Grants:Project/Rapid/Ola/Wiki Loves Africa 2022 and 2023 in Sudan/Report

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Goals

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

the project goals were met were the photowalks and the upload sessions were held to

To improve the content in wikimedia commons (Wikimedia)
Engage existing editors (Wikimedia community)
Train new users (photographers)

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
To improve the content in wikimedia commons	532 images uploads	uploads sessions were held in Khartoum and Nyala to encourage photographers to upload images
Engage existing editors (Wikimedia community)	11.9k edits + 20 words added to Wikipedia	Sudanese Community members were invited to the upload/edit-a-thon to work in wikipedia articles
Train new users (photographers)	training and participation of 25 photographers	2 photowalks contained old and new photographers

Learning

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What worked well?

the photo-walk tour was great, the photographers were very interesting about the theme, it was an interesting experiment. inviting the community members of old photographers was also good idea.

What did not work so well?

the project was supposed to contain local contest.

What would you do differently next time?

we would like to start earlier with the preparation, do more advertising and using the existing members to train other new users.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

the project (Wiki Loves Africa 2023, Wikimedia Commons photowalks, upload/edit-athons sessions (2-days in Khartoum and in Nyala Cities)

No.	Issue	Planned USD	Actual USD	Balance USD
1.0	Photowalk
1.1	Facilitation	300	300	0
1.2	Transportation	300	250	50
1.3	Food and refreshments	180	112	68
1.4	Documentation, branding and outreach	300	249	51
1.5	Internet	0	142	-142
	Sub-total	1080	1053	27
2.0	Upload/Edit-a-thon
2.1	Facilitation	300	300	0
2.2	Hall Rent	200	302	-102
2.3	Food and Refreshments	290	284	6
2.4	Transportation	435	235	200
2.5	Safety Kits	145	98	47
2.6	Documentation and Stationary	200	293	-93
2.7	Internet	200	195	5
-	sub-total	1770	1707	63
-	Total	2850	2759	90

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

yes, we have remaining of 90.52$. All receipts of expenses were uploaded in the following google drive link [1]

Remaining funds are retained by the grantee with WMF's permission until after the report review has been completed and report has been accepted, at which time the WMF program officer will also provide instructions regarding the grantee's reallocation or return of the unspent grant funds.