Wikimedia CEE Hub/Microgrants/report/WikiNomad: Karakalpakstan
- By: Doniyor Yóldoshev and Mamatkazy
As part of the initiative, on July 15 we held a one-day workshop in Karakalpakstan for 23 participants. During the training, participants learned about the activities of the Karakalpak Wikipedia community, the principles of Wikimedia Commons, and gained practical knowledge in mobile photography and contributing to Wikipedia. The following day, a photo walk was organized to the cultural and historical sites of Karakalpakstan — Ellikqa’la District (Qizil Qala, Tupiraq Qala, Ayaz Qala). Participants applied the knowledge gained during the workshop in practice: they took 401 photos. All images were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons platform, and 3 Wikipedia articles related to these regions were improved and expanded
| Additional part of the report (Lessons learned) |
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Throughout the project, its implementation and organizational work personally gave us strong motivation and a good mood. When we conducted an anonymous survey of participants who attended the workshop training and took part in the photo walk, we received very positive feedback. We discovered new active users on Karakalpak Wikiped. More than 500 images were uploaded to Wikipedia Commons. The articles about the historical fortresses we visited were rewritten and edited, enriched with the photographs we took. As for the challenge we faced, it was solely the rise in air temperature. On the day of the seminar-training, the air temperature rose to 44 degrees, which caused most users to not attend the seminar. During the photo walk, we also couldn't travel to distant places, and considering the heat of the day and the impossibility of walking at noon, we traveled to nearby locations instead |
- Financial report
| Type of expense | Description | Amount (EUR) |
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| Conference room rent | for 1 day | 100€ |
| Lunch | for 23 participants | 141.91€ |
| Trainer frees | 1 trainer on mobile photographing during workshop | 10.14€ |
| Transportation | 1 minibus for photo walk for one day for 20 person | 142.86€ |
| Other expenses | water, printing materials for during two days | 18€ |
| Tour guide fees | Specialized in historical places for photo walk | 90.09€ |
| Accommodation for project coordinator | 2 days accommodation during workshop and photo walk for 1 person | 100€ |
| Mobile videographer fees | For Karakalpak Wiki instagram page content | 100€ |
| TOTAL | 703 |
- Achieved metrics
We managed to achieve all our target metrics. Main results in the following table:
| Metric | Target | Result | Comments |
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| organizers responsible for workshops | 3-4 | 5 | 2 organizers were involved on-site, organizing the logistics of the workshop, photo walk and all other on site activities, and three organizers were involved online, helping with the program and its concept |
| participants of workshop and photo walk | 10 | 30 | It was planned to engage 10 participants for the workshop and photo walk. However, due to high interest, we ended up engaging 30 participants for the workshop and 20 for the photo walk |
| high and medium quality photos from photo walk | 80 | 401 | It was planned to produce 30 high-quality and 50 medium-quality photographs during the photo walk for participants to practice. As a result, 401 high-quality photos were taken and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons |