Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Irvin Stotomas/Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in the Philippines

Comments from WMF

Hello, Filipinayzd; thank you for submitting this grant request and for your work in organizing WLM 2019 in the Philippines. I am still going through your 2018 report to confirm eligibility for this year, but I figured I would begin the review process of this grant because we need to make some changes.

We have received greater demand than we expected for this edition of WLM, and we decided to use the budget to fund all the initiatives, rather than fund a select few. Because of this, we are asking all organizers to edit down their budgets to under 1000 USD.

Taking a look at your budget, I can think of the following possibilities:

1. Choosing less expensive main prizes
2. Deciding if the rest of the budget, outside of the prizes, would be better spent organizing an outreach activity like a photowalk or organizing an awards ceremony. Bear in mind that WMF no longer funds non-local travel costs (this may affect the possibilities for the awards ceremony). You can read more on the updated funding guidelines here.

Please keep me posted as you update your budget, and I will keep you posted as I continue the 2018 review. Regards, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 03:03, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi MMontes (WMF). Thanks for the quick response. We have adjusted the budget. --Filipinayzd (talk) 09:56, 15 August 2019 (UTC)