Grants talk:Project/Francesc Fort/Wikimedia Valencia

Proposal Clinics

Hello Francesc,

Thanks for submitting your proposal for the Project Grants open call! I wanted to make sure you are aware that our Project Grants process involves ongoing feedback. We want to inform you that we are hosting proposal clinics for applicants to ask questions and get feedback. If you would like to attend, you can find the dates, times, and videoconference links posted on this page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project. These are optional opportunities to get support improving your proposal. Let me know if you have any questions! Good luck with finishing your proposal for the February 10 deadline!

Warm regards,

--MCasoValdes (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

I already attended a previous one, but I'll keep in mind that today there is still a chance.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 12:11, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Personal feedback

As a former president of Amical Wikimedia I had the chance to discuss with Francesc Fort what could be done to support him in some of the actions that are listed in this proposal. By the beginning of 2020 I contacted and talked to several members of the Valencian local community to assess personally their support to his initiatives before any further commitment from the organization I was chairing at that time. Their feedback was unanimously positive and supportive of Francesc. Lamentably, the advent of the pandemics and an uneasy environment in Amical Wikimedia during most of the 2020, prevented that an already stagnant situation could be unlocked.

In normal circumstances I believe that such a support would make sense to happen in a healthy manner within the context of direct affiliate funding. However, if this has not been sadly possible up to now, and in case there may not be any realistic perspective of this to change in a close future, it makes complete sense to explore alternative ways to move on by using means like this grant.

I wish Francesc good luck in this endeavor, specially wishing that it can help engage a wider community and ensure self-sustainability of Valencian projects. --Toniher (talk) 18:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Eligibility confirmed, Round 1 2021 - Community Organizing proposal

This Project Grants proposal is under review!

We've confirmed your proposal is eligible for review in Round 1 2021 for Community Organizing projects. This decision is contingent upon compliance with our COVID-19 guidelines. Proposals that include travel and/or offline events must ensure that all of the following are true:

• You must review and can comply with the guidelines linked above.
• If necessary because of COVID-19 safety risks, you must be able to complete the core components of your proposed work plan _without_ offline events or travel.
• You must be able to postpone any planned offline events or travel until the Wikimedia Foundation’s guidelines allow for them, without significant harm to the goals of your project.
• You must include a COVID-19 planning section in your activities plan. In this section, you should provide a brief summary of how your project plan will meet COVID-19 guidelines, and how it would impact your project if travel and offline events prove unfeasible throughout the entire life of your project. If you have not already included this in your proposal, you have until February 28 to add it.

The Community review period is now underway, from February 20-March 4. We encourage you to make sure that stakeholders, volunteers, and/or communities impacted by your proposed project are aware of your proposal and invite them to give feedback on your talkpage. This is a great way to make sure that you are meeting the needs of the people you plan to work with and it can help you improve your project.

• If you are applying for funds in a region where there is a Wikimedia Affiliate working, we encourage you to let them know about your project, too.
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Please feel free to ask questions and make changes to this proposal as discussions continue during the community review period. By March 4, make sure that your proposal has incorporated any revisions you want to make and complies with all of our guidelines. If you have not already done so, you can make use of our project planning resources to improve your proposal further, too.

The Project Grant committee's formal review for round 1 2020 will occur March 5 through March 20, 2021. We ask that you refrain from making any further changes to your proposal during the committee review period, so we can be sure that all committee members are scoring the same version of the proposal.

Grantees will be announced Friday, April 22, 2021. Sometimes we have to make some changes to the round schedule. If that happens, it will be reflected on the round schedule on the Project Grants start page.

We look forward to engaging with you in this Round!

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--Marti (WMF) (talk) 06:56, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Updates and changes

Covid section added. Also, yesterday the curator of Arxiu Ismael Latorre Mendoza wrote me to say that there have already been uploaded 20 historical pictures and 100 new pics during 2021. If the pace is kept, that would made 120 historical pictures and 1200 new pictures by december 2021. Although I believe that 1.000 currently-taken pictures will be uploaded, I don't want to be too optimistic, so we have set a new objective of 50 historical pics (digitally restored) and 500 new pictures about current events and times, also because I want to respect those months (summer, holidays) were people might have another priorities (and besides of that, right now València has a partial lock-down and people stays more at home, being more productive on wiki tasks). In any case, we are glad to set new objectives, more ambitious than previous ones.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 10:25, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Hola TaronjaSatsuma,

Muchas gracias por la respuesta en relación a añadir la sección sobre Covid. La cuestión sobre las métricas y las posibles modificaciones a los objetivos no afecta esta fase de elegibiliad del proyecto y lo podremos conversar más adelante durante nuestro proceso de revisión de la solicitud.

Estamos pendientes si tienen alguna otra duda.

Muchos saludos,

Mercedes Caso (platícame) 04:48, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Questions from Superzerocol

Hi @TaronjaSatsuma:, thanks for your proposal. I have some questions, please, feel free to answer in the same order.

1. I don't see clearly the metric to be measured about content participation. What and how you will measure it?.
2. Is there any relationship, during the execution, with Amical Wikimedia and Wikimedia España?.
3. Is there any risk assessment in case of failure in any museum or planned GLAM participation?.
4. Who is the responsible to upload files to Wikimedia Commons?, Is there any training involved?

Kindly, Superzerocool (talk) 18:50, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Superzerocool::

1. When it comes to metrics, we have as objectives: 60 articles during in-person events, one monthly in-person event once it's possible to do, 1.000 pics uploaded, 25 new audio files, one wiki takes, 150 articles improved with bibliography from institutions, 200 photos from Institutions, 550 photos from archives, 5 OTRS-agreements of releasing material, participation in Wikimania with a poster, two edu-wiki projects and uploading the pending material from Radio project.

2. Both of them are part of the project, and the local community is involved already in the project. They are receiving weekly comunications and updates. Board members, or former ones, from both Amical and WM-ES already endorsed the project.

3. We haven't written any risk assessment because, as explained in the project, most of the partners have been with us for long and we don't expect them to set us back. Our biggest risk assessment are low objectives, so any surplus on results will be welcomed.

4. Right now we upload files to Commons by using specific and independent accounts linked to one institution and one OTRS-ticket. Some of the Institutions have people who has been trained and some of the institutions will need training.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 20:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks @TaronjaSatsuma: for your answers :). Superzerocool (talk) 21:02, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Comment from Wikimedia Foundation GLAM & Culture team

Hello! It’s reassuring that you already have one partnership in development and we’re pleased to see that you will scale your impact by working with a cohort of institutions. It’s also good to see a mix of content contribution and reuse activities.

If descriptive, structured data is provided alongside the image and audio files, the material will be more discoverable and accessible for reuse on Wikimedia projects.

Could you structure the activities section so the deliverables and numbers are a bit clearer?

Thanks, -- GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 23:50, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Olá Giovanna.

Indeed, we have more than one partnership in development, as we are already collaborating with all the mentioned institutions, being Modern Art, Ethnological and the Photo Archive the institutions with strongest links. As you said in your message, one of our objectives is to scale impact of diverse isolated but so-far loosely connected initiatives.

About structured data, We are already working on that line. Files uploaded by me or the Institutions already include Structured Data (examples of files uploaded recently: 1, 2, 3, 4).

About structure the activities, I'll proceed to change it on the main page.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 07:44, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Olá TaronjaSatsuma! Thank you so much for answering our comments so promptly.

We are really glad to learn the project is already thinking about Structured Data and that it even has some examples.

We are also grateful for the update of the proposal page with the metrics. These are really appreciated and it is good to know that you considered underperformance, because of the COVID-19 situation. This is a very important issue to address.

Again, thank you so much for your feedback. Best, GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 22:24, 15 March 2021 (UTC).

Monthly report

Inspired by some of the Feedback recevied, I've created the First month activity report. It's a humble begining (please, don't judge our activities only for what we have here), keeping in mind that we are starting the project this month. We want to share the report as a way of showing transparency but also that we have the capacity of doing things. At March we will be able to show the first results of a month with actual activity, and also, this humble February report might serve for inspiration once we have a better rythm by the end of the year, and we will be able to compare our evolution as movement local node.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 13:41, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Second monthly report, we plan to complete it by the end of the month.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 15:54, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Aggregated feedback from the committee for Francesc Fort/Wikimedia Valencia

Scoring rubric	Score
(A) Impact potential Does it have the potential to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects, either in terms of content, contributors, or both? Does it have the potential for online impact? Can it be sustained, scaled, or adapted elsewhere after the grant ends?	6.2
(B) Community engagement Does it have a specific target community and plan to engage it often? Does it have community support?	5.6
(C) Ability to execute Can the scope be accomplished in the proposed timeframe? Is the budget realistic/efficient ? Do the participants have the necessary skills/experience?	7.6
(D) Measures of success Are there both quantitative and qualitative measures of success? Are they realistic? Can they be measured?	6.6
Additional comments from the Committee: Some of the project goals, which are rather vague, may fit with Wikimedia's strategic priorities. The sustainability of the project depends largely on continuous availability of the project lead. This proposed project seems like many projects of this type. The project is iterative in nature. The impact potential is unclear due to the vagueness of its goals. The measures of success are similarly vague. The project can be accomplished in 12 months. The budget consists only of funding for the WiR (aka the project lead), who potentially has the necessary skills. The level of community engagement is unclear. This does involve related communities who seem to already overlap. GLAM project of interesting cultural institutions. The project has unclear goals and a misleading name. It is basically funding for one person (WiR) to enable them to continue their activities. The project needs a better name, needs to be more specific in its goals, and have a more focused plan. I am also concerned that there may be some unresolved conflicts in the community, which may make the realization of the project goals difficult. This project is not unique or high priority due to the communities already represented, however, I would award funding if there were extra amounts remaining after higher priority projects are funded. Interesting project with a good plan, however, it would be good to have more community engagement components in the plan. Along with WiR, some community members can be included in training and outreach activities.

This proposal has been recommended for due diligence review.

The Project Grants Committee has conducted a preliminary assessment of your proposal and recommended it for due diligence review. This means that a majority of the committee reviewers favorably assessed this proposal and have requested further investigation by Wikimedia Foundation staff.

Next steps:

1. Aggregated committee comments from the committee are posted above. Note that these comments may vary, or even contradict each other, since they reflect the conclusions of multiple individual committee members who independently reviewed this proposal. We recommend that you review all the feedback and post any responses, clarifications or questions on this talk page.
2. Following due diligence review, a final funding decision will be announced on Friday, April 22, 2021.

Questions? Contact us.

Mercedes Caso (platícame) 00:23, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Round 1 2021 decision

This project has not been selected for a Project Grant at this time.

We love that you took the chance to creatively improve the Wikimedia movement. The committee has reviewed this proposal and not recommended it for funding. This was a very competitive round with many good ideas, not all of which could be funded in spite of many merits. We appreciate your participation, and we hope you'll continue to stay engaged in the Wikimedia context.

Comments regarding this decision:
We will not be funding your project this round. The committee appreciated the opportunity to capitalize on your experience as an organizer to support partnerships and volunteers in the Valencia region. However, in light of the competitive nature of this review process and the priority focus on proposals the committee believed would most benefit the Wikimedia movement’s [Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#Our_strategic_direction:_Service_and_Equity

Next steps: Applicants whose proposals are declined are welcome to consider resubmitting your application again in the future. You are welcome to request a consultation with staff to review any concerns with your proposal that contributed to a decline decision, and help you determine whether resubmission makes sense for your proposal.

Over the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has been undergoing a community consultation process to launch a new grants strategy. Our proposed programs are posted on Meta here: Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021. If you have suggestions about how we can improve our programs in the future, you can find information about how to give feedback here: Get involved. We are also currently seeking candidates to serve on regional grants committees and we'd appreciate it if you could help us spread the word to strong candidates--you can find out more here. We will launch our new programs in July 2021. If you are interested in submitting future proposals for funding, stay tuned to learn more about our future programs.

Marti (WMF) (talk) 00:58, 23 April 2021 (UTC)