Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Annual Plan 2021-22/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/WBG/Annual Plan 2021-22.
• 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?

Project Metrics

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
2 Photo-competitions	Done	Both Wiki Loves Food and Wiki Loves Monuments in India photo-competitions were organized
2 proofread competitions	3 proofread competitions	One Rabimas (3 months long) proofread competition and two proofread competitions (4 months in total) in collaboration with the British Library were organized.
6 proofread campaigns	1 proofread campaigns	A one year-long proofread campaign was held on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose instead of 6 smaller campaigns
2 photo-documentation projects	Not done	During and after the second wave of COVID-19, it was felt that organizing photo-documentation projects in crowded places can bring serious health issues to the project leads and thus the idea was dropped for the entire year.
Digitization program	5437 pages scanned
Emergency infrastructure	4 volunteers were supported

Outcome

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Individual Project Metrics

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India	3529 images uploaded. 715 participants.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India	5139 images uploaded. 747 participants. 624 new participants.
Rabimas proofread competition	22 participants. 6006 proofread pages.
Two Centuries of Indian Print proofread competition (March-April)	16 participants. 2621 proofread pages.
Two Centuries of Indian Print proofread competition (September-November)	15 participants. 2848 proofread pages.
Digitization program (scanning 5000 pages)	30 books scanned 5437 pages scanned
Infrastructure support	4 volunteers supported.

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?

Events/Projects	Remarks
Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India	Revived the competition after 5 years The number of participants were more than expected
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India	Executed the competition for four consecutive years Higher resolution images were upload than previous years
Rabimas proofread competition	Executed the competition for three consecutive years Number of proofread pages were much higher than previous competition
Two Centuries of Indian Print competitions	GLAM Collaboration with British Library 4 months of contests
Digitization program	Targeted approach to books which are missing or defective on Bengali Wikisource led to search and scan the books which were needed the most.
Infrastructure support	First try from the user group to support volunteers to improve their infrastructure to edit Wifi-routers were installed for 2 volunteers for them to avail high-speed internet

• What did not work so well?

Events/Projects	Remarks
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India	Quality of images still not as expected Promotion in different channels was lacking
Two Centuries of Indian Print competitions	For legal reasons, prizes cannot be sent outside India, which led to low participation. Long proofread contests on Bengali Wikisource might led to exhaustion of the editors. Lack of promotion
Infrastructure promotion	Lack of promotion led to low turnout, only 4 volunteers were served
Photo-documentation projects	Idea to execute photo-documentation projects in crowded areas were dropped because of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• What would you do differently next time?
  • The projects and events will be actively promoted for more participation
  • Wikimedia Bangladesh will be consulted on finding out ways to send prizes for Bangladeshi winners of different competitions.

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.	Event/Project	Item Description	Date	Budget breakdown	INR per Event/Project	USD per Event/Project (1 INR = 0.013 USD as of 27.02.2022)	Remarks
1	Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India	Prizes for winners	15.03.2021 - 14.04.2021	24940	32925.58	428.03
		Gift for Organizers		2000
		Promotion		5985.58
2	Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India	Prizes for winners	01.09.2021 - 30.09.2021	48571	48571	631.42
3	Rabimas proofread competition	Prizes for winners	09.05.2021 - 08.08.2021	4302	4302	55.93
4	Two Centuries of Indian Print competition (March-April)	Prizes for winners	15.03.2021 - 14.04.2021	3459	3459	44.97
5	Two Centuries of Indian Print competition (September-November)	Prizes for winners	01.09.2021 - 30.11.2021	2548	2548	33.12
6	Digitization program		Whole year	21748	21748	282.72
7	Infrastructure support	Wifi-Router	Whole Year	5199	8615	112.00
		Internet charge		3416
	Total				122168.58	1588.19

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Yes, we have (147670-122168.58) = 25,501.42 with us. We would like to request to re-use this fund for our next similar activities, the grants proposal of which is expected to be submitted by end of April, 2022.

The funds remaining from this grant may be allocated to another grant submission if it is approved: [[]].

Anything else

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