Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Atudu/Wiki Loves Butterfly Part-II

Hi Atudu. Thank you for this grant request and for continuing this project! We are have a couple of questions/comments on approval.

Under the project plan section you talk about developing an "extensive outreach programme targeting a good number of uses and incumbents". Can you provide more detail on what this outreach program would consist of? From the rest of the application I understand the main activities are the photowalks and the editathon. Are there other outreach programs you are considering?
In your previous grant report you talked about wanting to have a better balance between photos and articles contributed through the project. What specific activities will you do to support more article creation? Have you thought about the possibility of organizing an online writing contest after the main project is over to encourage people to use the photos and expand/create articles? If this is something you would like to do, you can add funds for prizes (or this is something we can talk about later).
It will be great to have an update halfway through the project. This can posted on this discussion page. Does the end of October seem reasonable to you?

Thanks, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 17:55, 5 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dear Alex Wang (WMF),Thank you very much for reviewing our project, funding support and nice suggestion. Here I am to answer your questions/comments.

In the matter of extensive outreach programme targeting a good number of users and incumbents we are to say that we on regular basis, invite and involve new users and incumbents in course of:

Field work-data collection-photo documentation: Involving good quality photographer contributors to Wikipedia.
Article creation and development activities: Involving new article creators/developers and contributors as well as training them about scientific understanding of species and sub-species level works.
Collaboration with experts and Lepidopterists: Involving special interest and special knowledge group people as wiki-contributors in reviewing articles, identification works providing scientific info.
Categorization of uncategorized images in commons: Through our expert and Lepidopterists we have already categorized the so far uncategorized images of butterfly in Wikimedia commons and will proceed on with the same.
Contribution in Wikispecics and Wikidata: In WLB part-II, we shall contribute the received new species and subspecies to Wikispecics and Wikidata along with photographs.
Initiation global appeal for relevant photo and article contribution: Involving wiki-editors of different language communities to contribute relevant quality photographs and create and develop articles.

Moreover, in WLB Part-II we are about to organize photo-walk involving more community members having requisite gears for shooting relevant photos (butterfly shooting in quality level highly demands adequate macro shooting gears) and uploading the same in Wikimedia commons.

One point is specially mentionable in this regard that all our photo-documentation and data collection field work at different butterfly hotspots are in a broader sense, kind of photo walks as a group of Wiki-contributors walk through nature in collecting data and shoot quality photos during those days. Still, we are about to arrange photo walk in this part of WLB. We have also plans for online/offline edit-a-thon with wiki-contributors. These all are our categorized purview of extensive outreach programme.

To support more article creation:

Global invitation to different language communities to translate our articles is already done inspiring a multilingual approach and dimension to the project.
Invited in our village pump and mailing list to wiki-editors to create articles and develop existing articles.
The idea of organizing an online writing contest after the main project is over is a very good one and we are happy to opt it. We shall give effect to this nice proposal after the main project is over.

An update halfway through the project:

Great idea! An update halfway of the project will benefit us nicely in the formation of our final report. Yes; the end of October seems reasonable to us. Thanks --Atudu (talk) 16:53, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply