Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves Earth in Greece 2019/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/UG GR/Wiki Loves Earth in Greece 2019.
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Goals

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

ll of the project's goals were exceeded. This also includes improving the quality of the already existing articles related to the pictures. Also many Nature Protected Areas of Greece were covered for first time with photos from the competition. Generally we succeeded in increasing the number of freely licensed images of Greek nature, in raising awareness of natural heritage through the photographs uploaded during the competition, and improving the quality of the content on Wikimedia projects by providing images to existing articles.

We also succeeded in raising awareness of free licences among photographers in Greece (at least for those who participated) and recruited some of them as new contributors to Wikimedia Commons. We also increased local media coverage about Wikimedia projects through national news outlets. From the organizational side, the project run ok based on last years experience, one more wikimedian was trained as a coordinator, previous organizers changed roles to disseminate knowledge and increase the bus factor.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of participants: 200	266 participants
Number of photos uploaded: 2000	2285 photos
Number of new users: 120	235 new users	(88% of participants were new users)
New areas to be photographed: 10	>20
4 months after the contest, 120 or 5% of photos are used on wiki projects	447 photos (20%)	Contest to use photos in wiki projects was succesful. The created list of images with area codes was very helpful.

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?
  • Participation was satisfying.
  • Jury process worked well.
• What did not work so well?
  • We let extremely long time to contact the winners and schedule the awards event. That was of taking care for other parallel events and because of personal issues.
• What would you do differently next time?
  • Keep the schedule...

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Actual cost per unit	Actual total	Budgeted total	Currency	Notes
1	Prizes	1st award	item	1.00	400.00	400.00	900.00	EUR	gift cards
2	Prizes	2nd award	item	1.00	300.00	300.00
3	Prizes	3rd award	item	1.00	200.00	200.00
4	Prizes	1st award for the illustration marathon	item	1.00	31.91	31.91	40.00	EUR	via bank transfer
5	Prizes	2nd award for the illustration marathon	item	1.00	14.98	14.98
6	Posters	posters of the awarded photographs given in ceremony and exhibited	item	20.00	11,6	232.00	200.00	EUR
7	Venue	Venue for the Award ceremony	item	-	-	-	200.00	EUR	Offered by Inter Alia
8	Certificates	Certificates for the awarded photographs and jury members	item	10.00	2.00	20.00	20.00	EUR	Certificates with the names of the awarded photographers
9	Traveling expenses	traveling expenses for organisers	airplane, taxi and metro tickets	20.00	-	209.42	230.00	EUR	The rest amount of the full cost for the traveling expenses was offered by Goethe-Institut Athen
10	Fees, commissions etc	Bank commission for bank transfer for 2nd award for the illustration marathon	bank commission	1.00	2.35	2.35	20.00	EUR	bank commission
11	Fees, commissions etc	Bank commission for incoming remittance	bank commission	1.00	3.50	3.50
12	Beverages/snacks	soft drinks and snacks for the award ceremony	n/a	n/a	n/a	54.80	50.00	EUR	The rest amount of the full cost was offered by Postscriptum and Goethe-Institut Athen
13	Incidentals	expenses that are not projected in the budget but may still occur	-	-	-	-	100.00	EUR	-

Total: 1,468.96 EUR

Remaining funds

Remaining funds from this grant have been returned to WMF in the amount of 291.04 EUR.

Do you have any remaining grant funds? 291.04 EUR. We would like to spend them on Wiki Loves Earth in Greece 2020.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?