Grants:Project/Rapid/Nabin K. Sapkota/Wiki Loves Monuments in Nepal 2018/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Nabin K. Sapkota/Wiki Loves Monuments in Nepal 2018.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
• You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.

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 and Valued Images of monuments of Nepal in Wikimedia Commons

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

Photowalk at Patan

Event Details

• Date: 15 September, 2018
• Visited Places: Patan Durbar Square, Hiranya Varna Mahavihar and Kumbheshwar Temple Area
• Participants: Nepali Wikimedians User Group and Nepalese in Photography Team

Schedule

Timing	Topics to be covered	Coordinator / Resource Person / Participation
☼ 06:00 am - 06:30 am	Introduction of WLM and Photo walk	Nirmal Dulal
☼ 06.30 am - 06:50 am	☕ Tea/Coffee Break
☼ 06.50 am – 11:30 am	Photo walk around Patan Durbar Square	Participants

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Photowalk at Kathmandu

Event Details

• Date: 19 September, 2018
• Visited Places: Boudhanath and Pashupatinath Temple
• Participants: Nepali Wikimedians User Group and other Volunteers

Schedule

Timing	Topics to be covered	Participation
☼ 03:30 pm - 04:30 pm	Photo walk around Boudhanath	Nepali Wikimedians
☼ 04.30 pm - 05:50 pm	☕ Tea/Coffee Break
☼ 05.50 pm – 07:00 pm	Photo walk around Pashupatinath Temple	Nepali Wikimedians

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Photowalk at Namobuddha Municipality

Event Details

• Date: 19 September, 2018
• Visited Places: Mathurapati and Namobuddha
• Mentor: Shree Krishna Dhital

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Photowalk at Kirtipur

Event Details

• Date: 22 September, 2018
• Visited Places: Area of Ancient Kingdom of Kirtipur
• Participants: Nepali Wikimedians User Group and other Volunteers
• Time Period - 07:00 am- 01:00 pm

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Photowalk at Swayambhunath and Bhaktapur

Event Details

• Date: 29 September, 2018
• Visited Places: Area of Swayambhunath and Bhaktapur Durbar Square
• Participants: Nepali Wikimedians User Group and other Volunteers

Schedule

Timing	Topics to be covered	Coordinator / Resource Person / Participation
☼ 06:00 am - 06:30 am	Introduction of WLM and Photo walk	Nirmal Dulal
☼ 06:30 am - 06:50 am	☕ Tea/Coffee Break
☼ 06:50 am – 10:00 am	Photo walk around Swayambhunath	Participants
☼ 10:00 am - 11:00 am	☕ Lunch Break and Travel to Bhaktapur
☼ 11:00 am – 04:00 pm	Photo walk around Bhaktapur Durbar Square	Participants

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Prize Distribution

Venue:	Siddhartha Cottage, Tinkune, Kathmandu
Hosts:	Wikimedians of Nepal
Date:	15 December, 2018
Time:	11:30 pm to 02:30 pm
Participant:	25+

Timing	Session	Topics to be covered	Coordinator/Resource Person
☼ 11:30 pm - 11:50 pm	Registration	Registration
☼ 11:50 pm - 12:15 pm	Introduction	Welcome and brief introduction about WLM 2018	Saroj Dhakal
☼ 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm	Story Telling	Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments
☼ 12:40 pm - 01:10 pm	☕ Tea/Coffee
☼ 01:10 pm – 01:30 pm	Prize distribution	Prize distribution of Winners	WLM 2018 Participants and Winners
☼ 01:30 pm - 01:45 pm	Ending Note	Thanking	Nirmal Dulal
☼ 01:45 pm - 02:00 pm	Group Photo Session	-	Photographer- Nirmal Dulal
☼ 02.00 pm - 02:30 pm	☕ Tea/Coffee/Supper

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Winners and Finalist Images

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  Nyatapol Temple during Bisket Jatra in Bhaktapur
  Photograph: Nrik kiran
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  Bhairab Temple during Bisket Jatra in Bhaktapur
  Photograph: Youbesh Dhaubhadel
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  Night view of Boudhanath Stupa
  Photograph: Christopher J. Fynn
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  Bhandarkhal Pokhari (Kamal Pokhari) at Patan DurbarSquare
  Photograph: Creepanta
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  Mayadevi Temple in Lumbini
  Photograph: Hari Paudyel
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  Chilancho, at Kirtipur (Estd. in 1515 AD by Jagatpal Varma).
  Photograph: Nirmal Dulal
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  Taleju Temple at Patan Durbar Square.
  Photograph: Nirmal Dulal
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  A view of Namobuddha Stupa
  Photograph: Creepanta
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  Fisheye view of Pashupatinath Temple
  Photograph: Nabin K. Sapkota
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  Swayambhunath is an ancient religious architecture in Kathmandu
  Photograph: Nabin K. Sapkota

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

S.N.	Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1	Number of participants	97	Target reached.
2	Number of new participants	61 (63%)	These were uploaders who created usernames during the competition.
3	Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons	7916	Target reached.
4	Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects	76 (1%)	Target reached.

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

1. What worked well?

Well, talking about the whole competition period, almost everything’s work well as per we planned.

• More than 5+ photo walks were organized inside Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Kavre District.
• Huge numbers of participation and contributions were achieved.
• 4 images got Valued image flag and 20 images got Quality image flag.

1. What did not work so well?

• Quantitatively, somehow we achieved the target, qualitatively we're still struggling to achieve a better results.
• Only less number of qualitative contents were been updated by contributors.

1. What would you do differently next time?

• Well, we’re still not able to cover all the monuments and places in remote parts of the country. We’ll plan a better solution to re-cover all these circumstances.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

S.N.	Category	Item description	Actual total	Currency	Notes
1	Meet up and Planning	Food and Beverages	16,567	NPR	Meet-up and planning before and after the events
2	Outreach and Workshop	Food & Beverages, Venue	30,760	NPR	Outreach, Workshop, Jury procedures
3	T-Shirt and Delivery	T-Shirt for Winners and Team Members and Guests	40,000	NPR
4	Printing Magic Mug	Token of Appreciations	9,800	NPR
5	Certificates, ID and Strickers	Certificates, ID, ID-clip and Strickers for participants	18,375	NPR
6	Gift hampers for Winners and Top Uploaders	Gift hampers for Winners and Top Uploaders of the competition	35,000	NPR
7	Prize Distribution and Refreshment	Venue, Food & Beverages	35,500	NPR
8	Stationary and Other	Welcome Scarf, Sign pen, Non Plastic Bags	6,750	NPR
9	Transportation	Transportation during outreach & events	10,000	NPR	Transportation charges during outreach, photowalks and jury procedures
10	Miscellaneous	Telephone, Internet,Banner and Extra operating costs	15,500	NPR
Total			218,252	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)

218,252 NPR

Total amount requested from WMF

218,252 NPR

Total amount spent on this project

218,252 NPR

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

NO

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

How to upload pictures in Wiki Loves Monuments

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
• Social Media
• Tell- A friend
• Central Notice across Wikimedia projects; to be directed to our site e.t.c