Tamil Wikimedians/WLF 2023 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 women in folklore 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
19 Mar 2023	Online workshop for INFITT	various members and participants had participated
21 Mar 2023	Online workshop for Dr G R Damodaran College of Science	students had participated.
23 Mar 2023	Madras Veterinary College, Chennai	Students and few volunteers had participated.
26 Mar 2023	Online meetup for participants	Only few users had participated.
31 Mar 2023	Indo-American College, Cheyyar	Students and faculty members had participated
9 April 2023	Online workshop for Siragukal amaivam, Srilankan based Organization	Students and volunteers had participated from srilanka

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 few new users. We have annouced in site notice and talk page of active users. We have organized 2 inperson workshops and 3 online workshops. we were not only focused on Wikipedia but also focused on Wikidata and Technology in our workshops. Initially we were worried about relevant articles, later global Team had able to suggest localized list of titles, which helped many users to create their articles.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

We encouraged users to select the article anFew of the doubts and challenges from the users were addressed using these events. Other few news users tried to create article but unable to meet the criteria. However as a community we able to create 1,670 articles from 19 users. Due to these activities we got four students, who has shown their interest in providing technical solution for our problem statements.

Learning

What worked well? What didn't work so well? What would you do differently next time?

Since Prize amount was announced at the end of the month, we are unable to motivate the greater audience while the contest is running. Since workshops were conducted at the end of contest, students were unable to complete their articles but they were able to understand the wikipedia edits. We had to push few offline events in the month of February due to confirmation from Global organizing Team. The dates extension at the last moment had demotivated few experienced Wikipedians. However entire event went well and we were able to bag various prizes from global ranking. We would request event organizers to announce the prize at first day and don't extend the event dates at end.

Finances

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Refreshments for 3 online events = 2 X 200 = ₹600
Travel expenses for 2 onsite workshops =(2600 + 3400)= ₹6000
Food & drinks = ₹14000
printing materials = ₹400
Internet charges = ₹999
Refreshments for 2 offline events = ₹1600
Accomodation for one day = ₹1150

Total spent = 24749 INR

If there are remaining funds?

We have 251 INR remaining.