Grants:Project/Rapid/Satdeep Gill/Punjabi Wikimedians (Feb-June 2017) Plan/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

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

We were able to fairly meet our goals for this project. Although we expected to do a lot more than this.

Outcome

The grant helped us to organize events and meetup even when we decided to organize events impromptu. We were able to expand our events outside Patiala as well and we did events in New Delhi and Chandigarh as well. We collaborated with other organizations such as Feminism in India, Swedish Embassy in India and Whose Knowledge.

Using the camera bought with the help of Grants:PEG/Satdeep Gill/Punjabi Wikimedians Infrastructure Support, we were able to continue our work on documenting nearby places and people. We created some audio-visual content as well and we were able to provide travel and food reimbursements to our volunteers who contributed towards this.

During this period, we were able to groom our female organizers. Events organized by females include:

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
80 - Number of total participants	~90	Around 60 participants were there in one of the workshops that we organized with the support of Punjabi University. We also saw got some new participants during our events in New Delhi and Chandigarh. But most of these participants were just one-time participants and the community stands at about 20 members who are actively participating either online, offline or both.
300 - Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons	~300 Images + ~6 Videos	Besides this we got 21 Quality Images and 1 Featured Picture as well.
100 - Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects	~ 60 Images + 5 Videos	We are still adding images to the relevant Wikipedia articles

Photo Gallery

Native Garhwali Woman In Rishikesh
Lanterns in Rishikesh
Korean Statue at Port Vanoucver
Red Velvet Mites in Patiala region
Oriental Garden Lizard in Patiala

Video Gallery

Process of Making Granular Jaggery
Zaeem speaking Pashto
Zaeem speaking Hindko

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?

The flexibility to organize events at short notice was really helpful.

As getting funding was already taken care of, female leaders became confident of organizing events in their cities.

What did not work so well?

Since, it was our first long term grant, we could not anticipate that some paper bills can fade over time. We should have scanned them at the earliest. Although, it did not cause a lot of trouble, but we would still advice other communities to scan and keep copies of the original bills as soon as they receive them.

What would you do differently next time?

We could have alloted more funds in the miscellanous section to be better prepared to organize events like the Wikidata Workshop Chandigarh 2017 (9-10 September 2017)

Target outcome should have been more aligned to the overall project.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Travel reimbursements for events and expeditions - 19,902 INR
Food during events and expeditions - 6,995 INR
Microphone - 5,590 INR
Swag - 4,998 INR
Wi-Fi device - 999 INR
Other costs - 3,225 INR

Total = 41,709 INR (~648 USD)

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Yes, we have 6,791 INR (~105 USD) remaining from this grant and we would like to use this amount to support some more wiki events and WikiExpeditions.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?