Wikimedia CEE Hub/Microgrants/report/Wiki Loves Film in Slovakia 2025
- By: KormiSK
Wiki Loves Film is a joint multi-national effort initiated by Wikimedia Czech Republic (see MG-09). Wikimedia Slovakia (WMSK) decided to join as well and we organised the first year for this activity. We have promoted the event on Slovak Wikipedia as well as our Facebook page. Due to simultaneously running Wiki Loves Earth in Slovakia, we decided to postpone the event. This seems to have been a good choice – in the end, we reached 33 new film-related articles written by a total of 8 users. We consider this a great success, especially because this was our first time planning and promoting activity with this topic. We have also organised a contest for the participating users, in which we awarded three users with the highest number of new articles. While the first two places had clear winners, we've had multiple people ranking in the third place, for which we've decided to select the user with the highest quality article. These users have been awarded with books provided by the Slovak Film Institute (who we thank for their participation in providing these prizes) as well as books and some souvenirs directly from WMSK.
| Additional part of the report (Lessons learned) |
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Similarly to Wiki Loves Earth this year, we'd like to organise Wiki Loves Film next year as well. This gives us an opportunity to communicate with other branches (WMCZ, WMRO, other Wikimedia organisations) in advance regarding joint participation; as well as promoting the event more ahead of the actual date of start. We will also keep in mind the list of users who participated this year and ask them to participate next year as well. |
- Financial report
Because we have not used our budget allocated within MG-07, we have moved some part of it (76,02 €) towards this project, upon agreement with CEE Hub.
| Type of expense | Description | Amount (EUR) |
|---|---|---|
| Promotion | Facebook advertisements | 65,19 |
| Prizes | Various books and souvenirs | 161,03 |
| Total | 226,22 | |
- Achieved metrics
We've hit one of our metric and weren't far off for the other metric. The results are summarised in the following table:
| Metric | Target | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| New articles | 30 | 33 | We have hit our target, which we consider great success for the first year of this event. |
| Participants | 10 | 8 | We almost hit our target on the number of users and we hope to keep it up for the next iterations of this activity. |