Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves Monuments in Greece 2017/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

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

Some of the project's goals were exceeded. This also includes improving the quality of the already existing articles related to the pictures. Also many monuments in Greece were covered for first time with photos from the competition. Generally we succeeded in increasing the number of freely licensed images of Greek monuments, in raising awareness of historical heritage through the photographs uploaded during the competition, and improving the quality of the content on Wikimedia projects by providing images to existing articles. It is obvious that more images will be used in the future, since a large number of them was not used only because there was no article about that monument.

In 2017 we have photos from 231 monuments. Out of them 123 monuments were not photographed in 2016, thus we have really succeeded in increasing the number of freely licensed images of Greek monuments.

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.

Some of the quantitative project's goals were not covered. We had less participants and thus less photos. There is a suspicion (also in other countries) that the CentraNotice did not work properly and banners were not displayed for many days.

Monuments list was transfered from tables and geodatabases to Wikidata, so that we now have a good overview of them, and through this we enriched Wikidata itself. [1]

From the organizational side, the project run smoothly based on last years experience and more people on board.

Outcome

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Please report on your original project targets.


Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
Number of participants: 200 104 participants
Number of photos uploaded: 2000 1125 photos
Number of new users: 150 75 new users 72% of the participants
new monuments to be photographed: 20 123 new monuments there are now photos from 123 monuments not covered in 2016
4 months after the event, 150 (or 10%) of photos are used on wiki projects 127 (11%) in 167 pages
4 months after the event, 40 (or 6%) of uploaded photos are categorized as valued, quality or featured 16 quality photos


Learning

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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?
    • Uploading, jury process, and awards ceremony worked well.
    • Monuments list was transfered from tables to Wikidata, so that we now have a good overview of them, and also enriched Wikidata itself!
  • What did not work so well?
    • Suspicion that the CentraNotice was not displayed frequently
  • What would you do differently next time?
    • We will communicate with more photography organizations or groups to promote and engage more photographers.

Finances

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Grant funds spent

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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 Awards 1st award item 1.00 400.00 400.00 400.00 EUR via bank transfer
2 Awards 2d award item 1.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 EUR given in hands during the event
3 Awards 3d award item 1.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 EUR given in hands during the event
4 Awards 2nd award for the illustration marathon item 1 15.00 15.00 EUR via bank transfer
5 Awards 3rd award for the illustration marathon item 1 15.00 15.00 EUR via bank transfer
6 Posters posters of the awarded photographs item 20.00 10.00 200.00 200.00 EUR given to winners and exhibited during the ceremony
7 Incidentals Cylinder package item 1.00 10.00 10.00 130.00 EUR plastic cylinder for archiving posters
8 Venue and Beverages/snacks Venue for the Award ceremony and soft drinks and snacks item 1.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 EUR For the award ceremony
9 Fees, commissions etc Bank commission for bank transfer for 1st award bank commission 1.00 19.00 19.00 30.00 EUR Commission paid for 1st award
10 Fees, commissions etc Bank commission for bank transfer for 2nd award of the illustration marathon bank commission 1.00 21.00 21.00 30.00 EUR Commission paid for 2nd award of the illustration marathon
11 Fees, commissions etc Bank commission for bank transfer for 3rd award of the illustration marathon bank commission 1.00 2.15 2.15 30.00 EUR Commission paid for 3rd award of the illustration marathon
12 Fees, commissions etc Bank commission for bank transfer for venue for the award ceremony bank commission 1.00 2.15 2.15 30.00 EUR
13 Incidentals Posters send via postal service package 1.00 3.60 3.60 130.00 EUR Posters send via postal service to winner - Post expenses
14 Incidentals Cylinder packages for posters item 1.00 2.79 2.79 130.00 EUR Paper cylinder for postal packages
15 Incidentals Courier item 1.00 9.37 9.37 130.00 EUR WCUG poster
16 Incidentals Accomodation in hotel item 1.00 43.00 43.00 130.00 EUR For organisers

Total: 1.493,06 EUR

Remaining funds

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The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of 177.94 EUR were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves Earth in Greece 2018.

Do you have any remaining grant funds? 177,94 EUR


Anything else

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Anything else you want to share about your project?