Grants:Project/Rapid/Bijay chaurasia/Wiki Loves Villages 2018/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/Bijay chaurasia/Wiki Loves Villages 2018.
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Project status

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Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?
YES
Is your project completed?
YES

Goals

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

We had set the goals before the start of the project such as:

  • Spread awareness about Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons among rural areas people and local photographers.
  • Collaboration with professional photographer's team.
  • Engagement of new users in Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and its sister projects.
  • Take photographs of villages (Rural Municipalities) of three districts of Nepal.
  • Improve the quality of images.
  • Upload photographs with different subjects like culture, lifestyles, festivals, shelter, food, dress-up, people and educational institutions.

Yes, we met our goals as mentioned above to a greater extent. All of our team members put their best efforts for achieving the goals. We utilized social media platforms for spreading awareness and engaging participants throughout the country. Online news also facilitated us to convey our goals and programs to the community and people around the globe.

Yes, all of our team members including community is extremely happy with the output we achieved. We were more than excited to execute the plans for WLV 2018 since the beginning of the project. The huge number of female participants was the main highlight of the program. The meetup facilitated us to manage the logistics of the program, discuss the presentation topics, ultimately leading to the success of the program in an organized way. The training helped the participants to take photographs in a professional and qualitative way. The training helped the participants to take quality photographs which will increase the quality media files in commons. Our outreach at Jain Terapanth Bhawan was really worthy as we discussed incubator project i.e. Marwari Wikipedia. Participants were enthusiastic for making Marwari Wikipedia a standalone Wikimedia Project.

Activities and Learning

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Activities

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WLV Team Provides a one hour photography training to the participants of Day-1 Event at Jain Terapanth Bhawan Biratnagar Nepal, Biratnagar and Day-2 at Edumark in collaboration with Lions/Leo Club Biratnagar Unique.

The main goal of the event is to provide the idea of Wikimedia commons, Wikipedia, its sister projects and how to use them. This training helped the participants to take photographs in a professional and qualitative way. This training also helped them to know about Upload Wizard and the basic guidelines of Wikimedia Commons.

Training- Day 1

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The highlight of the event was women’s participation. Many female signed up and participated in the event.

 
Event banner of WLV at Jain Terapanth Bhawan

Date

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23 October, 2018

Venue

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Jain Terapanth Bhawan Biratnagar Nepal, Biratnagar, Nepal

S.No Details Resource Person Time
1 Welcome & Introduction to Wikipedia and creation of account. Sandeep Raut 15 min
2 Introduction to different Wikimedia projects Prem Parakh 10 min
3 About Uploading photos in commons, various guidelines about Copyright license Bijay Chaurasia 20 min
4 Question Answer Aasish Shah 15 min
5 Thanking Speech Ajay Mehta

Reference

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Event Page in Facebook

Training - Day 2

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The event was promoted through social media, creating an event where the interested number of individuals were fifty. A one hour event was organized in coordination with Lions/Leo Club of Biratnagar Unique on Saturday at 11 am in Edumark Education.

 
Event banner of WLV at Edumark Education

Date

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27 October, 2018

Venue

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Edumark Education, Biratnagar, Nepal

S.No Details Resource Person Time
1 Welcome & Introduction to Wikipedia and creation of account. Sandeep Raut 15 min
2 Introduction to different Wikimedia projects Prem Parakh 10 min
3 About Uploading photos in commons, various guidelines about Copyright license Bijay Chaurasia 20 min
4 Question Answer Aasish Shah 15 min
5 Thanking Speech Ajay Mehta
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Reference

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Event Page in Facebook

Learning

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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?

First of all, everything works well in this project like our team helps to run this program. We are able to create awareness of Wikipedia, Commons as well as other sister projects. We are able to get The Team workforce, Real life offline meet-ups, Plans worked well. These factors played a great role in achieving the event targets.

  • What did not work so well?

Everything work well that we got to quit

  • What would you do differently next time?

For the Next time, we are planning to do Wiki Loves Villages as a contest. And we will ready a good plan for the photography contest in Nepal as well as other countries. I am planning to request Wikimedians from other community to run Wiki Loves Villages in their community or country.

Outcome

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Please report on your original project targets.

S.N. Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
1 Number of place to photograph 17+ Target reached.
2 Number of photowalk 1 Target reached.
3 Number of participants 75+ Target reached.
4 Number of Meet Up 100 Target reached.
5 Number of article or improved 100 Target reached.
6 Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 1000[1] Target reached.


Finances

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Grant funds spent

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

Number Category Item description Actual total Currency Notes
1 Food, Accommodation and Travel (Customized Plan) (food, Accommodation, Transportation) 140,000 NPR
2 Training and Meetups Cold Drinks Snaks 41,625 NPR
3 Communication and internet Internet and phone bills 11,299 NPR
4 Printing and Stationary Notepad, sticky notes,etc 14,300 NPR
5 Food and Drinks 8,413.53 NPR
6 Miscellaneous 4,362.47 NPR
Total 220,000 NPR

Remaining funds

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Do you have any remaining grant funds?

  • NO

Anything else

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Anything else you want to share about your project?