Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Nabin K. Sapkota/Wikidata Datathon 2018 (Nepal)

Hello Nabin K. Sapkota great to see that you're working on wikidata and you have a lot of support from the community on Nepali Wikipedia. We're happy to support the continuation of your project since 2015. One question/comment I had for you was:

• What challenges have you encountered as you've organized the datathon since 2015 and how do you plan to address it this year?

I am approving your rapid grant request. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 18:50, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi WJifar (WMF), first of all thank you so much for approving the grant request. Regarding your query on challenges we've faced, the most primary thing we noticed during all those years was lack of proper resources to conduct our datathon outreach session in mass. Due to this, we're limited to virtual participation without proper instructions to enthusiast participants. The second thing we noticed is lack of enthusiast editors. As we're only running the event virtually, we're unable to retain the enthusiast editors in the proper lineup. Now with this proposal, we can move forward with proper resources to conduct our outreach sessions and meet the enthusiast editors face to face to address the problems they are facing as well as sharing their innovative ideas in mass. Thank you again -Nabin K. Sapkota (talk) 02:50, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello Nabin K. Sapkota, glad to see that this grant will allow you to take your datathon to the next level. I look forward to reading your report on this project. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 22:56, 19 February 2018 (UTC)