Grants:Project/Rapid/THL Open GLAM/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2023-24 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?

Yes, the goals were met in terms of engaging new editors and improving the GLAM content related to India on Commons. In, fact we had more uploads than the set target. However, the resource building activity was challenging. While we appreciate the suggestions given by the grant review committee, and were eager to work towards it, we did not have the capacity for the same and feedback from scholars was contrary to our expectations.

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
1 event	1 event	Event summary
20 participants	15 participants
15 new editors	15 new editors
5 videos	2 videos	Bhavnagar's Historic Structures (video 1) and Calcutta Cityscapes on Postcards (video 2)
more than 200 commons uploads	1728 commons uploads	Event dashboard

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 new editors were enthusiastic about the edit-a-thon event which resulted in a more number of quality uploads than expected.

• What did not work so well?

The subject experts were a bit reluctant to record lectures based on the images that were uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.

• What would you do differently next time?

We will reach out to external resources before hand so that there's no delay in the execution of the goals.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Out total expenditure is INR 38,400

The breakdown is as follows:

Food & Beverage : INR 2400/-

Best Team Prize : INR 10,000/-

First Runner Up : INR 6,000/-

Resource building  : INR 20,000/-

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

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.

Yes, INR 67,200 remain from the grant fund. We would like to use the remaining funds towards the following:

• Hosting a similar GLAM content upload contest again during the Wiki Asian Month in November 2023. The prizes would be the same as previous i.e. 10,000 for 1st place and 6,000 for 2nd place.
• Conducting a writing competition focusing on GLAMs in Asia. The formats could be illustrated or written blogs featuring any of the below mentioned topics as examples
  • interview of a curator
  • walk-through of a GLAM (specific collection / highlights)
  • GLAM building architecture
  • history of the GLAM

This information will be published under CC BY SA license and added to Wiki by our team.

Prizes : 10,000 x 4 winners = 40,000
Admin cost and resource building: 11,000

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?