Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Nepal (ID: 22141258)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Nabin K. Sapkota
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
Executive Member - Wikimedians of Nepal User Group
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Nepal
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The contest will focus on freely licensed and high quality images of natural heritages in Nepal, that will be contributed to Wikimedia Commons for free usage and spread its importance by its utilization in Wikipedia articles.
The competition is important because it give us exposure of our natural heritages.
- Maintenance of Wikidata items for protected areas in Nepal
- Promotes physical meetups between the Wikimedians and Wikimedia enthusiasts.
- Spread the messages outside the existing community.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
First of all, our foremost strategies are to achieve high number of quality and productive photographs of natural heritages and protected areas in different categories. With a theme of "Right person at right job" we're deploying photographers as our executive team member for this event. Along with that we're approaching photography institutions and organizations as our event associates which helps both of us to create a better contents and exposures.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
As per the schedules and experiences from the past events, we'll be executing following activities:
- Social Media promotion
- Photo walk event
- Photo Ride
- Partnership with like minded organizations
- Multimedia content development (Tutorial and promotion)
- Photo Edit-a-thon
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Art+Feminism, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, we've experienced team members for the event and all the activities. User:Nirmal Dulal ( Event Co-ordinator and Public Relation) User:Nabin K Sapkota ( Grants, Outreach and Photowalk Co-ordinator) Jury - TBD
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geography, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
Being a Himalayan region, Nepal have a large potentiality of tourism and exploration for all kind of audience including scientists and research scholars. But due to lack of proper transportation and infrastructures the hidden treasures of Nepal is yet to be exposed amongst the world arena. We believe such program can help to expose these natural contents globally via Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia Articles to fulfill Knowledge gab.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Climate Change and sustainability, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Digital Access
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
All the active contributors of Wikimedia projects and user groups operating in Nepal will be our foremost target audience for participation and execution. Apart from that we'll be organizing promotional events in colleges and photography organizations in different parts of the nation to boost large participation.
Regarding engagement of participants before and during event. We'll be executing promotional awareness session via online platform and offline meet-ups before execution. We'll be engaging team and participants via awareness session, phot walk, photo ride during the event time. And afterwards we'll be organizing photo edit-a-thon session to filter and place the contributed photographs in related articles.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
First of all, we're running the awareness session for all the known and unknown audiences via online and offline platforms regarding event, duration, license, terms of usage and proper placing of the contents. Along with that we'll be focused on recognizing and admiring the contributors, associates and jury with all kind of operating supports and motivation needed during all kind of session to be organized.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
Here's the link of information in village pump over ne-wikipedia
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Manage Internal Knowledge, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
In this project through this collaborations with numerous parties and associates we hope to built a strong and productive enthusiastic task force to create and distribute the free and open knowledge to everyone needed.
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of newly registered users | Newly registered users during event | 100 |
| Number of Quality images | Number of quality images in commons | 25 |
| Number of Valued Images | Number of Valued Images in commons | 5 |
| Number of photowalks | Number of photowalks during event | 5 |
| Number of outreach session | N/A | 3 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 300 | |
| Number of editors | 50 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | 2500 |
| Wikipedia | N/A | 300 |
| Wikidata | N/A | 250 |
| Wikivoyage | N/A | 100 |
| Wikispecies | N/A | 30 |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
https://wikiloves.toolforge.org - For matrices and status https://jury.wikilovesearth.org.ua - Jury
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
551000 NPR
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4160 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).