Grants:Project/Rapid/Roda/HR.Wikidata101

HR.Wikidata 101 context

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While Wikidata.org is globally celebrating 10 years, Croatian Wikidata pre-history started with presentation of Denny *(Zdenko) Vrandečić his work on Semantic web and Wikidata.org in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Unfortunately because of the poor state of Croatian Wikipedia governance and absence of Wikimedia Affiliate or User Groups, almost nothing was done in Outreach to GLAM and Education until now in 2022.

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In the past year we made first experimental uses of Wikimedia (beyond Wikipedia) through small and experimental projects, forming a nucleus of advanced users and a pool of informed enthusiasts mostly around civil society organizations, initiatives and few (open) GLAMs. This was built on pioneering activities like the first Wikimedian in Residence, first panel on Human Rights Film Festival, first Wiki maraton WikiOna, first research and experimental project with Clubture@20 (that uses Wikidata) and first international presentation on WM CEE Meeting 2022 in Ohrid as a workshop...

HR.Wikidata 101 grant app

Now we would like to follow up on this with the focus on Wikidata introduction in a more systematic way, with information, education, promotion and towards strategic work:

1. Wikidata promo event at Clubture Forum and celebration of 20 years of the network,
   with final presentation, demo and Wikidata+Commons clinic for Clubture@20 project
   in Pula, October 22nd (event already covered by previous grant)
   
2. Wikidata+Commons clinics for:
   1. Multimedia Institute project
      in Zagreb, October 25nd (event already covered by previous grant)
   2. WikiOna Wiki maraton on Women’s health and advocacy for rights
      in Zagreb and online, November 11-12 (event partly covered by RODA.hr)
   3. Wiki World Heritage mapping in Croatia
      in Trogir and online, November 20 (event partly covered by WM WWH UG)
   4. Fu:bar festival of glitch art in Zagreb, CROATIA
3. Participation in the international GLAM event Nov 18th with Museum of Contemporary Art
   in Zagreb and online, November 18 (event partly covered by MSU.hr)
4. All activities that are not fixed in time
   
   • Translation and localization of basic documents and leaflets
     
   • Production of informative and educational videos
     
   • Promotional work with media (podcast and interview)
     
   • Partnership meetings with GLAMs, CSOs and Academic institutions in Croatia
     
   • Partnership meetings with Wikimedia organizations:
     
     • Wikimedia Sweden on GLAM work
       
     • Wikimedia Germany on Wikibase,
       
     • Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group on Croatian UNESCO protected cities
       
     • Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group on mapping regional LGBT+ knowledge
       
     • Wikispore and Wikivoyage informal groups and wiki projects
       
     • Individual Wikimedians *(for now US, Maltese, Belgian and German) interested in collaborations
       
5. Public consultation and presentation of plans for future of Wikidata in HR
   

After a series of consultations and actions we wanna give a book/document of wishes for future of Wikidata in Croatia to the global Wikidata community.

Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

User:LoloLuar and User:Zblace

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

• User:LoloLuar -- grant admin and fiscal sponsor of project

• User:Zblace -- coordinator

Organization

RODA.hr as fiscal sponsor for all partners (with OpenGLAM Croatia, HrW_inicijativa, Multimedia Institute, Clubture Network)

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

OpenGLAM Croatia, HrW_inicijativa

Grant Proposal

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

HR.Wikidata101

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

National, but with some int. coordination and partners

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

Croatia

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

www.roda.hr

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

We want to switch from Wikipedia-centered work in Croatia to more diverse Wikimedia and especially in the field of partnerships and outreach development. It is important to develop capacities to do linked open data locally and catch up with more developed and diverse Wikimedia contexts.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

We would try to network and coordinate all Wikidata informed editors and connect them to relevant international projects and organizations, regardless of scale and speed of adoption *(which is important for small country like Croatia).

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We can demo and instruct people on few events + promote that in media and as a policy of open linked data adoption.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Other (please specify)

Wikidata 10th birthday

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

We have Wikimedians but will need help in technical aspects when using tools from Wikidata toolset, and we will reach out to few affiliates and experts individually.

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Language, socio-economic status.

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

It will help show relations of local and trans-local among global networks of Wikimedians. We would help new generation of Wikidata users emerge also in Croatia.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Don't know.

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

YES

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?

Women's rights activists, cultural workers and LGBTIQ people.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

>The Brave Space Policy from Art+Feminism.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

We do not have established channels, but are willing to create as part of the work.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

Don't know what else from Croatia but there is a segment of Wikispore project that involves Open GLAM Croatia.

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

This is joint proposal.

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

We would share resources and know-how + PR

If no:

12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Maybe with Goethe Institute Zagreb, fr sure with Clubture.org and Multimedia Institute.

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

We collaborated a bit before.

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

• We want to build capacity in using Wikidata and perhaps putting some of the newly curated information on Wikidata too.
• We want to permanently improve Outreach GLAM and Education practices in relation to Wikimedia.

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

17. Core quantitative metrics.

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

Project is not using quantitative metrics but is focusing on support of existing educational+PR work and strategy plan development.

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

Project is not using quantitative metrics tools

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation in your local currency?

5,113.47 Euro (Croatia is switching to Euro January 1st)

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency?

$5000 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

• 1200 USD = 3 clinics x 4hours x 25 USD x 4 people
• 1200 USD = document translations and localization 600 USD x 2 people
• 1000 USD = space costs for WikiOna
• 1500 USD = overhead, fees, emergency, administration, coordination and project management
• 100 USD = promotional materials

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes