Hello everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and keeping safe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic that has negatively impacted the world.
I am writing to inform you that the international team will be applying for a project grant to WMF in the upcoming round, to support the WPWP Campaign 2021. Please see the grant proposal draft
here.
While the 2020 edition of the campaign was largely successful, we were faced with some challenges that limit participation. However, this is unexpected for a new campaign.
This year, we want to strengthen the campaign across the world. Based on the identified problems (see the
2020 evaluation report draft), we want to adopt the following approaches:
Evaluate the framework: The international team will start a discussion with local organizers of the campaign to understand whether the framework under which the maiden edition of the campaign was organized is suitable for their community and impactful. We want to identify the problems peculiar to each community/country, and suggest what we think might work well or the best framework for them.
Collect and share best practices with organizing communities: In the maiden edition, some local organizers were unable to successfully implement the campaign. This year, we want to design best practices, create or lay the foundation for an infrastructure that contains documentation, templates and potentially tools that would help to support local organizers in organizing and implementing the campaign effectively.
Maintenance work: There is a need to intensify our maintenance work, which includes but not limited to monitoring participation and engaging local organizers in actively cleaning up any mess created by new editors. We will also be documenting this process to have a better understanding of how we can effectively track and address occasional disruption by new editors
Follow-up with new participants: The international team would need to design a strategy to follow up with people who edit Wikipedia for the first time via the campaign and devise a strategy to retain them.
The grant proposal would be finalized on the 10th of February 2021. Please share your feedback with us before the deadline to enable us make the necessary changes to our proposal.
With best regards
Isaac Olatunde
Project Manager & Coordinator,
WPWP Campaign.