Grants:Project/Rapid/Galahad/NewsVoyage/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2019-21 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/Galahad/NewsVoyage.
• 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?

Since my last rapid grant, this contest exceeded all expectations and although it did not receive the desired number of participants, I am happy with the results.

Outcome

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

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
50 new or improved articles (25 for each project)	302 articles (197 for eswikinews, 105 for eswikivoyage)	Reached and exceeded.
20 participants (10 for each project)	14 participants (8 for eswikivoyage, 7 for eswikinews)	Unlike the previous contest, thanks to the organization and diffusion this number was reached.

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?

CentralNotice on spanish projects was what allowed the increase of new articles and participants

• What did not work so well?

Unexpectedly, the increase in news to review exceeded the planned workload, the absence of reviewers prevented a timely review. There were some loopholes exploited by contestants to take advantage. Although it was not punished by the judges, it caused discomfort among the other participants, as well as the volunteers of both projects.

• What would you do differently next time?

The eswikinews reviewers have shown their willingness to support future contests and will be contacted for an effective organization. Likewise, we will improve the rules, that way there will be no loopholes that contestants can take advantage of.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

• Place's Prizes: 375$
  • First place on eswikivoyage - third place on eswikinews: 125$
  • First place on eswikinews: 100$
  • Second place on eswikivoyage and eswikinews: 100$
  • Third place on eswikivoyage: 25$

• Challenges completed: 575$
  • More articles created: 200$
  • Human revision challenge: 200$
  • Leader challenge: 175$

Total: 950$

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Due an error, wasn't deducted 350$ from Grants:Project/Rapid/Galahad/SpanishWikivoyageContest. It will be deducted in a future grant (Grants:Project/SmallProjects if it is approved)

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

We conducted a survey to participants to learn about their experiences in relation to the contest. For privacy reasons it cannot be shown publicly, but the results can be shown privately to the reviewers of this report.