Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Loves Earth Tanzania 2021/Report
- Report accepted
- To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Loves Earth Tanzania 2021.
- 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
[edit]Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
- Yes, we did meet ans surpased our goals and we are very happy with how the project went. We were able to recruit a good number of photographers who participated in a photo hunt to capture images from some of the Tanzania protected areas.
Outcome
[edit]Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.
| Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
| At least 50 community members participate in the contest activities and at least 20 photographers participate in the contest | 24 participants were able to join our in-person and 29 others in an online call that aimed at providing education on Photographs. Among these, we were able to involve only | Goal was met |
| At least 200 good photos uploaded to Wiki Commons | 400+ photos were uploaded and Landing page and Winners please look here. | Goal was met (you can visit WLETZCATEGORY 1WLETZ CATEGORY 2 and WLETZ CATEGORY 3) and WLETZ CATEGORY 4 |
| Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects: At least 20 photos used in Wikipedia articles | This is still in progress and we expect at the end of this month, the goal will be met. | on progress |
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?
- We were able to travel to one of the National parks in Tanzania (Nyerere National park) which is listed as one of the areas in danger. This was one of the good experiences and the fact that we were able to capture more photos from there.
Renting of tools such as Good camera and having experienced photogrpahers helped to get good photos.
- What did not work so well?
- Financial resources were not adequate to involve more photographers and visit more protected areas for photo hunt.
- Women turn out not so good despite several announcements for them to participate.
The lack of Female photographers itself in our community is a challenge
- What would you do differently next time?
:Continue to put some effort into raising awareness on the importance of Women participation on Photo related projects
- Application of community support fund would help to involve more participants (especially Women)
Finances
[edit]Grant funds spent
[edit]Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
Below is the fund expenditure breakdown for the received fund.
| Proposed budget (USD) | Actual budget | Comment |
| 173USD for data bundles | 125 | (Data bundles for online sessions and photo uploading sessions) |
| 350USD for awards | 350 | (200USD, 100USD, 50USD gift vouchers for 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners respectively) |
| 340USD for equipment rentals | 365 | Renting cameras and useful lenses to support photographers to capture distant images |
| 60USD for subscriptions to online events platforms | 47 | (For online meet-ups and judges sessions) |
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41 | (promoting the contest and link to upload photos) |
| 200USD for snacks for 25 people for two photo uploading sessions (The sessions will help us teach photographers on how to upload photos on Wiki Commons) | 213 | |
| 810USD for photo hunt (We will take experienced and upcoming photographers to the nearest protected site for photo hunt as a way to train upcoming photographers on taking natural landscape and wildlife photography as we collect photos from the site and to help upcoming photographers contribute good photos in Wiki Commons and in upcoming contents) | 852 | This was used to both Saadani National park and at Nyerere National park |
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TOTAL |
1993 | USD |
Remaining funds
[edit]Do you have any remaining grant funds?
- No fund is remaining, all fund was used up for the project.
Anything else
[edit]Anything else you want to share about your project?
- YES, the top 3 Winners for the general WLE competition and the top 3 Winners for the WHindanger project are all HERE. Moreover, we thank the WMF for supporting this competition in Tanzania.