Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia TZA/Told Cities Project in Tanzania

Hello Jadnapac, thank you for submitting this Rapid Grant proposal. We are happy to see the community in Tanzania working on documentation of the African UNESCO World Heritage. We have reviewed your proposal and have the following follow up question:

Hi RSharma (WMF), thank you for your comments and question. I would like to respond to them all as followsː--Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

1. In the grant application you have mentioned that you would have experienced editors supporting you throughout the project. Could you please add their usernames to the request page?
   I have already mentioned the usernames of atleast 5 active facilitators 2 global facilitators/coordinators (user:Yamen from Tunisia) and (User:Nassima Chahboun from Morocco) and 3 local faciliatators (userːJadnapac, UserːCzeus25_Masele and UserːBelindamakoye).--Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
2. Since the project proposal mentions adding or improving Wikidata items, can you add the metrics for Wikidata Items/Labels in the impact section?
   As I explained a bit on the proposal, Wikidata is one of the projects are yet to be much familiar amongst our members, few of them understand about it, but we expect after the training, something will be added to what the members already knows. This makes some challenge on approximating the exact results but so far we are anticipating to have atleast 100 wikidata items added, improved and or edited. --Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
3. We would like to see more community participation in the proposal. Can you add community notification link for the proposal or any on-wiki link for this project where they can learn about this project?
   I have already updated our meta page to give an information about the project Here, and some of our members already know about the project, and we will let them all know through our channels]--Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
4. Per the Rapid Grant guidelines, cash prizes for contest or other competition winners are not permitted. Instead, Wikimedia merchandize, certificates, gift coupons, books, and other tokens can be awarded to recognize achievements for winners, jury for their contributions. Please update the budget in the Resources section to reflect the fact that you do not intend to offer cash prize.
   Thanks for reminding me on this, I am totally aware and i have rectified it accordingly.--Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
5. Can you update the Resources section with clear bullets. Can you clarify more about the budget for "Internet". Does “Branding” budget item cover the expenses of the graphic designer to create the banner? Can you explain bit more about the "Communications" expenses?
   Thank you again for this, I have done the necessary.--Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello Jadnapac, thanks for re-proposing the grant application. Kindly update the links of the places where you have shared the grant proposal with the community and ensure there is atleast one on-wiki link included in your application. Regards RSharma (WMF) (talk) 11:17, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi RSharma (WMF), I have updated the info on our user group meta page that the Told City project will be done on February. Moreover on 16th Jan 2021 we had a Wikimedia Tanzania-planning meetup for 2021 (on Google Meet) where among other things we talked about the Told City project too. The announcement was posted on our WhatsApp group and on our facebook page. Regards Jadnapac (talk) 09:21, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Looking forward to your responses. Regards RSharma (WMF) (talk) 13:58, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello Jadnapac, Can you push back the grant start date to a later date since we cannot approve the grants retroactively. Please let us know, once you make the required changes, so we can move forward with your grant request. Regards, RSharma (WMF) (talk) 11:42, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello RSharma (WMF), I was working on rescheduling this projects for it to be done as an in person event, hence my apology for the delay in response. I have pushed back the event to start at 17th October 2020 as seen on the proposal. Kindly let me know if there is something more I can do. Regards--Jadnapac (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Comments from WMF

Hello Jadnapac, thanks for your clarification remarks. Currently, the Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania Group has overdue reports:

[1] Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiTZA/Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Tanzania Reports due 30 August
[2] Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia TZA/ Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Tanzania Reports due 15 September

We are unable to further review your proposal for Told Cities Project in Tanzania until these reports are submitted. Alternatively, if you would like to request an extension for the submission date, please post a request on the discussion page with the new proposed dates for the completion of these projects. Looking forward to hear from you. Regards, RSharma (WMF) (talk) 11:43, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello Jadnapac, thanks for re-proposing the grant application. Kindly update the links of the places where you have shared the grant proposal with the community and ensure there is atleast one on-wiki link included in your application. Regards RSharma (WMF) (talk) 11:17, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Approved

Hello Jadnapac, thank you for clarifying about our queries. I am happy to approve your grant request. Best of luck for your campaign. Regards, RSharma (WMF) (talk) 08:05, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi RSharma (WMF)!, thank you for approving our grant request. We appreciate your efforts. Best regards Jadnapac (talk) 15:58, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Request for deadline extension

Hi DSaroyan (WMF)
I am writing to inform you that upon some discussions with the global coordinators for Told Cities Project (Nassima & Yamen), we have agreed to extend the deadline for this project (locally) from the former deadline (31st March 2021) to 15th April 2021. This is due to some cross cutting issues in our country (including the death of our presdident, Covid-19 issues, Easter holiday preparations and some discussions with swwiki admins about the creation of missing categories in swwiki for some of the articles being created in these project). All that affected in some way the initial timeline and schedules we had, hence we thought extending a bit the deadline will help to have some room to wrap up the project. I am kindly asking for your approval to extend this project as explained above. Kind regards, Jadnapac (talk) 20:26, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Jadnapac, thanks for posting this request. It is formally approved; the new grant end date is 15 April 2021, with the reporting due on 15 May 2021. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:43, 1 April 2021 (UTC)