Grants:Project/Rapid/Yorg/Wiki Loves Africa - Nos Jardins
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Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.
- Recruit new editors
- Increase skills for existing editors
- Add or improve content
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
This Rapid Grant is to co-fund a project related to Wiki Loves Africa, called Nos Jardins. The project page of Nos Jardins may be found here : c:Commons:Nos Jardins.
The idea behind Nos Jardins is to train professional and advanced non-professional in photography, free licenses and open knowledge culture. It is expected that between 10 to 20 people will be trained in each country.
This will be done through a collection of webinars and irl trainings that will take place in Spring 2021 simultaneously in two countries (namely Switzerland and Cameroon). Webinars will be open to everyone (the official trainees, and anyone interested). IRL trainings will probably be more restricted in participation (depending on Covid local restrictions, training space, training quality, photo material...). Training material will be produced.
Those training activities will be extended with practical participation to two rather well-known photographic contests (Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Earth :)) Trained people in Cameroun will be required to participate to both photo contests. Trained people in Switzerland will be required to participate to WLE and invited to WLA if that makes sense to them (this year WLA theme may not be very favorable to diaspora participation).
Finally, in September/October, two photo expositions will be set up (one in Cameroun, one in Switzerland) to display the best photos produced by the trainees AND uploaded to Commons as part of the two contests. The best photos will be selected with a collaborative process including trainees and external jury members. The photo exposition will be the opportunity of a communication effort (press conference, launch event) as well as a celebration and experience feedback from all involved (partly in-person, partly online to accomodate the physical location of all involved). The host of the exposition is yet to be determined (budget related).
1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
- As part of the general project yes, but not as part of the grant request done to WMF
2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
- There is already a Commons page : c:Commons:Nos Jardins
- It will be communicated on 1) Wikimedia France blog 2) various venues related to Wiki Loves Africa (telegram channel, facebook page, twitter, website) 3) WLE mailing list and channels 3) wikipedia weekly 4) education mailing lists toward the end of the project for feedback sharing.
- Further, it will be communicated by Yorg on their own communication channels. The president of Yorg is a photographer and aware of professional channels
- Further, it will be communicated by the Cameroun team to former known participants to WLA and WLE that might be interested, but also to various professional associations. The Cameroun team have been involved with photographers associations for several years already.
3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?
- Serieminou for Cameroun
- Anthere for webinars
- Thanough for Switzerland
- Adviser Geugeor (former lead WLA WLE)
4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- We will propose the training to professional photographers or non-professionnals with recognised photographic skills.
5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- Keep in touch. Inform them about further photographic opportunities related to Wikimedia Commons :)
6. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:
- The funding request in particular concerns the photographic exposition at the end of the project (September-October). It will obviously be an in-person event. But it will be in 9 months from now. It is difficult to foresee what the situation will be by then... We are not fully sure it makes sense to fill up this form NOW, given that the situation might be very different in 6 months from now. In any cases, we will obviously adapt to the pandemic situation. I shall wait for your advice on what's best to do.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- Whilst the training will start early 2021, our request is about the last part of the project (the photo exhibition), which will take place in Fall 2021. It looks like a long-term anticipation (which it actually is...) but we consider this project to be primarily a side-project (extension) of Wiki Loves Africa, hence the grant request being made as part of the WLA batch.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets: Number of events :
- 2 photo exhibition (1 or 2 months long, in Switzerland and Cameroun)
- with launch events
- 1 or 2 feedback meetings (either will be done on exhibition launch event day, or could be done at a different date)
Number of participants :
- at least 60 for the exhibition launch (trainees, organizers, journalists, vips).
- at least 200 people for the exhibition visit.
- at least 10 participants to the feedback meetings.
Expecting press mentions, hence project visibility in the greater public
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).
- Participants to this project include
- Thanough in particular for the Yorg team for the general management, communication and design, recruitement of trainees, then training and photo expo in Switzerland,
- Theo Bondolfi for photo curriculum, and training in Switzerland
- Minette and Carole (cameroun expert wikipedians) for the recruitement of trainees, training activities and photo expo in Cameroon (members of the UserGroup, but the project is not run as a UG project).
- Anthere for advising, online training (webinar), training content, and community communication.
- This project is currently co-funded by Movetia but some elements remain not-funded or poorly-funded at the moment, in particular the photo exposition.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
| Type | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Material | Budget for material related to photo exhibition : Picture printing, hanging materials, labels etc. | 400 dollars |
| Material | Goodies, badges, stickers for participants to the launch events | 200 dollars |
| Printing | Leaflets to be made available to visitors to the exhibition (Nos Jardins leaflet, WLA leaflet, WLE leaflet etc.) | 300 dollars |
| Space | Renting costs for the exhibition space in Cameroon. 200 000 CFA | 280 dollars |
| Media | Stipends for journalists (transport costs) | 200 dollars |
| Catering | Catering for the two launch events and feedback meetings | 500 dollars |
| Printing | Printing of post-cards of best pictures related to the project and gifting | 200 dollars |
| Internet | Internet access during launch and feedback meeting | 100 dollars |
| ChildCare | Child care of participants or organizers kids during launch events | 100 dollars |
| Hygiene | If still required next fall (soap etc.) | 50 dollars |
| Videaste | Video shooting during the exhibition launch for an outreach video (300 000 CFA) | 370 dollars |
Total 2700 dollars
Amount asked for to WMF: 2000 dollars
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