Tamil Wikimedians/FNF 2025 events

Feminism and Folklore is an international writing contest and photo uploading to Wikicommons organized at Wikipedia annually in the months of February-March to document folk cultures and feminism in different regions of the world on Wikipedia. This is the report of Tamil community who has won various prizes globally. The Community has organised few in-person and online workshops to outreach various communities. Below are the list of events conducted to educate Feminism and folklore contest.

List of Events
Date	Venue	Notes
22 Feb 2025	Inperson workshop in Madurai	10 users had participated
8 Mar 2025	Inperson workshop in Chennai	40 Users had participated.
29 Mar 2025	Inperson workshop in Coimbatore KGiSL Institute of Technology	20 users had participated.
30 Mar 2025	Online workshop	It was followup meeting

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

yes, We are happy to do outreaches in various form and got 10 new active users and 50+ new users. We have organized 3 inperson workshops in different cities and 1 online workshops. we were not able to organize photowalk as planned due to limited time and initial delayed on financial confirmation. However we able to outreach and make aware various groups on feminism & folklore theme.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

We encouraged many users to participate in the contest and 18 users had participated. However as a community we able to create 720+ articles. Due to this campaign, few students has shown their interest with wikimedia problem statements in Language Hackathon.

Consolation Prizes

To encourage new users, we have announced few consolation prizes for physical workshop participants.

Workshop	User	Prize
Chennai Workshop	Alexander Savari	4000
Chennai Workshop	Monisha selvaraj	3000
Chennai Workshop	Tharanginisakthi	2000
Chennai Workshop	Meenawriter11	2000
Covai Workshop	சந்திரகலா	2000
Madurai Workshop	Abitheprincess	3000
Madurai Workshop	Manohar Trc	2000