Grants talk:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves Earth in Greece 2019

Application received

Hello, MARKELLOS. Thank you for your Rapid Grant submission. We have received a high volume of requests, which may delay our review, but please feel free to ping us to follow-up. We appreciate your patience and will respond to your request as soon as possible.

In the meantime, please double check the information you entered in this grant proposal to ensure it is all accurate (we noticed inconsistent titles). If you have any questions or updates about your request or the grants process, please write us at rapidgrantswikimedia.org. All the best, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 17:29, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Comments from WMF

Hello, MARKELLOS; we are excited to see this new edition of Wiki Loves Earth in Greece. We understand the contest will begin soon, so, as soon as we receive your responses, we will be processing the review faster. We have the following questions for you:

1. Since this is not the first time you are hosting this contest, we would like to know: what is different this year? How is your process improving compared to past years?
2. In your 2018 report you said that you would communicate with more photography organizations or groups to promote and engage more photographers. Have you done this so far? What is your plan for this?

Regards, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 23:49, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi MMontes, I am answering on behalf of the group:

1. Indeed it is not the first time we are hosting this contest. There is almost nothing different this year, except switching roles in the organizing team (+one more coordinator). While switching roles we didn't touch things in the plan that proved to be successful.
2. As it is mentioned in the proposal the plan was "promoting the competition through the use of social networks and photo-oriented web sites". This is not much more than putting the announcement in photography forums and facebook groups, and in fact -since participation is in fact anonymous- we cannot have any metrics if this is making any difference (but doesn't cost anything).

BTW the contest has already begun in May 1st. --Geraki ^T_L 14:03, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Grant Request Approved

Hello, MARKELLOS; Hello, Geraki; we are approving your grant request and looking forward to Greece's submissions to Wiki Loves Earth! Regards, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 12:58, 28 May 2019 (UTC)