Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos at Wikimedia Hub,Owerri

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Comments from DSaroyan (WMF)[edit]

Hi Dolphyb, thanks for submitting this Rapid Grant request and for running the WPWP campaign at WikiHub Owerri. I have a few requests after reviewing your grant request:

  • Are you planning to run any in-person activities?
  • Could you please provide the number of units and unit costs for all budget items?
  • Please reduce the prizes or T-shirt budgets, so that together they cost 400 USD or less.
  • Additionally, reduce the Miscellaneous costs by half.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 08:48, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear DSaroyan_(WMF),Thank you for taking your time to review the grant.

No we are not running any in-person activities. I have complied with the directive to provide number of units and unit costs for the budget items. The T-shirts have been removed entirely to accommodate 400 USD even though it would have been lovely to keep them. They are a great awareness tool. For the miscellaneous costs, half the stated cost will not be sufficient to take the supposed expenses due to recent high inflation arising from the current state of insecurity in Imo State. Prizes of items are now tripled due to scarcity of services arising from the unavailability of such service providers. This is the major reason we are not even considering a physical event which we desire. Moreover, some of the Participants stay in rural communities, very far from the capital. It's going to cost more to get their prizes to them as well. Thank you for your understanding and consideration. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards.Dolphyb (talk) 21:17, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]