Grants:Project/Rapid/UG LEV/Winter 2018-2019 Education Program in Palestine/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 LEV/Winter 2018-2019 Education Program in Palestine.
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Goals

We are very pleased about how it went. our achieved targets was more than we think.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Recruit new editors about 50 students	We recruited 27 students from 13 schools in our country, who have enrolled in the new education program	It was impossible to predict how many students would enroll, but we think this is a reasonable yield for this first program in our country, we made a small test to know who deserve to be in this program.
add photos for wikicommons, about 70 photo	We uploaded about 209 photos for wikicommons (flowers, famous places, nature .. etc)	we don't select the number of photo to be uploaded, so the result was more than we think
Add or improve content, about 50 articls (one article per one person)	Add or improve content, about 71 articls in more than 16 field in wikipedia.	we tell our student that every student must writes or improve 2 or 3 article to have an certificate, we surprised the some of student wrote more that 12 article and other 10, 9, 5, an so on!

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?

• Ability to meet with students, to answer their questions and teach them the basics of writing and editing, writing a plan for the program and commitment, which facilitated the process of communication between students and editors in the Encyclopedia.
• we made an groups on facebook to continue with students

What did not work so well?

• The timing of the program in the last month of year probably had good and bad aspects, cause students have an finall exams and project in teir schools.

What would you do differently next time?

we planned to make another program, not just for student schools here, but for student in our universities. (To spread the idea of wiki education programs in our country)

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

The funds were spent as proposed, as follows:

the fare of the meeting place:

3*200ILS=600ILS

the fare of Honoring ceremony:

hall rental: 200USD

photography: 100 USD

refreshments: 336ILS

Certificates and certificate holders for participating students:

390ILS

Plaques for excellence participating students:

570ILS

Plaques for coordinators:

300ILS

Mugs for participating students:

80ILS

Wikipedia pins: 16*5ILS=80ILS Book printing (the Story of Wikipedia): 4*30ILS=120ILS Wikimedians of the Levant T-shirts:

32*60ILS=1920ILS

Stationery:

70ILS

Transportation:

85USD

Wire transfer:

5USD

TOTAL: 3,666ILS (@3.65) = 1005USD + 555USD = 1560 USD

Remaining funds

The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of US$295 were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Project/Rapid/UG LEV/Summer 2019-2020 Education Program in Palestine.

Do you have any remaining grant funds? We would like to retain the remaining $295 for the upcoming education program in Palestine.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?