Grants:PEG/Shipmaster - Community of Arabic Wikipedia/Producer Prize-2014/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Project and Event grant approved in FY 2013-14 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:PEG/Shipmaster - Community of Arabic Wikipedia/Producer Prize-2014.

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Project status

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?: YES

Is your project completed?: YES

Activities and lessons learned

Activities

Producer prize is a half-annual prize which is awarded to the participants who made significant contributions to one or more of the Arabic Wikimedia projects during each round.

Lessons learned

What worked well?

Running mid-term competitions can help retaining editors
Offering monetary prizes can motivate users to generate new and high quality content
Managing the contest required only minimal amount of time of a small team of volunteers.

What didn't work?

Sending Money (and goods in case the winner decided they want something bought with the prize money) was a challenge as some countries have access to limited options for transferring the prize.

What would you do differently if you planned a similar project?

We completely eliminated Western Union as an option and replaced it with Moneygram as it was somewhat easier and more predictable. We would also eliminate the option to buy goods with the prize as it proved a logistic challenge.

Learning patterns

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Let_the_community_know

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Number_of_active_editors_involved

Outcomes and impact

Outcomes

Provide the original project goal here.

Producer prize aimed to :

Contribute to a better quality and quantity Arabic contents on the Internet within the scope of Wikimedia projects.
Provide monetary prizes to users in order to enable them continue their on-wiki activities.
Promote the spirit of competition among the participants.

Did you achieve your project goal? How do you know your goal was achieved? Please answer in 1 - 2 short paragraphs.

Most of the goals were achieved by creating large amount of new contents and contributing to boosting the quality of existing articles by the participants.
Most of the participants in the contest showed high commitment during the contest period of six months, and many of them continued contributing to the Arabic Wikipedia after the end of the contest, and became prolific editors to the project.

Progress towards targets and goals

Measures of success

Over two rounds of Producer Prize in 2014 (each round lasted for six months) 38 users were registered (up from 23 users in 2014) to participate, and 18 users submitted their contributions (up from 15 users in 2014).

The nature of contributions varied form creating stubs, uploading photos, to preparing featured articles or portals. Some of the contributions statistics include :

Creating 2500 new articles
Developing 24 featured articles, and 24 good articles, 5 featured portals, and 28 featured photos
Uploading 1560 images to Wikimedia commons
Creating 260 new templates, and 640 new category
Referencing 200 articles, wikifying 130 articles, categorizing 600, de-orphanizing 540 articles, and expanding 104 stubs.
1216 edits to Wikidata.

Global Metrics

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees. In addition to the measures of success for your specific program (in above section), please use the table below to let us know how your project contributed to the Global Metrics. We know that not all projects will have results for each type of metric, so feel free to put "0" where necessary.

Next to each required metric, list the actual outcome achieved through this project.
Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome. For example, if you were funded for an edit-a-thon which resulted in 0 new images, your explanation might be "This project focused solely on participation and articles written/improved, the goal was not to collect images."

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

# of active editors involved 38 users
# of new editors Inapplicable
# of individuals involved about 60 (including the jury panel)
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages Uploading 1560 images to Wikimedia commons, and adding 150 images to Wikipedia articles
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects About 4000 articles (2500 added, 1500 improved)
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects Not available

Others:

1216 edits to Wikidata.
Developing 24 featured articles, and 24 good articles, 5 featured portals, and 28 featured photos

Learning question: Did your work increase the motivation of contributors, and how do you know?

A lot of the contributors are returning contributors, most of them had their goals planned out before the contest began (they did not just go about their regular editing work and record it). Some others have actually talked about forming teams for the next rounds of the contest.

Impact

What impact did this project have on WMF's mission and the strategic priorities?

Option A: How did you increase participation in one or more Wikimedia projects?

Option B: How did you improve quality on one or more Wikimedia projects?

Option C: How did you increase the reach (readership) of one or more Wikimedia projects?

This project resulted in an increase of engagement level among participants, evaluation committee, and organizers.
This project motivated participants in pursue their pre-set goals by providing them with an incentive.
This project contributed to the increase of participation on the Arabic Wikipedia, which most of its editors are either located in developing countries, or they edit articles to readers in developing countries.
The contest contributed to the increase of quality of content, where each participant set a minimum size limit for newly created articles, and many participants contributed a large amount of their time to maintenance work and expanding existing articles.

Reporting and documentation of expenditures

This section describes the grant's use of funds

Documentation

Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grants at wikimedia dot org, according to the guidelines here? Answer "Yes" or "No".: Yes

Expenses

Please list all project expenses in a table here, with descriptions and dates. Review the instructions here.

1st round - 1st prize : $500 + $20 Transfer Fees
1st round - 2nd prize : $250 + $20 Transfer Fees
1st round - 3rd prize : $100 + $12 Transfer Fees

2nd round - 1st prize : $500 + $31 Transfer Fees
2nd round - 2nd prize : $250 + $20 Transfer Fees
2nd round - 3rd prize : $100

Total = $1803.

Total project budget (from your approved grant submission): $1800

Total amount requested from WMF (from your approved grant submission, this total will be the same as the total project budget if PEG is your only funding source): $1800

Total amount spent on this project: $1800

Total amount of Project and Event grant funds spent on this project: $1800

Are there additional sources that funded any part of this project? List them here.: Yes, we had $100 in community donations

Remaining funds

Are there any grant funds remaining?: Answer YES or NO.; NO

Please list the total amount (specify currency) remaining here. (This is the amount you did not use, or the amount you still have after completing your grant.)

$0

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No funds remaining