Application or grant stage: grant proposal

Applicant or grantee: Wikimedia Korea

Amount requested: 46,900,000 KWR

Amount granted: 46,900,000 KWR

Funding period: 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020

Midpoint report due: 15 July 2020

Final report due: 30 January 2021

Background

Annual Plan

Budget Plan

Staffing Plan

Strategic plan

Introduction

Programs

Recently, Korean Wikimedia community has a difficulty attracting new comers, because online environment changed a lot. People spend time using their own smart phone, they pursue easy-to-read contents, and young potential users edit another wiki site. Participants suggested to rebuild the weakened community, and we will strengthen our community support program. In our annual conference, we will discuss and evaluate innovation we need. Despite this hard situation, we saw volunteer offline meetups attract new comers and train them. We will support these meetups financially.

We hold annually a national conferecce for both experienced users and newcomers in Seoul. In the Last conference, participants agreed Korean Wikipedia needs innovation for new environment around the project, and they suggested some ideas for it. This year, we will evaluate the suggestions and attempts for the innovation, and collect users' innovative ideas.

Objectives

• sharing ideas for innovation of Wikimedia projects
• evaluating suggestions and attempts for the innovation
• delivering new knowledge related to Wikimedia project
• sharing and discussing users' experience related to the project.

Measure of Success:

• over 70 participants
• 20 active users
• over 5 presentations
• 3-4 videos
• 1 new projet for innovation

We have granted a travel scholarship to one Korean Wikimedia user to share global issue with Korean Wikimedia community.

Objectives:

• We will choose one grantee from Korean Wikimedia Community and request he/she to submit a report to share global issues regarding Wikimedia.
• We expect the report to inspire users to launch at least 1 new projects. To know it, we will require the grantee to report if he/she launch a new project and keep track of new Wikiprojects.

We have awarded users selected by Korean wikimedia community to praise their dedication. This year, we will give an award to a non-wikimedian or group who contributes to developing wikimedia projects. We will held a winning ceremony with an unconference.

Objectives:

• We will award cash prizes to 4 users from 4 categories. We expect the prize to encourage active users. To measure long-term impact of this program, we will interview the recipients and keep track of their activities for one year.
• We will give certifications to non-wikimedians or groups who contributes to developing wikimedia projects to praise and encourage them.

In last conference, Korean Wikimedia users suggested that innovation for Korean wikimedia projects is necessary for the projects' surviving and regular offline meetups are essential to find solutions quickly.

Objectives:

• To discuss about the innovation and evaluate it, we will hold over 4 offline meetups regularly.
• We expect at least 5-10 users to participate in each meetup, and at least 2 project to be launched.

Last year, we saw success of voluntary offline meetups hosted Wikimedia users. We evaluated they were very helpful for new users. Especially, a volunteer project called Book Club succeeded in attracting and training new users. This year, we will expand this support.

• To support volunteer offline meetups financially and train new comers individually, we will reimburse costs to rent a place or buy snacks. We will invite an author or a teacher if an editing group requests. We expect over 4 regular meetups hosted by Book Club, and over 4 single meetups hosted by other organizers.
• We expect at least 5 users to participate in each event, and at least 3 articles to be improved or created.

As we can see in New Editor Experience report, newcomers need a personal mentor rather than a written manual, but Korean wikipedia's mentor system is not very active, because of the small size of the community. We will support dedicated mentors by praising and awarding them.

• To train new comers, we will organize a group of mentors for new comers and monitor their activities. We will give a small gift and certification to one or two dedicated mentors selected by peer assessment or users' recommendation every six months.

We are in a tough situation in term of partnership. Wikipedia is not a dominant encyclopedia, and a strong competitor emerged, so we have a difficulty in persuade outer organization to join in Wikimedia movement. In spite of that, we found some vigorous partners in a library and a school. We will maintain partnership with them, and create a good case to promote the cooperative projects.

Partnership with libraries was successful partially, we need to find more proper target. We think university libraries have more interest in educating or using Wikimedia projects.

• To draw potential users and encourage consecutive editing, we will establish a Wikimedia-editing group in Dongguk University Library. We anticipate 5-10 students joining in the group.
• One-two old Korean books will be typed in Wikisource.

We found an organization for common knowledge. We will inform them how to share their researches in Wikipedia.

• To improve professional articles, we will cooperate with a common knowledge group.
• We expect 5-10 articles to be created or improved.

We maintain good partnership with Yangjeong Girls High School, and the teacher expanded the number of students who learned Wikipedia editing. We will continue to support them this year, and support for students who host their own offline editathons. Moreover, we will give certifications to diligent students recommended by their teachers. Moreover, we will promote Yang Jeong's case to other schools with the teacher's prsetation video.

• To draw and train potential users, we will support teachers and student who use Wikipedia as an educational tools. We will support for them both financially and non-financially.
• We will expect over 100 girls to learn to edit Wikipedia articles and over 60 articles to be created or improved.
• We will promote the project to other schools and we will develop new partnership with one-two schools.

We have developed programs to support Korean Wikimedia sister projects, because the projects are not much less active than Korean Wikipedia. We evaluate last year's camp program was successful, so we will host the program to collect resources and take pictures. We will encourage the book club to edit Wikiquote articles as well as Wikipedia articles.

WikiTambang^* is a program for skilled users to collect resources in a less represented area or region. We started it last year, we evaluated it was successful in terms of quantity of the collected contents. Participants will collect resources and take pictures in a selected area, and edit articles for two days with other participants.

• To improve articles about less represented regions, we will host 2 camp events.
• We will collect over 200 pictures and improve 20 Wikipedia articles.

^* Tambang means to explore in Korean.

We saw submitted picture decreased significantly in last's years photo contest. We think that was because we reduced the total amount of cash prizes. We don't plan to increase the amount of the cash, but we will find a sponsor to provide winners with souvenirs.

• To collect pictures of Korea natural heritages, we will host a local Wiki Loves Earth competition.
• We expect over 500 to be submitted during the contest.
• To promote the event, we will make pictorial calendars or books with winning photos.

As mentioned before, we are running a book club which discuss about a book and edit articles related to it simultaneously. We think the club can also Wikiquote articles, and other kind of clubs such as movie club can edit Wikiquate articles in their offline meetups.

• To improve Wikiquote articles, we will encourage a book club or film club hosted by Wikimedians to edit articles in the project and support their offline editing meetup financially.
• We expect 5 articles to be improved or created.

Grant Metrics Reporting

Midterm report

Program story

Program Progress

Community support

WikiConference

Wikimanina Scholarship

Awards for Dedicated Users

Regular meetups for innovation

Supporting Offline meetups

Support for mentors for new comers

Partnership

Libraries

Non-government Organizations

Schools

Support for sister projects

WikiTambang

Photo Contest

Wikiquote & clubs

Spending update

Grant Metrics Reporting

Final report

Program story

Learning story

Programs Impact

Spending update

Grant Metrics Reporting