Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Loves Folklore WPWP
This Wikimedia Foundation grant has a fiscal sponsor. Wikimedia Österreich administered the grant on behalf of Open Heritage Foundation.
openheritagefoundation.org• hardarshanbenipal.hbgmail.com
Please see the sample Contest application before drafting your application.
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.
- To improve the quality of Wikipedia articles across various languages
- To promote the use of digital media files collected from Wiki Loves Folklore photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages
- Engage existing editors
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?
- The contest will focus on utilising the media files (photos and videos) from Wiki Loves Folklore international photography contest to Wikipedia articles in relevant topics. This is important to ensure that the images that are brought in via the contest are used in the Wikipedia to illustrate the local folklore articles that are missing media files, including, but not limited to the category Folk Culture at English Wikipedia.
2. How will you let people know about the contest?
- We already have a network of social media channels on telegram, messenger and Facebook where the community has been connected with our core project Wiki Loves Love. We will use that to announce the next phase of the project. Additionally, we will be reaching out to local coordinators of the Wiki Loves Folklore Wikipedia Edition 2020 that was organized in over 18+ languages this year.
3. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?
- We will have local co-ordinators and jury that will be judging the contest and international team that will be reviewing the work on the dashboard with hashtag. The way of calculating the stats and results will be similar to #1Lib1Ref campaign that uses hashtags in summaries to calculate the references integrated in the campaign.
4. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?
- This contest will ensure that the relevant media files are used in articles of different Wikipedia language editions and to support this process, we will collaborate with local language coordinators to run the program in different languages. This will be helpful in usage of images in articles relevant to a particular country/culture in their native language.
5. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- This will be a completely online project and no offline events will take place under this campaign.
Impact[edit]
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:
For photo contests:
- Number of participants 40
- Number of photos integrated from Wikimedia Commons 500
- Number of Wikipedia/Wikidata pages or items improved with photos 200
Resources[edit]
What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- We have an international team along with local co-ordinators who supported the wikipedia edition of this project.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- 1st Prize 300 USD
- 2nd Prize 200 USD
- 3rd Prize 100 USD
- Top 15 Consolation 150 USD
- Top winners from each participating language community 800 USD
- Graphics Design of digital fliers for online social media campaign, adverts and logistics, website and other miscellaneous expenses 300 USD
Total: 1850 USD Note:All prizes and tokens will be in format of gift coupon
New Budget = 2000 USD
- 1st Prize 300 USD
- 2nd Prize 200 USD
- 3rd Prize 100 USD
- Top 7 Consolation 70 USD
- Graphics Designer 400 USD
- Internet 99 USD
- Local Prizes (en + pa) 70 USD
- Fiscal sponsor (10%) 200 USD
Endorsements[edit]
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
Support This will be great idea to use images uploaded during a contest.--*•.¸♡ ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝔹𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕡𝕒𝕝 ♡¸.•*𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕜 11:28, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
- This is a wonderful idea that should actually be generalized to all photo contests held in the Wikimedia movement. Psychoslave (talk) 15:50, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- Strong Support It is a worthwhile project with the potential to increase the reach of the core objective of WPWP in the area of folks and culture. ---Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 14:58, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Strong support Definitely a commendable initiative after a successful photo contest followed by a WPWP.Rajeeb 
(talk!) 18:19, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
