Grants:Project/Rapid/MediaMOF/Photowalk at South South Nigeria/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/MediaMOF/Photowalk at South South Nigeria.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
• You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.

Goals

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

Yes we did and really happy at what we acheived

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
If atleast 5 professional photographers participated	5 Photographers participated	Mediamof, Favouridowu, Hadassah Photostorie, Kaizenify and Ei'eke
If atleast 700 photos were uploaded to wiki commons	About 700 photos uploaded	Target was met and more images still expected to be uploaded
If at least 20% of the images collected are used	28% of the images collected have been used on Wikipedia	This number was calculated using the glamtool here as the target was met, exceeded and also still ongoing

Link to common for all the images here

Some of the photos from the Photowalk include:

• 
  Agbokim Waterfalls, Agbokim, Cross River state
• 
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun. Delta State.
• 
  Hilltop Lodges, Obudu Cattle Ranch, Obudu.
• 
  Mungo Park House Asaba, Delta State.
• 
  Nigerian Content Tower, Yenagoa Bayelsa.
• 
  Stephen Keshin Stadium.

Learning

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?

• All 5 photographers showed up and were very inspired.
• We were able to visit all the 6 states.
• Partnering with government and security agency proved very effective.
• The project created awareness and relationship with photographers from south south Nigeria.
• The project also get to document and represent images from south south Nigeria on Wikipedia.

• What did not work so well?

• Getting into the different states took lot of time and trouble due to bad road network.
• We couldn't get an overview capture of some of the landmarks area due to its inaccessibility as we don't have a drone.
• Because of the time limit as we don't want to exceed the speculated days and tiredness each day from the tour, it was difficult to upload after each day photowalk as it made the upload more overwhelming later on.
• We had vehicle break downs at some point and hence inhibit the tour.

• What would you do differently next time?

• For next time, we will have to rent a drone as it will bring out more beauty of the landmarks and also allow us capture inaccessible place around mountains or steeps.
• We will allocated atleast 2weeks to cover the next region and ensure there is allocated days away from the photowalk for uploads.
• We would get spare vehicles in some regions just incase of breakdowns next time

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Sl.No	Item	Quantity	Rate (NGN)	Total (NGN)	Total (USD)	Notes
1	Transportation for photographers	1	364,000	364,000	889.97	This covered the cost of the car (and fuel) which conveyed the photographers for the 9days.
2	Food and drinks	5(*9)	2,000	90,000	220.04	This covered the feeding and refreshment for the 9 days during the photowalk for the 5 photographers.
3	Data allowance during the upload session	5	4,00	21,000	51.34	This covered the cost of data for each of the 5 photographers to upload their various images.
4	Accommodation	3(*8)	14,000	336,000	821.51	This covered the cost of accommodation for 8 nights with 2 photographers sharing a room making 3 rooms.
5	Contingency cost	1	8,000	8,000	19.55	For calls and bank charges cost.
Grand Total (with contingency cost): NGN 819,000 (USD 2,002.45)

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No, no remaining funds was left

Anything else

This current trend of photo tour/photowalk has become an amazing success which has ushered in lot of amazing professional photographers into contributing to Wikimedia commons. And this south south edition was even more successful as it created a long lasting impact and showed how Wikimedia Foundation is bridging the gap for Nigeria images on Wikipedia and hence more photographers are more than willing to volunteer their time for the next one in North Central Nigeria.