Grants:Project/Rapid/UG NWR-Hist/Second annual gathering/Report

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? All 3 goals were met:

1. Team building — all participants agreed that the event was successful, personal acquaintances led to increasing of interaction between members of the user group online.
2. Outreach and content gaps — participants photographed plenty of objects in west part of Vologda Oblast that haven't had any photos in Wikimedia projects. Also after event we've organized "month of Vologda Oblast" edit-a-thon during which our UG members created and improved articles about this region.
3. Learning — all participants who wanted to, have attended drone lessons.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of participants — 15	Number of participants offline — 12, online — 4	Due to COVID-19 situation some of planned participants couldn't attend in person, so we've organized the Zoom call and in-time reporting in VK chat.
Number of participants attended to a drone lessons — 10	Number of participants attended to a drone lessons — 9	One person who've planned to attend lessons, stayed at home due to COVID-19.
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons — 500	Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons — 651	Target reached even without uploading most of photos of cultural heritage monuments that we're holding for Wiki Loves Monuments-2022 competition.
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects — 100	Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects — 112	Target reached.
Number of new Commons categories — 50	Number of new Commons categories — 249	We've underestimated the lack of Commons categories in Vologda Oblast. :)
Number of edits in Wikipedia articles after the event — 200	Number of edits in Wikipedia articles after the event — 591	We've organized "month of Vologda Oblast" edit-a-thon after the event and even those UG members who didn't attend the gathering made their contributions in Russian and English. The edit-a-thon is still going on, and some articles are planned for translation to Tatar and other languages.
Number of edits in Russian Wikivoyage after the event — 700 (500 of those in lists for WLM)	Number of edits in Russian Wikivoyage after the event — 1225 (940 of those in lists for WLM)	Target reached.

Learning

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• What worked well?
  • Mostly, event was good.
• What did not work so well?
  • The only disappointing thing was the weather, but neither we nor Wikimedia Foundation can do anything about it. Also our plans included visiting more museums than we could attend, because some of them were closed due to long New Year holidays and COVID-19.
• What would you do differently next time?
  • I don't think we'll do something differently. Event went well, all cons were the lesser of the evils possible.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

We've added "Spent Funds" list to original budget with explanation.

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Remaining funds include 44,163.64 ₽. Since the eruption of conflict between Russia and Ukraine we have difficulties with money transferring between Russia and USA, so we prefer to hold this funds to organize a meetup.

The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of 44,163₽ or USD equivalent were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Wiki_Photo_Workshop_2024_in_Tashkent_(ID:_22458814).

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

This event inspired us a lot. We literally fell in love with Vologda region so we did much more contributions to Wikimedia projects than we planned before including 8 new articles in Russian Wikipedia and 4 translations to English. Also now we have the new member of UG who attended the event as a guest. So we think that events like this are very useful for user groups and for Wikimedia Movement and hope that we can do many another events in the future.