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In Year 2 and Year 3 of the application, we plan to sustain the programs planned for 2024 and iterate on them to achieve several major developments.
Particularly, in addition to supporting and iterating on existing programs, in terms of program development we plan to:
- Scale the Wikipedia Education Program, building on the healthy growth we’ve seen in 2023, to foster long-term institutional partnerships with Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and a number of major universities, as well as develop several mass open online courses based on our experience developing the “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” course in 2023. (For more context, see materials from a strategic session held at the conference of Ukrainian wiki educators in July 2023; in Ukrainian).
- Develop a sustainable GLAM program that supports large-scale institutional content uploads for Wikimedia projects, particularly by providing support to GLAM institutions around legal and copyright questions, as well as technical assistance in digitizing important material.
- Build a robust program to help fight burnout among community members, as well as offer effective conflict resolution and management mechanisms to Ukrainian Wikipedia volunteers
- Invest more resources in the quality of our article contests and campaigns on Wikipedia, particularly by offering more hands-on support to individual participants and putting even more focus on incentivizing quality of content.
To support this growth institutionally, we plan to:
- Hire a full-time Executive Director. Adding this role, which we had previously planned for 2023 but then had to postpone because of the war, would help develop institutional capacity, particularly around staff management, financial planning and fundraising.
- Develop a working fundraising strategy that would allow us to attract a more significant portion of our income from sources other than grant funding from the Wikimedia Foundation. (We are already doing work in this direction, such as applying for a grant from the Swedish Institute together with Wikimedia Sweden, but having a more robust fundraising strategy would require for the war to end, thus giving us more legitimacy to fundraise within Ukraine, which is hardly possible today with the society’s focus on fundraising for wartime needs; as well as hiring an ED to support the work).
To make this growth possible, we envision a 15% year-over-year budget increase in the year when the bulk of the changes are implemented (preliminary planned for 2025) and a smaller 7% year-over-year adjustment in another year (preliminary planned for 2026).
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