Template:Project grants

Basic information

Project Title (If applicable)

The European Destubathon

Proposed by

Dr. Blofeld

Are you currently a member of Wikimedia UK?

Yes

Project description

Briefly describe the issue or problem that motivates this application. What needs are you meeting?

Wikipedia has over 3 million stubs. Europe and the UK have a lot of stubs needing expansion. Many articles haven't been touched in years​. A one-month contest for April 2025, a destubathon (stub expansion contest to expand over 1500 bytes of readable prose) spanning all 44 European countries, including the UK.

Describe project activities. What will you use the funding to do?

The Open Knowledge Association are putting up Amazon voucher prizes to cover all 44 countries, each topic, and a main prize system. £250 from WMUK would allow us to give more of an incentive to work on the UK and help contribute towards boosting the overall prize amount.

Describe your plan for evaluating this project. How will you measure success? What types of things will you measure (e.g. content, participants)?

We will set a target for 1000 articles. It is common for a few editors to produce a lot of the content though the more the merrier. Success will be determined by how many articles are "destubbed"

Identify key people involved in this project. How will or could the wider Wikimedian community be involved?

Dr. Blofeld is organizing and running it by himself but will contact many of the past contestants and regular contributors to his challenges to participate.

If applicable, identify partnering organisations for this project (not essential)

The Open Knowledge Association (Switzerland-based), Women in Red.

If you feel that there is more information that could be for example resources needed, how successes can be measured, and how it fits in with the aims of Wikimedia and Wikimedia UK. Please note that these answers don't have to be definite now, and can be expanded on in conversation with the programme team.

What targets have you set? What will you measure?

N/A

What contribution will the project make to our strategic goals?

Knowlede equity

Who will be recording/measuring the project metrics, and writing up a project report?

Number of articles destubbed.

What staff support is being requested?

N/A

How can you get other volunteers involved? What roles could they have?

N/A

What meeting or other space is needed?

This is an online activity.

Are other resources needed (such as computers, books, camera equipment, food, contacts, infrastructure)? How will they be sourced?

No

If any partner organisations have been identified, have they been contacted and are they committed?

Yes

Does this project require more extensive funding? What would any WMUK funds be used for?

No

Are external funds needed that we can apply for? If so where will they be sought?

No

Are there any resources that you can contribute? Such as equipment.

No

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