Grants/Requests/2018/Nanaimo Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Description

Describe here the activity including your goal, your detailed plan and the planned impact.

Our goals included the following:

1. Recruit new editors, with special emphasis on recruiting editors who are underrepresented in Wikipedia’s editor makeup (women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ identified, and indigenous people)

2. Increase skills for existing editors

3. Add or improve content, with particular emphasis on content related to notable women, in celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day

For further details on our planned impact, please see Rapid Grant Application to Wikimedia Foundation. Final Report to follow shortly.

List of participants

Indicate here the list of participants that will incur expenses for this activity; you do not need to list all participants that will take part in the activity. Make sure to indicate who is in charge of the activity.

Meg Eccelstone and Andie Tomlinson -- VIU Librarians, Edit-a-thon Organizers
Michael Radmacher -- Guest Wikipedian, UVIC Assistant to the Chair of Transgender Archives
VIU Library

Activity Report

see Rapid Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

Final Budget

All funds in CAD. Receipts for the following items will be emailed asap, along with Final Report.

*VIU Library sent a cheque to Michael Radmacher for amount $365.03 on April 6, 2018 ahead of receiving grant monies, to reduce the length of time that the guest Wikipedian is out of pocket for his expenses.

Item	Amount	Name of the participant that made this expense
Food	$44.37	Andie Tomlinson
Guest Lunch	$58.97	Meg Ecclestone
VIU Catering	$87.35	VIU Library
Swag/promo buttons	$19.28	VIU Library
*Wikipedian Rental Car	$151.38	Michael Radmacher
*Wikipedian Accomodation	$183.65	Michael Radmacher
*Wikipedian Honorarium	$30	VIU Library
Total	$575

Decision of the Programs Committee

This section will be filled by the Programs Committee.

This grant request is followed by: Amqui.

This grant request, that was pre-approved as a Rapid Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, is approved for a total amount of $575.00 by the decision of two members of the Board of Directors:

Technical Information

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Request Number : 2018-014
Type of activity in the Annual Budget : WMF Rapid Grant
Total Approved Amount : $575.00