Case studies/Form

Context/Background

Make sure to write content that answers the following questions:

• Why did you choose to develop a program in this particular program area?
• What opportunity allowed for program, activity or partnership to happen? Did it require additional resources for your volunteer community, such as funding or an employee at a partner institution, to get started?
• Why did the partners or allies think that working with a Wikimedia Community would be a good opportunity?
• What experience did your community have before that made this project exciting or a reasonable next step?

Goals

• What did you intend to be the impact for this project?
• What did your partner, collaborators or engaged community intend for the project?
• How did you plan to measure or evaluate that impact?
• How did your goals change the design of the project?

Implementation/Steps

• What was each step for the project? For each step:
  • Who was involved?
  • What tools did you use?
  • Did you create or refer to documentation? (include both English and non-English documentation)

Outcomes

Some questions that might help you write this section:

• Did you meet your goals?
• Did the data you collected help you to evaluate whether or not you met your goals?
• Do you have any statistics or evidence of your impact?
• What un-measurable or hard-to-measure outcomes happened as a result of the project?

Reflection and lessons learned

• What challenges did you anticipate and how did you plan to overcome them? Did your plan work?
• Did any challenges come up that you did not expect? How did you troubleshoot?
• What would you do differently next time? What advice would you give to someone looking to do a similar project?

Resources/Links/Additional Context

Include links here to:

• Similar or related case studies
• Additional resources, including documentation or relevant learning patterns