Grants:Project/Rapid/Anthere/Wiki Loves Africa 2019 Pre-contest set-up/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 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/Anthere/Wiki Loves Africa 2019 Pre-contest set-up.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
• You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.

Goals

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

Yes.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Setting up Commons pages for the Wiki Loves Africa contest (home, theme, faq, etc.)	Done	c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2019
Call for translation	Done	I published calls. I found a volunteer to actually push the calls and lead translations (but he did not do it... so I did...). I found someone to do translation in Portuguese (this is a first for Wiki Loves Africa !). Main languages we cared about are up. Leaflet in FR, EN and PT.
Set up of the banner system/site notice, upload wizard tunnel with category architecture	Done	Up and working
Clean up and improvement of documentation pages	Done	Wiki Loves Africa 2019/documentation and linked pages
Facilitate setting up a team	Done	Not easy though... one person strongly volunteered and then did not show up. It is better than previous years, but not yet sufficient :( Yet, we have a communication team and a jury leader now.
Call teams to make their funding request in November and December. Support to local teams when needed for rapid grants.	Done	Happy I managed to get some new local teams involved !

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?
• What did not work so well?
• What would you do differently next time?

Overall, there was nothing unexpected really.

The ONE thing I would do differently next time is... not to start a contest on a Friday and NEVER during All Hands when you need a WMF staff member to help you launch. It is good for no-one...

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

I received 1750 euros as a compensation.

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?