Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Decolonizing Wikipedia/Yearly Report (2023)
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-03-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Yearly Learning Report (for multi-year fund recipients) , reporting year: 2023
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving multi-year Wikimedia Community Funds to report on their yearly results.
- Name of Organization: Whose Knowledge?
- Title of Proposal: Decolonizing Wikipedia
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
- Whose Knowledge? is a global, translocal multilingual campaign to center the histories and knowledges of the minoritized majority of the world online. As an intersectional feminist collective from the Global Majority worlds, we comprise Black, brown, queer (women and non-binary, sexually diverse), Indigenous, and Dalit folks.
As a community-facing, movement-oriented organization, our work is centered and anchored in our communities across movements at the intersections of knowledge, technology, and social justice. We convene and connect communities of solidarity, and practice to challenge fundamental issues in “Big Knowledge” (mainstream academia, publishing, museums, archives, libraries and memory organizations) as well as “Big Tech” (Silicon Valley and other regionally dominant tech capitalist companies). Together with our communities of practice we collectively imagine, design and prototype alternatives and new community-led methodologies and socially-just technologies embedded in relational, multilingual, multimodal ways of knowing, doing, and being. We do this through the frames of epistemic justice and decolonizing the internet. For us, decolonizing the internet is about recognizing and acting upon the continued historical trajectory of colonialism, capitalism, tech capital and digital colonialism: the internet and digital technologies are predicated on militarized histories and forms of capitalism, which in turn could not exist without the violent and widespread control, possession, and extraction of both material and knowledge resources from colonized territories by colonizers, i.e. the control of lands, bodies, and minds. From this, epistemic or knowledge justice is about recognizing and repairing the ways in which these historical and ongoing forms of power and privilege determine whose histories, knowledges, and experiences are acknowledged and valued, and whose are undermined, ignored, or destroyed. In order to do this, our understandings and practices of justice are based on centering the leadership, designs, and imaginations of the minoritized majority of the world. As we resist Big Knowledge and Big Tech, therefore, we simultaneously work to reimagine and prototype the joyful and just futures that are possible when we center those who have marginalized and minoritized so far. We believe that our anti-colonial, anti-patriarchy, and intersectional anti-oppressions efforts will lead to knowledge justice and multiple forms of liberation. In parallel, our internal priorities are designed to strengthen our team’s feminist, anti-oppressions practices and processes, ensuring a deeper resilience and heightened ability to catalyze meaningful impact in the tech and knowledge justice ecosystem.
Our critical strategic anchors
Breaking Silences of Oppression, Naming and Connecting Justice We understand, name and provide critical perspectives and possibilities around the practices of knowledge and tech justice, including the ways that the digital infrastructure and ecosystems of our time operate from material and epistemic resources, architecture, and governance to the power of people, content and experiences. We convene and connect communities of solidarity, activism and practice around different fundamental issues in Big Tech and Big Knowledge.
Challenging, Resisting, Transforming Power and Privilege We shift and transform existing decision-making and policy spaces towards creating a just, equitable and decolonised internet. We do this by challenging and advocating for change within and the intersections of Big Knowledge and Big Tech, including institutions and communities of knowledge, technology, academia and GLAM (memory and cultural institutions like galleries, libraries, archives, and museums).
Dreaming, Reimagining, and Liberating Our Presents and Futures We collectively imagine, design and prototype alternatives and new community-led methodologies and socially-just technologies embedded in relational, multilingual, multimodal ways of knowing, doing, and being. We do this to transform our presents and to transition towards just and liberatory futures.
We work through different programs and areas Language Justice, strategic goal: Build more multilingual, multimodal, accessible and people designed internet infrastructures through community-led initiatives, and research-in-action based approaches.
Decolonizing Wikimedia, strategic goal: Create a just and equitable Wikimedia ecosystem by convening and supporting communities of practice from the Global Majority World, and centering community-led knowledges, methodologies and practices through a knowledge justice lens.
Liberatory Archives and Memory (LAMy), strategic goal: Decolonize traditional archives and memory institutions by centering and amplifying liberatory practices and methodologies, and supporting the design, infrastructure, and resilience of radical community archives.
Honouring Our Guardians, strategic goal: Challenge and transform mainstream narratives and policies around Indigenous knowledges by convening an international/translocal community of practice of Indigenous women activists, policy-makers, and scholars.
Radical Communications, strategic goal: Challenge Big Knowledge and Big Tech norms and center the needs, multiple histories, knowledges, and imaginations of the communities we serve in multimodal, multilingual and accessible ways.
Internal Capacities & Radical Operations, strategic goal: Deepen our organizational resilience to drive greater impact across our programs and strengthen our ability to support the broader knowledge and tech justice ecosystem, by committing to the principle that “how we do is as important as what we do”.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
- We work in partnership and solidarity with our communities and movements, in order to forge change at multiple, systemic levels, reflecting many levels of (re)imagination towards transforming our presents and moving towards just and liberatory (knowledge and tech) futures.
Our communities of practice are our advisory groups for each of our programs, community organizers, scholars, archivists, alternative tech-builders, practitioners, and leaders who are deeply involved within their communities and movements, with expertise and experiences from their contexts and networks. We are intentional in the time and effort needed for facilitating these relationships and collaborations. Together, we co-design methodologies and ways of working that are context-informed and based on feminist principles of accountability, intersectionality, and consent, and create workspaces that are safe, shared, and multilingual, while co-holding tasks and leadership. We practice this approach in every collaboration and program, while being responsive to the many uncertainties and structural oppression our communities face on an ongoing basis. In this way, we are modeling a community-centered approach where we support community building and capacity strengthening across movements, and our strategy, methodologies and thematic threads of each of our programs are informed in a relational and collaborative way. We do this asynchronously as well as synchronously in virtual meetings, gatherings, and convenings. Our critical methodologies and practices Our critical community-led methodologies and practices to fulfill these goals include:
Convenings and Constellations of Solidarity We convene and connect critical online and physical conversations and campaigns amongst unusual and unlikely allies to build shared perspectives, practices, and agendas for action.
Sense-making and Cross-pollinations We research, analyze and amplify issues, approaches, and people on the impacts of Big Knowledge and Big Tech; We create and support new and existing communities of practice around challenging and transforming these spaces, and with our community-facing advisory groups, facilitate and support community pilots and prototypes.
Resourcing and Reparations With a firmly reparative justice oriented perspective, we fund and resource with money, capacities, and connections, different community-based activist scholars as well as community-led and imagined spaces and organizations.
Some of the examples of our methodologies and practices in 2023:
In our Language Justice work, we have centered and amplified voices from people from the Global Majority and continued to evolve the State of the Internet’s Languages report, with the International Sign (IS) translation, signaled by deaf interpreters and advocates for sign language Laura Lesmana Wijaya and Razaq Fakir. We started two research-in-action processes to look into critical language justice issues online: bridging the gap between language justice and disability rights, particularly from the South Asian perspective, as well as centering community values in designing language technologies, especially in Automatic Speech Recognition systems and Automatic translation of content for Wikipedia in Amharic and Tigrinya. We have succeeded in modeling an intersectional approach to language, disability rights and justice that we trust will be adopted by different communities, movements, and sectors committed to human rights, social justice, and internet freedoms. We gathered with Indigenous women from the Pacific Islands and the Brazilian Amazon in September to reflect on the Honouring Our Guardians program, and join the III Indigenous Women’s March: Women Biomes in Defense of Biodiversity through Ancestral Roots. The march gathered over 8,000 women from the 247 Indigenous peoples in Brazil, as well as international allies. We were in solidarity with our Brazilian partners — ANMIGA, the National Articulation of Ancestral Warriors Women — against the Marco Temporal bill, which put Indigenous peoples and territories at risk and has since been vetoed. During the march, we also documented the presence of Indigenous womxn for the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. As a result, important articles have images now, like the biographies of Mónica Chuji Gualinga and Jannie Lasimbang. With our #VisibleWikiWomen traveling photo booth, we documented the presence and brilliance of womxn and non-binary persons in various events around the world, in Costa Rica, Botswana, Singapore, and Brasília. Based on all these experiences, we have carefully created a consent form model, available as a resource on Wikimedia Commons in English and Spanish, which synthesizes the photoboothing processes. In virtual spaces, we experimented with new ways of co-creating: ¡Alto! Mujeres Trabajando, in collaboration with Wikimedia chapters in LAC, encouraged participants to challenge gender stereotypes in the workplace. Ilustratona Mulheres Visíveis, by Wiki Editoras Lx, invited artists to create illustrations for selected biographies, especially black women of the lusophone world. And, for the first time, we organized an art and photo contest under the theme, “Unpacking body plurality in sports” as a celebration of the bodies of womxn and non-binary people in sports. You can find our winners here, chosen by a jury comprising Vic Sfriso, Kevin Royk, our Decolonizing Wikimedia coordinator Mariana Fossatti and #VisibleWikiWomen coordinator Sunshine Fionah Komusana. Centering multimodality and the various ways we express ourselves beyond written text, we also branched out into the world of podcasting. This year, we refreshed our Whose Voices? podcast website and deepened a series of reflections on multilinguality and languages online, which emerged from the first gatherings we hosted under the Decolonizing the Internet umbrella. On the second half of the year, we published another season for 2023: a series focused on Pan-African feminisms online, queerness, Africanness, online safety, and so much more — stemming from conversations that took place at our convening in Lusaka, Zambia, in collaboration with our friends at African Women’s Development and Communication Network. This was just one of the many partnerships we grew throughout the months, in an effort to build and strengthen communities in spaces we occupied, like the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and Wikimania Singapore.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
- During 2023 we work through different innovative strategies and methodologies
Learning circle methodology, designed as a collective learning process for conversation, questions, exchange of ideas, and flow around experiences where everyone is meeting each other from their context and location of understanding. We organized several learning circles rooted in principles of feminist pedagogy and indigenous ways of knowing, we were able to design processes that connect multiple expertises and lived experiences across a plurality of perspectives, in a non-hierarchical level, while honoring the expertise of participants. Consent as an ongoing practice rather than a yes/no binary, centering people's dignity, autonomy and bodily integrity; and the right to withdraw. We continue to develop, adjust, adapt, and deepen our consent and safety practices across our programmatic activities. Designed a methodological framework for three community pilots with communities of visually impaired activists and researchers in South Asia. This process of designing community-led methodologies honored and centered the embodied knowledge of visually impaired communities in the critique and imaginations of new and different technologies. It also surfaced critical issues at the intersection of accessibility, security and languages that are essential for conducting anti-colonial and liberatory research-in-action processes. Fair compensation policy for all participants, with careful consideration of any bias this practice could bring along and how to restrain negative effects. Because what we do is as important as how we do it, we took the time needed to collectively design this methodology and to document our learnings - spaciousness and care for documentation prior to conducting research-in-action processes are not a common practice.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
- We are intentional with our engagement process and practice in several ways: through regular communications with our community through different thematic channels (mailing lists, newsletter, social media, etc); collaborative process and practice design; as well as ongoing learning and adaptation process. In terms of our program and activities design, we convene with our communities, assess the gaps and topics of interest and need, and we co-design the process, ways of working & methodology together. Throughout implementation of activities, we reflect together and analyze internal feedback in the form of post-activity surveys, reflections and debriefs, and our learnings that inform the planning of our next activities. As part of our accountability to our communities, we further adapt the methodology, and process. For specific events we convene, we are intentional with the invitation process, including communication and registration form design. At the core of this process are our practices of accessibility, multimodality, multilinguality, safety and care.
An example of this is the way in which we frame every year our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign in a specific theme, inviting communities to reflect around the theme, and then shape their own activities under the thematic umbrella. Our aim is to create space for our work to reflect the pluralities and intersections of our identities and our communities by exploring the many versions of feminist collaborations and partnerships toward our goal of bringing images of women of colors and non-binary folks from the global majority to Wikimedia Commons.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Agree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
- Our core strategic goal of centering community-led knowledges, methodologies and practices through epistemic justice lens on Wikimedia and beyond is facilitated by different strategies that support the efforts of underrepresented groups to bring their knowledges to Wikimedia. Some of the snapshots of our learnings so far include:
Creating safer and braver spaces for plural perspectives and knowledges facilitate meaningful participation of the underrepresented groups within the Wikimedia ecosystem. Amplifying the voices of the underrepresented groups in campaigns, events, podcasts and learning resources, bringing (and compensating) folks from the communities as panelists, experts, trainers and organizers Attribution alone is not enough, we need to recognize and center translators, interpreters, and people working on building open technologies for multilinguality, as they carry the heavy lifting of making multilinguality possible online Radically honest communications, shared commitment, and solidarity are crucial to building trust and making deep connections Building alliances with communities on the ground. We are working with African Wikimedia communities to build a 'community of practice' as part of the research-in-action process (in partnership with DAIR). We will test a set of language tech tools, including creating a larger user base that will be able to easily create and translate content in African languages on Wikipedia.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
- We deepened our principles and practices of working with the communities:
Care. We understand & practice care as a feminist strategy that challenges capitalist & patriarchal systems of oppressions.Weaving care at the core of our practices serves the repair of the trust within the historically minoritized communities and the way relationships are created, maintained, and transformed.This is reflected in both our organizational & programmatic design that facilitate our ways of working together. Translation and interpretation. Multilinguality facilitates access and meaningful participation for Global Majority World communities. Mere attribution is not enough in this field, and we need to recognize and center the time, resources, planning and those who carry the heavy lifting of making multilinguality possible. Consent as a continuous process of information exchange. Informed consent can only be meaningful when it is a process of exchange of information in which the participants have the right to negotiate and re-negotiate their participatory process at all times. Learn, reflect, adapt. Protocols and agreements that reflect our principles and values are open to adaptation based on community needs, contexts & feedback as we try them out in practice. How we do is as important as what we do.In working with communities we don't assume, we build our knowledge by asking questions, educating ourselves and mapping needs, possibilities, and learnings from and with our communities.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
- In the last year of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign we’ve learnt our goal of documenting and bringing to Wikimedia Commons plural images of women is not always possible when they exist and live in homophobic contexts. While we had the opportunity to be present at Africa’s largest gathering of LGBTIQ+, it was unfortunate that we couldn’t bring some of the images we took to Commons because of growing homophobic legislation and violence on the African continent. This experience validated our care practices around consent, while we continue to grow our work by thinking of different strategies and ways of documenting images.
In the LJ line of work, it was challenging to start a deep learning and self-reflection process around our own accessibility practices.We have always made efforts to put at the center of our practices the needs of marginalized communities. However we were not aware of how much we needed to learn and improve to be a fully accessibility-oriented space.We have started and are currently undergoing a process that will help us be better in terms of accessibility. With the normalization of international events and travels in 2023, many opportunities to attend important global gatherings in our communities appear. Although this was good news, our transition from mostly online activities through in person activities around the world, was a challenge for our growing team in terms of planning and work cadence, but also because of the increasing work of visa support.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
- Part of our practice is to have the space to practice, learn, reflect and adapt our plan accordingly. We will continue:
Adapting our plans accordingly to our learnings, incorporating new methodologies, and practices that reflect our learnings Reviewing and strengthening our internal processes and practices. We will continue listening to and centering community knowledges and expertise in the design of our activities, as well as our internal organizational practices. Contextualization. Every community has its own context and history. We work together to understand, support and hold spaces that reflect the values and needs of their territories. Centering love, respect, care, safety and solidarity in our practices and processes from the design through the implementation and closing.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
- Our feminist collective thrived, expanding our community-building efforts. We diversified into podcasting with the Whose Voices? Podcast, focusing on Pan-African feminisms, queerness, Africanness and online safety. Through our #VWW photo booth, we documented womxn & non-binary folks worldwide. With experience we created a consent form model available in English and Spanish on Wikimedia Commons. We collaborated with ¡Alto! Mujeres Trabajando in LAC, and Ilustratona Mulheres Visíveis, producing illustrations for black women in the lusophone world. We also organized a photo contest celebrating the bodies of womxn & non-binary individuals in sports. We’ve also initiated learning circles, starting with a focus on structured data, complemented by reflections on Wikidata & its robot epistemology.
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
Part 3: Metrics for Year 2[edit]
13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transformative Stories | Positive and meaningful impact of bringing knowledges to Wikimedia projects documented through storytelling centered and grounded in experiences and embodied knowledge of participants and their communities. | 3 stories | 4 | Impact of bringing knowledges to Wikimedia projects from the perspective of participants and their communities. We shared learning questions with different members of our communities to deepen the understanding of the impact of the work they carry out. We analyzed the feedback to inform our plans. We shared some of the stories through Social Media, podcasts (in Wikimedia Commons and our website) and blog posts. | Interviews/learning questions to participants or partners |
| Sustainable allyship building | Deeper understanding on how sustainable allyship building and practices work for WK? & Wikimedia communities, including strengths, opportunities, challenges, etc.
Target is to have minimum 3 key learning insights shared. |
3 | 4 | How sustainable allyship building and practices work for WK? & Wikimedia communities, including strengths, opportunities, challenges, etc. We analyzed the feedback to inform and reflect the feedback in our future plans. Shared reflections in our blog and reports. | Interviews/learning questions to participants and partners |
| Collection of Resources, Tactics & Practices | Community pool of resources, tactics and practices around knowledge justice curated by Wikimedia community.
Target is to have 3 practices documented. |
3 | 3 | Community pool of resources, tactics and practices around knowledge justice curated. We work documenting practices and knowledge such as: working from a multilingual and accessibility perspective, reflections on issues related to the broader Wikimedia environment (public domain, open knowledge, decolonization), to concrete practices and protocols for working on Wikimedia projects. We shared resources on our meta page, website and reports. | Community and internal work and reflections |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The total for 2023 is 250 participants. | 250 | 395 | Participants involved in our programmatic activities across different programs | Tracking list, Event Metrics and registration forms |
| Number of editors | The total for 2023 is 100 editors. | 100 | 245 | People involved in Wikimedia projects uploading pictures, editing wikipedia articles or Wikidata in the context of WK? activities | Event Metrics, Dashboard, registration form |
| Number of organizers | The total for 2023 is 20 organizers. | 20 | 26 | People leading, organizing and facilitating activities and projects through our different programs | Internal tracking system |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 3584 | Images uploaded on Wikimedia Commons for VisibleWikiWomen campaign 2023 | Glamorous |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 939 | Articles improved / create on Wikipedia | Event Metrics and Glamorous |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 140 | Wikidata items created/improved | Glamorous |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
- No
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
- N/A
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships[edit]
17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events, Peer to peer learning with other community members (but that is not continuous or structured), Using capacity building/training resources online from sources WITHIN the Wikimedia Movement
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Lack of staff time to participate in capacity building/training, Lack of training that fits contextual needs and interests, Ineffective training opportunities which did not improve capacity
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
- In 2023
Our team and work have grown from 6 people in 2022 to 16 people in 2023 We’ve grappled with how to integrate our vision of change and a clearer pathway for our internal journey. Each of our programs is primarily held by pedagogical pairs, along with the extended support in terms of operations, system design, and strategy We worked on a number of internal processes, including drafting a Practices and Protocols Handbook that serve as the basis for a full update in 2024, as well as streamlining our internal communications We’ve strengthened our internal communications spaces by landing and designing collective spaces in Mattermost We also put in place a model of shared leadership to lay the groundwork for a stronger, more interconnected, vibrant, and agile organizational ecosystem
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Strongly agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Permanent staff outreach, Staff hired through the fund, Partners proactive interest
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Other
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
- We work to build long term relationships and alliances. For that we work in the following way:
Actively listening to our communities, advisors and partners. Being flexible enough to adapt plans and to develop different scenarios to work together It’s not only an activity. We allocate time to support each of our alliances during our work together. Clear communication, expectations, principles and values around our work Regular meetings before, during and after our projects together Reflexivity and debrief to analyze our work together and how to improve it
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration[edit]
21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
- For us, the Wikimedia movement is woven with different ways of meaningful participation aligned with the Wikimedia movement principles.It includes users, bridge builders, community organizers, artists, academics, etc.,with their contributions and critical perspectives on epistemic justice in the Wikimedia ecosystem and beyond. We also recognize that our efforts are invested in nurturing a shared sense of belonging to the Wikimedia movement with these communities.
We work closely with chapters, user groups and community organizers, as well as institutions, organizations, and activists from different movements. An important part of our time, efforts and capacity are invested in facilitating collaborations, creating workspaces that are safe and multilingual, and co-holding tasks and leadership.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
- Increased significantly
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
- In the last two years, with the Decolonizing Wikimedia Coordinator stable position in our team, we have been able to follow up with Wikimedia movement issues in an increased capacity, with the result of a meaningful engagement with it. We still need to prioritize which topics, spaces and events we want to get involved in a relevant way, because we are still a small team that need to focus on our programmatic work. In addition, the work we do for building bridges between the free knowledge movement and other social movements requires a lot of time, care and reflection.
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
- Increased significantly
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
- Different Whose Knowledge? members come with particular experiences and journeys in regard with the Wikimedia and free knowledge movements. Some of us are part of the movement before Whose Knowledge?, but also Whose Knowledge? has been a safe access gate to the movement that makes them feel brave for bringing their knowledges, communities and also their critics perspectives to the movement with love, respect and solidarity.
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
- As we said in our previous report, various anti-oppression movements influence, inform and take part in our initiatives, from feminist and decolonial movements, to LGBTQIA+, Dalits, and indigenous and land defenders. In the last year we are closer to people with impairments and the accessibility movement, and also to body liberation movements through our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign.
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration[edit]
We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
- Yes
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
- We share our learnings and new resources on our website, our User Group Report and grant report.
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
- We do this occasionally (less than once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
- We share our learnings in different ways and spaces:
We participate in different Wikimedia spaces to share our learnings and experience We collaborate closely with affiliates and user groups, we keep a fluent communication We share reflections around our work in our website and reports
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 180229.71
31. Local currency type
- USD
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
- N/A
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
- N/A
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
- N/A
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
- N/A
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund 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.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
37. 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 Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.