Grants:Project/Rapid/UG EG/Wiki Loves Monuments in Egypt 2017/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 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/UG EG/Wiki Loves Monuments in Egypt 2017.
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Goals

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

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
100	177 [1]	Number of participants
2414	1500 [2]	Number of photos uploaded
10%	10%	Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects

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?

Contacts with our partners and preparations and managing the events are going well as we got a more experince from managing the event in the last years

Photo From Our Photowalk

the photo-walk was very successful with more than 30 new user joining for the first time .

Photo From Our celebrate ceremony

have succeeded to celebrate with the winners. We invited them to come and receive their prizes , you can find photos from the ceremony [here https://www.facebook.com/285009808333674/photos/?tab=album&album_id=858074631027186]

• • Partnership and local partners
• What did not work so well?

Social media marketing needs to reach more people .

• What would you do differently next time?

Increase Social media marketing

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  Winner 1
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  Winner 2
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  Winner 3

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

S/N	Item	Actual Quantity	Estimated costs (EGP)	Actual costs (EGP)	Notes
1 Day of Photo walks/shoots
1	Vehicle hire and feul for the trip	1	8850	2900	One long vehicle has been hired for transportation of team during the photo-walk in Rashid.
2	Food and refreshments	30	875	1305	30 participants for the photo-walk
1 Days Upload Sessions/Workshops
3	Co-work space Rental	1	200	200	(200 EGP for Mushtarak Co-space)
Other project costs
4	Contest prizes	4	12390	12390	1st prize = 350 , 2nd = 200, 3rd = 100, 4th =75
5	printing banner and certificates	NA	150	150	Certificates of participation will be given to the first ten winners
6	Online Ads	NA	97.29$	1711.3	Facebook Ads
7	Gifts for Jury members	NA	3975	3975
-	TOTAL PROJECT COST		28495.5EGP	22631 EGP	**Forex rate used is $1 = 17.59, provided by the Central Bank of Egypt

Remaining 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.

Do you have any remaining grant funds? 5864 EGP = 331 USD

Hello and sorry for the delay. I was looking through old records and found that the unspent amount was spent on holding a workshop on Arabic Wikipedia Day, July 23, 2017. renting a venue, food, drinks, and the Internet was cost about 4,120 EGP. The rest (1,744 EGP) was spent on transportation and preparing Wikiarabia conference 2017 (held on October 27, 2017), thank you.-Mohamed Ouda (talk) 12:44, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?