Grants:Project/Rapid/Aishik Rehman/Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Aishik Rehman/Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Of course we think we have met our targets successfully. We believe that the details given below will not disprove our confidence.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Metric	Target Outcome (min.)	Achieved Outcome (min.)
		Through-	In-		Outcome
Number of participants	80	Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021	Wikipedia	116	162+ (Shared User 11 [6.79%])
		Wiki Loves Children	Wikipedia	19
			Wikibooks	27
Number of articles created or improved	1000	Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021	Wikipedia	2709	2,806+
		Wiki Loves Children		97
Number of books created/Improved on Bengali Wikibooks	10	Wiki Loves Children	Wikibooks		16+
Number of newly recruited users	10	Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021			14+ (Shared User ** [*%])
		Wiki Loves Children

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well?

Everything was fine except for a couple of issues. Members of different communities have helped us tremendously. All the local organizers and jury members were the lifeblood of our success. The whole process has been completed quite successfully with their active cooperation.

Thanks to the WMF for their support. I can't help but mention David in particular! Thanks to him for always being by our side in every time of troubles.

• What did not work so well?

The biggest problem was bringing funds to Bangladesh. Although in the end we were able to solve it. In project management we took the help of Fountain tool. At the very last moment, we had to suffer a lot due to technical faults of it for a few hours. However there were some other minor issues that we do not feel the need to mention here.

• What would you do differently next time?

We look forward to working on the Wiki Loves Children project globally within the next couple of months this year. We hope that the foundation will come forward in our cooperation considering the problems of the past. This may be due to resolving the issue of sending/bringing funds in Bangladesh or by arranging a fiscal sponsor again.

Finances

Grant funds spent

		Amount (USD)	Sub-Total (USD)
WLWSA 2021	Globally Top 1st	250	984
	Globally Top 2nd	150
	Globally Top 3rd	100
	Top 3 contributors from each Wikipedia	384
	Letter of Appreciation	100
WLC 2021	Gift voucher for top 6 contributors	97	260
	Letter of Appreciation	80
	Gift Vouchers for judges	68
	Courier and postage	15
Fiscal sponsor management fee			110
Grands Total			1,354

Remaining funds

No remaining funds.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Bringing funds to Bangladesh was deadly challenging. Just because of this one, the light of our whole project has faded a bit. This issue was finally resolved through the fiscal sponsor. But it can not be a permanent solution. I hope the Foundation will work to find a lasting solution to this problem. We want to facilitate the path of Wiki Loves Children, as various communities have already expressed their willingness to participate in this project.