Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Nigeria (ID: 21881137)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Nigeria
- Username of Applicant: Major Lyte
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1989.3
- Amount spent: 1989.3 USD, 876160.6 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
I'd say the most successful part of this project was the amount of awareness we were able to create about the African culture.
We organized a physical meetup in each community I.e Yoruba, Igbo and English community.
We trained and recruited over 15 new editors for the Wikimedia Community.
We had a session called ``#myexperience as an African``, which was an enlighten moment for us all.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
The first was the ``#myexperience as an African``, it was a strategy used to make participants understand why they need to contribute to Africa related articles on Wikipedia and also contribute to the free knowledge platform.
We had a physical event which brought editors from differs background together to build a strong community of free knowledge platform contributors.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:AWC_2022_in_Nigeria
4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
N/A
Part 2: Your main learning edit
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
I was able to learn more about the necessity of Africa related articles on Wikipedia and it's sister projects.
I have also been able to introduce more people to Wikipedia and its sister projects, which they have all joined the Wikimedia community in Nigeria.
7. 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?
We had a number of unexpected events that occurred during the planning of the project.
The first was that all the communities could not hold their event within the allocated time which resulted to late report from the local coordinator to me.
The second was that we had always been having internet connection problem and IP ban always but this time we didn't have any issue as such.
Another was that we had more female participants than the male participants which we are really delighted.
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
I will use this knowledge to first understand equip myself and also enhance my project management skill.
I also share this knowledge with my community members so we can all grow together and make Africa a better place.
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
Part 3: Metrics edit
10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of edits | Number of articles to be created or improved | 150 | 549 | We were able to surpass our initial target metric because the participants were very much interested in the project. | Xtool
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10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of participants | New participants: 15
Returning participants: 35 |
50 | 54 | English Wikipedia editors: 33
Igbo editors: 13 Yoruba editors: 8 |
Outreach dashboard |
| Number of editors | Igbo Wikimedia editors: 10
Yoruba Wikimedia editors: 10 English Wikimedia editors: 30 |
50 | 54 | English Wikipedia editors: 33
Igbo editors: 13 Yoruba editors: 8 |
Outreach dashboard |
| Number of organizers | This include 1 Project lead and 2 Coordinators | 3 | 4 | 1 project lead and 3 local community coordinators |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | This consist of the new articles created on women in other to help the month campaign to bridge gender gap. | 20 | 549 | English Wikipedia editors: 106 articles created, 570 articles improved.
Igbo editors: 400 articles created, 834 articles improved. Yoruba editors: 43 created articles, 139 articles improved. |
Outreach dashboard |
| Wikidata | Number of Wikidata items to be created or improved. | 250 | 103 | English Wikipedia editors: 100 created, and 2.67k improved
Igbo editors: 1 created item, 411 improved. Yoruba editors: 2 created items, 24 improved |
Outreach dashboard |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of pictures to be uploaded on WikiCommons. | 50 | 727 | English Wikipedia editors: 682 uploads
Igbo editors: 29 uploads Yoruba editors: 16 uploads |
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12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
No
12a. State what difficulties you had.
N/A
12b. 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?
N/A
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/AWC_in_Nigeria/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_in_Nigeria
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
Yes
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
Community announcement were made to appreciate all the participants and also announced the project's achieved metrics, which they were all elated to hear.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
876160.6 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1989.3 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
N/A
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. 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
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
Images from the events can be seen here Commons category
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