Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves Monuments in Greece 2021/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 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 Monuments in Greece 2021.
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Goals

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

Some of the project's goals were succeded. This mainly includes improving the quality of the already existing articles related to the pictures. Also we raised 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 increased local media coverage about Wikimedia projects through national news outlets. We raised even more coverage when two photos from our photos were awarded in the international WLM. More specifically the image which winned the 10th place in WLM Greece got the 13th place in the international competition, while the image which winned the 4th place in the local competition got the 15th place in the international.

On the other side, most of our quantitative goals were not met. We encountered significant drop in participation and submitted photos, and this is something that we will promptly examine further.

From the organizational side everything went ok.

Outcome

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of participants: 120	49
Number of photos uploaded: 1700	536
Number of new users: 80	32
4 months after the contest, 80 or 5% of photos are used on wiki projects	71 (13%)
20 new monuments be photographed	18

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?
- Jury process worked great.
What did not work so well?
- Participation was low. We need to research the reasons for this.
What would you do differently next time?
- Keep the schedule.
  - Submit the reports earlier.
- Increase of prizes (?)
  - Define a relationship (if any) between number oh phtos uploaded and the level of prizes

Finances

Grant funds spent

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	300.00	300.00	650.00	EUR	gift cards
2	Prizes	2nd award	item	1.00	200.00	200.00
3	Prizes	3rd award	item	1.00	150.00	150.00
4	Posters	posters of the awarded photographs send to winners and duplicates archived for future exhibition	item	20.00	10.23	204.60	250.00	EUR	printing costs
5	Prizes	1st award for the illustration marathon	item	1	33.51	33.51	60.00	EUR	via bank transfer
6	Prizes	2nd award for the illustration marathon	item	1	22.03	22.03	60.00	EUR	via bank transfer
7	Certificates	Certificates for the awarded photographs	item	1	-	-	20.00	EUR	Certificates with the names of the awarded photographers. They were sent via email as result of the Covid-19 pandemic
8	Mailing	For awards and thank you certicates	n/a	-	-	19.00	50.00	EUR	for posters mailed to the winners
9	Fees, comissions 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
10	Fees, comissions etc	Bank commission for incoming grant remittance	bank commission	1.00	3.50	3.50	20.00	EUR	bank commission
11	Incidentals	cylinder packages for posters	item	5	3.34	16.69	100.00	EUR	for posters send via postal service to winner

Total: 951.68 EUR

Remaining funds

Our remaining funds are 248.32 EUR.

The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of 248.32 EUR were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_Greece_2023_(ID:_22215798).