Grants:Project/Atudu/Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase V/Timeline

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Timeline for Atudu

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Milestone 2	Day Month Year
Milestone 3	Day Month Year

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

June

We highly hoped with great enthusiasm to have a Covid pandemic trouble free 5th phase of our Wiki Loves Butterfly project and was eager to start the phase with a vigorous impetus. But, most unfortunately the 2nd wave of pandemic stuck with greater fierceness resulting in lockdown. Subsequently, all our team members at different provinces have to face another spell of pathetic deadlock situation and we had not the least chance of field work any where in this opening month of the project as inter-provinces and even inter district movements have stalled everywhere.

WLB,being a continuous project, we even carry on our field documentation and data collection activities diversely during the intermediate period between the termination of one phase to the beginning of the next phase. This is chiefly because we don't want to miss the prospective seasons for butterfly field period. This helps us greatly in our project carry through. Between phase IV and phase V, we took the opportunity of lockdown free movement to prospective fields and hotspots. In this June we have uploaded those documentations in Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

We have some online meetings this months among team members to keep our future plans ready, to motivate, to discuss, to have queries about the situations of their respective provinces and districts. Most of our team members have first dose of vaccination and the remaining few are waiting for their registered date to come. Everyone is eagerly waiting for his/her turn of the 2nd dose as some North-East provinces have already declared about the entry of outsider only after completion of the 2nd dose of vaccine.

We proposed to buy a high end camera body and super macro lens for gearing the quality of our photo documentation. Accordingly, we had placed the market quotation of those articles available then in the market. But due to severe pandemic catastrophe no required lens is available either in the open market, or with the manufacturers or in online market. Buying a high end camera body without requisite lens is truly meaningless. So we have decided to wait for those purchase till the market turns better. We are frequently communicating with the dealers.

This month we have two outreaches; two new members and Wiki contributors in the team from Assam namely Aman Chetry and Abhishek Dutta Choudhury who has started uploading in Wikimedia Commons. This is as a result of out regular interactions with butterfly enthusiasts through social media and local interactions in part of North East India.

We have not yet started creating and developing articles in Wikipedia. We generally start this business ever after one or two months of the beginning of the project phase.

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

516 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of Images uploaded are 2376
Total number of valued images are 142
Total number of quality images are 202

July

This month too sustains the deadlock experience for most of our team members all over the country due to pandemic lockdown. In North-East provinces, team members almost could not move out of home front due to local containment zones and district-state wise lockdown. In West Bengal only, some relaxation of inter-province movement was allowed with production of vaccination certificates.

Two members of WLB team, Sandip Das and Amarttya Bagchi (a new outreach) from West Bengal took the opportunity and went to Belpahari, a butterfly hotspot in Jhargram district for 5 day field documentation. Other members were to move to another spot of West Bengal for documentation, but unfortunately failed to move on account of vaccination related issues.

This month we have one outreach, a new member and wikimedia contributor from West Bengal named Amarttya Bagchi, who has uploaded good many images in Wikimedia Commons.

We are still unable to make our purchase of our proposed camera body and super macro lens and other related accessories as all the specific macro lenses suitable for our butterfly field documentation are either discontinued or out of market and out of stock with manufacturers. This sorry figure of camera market and manufactures is due to the prolonged pandemic caused recession affecting production and business all over the world. We have been searching the entire city markets and all the distributors since June, when our project officially began for the required macro lens and still no news is there about lens availability of the manufactures. As we haven't got the specific lens, we have decided not to buy the camera body, since the question of camera body and lens compatibility is always there. Hence, we have decided to stop the whole purchase at present.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
15 July, 2021	West Bengal Jhargram district	Sandip Das Amarttya Bagchi

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

224 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of Images uploaded are 2600
Total number of valued images are 143
Total number of quality images are 205

August

This month has marked some good progress in our fieldwork scenario as Covid Pandemic lockdown has started slackening a bit by bit in some parts of West Bengal and Northeast India. WLB team (who completed the 2nd dose of vaccination) has conducted 3 field documentation programme in West Bengal and Assam. The first one is led by Mahesh Baruah of Assam province at different butterfly spots of Bongaigaon district. The second field documentation is executed by Subhendu Khan at Barpeta district of Assam. Finally, the third one is conducted by Rahul Biswas and Arky Das (a new outreach) at diverse spots of Paschim Bardhaman district and Birbhum district of West Bengal.

We have one outreach, a new member and Wikimedia contributor from West Bengal namely Arky Das who has uploaded a good number of images in Wikimedia commons.

We have started our article writing on butterfly species and about 27 articles are are created and updated in BnWP.

To tell about our broader expansion of Wikimedia views and movements, this month the WLB team members have unanimously decided in monthly team meeting to co-organize a national level butterfly meet entitled Namdapha Butterfly Meet 2021 to be held in Miao, Arunachal Pradesh from 25-27 September 2021. Mahesh Baruah and Aman Chetry will represent WLB project team this time.

A remarkable development of this month is that after days and months of prolonged search and market survey all over, we have succeeded in accruing and purchasing our proposed Sigma APO MACRO 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM lens. Hence, we are going to purchase other proposed related items like camera body etc.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
9 August, 2021	Assam Bongaigaon district	Mahesh Baruah
11 August, 2021	Assam Barpeta district	Subhendu Khan
27 August, 2021	West Bengal Birbhum district Paschim Bardhaman district	Rahul Biswas Arky Das

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

326 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of Images uploaded are 2926
Total number of valued images are 146
Total number of quality images are 207
27 articles are created and updated in BnWP

September

SWAG Material for WLB Team-members

This month, a prospective butterfly activity month, we had multifarious plans of conducting vast fieldworks, organizing National level Butterfly Meet with other reputed organizations, co-organizing Big Butterfly Month event all over the country.

In field documentation sector, Subhendu Khan documented at Kokrajhar district and Bongaigaon district both in Assam province. Sarpita Bose moved far North-East and field documented in butterfly hotspots at Kohima district and Dimapur district in Nagaland. Mahesh Baruah and Abhishek Dutta Choudhury have documented Bongaigaon district in Assam.Sandip Das and Sourabh Biswas have documented and covered North Sikkim district.

Like previous year, we have co-organised and participated in North-East Butterfly Meet at Namdapha National Park. Furthermore, WLB team has successfully co-organised the countrywide celebration of Big Butterfly Month event.

We have one outreach this month, from North Sikkim district, a student and butterfly enthusiasts namely Sonam Vongchuk Rong who has started contributing images in Wikimedia commons. Article writing in BnWP and data uploading in Wikidata is going on as well.

Happy to announce that we have finally succeeded in purchasing all the camera related gears as proposed. As the 150mm Macro lens we got in of Canon mount (Nikon mount not available anywhere), so subsequently we have to shift to Canon camera body and other gears accordingly.

This month we have taken an initiative to gift our team members metal water bottles for using in fieldwork, having WLB Project logo printed on them. This is further more an attempt to minimize the useage of plastic water bottles in field. These SWAG materials were given to motivate them more in the project. The initiative has been successfully completed providing great joy to all the members.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
4 September, 2021	Assam Kokrajhar district	Subhendu Khan
8 September, 2021	Assam Bongaigaon district	Subhendu Khan
17 September, 2021	Nagaland Kohima district Dimapur district	Sarpita Bose
19 September, 2021	Assam Bongaigaon district	Mahesh Baruah Abhishek Dutta Choudhury
23 September, 2021	Arunachal Pradesh Changlang district (National Butterfly Meet)	Mahesh Baruah Aman Chetry
23 September, 2021	Sikkim North Sikkim district	Sandip Das Sourabh Biswas

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

88 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of Images uploaded are 3014
Total number of valued images are 149
Total number of quality images are 209
8 articles are created and updated in BnWP

October

By the month of October, almost all the members of WLB team have done with their 2nd dose of final Covid vaccination. Still movement to and entry in many areas and Reserve Forests and wildlife Sanctuaries in North-East India is still not permitted for outsiders due to zonal level containment operations to encounter the third wave of Covid 19 pandemic. Hence, we are looking for the prospective butterfly zones and hotspots in parts of West Bengal and near North East provinces where entry and movement is possible due to slackening of administrative regulations and also ensuring the full safety of the field-documenters.

This month, we have 3 field work programmes in different parts of West Bengal specially targeting the still not-documented protected areas of the province. Sourabh Biswas and Rajib Dey documented in the vast grassland areas of Nadia district. Sourabh Biswas further went to field in North 24 Parganas district while Rahul Biswas and Arky Das led documentation at Nadia district and Purba Bardhaman district.

Article writing in BnWP, photo uploading in Wikimedia commons as well as contribution in Wikidata has been done as well.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
11 October, 2021	West Bengal Nadia district	Sourabh Biswas Rajib Dey
15 October, 2021	West Bengal North 24 Parganas district	Sourabh Biswas
28 October, 2021	West Bengal Nadia district Purba Bardhaman district	Rahul Biswas Arky Das

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

445 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of Images uploaded are 3459
Total number of valued images are 161
Total number of quality images are 230
Total number of featured images are 2
16 articles are created and updated in BnWP

November

November,a good butterfly activity month for us resulting in a nice field documentation programme by different teams at different places of North East India butterfly hotspot accessible so far till date of pandemic restricted movement and also is parts of West Bengal. Rahul Biswas and Arky Das,documented locally at Nadia district and Hooghly district of West Bengal. Furthermore, Sarpita Bose and Bias Chakraborty covered Howrah district. Sandip Das and Subhendu Khan went to document in Jorhat district and Kamrup Metropolitan district. Furthermore Sourabh Biswas, Rajib Dey and Atanu Bose covered Alipurduar district. All the documrntors have collected good number of images and some rare species of butterfly and is about to upload these in wikimedia commons.

Some articles have been uploaded and some developed in BnWP and article writing programme is about to receive better impetus, as usual. In this phase the same strategy shall be undertaken along with data uploading in wikidata.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
11 November, 2021	West Bengal Nadia disctrict	Rahul Biswas Arky Das
12 November, 2021	West Bengal Hooghly district	Rahul Biswas Arky Das
14 November, 2021	West Bengal Howrah district	Sarpita Bose Bias Chakraborty
17 November, 2021	Assam Jorhat district Kamrup district	Sandip Das Subhendu Khan
20 November, 2021	West Bengal Alipurduar district	Sourabh Biswas Rajib Dey

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

126 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of Images uploaded are 3585
Total number of valued images are 167
Total number of quality images are 236
Total number of featured images are 4
articles are created and updated in BnWP

Is your final report due but you need more time?

Extension request

New end date

30 November 2022

Request and Approval

Noting here that the grant extension request and WMF approval are at Grants talk:Project/Atudu/Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase V#Postpone the WLB phase-V Project till June’22, starting the second half of the project in June 2022. The new final report due date is now 30 December 2022 (within 30 days of the grant end date). -- JTud (WMF), Grants Administrator (talk) 17:54, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

June

WLB photo-walk 2022 at Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary

Before starting the report of the opening month (June) of our Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase V 2nd half, we'd like to mention that during the interim period of 6month (completion of Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase V 1st half in November 2021 to beginning of Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase V 2nd half in June, 2022) we have thoroughly continued our project by contributed largely in Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata made new outreches, get many quality images, featured pictures and valued images promotions and so on and so forth. This we have done to keep a good and detailed record of available butterfly activities and diversity of West Bengal and North-East Indian providences during this interim period and also to keep our member in action and in active touch and collaboration.

Now, comes to June 2022 the opening month of the 2nd half; earlier monsoon, devastating flood and massive landslide at Sikkim, upper and lower Assam, Tripura and other North-East provinces as well as in the Northern part of West Bengal has marred and washed out all our field documentation planning and prospects. Transport and communication remained (still remains at some provinces) totally disrupted. Hence, the enthusiastic WLB team members are fored to document in Southern part of West Bengal and at their respective home areas and backyards.

The most interesting and significant of this month is a Photowalk has been organized with local team members and new participants at Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary (CKBS) situated in South 24 Parganas. Some new outreachs and new wiki editors have been created.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
1 June, 2022	Assam Kokrajhar district	Mahesh Baruah
4 June, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das
7 June, 2022	West Bengal Bankura district	Sourabh Biswas Atanu Bose
18 June, 2022	West Bengal South 24 Parganas district	WLB photo-walk 2022 at Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary
24 June, 2022	Assam Kokrajhar district	Mahesh Baruah
25 June, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das Aniruddha Singhamahapatra
26 June, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Aniruddha Singhamahapatra Subhajit Roy

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

792 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of valued images are 173
Total number of quality images are 332
Total number of featured images are 14
3 new wiki-contributors made

July

The team has conducted a significant number of field documentations in this month of july in diverse parts of West Bengal and in the only so far accessible part of North-East India after the severe flood and landslide condition. On different dates of this month, our team members have extensively field documented Khisma Reserve Forest, Hijuli Reserve Forest etc and other butterfly hotspots of Nadia district and South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Moreover Biharinath hill and Susunia hill forest areas of Bankura district and Kankrajhore, Belpahari forest area of Jhargram district have also been widely documented. In the province of Assam, hilly forests of Kokrajhar district and Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat district have been field documented too. Good number of butterfly species have been recored from all the aforesaid forest areas.

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
3 July, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sourabh Biswas
8 July, 2022	Assam Kokrajhar district	Mahesh Baruah
9 July, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das
10 July, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Manaska Mukhopadhyay
15 July, 2022	West Bengal Bankura district	Sandip Das
16 July, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Tapan Pramanik
22 July, 2022	West Bengal Jhargram district	Ananya Mondal
22 July, 2022	Assam Jorhat district	Mahesh Baruah Aman Chetry Abhishek Dutta Choudhury
27 July, 2022	West Bengal South 24 Parganas	Sandip Das Manaska Mukhopadhyay
30 July, 2022	West Bengal Darjeeling district	Souvick Mukherjee Kushankur Bhattacharyya
30 July, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das Tapan Pramanik Subhajit Roy

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

151 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of valued images are 173
Total number of quality images are 341
Total number of featured images are 14
13[[1]] articles are created and updated in BnWP
3 new wiki-contributors made

August

WLB photo-walk 2022 at Bankimnagar Forest

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
3 August, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das Manaska Mukhopadhyay Subhajit Roy
6 August, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das Tapan Pramanik Sourabh Biswas
7 August, 2022	West Bengal	Wiki Loves Butterfly/Editathon/07.08.2022
12 August, 2022	West Bengal Paschim Medinipur district	Tapan Pramanik
13 August, 2022	West Bengal Kolkata district	Sandip Das Ananya Mondal Rahul Biswas
15 August, 2022	West Bengal South 24 Parganas district	Manaska Mukhopadhyay
17 August, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das Manaska Mukhopadhyay
18 August, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Subhajit Roy
20 August, 2022	Sikkim North Sikkim district	Souvick Mukherjee Sonam Vongchuk Rong
25 August, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das
28 August, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	WLB photo-walk 2022 at Bankimnagar Forest

Global Metrics and Other Metrics till now

398 images are uploaded till now.
Total number of valued images are 178
Total number of quality images are 387
Total number of featured images are 14
16[[2]] articles are created and updated in BnWP
1 new wiki-contributors made

September

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
1 September, 2022	Arunachal Pradesh Lower Subansiri district	Mahesh Baruah Abhishek Dutta Choudhury
3 September, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das
7 September, 2022	Nagaland Kohima district Zunheboto district	Sourabh Biswas Atanu Bose
10 September, 2022	West Bengal South 24 Parganas	Sandip Das Tapan Pramanik
15 September, 2022	West Bengal Kalimpong district	Ananya Mondal
17 September, 2022	Arunachal Pradesh Changlang district	Manaska Mukhopadhyay Anitava Roy
27 September, 2022	Assam Kamrup Metropolitan district Arunachal Pradesh Changlang district (National Butterfly Meet)	Subhendu Khan

October

field-work schedule
Date of Journey	Area	Team member
1 October, 2022	West Bengal Hooghly district	Sandip Das Tapan Pramanik
5 October, 2022	West Bengal Paschim Medinipur district	Tapan Pramanik
12 October, 2022	West Bengal Kolkata district	Sandip Das Manaska Mukhopadhyay
15 October, 2022	West Bengal South 24 Parganas district	Sandip Das Manaska Mukhopadhyay
19 October, 2022	Assam Kokrajhar district (National Butterfly Meet)	Gayatri dutta Manaska Mukhopadhyay
19 October, 2022	West Bengal South 24 Parganas district	Sandip Das
20 October, 2022	West Bengal Jhargram district	Tapan Pramanik
22 October, 2022	West Bengal Kolkata district	Manaska Mukhopadhyay
22 October, 2022	West Bengal Nadia district	Sandip Das
29 October, 2022	West Bengal Howrah district	Sandip Das Tapan Pramanik