Grants:Project/Rapid/WMSK/Wikipedia Asian Month 2020/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020 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/WMSK/Wikipedia Asian Month 2020.
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Goals

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

No, outcomes of the contest did not reach our expectations. The contest left us with only about half of what we originally set out to achieve.

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	7	The contest attracted only 7 out of 14 expected participants, i.e. in this respect, we achieved 50 % rate of success. We noticed low interests to take part in the contest among Slovak Wikipedia users.
Number of articles created: 86	41	As a result of the contest, only 41 out of 86 expected articles were created, i.e. in this respect, we achieved 48 % rate of success. The main reason lies within the low number of participants and, in general terms, in decreasing interest of Slovak Wikipedia participants to take part in an article writing contest.

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?

The Fountain tool proved itself to be useful for judging the articles.

• What did not work so well?

We were not able to deploy targeted advertisement social media campaign in time to possibly attract new users to Slovak Wikipedia.

• What would you do differently next time?

We would like to focus our efforts on more promotion and media exposure with special focus to reach the audience outside of Wikimedia community. We would also improve organizational coordination.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Items	Specification	Amount (EUR)	Amount (USD)
E-book reader Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 4 (2018), 6" E-ink, 8GB, WF including shipping	First place	132.57	162.09
CONNECT IT black case cover for an e-book reader Amazon NEW Kindle Paperwhite 4 (2018) CEB-1040-BK including shipping		11.89	14.54
Tablet Lenovo TAB M8 with 8", 32 GB, WF, BT, GPS, Android 9.0 OS including shipping	Second place	120.10	146.85
LEATHER case cover for Lenovo Tab M8 including shipping		14.80	18.10
Martinus.sk bookstore gift cards	Third, Fourth & Fifth place	200.00	244.53
Packing chips FLO-PAK BIO 8 including shipping	First & Second place (packing)	43.50	53.19
Boxes	First & Second place (packing)	1.80	2.20
Postage including insurance	First & Second place (shipping)	18.60	22.74
Unforeseen expenses	–	0.00	0.00
Grand total		543.26	664.24

Note: Since there was no considerable contribution by a new user, we decided not to award 100 Euros new user contestant award and instead split 100 Euros among remaining (fourth and fifth) participants.

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

We spent 543.26 out of 700.00 Euros projected in the grant proposal budget (i.e. 78 %). This means the remaining funds constitute 156.74 Euros which should probably revert back to the original StartUp grant.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?