Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Wiki From Above 2016

Approval with adjustments

Hi Discott. Thank you for this proposal. We're excited you are organizing this project again and look forward to some great content. We will approve the request, minus the flight to Johannesburg, as there are experienced Wikimedians in Joburg who can host the editathon. This would mean the total grant budget approved is 16,131 ZAR. Please let us know if you would like to move forward with this new grant amount. If yes, please update the grant page.

We also have a few questions and would appreciate your response:

1. Will you be changing the eligibility for the contest to include only content about South Africa?
2. Are you making any additional changes to your outreach strategy considering that was a challenging area last year?
3. Are you hoping to fill any specific content gaps and if yes, how will you communicate that to photographers?

Please be sure to also respond to the comments on last year's report here

Thanks, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi AWang (WMF), thanks for the feedback and I am very happy to hear that everyone is interested in the project and funding is to be approved. Thank you. I am okay with scrapping the flight to Johannesburg provided we can get a Wikipedian in that city to run the workshop answering questions about CC and editing Wikipedia. It is important that we do this sort of in person outreach for the Drone community in JHB as we really need to expand it in the rest of South Africa outside of Cape Town. In answer to your other questions:

1. We will not be changing the eligibility to limit the scope of the contest as we have already got entries in from other countries and I really do not want to disqualify them retrospectively. I however am open to limiting eligibility in next year's event if other chapters/countries really want to organise their own version of WFA. I think that would be awesome to see it become more international.
2. The one change was to do an additional workshop in JHB as we found face to face interaction was the most effective form of promotion. This however is really 'more of the same' in my view rather than a substantive change. A move substantive change we will be engaging in is an aggressive Facebook advertising campaign as that allows us to target the drone enthusiast community very specifically and without geographical limitations.
3. Yes, the content gaps are much the same as last year which were/are: Towns, neighbourhoods, and settlements, Beaches & Parks, Monuments, Mountains, valleys, & other natural/geological landmarks.

We plan to inform participants of this at a) the workshops and b) on the competition website on commons. Thanks for the reminder to replay to the report questions, I will do that now. Also please do let me know or put me in contact with anyone else who might wish to organise a similar competition. Best, Discott (talk) 16:26, 24 May 2016 (UTC)