Grants talk:Project/Rapid/"Her Art and Her Digital Story"

Comments from WMF

Hello GertrudeH, thank you for submitting this rapid grant request and for your efforts in running Art and Feminism campaign in Zambia. I have reviewed your request and have the following questions and comments.

• Please edit your proposal adding the target wiki to the probox.

Thank you for the reminder!

• How many T-shirts or Caps are you going to offer to outstanding participants? What is the total cost of those expenses? Additionally, it looks like you have not included this cost in your total budget, please check and correct it.

We plan to offer 10 T-shirts at US 120 ,and 5 caps at US 50 bringing the total amount to US 170.

• In your detailed budget #3, you budgeted 300 USD for “Art+Feminism event/ articles as a way of advertising this new project in Zambia”. Would you please elaborate on the type of articles and advertisement?

We want to create awareness of our campaign and would like to place a short article in the local paper on our idea and what we are trying to achieve . We will place 2 articles in 2 of our major local press to elaborate on our campaign and Wiki Grants.

• The budget for prizes is higher than what we approve for other similar projects. Therefore we kindly ask you to reduce Gift card prize expenses and Branded pens/notepads expenses by half. This means the budget for gift card prizes should be $200 and pen / notepad costs should be $150. Given this new budget, how many gift cards will you be offering to participants?

Gift card for prizes to the most active participants (Grocery gift cards)= US 200 Our 1st prize voucher will be US 100 the second prize will be US 60 and our third prize will be US 40 So, In total we plan to give out 3 Gift cards.

• On which social media are you planning to place ads? What will be the duration of advertisement?

We plan to place paid for promotions on YouTube and Facebook entailing our campaign and encourage female artists to attend our edit a thon. these ads will run over a period of 2 weeks, i week of advertising before the event and one week showing the public what transpired at our (#ZedWikiFemArt) event as to keep the ball of discussion going well after the event.

• In your proposal you mentioned that you would have five experienced editors at your event. Would you please list their usernames?

We have one experienced Wiki editor to lead the event and I also run a female led Digital Consultancy company and that is one of the reasons I am passionate about women getting involved in the digital evolution and to take control of their own presentation of their art. My Username is Gertrudeh. What we did mean was that we have technology savvy volunteers that are capable of walking the participants through the #ZedWikiFemArt) campaign.

• How will you ensure that the participants have minimum experience to contribute high quality content?

Our participants may have minimum experience in to contribute high quality content, and we will ensure quality content is uploaded as our event co-coordinator has over a decade's worth of experience and pro volunteer in Wikimedia as she has been editing articles and writing articles on wikimedia for over half a decade. As earlier mentioned she owns a female led Technology consultancy firm and has engaged with staff that have agreed to participate in demonstrating basic technological skills in article writing to our participants.

Our new Overall Budget stands at:

Stationary/Pull up Banner= US 150

• T-Shirts/Caps( to be used as prizes to volunteers/participants who will show outstanding contribution to our (#ZedWikiFemArt)

We plan to offer 10 T-shirts at US 120 and 5 caps at US 50 bringing the total amount to US 170

• Art+Feminism event/ articles as a way of advertising this new project in Zambia= US 200

We want to create awareness of our campaign and would like to place a short article in the local paper on our idea and what we are trying to achieve . We will place 2 articles in 2 of our nation's local press to elaborate on our campaign and Wiki Grants.

• Social Media promotion= US 150

We plan to place paid for promotions on YouTube and Facebook entailing our campaign and encourage female artists to attend our edit a thons over a period of 2 weeks, i week of advertising before the event and one week showing the public what transpired at our (#ZedWikiFemArt) event as to keep the ball of discussion going well after the event.

• Venue= US 250
• Transport for organizers=US 150
• Refreshments and Snacks= US 200
• Branded Pens/ notepads with (#ZedWikiFemArt) Logo to give away at event and to promote it US= 150
• Internet =US 100
• Gift card for prizes to the most active participants (Grocery gift cards)= US 200

Our 1st prize voucher will be US 100 the second prize will be US 60 and our third prize will be US 40 So, In total we plan to give out 3 Gift cards.

• Total amount= US 1,720

Thank you again for your contributions to Wikimedia projects! Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 08:26, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello GertrudeH, thank you for your thoughtful responses and changes in the budget! I have one additional comment.

• Thank you for providing your username. However, please also provide the username(s) of the experienced editor(s) who will be leading the event.

Our Wikimedia Editor's usernames are:

• (i) Brianchanda
• (ii)Kasolol
• (iii)Jason.mulikita
• (iv)Francis ackson soko
• (v)Icem4k

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:44, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello GertrudeH, thank you for providing the usernames of the experienced editors. I rechecked your detailed budget on the proposal page; it currently adds up to 1820 USD. The reason is that you have not updated the costs of "Art+Feminism event/ articles as a way of advertising this new project in Zambia". According the budget you posted on the discussion page, it should be 200 USD and not 300 USD. Please make this final correction and also do not forget to update the probox with the final total budget in USD and in your local currency. Thank you, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:38, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Approved

Hello GertrudeH, thanks for making the final changes! I am approving your grant request. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:48, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Request for extension

Good morning Davit, I would like to make a humble request for an extension on submission of my report to 5th October,2020. I deeply apologize for the delay in my request for extension. I eagerly await your response!

Best regards

Gertrude — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gertrudeh (talk)

Hello Gertrudeh, thanks for posting your request. I'm approving it and extending the reporting due until 5 October 2020. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 15:25, 29 September 2020 (UTC)