Grants:Project/Rapid/Margott/Wiki Loves Earth Albania 2016/Report

Report accepted
This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2015-16 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Goals edit

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

This was the first time WLE organized in Albania. We completed our expectations having more than 500 images uploaded so as the first time we think we met our goals.

Outcome edit

Please report on your original project targets.


Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
At least 500 photographs uploaded and kept after review 803 Because of the wrong licence or copyright some of the pictures are deleted from the administrators and now are left 776
At least 30 participants upload one photograph or more 97
20 newly created articles 18
At least 70 already existing articles illustrated with the collected photo 162


Learning edit

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

  • What worked well?
  • What did not work so well?
  • What would you do differently next time?

What worked well was the number of people who participated and the number of pictures uploaded on commons. What did not worked so well was the time that we had to organize everything, since we decided last minute to participate, we did almost everything in a week. Probably with more time in advance we could promote it better and send the budge on time. What we will do next year differently will be the organization stuff start at least one month in advance and organize some meeting or write some blog posts in Albania about CC licensing because this year we had a lot of photographers who didn't agree to upload the pictures CC so they were non-qualified or they didn't agree to participate at all, because the lack of knowledge on CC licencing.

Finances edit

Grant funds spent edit

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Budgeted and realized budget edit

Item Budgeted (EUR) Spent (EUR)
Prizes for 10 best photographers 300 215
Certificates for the awarded photographers 20 12.47
Traveling/Mail expenses- Traveling or mailing expenses for people who are not living in the capital for the awards ceremony 100 40(bus tickets) + 6.85(taxi)
Catering 150 54.75
Printing 10 best pictures and framing 100 52.63+ 30(design)
Miscellaneous 100 42 bank fee for winners form Kosova + 180 rent/one month for the exhibition
Total 770
Total sent on bank account 756.35 633.7

Invoices edit

Date Vendor Fiscal # of Vendor Goods/Services Amount
15.09.2016 Ahmet Xhangolli/Kujtim Peza/Julian Bashmili K91830003M/K31515017H/L01325018L Catering 54.75
17.09.2016 FM Reklama L31716006E Printing Certificate €12.47
17.09.2016 FM Reklama L31716006E Photography printing €52.63
16.09.2016 Kapedani " Sh.p.k J83211203F Gifts(HDD and SD cards €215
17.09.2016 Speed Taxi - Transport €6.85
18.09.2016 Rilind&Kabashi Tours - Transport €10+21€ (bank fee)
19.09.2016 Hib Petrol 600015376 Transport €30+21€(bank fee)
17.09.2016 Rent 10793351 Rent €180
10.09.2016 Creative Touch 601084388 Design €30
Total 633.7

Remaining funds edit

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Yes 122.65 EUR. I would like to use the money for Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti Gratë (WikiProject Women). It is a planned edit-a-thon on November but not yet a specific date. Im part of Ada Lovelace day organizing team, and part of the discussion will be this event too, and we will decide for a date as well.

Anything else edit

Anything else you want to share about your project?
We have documented the prizes event hereː https://openlabs.cc/rezultatet-e-wiki-loves-earth-2016/ The pictures are not yet in commons, but i will make sure to ping the photographer to upload them asap.
You can see the uploaded pictures and winners here, and 10 first places here.