Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/Wikipedia and the Swiss Schools

Infodata

• Name of the project: Wikipedia and the Swiss Schools. Case study Geography and History in Ticino Canton
• Amount requested: 49'200 CHF
• Type of grantee: Organization
• Name of the contact: Iolanda Pensa
• Contact: iolanda.pensasupsi.ch

The problem and the context

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

Wikipedia is an Open Educational Resource (OER): it is already largely used by students, teachers and families, it is released with an open license, it provides content related to what pupils study at school and it provides content which goes beyond what they study at school in many languages. Currently, with the Coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming more and more clear how important are Open Educational Resources and among them Wikipedia has a role. We know the educational value of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap, but there are still many things we don’t know. We know Wikipedia is already largely used by students, teachers and families for school purposes, but we are not investing energy and resources in checking how our projects respond to their needs. We don't know what they look for and we don’t know what they find when they read articles related to what they study at school. We don’t even know which are the articles related to the main topics they study at school. This is the major problem that the project addresses.

Context	Problem
Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource. The current situation of coronavirus pandemic highlights the necessity of Open Educational Resources in particular to support education. Wikipedia is already an Open Educational Resource (OER) widely (already really widely) used.	We don’t know which could be the Wikipedia articles relevant to the main topics pupils study at school, we don’t know their quality and how they can be improved. The quality of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource can be enhanced but at the moment we don’t have tools and metrics to do it and to claim that we are supporting education.
Community. Italian is a national language of Switzerland. It is spoken in Ticino and Grigioni Canton, with an estimated population of 370’000 inhabitants and in general Italian is considered the principal language of around 720’000 people living in Switzerland. Italian is one of the languages of the Swiss educational system and it is studied in Switzerland and abroad. Wikipedia in Italian is a fairly large Wikipedia edition with	The community of contributors to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects in Italian from Switzerland is very small and it likely to remain small.
Content. Wikipedia in Italian is used by the Italian-speaking Swiss community who access Wikipedia articles directly or indirectly inside websites, apps and publications which reuse its content.	Due to the limited number of contributors but also to a quite surprising story dated back to 2013, content related to Ticino on Wikipedia in Italian is very limited.
The sum of all knowledge and the knowledge gaps. Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects aim at providing the sum of all knowledge. The identification of knowledge gaps is at the centre of many Wikimedia projects and historically the community has already tried to define lists of fundamental articles (which are also articles we can automatically consider notable - which is a very important issue at an international level).	It is very difficult to define knowledge gaps and to define priorities related to knowledge. We don’t know how to identify what is missing and what can be improved and - according to how our projects work - we need to rely on official sources. But which sources?

What is your solution to this problem (please explain the context and the solution)?

This project develops an analysis of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Tool (with a selection of articles and a system to monitor them), it provides a new perspective on the use and relevance of Wikipedia articles at a national level and it builds an infrastructure to support the work of volunteers and Wikimedia CH in improving relevant content and in engaging with stakeholders. Furthermore the project contributes to establishing a replicable system to identify knowledge gaps around the world based on the main topics studied at school.

Problem	Proposed Solution	Goal of the project
We don’t know which could be the Wikipedia articles relevant to the main topics pupils study at school, we don’t know their quality and how they can be improved. The quality of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource can be enhanced but at the moment we don’t have tools and metrics to do it and to claim that we are supporting education.	Identify and analyse Wikipedia articles related to what pupils study at school to define their quality and how they change through time. This analysis provides a report with visual information that can be used to foster dialogue with stakeholders and to claim more strongly the role of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource	Reinforcing the role of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource
The community of contributors to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects in Italian from Switzerland is very small and it likely to remain small.	Supporting the Wikimedia community in Ticino through indirect contribution. Establishing and reinforcing a network of teachers and organisations working in the field of education in Ticino.	Networking with the Wikimedia community, people working in the field of education and with reviewers.
Content related to Ticino on Wikipedia in Italian is very limited.	Improving content related to Switzerland on Wikipedia in Italian with a focus on geography and history and on Ticino.	Identifying relevant content studied at school and related to Switzerland and Ticino; analyse how it can be improved.
It is very difficult to define knowledge gaps and to define priorities related to knowledge. We don’t know how to identify what is missing and what can be improved and - according to how our projects work - we need to rely on official sources. But which sources?		Developing a replicable system to identify knowledge gaps on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects based on national sources.

Project goals

The main goal of the project is to reinforce the role of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource. Furthermore it establishes and reinforce a network of teachers and organisations working in the field of education in Ticino; it identifies relevant content studied at school and related to Switzerland and Ticino and it analyses how it can be improved and it develops a system to identify knowledge gaps on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects based on national sources

Relevance for Wikimedia CH Strategic priorities and programs

Wikipedia belongs in education. Education is one main pillar of Wikimedia CH strategy. The project contributes to the Wikimedia CH strategic priorities and to the Wikimedia CH education program.

Wikimedia CH Education Action Plan	Relevance of the project
1st action - Schools (compulsory education - primary and lower secondary level): Open education, wikicamps and gamification and 5th action: Technology Open education repository The main issue for a stronger action for school is to setup a repository of resources dedicated to open education mainly focused on open content. The open education repository is also a tool for education (5th action Technology).	In this proposal Wikipedia itself is considered an open educational resource and the project develops a repository of its specific resources (articles on Wikipedia and content on Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource) linked to the school system.
6th Action: Advocacy and partnerships In this action are included all partnerships and all actions to facilitate the introduction of the open content and Wikipedia projects in the education. Advocacy The introduction of Open Education in Switzerland is appreciated by cantonal departments and by the Swiss Confederation. In our plan Wikimedia CH would play a more important role in this area but before doing that, we must have more content and material for schools. International collaboration Wikimedia Ch needs to collaborate at the international level because the languages used at the school (German, Italian, French and English) are spoken in several other countries.	The project produces an overview of the Swiss school system and it focuses with a pilot project on a specific canton and on its system of education. It involves SUPSI (whose department for training and learning - Dipartimento formazione e apprendimento DFA - has the role of training teachers in Ticino Canton). Thought its network and the content it produces, the project contributes to reinforce Wikimedia CH collaborations and links with universities, policy makers and organisations working in the field of education. Content produced by this project can also facilitate contacts at a national level with the confederation  and other canton, as an example of what Wikipedia can provide related to the major topics taught at school. Furthermore the report allows Wikimedia CH to show the effort the organisation is making in reviewing and monitoring content related to the Swiss schools. The project includes specifically a series of focus group to reinforce the local community and the links with stakeholders in the field of education.
7th Action: Organization In this action we include everything relates to the organization. Marketing and communication Before proceeding, Wikimedia CH needs material to communicate efficiently with potential partner and with cantonal departments. A website explaining our educational projects is planned.	The project is connected to the covid pandemic and the role of digital resources for students, teachers and families. A timely focus of Wikimedia CH in this area can be communicated efficiently and can contribute to the image of an organisation committed to respond to the crises with its resources. Content produced by the project is also an overview of the Swiss school system which can further facilitate the communication of Wikimedia CH educational projects (with a focus on what Wikipedia articles provide which is added to the engagement of Wikimedia CH in supporting the use of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects as an educational tool to learn active online contribution). The use of data visualisation (and information design) in the project and the attention to a graphic design is meant to produce results which are more appealing and more easily communicated.
The Swiss system of education is decentralized and plurilingualism.	The project proposed is scalable and it can be replicated in other linguistic editions of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and it can focus on different cantons.

The project contributes to the Wikimedia movement strategy with a focus on Knowledge equity by participating in identifying knowledge gaps, by analysing school systems and the main topics learn in different national school systems.

Knowledge equity: As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong and diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge.

Project impact

How will you know if you have met your goals?

The project is designed to produce very concrete outcomes.

Goal	Activities	Outcomes	Impact	Metrics / Indicators
Reinforcing the role of Wikipedia as an Open Educational Resource	Review of books and documents, analysis and identification of topics with validation	Report about the Swiss school system and possible interaction with Wikimedia content	Production of an overview of the Swiss school system with recommendations to facilitate the scalability of this project	Feedback from Wikimedia CH and members of Wikimedia CH in other canton, possibility of replicating the project in other cantons.
		List of topics related to the Ticino school system in the area of geography and history	Production of a case study which allows to see the benefit of this methodology and review the quality of a selection of articles of Wikipedia in Italian	Feedback from the network in Ticino. Feedback from Wikimedia CH and members of the association.
	Identification of articles on Wikimedia and the Wikimedia projects	List of articles related to the Ticino school system in the area of geography and history	Identification of a selection of relevant articles related to geography and history	Problems and feedback online on the Wikimedia projects
	Networking and meetings (focus groups) with teachers and the communities	3 meetings with teachers and community members	Reinforcing the network in Ticino and in the field of education. Indirect editing of the Wikimedia projects	Number of participants in the discussions, role of the discussants (stakeholders), reports about the discussions. Relationships between Wikimedia CH and the network (i.e. involvement in new activities, participation in other activities)
	Networking and involvement of experts in the reviews	Involvement of 15 reviewers in reviewing Wikipedia articles. General feedback about the articles and some examples	Collaboration with Swiss experts, enlargement of Wikimedia network. Indirect editing of the Wikimedia projects	Feedback from the Wikimedia community about the review. Capacity of including the remarks in the articles and in the methodology.
	Statistics and data analysis	Data about the selected articles (in particular visualizations, edit history, controversies, number of sources, presence of images, length of the article and length of the summary and template messages)	Report which can be convincing both for people in education and Wikipedias/Wikimedia with data which can be monitored and updated.	Feedback from Wikimedia CH and members of Wikimedia CH in other canton, possibility of replicating the project in other cantons. Possibility of replicating the project in other countries
	Information design: visualisation of the results	Visualizations of the data	Report that can be easily and efficiently communicated to the Wikipedia/Wikimedia community (both nationally and internationally) and to people working in education
	Graphic designer for the general design of the project and graphic editing of its results	Graphic design and graphic editing of the results
	Community management and communication of the project results	Links and conversations with the Wikimedia community and people working in education (2 press releases, project pages online, discussions online, updates)	Networking, good and transparent relationships with all people involved directly and indirectly in the project
	Coordination: concept, problem solving, updates, reports	Updates every 2 months and final report Documentation of the project.	Efficiency of the project, dialogue with the stakeholders,	Feedback of Wikimedia CH.

Do you have any goals or metrics around participation or content?

The project produces data and metrics. It lists and analyzes existing content on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects (specifically Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikiversity and Wikidata), it suggests contributions to improve selected content and it provides indicators to monitor this content through time. In the analysis of content, the project focuses on visualizations, edit history, controversies, number of sources, presence of images, length of the article and length of the summary and template messages (messages which inform about issues related to articles). Those indicators can be easily reviewed through time, to monitor how content related to the Swiss school changes and it is edited by wikipedia contributors.

Project plan

Activities

The project is structured to produce a replicable methodology and a specific case study. The case study is about geography and history taught from elementary school to high school in Ticino Canton and their connections with articles of Wikipedia in Italian. This case study is relevant because it is limited it and allows to develop the methodology and develop all the phases of the project in a reasonable time. It focuses on geography and history because they are the thematic area where it is easier to find connections with Wikipedia articles and where content is specific to Switzerland and Ticino. The focus on Wikipedia in Italian benefits of the project “Wikipedia e la scuola italiana” already implemented and supported by Wikimedia Italia. Furthermore the case study about Ticino is relevant because – as stated in the objectives – content related to Ticino on Wikipedia in Italian is very weak and Italian speaking-Switzerland would benefit of an enlargement of its community also thanks to the collaboration with institutions and specific stakeholders (in the case of this projects teachers, students, schools and organisations working in the field of education).

The project implements the following activities:

• Review of books and documents, analysis and identification of topics of the Ticino school curriculum with validation.
• Identification of articles on Wikimedia and the Wikimedia projects
• Networking and meetings (focus groups) with teachers and the communities with travel costs and events.
• Networking and involvement of experts in the reviews
• Statistics and data analysis
• Information design: visualisation of the results

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• Graphic designer for the general design of the project and graphic editing of its results
• Community management and communication of the project results
• Coordination: concept, problem solving, administration, updates, reports

The project is structured to start January 15th 2021 and to end November 15th, 2021 (10 months).

Timeline
Activity	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Review of books and documents, analysis and identification of topics with validation		X	X
Identification of articles on Wikimedia and the Wikimedia projects			X	X
Networking and meetings (focus groups) with teachers and the communities			X			X			X
Networking and involvement of experts in the reviews				X	X	X
Statistics and data analysis				X	X	X
Information design: visualisation of the results					X	X
Graphic designer for the general design of the project and graphic editing of its results					X	X
Community management and communication of the project results		X				X			X	X
Travels and meetings			X			X			X
Coordination: concept, problem solving, administration (A), updates to Wikimedia CH (U), report (R)	A	A, U	X	U	X	U	X	U	X	R

Budget

Activity	Quantity		Total estimated working days	Costs
Review of books and documents, analysis and identification of topics with validation	4		15	CHF9.000,00
Identification of articles on Wikimedia and the Wikimedia projects	500-1000		10	CHF6.000,00
Networking and meetings (focus groups) with teachers and the communities	3	2	6	CHF3.600,00
Networking and involvement of experts in the reviews	10	1	10	CHF6.000,00
Statistics and data analysis	500-1000		10	CHF6.000,00
Information design: visualisation of the results	5	2	10	CHF6.000,00
Graphic designer for the general design of the project and graphic editing of its results			3	CHF1.800,00
Community management and communication of the project results			5	CHF3.000,00
Travel expenses and organisation of meetings	3	200		CHF600,00
Coordination: concept, problem solving, updates, reports (<20% of the total costs)			12	CHF7.200,00
Total costs				CHF49.200,00

Community engagement

The project contributes to community engagement in two specific ways:

Serving the community. The project fosters conditions to encourage editing by volunteers by providing an infrastructural support to the work of volunteers and of the Wikimedia CH chapter. It selects a list of articles relevant for Switzerland and a Canton, it identify articles which have the priority, it uses data to highlight how articles need to be improved and it involves reviewers to identify other needs.

Supporting the Wikimedia community in Ticino through indirect contribution. Establishing and reinforcing a network of teachers and organisations working in the field of education in Ticino.

The community engagement is triggered through a series of activities of networking and communication:

• Networking and meetings (focus groups) with teachers and the communities
• Networking and involvement of experts in the reviews
• Community management and communication of the project results

Are you modeling your project off other program's projects? How is your project different or similar to those project?

A similar project has been implemented in South Africa and Italy and it has received a positive feedback from chapters and the community. In South Africa the project focused on primary school. In Italy it reviewed school topics from primary school to high school. Each experience needs to assess the school system, to adapt to the national situation and to build a national network, but the general working system of the project appears to be efficient and to develop useful results.

• Wikipedia Primary School ideated in 2011
• WikiAfrica Primary School Feasibility Study (2012)
• Wikipedia Primary School in South Africa (2014-2017). Implemented by SUPSI in collaboration with the University of Cape Town. Research:Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme
• Wikipedia e scuola italiana (2020) Wikipedia Primary School/Italy/Wikipedia e scuola italiana

Team and Contribution Record

The project is promoted by the Laboratory of visual culture at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) is one of the nine professional universities recognised by the Swiss Confederation and established in 1997 by integrating preexisting specialised schools and public and private research institutes. The departments and the laboratories of the university have several locations mainly in Canton Ticino. SUPSI has Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree courses and develops research in the following areas: environmental sustainability and the utilisation of natural resources; energy sustainability, renewable energies, consumption and production; technologies and sustainability in the manufacturing and services sectors; entrepreneurship, innovation, new forms of work; digital ecosystems, interaction between technology, information, communications and knowledge; health, demographic changes, wellbeing and sustainability; cultural identity and social inclusion; new methods of learning. With the accent on applied research, development and the transfer of knowledge and technology, research projects are supported by European and national agencies or mandated by organisations and institutions. SUPSI also collaborates with private companies, mainly in the technology sector.

In the Department for Environment Constructions and Design, the Laboratory of Visual Culture (LCV) is a space for applied research into the practices and socio-cultural meanings of visual culture and interactive media. In a context of transforming media and technology culture, we study the application, processes and methods of interactive interfaces, products and services to facilitate knowledge transfer, innovation for economic development and to strengthen SME competitiveness. We contextualise cutting-edge emerging practices critically reflecting on the user experiences, behaviours, aesthetics and their impacts. The laboratory implements research and services focusing on communication, interaction design and on tools and technologies to enhance creative works, education, GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and heritage. LCV has competences in gamification, information design, web and mobile applications, IoT and digital fabrication, digital archives and interactive installations, exhibition design and interior design, heritage preservation, e-learning, citizens science and open licences. More specifically the laboratory has two research areas: “Interaction Design” and “Culture and Territory”. The research area in “Interaction Design” addresses tangible and digital interaction, user experience, emerging technologies to communication strategies and participatory design. The laboratory is active in the fields of gamification and behavioural change especially addressed to sustainability and education; it develops mobile applications with a focus on gameful services based on data tracking and information visualizations to add value to user experiences and products interfaces. The research area in “Culture and Territory” addresses in particular the needs of cultural institutions and public administration, with a focus on preservation of heritage, documenting contemporary cultural productions, enhancing accessibility and developing open practices and collaboration with online communities and online collaborative projects. The Laboratory has a specific and pioneering expertise on open licenses, open data and in cooperate with collaborative open online projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and OpenStreetMap; the laboratory has been studying practices of online communities, it has been developing visualisation tools to monitor and evaluate online content and it has been working with community managers to trigger participation and to involve online communities in improving specific set of content (with a specific attention on diversity and on rebalancing geographic imbalance). The laboratory also develops visual communication projects for public and private bodies on a national and international level and it has a FabLab – fabrication laboratory with a focus on interaction design, physical computing, open design – founded in 2012 which also offers hands-on courses and events to a wider audience to spread the principles and the practices related to maker education and open source hardware development.

Among the past projects in the field of Open knowledge, open data and open collaborative projects:

• Wikipedia Primary School: Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems, (2014-2017). Supported by SNF Swiss National Fund within a bilateral cooperation with South Africa. meta.wikimedia.org/Wikipedia_Primary_School

• The Alps on Wikipedia: Open data, Wikipedia, GIS and digital and analog museum design (2013-2015). Supported by the European Union program Interreg. meta.wikimedia.org/The_Alps_on_Wikipedia

• GLAM visual tool (2016-2017). An interactive tool designed to visualize the cooperation between GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and the Wikimedia projects. Supported by Wikimedia CH meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GLAM_visual_tool

• Swiss Foundations and Open Licenses. Preliminary study (2014-2015). Supported by SUPSI.

• TAC Technology Ambient and Competences: an experimental teaching module based on electronic making, playing, and technology which allows to produce and understand environmental data related to the urban environment (2020-2021). In collaboration with the city of Lugano and its Living Lab.

• GIOCONDA: Integrated and holistic management of the open data life cycle” (2019-2021). Supported by Programme Interreg V-A Italy-Switzerland. interreg-italiasvizzera.eu/gioconda

• Culture and creativity centres of Ticino on OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia (2018). Supported by Migros and in collaboration with the Cultural Observatory of Canton Ticino. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elenco

• DSI4EU Digital Social Innovation for Europe (2016-2017) The project supports, grows and scales the current Digital Social Innovation network of projects and organisations, bringing together social entrepreneurs, hackers, communities and academics working on key DSI fields such as the makers movement, the collaborative economy, open democracy and digital rights. digitalsocial.eu

• OASI: Interfaces and integrated services to manage and communicate the data of the Environmental Observatory of Southern Switzerland (2009-2010). Supported by the Ticino Canton www.oasi.ti.ch

We propose in this project to work with a team instead of a one Wikipedian-in-Residence because in this way we can benefit from the specific expertise and specialisation of each member of the team.

Iolanda Pensa (lead)

Iolanda Pensa (1975, Swiss and Italian) is a volunteer of Wikipedia since 2006 (user:iopensa), member of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Italia, lead of Wikimania Esino Lario 2016, chair of the international Wikimania committee and active contributor of many Wikimedia projects related to education, GLAMs, information balance and online and offline community interaction. She is senior researcher and head of research in the “Culture and Territory” area at the Laboratory of visual culture of SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland and she is consultant for Open Science at SUPSI. Art critic, she holds two Ph.D. titles: in Social anthropology and ethnology at EHESS École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and in Territorial government and planning at Politecnico di Milano. Her research work is about systems of knowledge production and distribution, Wikipedia and open licenses and the impact of cultural institutions, public art and biennials on territorial development. She conceived the project Wikipedia Primary School and Wikipedia e scuola italiana.

Luca Botturi

Luca Botturi (1977) holds a PhD in Communication sciences from the University of Lugano. He worked in field and research projects in educational technologies in Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Spain and the United States of America. He is currently Professor in Media in education at the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana in Locarno. With the NGO seed he is active in international cooperation as well: he gained field experience in Croatia, Macedonia, Ecuador, Mexico and Ghana. Over the last years, Luca led several digital education projects with schools in Northern Italy, engaging pupils, teachers, administrators and parents. Luca lives in Lugano and is a proud father of 6 children. He contributed as instructional designer in the project Wikipedia Primary School.

Giovanni Profeta

Giovanni Profeta holds a PhD in Design from Politecnico di Milano, where he developed a thesis on user interfaces to access digitised cultural collections within DensityDesign research lab. After obtaining the master in Visual and Multimedia Communication from the University IUAV of Venice, he collaborated on projects about web design and digital publishing in some web and interaction design studios based in Italy. As a researcher, at the Laboratory of Visual Culture of The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) he is carrying out applied research projects, focused on data visualization and interaction design. Since 2013, he is being teaching several courses, including web and interaction design, at the Bachelor SUPSI in Visual Communication. He designed the data visualizations for the project Wikipedia Primary School and for Wikipedia e scuola italiana.

Marta Pucciarelli

Marta Pucciarelli (1986) is researcher in the "Culture andTterritory" area at the Laboratory of visual culture of SUPSI. She holds a PhD in Communication science and a master degree in Technology-Enhanced Communication for Cultural Heritage at USI, Lugano. Since 2014 she has been working on research and communication projects to improve the accessibility of education and cultural heritage through Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. She has been involved in the project "Wikipedia Primary School in South Africa" (2014-2017) and coordinated the expert review process of Wikipedia articles related to primary education. Currently she collaborates in research projects related to open data and open maps for cultural heritage and eGovernment.

Eligibility for funding

√ Projects aimed at improving one or more of Wikimedia's existing programs. The project contributes to the Wikimedia CH strategic priorities and to the Wikimedia CH education program.

√ Projects that foster conditions to encourage editing by volunteers (e.g. editor recruitment campaigns). The project fosters conditions to encourage editing by volunteers by providing an infrastructural support to the work of volunteers and of the Wikimedia CH chapter. It selects a list of articles relevant for Switzerland and a Canton, it identify articles which have the priority, it uses data to highlight how articles need to be improved and it involves reviewers to identify other needs.

√ Direct expenses and compensation for creating code, research, or materials that are published and released as free and open-source. Licensing should be compatible with current Wikimedia and MediaWiki practices. This project and all content produced within this project is released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0 for data) and Creative Commons attribution share-alike (CC BY-SA all for texts, reports, images, data visualisations and slides). Also any script and preparatory data is made available.

√ Requests from organizations with proof of non-profit status. SUPSI is an applied university. The project proposed will be developed as an applied research of the research area “Culture and Territory” of the Laboratory of visual culture. The Laboratory of visual culture produces open science and the project is not a service.

√ One project per proposal, up to a year in duration. This is the only project proposed by SUPSI and Iolanda Pensa. The project lasts 10 months.

√ Projects by applicants who (i) agree to the reporting requirements, and (ii) are willing to sign a grant agreement, and (iii) provide the Wikimedia CH with information needed to process their funding. We confirm our agreement to the requirements.

√ Projects by applicants in good community standing. You can review Iolanda Pensa’s edit history as user:iopensa (with around 40’000 edits since 2006 mainly in Wikipedia in Italian and Wikimedia Commons). All the projects and initiatives are documented on her meta page. She is an active member of the community, engaged in supporting balanced and diverse content on the Wikimedia projects and to trigger the enlargement of the community by involving specifically groups who are not currently active.