Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Africa Create:Zimbabwe Venturing Wide (ID: 22373070)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-05-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: Sichelesile
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2101
- Amount spent: 1831 USD, 1831
Part 1: Project and impact edit
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
Photo hunts and community building activities and partnerships
The Zimbabwean community at its infancy level did well by coming together and having fun time. Community engagements increased awareness on Wiki and appreciation and embracing Wiki Projects. This was possible as we divided into groups and went photo hunting. The casual approach made it possible for new editors to engage with old editors and experience the community love. The photography experience lured a few professional photographers and they are ready for 2025 experience. Partnerships with artists in Bulawayo Art Gallery was a highlight as we discovered the creative individuals.
We attended webinars organized by the Wiki in Africa and other wiki projects like the Wiki Loves Libraries in Nigeria and we had a challenging talk with Bokola James
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Weq_RdHJoxUit4la_TAuHdj5JD0asqTw?usp=drive_link
https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-sub-saharan-african-regional-division-ifla-ssa-rdc-march-newsletter/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EventDetails/280 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiZimbabwe https://www.facebook.com/groups/zimbabwewikimediacommunityusergroup
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_In_Africa/Africa_create_Zimbabwe_Venturing_Wide
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89186656966
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning edit
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: Leadership skills Editing skills Cultural exposure Knowledge creation for easy access
Leadership skills- The old editors were given a chance to be in the forefront and engage with participants, edit landing pages and updating the social pages. This was a learning curve as the leaders were also not sure of many things hence needed help often to learn how to edit how to help one understand Wiki and a lot of other things. in the future, a leadership workshop without new participants will do so as to learn to go and teach. however, l am glad new upcoming leaders or organizers have been identified to start projects on their own.
We had new editors from different cultures in Zimbabwe. there was language barrier here and there and there was learning of new things and representation of the underrepresented parts of our country. In the future we hope to engage all cultures in Zimbabwe so that we are exposed to the culture that is similar in a way but different.
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
positive - we had new enthusiastic editors compared to the old editors. And the winners were from the new editors
negative - the new training organisers had fewer edits to be given rights to create an event
- the response rate in terms of editing besides uploading was low, this was evidenced by the low turn up of people when we wre doing edit-a-thons versus when we did photo hunts.
- photo hunts made us meet people that wanted money, which was no surprise at all as Zimbabweans have not heard of Wikipedia in many places.
We learnt that we need to understand as individual editors and organizers what Wikimedia Foundation is and how it operates so as to be good ambassadors of the foundation in our country.
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
The organisers who were in the fore front met to discuss the learnings from this project and plan to meet up again and have a yearly plan for the community to meet up often at least once a month for community growth.
Part 3: Metrics edit
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | 32 | Event manager. Some joined the event but ended up not doing anything. |
| Number of editors | 30 | 14 | Event management tool. |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 8 | Event management tool.
Different skills like Designing, Marketing and communications |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 30 | 0 | 26 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 60 | 125 | 125 |
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | 30 | ||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
No
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting edit
10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
1831
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1831
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n6suJhyhMf4X_hyJ1eFCDKFFZ3LdE1EIkJWXe9-ubkE/edit?usp=sharing
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
changes in the budget was after the advise from the foundation and also the needed time to do more events and also the closing ceremony was postponed due to the jury system that was new to the team.
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes Your response to the review feedback. 14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
14.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes edit
Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A