Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in South Sudan (ID: 21957193)

Feedback from Middle East and Africa Regional Funds team

Hello Lomoraronad,

• Who will support you with Wikimedia Commons related questions or run the training sessions? We request that you have someone in the team who is experienced with Wikimedia Commons.
• We request that you provide a detailed budget which should be clearly connected to the activity session. Please make the changes to the budget file and make it more comprehensive.
• Please provide the list of monuments you plan to focus on. If there is no list available, how will you guide participants which objects to photograph?
• We also request more details about the selection process. How and who will select winners of the local contest?

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 12:58, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Who will support you with Wikimedia Commons related questions or run the training sessions? We request that you have someone in the team who is experienced with Wikimedia Commons.

We have an experienced team of members from Both the South Sudan wikimedia team that includes me and 2 from the uganda wikimedia team, who have been jurys from the former Wiki Loves Africa photo contest and more other related projects, so we have user: Lomoraronald, (Photographer and Jury member ) User: katterega1 (Photographer and Jury member ), User: Samson (Photographer and Jury member )

We request that you provide a detailed budget which should be clearly connected to the activity session. Please make the changes to the budget file and make it more comprehensive.

Sure, the changes are being made.

Please provide the list of monuments you plan to focus on. If there is no list available, how will you guide participants which objects to photograph?

There is a list of munments, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_cultural_sites_in_South_Sudan

We also request more details about the selection process. How and who will select winners of the local contest?

With a team of the jury, that shall use the Montage, we shall be able to select the photo contest winners via identifying, 1. clarity of the photos, 2. Story behind the Photos, 3. and the relevance of the photo to a munment in South Sudan. Lomoraronald (talk) 06:14, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

And the prizes shall be awarded to the best 3 photographers Lomoraronald (talk) 06:41, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

1. Could you please provide the usernames of the Ugandan team members who will be in the team?

Kateregga1- Geoffrey Kateregga form Uganda,

Ngumenawe - Ngumenawe Samson from Uganda

Lomoraronald - Romeo Ronald L from South Sudan

2. Budget: You haven't provided a detailed budget file as requested. For this and any following grant requests, we request that you provide a detailed budget. For the current budget, please provide a more detailed breakout and need for rows 6, 8, 9, and 10.

I have already added updates on the budget, and will be waiting for your feedback! Lomoraronald (talk) 11:34, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Funded

Hello Lomoraronald, thanks for providing a more detailed budget breakdown. However, the details that you provided are not sufficient.

• We think that some prices are not aligned with local prices in South Sudan. They seem high and not aligned with the project impact as well.
• Organizing 4 in-person events for the WLM campaign, also given the overall impact, does not seem viable.
• We don't think that some expenses are needed to organize a local Wiki Loves Monuments campaign.
• There are some minor discrepancies in the budget.

Given these details, we are recommending this grant for funding in the amount of 1,900 USD.

• You are required to reduce the project scope to 2 events only.
• You are required to reduce the expenses, including the prize budget. Please make changes to the budget file accordingly.

For your future grant request:

• We require that you provide a detailed budget breakdown when submitting a new grant request. Every expense should be a new row.
• We require that the prices in the proposed budget are aligned with your local prices. They also need to be aligned with the activity plan on the application.
• I sent back the Wiki Loves Women 2022 in South Sudan application for updates. Please note that if you do not follow these requirements, we will not fund your request.

I have sent this notice via email too. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 08:49, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

• Organizing 4 in-person events for the WLM campaign, also given the overall impact, does not seem viable.
• We are changing to having only 2 events
• We don't think that some expenses are needed to organize a local Wiki Loves Monuments campaign.
• We are changing the budget for that
• There are some minor discrepancies in the budget.

Given these details, we are recommending this grant for funding in the amount of 1,900 USD.

we shall resize the budget to 1900USd

• You are required to reduce the expenses, including the prize budget. Please make changes to the budget file accordingly.

For your future grant request:

This shall be immediately implemented in the upcoming events

• We require that you provide a detailed budget breakdown when submitting a new grant request. Every expense should be a new row.
• We require that the prices in the proposed budget are aligned with your local prices. They also need to be aligned with the activity plan on the application.
• I sent back the Wiki Loves Women 2022 in South Sudan application for updates. Please note that if you do not follow these requirements, we will not fund your request.
• All the above feedbacks shall immedtiately apply for the forthcoming applications

Lomoraronald (talk) 18:20, 3 October 2022 (UTC)