Grants:Project/Rapid/Calliopejen1/Wikipedia LA Twitter manager

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Calliopejen1/Wikipedia LA Twitter manager

Pay for Buffer subscription for management of Wikipedia LA twitter account; pay for boosting of select Twitter/FB posts to build audience or promote events

targetEnglish Wikipedia (and perhaps Spanish Wikipedia)

start dateasap

end dateOne year later

budget (USD)102

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Calliopejen1

contact(s)• Calliopejen1

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Project Goal

Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".

Recruit new editors and strengthen Wikipedia community in LA.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?

We have started a Twitter account called Wikipedia LA and want to build a following to attract people in the LA area to Wikipedia. We would like to be able to schedule a reasonable volume of tweets (current/free limit is 10 at once; for $102 we could schedule 100 tweets at once for a year).

How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?

What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:

1. Number of total participants
2. Number of articles created or improved (if applicable)
3. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable)
4. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable)

We would like to have a ___ Twitter followers at the end of one year.

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

Calliopejen1 and JSFarman are helping to maintain the Twitter account so far. We are trying to recruit other users to do so as well.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:

• "Awesome" subscription to buffer.com ($102), which will allow us to schedule up to 100 tweets at one time.
• Promotion on FB/Twitter