Grants:Project/Rapid/Summer/Donia/Wiki Loves Africa 2021 in Egypt
Please see the sample Contest application before drafting your application.
Project Goal edit
- Add more images about Health and Wellness in our country
- Increase potential Wikimedia projects contributors such as professional photographers.
- Share useful skills of how to contribute to wikicommons and how to contribute useful photos which can be used in other Wikimedia projects.
- Train new editors through online photo upload sessions.
- Create awareness about the Wikimedia movement and its activities.
Project Plan edit
Activities edit
1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?
- The contest will focus on photos related to health and wellness, which cope with the current events in Egypt and the whole world. So the photos will focus on healthy habits and unhealthy habits so that we can health educate people. Moreover, these photos will improve the medical and awareness content in other wikimedia projects.
2. How will you let people know about the contest?
- By Social Media promotion (Facebook / Instagram / Twitter)
- By holding online meetings for the introduction of the contest.
- By dealing with photography clubs to reach large number of professional photographers.
3. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?
- By choosing three judges to choose the top 10 photos in the local contest and award cash prizes for the best five photos and ten gifts for the top ten.
4. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?
- By holding online edit-a-thons to help integrate some of these uploaded images into existing articles on Wikipedia in addition to creating new articles based on these images.
5. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:
6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- We will deal with Adasa Club, a photography club in Alexandria which we have dealed with it in the recent WLM, to help propagate the contest and reach more profesional photographers.
- https://www.facebook.com/Adasa.photography
Impact edit
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:
For photo contests: Number of participants
- At least 30
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
- At least 800
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects
- At least 100
Resources edit
What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- The contest will be organised by:
- Summer kamal, the main organizer of Wiki loves Africa 2020 in Egypt.
- Donia Al-Domiaty, the main organizer of Wiki loves monuments 2020 in Egypt.
We will organize the contest smoothly and cooperate with each other.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
| S/N | Item | Quantity | Total cost (EGP) | Total cost (USD) | Notes |
| Project costs | |||||
| 1 | Contest prizes | 5 | 9360 | 600 | 1st prize = 250 USD, 2nd = 150 USD, 3rd = 100 USD 4nd = 50 USD, 5rd = 50 USD |
| 2 | Social Media Promotion | - | 2340 | 150 | Sponsored posts and ads on FB / Instagram pages |
| 3 | banners | 1560 | 100 | Wiki Loves Africa banners | |
| 4 | T-Shirts | 13 | 2652 | 170 | 13 T-shirts for the first ten winners and the three Jury |
| 5 | Certificate | 10 | 468 | 30 | 10 Certificates for the first ten winners |
| 6 | Masks and Alcohol, Hand Sanitizer, Soaps, etc | - | 1560 | 100 | Medical precuations & covid equipment during the award ceremony |
| 7 | Compensation of the jury members | 3 | 4680 | 300 | Jury bonus of the national competition(e.g. Amazon gift cards) |
| 8 | Photo printing for the top 10 winners | 10 | 780 | 50 | Printing the top 10 selected photos for closing ceremony exhibition. If the Corona pandemic ends, we will hold an exhibition, and if it does not end, this amount will be allocated to the winners |
| 9 | Venue | 1 day | 1560 | 100 | For the final exhibition. |
| 10 | Additional Amount | - | 1560 | 100 | Unforeseen expenses |
| - | TOTAL PROJECT COST | 1 | 26250 EGP | 1700 USD | ** The exchange rate used is $1 = 15.60. As of Monday, December 7, 2020 |
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