseminate the brochures produced and translated during the last semesters
Create at least 1 technical document/guide/video/brochure for new GLAM partners and contributors
Identify potential GLAM projects and develop local efforts to move forward with GLAM projects in Brazil
Contact key local potential partners to define an agenda
Create partnerships
Select contents to be scanned/published on commons/wikisource
Improve the map of potential partners
Promote another GLAM meeting in Brazil

UN WikiProject

In 2017 our group started a partnership with UN Brazil starting the contacts through the communication department in Rio de Janeiro. As a result we had several meetings and the confirmed participation of UN in our scientific conference in Niteroi - RJ. Based on these conversations we started the WikiProject:UN on pt.wiki with focus on content creation and improvements, mainly focusing on the 2030 agenda. Following the good results and potential impact of this initiative we aim to improve this relation during the next semester, expanding this partnership to other projects, UN departments involving more contributors from our community, connecting UN with other institutions and initiatives through the wikimedia projects and local and international activities, mainly in the lusophone community.

Goals

Increase contributions about UN agencies/agenda
Expand partnership with UN

Metrics and targets

10 active contributors working on WikiProject:UN on pt.wiki
100 articles created or improved
200 new content published on commons
2 activities organized in partnership with UN, reaching at least one other UN agency acting in Brazil

Main focus

New contents for the Wikimedia Commons and articles improvement/creation on Wikipedia with focus on UN agencies and 2030 agenda.

Measures of success

number of activities and events organized in partnership with UN Brazil
number of edits
new accounts
photos uploaded
articles created/improved
engagement of new users.

Activities

participation and support in events with talks, presentation and discussions
improvement of articles and creation of general content on pt.wiki and commons mainly
organization and engagement of new contributors on the WikiProject:UN on pt.wiki
integration of the local project to international cooperation projects and WikiProjects
promote at least one activity in partnership with other lusophone country
2 thematic edit-a-thons
2 meetings/events with the presence of UN representatives

Institutional Partnerships

Aiming to establish our user group as a formal and professional organization, partnerships are crucial for the sustainable growth and resources raising. We intend to leverage existing partnerships to build awareness of our goals and activities, and create opportunity to develop new relationships and projects.

Main focus

To work alongside organizations that focus on culture, education, open knowledge and technology from the private and public sectors.

Goals

Increase the number of partnerships
Increase awareness of Wikimedia projects inside local universities and institutions
Increase contributions and contributors from formal institutions

Metrics and targets

3 event with external organizations, resulting in at least 1 new partnership
3 talks in academic events, resulting in 15 new contributors and 1 new partnership.
6 meetings with universities, resulting in at least 3 new partners for the IWSC/CCBIKI

Measures of success

number of partnership renewed
number of new partnerships
number of activities developed (training, talks, workshops, edit-a-thons)

Activities

keep in touch with current local partners
participate and promote seminars, training and talks inside universities and cultural institutions
develop activities in partnership with other Wikimedia affiliates, especially from Iberocoop
create a brochure about partnerships with the Wikimedia movement with general focus
create a fixed organization committee with the participation of national and international universities and teachers from the IWSC (International Wikipedia Scientific Conference)
start the plans for the next edition of the IWSC with help and funding from external partners
start the plans for the next edition of the CCBWIKI (Brazilian Wikipedia Scientific Conference)

Staff and contractors

Please describe any changes to your staffing plan for the upcoming funding period. These should include increases in staff or contractor hours, new staff positions, or staff positions you are removing. Include your rationale for any staffing changes here.

No changes required

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