Chapters reports/2013-07
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Overview of this month
The purpose of this section is to provide a brief overview of this report. Please use no more than 1-2 paragraphs to address the questions outlined below. You will have an opportunity to address these questions in detail elsewhere in this report.
CHANGES: Please describe how you changed your plans and budget based on the FDC allocation approved by the Board in December 2012, and your rationale for these changes. You can then use the changed plans and budget as the basis on which to report back on the last month.
- No changes were made.
HIGHLIGHTS: What were 1–2 important highlights of the past month? (These may include successes, challenges, lessons learned.)
- Highlights in Sweden in July is generally vacation. This can even be seen in the usage stats of Wikipedia. So it was quite a slow month.
WIKI-FOCUS: What Wikimedia projects was your entity focused on (e.g., Wiki Commons, French Wiktionary) this month?
- Swedish Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
GROWTH: How did your entity grow over the past month vs. the previous month (e.g., Number of active editors reached/involved/added, number of articles created, number of events held, number of participants reached through workshops)?
- New users through chapter activities: 0
- Editors involved in chapter activities: 7
- Media uploaded helped by chapter resources: 64
- Media viewed: Unfortunately the Baglama tool seem to be broken for July.
- Persons engaged in workshops and seminars: 0
- Persons reached in presentations: 4
- Number of events held (edit-a-thons, workshops, seminars, presentations): 2
- New chapter members: 4
Progress toward this year's goals/objectives
This section addresses the impact of the programs / initiatives* and objectives your entity has implemented over the past month and the progress your entity is making toward meeting this year's goals. We understand that some metrics may not be applicable in this monthly report, so please add metrics here if they are applicable.
*In the last round, the FDC used the term 'initiative', but this round, we are using the term 'program.'
Community support
- What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
- Getting more underrepresented groups onto the projects
- Increasing editor satisfaction
- Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
- A few bot-users that have never met before got the chance to talk face to face.
- Activities conducted.
- Wiki meetup in Jönköping.
- Meeting for bot-users.
- What worked and what did not?
Any additional details:
Free knowledge in education
- What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
- Wikipedia is used as a teaching tool in education
- Pupils, students and teachers contribute free knowledge
- Teachers present the projects to be used as a resource for the pupils and students
- Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
- Activities conducted.
- The movie we have created got transcripted and translated by us to English and Chinese. After that, it has received translations in French, Portugese, Malay, Indonesian, Norwegian and Catalan.
- What worked and what did not?
Any additional details:
- The video mentioned above was featured in the Chapters village at Wikimania: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1146947_10151846872706789_2008785645_o.jpg
Content liberation
- What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
- Increase GLAM's general interest to freely license their material and make it available for the projects.
- Enhance the quality of the donated material.
- Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
- Demo of a visualization of the Public Art Database at http://offentligkonst.se
- Activities conducted.
- In the Open Database for Public Art continued work towards the municipalities has been done. Also a demo website has been published.
- Half year report to Europeana has been submitted.
- Two movies that we have created got transcripted and translated by us to English, one about Commons in general and one on how to upload movies.
- What worked and what did not?
Any additional details:
Reader participation
- What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
- Identify weaknesses in the quality of content and disseminate our findings.
- Identify weaknesses in the user interface and work to get them solved.
- Create a positive image of the projects.
- Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
- Activities conducted.
- Open seminar at the library in Sölvesborg.
- A Participants' Survey was created and translated and delivered to the user talk pages of all the participants in Wiki Loves Public Art.
- The winners for Wiki Loves Public Art in both Sweden and internationally were identified and prizes have been prepared.
- Preparations for Wiki Loves Monuments started. The web page was updated, lists checked and jury members found.
- In our pre-study for a QR-pedia town in Umeå (Umepedia) we have idientified several possible partner organisations.
- One major bug which stopped mobile editing on Swedish Wikipedia and one minor bug related to the VisualEditor was reported.
- What worked and what did not?
Any additional details:
Free knowledge awareness
- What are the objectives of this program? Please include metrics.
- Make policy makers and institutions aware of the advantages of free knowledge.
- Progress against these objectives (include metrics and # of volunteers/staff involved)?
- The brochure has been sent out to 61 different Government agencies, one (Music Development and Heritage Sweden) has already requested more copies and the digital file.
- Activities conducted.
- The survey to the Members of Parliament about their knowledge and use of Wikipedia were translated to English. The survey was also presented on Almedalsveckan, the big happening in Swedish politics every summer.
- The brochures on Free public information arrived from the printer. We have started distributing it and the Members of Parliament will get their individual copy when they are back after the summer. It is translated to English and ready for more translations on meta.
- What worked and what did not?
- Unfortunately the presentation in Almedalsveckan was not very well attended. Only one volunteer went and while we got the seminar room for free we got no help in advertising for it. The competition is very hard and if we would go aain we should either have a bigger team or a stronger and more interested partner, preferably both.
Any additional details:
Lessons learned
Lessons from this month
A key objective of the funding is to enable the movement as a whole to understand how to achieve shared goals better and faster. An important way of doing this is to identify lessons learned from entities who receive funds, and to share these lessons across the movement. The purpose of this section is to elicit some of these insights, which will be shared throughout the movement. Please answer the following questions in 1–2 paragraphs each.
What were your major accomplishments in the past month, and how did you help to achieve movement goals?
- The major thing in July was the launch of the demo of the Public Arts database. It can showcase what the possibilities are and easier gives access to more data which will increase the quality on related Wikipedia articles.
What were your major setbacks in the past month (e.g., programs that were not successful)?
- No major setbacks in July.
What factors (organizational, environmental) enabled your success?
- Swedish holidays made everything slow so as expected no huge successes were made.
What unanticipated challenges did you encounter and how did this affect what you were able to accomplish?
- No unanticipated challenges in July.
What changes might you make in executing your initiatives into the next month?
- No changes are planned.
Additional information
Provide any other relevant information that may be helpful or relevant for the FDC (e.g., links to any media coverage, blog posts, more detailed reports, more detailed financial information).
- Garfield Byrd and Anasuya Sengupta from the Wikimedia Foundation came to visit us.
- 4 blog posts on our own blog in June, all in both Swedish and English.
- 5 blog posts on the Wikimedia Foundation blog; Education program, Wiki Loves Public Art wrap-up, Collection days, PotD/Technology pool and Wiki Loves Public Art winners.
- Sample pictures and movies from July.
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Updated image of which municipalities have been contacted.
Compliance
Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement?
As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".
- Yes.
Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".
- Yes.
Signature
- Once complete, please sign below with the usual four tildes.