Grants:Project/Rapid/Kamal Osama/Wiki Loves Earth 2018 Egypt

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Kamal Osama Elgazzar/ "Wiki loves Earth 2018 Egypt

-Briefly To lead for the 2nd time Wiki loves Earth in Egypt, recruit volunteers and participate to write and share photos about the Egyptian natural heritage sites on Wikimedia projects (Wiki commons and Arabic Wikipedia)

targetThis Project will have an impact on Wiki commons, specially the worldwide contest, and Arabic Wikipedia

start dateJuly 15

end dateAugust 15

budget (USD)2000

grant typeindvidual

grantee• Kamal Osama

contact(s)• rebuild101activegmail.com

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Project Goal

This project has the following goals:

1. Lead the Wiki Loves Earth contest for the second time in Egypt.
2. Lead the first Edit-a-athon for the Egyptian protectorates.
3. Help recruiting new volunteer editors to Arabic Wikipedia and wiki commons projects with special interest in Environmental and Earth articles. Check the list here

Project Plan

Activities

The aim of this project is to encourage and facilitate the capturing and uploading of photographs of Egyptian natural heritage sites, protectorates and national parks under free licensing during the contest month. This includes encouraging those who upload media, to write about their site of choice on Wikipedia, Through this competition, we aim to not only increase the quality of photographs on Commons, but also the number of active participants. We aim to inspire participants to contribute on Wikipedia in terms of improving articles, creating articles or uploading new content and media which can be used on Wikipedia or other related Wiki projects. This is the 1st year that Wikimedia Foundation will run the competition locally and we aim to make this project successful and last for the next following years.

This project has included the following activities;

1. Organizing a Photo Competition for natural heritage protectorates in Egypt.
2. Organizing a photo walk to one or more natural heritage sites.
3. Holding one full day workshop for the participants to get familiar with the Wikipedia community, uploading photos and how to edit on Arabic Wikipedia.
4. Assisting with transportation for members who live outside Cairo or on long distances.
5. Advertising Campaign online and offline.

Impact

This project expect to reach and recruit new editors from different backgrounds but interested to expand the environmental awareness on the Egyptian natural heritage and write on its important sites.

Measures of Success

1. +1500 photos uploaded to Wikimedia commons.
2. Recruitment +15 new users to create acounts on wikmedia projects.
3. Increasing skills for editing for the new users by wiki commons and Wikipedia.
4. +3 Featured photos, quality and valued images nominated on Wikipedia or wikimedia commons.
5. Organize an Editathon for writing and developing articles on the Egyptian protctorates.
6. Mapping the sites of known and unknown protectorates in Egypt.

Resources

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1. User: Kamal Osama Elgazzar Program Leader

Budget

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	ِSocial media developer/ Advertising	Poster printing and Online Ads				100	$	We will use media websites to promote the contest and print posters to be published in public places.
2	Regular Meetups for the Edit-a-athon (2-3 Meetups with Editors and contributors)				700	700	$	Gathering volunteers for writing aricles on Earth and the Egyptian protectorates
3	Prizes for Judges		300		300	300	$
4	Short Trip		400 $		400	400	$	to Wady Degla protectorate or any Nile islands in Cairo
5	4 Prizes for the winners		Prizes		500	500	$
	Total					$2000	$

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• Good project . and I hope it will get some high quality images from Egypt Mohamed Ouda (talk)