Chapters reports/2013-11
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.
HIGHLIGHTS: What were 1–2 important highlights of the past month? (These may include successes, challenges, lessons learned.)
WIKI-FOCUS: What Wikimedia projects was your entity focused on (e.g., Wiki Commons, French Wiktionary) this month?
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 partipants reached through workshops)?
- New users through chapter activities:
- Editors involved in chapter activities:
- Media uploaded helped by chapter resources: [1]
- Media viewed: 752,349 times [2]
- Persons engaged in workshops and seminars:
- Persons reached in presentations:
- Number of events held (edit-a-thons, workshops, seminars, presentations, other):
- New chapter members: 7
- Facebook page likes: +16 (783 in total)
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)?
- Activities conducted.
- We gave a presentation about our diversity work at the Wikimedia Diversity conference in Berlin.
- We organized a follow-up on the Fashion edit-a-thon together with Europeana Fashion, Europeana, Nordiska museet and Stockholm University in Stockholm; in parallel fashion edit-a-thons were also organized in Italy and Israel. The events had the same focus and an online contest was organized to encourage participants to continue their work.
- We had a booth at the Photo fair in Stockholm. It was staffed by volunteers for three days.
- We had one edit-a-thon for women in Stockholm.
- The technology pool was used four times in November.
- What worked and what did not?
- The fashion edit-a-thon was successful but a train that derailed led to traffic chaos in Stockholm and only 11 of the 28 that had signed up made it there.
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)?
- The workshop in Lund went well and we are discussing in expanding that to a series of workshops next year.
- Activities conducted.
- Workshop in Lund.
- Meeting with teachers about the possibilities with flipped classroom videos on Wikimedia Commons.
- What worked and what did not?
- Many teachers have problems converting their videos to free file formats for uploading, sometimes due to restriction of installing programs on their own computers. We have a basic tool online for conversion, but it is a bit unstable. If a similiar tool could be hosted by WMF it would be great.
Any additional details:
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)?
- The interest is rising, and there is several institutions planning in releasing their material under free licenses.
- Activities conducted.
- Seminar and workshop at the MC Collection museum.
- Meeting with the Digitization group at the Council of the Swedish Central Museums.
- Meeting with the Working life museums.
- Meeting with the Swedish National Board of Heritage to plan cooperation for the next year.
- Presentation in Oslo on a day about cultural heritage about our work in GLAM.
- 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)?
- The Wikimedia movements works with the cultural heritage got praise from the Director General of the Swedish National Board of Heritage.
- Activities conducted.
- Meeting about Umepedia in Umeå.
- Wiki Loves Monuments award ceremony was held at the yearly autumn meeting of the Swedish National Board of Heritage.
- What worked and what did not?
Any additional details:
- Jimmy Wales participated on the TV-show "Skavlan" which was very good and we got a lot of positive comments afterwards.
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)?
- Activities conducted.
- At the conference Free Society and Culture Nordic Summit there was a separate track for Wikimedia and 6 presentations from mostly community members, were given. Four of them are available on Youtube.
- What worked and what did not?
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?
What were your major setbacks in the past month (e.g., programs that were not successful)?
What factors (organizational, environmental) enabled your success?
What unanticipated challenges did you encounter and how did this affect what you were able to accomplish?
What changes might you make in executing your initiatives into the next month?
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).
- Board meeting: minutes (in Swedish).
- One of our employees attended a course in improving Occupational safety and health arranged by Unionen.
- Our CEO attended a seminar in Labour law.
- We attended a day in how to apply from the Swedish Inheritance Fund Commission. This gave a lot of insights and we hopfully raised the chances for our coming applications. The distribute on average 10.000.000 USD per month.
- Sample pictures and movies from November.
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.