Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Atudu/Wiki Loves Butterfly - Phase VII/Final Report
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Part 1: Understanding your work
[edit]Per the recent update on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy process, Wikimedia Affiliates that are General Support Fund grantees will fulfill their affiliate reporting requirements through their final or yearly grantee report.
If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate, you will use this form for your affiliate reporting and to address the affiliate health criteria. You do not need to submit a separate report to AffCom. Follow the guidance in the green boxes to report on how you met the corresponding affiliate health criteria.
If you are not a Wikimedia Affiliate, aligning your responses with the affiliate criteria is optional and not required.
1. Please share to what extent your programs, approaches, and strategies contributed to addressing the challenges you shared in your proposal. If they did not contribute as you believed they would, please share what obstacles you faced and what, if anything, you learned from them? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 1.) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 1.1 (Goal delivery). Describe how you actively delivered on mission goals, e.g. content creation.
The 7th phase of the Wiki Loves Butterfly program consisted of field documentations, mass awareness initiatives with college students and school outreach projects. During this phase, 60 field documentations have been conducted across 32 districts of 7 different states of the north-eastern and eastern part of India. The districts covered are listed below:
- Assam - Kamrup district, Kamrup Metropolitan district, Kokrajhar district, Tinsukia district, Dibrugarh district, Barpeta district
- Arunachal Pradesh - Lohit district and Changlang district
- Mizoram - Champhai district, Saitual district, Khawzawl district, Aizawl district, Mamit district
- Nagaland - Phek district and Kohima district
- Sikkim - Mangan district, Gyalshing district, West Sikkim district and Gangtok district
- Odisha - Balasore District and Mayurbhanj district
- West Bengal - Nadia District, Bankura district, Hooghly district, Purulia district, Alipurduar district, Jhargram district, Kalimpong District, South 24 Paraganas district, Paschim Bardhaman district, Paschim Medinipur district and Jalpaiguri district
Wiki Loves Butterfly (WLB) has now expanded its scope to include Bhutan. To pursue this vision, the WLB team has conducted a pilot project in Royal Manas National Park, Panbang area of Bhutan marking an important step in regional butterfly conservation.
These field studies resulted in the upload of 4,934 images of various butterfly species found in these regions by 34 contributors. Among these images, 830 have been recognized as Quality Images, 45 as Valued Images, and 22 as Featured Images on the Wikimedia Commons. These images will not only serve as a valuable resource for scientific research but also help in public awareness and education through Wikimedia projects.
Here are the few highlights of this project.
=== Notable discovery ===
The WLB team members Atanu Bose, Mahesh Baruah, Abhishek Dutta Chaudhury and Anitava Roy successfully photographed Neptis philyra (Long-streak Sailor) at Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, located in the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, in June 2023, which marked the first-ever recorded sighting of this species in India. The finding was published as a scholarly article in the scientific journal Tropical Lepidoptera Research on April 5, 2024.Bose, Atanu; Baruah, Mahesh; Choudhury, Abhishek Dutta; Roy, Anitava; Karmakar, Tarun (5 April 2024). [[1] "Scientific Note: An addition to the Indian butterfly fauna, Neptis philyra (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), from Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh"] Check |url= scheme (help). Tropical Lepidoptera Research: 66–68. ISSN 2575-9256.
Awareness and Outreach Initiatives
[edit]The team had organized five butterfly and nature photo walks to promote biodiversity awareness and conservation efforts and free knowledge movements in West Bengal and Assam in collaboration with an biodiversity organization in Assam named [[2] "Wild Feathers"] Check |url= scheme (help)., a few amateur biodiversity groups in West Bengal like Biodiversity of Rabindra Sarobar and IISER Kolkata Nature Club to promote awareness and appreciation of biodiversity.
A butterfly and nature photo walk was organized in Lakhimpur, Assam, with the participation of 60 students from North Lakhimpur University, Madhabdev University and Chaiduar College. This initiative provided students with hands-on experience in butterfly documentation and how to upload images on Wikimedia Commons. Additionally a school outreach programme was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Ashima Chatterjee (Kalyani) Vigyan Sabha Group, a group affiliated with science awareness organization "Paschimbanga Vigyan Mancha".,. This program engaged 200 students from the ninth and tenth standards of [[3] Springdale High School], Kalyani, West Bengal, fostering interest in butterfly conservation and environmental awareness.
Online sessions
[edit]Two online sessions Tracing Wings: The Journey of Judhajit Dasgupta and the Legacy of Butterflies in West Bengal and Kaleidoscope of Colors were organized in September 2024 as part of the Big Butterfly Month observance in India. These sessions featured Mr. Judhajit Dasgupta, a renowned author specialised to butterflies and Mr. Atanu Bose, highlighting their insights and contributions to butterfly conservation. The events saw participation from more than 80 attendees, reflecting strong engagement and interest in the subject.
National-level butterfly meets
[edit]The team has also co-organized and participated in three national-level butterfly meets held in Upper Siang district and Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh and Kaziranga National Park of Assam. These events were conducted in collaboration with prominent butterfly organizations from across India and the regional forest department, fostering knowledge exchange and conservation efforts.
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The success of our project was significantly strengthened by a strong collaborative rapport with local butterfly enthusiasts, nature lovers, forest officials, and guides. Regular sharing of weather reports, optimized transportation routes, and efficient field strategies helped minimize the loss of valuable field days and maximized our fieldwork productivity. Their active involvement and cordial guidance not only ensured safety and security but also energized the team, enhancing documentation prospects.
The strategic plans for the project were effectively executed, largely due to this collaborative approach. Team members demonstrated strong understanding, mutual support, and commitment to their assigned tasks, ensuring smooth operations. This synergy facilitated efficient strategy implementation, innovative field techniques, improved documentation, and enriched data collection. Furthermore, outreach efforts were strengthened through mass awareness campaigns. Moreover photo walks, nature study workshops with school children, and co-organizing national-level butterfly meets played a crucial role in attracting new volunteers and Wikipedia editors. These initiatives have not only sustained volunteer participation but also promise continued growth in the future.
2. Is there a plan to build on the key successes you had? If yes, please describe the plan and if no, please share the limitations to do so. For instance, did the activities lead to any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future? (required)
Through our long-standing association with the world of butterflies via the WLB project, our focus has naturally evolved to include new priorities and goals. While we have extensively worked on butterfly taxonomy, species and subspecies identification, behavioral studies, and habitat orientation, we now recognize a pressing need to broaden our efforts.
Beyond scientific documentation, we are increasingly committed to raising awareness about the vital role of butterflies in our ecosystem. Our mission now extends to grassroots-level education, inspiring and mentoring the general public about the urgency of butterfly conservation.
Butterfly populations are in alarming decline worldwide due to escalating pollution, rapid industrialization, and urban expansion—factors that have led to significant forest loss and habitat destruction. This deterioration poses a severe threat to our ecosystem, emphasizing the need for immediate, collective action. Conservation efforts must include habitat restoration, the creation of butterfly-friendly spaces, and the establishment of small butterfly gardens in individual homes, community spaces, and even rooftops. To promote this cause, our social media campaigns actively inspire and motivate people—especially school children and college students—to participate in photowalks, nature study sessions, and butterfly workshops.
We are also brainstorming to display our observations from the last 9 years in an interactive dashboard, which we are intending to develop in our next plan. That will reflect the geographical and temporal distribution of the butterflies and help promote the activity of the project among nature conservationists.
3. Please provide a link to reports that detail the activities that took place in the last year. This can include an annual report, Meta pages, and websites. If there are no links available, briefly describe the implemented activities and programs below or upload any files. (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 3.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.1 (Affiliate health & resilience), 4.1 (Internal engagement), 4.2 (Community connection), and 4.3 (Partnerships and collaboration):
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
- Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
The relevant links are as follows:
4. Are you interested in sharing what you achieved or learned this year with the wider community through different peer learning programs (e.g. Let's Connect program, Diff)? (optional)
We always believed that peer learning is a great way to grow while helping others.
We have also got a few opportunities to present about Wiki Loves Butterfly in a couple of community events.
We have published a series of Diff blog posts throughout the year regarding different activities related to Wiki Loves Butterfly. The Diff blog links are as follows:
- Mondal, Ananya (8 April 2024). [[4] "First Indian record of the Neptis philyra species of butterfly identified through Wiki Loves Butterfly"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Diff.
- Mondal, Ananya; Das, Sandip; Mukhopadhyay, Manaska; Khan, Subhendu; Mandal, Bodhisattwa (23 May 2024). [[5] "Fluttering Game: Wiki Loves Butterfly’s journey into field documentation in North-East India"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Diff.
- Reeyad, Moheen; Masum, Rocky (7 December 2024). [[6] "Bangla WikiConference 2024: Results and Outcomes"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Diff.
- Bose, Sarpita; B., Savita (28 December 2024). [[7] "A Peekaboo Into Our Butterflying Trip from the Amazon of the East"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Diff.
- Mondal, Ananya; Mandal, Bodhisattwa (22 January 2025). [[8] "Forging a Wikimedia Community in Bhutan: Connecting People — Connecting Countries"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Diff.
- গোস্বামী, অঙ্কিত (21 February 2025). [https://wikibarta.wikimedia.org.bd/article/2095/প্রজাপতিদের-স্বর্গরাজ্য/ "প্রজাপতিদের স্বর্গরাজ্য - অরুণাচল প্রদেশ"] Check
|url=scheme (help). উইকিবার্তা (in bn-BD).
Although I have registered for the Let’s Connect program previously, I did not get any response from them for a schedule and to share the learnings from Wiki Loves Butterfly to the wider community. But, I am always ready to do that whenever I am approached.
5. Did you collect feedback from your community or target groups on how the activities implemented impacted them? If yes, please attach/provide information on the results (e.g. community surveys, stories, impact booklets/reports, interviews with partner institutions, etc). Did you collect other impact-specific data? (required)
For affiliates, the response to Question 5. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criteria 4.1 (Internal Engagement), 4.2 (Community Connection), or 4.3 (Partnerships & collaboration), where applicable.
We have created information booklets for butterflies which are found in the following districts.
- Arunachal Pradesh - Lohit district
- West Bengal - Kolkata and Bankura district
These booklets are shared during the photo-walks, butterfly meets, school outreach programs and with the interested Wikimedia volunteers.
Some of our program activities were published by different news media agencies, which are listed below
- [[9] "Campaign to generate awareness and appreciation for butterflies in Sikkim"] Check
|url=scheme (help). epaper.sikkimexpress.com. Sikkim Express. 12 March 2024.
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- [[10] "Neptis philyra sighted in Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary"] Check
|url=scheme (help). The Arunachal Times. 7 April 2024.
- Goswami, Roopak (6 April 2024). [[11] "Arunachal: Butterfly 'Neptis philyra' sighted for the first time in India"] Check
|url=scheme (help). EastMojo.
- [[12] "Elusive butterfly species Neptis philyra discovered in Arunachal's Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary"] Check
|url=scheme (help). United News of India.
- [[13] "Arunachal: Butterfly enthusiasts make groundbreaking discovery in"] Check
|url=scheme (help). NorthEast Now. 7 April 2024.
- [[14] "Rare butterfly Neptis philyra spotted 1st time in Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Arunachal Observer. 7 April 2024.
- [[15] "Arunachal Pradesh: Lepidopterists discover butterfly species Neptis philyra in Ziro"] Check
|url=scheme (help). The Sentinel - of this Land, for its People. 8 April 2024.
- [[16] "Long-Streak Sailor Butterfly spotted in Arunachal's Tale Valley, marks India's first-ever sighting"] Check
|url=scheme (help). India Today NE. 7 April 2024.
- [[17] "Elusive butterfly species Neptis philyra spotted in Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary"] Check
|url=scheme (help). www.echoofarunachal.in. External link in|work=(help)
- [[18] "Assam Researchers Among Others Discover New Butterfly Species In Arunachal, First In India"] Check
|url=scheme (help). guwahatiplus.com.
- [[19] "Geyzing district butterfly study tour highlights Rimbi as a Swallowtails hotspot"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Sikkim Express.
- [[20] "Field trip records 44 butterfly species at various altitudes of Lachung region"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Sikkim Express.
- [[21] "Sikkim: 44 butterfly species spotted in Lachung Valley"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Northeast Live. 20 May 2024.
- [[22] "Sikkim's butterfly bonanza: 44 species spotted in Lachung valley"] Check
|url=scheme (help). India Today NE. 19 May 2024.
- [[23] "Special butterflies recorded at Fambanglo Wildlife Sanctuary, Tingchim Lake & Tingzay"] Check
|url=scheme (help). Sikkim Express.
- "Over 205 butterfly species recorded during Wakro Butterfly Meet". The Arunachal Times . 21 October 2024.
- Rao, Tulsi (21 October 2024). [[24] "Wakro तितली मीट के दौरान 205 से अधिक तितली प्रजातियां दर्ज की गईं"] Check
|url=scheme (help). jantaserishta.com (in Hindi).
- [[25] "Arunachal: 205 butterfly species recorded during Wakro meet"] Check
|url=scheme (help). NorthEast Now. 22 October 2024.
6. During the fund period, did your efforts do any of the following? (required):
For affiliates, the response to Question 6. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criterion 2.2 (Diversity balance).
- 6.1 Bring in participants from the following groups: women, indigenous groups , people from lower socioeconomic status, young people, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: none of the above
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Editors, Organizers, Partnerships
7. What, if any, effective tactics or approaches can you share that worked well when dealing with the programs under points 6.1-6.3 that you selected? (optional)
NA
8. If you developed partnerships, which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors (optional):
Volunteers from our communities, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics
[edit]| Metrics name | Target | Result | Comments and tools used |
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| Number of all participants | 1525 | 696 | * Field work-32
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| Number of all editors | 225 | 214 | |
| Number of new editors | 200 | 180 | |
| Number of retained editors | 35 | 40 | |
| Number of all organizers | 6 | 7 | |
| Number of new organizers | 5 | 6 |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages | Target - Number of improved pages | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
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| Wikipedia | 200 | 400 | 30 | 150 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 8000 | 2000 | 4934 | |
| Wikidata | 100 | 250 | 50 | 300 |
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| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
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| Wikivoyage | ||||
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| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes
11.1. Other Metrics.
In your application, you outlined some other open metrics that you would like to measure. Please fill out the achieved results for each of the open metrics you defined.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
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| Number of Photo-walks | 10 | 5 | ||
| Number of field works | 60 | 60 | ||
| Number of School outreach programme | 10 | 1 | ||
| Number of Offline/online meet ups | 12 | 5 | ||
| Number of organizing National meet | 4 | 3 |
Part 3: Skill Development / Capacity Building
[edit]12. Reflecting on your programmatic (external) and organizational (internal) work, did your grant support you to undergo any skill development that made a difference to your success? If yes, what skill was developed, and how did it lead to success? (e.g. received coaching on public speaking, attended training on nonviolent communication, hosted professional development conversations on leadership, learned and used a new tool for project management, etc.)? Can you share any materials? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 12.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.2 (Diversity balance) and 3.1 (Diverse, Skilled, and Accountable Leadership):
- Describe actions taken to prioritize gender balance in affiliate leadership, as well as any areas of diversity relevant to your affiliate's context (2.2).
- Describe the management, financial, or other leadership skills of your affiliate leaders. If you have a succession plan, please include it here (3.1).
- Describe any training or skill development (as outlined in the question above) (3.1).
- Incorporate into the annual report a disclosure of conflict of interests (if any) from the leadership (3.1).
Our team members have enhanced skills regarding following areas:
- Macro photography: We had an online session with an experienced butterfly photographer about technicalities and intricate details of macro photography. Photographers in our team also got the opportunity to share internal knowledge with each other around this topic so that the overall skill set of most of the team members would be enhanced.
- Cost-efficient program management: Like every year, we adapt to different variable conditions to deliver our program output in an optimal cost-effective manner and this year too, we have learned a lot.
- Community outreach: Our members gather learnings, experience and insight while engaging with people at large, students and butterfly enthusiasts outside the Wikimedia community on how to attract them to nature conservation and importance of digital documentation of nature.
- Partnership building: WLB team members have engaged with different like minded partner organizations, government agencies and individual experts and amateurs on several occasions of this program and have gained insight and experience on how to successfully collaborate and bring impact to the project.
13. What is one capacity/skill area that you would like to focus on for the next year? And how do you plan to achieve this capacity? (required)
The next year’s plan has already been submitted here.
14. If you have additional information or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. Use the space below to upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your report.
For affiliates, also use this section (Question 14) to fulfill the Affiliate Health Criteria requirements.
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for affiliate governance, including affiliate leadership and membership with a breakdown of the demographics; how elections are conducted; how conflicts of interest are declared; and how decisions are made and communicated (2.2, 2.3, 3.1).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for activities incorporating, promoting awareness about, or enforcing the Universal Code of Conduct in your affiliate's activities (3.3).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for internal membership engagement, such as notes from your regular meetings and how you communicate to or involve your membership (4.1).
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Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]For affiliates, also use this section (Part 4: Financial reporting) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 3.2 (Financial & Legal Compliance).
| Description | Planned / received budget for this category (INR) | Amount spent (INR) |
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| Personnel costs | 504000 | 5561 |
| Operational costs | 1246000 | 34 |
| Programmatic costs | 1750000 | 15424 |
| Total General Support Fund | 1897365.77 | 21019 |
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| Remaining funds from General Support Fund | 32 |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
21019 INR
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 34 INR
- Programmatic costs: 5561 INR
- Staff and contractor costs: 15424 INR
17. Did you have any other revenue sources (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No
- 17.1. Provide the total amount received from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): INR
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): INR
18. Provide a financial report document which will provide the details of funds received and spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
18.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
N/A
19. Do you have any unspent funds from this funding?: Yes
- 19.1. Please list the amount of unspent funds in your local currency. (required)
- 32
- 19.2. Explain why you did not use the amount. (required)
- n/a
- 19.3. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
- D. I have already sent them back to the WMF
- 19.4. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
- N/A
20. Final confirmations (required)
- 20.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement? You must be in compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement. In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
- 20.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
- 20.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
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