Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedians of Nepal/Wiki Loves Earth 2019 in Nepal/Report

Report accepted
This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Goals edit

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? First of all reminder of the goals we set before the starts of the project:

  • To engage new and existing members of the community
  • To add freely licensed, and quality images of nature of Nepal to Wikimedia Commons
  • To spread awareness about contributing media contents to Wikipedia and its sister projects
  • To increase the number of Quality and Valued Images of natural monuments of Nepal in Wikimedia Commons

Now as mentioned above all the goals were been achieved within the time frame. All our team members and community are happy and satisfied with the output we've created.

Outreach Events edit

     Wiki Loves Earth 2019 in Nepal
 

Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote cultural heritage sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons).


Photowalk at Godawari Botanical Garden, Lalitpur edit

Event Details edit

  • Date: 9th June 2019 (Sunday)
  • Meeting Point: Godawari Chowk, Lalitpur
  • Participants: Nepali Wikimedians
Schedule
Timing Topics to be covered Coordinator / Resource Person / Participation
☼ 10:00 am - 10:30 am Introduction of WLE and Photo walk Nabin K. Sapkota
☼ 10:30 am - 2:30 pm Photo walk around Godawari Botanical Garden Participants
☼ 02:30 pm – 4:00 pm ☕ Lunch and group photo

Gallery edit

Photo Edit-a-thon edit

Event Details edit

  • Date: 15th June 2019 (Saturday)
  • Meeting Point: Maitreya Technology Premises, Old Baneshwor
  • Participants: Nepali Wikimedians
Schedule
Timing Topics to be covered Participation
☼ 11:30 am - 02:30 pm Photo filtering and category management Nepali Wikimedians
☼ 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm ☕ Tea/Coffee

Gallery edit


Photo Edit-a-thon edit

Event Details edit

  • Date: 22th June 2019 (Saturday)
  • Meeting Point: Abhiyantrik Technology Premises, Babarmahal
  • Participants: Nepali Wikimedians
Schedule
Timing Topics to be covered Participation
☼ 11:30 am - 02:30 pm Photo filtering and category management Nepali Wikimedians
☼ 02:30 pm - 03:30 pm ☕ Tea/Coffee

Gallery edit


Prize Distribution edit

Venue: Siddhartha Cottage, Tinkune, Kathmandu
Hosts: Wikimedians of Nepal
Date: 28 September, 2019
Time: 11:30 pm to 02:30 pm
Participant: 40+
Timing Session Topics to be covered Coordinator/Resource Person
☼ 11:30 pm - 11:50 pm Registration Registration
☼ 11:50 pm - 12:15 pm Introduction Welcome and brief introduction about WLE 2019 Saroj Dhakal
☼ 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm Story Telling Winners of Wiki Loves Earth
☼ 12:40 pm - 01:10 pm ☕ Tea/Coffee
☼ 01:10 pm – 01:30 pm Prize distribution Prize distribution of Winners WLE 2019 Participants and Winners
☼ 01:30 pm - 01:45 pm Ending Note Thanking Nirmal Dulal
☼ 01:45 pm - 02:00 pm Group Photo Session - Photographer- Nirmal Dulal
☼ 02.00 pm - 02:30 pm ☕ Tea/Coffee/Supper

Felicitation Program edit

Winners and Finalist Images edit


Outcome edit

Please report on your original project targets.

S.N. Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
1 Number of participants 145[1] Target reached.
2 Number of new participants 114 (78%) [2] These were uploaders who created usernames during the competition.
3 Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 1787[3] Target reached.
4 Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects 47 (2%)[4] Target reached.

Learning edit

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?
Well, talking about the whole competition period, almost everything’s work well as per we planned.
More than 3+ photo events were organized including photo-walks and photo-edit-a-thon inside Kathmandu and Lalitpur
Huge numbers of participation and contributions were achieved.
2 images got Valued image flag and 20 images got Quality image flag.
  • What did not work so well?
Due to delay in grant issues we were tend to postpone photo-walks and other events.
Able to organize Only one photo-walk.
Only less number of qualitative contents were been updated by contributors.
  • What would you do differently next time?
Well, we’re still not able to cover all photographs of protected areas and places in remote parts of the country. We executed some of our techniques to re-cover previous circumstances this time and it somehow worked. We'll boost the techniques and revise if necessary.

Finances edit

Grant funds spent edit

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

S.N. Category Item description Actual total Currency Notes
1 Meet up and Planning Food and Beverages 5,469 NPR Meet-up and planning before and after the events
2 Outreach and Workshop Food & Beverages, Venue 12,823 NPR Outreach, Workshop, Jury procedures
3 Printings, Gifts and Souvenirs Certificates, T-Shirt, ID Card, ID-clip and belt and Stickers for participants 38,450 NPR Certificates, Mount Photo print for Winners and Top Uploaders ID and Stickers, T -Shirt, gift package for jurors
4 Gift hampers for Winners and Top Uploaders Gift hampers for Top-3 Winners and Top Uploaders of the competition 50,000 NPR
5 Prize Distribution and Refreshment Venue, Food & Beverages 19,251 NPR Felicitation Day expenses
6 Stationary and Other Welcome Scarf, Sign pen, Non Plastic Bags 7,400 NPR Purchase of Welcome Scarf, Sign pen, Non Plastic Bags, Envelope
7 Transportation Transportation during outreach & events 5,000 NPR Transportation charges during goods delivery
8 Miscellaneous Telephone charge, Internet and Extra operating costs 11,500 NPR
Total 1,49,893 NPR

Grant funds spent edit

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

Total project budget (from your approved grant submission)
2,16,932 NPR
Total amount requested from WMF
2,16,932 NPR
Total amount spent on this project
1,49,893 NPR
Total unspent amount on this project
67,039 NPR

Remaining funds edit

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Yes


Anything else edit

Anything else you want to share about your project? How did we let people know about the contest?

First of all, as per we promised in proposal, we avoid the use of paper promotion with the ultimate tagline of

1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree and 5.4kg CO2 in the atmosphere, 3 sheets of A4 Paper = 1 liter of water

To acquire couple of thousands pictures we can’t sacrifice hundreds of trees to waste. So, we started a new innovative phase to achieve our goals like .

  • Rigorous Emailing
  • Social Media
  • Tell- A friend
  • Central Notice across Wikimedia projects; to be directed to our site e.t.c

References edit