Grants:PEG/WM AM/2014
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Basic information
Grant request details
- Are you an organization, a group, or an individual?
- Organization
- Please provide your name, or the name of the group or organization requesting this grant.
- Wikimedia Armenia
- Please provide the name (or username) of the main contact for this grant request. You do not need to disclose your legal name publicly.
- Susanna Mkrtchyan
- For groups and organizations only: Please provide the name (or username) of a second contact for this grant request.
- Zabel Vassilian
- Please link to any relevant documents, including your website if you have one.
- http://www.wikimedia.am/wiki
Project details
- Official project name
- Annual Grant Application for 2014.
- Project start date
- This is the date you begin work on your project. Please include a month, day, and year. You must include a project start date.
- 15 August 2014
- Project completion date
- This is the date you finish work on your project. Please include a month, day, and year. You must include a project completion date.
- 14 July 2015
- Please describe the project in a few sentences
- Wikimedia Armenia annual plan is aimed to develop Armenian Wikipedia and Wikisource in quantity and quality by continuing last year started and successful projects as digitization, educational project, Wiki loves monuments and/or Wiki loves Earth and also by new started projects as Wiki clubs in main cities of Armenia (in Yerevan and Gyumri already are working), GLAM, Wiki loves science and save of literature in Western Armenian and Westen Armenian language through Wikipedia and Wikisource.
Financial details
Please request your grant in your local currency. WMF is able to grant funds in many currencies.
- Amount and currency requested
- 25,280,000 AMD
- Please provide an equivalent amount in US dollars using the exchange rate provided by Oanda on the date you open this request
- $61,435
For organizations only
This section only needs to be completed by organizations requesting grants. Individuals and groups that are not incorporated do not need to complete this section.
- Are you an incorporated organization able to provide local proof of nonprofit status within your country? For-profit organizations are not eligible to receive grants through the PEG program.
- Answer YES or NO.
- YES
- Does your organization currently employ or engage any fulltime or part-time staff or contractors? If yes, please tell us how many staff or contractors you employ or engage, along with their functions or a link to your staff page. For example, "2 full time program managers and 1 part-time contractor accountant at 50% FTE each."
- NO
Goals and measures of success
Project goal
Please briefly describe what will be accomplished if the project is successful.
- Project goal
- The goal of the project is to digitize Armenian Encyclopedias and systemize digitization of historical bibliographical books and books that are in public ___domain or becoming public ___domain, currently. We are going enlarge amount of schools which are involved in educational project. The successful experience of Wiki club in Yerevan and Gyumri (middle level) to disseminate to other cities of Armenia. It will also grow the number of active editors in the Armenian Wikipedia and double membership in Wikimedia Armenia. In addition, it will take minor steps towards long term sustainability. It will extend active use of Wikipedia by the Armenians in the diaspora who look for content in Western Armenian.
Measures of success
Please provide a list of measurable criteria that will be used determine how successful the project is. You will need to report on the success of the project according to these measures after the project is completed.
- Measures of success
- P1 - Digitization
- number of scanned books fully digitized on Armenian Wikisource - 14
- 2 books recommended by the Wiki Loves Science project (P2)
- 7 books recommended by the Education project (P5)
- 2 books recommended by the Western Armenian project (P10)
- 3 books recommended by the Wiki Club project (P4)
- number of scanned books uploaded on Armenian Wikisource - 30
- 7 books recommended by the Education project (P5)
- 8 books recommended by the Wiki Club project (P4)
- 15 books recommended by the Western Armenian project (P10)
- number of rare books scanned and uploaded on Armenian Wikisource - 150
- P2 - Wiki Loves Science
- number of newly registered editors - 20
- number of new members - 4
- number of new articles - 500
- number of articles created and expanded within projects and during events - 100
- additional good and featured article in Armenian Wikipedia - 2
- P3 – Support and Increase active WikiClubs:
- Number of new wikiclubs created - 7, specifically one wikimedian in the cities Vanadzor, Yeghvard, Ashtarak, Talin, Aparan, Goris, Stepanakert (Artsakh)
- number of newly registered editors - 40
- number of new members - 7
- number of new articles - 23,000
- additional good and featured article in Armenian Wikipedia - 6
- P4 - Educational Programs
- number of new schools participating in Wikipedia Armenia Educational Programs: 8
- maintain number of schools currently participating in Wikipedia Armenia Educational Programs: 7
- number of newly registered editors - 40
- number of new members - 2
- number of new articles - 10,000
- P5 – GLAM
- GLAM cooperation: Matenadaran (content material for 10 articles)- National Library of Armenia (5 digitized books), Erebuni Museum (content material for 10 articles)
- number of newly registered editors - 6
- number of new members - 3
- number of new articles - 15
- additional good and featured article in Armenian Wikipedia - 2
- P6 - Expand Wiki Commons
- WLE 2015 in Armenia - 1600
- Famous Armenians - Photo Depository - 200
- Number of WLE photos used in articles within 3 months from the completion of WLE 2015: 160
- P7 - International Projects
- Bring back Ideas or provide ideas for implementation within Armenia and/or other countries from Wikimania 2014, WMСEE 2015, WMCON 2015, Education Conference: 1 / 1 / 1 / 2
- number of participating countries in Wikipedia Armenia 2015 Conference - 8
- P8 - General Wikimedia Office management
- Move to new office space by July 15, 2015
- P9 - Activities that lead to the introduction of Western Armenian as a language in Wikipedia
- number of articles in Western Armenian: 1000
- number of newly registered editors - 10
- number of new members - 7
- good and featured article in Wester Armenian Wikipedia - 2
Project scope and activities
This section describes what will happen if this project is funded. Who will do what, and when?
- List of activities
- P1 - Digitization
- Digitization of books currently becoming public ___domain
- interface with different libraries to upload license-free Armenian literature in Wikisource
- work with the appropriate authorities to allow putting in Wikisource, at a minimum, all educational materials published by the government.
- P2 - Wiki Loves Science
- Meeting with Young biologists association and chain of workshops
- Editing weekend for Young biologists
- Editing weekend for physicists
- Editing weekend for chemists
- Workshops for all institutions related to physics.
- support efforts to enrich articles minimum in two fields of science by working with universities and the scientific community
- P3 - Establish Wiki Clubs in 7 cities
- Each month, interact with the active editors in a selected major city and help establish a club in that city.
- Maintain interactions with the clubs already established, and maintain enthusiasm to train and attract new comers
- P4 - Educational Programs
- High School Educational Programs - add two schools a quarter to the Wikipedia Education program.
- Training programs for General Population - headed by the members in various WikiClubs
- P5 - GLAM
- Meeting with Cultural institutions of Ministry of Culture.
- Cooperation with Matenadaran: Sign agreement of cooperation in the first half of the year; coordinate the creation of at least 10 articles about the main collections of Matenadaran.
- Cooperation with National Library: Sign agreement to use NL books and scanned books in order to upload digitized material to Wikisource.
- Cooperation with Erebuni museum: Sign agreement of cooperation. Support writing of a minimum of 10 articles about the cultural heritage available in the museum.
- P6 - Expand Wiki Commons
- Wiki Loves Earth
- Famous Armenians - Photo Depository. Combine famous Armenians list and organize meeting for taking pictures or sharing pictures.
- P7 - International Projects
- Cooperation with Estonia
- Wikimania 2014: Susanna Mkrtchyan and Mher Bekaryan will attend and share ideas and experiences.
- WMCEE 2014: Susanna Mkrtchyan and Lilit Tarkhanyan will attend and share ideas and experiences.
- WMCON 2015: Susanna Mkrtchyan and a colleague will attend and share ideas and experience.
- Wikimedia Educational Conference: Susanna Mkrtchyan and a colleague will attend and share ideas and experience.
- P8 - General Wikimedia Office management
- Support Computing Environment (internet cost, server room and server management, network management, PC support)
- Acquire office space - free of rent for a period of 25 years
- - We are waiting for the signing of documents by the prime minister about providing office space to Wikimedia Armenia.
- - Hakob Hakobyan, the director of Intellectual Renaissance Foundation, will prepare the renovation project plan and associated cost and will present it to Artur Janibekyan, the president of Intellectual Renaissance, who will approve the budget. Mr. Hagopyan will oversee the renovation effort
- P9 - Activities that lead to the introduction of Western Armenian as a language in Wikipedia
- interface with different libraries to upload license-free Armenian literature in Wikisource
Budget
Please provide a detailed breakdown of project expenses according to the instructions here.
Grantees are subject to line-item scrutiny of expenses. Changes to the approved budget beyond 10% in any category must be approved in advance.
- Project budget table
Activity Amount
requested
(AMD)other sources Notes P1 - Digitization TBD 0 ↓ Digitalization 300,000 among other costs, includes purchase cost for books (30) / literary magazines that need to be digitized Scanner 300,000 A must for the digitization effort P2 - Wiki Loves Science TBD 0 ↓ Wiki Loves Science - needs further breakdown 1,200,000 Target minimum of 100 good articles - includes prize for two winner Stationary, Memorabilia & Prizes for competitions 500,000 0 Shirts, diplomas, cups, pens, paper bags and some original stuff. Meetups - needs appropriate allocation 480,000 Trainings - need breakdown in allocation 300,000 Targeted to cover expenses (including transportation) related to training the teachers and employees of various institutions in and outside of the capital Two laptops 600,000 Two laptops will be provided to support increased participation during training sessions. P4 - Establish Wiki Clubs in 7 cities TBD 0 ↓ 7 laptops 2,100,000 Two laptops will be provided to support increased participation during training sessions. Eight laptops are needed to equip the newly created "WIKI CLUB -YEREVAN (WCY)" section in our new office. The WCY will allow groups of individuals with interests in a specific topic to gather and discuss quality of the articles, and plans for improvement. Trainings - need breakdown in allocation 300,000 Targeted to cover expenses (including transportation) related to training the teachers and employees of various institutions in and outside of the capital P5 - Education Programs TBD 0 ↓ Education - needs further breakdown 600,000 Add 8 high schools participating in the educational program; Prize for best Wiki school (active editors) Trainings - need breakdown in allocation 300,000 Targeted to cover expenses (including transportation) related to training the teachers and employees of various institutions in and outside of the capital Meetups - needs appropriate allocation 480,000 Stationary, Memorabilia & Prizes for competitions 500,000 0 Shirts, diplomas, cups, pens, paper bags and some original stuff. P6 - GLAM TBD 0 ↓ GLAM - needs further breakdown 800,000 chain of workshops and up to 3 prizes for competitions within GLAM institutions Trainings - need breakdown in allocation 300,000 Targeted to cover expenses (including transportation) related to training the teachers and employees of various institutions in and outside of the capital Meetups - needs appropriate allocation 480,000 P7 - Expand Wiki Commons TBD 0 ↓ Wiki Loves Earth 1,400,000 Minimum of three expeditions - Includes transportation, prizes for winners, et. al. Famous Armenians - Photo Depository 400,000 Minimum of four meetings with famous Armenians Meetups - needs appropriate allocation 480,000 P8 - International Projects TBD 0 ↓ Collaboration with Estonia 500,000 Exchange of contributor - Prize for winner Wikimania 2014 1,200,000 Two participants WMCEE 2014 800,000 Two participants Wikimedia Conference 2015 1,200,000 Two participants Wikimedia Educational Conference 500,000 One participant Wikipedia conference 4,000,000 Wikipedia annual conference Yerevan 2014 (10th anniversary of Armenian Wikipedia) Stationary, Memorabilia & Prizes for competitions 500,000 0 Shirts, diplomas, cups, pens, paper bags and some original stuff. P9 - General Wikimania Office management TBD TBD ↓ Office Renovation costs 25,000,000 Painting and furniture needed for the 150 sq m provided by the Armenian Government to Wikimedia Armenia for 25 years - rent free, for the purposes of office space and conference rooms . Office Staff 4,800,000 Includes salary, employee taxes. Responsibilities will concentrate around office management and Wikimedia Armenia administration 1 laptops 300,000 One laptop for use by staff that will support the various events Monthly Internet Costs 600,000 Internet connectivity for the Wikimedia office P10 - Activities that lead to the introduction of Western Armenian as a language in Wikipedia TBD TBD ↓ Meetups - needs appropriate allocation 480,000 Trainings - need breakdown in allocation 300,000 Targeted to cover expenses (including transportation) related to training the teachers and employees of various institutions in and outside of the capital Total 50,280,000 TBD
- Total cost of project
- 50,280,000 AMD
- Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program
- 25,280,000 AMD
- Additional sources of revenue that may fund part of this project, and amounts funded
- 25,000,000 AMD - Received verbal agreement to renovation the new office space; Final approval expected within a month.
Non-financial requirements
See a description of non financial assistance available. Please inform Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) of any requirements for non-financial assistance now.
- Requests for non-financial assistance
- Attendance during the 10 year Anniversary - Wikipedia Armenia celebration from Wikimedia Foundation and various Wikimedia Chapters.
Resources and Risks
- Resources
This section is used to highlight your potential for successfully executing this project.
Consider including the following information:
- List of team members (names or usernames):
- Onwiki evidence of community support (such as a project about this discussion):
- Endorsements from community members or movement groups:
- Special skills or qualifications this potential grantee or project lead brings to this project:
- Evidence of past success in executing similar projects:
- Wikimedia Armenia board
- P1 - Digitization
- * Yura Mkrtchyan (Western Armenian digitization)--GeoO
- * Davit Saroyan (digitizer in digitizing project)--Davit Saroyan
- * Wikimedia Armenia staff - to be hired
- P2 - Wiki Loves Science
- * Davit Saroyan (Wiki Loves Science)--Davit Saroyan
- * Arsen Harutyunyan (training workshops, media coordinator)--Արագի մեջ
- * Wikimedia Armenia staff - to be hired
- * Vahram Mkhitaryan --Vahram Mkhitaryan
- * Merujan Karapetyan --Merujan Karapetyan
- * Davit Minasyan ----Dminasyan
- P3 – Improve on Quality of articles
- * Hayk Harutyunyan Hayk.arabaget
- * Artashes Tadevosyan --23artashes
- * Davit Minasyan ----Dminasyan
- * Arman Musikyan --Arman musikyan
- * Erjanik Galstyan --ERJANIK
- * Vahram Mkhitaryan --Vahram Mkhitaryan
- * Merujan Karapetyan --Merujan Karapetyan
- P4 – Support active WikiClubs:
- * Mher Bekaryan (Wiki Club)
- * Arsen Harutyunyan --Արագի մեջ
- P5 - Educational Programs
- P6 – GLAM
- * Mher Bekaryan --Beko
- * Armine Aghayan (GLAM)--Armineaghayan
- * Ara Khzmalyan (GLAM)-- of Matenadaran
- * Wikimedia Armenia staff - to be hired
- P7 - Expand Wiki Commons
- * Mher Bekaryan (Wiki Club)
- * Wikimedia Armenia staff - to be hired
- * Melkon Minasyan
- * Hambarsum Minasyan
- * David Minasyan
- P8 - International Projects
- P9 - General Wikimania Office management
- * Hakob Hakobyan (renovation coordinator)--Hakob Hakobyan
- * Avetik Yessayan (networking, PC maintenance, Hosting)
- P10 - Activities that lead to the introduction of Western Armenian as a language in Wikipedia
- * Merujan Karapetyan --Merujan Karapetyan
- * Yura Mkrtchyan (Western Armenian digitization)--GeoO
- * Zabel Vassilian (Western Armenian)--Zvassilian (talk) 08:49, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- * Wikimedia Armenia staff - to be hired
- Risks
This section is used to identify key risks or threats that would prevent you from achieving your project goals and how you would mitigate those risks and threats.
- Articles related to various fields of science and education aren't exist in Armenian Wikipedia or are very poor. Moreover there aren't books in Armenian for university students. It would be very hard to grow Armenian Wikipedia on these topics. That's why we need to do most effort to succeed.
- Difficulty in working with GLAM staff. Will be expanded.
Impact
In the sections below, please describe how the project is related to the Wikimedia mission and Wikimedia's strategic priorities.
Fit to strategy
- How will this project support the key organizational objectives of
- increasing reach (more people will access or contribute to Wikipedia or our other projects),
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- By opening WikiClubs in 8 new cities in Armenia, Wikimedia Armenia will be able to train new contributors to Wikipedia, and gain experience with the talent the active editors have, and create a set of resources through which we can launch further educational and awareness programs in future years.
- participation (more people actually contributing),
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- Through our outreach programs to GLAMS and those who speak in Western Armenian, and through our Education programs, and via the events we organize, we expect to increase the number of people contributing.
- quality (more content, more useful content, or higher-quality content),
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- * Events like Wiki loves science, our activities with GLAMS, the training programs, education programs, western Armenian effort will simulate the creation of more content.
- * Wikimedia Armenia staff will monitor what topics are being accessed most, and will publish on its main page the top 10 useful articles of the month.
- * Wikimedia Armenia will publish (on its main page) the Subject of one article a month that will be targeted for higher-quality content.
- credibility (more trust in our projects),
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- Media coverage with high profile individuals supporting Wikimedia Armenia will be used as a means of gaining credibility for the activities of Wikimedia Armenia. Individuals from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defense, GLAM administrators, respected educators, businessmen and cultural figures will air their promise to write articles, or share the fact that they have individually contributed
- organizational maturity and effectiveness (how it will move you or the Wikimedia community forward),
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- * By hiring one individual who will support the activities of the various projects that we have, we aim to put some formality around the administration of the events, so we will not be totally dependent on our volunteers in the knowledge of plans, contacts, progress, program knowledge, etc.
- * By the creation of WikiClubs in 8 new cities, we aim to involve more people in spreading the wiki culture among the population - a must that will allow us to share the burden of the effort from a few to many
- * By increasing membership, thus increasing the number of people who will take ownership of program execution, we aim to grow a young population of leaders who will understand the culture of contributing to the community and will, by example, spread the culture of sharing information and reaching out to others with their knowledge and expertise.
- financial sustainability (how it will help you achieve more in the long run)?
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- This will be a challenge to plan for. We hope to carry discussions on the topic with our members and look for input and ideas from other countries. For now, we are concentrating on achievements that are pre-requisites to attaining financial sustainability; mainly:
- * increase in active contributors
- * increase in good articles
- * increase in types of topics (scientific et al)
- * the spread of the wiki culture within the country
- This statement should address at least one of the strategic priorities listed here specifically. See Project and Event Grants program criteria for decision making.
All of the projects in this grant, whether educational, organizational, GLAM related or related to the creation WikiClubs, are activities that will ensure sustainability of impact beyond the duration of the grant. They all aim at spreading the wiki culture in the country, increasing participation and membership, and improving quality and quantity of contributions. We are confident the effort will keep on giving, and the digitization effort, as well as the growth in people infrastructure will fuel later work.
Benefits
- If the project will benefit a specific online community, please tell us.
- During this period will increase the number of editors in regions and will be enriched the
- Users of Eastern Armenian Wikipedia for articles and media content.
- Users of English, Russian, Arabic, Ukranian, Estonian Wikipedias for article content
- Users of Wikimedia Commons for photo and media content.
- User of Eastern Armenian Wikisource for textual content.
- Users of Western Armenian Wikipedia for articles and media content.
- Please provide a brief statement about how the project is related to other work in the Wikimedia movement. For example, does the project fit into a work area such as GLAM, education, organizational development, editor retention, or outreach?
- The main focus of this project is Outreach since it will be aimed at recruiting and supporting new editors, building strong relationships with cultural and educational institutions. Particular programs fit into GLAM (in particular, partnership with museums and libraries), education (collaboration with schools), organizational development (purchasing equipment that will be used by organization members in wikiClubs).We are also reaching out to the segments of the 5 Million Armenians whose heritage uses Western Armenian as a language.
- If successful, will the project have the potential to be replicated successfully by other individuals, groups, or organizations? Please explain how in 1–2 sentences.
- Wikimedia Armenia's activities aimed at creating a wiki-minded community of users that continue to grow and contribute in an accelerated mode can serve as a resource to other communities that are being introduced to the wiki culture.
- Please list other benefits to the movement here.
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- * Increase in the presence of free knowledge groups within Armenia
- * Improvement in quality of articles over time - High school students who are active contributors, having internalized the culture of being free knowledge contributors, will continue to contribute as they become more educated, and pursue their careers, hence gradually improving the quality of the articles they contribute.
- * Increase in Armenian related topics in languages other than Armenian - Once Western Armenian editors are trained in contributing to Western Armenian Wikipedia, they will also, with a high probability of likelihood, contributor Armenia related topics in the language of the country they reside in, or are citizens of. This will lead to an increase of free knowledge contributions of Armenia/Armenian related information in other languages.