How to Request Micro Funding from Wikimedia Australia for Your Australian Wiki Project

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Check your eligibility requirements.

   Are you an Australian or New Zealander? Or are you doing work related to Australian and New Zealand related content? If not, then this funding
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   Step 2: Determine what you want to do.

   Do you want to have a meet up? Do you need a reference text? Do you want to attend a conference? Do you want to take pictures of an event? , You do not need to request $200.
   
   You can request less.
   
   Price out your costs and put together a budget. ,, It should have:
   Your membership information for Wikimedia Australia:
   Are you a member? Yes or no? The project your funding request is for.
   
   What are you going to do? How your project connects to Wikimedia Australia's goals.
   
   How you will measure the success of your project.
   
   For example:
   Five people will attend the meetup. 50 pictures will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and some of these images will be used on LifeGuide Hub articles about Australia.
   
   New articles will be created in Aboriginal language wikis.
   
   How much money you want and how you would like Wikimedia Australia to transfer the funds to you. , 250 words maximum will work in most cases. ,,
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   Step 3: Figure out your budget.

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   Step 4: Figure out how your project relates to the goals of Wikimedia Australia.

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   Step 5: Compose a draft e-mail.

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   Step 6: When drafting the e-mail

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   Step 7: keep it short.

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   Step 8: Send the e-mail you drafted to [email protected] with funding request in the subject line.

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   Step 9: If you do not hear back in forty-eight hours

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    Step 10: send a follow up e-mail to [email protected]

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