Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Community Members Physical Meetup to Generate 2000 Fulfulde Recorded Words and Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata (ID: 21883269)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2022-11-20T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Community Members Physical Meetup to Generate 2000 Fulfulde Recorded Words and Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata
- Username of Applicant: Musaddam Idriss
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2553.8
- Amount spent: 2295.33 USD, 1076192 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
Being it a project mean to serve as a meet up of the entire community members were they are expected to gather physically to be introduced to other Wikimedia projects apart from the Fulfulde Wikipedia which they have been contributing to and also learn the standard orthography of the Fulfulde language, I first notified the community members about the days the events are going to take place as 16-18 of September and also asked them to expressed their interest for participation using a Google Form. From there, I learned that some participants have a specific interest depending on the time they will be available in the fixed days and while some prefer to learn both, some of them have chose to learn one between the Wikidata and the Wikimedia Commons. These differences in preferences made me to come up with a solution of splitting up the community on the basis of their interest were they both have the opportunity to participate at their convenience and this have lead us to have the most unstressful, most convenient and most successful project. However, despite these, we had gathered all the community members together during the Orthography workshop training and also used the opportunity to introduced again both the two related Wikimedia projects which the event focused on them. From there, the community members were actively engaged and monitored through the WhatsApp group which led to bringing the huge success of the project.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes, all the strategies implemented were effective because it was like one thing supported the other especially the grouping system which has helped a lot in making the sessions interactive and engaging because that way has giving all the participants a room in contributing to the conversation, asking questions about a particular area in the presentation and also assisted in discussion and exploring more ideas that will help move the community forward among other things.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
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Link to a Diff Post telling our story: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/28/how-wikimedia-fulfulde-community-are-changing-the-narratives-of-fulfulde-language-across-wikimedia-projects/
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 | 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 |
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?
Friendliness and making everyone feel welcomed to contribute his/her ideas as well as making each and every community member feel important has helped me a lot in gathering the members of our community all together as participants of this project.
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?
1. I learned that level of Fulfulde volunteers contributions in Fulfulde language on other Wikimedia Projects was at nearly zero level because of the fact that the community members being newly recruited, did not have the required skills and knowledge of how to contribute in the other Wiki projects. And this project has confirmed my expectation that if they will be gradually continued to be introduced to them, they will be doing amazing contributions like in this situation.
- 2. I also learned that frequent physical contact is building the cordial relationship among the members as they are learning to mutually respect each others opinion. Also, it has strengthened the coordination, commitment and team work among the Fulfulde editors.
- 3. In the end, I also learned that through proper implementation of strategies and constant engagement of the volunteers, all target can be met within the stated period of time.
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?
No, nothing strange has happened.
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?
Yes, this has broaden again my experience and will hope to continue using the ideas learned from this project.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of events | There will be 3 different events: an editathon on Wikidata, editathon about Wikimedia Commons and Fulfulde language based training to understand more the rules of Fulfulde writing systems. | 3 | 3 | 3 different events were conducted between 16-18 of September 2022: an editathon on Wikidata, editathon on Wikimedia Commons and Fulfulde language orthography workshop. | Attendance |
| Total number of participants | The total number of the participants expected at this event will majorly be selected based on their contributions and engagement in the recent activities related to the community towards improving the Fulfulde Wikipedia. | 30 | 33 | The participants were the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community members majorly selected based on their contributions and engagement in the recent activities related to the community towards improving the Fulfulde Wikipedia. | Attendance, Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Number of New Participants | Expected number of the new participants will be one third of the total participants | 10 | 10 | One third of the total participants were new editors | Attendance, Attendance, Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| 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 | The total participants expected to have for the whole project is 30; at least 15 per each editathon. But all will be there during the training on the Fulfulde language writing workshop. | 30 | 33 | The total participants expected to have for the whole project is 30; at least 15 per each editathon. But all will be there during the training on the Fulfulde language writing workshop. | Attendance and Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Number of editors | Overall number of the expected editors throughout the project is 33 including the organizer and the facilitators | 33 | 33 | Overall number of the editors in this project are 33 comprising the organizer and the other 2 facilitators | Attendance and Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Number of organizers | There will be one organizer and two facilitators in this project | 3 | 3 | There were one organizer and two facilitators in this project | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of audio uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 1000 | 1000 | 987 | Number of recorded audio files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Wikidata | Number of lexemes, phrases/sentences created on Wikidata: 1000 | 1000 | 2820 | Number of lexemes, phrases/sentences created on Wikidata | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 334 | Number new articles created/improved | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| 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.
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.
1. Dashboard link: Dashboard
- 2. Ordia Tool Forge: Created Lexemes
- 3. Purchased Communications material: material
- 4. Commons: Recorded words
- 5. Event Photographs: link
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.
I shared it with the Community in the WhatsApp Group
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
1076192 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2295.33 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
- Financial Report - Community Members Physical Meetup to Generate 2000 Fulfulde Recorded Words and Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata.xlsx
- Financial Report - Community Members Physical Meetup to Generate 2000 Fulfulde Recorded Words and Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata (1).xlsx
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
N/A
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.
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