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Latest comment: 10 months ago by JChen (WMF) in topic Additional Resources

Grant History for Nepal Wikimedians Community (Non- exhaustive) edit

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

For context, I am putting together a list of grants that have been accessed by Wikimedians who are active or past active members of the Wikimedians of Nepal User Group and/or community organisers with an interest in Nepal (i.e. they may or may not be affiliated) The list is non-exhaustive. The objective is to provide background on the resource accessed, network and experience of community organisers. Please feel free to add on. Thank you.

JChen (WMF) (talk) 08:29, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Follow-up questions from Programme Officer edit

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello @Nabin K. Sapkota,

Thank you for putting in an application. I've reviewed your application and have further questions. Would it be possible to receive your responses by some time this week (if your schedule permits) and we'll target to provide an update on funding outcomes by next week.


Local context

1) Based on your experience with the Wikimedians of Nepal User Group, could you share about the history and growth of the Nepalese community over time? Do you also have a meta page which provides more information on the past/present active membership of the User Group?

2) What are the main wikiprojects that the community (or key editors) has/have knowledge about and contribute to?

3) What are the underrepresented groups within the Nepalese community and are there plans to reach them or work with them through this project?

4) What do you think are some risks related to the project?


Programme/ Strategy

5) Could you provide a timeline for your project? For example, this spans the duration of the project from start to finish of reporting? And it would include an overview of activities, roles (i.e. who is doing what for activities and project roles - administrative, financial management, reporting etc), when would this happen and how? What do you have in mind about the Jury?

6) Based on the list of grant history above, it is evident that you (and Wikimedians of Nepal User Group) have significant experience planning and implementing similar projects/ campaigns, could you also share what are some key learnings from previous experiences and how you will be applying or adapting them to the current project? What are 1-2 areas of innovation that you are looking to apply to this campaign?


Learning/ Sharing and Evaluation

7) Based on your response to question 15 "In this project through this collaborations with numerous parties and associates we hope to built a strong and productive enthusiastic task force to create and distribute the free and open knowledge to everyone needed.", could you provide a list of partners you plan to work with and wikimedians who are/will be part of your task force?

8) Based on your core quantitative metrics in question 17, could you provide further breakdown on targets for new and returning participants? Also, how do you plan to track this?


Financial Proposal

9) Could you provide the link to your budget sheet? How has your activities and cost related to the campaign evolved compared to previous Wiki Loves Earth Campaign (2020; 2019)

10) Based on your budget sheet for this grant application, could you provide a more detailed breakdown and elaboration on the cost estimates for the line item on travel and accommodation?

Thank you.


Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 09:16, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Jacqueline JChen (WMF)

Regarding the aforementioned queries please find the attached answers for the respective questions below:

Local context

1) Based on your experience with the Wikimedians of Nepal User Group, could you share about the history and growth of the Nepalese community over time? Do you also have a meta page which provides more information on the past/present active membership of the User Group?

- Well, as being the first Wikimedia affiliates in South Asia, the Nepalese community has been growing simultaneously over time with the theme of creating Textual contents over the first decade of its beginning and succeeded. Afterwards, we focused on the outreach events and global contests to reach out more readers and creators to make Wikipedia a perfect arena for all kinds of users.
Well, regarding the Meta pages for the latest updates of the community here’s the list of annual reports and events organized by the active members of the community, please preview.

2) What are the main wikiprojects that the community (or key editors) has/have knowledge about and contribute to?

- Well, we’ve been contributing in quite a diverse way within and beyond. We’re simultaneously focusing on quality of the articles and graphical contents more than quantity by organizing an edit-a-thon.
Along with it, we’ve been organizing different competitions and contests to engage all kinds of creators to contribute to Wikipedia according to their skill set.
And till the date every kind of events, outreach, edit-a-athons are always organized, operated and executed by the Wikimedia contributors within the community without any external project management parties.

3) What are the underrepresented groups within the Nepalese community and are there plans to reach them or work with them through this project?

- Well, every time when we organize any events or outreach, we always reach out to all the active communities and members of the wiki groups under Nepalese community and most of the time organize collaboratively.

4) What do you think are some risks related to the project?

- Well, due to some diverse law policies over digital contents, we always have had a hard time convincing creators about the actual worth of contributing for both Wikimedia and themselves. Apart from that, technological deficiency is something we’re struggling to overcome.

Programme/ Strategy

5) Could you provide a timeline for your project? For example, this spans the duration of the project from start to finish of reporting? And it would include an overview of activities, roles (i.e. who is doing what for activities and project roles - administrative, financial management, reporting etc), when would this happen and how? What do you have in mind about the Jury?

- Yes, regarding the operating timeline, here we’ve mentioned it in the project page. Apart from the operating timeline here’s the execution timeline we’re already working on:
  • Multimedia content development: June 15
  • Collaboration and partnership: June 18
  • Emails marketing: June 20
  • Social media promotion : June 25
  • Project reporting: September 15
Regarding, all the operational activities our event team lead Nirmal Dulal will be handling it. Apart from that all administrative activities including financial management and reporting will be handled by Nabin K. Sapkota

6) Based on the list of grant history above, it is evident that you (and Wikimedians of Nepal User Group) have significant experience planning and implementing similar projects/ campaigns, could you also share what are some key learnings from previous experiences and how you will be applying or adapting them to the current project? What are 1-2 areas of innovation that you are looking to apply to this campaign?

- First of all, with reference to the past experience we’re executing the event to reach out more mass to extract more quality contents amongst the quantities.
  • With the theme of “Right man for the right job”, we’re deploying professional photographers and content creators to lead our photo walks and photo ride outreaches.
  • To overcome some of the technological barriers, we’re organizing realtime mass photo upload sessions for content creators to avoid confusions and technical inabilities.
  • To address the queries and updates we’ll be executing awareness sessions online /offline.
  • Apart from that, Digital recognition over social media is something we’ll be doing during the event to motivate photographers and audiences.

Learning/ Sharing and Evaluation

7) Based on your response to question 15 "In this project through this collaborations with numerous parties and associates we hope to built a strong and productive enthusiastic task force to create and distribute the free and open knowledge to everyone needed.", could you provide a list of partners you plan to work with and wikimedians who are/will be part of your task force?

- Regarding collaboration and the task force we’re in conversation with Nepal Tourism Board, Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) and Birds Conservation Nepal to assist our photo walks and photo ride. Along with that, we’ll be continuing awareness sessions with various renowned colleges for the involvement of enthusiast students in our phot walk and photo edit-a-thon.

8) Based on your core quantitative metrics in question 17, could you provide further breakdown on targets for new and returning participants? Also, how do you plan to track this?

- Regarding Core quantitative metrics, here's the updated table:
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants Based on the outreach and photowalks 300 (100 Old + 200 New)
Number of editors Based on awareness session and photo edit-a-thon 50 (30 Old + 20 New)
Number of organizers Based on execution skill set 5 (2 Old + 3 New)

Financial Proposal

9) Could you provide the link to your budget sheet? How has your activities and cost related to the campaign evolved compared to previous Wiki Loves Earth Campaign (2020; 2019)

- Please find the budget sheet here. Well, we’ve focused on more outreach, content promotion and mass participation in all our outreach along with the ceremony. Otherwise, we’ve the upgraded activities and cost categorized similarly like in Wiki Loves Earth Campaign (2020; 2019).

10) Based on your budget sheet for this grant application, could you provide a more detailed breakdown and elaboration on the cost estimates for the line item on travel and accommodation?

- Well, we used to organize and operate almost all our activities around the one or hardly 2 cities previously. This time we’re planning and scheduling to cover more cities and protected areas to extract their resources to showcase in Wikipedia articles and other wikimedia projects. We’ll be organizing photo walks along with the local enthusiasts in the numerous cities. Therefore the cost estimates of travel and accommodation are a bit more concerned this year than previous series.

Your grant application has been approved edit

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello @Nabin K. Sapkota

Congratulations, your grant application has been approved. I have adjusted the project duration based on the estimate timeline you provided above.

Thank you for taking time to respond to the questions.


In your final report, could you include

1) reflections on reaching out to new audiences, communities and how you plan to retain them. Add also a segment to your Wikimedians of Nepal User Group on list of active members. Example: Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Members.

2) reporting on results including the adjusted core metrics that you indicated in the talk page

3) reflect on how you plan to build a pipeline of community organisers beyond the existing working committee


Let's continue to keep in touch and I'll encourage you to use this talk page to document discussions, progress or use it as a resource page so that we can support you as you progress. Of course, this is if you have the bandwidth and find it useful.


All the best!

Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 11:38, 26 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Additional Resources edit

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello @Nabin K. Sapkota

I'm starting a thread on resource sharing here. Please feel free to add resources about your project and we'll do the same if we come across any materials that may be useful.

Thank you.

Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 11:41, 26 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

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