Grants:Project/Rapid/Nilamkarn/Women Edit-a-thon in Nepal/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2019-20 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
Yes, we have successfully meet all of our mentioned goals of this project. The project went long because of the COVID-19 pandemic and we are delayed to submit the final project report. We are quite happy that we have started our outreach events again. We met around 200 students of the Kshitiz Educational Foundation, Rajbiraj, and selected the interested participants to train them about the basics of Wikipedia. The support and participation of the students were really satisfactory because more than 20 to 25 students showed their interest to learn about the basics of Wikipedia and its mechanism to edit in their own language. We have also circulated our message to previously trained students in social media groups to participate in the Women Edit-a-thon 2021.

Maithili Wikimedians User Group/Events/Women Edit-a-thon 2021

Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2021' is an online Edit-a-thon competition organized on Maithili Wikipedia on the occasion of International Women's Day 2021. The competition was organized from March 7, 2021 to March 21, 2021. The main aim of the competition is to create articles about notable women on Maithili Wikipedia as well as to address the content gaps. Maithili Wikimedians is organizing Women Edit-a-thon annually since 2015 to create locally relevant and high-quality content about notable Women's in Maithili Wikipedia. This year we have prepared a list of 50 notable Nepalese women, whose articles do not exist in Maithili Wikipedia. The list is made with the help of Wikidata query services. We have chosen notable Nepalese women from different backgrounds, which include sports, politics, social service, business, economy, arts, music, and the entertainment industry.

Statistics

Overview

The overall statistics of the Women Edit-a-thon 2021 in Wikipedia:-

Articles Created	Total Edits	Byte Added	Articles View
52	428	240K	169
Reference: Outreach Dashboard, WMF

Winners

Position	Participant Name	Article created
	Aayushi Gupta	15
	Anshu Kumari Sah	9
	Nilam Karn	7

Women Day Event at Kshitiz Educational Foundation, Rajbiraj

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Training session at Rajbiraj

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Outcome

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

S.N.	Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1	Online Edit-a-thon	1	Successfully organized.
2	Women Day Awareness Event	1	Successfully organized.
3	Basic Wikipedia Training	2	Successfully organized.
4	Number of participants	190	Online participation (10), Awareness Event (160) and Basic Training (20)
5	Number of articles created on Wikimedia projects	50	All new articles created related to Nepalese notable women
6	Number of repeat participants	9	7 participants joins in Online Edit-a-thon and 2 participants join to help in our outreach event.

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?
  

Obviously, Teamwork and participation, and the support of students worked well.

• What did not work so well?
  

Due to the upcoming academic exam of college students, many of the students missed participating in our Basic Wikipedia Training event.

• What would you do differently next time?
  

I am planning to focus on the Orientation class and then a Training session. It seems really a good idea to engage the students and it also helps us to know their interest.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

S.N.	Description	Amount	Notes
1	Online Edit-a-thon Felicitation Event	19500 NPR	Event venue, travel reimbursements and refreshments
2	Edit-a-thon Winners Prize	27500 NPR	Gift hampers for top 3 contributors (Maithili Dictionary, Maithili literature, and history subject books, Certificate for participants, Token of Appreciation)
3	Meetup event Discussion between team members and volunteer	10660 NPR	Tea and snacks for participants
4	Women's Day Awareness Program	31000 NPR	Venue and Refreshments for participants
5	Basic Wikipedia Training	58700 NPR	Accommodation and travel of trainer and snacks for students and college authorities
6	SWAG material	12500 NPR	SWAG material for Basic Wikipedia Training and Back Drop will be used in every event
7	Communication	5000 NPR
8	Backdrop for event	3800 NPR
9	Travel expenses	4800 NPR
10	Miscellaneous	2040 NPR
	Total	177500 NPR

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?
No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?
Due to the pandemic outbreak, this project was delayed for a year but we have managed to complete it lastly. We didn't act according to our plan but we are satisfied with the way participants participated in the online and offline event.