Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Martin Hipangwa/NAMIBIA 2022 Wikimedia Projects Awareness and Edit-a-thon

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Hello Martin Hipangwa, thanks for submitting this grant request. Congratulations on your first Wikimedia Foundation Fund request! I have reviewed the application and I have a few questions and requests:

• Please respond to question #7.
• Please fill out the Impact section.
• Do you plan to run 3 editathons? Do you think you will be able to organize these events in a month? I recommend extending the grant terms because receiving funds will also take some time.
• It's great to learn that you have support from experienced Wikimedians from Namibia and Rwanda.
• Do you have relevant experience with organizing similar events?
• How do you plan to track the participants' contributions? Please consider using the Outreach Dashboard to track the contributions of the participants. You can also use the Training section of the Outreach Dashboard to learn more about how to plan and carry out edit-a-thons.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi DSaroyan (WMF)

Thank for the review.

I have extended the project time to 3 months, with one edit-a-thon per month for easy execution.

I have organized events before, with the National Information Workers Associations of Namibia, Goethe Institut Namibia, AfLIA and work related projects before, but in case of the WMF, It is my first time organizing such events in our country because its first of its kind apart from the one User: pgallert did with the University of Science and Technology students. I have only attended events but I haven't organized before. I am counting on the expertise such as Ndahiro Derrick User:Ndahiro derrick and P. Gallet User: pgallert to help out with organizing.

Kindly advise further. Martin Hipangwa (talk) 13:54, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

[EXTENSION] Namibia 2022 Wikimedia Projects Awareness And Edit-a-thon Rapid Grant

Dear Grant committee

I would like to extend the period of the project from 4th April- 3rd June to 6 June to August 5, 2022. This was due to funds not yet received. Arrangements are made and the the payments department is busy investigating for the funds to reach us as soon as possible so we start with the project.

Regards User:Martin Hipangwa

Hello Martin Hipangwa, thanks for posting your request. I have reviewed and formally approved it. The new grant end date is 5 August 2022, and the final report is due on 5 September 2022. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 15:31, 2 June 2022 (UTC)