Iolanda Pensa, Beyond Money: The Wikimedia Role of Grant-Makers

1. We receive on a regular basis a number of requests for support of arts and cultural projects and except for singularly notable exceptions (the proposed education wing of the Nigerian Museum and OKIKE come instantly in mind) our response is a proforma rejection of interest and support. I think that it would be useful to know somewhat more than we now do about this important field. I'm not proposing that we formally establish a new and large scale line of program activity in the arts I do think though that if we had a kind of "state of the arts" (literally and figuratively) paper which Wole [Soyinka] is uniquely capable of preparing, we would be in a much better position to make discriminating choices for program actions were we inclined to do so. Haskell Ward Inter-Office Memorandum :Attached memorandum from Wole Soyinka, to Robert Edwards and Melvin Fox from Haskell Ward, 27/07/1975, 76-334, Ford Foundation Archives.  Iolanda Pensa, Beyond Money:The Wikimedia Role of Grant-Makers,WIKIGlam Conference Tel Aviv, 2018, cc by-sa.

2. ©Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000 in Looking BothWays:Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, 2003. Commissioned by and courtesy Museum for African Art NY.

3. 1990 1992 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 Iolanda Pensa, La Biennale de Dakar comme projet de coopération et de développement, Ph.D. thesis, 2011. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Biennale_de_Dakar_comme_projet_de_coop%C3%A9ration_et_de_d%C3%A9veloppement.pdf

4. Site-speciﬁc events and institutions in Dakar, Iolanda Pensa and Stefano Baseggio, 2005, cc by-sa.

5. iStrike Foundation, 2005

6. lettera27 Foundation (now Moleskine Foundation), 2006-2012.

7. WikiAfrica Art, Kër Thiossane, Dakar 2008, Courtesy Kër Thiossane

8. WikiAfrica 2006. Iolanda Pensa, 2012, CC by-sa. Event: conference/training/workshop Research Archives Wiki Loves Monuments Notebooks (Detour, myDetour,WikiAfrica special editions) Presentations and events

14. WikiAfrica 2012 (in progress). Iolanda Pensa, 2012, CC by-sa. Event: conference/training/workshop Research Archives Wiki Loves Monuments Notebooks (Detour, myDetour,WikiAfrica special editions) Presentations and events Creative Commons afﬁliate Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones)

15. WikiAfrica/ShareYour Knowledge 2012. Iolanda Pensa, status report with mistakes, 2013, CC by-sa. Status http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge/Institutions Event: conference/training/workshop Research Archives Wiki Loves Monuments Notebooks (Detour, myDetour,WikiAfrica special editions) Presentations and events Creative Commons afﬁliate Orange and Orange Foundation (free Wikipedia on mobile phones) Brooklyn Museum Feed My Starving Children International Institute for Communication and Development Sustainable Sanitation Alliance Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung AfricaFilms.tv Western Province Government – Department of museums - 28 museums in Western Cape Province, South Africa, Bartolomeu Dias Museum, Beaufort-West Museum, Caledon Museum, Cango Caves Museum, Cape Medical Museum, CP Nel Museum, Drostdy Museum, Fransie Pienaar Museum, Genadendal Mission Museum, George Museum, Groot-Brakrivier Museum, Hout Bay Museum, Huguenot Memorial Museum, Jan Dankaert Museum, Koopmans De Wet House Museum, Montagu Museum, Old Harbour Museum, Paarl Museum, Robertson Museum, SA Fisheries Museum, Sendinggestig(Missionary)Museum, Shipwreck Museum, Simon's Town Museum, Stellenbosch Museum, Transport Riders Museum, Wellington Museum, Wheat Industry Museum, Worcester Museum Gambia National Museum Sungani Zakwathu Cultural Heritage Promotions Postal Museum, Matengatenga, Malawi Zanzibar National Museum Phuthidikabo Museum, Mochudi, BotswanaSeychelles People Defense Forces Museum (SPDF) Uganda National Museum Dataset of administrations in Botswana

16. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Cariplo onWikipedia in Italian, 09/2011, CC BY-SA.

17. creative commons & wikipedia for cultural institutions summary evaluation of share your knowledge on wikipedia period 1 jun-1oth nov 2011 For this analysis we considered all new pages created from the beginning of the proje Share Yourk Knowledge until the 10th of November. For the Wikimedia contributions we considered all the pages created by the partner in itution in Italian and English during this period. contributions to wikipedia 459 articles 860˙302 bytes One byte is a unit of orage capable of holding a single chara er. A text of 1500 chara ers corresponds to a ﬁle of 1500 bytes. contributions to wikimedia commons 2993 images wikipedia templates Archivio Pietro Pensa Careof Cosv Fe ival del Cinema Africano di Verona Fe ival del Cinema Africano di Milano Fondazione Cariplo Lettera27 Officina Griot Bytes added by m.Casanova and Marcok (Wikipedia’s tutors of the proje ) Bytes added by other users s s s s s s s June July Augu September O ober November DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 11/2011, CC BY-SA.

18. © Fondation Orange, website, 2018.

19. Niccolò Caranti,Wikimania Esino Lario, cc by-sa, 2016.

20. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Financial_plan/Contract_Wikimedia_Foundation/Report Wikimania Esino Lario 2016 - Fundraising

21. Regardless of Money

22. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Cariplo onWikipedia in Italian, 09/2011, CC BY-SA. What Grantmakers can offer: Content

23. What Grantmakers can offer: Content of their Grantees © Ford Foundation, website, 2018.

24. “The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical: it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach and scale of the ideas we invest in…” The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008

25. The application form process What Grantmakers can offer

26. Context Objective Activities Expected results Structure of a project. Evaluation Calendar Budget

27. Context Objective Activities Calendar Budget Expected results Problem solving Intercultural dialogue Cultural industries Active citizenships Freedom of expression Participation Public Engagement Infrastructures Development Quantitative Qualitative Metrics Number of people Coherence with the expected results Structure of a project. Evaluation Biennial = 2 years Triennial = 3 years Research and experimentation? Culture Value

28. Robin Good, http://www.masternewmedia.org

29. https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2011/foundation_funding

30. Grantees and presence in the world What Grantmakers can offer

36. Mobile A2K, photo Zetalab for lettera27, Dakar, 2010, cc by-sa. What Grantmakers can offer: Educational Programs

37. We need are “small” institutions small institutions = knowledge equity

38. Establishing joint funding programs (grants, prizes…) What we should do Wikimedia Foundation and local chapters are grantmakers! Work with your colleagues

39. A manifesto What we should do Iolanda Pensa, 2018, cc by-sa.

40. Grantmakers and Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmakers_and_Wikimedia

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