Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Mohan K. Duwal/Wiki Trek

Hi Mohan K. Duwal and Santosh R. Pathak. Thank you for this request and efforts to organizing photoexpedition. We have funded numerous photoexpeditions in the past in many different communities (with a similar grant for Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal, who unfortunately never submitted their report) and have found them to be a successful way to both generate quality content and cover content gaps. We have encouraged all groups to focus on engaging the community through editathons, workshops, and photo contests in order to integrate the new content into articles after the expedition. These events both target content experts (on culture, animals, plants, etc.) to hopefully get them interested and knowledgeable about how to contribute to the Wikimedia projects, as well as experienced Wikimedians who can take advantage of the new content and begin to integrate it into articles. From our perspective, this is the most important aspect of this type of project -- community engagement and integration of high quality and new content.

We are excited about the content you would potentially cover with Wiki Trek, but have a number of questions before we can move forward.

In order to fund a photo expedition like this, we need to have more information regarding the content gaps as well as interest from the community in using the images that would be collected. We are very interested in know more about the current content gap on Wiki projects related to this area. Doing a quick search of the animals listed in the proposal, it looks like all of them are already covered in Commons. We expect the team to have a list of articles to improve or create and research on reliable sources that would support writing those articles.
Have you discussed this project with your community? We would like to see that others in the community are interested in working with the content you will you document and plan to participate in the editathon or other post-trek activities to utilize content.

Looking forward to your responses. Best, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 21:01, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Reply