Wikimedia Resource Center/For program coordinators
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Skills Development
What is program evaluation? How can it help you understand the impact you have through programmatic activities? Find resources to learn the basics of evaluation, create a logic model and other tools to plan and evaluate your next program.
Contact: Jaime Anstee and Amanda Bittaker
Program Reports and Toolkits
What data do we have about programs? How can I learn from past experiences? In the program reports, you will find aggregate data on standard Wikimedia programs from 2014 and 2015, and how to use this data. The program toolkits condense a series of lessons on how to start, run and evaluate your program.
Contact: Amanda Bittaker and María Cruz
If you learned something new implementing a Wikimedia program or running an activity, capture this on a learning pattern and share it with the movement. Alternatively, if you are about to start a new project or activity, find advice, tools and ideas on how to troubleshoot through some of the most common problems.
Contact: Amanda Bittaker and María Cruz
Reporting and Storytelling
If you are a program or project leader, and struggle to get your story across in reporting, this is your chance to learn a few tricks and resources to build a narrative. Through some key strategies you can improve the way you share about your efforts, the impact of the work in advancing the movement, and how others might benefit from your experience.
Contact: María Cruz
Surveys and Program Tools
Surveys help you take the pulse of your local community and evaluate different ways in which your programmatic activities are having an impact in your local community. Find resources and direct support to create your own survey, as well as tools that can help you run your program.
Contact: Edward Galvez and Amanda Bittaker
IdeaLab is an incubator for people to share ideas to improve Wikimedia projects and to collaboratively develop them into plans and grant proposals. Inspire Campaigns are month-long events to focus collaborative efforts on some of the most pressing challenges of the Wikimedia movement. Each campaign focuses on a unique theme and participation is open to everyone.
Contact: Chris Schilling
Community Capacity Development is an initiative that aims at identifying needs and ways to build capacity in different Wikimedia communities, and then initiating specific actions to build specific capacities in specific interested communities.
Contact: Asaf Bartov
Grants Support
Wikimedians can apply for travel and participation support, rapid project grants, and biannual project grants.
Contact: Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold
Wikimedia organizations can apply to rapid project grants, quarterly project grants, conference and events grants, simple annual plan grants and FDC annual plan grants.
Contact: Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold, Ellie Young, Winifred Olliff, Delphine Ménard
Decisions about Wikimedia Foundation grants are a conversation between the grant candidate, the grant program officer and the grant program committee, a group of Wikimedians who assess the project on its potential impact and functionality with the Wikimedia projects. Anyone can join a grant committee!
Contact: Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Kacie Harold, Ellie Young, Winifred Olliff, Delphine Ménard
How are grant programs working towards our shared vision? What impact are they having? In this section, you will find aggregate impact reports that look into each grant program, explaining what they achieve overall.
Contact: Sati Houston
Programs Support
Wikipedia Education Program on Outreach Wiki
Education initiatives all over the world vary in theme and size, and they all seek to bring education institutions (schools, universities, and professional institutes) to the Wikimedia platforms. In this portal, you will find shared learning from program leaders all over the world, resources to start a new program, and case studies of successful programs.
Contact: Tighe Flanagan, Vahid Masrour, Nichole Saad
The Wikipedia Library helps editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia. It also helps knowledge professionals share their collections with the public.
Contact: Jake Orlowitz
Here you will find resources to partner with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, and bring their communities to the Wikimedia projects.
Contact: Alex Stinson
Product Development
Hackathons on MediaWiki.org
Wikimedia hackathons play an important role energizing our engineering community and connecting it to local groups. We need more of them in different places.
Contact: Rachel Farrand
Legal
Summary of situations when you are and are not allowed to use the Wikimedia trademarks
Points of contact for various legal matters relating to the Wikimedia projects
Learn about how public policy affects the Wikimedia projects and how you can get involved
Communications
How to best communicate our mission? What are best practices in intercultural communications? Find resources to create good stories here.
Contact: Victor Grigas
Find resources to better understand how to respond to journalists, pitch a story, and how to handle press in general.
Contact: Juliet Barbara, Samantha Lien
Learn what are basic guidelines with the Wikimedia brands, find design guidelines and other guides on communication-related topics.
Contact: Heather Walls, Zachary McCune
Find resources to create a digital communications strategy, that integrates blog and social media networks.
Contact: Ed Erhart, Aubrie Johnson
Learn how to do audience research, what you can learn from it, and find templates that you can use for your own research.
Contact: Melody Kramer
Learn the basics on how to create a communications strategy to achieve your goals.
Contact: Greg Varnum
Learn where communications resources are and how to contribute your knowledge, too.
Contact: Greg Varnum
Learn about the communications committee, and how it supports communications efforts across the Wikimedia movement.
Contact: Greg Varnum
Related Links: Communications portal