Grants:Project/Rapid/PANKAJ DEO/MWUG Annual Ceremony/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 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, I meet the goals as per the grant proposal. Well, I am quite happy because of the motivation, support and equal participation from the fellow Wikimedians. This is my first individual grant and I am satisfied to complete the project. This is first Edit-a-thon with some complex rules (for valid article — 1500 words and 10000 bytes) to produce good articles during the competition. At the end of the competition there was 12 good articles, which was simply amazing.

Activities

Meetups

Two meetups were held on different places of Rajbiraj. We discuss about the progress of Edit-a-thon.

Gallery

Group editing and discussion

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  Biplab Anand and Pankaj Deo at the Meetup.
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  Biplab Anand and Pankaj Deo at the Meetup.
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  Biplab Anand, Kiran Kumar Sah and Pankaj Deo at the Meetup.

Wikipedia Program at Rajbiraj Model College

With the help of MWUG Volunteers we conducted Wikipedia program in Rajbiraj Model College, Rajbiraj. The program was conducted on 27 March 2018.

Gallery

Wikipedia Education Program

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  Wikipedia program at Rajbiraj Model Campus
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  Wikipedia program at Rajbiraj Model Campus
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  Wikipedia program at Rajbiraj Model Campus
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  Group Photo
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  Group Photo

Felicitation Program

The competition is organized to create articles about different localities and to gather the participation of all wikipedians of Maithili Wikipedia. The competition was begins on 8 February, 2018 and finished on 20 February, 2018. The highlights of the competition can seen here.

To felicitate the winners of the Wikimedians Sampaadan Saptaah, Maithili Wikimedians organized an event on 6^th April, 2018.

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Wikipedia Education Program

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  Participants during Wikimedian Sampaadan Saptaah
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  Anniversary Event cake
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  Group Photo
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  Felicitation Program Cake
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  Group Photos with participants

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Socialize with community members	Achieved	Regular updates on Maithili Wikipedia VP and collaboration with the MWUG makes this possible.
Organize an Edit-a-thon	Achieved	Maithili Wikimedians Sampaadan Saptaah organized from February 8, 2018 to February 20, 2018.
Recruit new editors	Achieved	Overall 9 Wikipedians participated during the Edit-a-thon competition. 4 of them were new to the Wikipedia.
Create quality articles	Achieved	12 quality articles created during the Edit-a-thon competition.

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?
  

— Communication with the fellow wikimedians and offline meetups worked well.

• What did not work so well?
  

— Over the year of experience makes the project smooth. Everything's goes well expect more user engagement.

• What would you do differently next time?
  

— Pre Social media promotion can help to engage more users.

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.	Type of Expense	Expenses Amount (NPR)	Comments
1	Gift Hamper	28,750	Winners of Edit-a-thon
2	Event Hall	15,000	Prize distribution
3	Food and Drinks	24,375	For both the events (Anniversary and Prize Distribution)
4	Token of Love and Certificate	8,500	For judges, participants and volunteers
5	Cake	3,000	Anniversary Cake
6	Travel Expenses	5,000
7	Miscellaneous	8,000
-	Total	92,625

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of 3,964 NPR (US$38) were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Project/Rapid/PANKAJ DEO/Provincial Photowalk Series- Province No. 2, Nepal.

Yes, I have 3,964 NPR remaining from the above activities.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?
— Thanks to Woubzena and grant administrator for their wonderful supports. I am happy doing this project.