Grants:Project/Rapid/Nirmal Dulal/Wiki Loves Birds/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/Nirmal Dulal/Wiki Loves Birds.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
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Goals

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

Yes We met our goals as we mentioned in the Grant proposal. We have successfully engaged the existing and new users during the project timeline. Our team and community are happy and satisfied with the output of this project. Through the beginning, we worked hard to achieve the goals. We used our experience of past events to connect more people as well as focus to upload more images to Wikimedia Commons.

Activities

To promote the Wiki Loves Birds, we collaborated with Bird Conservation Nepal (BirdLife Nepal) and Friends of Birds Group. We also got support from BCN to identify species of birds and organize Photowalk and Bird watching. More than 7 Photowalks were organized around Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kavre, Chitwan, and other parts of Nepal. Some professional and newbie enthusiastic photographers participated during the photo-ride event. These events show increment in the number of participants as well as numerous photo uploads.

Gallery

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  User:Nirmal Dulal & User:Niraj Dahal at first meet up
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  First Team Meetup
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  Group Photo at Outreach
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  Project Coordinator with Mr. Rajendra Gurung (President of BCN) and bird expert Mr. Ramesh Chaudhary
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  Mr. Ramesh Chaudhary at Bird Identification Technique Session
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  Participants of Bird Identification Technique Session
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  Participants of Bird Identification Technique Session
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  User: Creepanta at photowalk
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  Team at Photowalk
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  Team at photoride in Chitwan
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  Team at photoride in Chitwan
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  User:Niraj Dahal introducing wiki loves birds to the participants.
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  User: Nrik Kran at photowalk
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  photowalk at Shivapuri

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of total participants: 15+	Number of total participants: 22	Target reached
Number of edit-a-thon: 1	Number of edit-a-thon: 1	Target reached
Number of photowalk or photoride : 7+	Number of photowalk or photoride : 8	Target reached but unexpected weather condition affected our plan.
Number of articles created or improved: 100+	Number of articles created or improved: ne.wiki- 100, en.wiki- 3	Target reached but I accepted more.
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 1000+	Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 1021	Target reached because of good team work and work distribution.

Other Metrics

Other metrics counts of this project are described below:

Description	Outcomes	Remarks
1. Number of Total Participants (including core team)	22
2. Number of newly registered users	10
3. Number of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects
3 a.In Nepali Wikipedia	100
3 b. In English Wikipedia	3
4. Number of new images/media uploaded to Wikimedia Commons	1093
4 a. Uploaded Photos (by Number of Species)	120+
4 b. Number of Valued images	10	more to Nominate
4 c.Number of Quality images	11	more to Nominate

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?

Coordination and collaboration: The project was able to introduce Wikipedia article creation technique to the people working on birds by producing literature, pictures, and research works. It has built up nice coordination and relationship with Bird Conservation Nepal, birds experts of Nepal, and reputed writers of books on birds. Their collaboration and active participation in this project by way of photo uploading, species identification, and article creation have enriched Wikipedia.

Photographic team's work: The Wiki Loves Birds project has collaborated with a good number of professional photographers who have great equipment for macro photography. So this project has formed an enthusiastic team of photographers who are willing to contribute to Wikimedia Commons.

Creation and expansion of articles in ne.wiki: This project has created and developed more than 100 articles on birds of Nepal in Nepali Wikipedia which has upheld the very motto of Wikimedia movement of knowledge development and sharing.

• What did not work so well?

Weather condition: This year unexpected weather condition affected our plan on Photowalks.

Media Coverage: we planned to publish some news on media but unfortunately we could not make it.

• What would you do differently next time?

We expect to work with the more bird expertise to make this project better and will try to engage more photographers and editors to in uploading photographs and creating and improving articles in the project Wiki Loves Birds. We are also thinking to collaborate with international community to add photographs in Wikimedia Commons and improve the quality and quantity of Wikipedia article about Birds from all around the world.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

SN	Category	Item Description	Total NPR	Total USD	Remarks
1	Photowalks and Photoride	Transportation	50850	450	Transportation during Photowalks and Photoride and Inside of National Park
		Food and Accomodation	73450	650	Food and Accomodation for the participants for all targeted programs
		Permission for Entering National Parks and Miscellaneous	5650	50
2	Telephone and Internet connectivity	Internet data and communication charges	11300	100	3G/4G Internet data and telephone communication charges for team member
3	Certificates	Certificates for participants	16950	150
4	Outreach Event	Transportation and Food	11300	100
5	Stationery and Miscellaneous		16950	150
6	Total		186450	1650	Total cost of all events

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

• There are more than 10000+ documented species of birds in the world. If we can run this project in international level, we can have more quality and valuable images of birds from all around the world in wikimedia projects and able to improve the quality and quantity of Wikipedia articles about birds.
• Because of this project we are able to upload some totally new images to wikipedia project (ie. images of Spiny Babbler and Indian Grassbird).
• I have created list of birds found in Nepal, in future I have plane to improve Wikipedia articles about them and Upload photos.