Microgrants/Applications
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Project grants (£5–250) or Partnership Funding (£250 and upwards) |
Please submit your application at the bottom of this page, using the format shown by the example.
Example
- Overview
A description of what you want the microgrant for should go here.
- Budget
How much money are you asking for, and what do you want to spend it on?
- Expected outcomes
What will this microgrant let you do? What will be the measurable outcomes?
- Who I am
If this is your first microgrant, then please let us know a little about you - where you're based (roughly), which projects you are involved in and any experience you have that is related to this microgrant activity.
- Discussion
Wifi solution
- Overview
This question was raised by English Heritage as they may be able to host an event on an interesting site but might not be able to supply wifi in some historic locations. If WMUK were to supply a (realistic) technical solution this might make an simple format for local edit-a-thons more re-usable. We might need to test out possible solutions first as an event where 12 people turn up with laptops would be a disaster if the connection speed were super-sucky-slow (which is my understanding of how the majority of such mobile kit performs).
- Budget
No idea, open to options on the potential solution which might be a hire as needed rather than capital requirement. Tentatively £100 capital plus £15 connection fees per event.
- Expected outcomes
The ability to run edit-a-thons or other types of interactive workshops (such as in-house preparation) hosted by GLAMs who have difficulty supplying free wifi or where such a solution may be an important back-up plan.
- Who
I'm working with GLAMs on future events as a de facto Ambassador (Ferrero Rocher not included) in advance of a register for these sort of things. Fæ 22:40, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Support. We need portable wifi or knowledge of how to rent it for a weekend. Victuallers 23:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
- In general, this is a great idea, but we need to narrow down the technical possibilities. I think there's two cases:
- Where there's a network connection/ethernet available, we could make use of a wireless router to share internet between participants
- Where there's no network connection, but there is a good 3G mobile phone signal, we could use 3G dongles or a 3G router to provide internet access
- Which of these is most likely, and would be the best to provide for? Or is there a third option? Mike Peel 20:52, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
- Wireless repeaters are a third option where there is Wifi, but its too weak to be reliable or covers only one end of the building. These look very cheap, (10-30 pounds) but never installed one. Victuallers 08:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Trivia night and activities of student club to June 2011
- Overview
Wikipedians at Imperial College, an official society within Imperial College Union, would like to apply for a microgrant to hold an event St. Patrick's day 17th March 2011 in conjunction with IC Irish society modelled on the trivia night held by Wikipedians at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at the time of the 10th anniversary http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_MI. They gave out prizes to winners and also Wikipedia memorobilia to all attendees. The event was shown to be a success at the UM http://www.umich.edu/~umwiki/. We will publicise and explain about the society. In addition to this, we would like to publicise for the "Wikipedia academy" planned for April http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Wikipedia_Academy.
- Budget
£150-200 as a preliminary guess - prizes and free memorabilia (possibly free food and drink)as was the case at the UM event. We are open to suggestions from the foundation as what will work, and what will be an appropriate amount of money for this. For all events for this academic year our current estimates are: printing for publicity (posters etc.) £30, prizes £60, food and drink £40, memorobilia £30
- Expected outcomes
We would like to get a demonstrable number of people to become members of the society on the day, try and begin edit groups on select subjects and to raise awareness about the society and Wikipedia in general. The number of attendees would be recorded.
- Who I am
My name is Vinesh Patel, I'm hoping to to be the president of the future Society and am working in collaboration with our future Treasurer for this academic year, Rashad Jurangpathy.
- Discussion
- This in an interesting idea. We would like to limit costs as much as possible (or eliminate them entirely if we can). We can give you some free Wikipedia t-shirts for prizes, if that would help. What kind of memorabilia did you have in mind? Perhaps we could buy some things in bulk and you could have some of them. I'm not sure about food and drink, though... it might be better if you asked for a couple of quid from each attendee to cover food and drink. --Tango 22:24, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
- I think that the blue Wikipedia T-shirts (which we currently have some supply of now) would be good - we may need about 40 more. I can understand about food and drink, we may organise separate payment for this. If possible, could we get a broad outline of how much we would be eligible for this academic year (i.e. to June 2010) regarding the events we describe above, by Wednesday 2nd March? That is when our presentation to the Union is and they like to have an idea about how funding can be achieved.Vinnypatel 12:51, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
BL photocopies
- Overview
I have been asked to copy a music score at the British Library (here) which appears to be out of copyright so that a performance of the piece can be created by Adam Cuerden and released on Commons.
I would like this to be an ongoing request for any other photocopies within reason (if there are any). I think there is a pre-paid system so I might be able to buy, say, £10 worth and make it clear on en:WP:REX that I can help anyone with photocopies in the future though it might take me a few weeks to get around to each request. For accountability it might be an idea to log usage here on the microgrant page so people can see how the money is being spent and check the associated outcomes. If the total spend on British Library photocopies/scans for the year stays under £50 and on any occasion the spend is less than £5, I doubt there is any benefit of going down the route of sending in individual receipts etc.
- Prepaid £5, this has to be to the reader card number but you do get a receipt. Used to copy key figures from Alfred Cross's 1906 Public Baths and Wash Houses and in the process of loading these to Commons:Category:Alfred Cross. For information, a large USB stick enabled A3 colour specialist book scanner is available in the Science reading room on floor 2, so this is an ideal reading room to reserve books for (even staff in the specialist copy room seem confused as to what public scanners are available). Fæ 10:22, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
- Budget
8 pages @ 22p per B&W photocopied page or 34p per colour A3 spread (puts it on a USB stick).
- Expected outcomes
As above. This first request will help create a shared performance of the music and be added to the associated Wikipedia article.
- Who I am
- Discussion