Grants:Project/Rapid/Nirmal Dulal/Wiki Women Edit-a-thon 2018/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 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 Women Edit-a-thon 2018.
• 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?

First of all, reminder of the goals we set before the starts of the project:

• Increase number of Women participation
• Increase women's involvement in community projects
• Develop the level of Nepali Wikipedia and Nepali contents
• Promote the contribution of women related contents in Nepali and English Wikipedia

As mentioned above all the goals were been achieved within the time frame. Our team and community is happy and satisfied with the output of this project.

Activities

Outreach and Workshop

To promote the women participant in Wiki Movement, We organized Wiki Women Edit-a-thon with all women members in Organizing team. To increase number of participant we organize four outreach program in Kathmandu and one in Rajbiraj.

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Prize Distribution

Venue:	Nepal Connection, Kathmandu
Hosts:	Wikimedians of Nepal
Date:	23 June 2018
Time:	02:30 pm to 05:00 pm
Participant:	25+

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Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
A month long inwiki edit-a-thon and 3+ outreach events	Numbers of online participation and 4 outreach Events	Target reached
Number of participants 50+	50+ in wiki and outreach participation	Target reached
Number of new participants 35+	35+ new registered users during the competition	Target reached
Number of estimated articles (create or improve) 400+	400+ rticle created and improved by dashboard registered users + by outreach participants	Target 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?

- Well, talking about the whole competition period, almost everything’s work well as per we planned. - 4 outreach programs were organized in Kathmandu and Rajbiraj. - Large numbers of participation and contributions were achieved.

• What did not work so well?

- We were hoping for large number of women participants in this edit-a-thon but there were no women participation on doteli wikipedia.

• What would you do differently next time?

- For next programs, we'll be focusing on much advance and upgraded training and will collaborate with some women related Organizations to increase number of women participation in edit-a-thon.

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.	Category	Item description	Actual total	Currency	Notes
1	Meet up and Planning	Food and Beverages	6,700	NPR
2	Outreach and Workshop	Food & Beverages, Venue	38,000	NPR
3	T-Shirt and Delivery	For Winners and Team Members	41,500	NPR
4	Printing Magic Mug	Token of Appriciations	9,600	NPR
5	Certificates and Gift hampers	Certificates and Gift hampers for Winners and participants	34,500	NPR
6	Projector on Rent	Projector for Presentation	7,500	NPR
7	Stationary and Other	Welcome Scarf, Sign pen, Non Plastic Bags	3,800	NPR
8	Prize Distribution and Refreshment	Venue, Food & Beverages	11,000	NPR	Felicitation event cost shared with Datathon 2018
9	Transportation	Transportation during event	10,000	NPR
10	Miscellaneous	Telephone, Internet and Extra operating costs	10,000	NPR
Total			172,600	NPR

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

NO

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?