Deadline: 28-Nov-22
The WikiCredibility Grants Initiative (WikiCred), a project of Hacks/Hackers, requests applications from individuals, groups, or organizations seeking funding support for the development of tools, projects or initiatives that strengthen credibility and reliability of information within Wikimedia projects.
Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of groups (and counting) and thousands of members across four continents (and counting). Hacks/Hackers’s mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information.
Tool Type, Purpose, Priority
- Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia
- A WordPress Plugin for Opening The News
- A new way to assist in evaluating the credibility of media sources
- Learning product prototypes for educational purposes
- Structures New Cited Sources on Wikipedia
- Using Wikidata to report on municipalities’ and government agencies’ Covid-19 data
- A Graph Database of Coronavirus Research and Concepts
- The Wikipedia Community’s Platform Against Disinformation
- Promoting Credibility on Wikipedia Pages with Multimedia Files
- A Browser Extension for Adding Context to Online Stories by Suggesting Related Wikipedia Articles
- UX of Wikipedia Credibility
- A Bot to Add References to WikiData Statements
- Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities
- Helping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media
Scope and Preferred Topics
- WikiCred is particularly interested in supporting the development of Wikimedia tools, projects, programs or initiatives that will benefit underserved communities or improve content related to timely topics such as reproductive health care and election misinformation. Other topics will also be considered.
- Tools should aim to strengthen sourcing practices within Wikimedia projects by improving access to high-quality credible sources as well as the citations they are used to create.
- WikiCred will also consider applications seeking funds to facilitate Wiki meetups that invite talks on strengthening credibility on Wikimedia projects and the overall information ecosystem. Sample meetup attendees may include journalists, librarians, editors, teachers, media literacy groups or NGO’s.
Funding Information
- Award Amounts: Up to $10,000 per project
- Number of Awards: Multiple.
Eligibility Criteria
- All are welcome to apply regardless of geographical location. Projects, tools, and initiatives across all Wikimedia projects as well as Wikipedias of all languages will be considered.
For more information, visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCred/2022_CFP