Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Photo Workshop 2025 in Bishkek (ID: 22943806)/Final Report
Application type: Standard application
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)
The workshop was conducted. It gained not so much traction as Tashkent one, while the community in Bishkek is smaller, but people who've attended there were more dedicated in general than people attending in Tashkent. This time we tried to manage the workshop better and separated courses for 2 blocks each block for eah day: camera working block and computer working block, so the participants could take only either camera or laptop with them and not to overload themselves.
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
Project page on Meta: Wiki Photo Workshop 2025 in Bishkek Category on Commons: [[c:Category:Wiki Photo Workshop 2025 in Bishkek |Wiki Photo Workshop 2025 in Bishkek]]
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
Most of our workshop materials were written on paper, and photos of Kyrgyzstan from Commons were used as the examples of "how to" and "how not to".
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)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Neither agree nor disagree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly agree |
| 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: Learning of this proposal goes much deeper than the project itself. It requires us to count the quality images at the photographic contests and in general in Kyrgyzstan for a year at least to understand how our teaching methods have impacted the local community.
For now the Wiki Loves Earth contest in Kyrygzstan is going, so it's kind of hard to predict the outcomes, but currently 4 of the workshop participants are actively uploading photos for the contest.
Also we can mention that during the workshop few of the participants were introduced to a lot of valuable tools and projects on Commons helping to improve the quality of one's photos, such as Quality images project and started to use them.
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 trainers had to cancel his participation last minute. Two others jumped in to substitute their colleague and put a lot of extra time into the preparation for the topic. Also the planned venue cancelled our booking so we needed to rebook other one for a larger price and with less favorable conditions.
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)
We've posted photos from the event with a brief description in Central Asian and Kyrgyz Wikimedia chats both in Watsapp and Telegram.
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 | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 25 | 13 | The number wasn't as large as we hoped, but afterwards we came to a conclusion that it's not number that maters but dedication of the participants in general, so next time we'll aim for a smaller number of participants. |
| Number of editors | 25 | 13 | |
| Number of organizers | 2 | 2 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | 40 | 79 | 5 |
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| 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 | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
4252.78
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
4252.78
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/1jmnP-BKeIbp2jXA_8TJ4qr4V6EOb1HDHY5MtzbGkowc/edit?gid=928458698#gid=928458698
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)
There was a slight change in the amount spent on the venue rent and due to the drop of the USD exchange rate plane tickets were also a bit more expensive, but thankfully to the Central Asian WikiCon team we've managed to cut out the cost of one flight from Saint Petersburg.
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
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
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