Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Sverige – Supporting an equitable free knowledge movement by expanding our global initiatives and local fundraising: Difference between revisions

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##: The cost of the hub experimentation is currently covered by the project grant from Wikimedia Foundation. Our understanding is that a separate application process will be launched in late 2022 by the Global Council for funding of regional and thematic hubs and other implementation activities connected to the strategic recommendations. Our understanding is that this will be outside, and on-top, of this application to the Wikimedia Community Fund. We intend to propose a plan and a budget for the thematic hub to the Global Council, and this year's experimentation and following endorsements will form the basis for that proposal. [[User:John Andersson (WMSE)|John Andersson (WMSE)]] ([[User talk:John Andersson (WMSE)|talk]]) 23:11, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

## Leading the Content Partnerships hub is a serious development, however, it is not even mentioned in your strategy, while it seems to already take multiple FTE. How do you envision the future of this hub over the following years? What is the target staffing structure (you mention in the white paper that you hired additional people but you also mention in the grant proposal that you need to restaff people from national projects)? Is the ‘special grant for Content partnerships support’ you mention already confirmed by WMF?

##: Our new strategy is intentionally not specifying operational choices and the strategy is intentionally not specifying if the work should be done on the national or international level.

##: The work to prepare for a Thematic hub has been detailed in our Annual plans since 2019, which are a key point of each Annual General Meeting. It is in the Annual plan the FTE etc. are specified. (Due to personal reasons the board has approved that the Annual plan for 2022 will be prepared during the first quarter of 2022, and not in Q4 2021, as we usually do.)

##: Depending on the outcome of the current experiments we will define a clear scope for the hub’s work in 2023 and forward. Based on this, and on available resources, we will develop a staffing structure. We believe that creating that plan without the knowledge gained from the exploratory work would be a missed opportunity.

##: That said, if the proposed plans of the hub are supported by the global community then we have the organizational structure in place to be able to scale the team significantly in the coming years. For example, together with Wikimedia Foundation’s Product Department and Wikimedia Deutschland we have already prepared a detailed breakdown of what a larger development team would entail so that the hub could help to improve tools needed for content partnerships. [[User:John Andersson (WMSE)|John Andersson (WMSE)]] ([[User talk:John Andersson (WMSE)|talk]]) 23:12, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

# Wikispeech: It is not clear to us how it compares to existing screen reader tools, or even if this is really needed at all. Additionally, though we have the impression that Wikipedia generally fares quite well with screen readers, it still needs technical and social work in some cases - like adding alt tags. We are unsure, therefore, that this development is in the right direction;

# Grand Tour of Wikimedia: What is your approach to identifying pairs for the Grand Tour of Wikimedia? Do you want to make it 1:1 exchanges (1 affiliate engages with 1 other) or many:1 (1 affiliate hosts people from multiple others)? Would you prefer a shorter distance or a closer match in affiliate contexts?