Grants:Project/Rapid/Nabin K. Sapkota/Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 Nepal/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2016-17 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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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

A 30 days online photo competition.
10+ outreach programs and Photowalk in different part of Nepal.
Competition winner felicitation program
Social media promotion
Regular meetup with team members to discuss about competition progress.

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

First of all reminder of the goals we set before the starts of the project:

To engage new and existing members of the community
To add freely licensed, and quality images of monuments of Nepal to Wikimedia Commons
To spread awareness about contributing media contents to Wikipedia and its sister projects
To increase the number of Quality Images of monuments of Nepal in Wikimedia Commons

Now as mentioned above all the goals were been acheived within the competition time frame. All our team members and community is happy and satisfied with the output we've created.

Outreach Events

Photowalk at Basantapur Durbar Square, Nepal

Wikimedians of Nepal organized an photowalk at Basantapur Durbar Square on 11th September. Many areas of Basantapur Durbar Square and its premises were captured during the photowalk event.

Event Details

Date:11 September, 2016
Basantapur Durbar Square, Nepal

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Outreach program in LA College, Patan, Nepal

Wikimedians of Nepal organized an outreach events at LA College, Patan to motivate the +2 studens for contributing their photographs in WLM. More than 70+ enthusiastic students and photographers were participated during the outreach event.

Event Details

Date:14 September, 2016
Little Angels' College, Lalitpur

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Lists of participants

List of participants

Photowalk at Patan Durbar Square

Wikimedians of Nepal organized an photowalk at Patan Durbar Square with students of LA College. More than 40+ enthusiastic students and photographers were participated during the photowalk event.

Event Details

Date:15 September, 2016
Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur

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Photo-Walk at Swayambhunath

Event Details

Date:17 September, 2016
Swayambhunath, Kathmandu

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Photo-Walk to Bhaktapur Durbar Square

Event Details

Date:18 September, 2016
Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Nepal

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Photo-Walk to Patan Durbar Square (Night Photowalk), Nepal

Event Details

Date:22 September, 2016
Basantapur Durbar Square, Nepal

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Outreach program at Photowalk Nepal Patan, Nepal

Wikimedians of Nepal organized an outreach events at one of the most popular photography institution Photowalk Nepal at Patan, to motivate the pro photographers for contributing their photographs in WLM. More than 18 enthusiastic photographers were participated during the outreach event.

Event Details

Date:16 September, 2016
Photowalk Nepal, Lalitpur

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Photo-Walk to Kirtipur

Event Details

Date:20 September, 2016
Kirtipur

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Photo Walk at Panauti , Kavre District

Event Details

Date:25 September, 2016
Kirtipur

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Outreach and Photowalk Event by Maithili Wikimedians at Janakpur

To built the wiki community in every part of Nepal, Maithili Wikimedians organize one more outreach program at Janakpur, Nepal. Janakpur is one of the most ancient city and it has lots of cultural heritage. The main aim of the outreach event is to promote and aware photographers about the Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Nepal competition.

Event Details

Date:22 September, 2016
Janakpur Temple Premises and around

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Felicitation Event

The felicitation programme was organized by Wikimedians of Nepal to award winners of the WLN 2016 Nepal on 17^th December, 2016.

Events

Main article: Wikimedia Nepal/Wiki Loves Monuments Nepal 2016

Venue:	Masala Cottage, Kathmandu
Hosts:	Wikimedians of Nepal
Date:	17th December, 2016
Time:	2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Participant:	63

Program Schedule

Timing	Session	Topics to be covered	Coordinator/Resource Person
☼ 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm		Registration	Sujan Shrestha
☼ 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	Welcome & Introduction	Introductions about Wikimedia Commons, Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikipedia Meet and greet Wikimedians	Shree Krishna Dhital
☼ 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Competition Overview	Statistics and Competition overview	Nirmal Dulal
☼ 3:00 am – 3:20 pm	Prize distribution	Prize distribution of Winners	WLM 2016 in Nepal Participant
☼ 3:20 pm – 3:40 pm	Participant speech	Individual speech by Winners	WLM Participant
☼ 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm	☕ High Tea/Coffee Break
☼ 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm	Ending Note	Thanking	Deependra Bajracharya, Min Ratna Bajracharya
☼ 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm	Guest speech and Closing	Closing cermony	Lilanath Ghimire, Nabin Sapkota

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Outcome

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
At least 5000+ photographs of monuments were uploaded to commons from all over Nepal.	8500+ photographs of monuments were uploaded to commons.	Target reached.
At least 50 new contributors takes part in the competition.	117 (70%) newly registered users from total 167 users takes part in the competition and upload their images to commons.	Target reached.
Coverage of the event in mass media reports and other channels of outreach.	The coverage of the event reported in national daily newspapers of Nepal.1 2 3	Target reached.

Global Metrics

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	30	active contributor that takes part in the competition.
2. # of new editors	117 (70%) of 167 ^Stats	more than our expectation.
3. # of individuals involved	300+
4a. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	614Stats	we are adding some quality images to Wikipedia articles.
4b. # of new images/media uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (Optional)	8587^Stats	uploaded to commons
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	15+
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	50467.2 MBytes Stats

Learning question

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

Yes, we really did. The massive supports and participation of contributors during outreach and photowalks proves that. As exceeding the pre-determined target even show our motivational activities to grab new contributors.

Learning

What worked well?

- Well, talking about the whole competition period, almost everything’s work well as per we planned.
-More than 10+ photo walk were organized inside Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kirtipur, Kavre, Rajbiraj, Janakpur and other parts of Nepal.
-5 outreach events were organized to boost the competition around Kathmandu, Rajbiraj, Janakpur and other places of Nepal.

What did not work so well?

- Quantitatively, somehow we achieved the target almost double than we targeted but qualitatively we didn't able to work well.
-Only less number of qualitative photographs were been uploaded by contributors.

What would you do differently next time?

- As it is said that every unsuccessful history are the learning steps of success, we also learn couple of things during the competition period. As we are recovering all the mistakes and drawbacks from earlier competition we've organized, we're still trying to learn much from this also and will continue the process of learning in future events as well.
- Besides these we'll focus on upgrading the quality photo contribution. We'll train contributors about the essence of quality photo contribution and licencing procedures.

Outcomes and impact

See the event related pages for outcomes and impact of the competition:

Media Coverage

Finances

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Actual cost per unit	Actual total	Budgeted total	Currency	Notes
1	Outreach and Photowalk around Kathmandu	Travel, Food and Beverages	11 Days			8, 090	8, 090	NPR	Photowalk around Kathmandu and outreach with various phowalk parties
2	Outreach and Photowalk around Patan and Bhaktapur	Travel, Food and Beverages	7 Days			17,754	17,754	NPR	2 outreach-114 participants, 2 Photowalk-52 participants
3	Photowalk at Kavre and Kirtipur	Travel, Food and Beverages	2 Days			4,315	4,315	NPR
4	Outreach program from Maithili Wikimedias	Travel, Food and Beverages	5 person			31,240	15,057	NPR	Outreach program at Janakpur from Maithili Wikimedians & Travel of Maithili Wikimedians from Rajbiraj to Kathmandu to attend felicitation program
5	Jury Procedure	Travel, Food and Beverages and Internet	5 person			4,407	4,407	NPR
6	Printing	Certificate, Token of Appriciations, Badge , Strickers e.t.c for winners, jurors, guest and other associates				24,925	24,925	NPR
7	Prizes & Awards	T-Shirt for winners, jurors, guest and other associates				36,000	36,000	NPR
8	Kathmandu Felicitation Program	Venue, Snacks, Breakfast, coffee and Projector Charge	60			20,000	20,000	NPR
9	Stationery goods	Welcome Scarf, Certificate bags, Marker				2,250	2,250	NPR
10	Prizes & Awards	Winners of WLM 2016 in Nepal	4 person			35,000	35,000	NPR	1st, 2nd, 3rd and Top Uploader
11	Miscellaneous	Telephone and other Operating cost				8,500	8,500	NPR
		TOTAL				1,92,481	176298.93	NPR

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Total project budget (from your approved grant submission): 176298.93 NPR

Total amount requested from WMF: 176298.93 NPR

Total amount spent on this project: 1,92,481 NPR

Total amount of Project and Event grant funds spent on this project: 1,92,481 NPR

Total outstanding amount: 16,183 NPR

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.)

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

How did we let people know about the contest?

First of all, as per we promised in proposal, we avoid the use of paper promotion with the ultimate tagline of

1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree and 5.4kg CO2 in the atmosphere, 3 sheets of A4 Paper = 1 liter of water

To acquire couple of thousands pictures we can’t sacrifice hundreds of trees to waste. So, we started a new innovative phase to achieve our goals like .

Rigorous Emailing
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