Grants:PEG/User:Samir I. Sharbaty/Egypt Wikimedians User Group/WikiWomen Prize

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This submission to the Project and Event Grants Program was funded in the fiscal year 2014-15. This is a grant to a group.

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Basic information

Grant request details

Are you an organization, a group, or an individual?: Group
Please provide your name, or the name of the group or organization requesting this grant.: Egypt Wikimedians User group
Please provide the name (or username) of the main contact for this grant request. You do not need to disclose your legal name publicly.: User:Samir I. Sharbaty E-mail: s.sharbaty@yahoo.com
For groups and organizations only: Please provide the name (or username) of a second contact for this grant request.: User:Mohamed Ouda E-mail: mmustafa8@gmail.com
Please link to any relevant documents, including your website if you have one.: Egypt Wikimedians user group, WikiWomen Prize page on Ar Wikipedia.

Project details

Official project name: WikiWomen Prize
Project start date: This is the date you begin work on your project. Please include a month, day, and year. You must include a project start date.; ~~1 September 2014~~ 1 October 2014
Project completion date: This is the date you finish work on your project. Please include a month, day, and year. You must include a project completion date.; ~~30 September 2014~~ 30 October 2014
Please describe the project in a few sentences: The purpose of this project is giving a monetary prize to the highest contributors to one or more of Arabic language Wikimedia projects related to women or aiming at narrowing the gender gap on Wikimedia projects at a specified period of time. The prize is also targeted to beginner users (a participant must have less than 1,500 edits before joining the competition to be accepted). This is a pilot round of the competition and if successful we will take the lessons learned to repeat it next year.

Financial details

Please request your grant in your local currency. WMF is able to grant funds in many currencies.

Amount and currency requested: ~~600 USD~~ 450 USD
Please provide an equivalent amount in US dollars using the exchange rate provided by Oanda on the date you open this request: ~~600 USD~~ 450 USD

For organizations only

This section only needs to be completed by organizations requesting grants. Individuals and groups that are not incorporated do not need to complete this section.

Are you an incorporated organization able to provide local proof of nonprofit status within your country? For-profit organizations are not eligible to receive grants through the PEG program.: Answer YES or NO.; PLACEHOLDER TEXT
Does your organization currently employ or engage any fulltime or part-time staff or contractors? If yes, please tell us how many staff or contractors you employ or engage, along with their functions or a link to your staff page. For example, "2 full time program managers and 1 part-time contractor accountant at 50% FTE each.": PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Goals and measures of success

Project goal

Please briefly describe what will be accomplished if the project is successful.

Project goal

To help close the gender gap on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
To encourage existing female users edit and attract new ones to join Wikipedia.
To promote the quality and quantity of women-related content on the Arabic Wikimedia projects.
To raise competition between new users and encourage them do their best and continue editing Wikipedia.

Measures of success

Please provide a list of measurable criteria that will be used determine how successful the project is. You will need to report on the success of the project according to these measures after the project is completed.

Measures of success

+25 participants.
+10 continue editing the next month after the competition ends.
+2 new participants continue serving Wikimedia projects as volunteers.
+5 featured content about women. (i,e. featured or good articles, featured pictures, etc)
+50 new articles about women on the Arabic Wikipedia.

Project scope and activities

This section describes what will happen if this project is funded. Who will do what, and when?

List of activities: We have a number of female users on Arabic Wikipedia and some women-related courses in Wikipedia Education program in Egypt. We will promote the prize between them and will make some advertising to attract new ones to join the competition. The Egyptian user group with local organizations will organize an editathon for participants to train them on editing (no cost is needed for this event since it is covered by our last grant). Although this Prize is targeted to Egyptian female users but any user if not female or from Egypt will be welcome to join.

Walaa Abdul Monem who is a sysop on Ar Wikipedia will be responsible for the jury. She will choose reputable sysop on the Arabic Wikipedia to be in charge of selecting the winners. Every participant will be asked to prepare a report about her/his achievements (which is a public page on Wikipedia) to be the reference for the jury and so the results will be transparent for everyone.

Budget

Please provide a detailed breakdown of project expenses according to the instructions here.

Grantees are subject to line-item scrutiny of expenses. Changes to the approved budget beyond 10% in any category must be approved in advance.

Project budget table

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Prizes	First prize	prize	1	250 USD	250 USD	$
2	Prizes	Second prize	prize	1	100 USD	100 USD	$
3	Prizes	Third prize	prize	1	50 USD	50 USD	$
4	Advertising	printing posters, stickers and online Ads	N/A	N/A	N/A	~~200 USD~~ 50 USD	$	We will use social media websites to promote the contest and print posters and stickers to be published in public places.
Total						~~$600~~ $450	$

Total cost of project: ~~600 USD~~ 450 USD

Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program: ~~600 USD~~ 450 USD

Additional sources of revenue that may fund part of this project, and amounts funded: PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Non-financial requirements

See a description of non financial assistance available. Please inform Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) of any requirements for non-financial assistance now.

Requests for non-financial assistance: None

Resources and Risks

Resources

This section is used to highlight your potential for successfully executing this project.

Consider including the following information:

List of team members (names or usernames):

User:Samir I. Sharbaty, general coordination.
User:لا روسا, jury coordinator.
User:Ahmed Mohi El din, communications.
User:May Hachem93, training.

Onwiki evidence of community support (such as a project about this discussion):
WikiWomen Prize Page on Ar Wiki.
Endorsements from community members or movement groups:
Special skills or qualifications this potential grantee or project lead brings to this project:
Evidence of past success in executing similar projects:
A blog post on our students' success in closing the gender gap.

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Risks

This section is used to identify key risks or threats that would prevent you from achieving your project goals and how you would mitigate those risks and threats.

We do not expect any risks for this project.

Impact

In the sections below, please describe how the project is related to the Wikimedia mission and Wikimedia's strategic priorities.

Fit to strategy

How will this project support the key organizational objectives of

increasing reach (more people will access or contribute to Wikipedia or our other projects), participation (more people actually contributing), quality (more content, more useful content, or higher-quality content), credibility (more trust in our projects), organizational maturity and effectiveness (how it will move you or the Wikimedia community forward), or financial sustainability (how it will help you achieve more in the long run)?

This statement should address at least one of the strategic priorities listed here specifically. See Project and Event Grants program criteria for decision making.: PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Benefits

If the project will benefit a specific online community, please tell us.: This project will benefit the Arabic Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects (i.e. Wikimedia commons), and this will be achieved by developing content and recruiting female volunteer editors and offline volunteers to help new users.

Please provide a brief statement about how the project is related to other work in the Wikimedia movement. For example, does the project fit into a work area such as GLAM, education, organizational development, editor retention, or outreach?: The project is supportive to WEP courses that focus on women topics since it will raise competition between them.

If successful, will the project have the potential to be replicated successfully by other individuals, groups, or organizations? Please explain how in 1–2 sentences.: Sure, also we are willing to develop blogs, material or any helpful manual to help others do similar work in their communities.

Please list other benefits to the movement here.: N/A

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