Individual Engagement Grants/Application

Attention: These pages are out of date. Please see the live Individual Engagement Grants program pages for current information.

Drafting info we'll collect in proposals, to be pulled into an easy-to-use application form/submission process. Ideally we're asking only for things that help the grantee plan well and the reviewers select well, trying to keep it as short and simple as possible.

Top level sections indicate clusters of info to be organized into steps in the application process, as we anticipate that people will submit ideas/draft plans/finalize submissions over time.

Project idea

• Project title (=application name, =page name, this is created when first submitted, obviously)
• Names and usernames of project participant(s): Please list the names and usernames of all prospective grantees. Note that if your final proposal is accepted you will be required to provide documentation to WMF verifying your full legal name and address, though username alone is acceptable for this public application.
• Project lead contact: Please provide a primary contact for the application, email address and/or username.
• Project idea: In a few sentences, briefly explain your overall idea for the project.
• Project goals: In a few sentences, what are you trying to accomplish with this project, what do you expect will change as a result of this grant?

At this point, the application could be shared in the idea lab for further help planning, or the applicant can continue filling in the next sections.

Project plan

Scope

• Scope and activities: What will you spend your time doing if this project is funded? What will be completed by the end of the project?
• Tools, technologies, and techniques: What kinds of things do you expect you’ll need most in order to complete your project? Examples: This project will need time and discussion, database queries, surveys of people who volunteer doing x thing, meetups to bring together volunteers interested in doing x, pamphlets for outreach, Wikimedia merchandise to thank volunteers for their help, javascript to create a gadget that does x

Budget

• Total amount requested: Please list the total grant amount you are requesting in USD or local currency (USD will be assumed if no other currency is specified)
• Budget breakdown: How you will use the funds you are requesting? Example:
  • Travel (roundtrip economy class from Bangladesh to India x2): USD $500
  • Graphic design (contractor: USD 40/hour for 40 hours): USD $1,200
  • Wikimedia merchandise (volunteer/attendee give-a-ways): USD $200
  • Personnel - (your name, offset personal costs for project completion): USD $2,000

Impact

• Target audience: Who will be better served/impacted as a result of this project?
• Fit with strategy: What crucial thing are you trying to change or have an effect on in the Wikimedia movement with this project? Please select a Wikimedia strategic priority that your project most directly aims to impact and explain how your project fits. we may want to have the selection made as a category tag, and this sorts the project page into a list divided up by these categories for easier review/parsing:
  • Readership - increasing reach so that more people are able to access Wikimedia projects
  • Content - increasing quality and quantity of content on Wikimedia projects
  • Participation - Increase participation and diversity in the movement (e.g. more editors, more women or Global South participation )
• Sustainability: What do you expect will happen to your project after the grant ends? How might your idea be continued or grown in new ways afterwards?
• Measures of success: How will you know if the project is successful? What are the targets, metrics, measurable criteria will you use to learn if you’ve met your goals?

Participants

• Want to be included in the grant project team? Please list all prospective grantees for this project and tell us something about each of you. We’re particularly interested in hearing about any related skills or experience that you think will help make this idea successful.

Discussion

Community Notification

You are responsible for notifying relevant communities of your proposal. For example, if your project idea is to work on something that recruits people to edit Spanish Wikipedia, posting a notification may be most appropriate in Spanish Wikipedia's Cafe. If your project idea involves English Wikipedia's welcoming committee, notification should likely be posted on the committee's discussion page. In your community notification, please include a link back to this grant proposal.

Please paste a link to the notification and to any other relevant community discussions here so that we can verify notification of relevant communities has been completed.

Endorsements

This section is for community members to describe why they think a project idea is of value.

Do you think this project should be selected for an Individual Engagement Grant? Please add your name and rationale for endorsing this project in the list below. Other feedback, questions or concerns from community members are also highly valued, but please post them on the talk page of this proposal.

• Endorser's name and rationale goes here

Infobox data

• Project name
• Project summary (1 short sentence, think of it as a tagline)
• Contact (project lead contact, username and/or email)
• Participants (names or usernames of all prospective grantees)
• Proposed start and end date (default round 1 is April 1-Oct 1 2013)
• Target audience - List Wikimedia Projects, languages, etc you expect to serve/impact (this might default to Wikimedia if not specified?)
• Strategic goal - Reach/Readership, Content (quality/quantity), Participation
• Total amount requested - in USD or local currency