Wikimedia CEE Hub/Microgrants/report/WikiKyrgyz 2024: Empowering Editors, Enriching Knowledge
- By: Kazy
As part of the microgrant implementation, we organized several key activities aimed at expanding content about Asian countries in the Kyrgyz Wikipedia and strengthening engagement within the community.
- We held an online presentation of the wiki-marathon, which was attended by more than 10 people. This helped to engage new participants and prepare them for upcoming activities.
- In collaboration with the Asian user group team, we organized an offline Edit-a-thon, which gathered 7 participants from the Kyrgyz Wikipedia community.
- And the main part of the implemantation of this nicrogrant was to launch a wiki-marathon “Asia Month 2024” in Kyrgyz Wikipedia. A total of 12 editors participated, which is slightly less than the planned 15, but the quality and volume of materials created exceeded expectations.
Thus, despite a slight deviation in the number of participants, the microgrant enabled us to significantly exceed the target for newly created articles and media content on Wikimedia Commons. This confirmed the effectiveness of the activities carried out and their positive impact on the development of the Kyrgyz Wikipedia community.
| Additional part of the report (Lessons learned) |
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One of the key lessons learned during the project was the importance of motivating participants. At the beginning of the marathon, the activity was low - not a single new article appeared. However, after the announcement of a contest with prizes for the most active authors, interest in the event grew significantly: participants began to specify the conditions and actively create articles. As a result, instead of the expected 90 articles, 151 new articles were written in Kyrgyz, which exceeded our expectations. Another important difficulty was the evaluation of articles. Initially we assumed that this process would take a little time, but in practice it turned out to be much more time-consuming than the marathon itself. This was a valuable lesson for us, and in future projects we will be more realistic in planning time and resources for evaluating papers. |
- Financial report
| Type of expense | Description | Amount (EUR) |
|---|---|---|
| Prize | First place winner | 100 |
| Prize | Second place winner | 90 |
| Prize | Third place winner | 80 |
| Prize | Fourth place winner | 70 |
| Prize | Fifth place winner | 60 |
| Fees for the jury members and organizers | 3 jury members and 2 organizers | 100 |
| TOTAL | 500 |
- Achieved metrics
We managed to achieve all our target metrics. Main results in the following table:
| Metric | Target | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Participants in Edit-a-thon (total) | 15 | 12 | In offline Edit-a-thon took part 7 editors and in general in marathon took part 12 editors |
| Organizers/Jury members | 4 | 5 | 3 jury members and 2 organizers (one was responsible for general coordination, communication, and the other helped with the technical part of the process.) |
| New articles in Kyrgyz Wikipedia related to Asian countries | 90 | 151 | During the marathon, new articles were created in Kyrgyz Wikipedia by Kyrgyz-language editors. |
| Photos from events uploaded to Wikimedia Commons | 10 | 15 | 10 from an offline meeting, 5 from an online meeting |