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{{header title|title=Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016–17|toc=yes|status=draft}}
This report describes the activities of Wikimedia District of Columbia during Fiscal Year 2016–17, covering the period from October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017.

== Programs ==

During the 2016–17 fiscal year, Wikimedia DC program activity focused in two principal program areas: institutional partnership and grantmaking and sponsorship.

<h3 style="font-family:'Gill Sans' sans-serif; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase; color:#006699;">Institutional Partnership</h3>

Consistent with past program results, collaborative editing events, such as edit-a-thons and editing workshops, comprised the bulk of our institutional partnership program activity. During the full grant period, Wikimedia DC supported a total of 41 events (82% of our target) in partnership with 24 institutional partners.  Of these 41 events, 25 were aimed at improving diversity, representing 61% of the total activity in the program and more than 200% of our target.

Our institutional partners included a broad spectrum of cultural, academic, and government institutions, professional associations, non-governmental organizations, and other groups:
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* [[:en:AFL–CIO|American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:American University|American University]]
* [[:en:Association for Women in Science|Association for Women in Science]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [https://www.congresscenters.org Association of Centers for the Study of Congress] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [http://www.bugssonline.org Baltimore Under Ground Science Space] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:BBC|British Broadcasting Corporation]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:Delta Sigma Theta|Delta Sigma Theta]]
* [[:en:District of Columbia Public Library|District of Columbia Public Library]]
* [[:en:Heurich House Museum|Heurich House Museum]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:Law Library of Congress|Law Library of Congress]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:Mitre Corporation|MITRE Corporation]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives and Records Administration]]
* [[:en:National Democratic Institute|National Democratic Institute]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:National Museum of Women in the Arts|National Museum of Women in the Arts]]
* [https://www.osgf.org Oak Spring Garden Foundation] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home|President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
* [[:en:Smithsonian American Art Museum|Smithsonian American Art Museum]]
* [[:en:Smithsonian Institution Archives|Smithsonian Institution Archives]]
* [https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum Textile Museum at The George Washington University] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
* [[:en:University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland, College Park]]
* [[:en:West Virginia University|West Virginia University]]
* [[:en:Women's Media Center|Women's Media Center]] {{icon|star|text=|bold=n}}
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The partner institutions included 14 new partners (140% of our target), for whom the collaboration marked their first engagement with Wikimedia DC, and often with the Wikimedia movement in general; these partners are marked with stars in the list above. Our success in engaging new partners was due in large part to the effective work of our Institutional Partnerships Manager, who was able to systematically identify, contact, and develop partnerships with a spectrum of institutions which had not otherwise engaged with the Wikimedia movement.

The edit-a-thons and editing workshops conducted as part of this program were attended by a total of 286 participants (151% of our target); these participants including 141 new users (94% of our target) and 145 experienced users (363% of our target). Collectively, the participants made 1,688 edits to 727 Wikipedia articles (81% of our target), adding 2,448,842 bytes of Wikipedia content (255% of our target).

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File:Smithsonian-wikidata-training-2017-06-29.jpg|Smithsonian staff attend a Wikidata workshop at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
File:Women in Media and Politics 6030973.jpg|Attendees at the "Women in Media and Politics" edit-a-thon at the National Democratic Institute
File:Art Students League Archive Edit-a-thon 9493.jpg|"Art Students League" edit-a-thon in progress at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
File:WMDC Heurich House Museum DC Beer Week Edit-a-thon 2017 3.jpg|Edit-a-thon in progress at the Heurich House Museum
File:RosieStep at BBC 100 Women of 2016 Edit-a-Thon in USA.jpg|Attendees at the BBC "100 Women of 2016" edit-a-thon study the Wikipedia Space banners
File:Women in the Arts Edit-a-Thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts 6553 1.jpg|"Women in the Arts" edit-a-thon in progress at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
File:Women in Science and Engineering at MITRE 3020107.jpg|"Women in Science and Engineering" edit-a-thon in progress at MITRE
File:Wikipedia editathon SIA 2017 (33035865072).jpg|American University students attend an editing workshop at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
File:Congressional Committees and Hearings 4070404.jpg|"Congressional Committees and Hearings" edit-a-thon in progress at the Law Library of Congress
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<h3 style="font-family:'Gill Sans' sans-serif; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase; color:#006699;">Grantmaking and Sponsorship</h3>

During the 2016–17 fiscal year, Wikimedia DC was responsible for administering 3 fiscal sponsorships (150% of our target) with a total value of $150,270:

* [[meta:Grants:Simple/Applications/Art+Feminism/2016-2017|Art+Feminism 2016–2017]], a Simple Annual Plan Grant with a total value of $99,820.
* [[meta:Grants:Project/Rapid/USF SOLIS 2017 WikiEquality Series|USF SOLIS 2017 WikiEquality Series]], a Rapid Grant with a total value of $450. 
* [[meta:Grants:Conference/FloNight & Rosiestep/WikiConference North America 2016|WikiConference North America 2016]], a Conference Grant with a total value of $50,000. 

In aggregate, Wikimedia DC disbursed $124,607.21 of grant funding (125% of our target), distributed across more than 150 discrete transactions, under these fiscal sponsorship arrangements.

==Organizational development==

<h3 style="font-family:'Gill Sans' sans-serif; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase;">Membership</h3>

<h3 style="font-family:'Gill Sans' sans-serif; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase;">Governance</h3>


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