Grants:Project/Rapid/Beko/Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Armenia

The contest will focus on the quality of uploaded photos. This is important to Armenian wiki community because it is aimed at closing the Earth gap” in Wikimedia projects, adding quality photos to articles about nature and natural monuments.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.

You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

Wikimedia communities will get to know about this proposal through the following pages:

Armenian Wikipedia Village Pump page
Wiki Loves…Facebook group
Armenian Wikipedia Facebook page

3. How will you let participants know about the contest? In what ways will you be communicating with them?

For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

Different social media platforms will be used for the communication:

Wiki Loves… Facebook group
Armenian Wikipedia Facebook page
Armenian Wikipedia Village Pump page
Wikimedia Armenia Facebook page
Real Time Armenia Facebook group
My Photo Tour - Armenia Facebook group
Communication with educational institutions’ photography faculties and photography

4. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?

Note: Grantees, judges, and other contest leaders are ineligible to receive prizes. Grantees who are serving as judges may not receive gifts through grant funding.

The jury consisting of international and local judges will judge the contest and decide the winners.

There will be two stages before the jury starts judging the photos:

The photos will be filtered based on technical issues/quality
Compliance of the photos with the context of the contest

5. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?

Before the contest, two workshops are planned during which the participants will learn how to upload photos on Wikimedia Commons and how to add them to corresponding Wikipedia articles and pages.

6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

There will be five photo walks each engaging 15 participants.

Also, besides the workshop on uploading photos and adding them to Wikipedia articles, there will be another special workshop on how to take good quality photos and how to develop them.

7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

There will be five photowalks so here is the risk assessment result.

COVID-19 Risk Assessment for WLE 2022 Armenia

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

Number of participants - 25
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons - 3500
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects - 100
Number of photowalks - 5
Number of photowalk participants - 75

For writing contests:

Number of participants
Number of articles created or improved

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

The organizer is Beko who will carry out all organizational activities. User:Beko - organizational activities + workshop organization User:Dav Sargsyan - Photowalks organization

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

1 USD = 477 AMD

N	Item	Quantity	Rate (AMD)	Total (AMD)	Total (USD)	Notes
1	Transportation for photowalks	5	105,000	525,000	1,101
2	Refreshment (for photowalks and workshop)	90	3,500	315,000	660	There will be one workshop and five photowalks
3	Prizes (gift vouchers and wiki souvenirs)	14		195,000	409	1st place - AMD 50,000 gift voucher 2nd place - AMD 40,000 gift voucher 3rd place - AMD 30,000 gift voucher Most photo uploads (by quality) - AMD 25,000 gift voucher 10 top uploads - AMD 50,000 (wiki souvenirs)
4	Panama hats	50	3,500	175,000	367	Panama hats for photowalk participants
5	COVID-19 prevention equipment			20,000	42
6	Bank charges			10,000	21	Transfer charges
7	Post office			10,000	21
TOTAL				1,250,000	2,621

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

As a member of WLE international team I support this proposal. Armenia is always performing strong in Wiki Loves Earth, I am sure they will be successful — NickK (talk) 12:12, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

In Armenia WLE is organized and implemented with great enthusiasm.The results are good and satisfactory. And the participants really enjoy it. I highly support the implementation of WLE in Armenia. --Violla M. (talk) 14:04, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Strong support Vahag851 (talk) 17:14, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Support WLE in Armenia traditionally brings growing quantity of quality images. Should be supported! - Kareyac (talk) 06:53, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
It is a pleasant initiative, we will glad to participate, we participated in the previous years and we have many beautiful photos.--Արարատ Թրվանց (talk) 19:22, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Strong support I had a chance to organize Wiki Loves Momuments back in 2013 with Beko and seen him in action and behind the scenes, as well I observed him organize and co-organize WLM and Wiki Loves Earth throughout those years and it is my pleasure to endorse this long-standing and divoted wikimedian. --Xelgen (talk) 12:21, 2 May 2022 (UTC)