Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Serbia (ID: 22458956)/Final Report

Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Serbia

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 14 November 2024

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

Applicant username: Ivan25
Organization name: N/A
Amount awarded: 4990.96
Amount spent: 4990.96 USD, 4555

Part 1: Project and impact

1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)

This year edition of WLE 2024 in Serbia was very successful. With over 3,500 uploaded photos, and over 100 participants (contestants, editors, organizers etc), this edition was by far the most successful of all previous.

Cooperation with both institutes (state and provincial) were on the top level, since both parties took active participation in preparation, organization and hosting of award ceremony. Several local tourist organizations and media supported and spread the word about the competition. Local organizing team put a lot of efforts in promotion of the competition through the official web site, media, social networks and partners. Edit-a-thon and photo-tours were also very successful.

This edition was inaugural for video contest, and it was implemented as a "pilot", but the outcome was unexpected with more than 15 high-quality videos of various protected areas. Official website hits the record visits with over 70,000 visitors since the WLE comeback in Serbia. Official Instagram page almost doubled up the number of followers (650+).

2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)

Share links to:

Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.

You can also share links to:

Important social media posts
Surveys and their results
Infographics and sound files
Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects

WC page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2024_in_Serbia WP page: https://w.wiki/C6U9

Tracking: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2024_in_Serbia

               https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/earth/2024/Serbia

Event photos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Award_Ceremony_of_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2024_in_Serbia

Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)

For example:

Training materials and guides
Presentations and slides
Work processes and plans
Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others

Official website: https://wle.rs/ Official social network page: https://www.instagram.com/wle_srbija/ Official YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WLE_Srbija-ft7xt Media coverage: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnfDOtJsSMcd8OzAo0Z1cAZouT0f1X6sq2EQlPw2Wqo/edit?usp=sharing

3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups	Not applicable
B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community	Not applicable
C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups	Not applicable
D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives	Not applicable
E. Encourage the retention of editors	Not applicable
F. Encourage the retention of organizers	Not applicable
G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement	Not applicable
F. Other (optional)

Part 2: Learning

4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)

You can recall these learning questions below: Our Learning question would be:

Can this project still be organized on an individual basis, as was the case last year, and as is the case in several other WLE organizations around the world? How enthusiastic are the organizers?
During summer 2023, Serbia was hit by one of the strongest storms ever recorded, which grounded over a million trees around the country. This natural disaster affected significant number of natural protected areas. Conditions of these areas are changed, so this should be applied on WP articles also. Could this project improve accuracy and be up-to-date with articles on WP?
Does this project attract new participants?
What are the effects of WLE in Serbia on the development of the informal Wiki community in Serbia?

Can this project still be organized on an individual basis, as was the case last year, and as is the case in several other WLE organizations around the world? How enthusiastic are the organizers? By all the outcomes, absolutely YES. Enthusiasm was very high for implementing new ideas, improving the old one, and preparing the next one. YT Channel and video category are good examples.

During summer 2023, Serbia was hit by one of the strongest storms ever recorded, which grounded over a million trees around the country. This natural disaster affected significant number of natural protected areas. Conditions of these areas are changed, so this should be applied on WP articles also. Could this project improve accuracy and be up-to-date with articles on WP? Having at least 100+ very remote protected locations, some of them are unreachable for public, but all the available data about natural disaster were implemented in the WP articles.

Does this project attract new participants? Yes, definitely, with more than 70% of new participants, and 10+ editors.

What are the effects of WLE in Serbia on the development of the informal Wiki community in Serbia? There is a growing interest in participation and volunteering for WLE and similar projects, which is highly encouraging,

5. 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? (required)

One of the very surprising outcomes was very successful video category pilot project. After global Team decided to introduce it worldwide, as an option, out team "took a risk" and took part in it. Even so, our expectations were not very high, but more like as a "test", final product was very satisfying, with more than 15 high quality videos of different protected areas all around the country.

Our learning outcome is that video category definitely has high potential, and that one of our main focuses in the next edition (2025) will be more promotion, explanation and support for this category. Local contestants approve new ideas, which video definitely is.

6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)

All the project learning and results are already shared with community members via internal mailing list, WP pages, and both official website, Instagram page and YouTube channel. During the Award Ceremony all the outcomes and learning were publicly announced.

Part 3: Metrics

7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)

In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.

	Target	Results
Number of participants	90	120
Number of editors	20	20
Number of organizers	30	30

Wikimedia project	Target	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia	50	35	15
Wikimedia Commons	2500	3532	10
Wikidata	50	50	2
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews	10	10	2
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

8. Other Metrics results.

In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.

Other Metrics name	Metrics Description	Target	Result
Used photos (%)	percentage of used photos in Wiki projects in first three months following the competition	15	3
Photo walking tours	number of organized tours	4	5
Exhibitions	number of the exhibitions following the competition	2	2

9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)

No

9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. 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? (required)

Part 4: Financial reporting

10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

4555

11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)

4990.96

12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)

Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vhgQ_pXjNa1hitZZxZnpT9FkF5L2a6I8SNbNLr7dC9w/edit?usp=sharing

12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)

13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

No

13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

N/A

13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

N/A

13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

N/A

14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?

Yes

14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?

Yes

14.3. 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

15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)

Review notes

Review notes from Program Officer:

N/A

Applicant's response to the review feedback.

N/A