Grants:Project/Rapid/UG MAI/Wiki Loves Earth 2017 in Nepal

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UG MAI/Wiki Loves Earth 2017 in Nepal

The Purpose of the project is to improve and increase the available media of the natural heritage in Nepal.

targetWikimedia Commons, and therefore indirectly all other Wikimedia projects using material from Wikimedia Commons, mainly Wikipedia — in every language, but mainly in languages spoken in Nepal.

start date1 May

end dateJune 30

budget (local currency)2,02,000 NPR

budget (USD)1985USD

grant typeGroup

grantee• PANKAJ DEO

contact(s)• pankaj.deo2010@gmail.com• Jitendra Shah

organization (if applicable)• Maithili Wikimedians User Group

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Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

1. To engage new and existing contributors of the community.
2. To add freely licensed, and quality images of natural heritages of Nepal to Wikimedia Commons.
3. To spread awareness about contributing media contents to Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?
The contest will focus on freely licensed and high quality images of natural heritages here in Nepal, that will be contributed to Wikimedia Commons for free usage and spread its importance via usage in Wikipedia articles. The competition is important because it give us exposure of our natural heritages.

2. How will you let people know about the contest?

1. Social Media promotion
   
2. E-mail
   
3. Photo walk event
   
4. photo-oriented websites
   
5. Tell a friend

3. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?
We will invite Jury from different expertise; people from the Wikimedia community and well-known photographers. Prizes will be in term of money and a trophy. The jury will determine the winners of the local and international contest taking into the consideration the following criteria:

• Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
  
• Originality and creativity;
  
• Potential usefulness and overall value of the image (including its licensing) to the Wikimedia projects.

4. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?
We will utilize those uploaded resources in Wikimedia projects by communicating contributors through e-mail, talk page or telephonic conversation .

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

1. Number of participants: 110
2. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 1500
3. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects: 500

Resources

Team Members

1. Pankaj Deo - Project Coordinator
2. Jitendra Shah - Event Manager
3. Bijay Chaurasia - Photowalk and promotional stuffs
4. Saroj Kumar Dhakal- Photowalk Coordinator
5. Biplab Anand -Team consultant
6. Tulsi Bhagat -Social Media

Budget

Project budget table

1 USD = 102.00 NPR as of 17 April 2017.

Number	Item description	Unit	Qty	Cost per unit NPR /USD	Total cost USD	WMF contribution (USD)	Other sources (USD)	Notes
1. Prizes					560.00	560.00
1.1	Main Prizes	per nomination	3		300.00	300.00		3 best photos: 3 for top-3 best photos
1.2	Additional Prizes	person	1	50.00 USD	50.00	50.00		Prizes for the top contributor by numbers of photographs uploads. This encourages more people to actually participate in the contest, and upload more photographs to win.
1.3	Special prizes (WLE T-Shirt)	person	10	10.00 USD	100.00	100.00		The prizes is for the top ten contributors by numbers of photographs upload.
1.3	Special prizes (WLE Certificate)	person	110	1.00 USD	110.00	110.00		The certificate is for the all contributors who takes part in the competition.
2. Jury and Award Ceremony					730.00	730.00
2.1	WLE T-Shirt	Activities/ Main Event	15	10.00 USD	150.00	150.00		WLE T-shirt for Volunteers and Jury Members.
2.2	Hall rent	event day	1		100.00	100.00		Hall rent for the award ceremony in Kathmandu.
2.3	Food & Beverages	event day	1		185.00	185.00
2.4	Travel expenses (for jury members)	person	5		270.00	270.00		To the awards ceremony.
2.5	Transportation expenses (within the city)	way	Volunteers		25.00	25.00
3. Prizes delivery					50.00	50.00
3.1	Post expenses and telephone charges	project	1		50.00	50.00		Sending prizes and certificates to users who could not attend the ceremony.
4. Wiki Loves Earth outreach					645.00	645.00
4.1	Wiki Loves Earth: Local Outreach events	project		200.00 USD	600.00	600.00		We expect to organise local outreach events in at least 3 cities/towns. This will include (depending on the city/town): where we organise a Photo Walk with our volunteers and photographers. Cost will include: travel and accommodation in respective cities/towns for workshops. We might organise more events if we get financial support of local partners.
4.2	Meetup Space	project		45.00 USD	45.00	45.00		For the discussion among the volunteers and Meetup. We expect that our local partners provide the cost.
TOTAL					1985.00	1985.00

Total cost of project

1985.00 USD

Endorsements

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1.  Support -- Bijay Chaurasia (Talk) 15:27, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
2.  Support with best wishes.--Biplab Anand (Talk) 11:49, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

• WLE is not only on sites of national importance, but also on those protected at the regional level, and on the widest variety of natural sites possible: forests, parks, gardens, rocks, caves, or whatever part of nature is protected in our country. Zeetendra ^») 13:11, 20 April 2017 (UTC)