Grants:PEG/WM CZ/Mediagrant/Report/2012/07

Interim report accepted

This interim report for a Project and Event Grant has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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This is the 5th report on Mediagrant, which aims to summarize our progress from April till June 2012. Members of the current Mediagrant 'eye' are still the same, Chmee2, Packa and Vojtech.dostal. Overall, we consider this to be a successful term, as the expenditures for the collection topics nearly doubled over the last three months, with 51 journeys being made by our participants (much more than in the same period last year).

Overview of MG media collection topics

Current long-term topics (as of 30 June 2012)

Name	Description	Journeys ("tickets")	Objects	Photographs	Expenditures CZK	Paid out CZK
Foto českých obcí	Documentation of Czech Municipalities including the smallest ones	48	507	4356	12 832 ($650)	8 521
Lidová architektura	Vernacular architecture	1	1	31	728 ($40)	0
Lidové kroje a zvyky	Czech Vernacular Clothes and Customs	2	2	301	2 100 ($110)	2 000
Obrazová dokumentace chráněných území a památných stromů v ČR	Documentation of protected Natural Areas and Memorable Trees in the Czech Republic	65	244	4533	10 985 ($550)	8 085
Odborná fotografie	Scientific Photography	2	2	80	270 ($20)	120
Události	Documentation of important events in the Czech Republic	2	2	93	132 ($10)	97
Vodstvo	Water bodies of the Czech Republic	1	2	47	2032 ($110)	2032
Židovské památky	Documentation of Jewish monuments in the Czech Republic	9	123	1295	4 431 ($230)	3 257
Summary		130	883	10 736	33 515 ($1680)	24 117

Latest one-time requests (April – June 2012)

Name	Description	Photographs	Expenditures CZK	Paid out CZK
Přenosný skener pro Wikizdroje	Handy scanner for Wikisources	N/A	3 526 ($180)	3 526
Výlet s WikiProjektem Chráněná území	One-day trip with WikiProject Protected areas (English report)	62	1 968 ($100)	1 968
Fotoworkshop jaro 2012	Photographic workshop spring 2012	980	17 500 ($880)	17 500
Summary		1042	22 994 ($1160)	22 994

One-day trip with WikiProject Protected areas

Remarks

• There will always be some difference between “Expenditures” and “Paid out” because there is always a time delay between recording expenditures into tracker and supporting them by documents and approving them. The second reason for this is that a few expenditures were decided not be approved in full extent.
• The amounts in USD was rounded.

Summary

Total amount of all Mediagrant expenditures: 122 724,85 CZK (approx. 6460 USD)

• one-time requests: 89 210,25 CZK (4700 USD)
• long-term topics: 33 514,60 CZK (1680 USD)

Outreach

Jewish cemetery in Kolinec (Documentation of Jewish monuments topic)

An effort has been made to make contacts with a Czech magazine "Turista" (Tourist) and publish an article to promote our goals and grants. We were declined right away by the publisher, stating that he is unwilling to popularize a project that would 'steal' the photographers from him (who pays them while we want them to publish their photos for free).

A recent photoworkshop has proved to be quite a success in terms of outreach towards other participants. The format of the workshop (a three-day photographic session payed by Mediagrant money) makes it difficult to invite all 'potential' participants eg. via social sites. However, thanks to several invitations at the regular Wiki-meetings, we attracted some new photographers (i.e. who have not taken part at the workshops so far). Furthermore, nearly 1000 photos have been made by the participants during this workshop and as part of their “homework” (see Category:Fotoworkshop Kokořínsko 2012).

In case of people who have not even contributed to WMF projects, it seems better to organize one-day events in the vicinity of bigger cities - such as the 8th May trip of WikiProject Protected Areas near Prague, where people contacted with social sites get to meet Wikipedians and learn what Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons are all about.

Clerical work in MG

We are reviewing results of current volunteer work done by entrusted chapter members. If it proves difficult to ensure the clerical work by means of volunteering, we want to provoke a broad debate over the matter.