Grants:Project/Rapid/Nilamkarn/Women Participation in Wikipedia/Report

Report accepted

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

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Goals

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

We have managed to organize Wikipedia Orientation program and Wikipedia Workshop for college students and existing Wikipedians. The goals of the project was successfully meet apart from photography of traditional women of Mithila. The completion of the project took a long time but finally we did it.

Yes, It was indeed great feeling for me to interact with the female students and know their interest toward free knowledge and technology. Specially, I am glad doing this project and closely known about the reality of ground work. As we are people of developing country, we lack the basic infrastructure at the educational institution, there is minimal extra curricular activities as well as female students were feared to speak openly in public. I saw, they are eager to take the opportunity and also want to learn about new things but they are limited to their academic books and social barriers.

I am happy that at least they knew about the importance of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. I am connected with them through social media groups and updating them time to time about Wikipedia.

Activities

Orientation Class about Wikipedia

We choose following schools and colleges of Rajbiraj.

Kanya Madhyamik Vidyaalaya (Girl High School), Rajbiraj

We have organized an orientation class about Wikipedia in Girl High School, Rajbiraj focusing girl students of class 9 & 10. The intention behind the program is to aware women students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects and make them interested to participate in Women participation in Wikipedia Workshop.

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  Orientation class at Girl High School

Caliber International College, Rajbiraj

We have organized an orientation class about Wikipedia in Caliber International College, Rajbiraj focusing girl students of Intermediate and Bachelor (Management Stream). The intention behind the program is to aware women students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects and make them interested to participate in Women participation in Wikipedia Workshop.

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Saptarishi Multiple College, Rajbiraj

We have organized an orientation class about Wikipedia in Saptarishi Multiple College, Rajbiraj focusing girl students of Bachelor (Business Administration Stream). The intention behind the program is to aware women students about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects and make them interested to participate in Women participation in Wikipedia Workshop.

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  Orientation class at Saptarishi Multiple College

Workshop

1^st Workshop

We have organized a workshop for interested participants from Women Participation in Wikipedia orientation program. We invited the interested female students to train them about basic steps of Wikipedia. We started the workshop with basic steps like- information about Wikipedia, creating user accounts, how to find articles and how to edit Wikipedia. We have total 15 interested female students from different schools and colleges of Rajbiraj participated in first Workshop of Women Participation in Wikipedia.

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2^nd Workshop

We have organized one more workshop for interested participants from Women Participation in Wikipedia orientation program as well as our community female contributors. We invited the interested female students to train them about basic steps of Wikipedia and existing members to improve their skills. We started the workshop with basic steps like- information about Wikipedia, creating user accounts, how to find articles and how to edit Wikipedia. We have total 30 interested female students from different schools and colleges of Rajbiraj participated in first Workshop of Women Participation in Wikipedia.

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Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

S.N.	Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1	Number of active editors involved	6	Existing active editors, who involved in the projects.
2	Number of new editors	10	New account created during the projects
3	Number of articles created or improved on Wikimedia projects	95	22 new articles related to women biography
4	Upload photos of traditional women's of Nepal	-	We will work on this and will upload the photos of traditional women's of Nepal

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:

• What worked well?
  

- The workshop events and orientation classes were good. The team members were very helpful to me, they assist me in every possible way to complete this project.

• What did not work so well?
  

- The photography of traditional women is still to complete. We missed it because one of our team member Bijay Chaurasia was busy during the event time in his academics life. Once he get into Rajbiraj, we will plan and execute the event of photography.

• What would you do differently next time?
  

- Well, Workshop is great idea to motivate the participants. Women participants feels comfortable during the workshop event. I am pretty motivated after this project, so I am focusing to continue this projects in another city of Nepal.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Date	Purchase	Amount	Currency	Purpose of purchase
May 12, 2019	Backdrop Printing, Communication & SWAG Material	19900	NPR	-
May 15, 2019	Snacks, Juice and Tea for Participants	10850	NPR	Orinetation Event
July 8, 2019	Team Meetup	10,960	NPR	Team Meeting
July 8, 2019	T-shirts	4,000	NPR	T-Shirts for Volunteers and Core team member
July 19, 2019	Workshop Event Venue, Food & Accommodation	41,000	NPR	Participants Workshop
August 10, 2019	Workshop Event Venue, Food & Accommodation	41,000	NPR	Participants Workshop
August 9, 2019	Room Rent & Accommodation	19,800	INR	Volunteers and Participants
	Local rikcshaw rent	3,090	NPR	-
	Particpants Travel Expenses	10,200	NPR
Total		160800	NPR

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No, I have use all the funds to complete this project.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?