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DCW September 2023 - February 2024 Half-Yearly Plan
Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Draft

Due date: 2024-05-31T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

Application

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General information edit

  • Applicant username: TheAafi
  • Organization name: N/A
  • Amount awarded: 4138.85
  • Amount spent: USD,

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)

As outlined in our September 2023 - February 2024 activity plan, we regularly hosted DCW Conversation Hour. The subjects touched from September 2023 to March 2024 as a part of this program include:

In September 2023, we conducted the second iteration of our Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project which resulted in creation and improvement of 99 articles on Urdu and Yoruba language Wikipedias. Subsequently, Wikidata Sprint was organised from 28 to 30 October 2023 to celebrate the eleventh anniversery of Wikidata with a thematic edit-a-thon and Wiki Club Jamia was established on the 30th of October 2023 as a part of our leadership development program.

 
Participants of the Wikimedia Primer workshop

Wikimedia Primer was organised on 15 November 2023 helping the new Wikimedians at Wiki Club Jamia explore basics of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Live editing was demonstrated, and over 20 students joined the offline event at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. Wikiquote Insights was conducted on 28 December 2023 in New Delhi. Participants learned editing Wikiquote in English and Urdu language and understanding the basics of notability on the Wikiquote projects.


 

In order to sustain our Heritage Lens initiative, we conducted two iterations of it in December 2023 and March 2024 respectively, offering fellowships which included travel and local logistics support. The two iterations brought over 200 images to Wikimedia Commons under a free license from two distinct areas: Kashmir and Delhi.

In November 2023, we initiated the 500 edit challenge at Wiki Club Jamia to help with retention at the club and engage research scholars with the club, particularly helping them use the Wikipedia Library. This activity helped bring over 198 images to Wikimedia Commons, and making improvements to over 176 pages. According to Event Metrics, the average daily views to pages imroved is 144.1k.

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

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

The program was motivated by our strategic trajectory.

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)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups Agree
B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community Strongly agree
C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups Agree
D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives Agree
E. Encourage the retention of editors Strongly agree
F. Encourage the retention of organizers 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: We hope to learn about diversity of content and information related to DCW's theme, through passionate young volunteers, and how better we can support them in continuing their works for the upliftment of Wikimedia's goals.

Evaluate, Iterate and Adapt - has been our core principle throughout our activities, and whilst executing this plan alongside our Leadership Development and Skills Infrastructure Program, we learned that it is necessary to develop capacities first before venturing into governance and structure related discussions. This learning helped us navigate the issue of including more students in the ecosystem. We initiated Wiki Club discourses - which subsequently allowed us to support establishing of the Wiki Club Jamia with which more than 50 students are connected as of now. In future, we look forward to utilise this discourse into making of more Wiki Clubs in minority institutions.

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)


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)


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 40
Number of editors 15
Number of organizers 5
Wikimedia project Target Result - Number of created pages Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia 500
Wikimedia Commons 600 468
Wikidata 500
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote 30
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)


11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)


12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)



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)


13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

Yes

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?

A. Propose to use the underspent funds within this Fund period with PO approval

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

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