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Grants:Project/Rapid/Shoodho/Wiki Loves Africa 2021 Botswana

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Shoodho/Wiki Loves Africa contest in Botswana
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual photo contest held on the African continent to increase the number of visuals and audio visuals of African origin for use on various Wikimedia projects.
targetSetswana Wikipedia - English Wikipedia - Wikimedia Commons
start date15 February
end date15 April
budget (local currency)BWP 18,371.90
budget (USD)US$1700
grant typeindividual
grantee• Shoodho
contact(s)• ckhohliwe(_AT_)gmail.com
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Please see the sample Contest application before drafting your application.

Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

  1. Introduce Wiki Loves Africa project to existing and new contributors of wiki commons, and share all about Wiki Loves Africa and its purpose.
  2. Recruit loyal contributors (professional photographers and non professional)to wikipedia and its sister projects.
  3. Engage existing contributors and encourage them to continue contributing even when the contest is over.

Project Plan

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Activities

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Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?

Wiki Loves Africa 2021 in Botswana will focus on photo shooting activities under the theme health and wellness. Pictures uploaded on Commons will be used to illustrate and improve articles related to Botswana and Africa under health and wellness on wikipedia and its sister project. A series of 3 edit a thorns.

2. How will you let people know about the contest?

They will be contacted on the Wiki Loves Africa Botswana Facebook page and the Wikimedia Botswana User-group page. Then use of banners to advertise the contest to local Wikipedia readers, and promote it on Facebook page.

3. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?

We will have a panel of 3 judges who will set criteria for best images and use these as a basis to select the best images for local awards.


4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

The event would be in person for 3 days and virtual activities to the end of the year. Participant who are not able to bring along their laptops during our 3 day physical meetups would share with their colleague under covid-19 strict guideline, we will also provide participant with data scholarships to the end of the year.

5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Participant would be engaged after the training through our social media channel, so that if they are having any challenges we would be able to support them.

6. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cTuus-Q4O8CexZ_wVIxlQ0Je6ok_DaIIMzfKeProj5A/edit?usp=sharing

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Impact

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How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

  1. Number of participants 25
  2. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 350+
  3. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects 25+
  4. 4 months after the event, 50 of uploaded photos are categorized as valued, quality or featured.

Resources

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What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding). Links

Team Members

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What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

No. Expenses Explanation Amount ($)


1. Graphic design Design of Posters and flyers and certificate 150
2. Online advertising campaign Social media campaign- Facebook and Twitter promotions 150


3. Communication Airtime for Communication between organizers, Reminder calls and SMS to Participants 100


4. Internet Subscription Internet Support for participants using a router at the venue, and also 10 active participants with data bundles subscription and schedule frequent check in conference calls on request to assist those with issues, Internet will be used for training participants 350


5. Gift Cards First Prize $200
Second Prize $100
Third Prize $50 		350
6. Contingency and miscellaneous expenses 50
7. Venue 3 day series of events 300
8. Food *3 days 250
Total: $1700



Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • one of the project goals is to increase the number of contributors and I'm all for that. Udehb (talk) 08:56, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
  •   Support , I believe this project will improve content available online about Botswana which can freely be accessed by everyone Ndahiro derrick (talk) 15:03, 5 December 2020 (UTC) 
  •   Support,Mompati Dikunwane (talk) 15:51, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Nice idea, I recommend Chukydyk (talk) 16:46, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Happy to see that team join again ! Did a great job last year. To see their local page for project outcomes in 2020 : c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2020/Botswana Anthere (talk)
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