Grants:Project/Rapid/Nsultan/Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 Bangladesh/Report
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As part of the international contest, Bangladesh organized international Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition for the first time in 2016. The topic of the contest was the archaeological sites of the country. The motivation behind participating with only the archaeological sites was to make make available freely licensed photographs of the archaeological buildings and sites of the country. Most of the archaeological sites of Bangladesh did not have freely licensed photographs on the internet. Wiki Loves Monuments offered a unique opportunity in this regard. The competition generated over 7500 photographs of more than 350 archaeological sites.
Goals
[edit]Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? We wanted to reach people throughout the country to take part in the contest with a target of 100 participants. But in reality 204 participants submitted photographs of over 350 archaeological building and sites (among 452 Government listed archaeological sites). We had a target of 50 new users to engage in the contest, but 135 new users were engaged which exceeded our expectation. The number of photographs that were used in the Wikimedia projects also exceeded our target. So almost in every aspect, the competition exceeded our expectation. But the quality of the photographs were not of high quality in general. We hope to receive more quality photographs in the upcoming year.
Outcome
[edit]- Winners
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Kantajew Temple, a late-medieval Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
Photograph⧼colon⧽ Jubair1985
Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -
Ancient ruins of guard rooms at Mahasthangarh, a city from 3rd century BC.
Photograph⧼colon⧽ Najmul Huda
Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -
Inside view of Darasbari Mosque, a historic mosque that was built in 1479 AD.
Photograph⧼colon⧽ Foysal.aman
Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -
Dhania Chalk Mosque in Chapai Nawabganj District of Bangladesh.
Photograph⧼colon⧽ Porag61
Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -
Inside view of Hatikumrul Navaratna Temple, Sirajganj, Bangladesh.
Photograph⧼colon⧽ Kazi Rashed Abdallah
Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -
Shah Niamatullah Mosque, an ancient mosques built in 16th century in memory of saint Shah Niamatullah Wali.
Photograph⧼colon⧽ RRezaul
Licensing: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
Number of participants: 100 | 204 | Since it was our first time in WLM so we thought participantions will be rather low but because of a good press coverage the participation rate had been increased. |
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 2000 | 7,093 | After a month-long competition during September 2016, Bangladeshi participants uploaded more than 7,093 freely licensed photographs of 270+ different archaeological monuments and sites in Wikimedia Commons. Almost all the monuments photos were uploaded for the first time. |
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects: 500 | 1636 (23%) | This photography contest had specific scope; we participated this year's WLM with govt. listed archaeological sites only. Before this competition, there were only a handful of archaeological buildings and sites of Bangladesh that had photographs available on the internet and those sites & buildings were mostly from major cities and localities, let alone the availability of freely licensed photographs. After the contest most of the articles now have pictures. |
New user engaged:50 | 135 (66%) | We thought 50% of the participants will be new to Wikimedia projects but because of a good press coverage the participation rate had been increased to 66%. |
Press mentions
[edit]- 2016-09-4
- উইকি লাভস মনুমেন্টস ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), shokalerkhobor24.com
- 2016-09-3
- “উইকি লাভস মনুমেন্টস ২০১৬” ছবি তোলার প্রতিযোগীতা (Bengali), priyo.com
- শুরু হচ্ছে উইকিপিডিয়ার জন্য ছবি তোলা প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Daily Azadi
- 2016-09-2
- উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Daily Prothom Alo
- উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), techzoom.tv
- উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Daily news
- উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), suprobhat.com
- 2016-09-1
- বাংলাদেশে উইকির প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Daily Jugantor
- 2016-08-31
- আজ থেকে উইকিপিডিয়ার ‘উইকি লাভস মনুমেন্টস’ প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Daily Kaler Kantho
- শুরু হচ্ছে প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনা নিয়ে ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Dhaka Times24
- আন্তর্জাতিক ‘উইকি লাভস মনুমেন্টসে’ বাংলাদেশ (Bengali), bbarta24.net
- আলোকচিত্র নিয়ে আন্তর্জাতিক প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), Daily Samakal
- উইকিপিডিয়ার উদ্যোগে ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), channel7bd.com
- উইকিপিডিয়ার উদ্যোগে ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), cnanews24.com
- উইকিমিডিয়ায় বাংলাদেশের প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), breakingnewsbd.online
- বাংলাদেশে শুরু হচ্ছে উইকির প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), tech.priyo.com
- ১৩৪ স্থাপনার ছবি তুলবে উইকিপিডিয়া রাজশাহী (Bengali), techshohor.com
- শুরু হচ্ছে উইকিপিডিয়ার জন্য ছবি তোলা প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), techshohor.com
- উইকিপিডিয়ার উদ্যোগে ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), newspapers71.com
- প্রথমবারেরমত ‘উইকি লাভস মনুমেন্টস’ বাংলাদেশে (Bengali), kholakagojbd.com
- 2016-08-30
- উইকিপিডিয়ার উদ্যোগে ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), cnewsvoice.com
- উইকিপিডিয়ার উদ্যোগে দেশে প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), projuktikothon.com
- 2016-08-29
- বাংলাদেশে শুরু হচ্ছে প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক স্থাপনার ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), bigganprojukti.com
- 2016-08-27
- সেপ্টেম্বরে শুরু হচ্ছে উইকিপিডিয়া ছবি প্রতিযোগিতা (Bengali), sylhetnewsworld.com
Learning
[edit]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 press coverage about the event in local online and print media helped get more participation from around the country. We partnered with seven local photography clubs in order to get the words out among the photographic community in Bangladesh. After a month-long competition during September 2016, a total of 204 Bangladeshi participants uploaded more than 7000+ freely licensed photographs of 270+ different archaeological monuments and sites in Wikimedia Commons. Among all the participants, 10% of them were women, a participation rate which is more than that of any other previous Wikimedia related competitions held in Bangladesh. Though it is still the early days, about 23% of all the photographs uploaded in the contest are now being used in Wikimedia projects.
Before this competition, there were only a handful of archaeological buildings and sites of Bangladesh that had photographs available on the internet and those sites & buildings were mostly from major cities and localities, let alone the availability of freely licensed photographs. The competition turned the situation into a better state. As people from various regions and districts participated in the competition, many of the less known archaeological sites were photographed alongside the better known ones.
- What did not work so well?
A number of participants reported that they didn't find the building or even debris of several archaeological sites listed by the Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh. Another group of participants reported that quite a number of archaeological sites and buildings were in very dilapidated conditions thus taking photographs of those monuments was not easy.
- What would you do differently next time?
Since this was our first year in the competition, we decided to participate with the archaeological sites of Bangladesh only and wanted to expand the list in the upcoming years with modern monuments as well.
Finances
[edit]Grant funds spent
[edit]Sl.No | Item | Quantity | Rate (BDT) | Total (BDT) | Notes | |
items (Subtotal :148886 BDT) | ||||||
1 | crest+certificate for winners | 10 | 32600 | |||
2 | Prize-money for best three photographs | 3 | 45000 | |||
3 | Highly Commendable Awards | 7 | 14000 | |||
4 | Award for the judges | 12000 | ||||
5 | WLM T-shirts | 70 | 270 | 18900 | ||
6 | Customize mug | 10 | 300 | 3000 | ||
7 | Pens | 70 | 4200 | |||
8 | calendar | 40 | 270 | 10800 | ||
9 | others | 8386 |
Remaining funds
[edit]Do you have any remaining grant funds? No
Anything else
[edit]Anything else you want to share about your project?
We noticed, during this competition, that there is a great lacking in the availability of valuable information on the internet about the archaeological sites of Bangladesh. To address this unavailability, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized an article writing contest in the Bengali Wikipedia. This article writing contest was held in parallel with the WLM photography contest and resulted in adding 178 new articles about the archaeological sites of Bangladesh. As there were hardly any information online, participants collected information from books, journals and hard copies to produce the articles.