Grants:IdeaLab/Promotion of Maithili Wikipedia/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:IdeaLab/Promotion of Maithili Wikipedia.
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Goals

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

Yes We successfully meet our goals, what we mentioned in our Grant proposal. We have successfully completed the Rickshaw announcement campaign, Hoarding boards at different place of Rajbiraj and Meetups with interested group of peoples.

Yes, We are very happy doing this project. Through the beginning, We work hard to achieve our goals. We use our experience to connect more people to visit Maithili Wikipedia. The news about this promotional campaign was published in local newspapers of Rajbiraj.

Activities

To engage new readers for Maithili Wikipedia, the members of MWUG initiated Rickshaw announcement to inform the local people of Rajbiraj about Maithili Wikipedia. The announcement was done in all the 16 wards of Rajbiraj in 4 successful stages. Apart from the Rickshaw announcement, we have fixed the Maithili Wikipedia Content's related Hoarding boards at the most important places of Rajbiraj as well as in 7 e-rickshaw to promote the campaign. We also arranged an orientation class at Galaxy Higher Secondary School to give our Wiki related knowledge to students of 10+2 of science and management stream. At last, we arranged meetup with interested people of Rajbiraj which includes students, writers, journalists and socially aware people.

Rickshaw Announcement

The Rickshaw announcement helped us to reach among peoples of Rajbiraj to introduce them with Maithili Wikipedia. The campaign most important task is to complete this announcement.

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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia
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  Rickshaw announcement at Rajbiraj, Nepal to promote Maithili Wikipedia

Orientation class

We also tried hard to get students into the campaign. That's why we included students of Galaxy Higher Secondary School, Rajbiraj to give them knowledge and usage of Maithili Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects.

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  Orientation class at Galaxy HSS, Rajbiraj
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  Orientation class at Galaxy HSS, Rajbiraj
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  Orientation class at Galaxy HSS, Rajbiraj

Posters at different places

We managed to fixed the Maithili Wikipedia Content's related Hoarding boards at the most important places of Rajbiraj as well as in more than 7 e-rickshaw to promote the campaign.

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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards
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  Promotional hoarding boards

Meetups

We have successfully organized the Meetups regarding Maithili Wikipedia and this promotional campaign. We meet with different students and peoples of Rajbiraj. We also managed to meet with a group of writers, journalist and socially aware people.

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Participation at Wikimania 2018

I participated in a session about Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers at Wikimania 2018 as a part of panel. I talk about the promotional campaign of Maithili Wikipedia in Nepal.

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  During panel discussion

Siteviews Analysis

Comparison of siteviews of Maithili Wikipedia during the promotional campaign siteviews and normal siteviews is as follows-

Maithili Wikipedia Siteviews comparison. Normal siteviews (L) and During the promotional campaign siteviews (R).

Statistics

S.N.	Duration	Siteviews	Daily Average	Notes
1	10 January 2018- 10 May 2018	522,087	4,315	Normal view
2	10 May 2018- 12 October 2018	813,463	5,215	During the promotional campaign.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

S.N.	Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1	Increased Pageviews	Increased	Target reached.
2	Media coverages	News published on local newspaper	Target reached.

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well?
  

Rickshaw announcement was really exciting because it help us to gather group of people.

• What did not work so well?
  

Time management, otherwise everything goes under the plan.

• What would you do differently next time?
  

Well, We expect to organize an open space meetup (eg stadium, school ground etc) with maximum number of peoples to spread information regarding Maithili Wikipedia.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Number	Category	Item description	Actual total	Currency	Notes
1	Rickshaw Announcement		64,000	NPR
2	Hoarding Boards	including labor charges	77,700	NPR
3	Communication and Courier Charges		8,000	NPR
4	Printing	Certificate and stationery items	7,600	NPR
5	Meetup space and food		15,845	NPR
6	Miscellaneous Expenses		8,000	NPR
		Total	1,81,145	NPR

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Total project budget (from your approved grant submission)

• 1,91,500

Total amount requested from WMF

• 1,91,500

Total amount spent on this project

• 1,81,145

Remaining amount from this project

• 10,355

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Working on new project always gives us energy and motivate us to face the challenges.