Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/DCW Bhopal Photo Event 2022 (ID: 21917963)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: DCW Bhopal Photo Event 2022
- Username of Applicant: TheAafi
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1180.38
- Amount spent: 1031.67 USD, 83828.93 INR
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
With a group of four resource persons and local network, it was easy to implement the proposal. Numis Zuhair had formed a local network through his contacts at Madrasa Arabia Masjid Tarjume Wali in Bhopal where headquarters of both the Jamiat Ulama Madhya Pradesh and Rabta Madaris Madhya Pradesh are located. Both the institutions extended support and aided us in locating seminaries/madrassah's as far as possible. Together with local helpers, DCW resource persons travelled across the city and collected relevant images as far as possible.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes, local contacts and connections with authoritative local institutions proved helpful. Had there been no aid from the people of Madrasa Arabia Tarjume Wali Masjid, it would have been difficult for us to reach the target.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
The event was covered by Nadeem, a prominent Urdu language daily of the Madhya Pradesh. There is no e-paper available however a snap of the coverage is available here. It also received coverage from Millat Times, another famous Delhi-based Urdu language online news portal.
4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Neither agree nor disagree |
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
N/A
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
In the grant application, the learn priority stated that, "We hope to learn about diversity of content and information related to DCW's theme, through passionate young volunteers, and how better we can support them in continuing their works for the upliftment of Wikimedia's goal", and as such the Bhopal Photo Event did help us in learning a number of things. It helped us to know about the grassroots awareness that the DCW should apply while doing such events in future. It did open ways to develop collaborative ideas related to our theme that we could go for in the city but it appeared that Wikipedia and its sister projects are something not very much known to people - who are the best targets of the DCW. In order to aid this, we learned that short and limited offline workshops are helpful to bring in more people from there.
7. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences?
Yes, there appeared to us certain questions like "What is Wikimedia", is it sort of a surveillance company? We also faced problems while covering female seminaries. We did learn from these issues. There was an idea to make a short pamphlet related to DCW's aims and objectives which highlights the aim of these photo events. We can use such pamphlets to overcome this problem.
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
As indicated in the above response, grassroots awareness and training seems necessary, the DCW would apply such ideas and frameworks into application, which can help us bring in a good quality of people, prior to starting the events. For instance, when we told a person about having a session, he said, "what it is, I need to learn it first and then perhaps, we can go forward". As such, it appears that, the DCW has to set up a target to work at specific areas - get in touch with related authorities and do some sort of short awareness related events, before going for events that are bigger in size and impact.
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Thematic images | Images to be uploaded on Commons, and subsequently articles improved on several projects | 200 | 346 | This was beyond our expectation. The assistance that we received from Madrasa Islamia Tarjume Wali Masjid in this was quite helpful. It looks that we can work up with such ideas more better in future. | Category, see c:Category:DCW Bhopal Photo Event 2022 |
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10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of participants | Joining in new editors | 30 | 3 | We were not able to recruit as many editors due to lack of awareness locally. We look forward addressing this issue. | |
| Number of editors | Number of experienced active editors | 5 | 8 | We feel there is a strategic problem. There are editors who know enough but disconnect quite earlier and we want to know ways of keeping them connected. | |
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| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Addition of thematic images | 200 | 346 | This was beyond our expectation. The assistance that we received from Madrasa Islamia Tarjume Wali Masjid in this was quite helpful. It looks that we can work up with such ideas more better in future. | Category, see c:Category:DCW Bhopal Photo Event 2022 |
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12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
No
12a. State what difficulties you had.
N/A
12b. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges?
N/A
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
Yes
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
We have shared the results with our community members off-wiki like as on our WhatsApp groups.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
83828.93 INR
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1031.67 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
N/A
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
DCW's Wikidata Birthday event was merged into this grant, and an additional amount of USD 200 (INR 16,311.90) per this discussion was approved. No other explicit deviations from the original proposal were done.
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
Yes
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
A total amount of 93811.90 INR was received in this grant and a total of 83828.93 INR was spent. An amount of 9982.97 is underspent. We had thought to print customized mugs as indicated at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deoband_Community_Wikimedia/Events/Wikidata_Birthday_2022 but we did not subject to absence of any legit designs.
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
Please move this underspent amount to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/DCW_Half-Yearly_Strategic_Budget_Plan_(ID:_22009982)
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. 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
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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