Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Art+Feminism @10 Lagos (ID: 22049978)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Art+Feminism @10 Lagos
- Username of Applicant: ReoMartins
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2107.8
- Amount spent: 1683.25 USD, 710000 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
The proposed strategy was to celebrate Art+Feminism’s 10th Year Anniversary in Lagos, Nigeria by hosting and organizing two meet-ups for volunteer editors who are concerned with protecting the knowledge of notable women in the African music industry and their impact, documenting credible stories, correct misrepresentation and misinformation, and also explore conversations around innovating in free knowledge as it concerns Women and African Music, as well as advancing the objectives of Art+Feminism. Unfortunately, this project facilitated by Afrosounds Wikiproject was able to execute just a meet-up which featured a panel session and keynote discussions about Women in African music and the impacts being made by Art+Feminism, without the edit-a-thon session. We worked with a theme "Collective Action: Women, African Music and Open Knowledge” to engage in conversations at the intersection of Art+Femisim objectives of promoting free knowledge of women in Arts and related discuss, as well as that of Afrosounds which is concerned with the protection and preservation of knowledge as it concerns African music and sounds on open source. The meet-up was hosted to celebrate the impact of Art+Feminism over the years through these conversations and the need to accurately represent the stories of outstanding women and their impacts on the free encyclopedia and also discussed strategies that could be adopted to create further impact for women in musical arts in Africa.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
The primary aim of this project was to celebrate the impacts of Art+Feminism over the years through collective action of volunteer editors globally and also increase the capacity of new and old editors to gain insights and knowledge about contributing credible knowledge of women in African music. This was possible through facilitating a meet-up session to discuss women, African art, music and open knowledge with Afrosounds which has an existing community of volunteer editors advancing the free knowledge of African music and sounds. The meet-up featured an insightful keynote discuss which was delivered by a female senior music executive and the project lead at Afrosounds, as well as a panel session that had three female speakers; one being an open knowledge advocate from Lagos State University and two other music executives in Nigeria. A Question and Answer interactive session also followed to give insights and address questions participants had about concerns in contributing to free knowledge and addressing the gender biased knowledge deficit in African music. Conversations were also had to further advance the impact of Art+Feminism, and ultimately, Wikimedia projects in the community to contribute relevant topics to open source and the free encyclopedia.
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:Art%2BFeminism_Lagos,_Collective_Action
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 | Strongly 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 | Strongly 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?
Building on an existing relationship with the Yoruba Wikimedians in Nigeria, we were able to have some editors who contribute and promote knowledge in Yoruba as an underrepresented and minority language. These participants joined the discussion on the possibilities of exploring open knowledge to contribute, document and preserve knowledge of indigenous sounds, musical topics and credible women stories of the Yoruba culture to the free encyclopedia and other wiki projects.
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?
The learning priorities included how much of Women in African Music content we must have contributed to free knowledge. Through the meet-up, we were able to build an interest and increase the capacity of over 30 participants to explore individual efforts through collective action to contribute available knowledge about women in African music and art to the general sum of knowledge available on wiki projects through an interactive and resourceful training session. Hence incorporating participants in the campaign of bridging gender biased knowledge about related discuss.
This project also explored conversations about how volunteer editors and project activities could facilitate attention, intervention and an extensive contribution of content concerning African women in art from credible media houses and publications to provide access to source contents for reference purposes while creating content, hence advancing the objectives of Art+Feminism.
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?
The unavoidable absence of the project lead to coordinate the second meet-up (edit-a-thon) due to a responsibility to work duty was a negative situation which altered some of the proposed learning outcomes of the project. Two supporting project team members who would have taken up the task were also called up to a compulsory school and community responsibility programme.
This fallout made the project lead learn the essence of developing and empowering the project team with strategic capacity to function in accordance to the project expectations without so much dependence on the project lead when need be. Alternatively, it was also observed that the project could have hosted an online edit contest to promote the contribution of content to wiki projects for a certain duration by participants. All of these issues would be looked into critically to avoid such experiences in further engagements.
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?
Having discussed extensively on the need to contribute article content to Wikipedia on women and Arts in Africa, this project also observed the possibility of extending it’s objectives to promoting the contribution of content in various forms as well to other sister wiki projects as it concerns the project discuss, such as capturing indigenous sounds and moments for wiki commons and collaborating with women centered creative communities to further advance the objectives of free and open knowledge on impactful women and credible stories in African music and art through the lens of Art+Feminism.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feedback from Participants on Skills Learnt | This project hopes to have confidently equipped volunteers with the skills necessary to contribute accurately to free knowledge through Wikimedia and Art+Feminism projects. | 30 | 38 | This mumber includes project team members. | Registered participants through Jotform. Every participants were impacted with resources and skills to contribute knowledge accurately to Wiki projects both physically and virtually. |
| Campaign Participation | How many participants were trained on the essence of collective action towards promoting free knowledge. | 30 | 33 | N/A | Physical registration form at the venue of the meetup. |
| Sustainability of the Community | How many participants are willing to continue being a part of the community extensively? | N/A | 33 | All participants indicated an interest to become a part of the community extensively | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | This project hopes to train and celebrate with a maximum of 30 participants | 30 | 38 | New Participants: 22
Returning Participants: 16 |
Jotform |
| Number of editors | This project plans to facilitate the contribution of content by 30 participants to Wikimedia through the objectives of Art+Feminism | 30 | 24 | Newly Registered Editors: 15
Returning Editors: 9 |
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| Number of organizers | The number of organisers required to carry out the planning and implementation of this project will be 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 Project Facilitators, 3 Project Team Members |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 20 articles created at least and 100 articles improved upon at least | 120 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | At least 100 items contributed to Commons | 100 | 39 | N/A | N/A |
| Wikiquote | At least 20 contributions to Wikiquote | 20 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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.
Yes
12a. State what difficulties you had.
The unavailability of support project team members made the collection of data and results quite a task.
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?
Provision for alternative volunteers to join the project team could be a strategy to be adopted.
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.
N/A
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.
Partially
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.
Results and Feedback from the meet-up have been shared with community members and areas for improvement requested for future projects.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
710000 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1683.25 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?
Yes
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
USD 424.55
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
The unspent funds would be used to finance an edit-a-thon session at a later date to further advance the objectives of the project.
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.
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