Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Rapid Fund/Documantery of Assad Rustom and Subtitle editing (ID: 21937106)

Not funded

Hello Sandra Hanbo,

Thank you for submitting your grant application. We appreciate your interest in contributing to the mission of the Wikimedia Movement. We are continuously strengthening our grants review process, ensuring that grant funding is being invested towards impactful projects and efforts geared towards contributing to the mission of Wikimedia Movement in the most efficient and effective manner.

After a thorough review of your application, we have decided to not fund your Rapid Fund request. Here are the main reasons for our decision:

• Per Rapid Fund eligibility criteria, grant applications must be for future, planned work. In this case, most of the project has already been completed. The video is produced and is available on Wikimedia Commons and social media. Unfortunately, we cannot fund projects retroactively. The only incomplete part is the subtitle editing, but it doesn't seem like a distinct Rapid Fund project.
• Moreover, the project and grant proposal are tied to Wikimedians of the Levant. It means that any funding should be requested in terms of the General Support fund of the User Group.
• Finally, the project budget is unclear. It's unclear why 176 hours should be used to add subtitles to one video file. The need for having subtitles to this video is also not being completely present in the application.

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 16:34, 8 November 2022 (UTC) (on behalf of the Middle East and Africa regional funds team)