Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary Enrichment and Community Engagement Activities (ID: 22022702)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2023-05-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Hausa Wiktionary Enrichment and Community Engagement Activities
- Username of Applicant: Salisu Adamu
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2780.18
- Amount spent: 2661.39 USD, 1230000 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
We try to implement the project to the best of our abilities, despite the challenge of implementing the project during Nigerian general elections period.Firstly, we advertise the events on social media handles, we create awareness on the plan activities and about the Wikimedia foundation movement. Hausa community members that shown interest were welcome and engage. Subsequently, we identify most prolific, knowledgeable, and motivated contributors from semi experience editors using the available statistics from our previous projects, they were informed on our WhatsApp and Telegram group about the approved project and invited to the future events. Participants were sensitize online through our social media handles, and they were highlighted on the topics to work on. We hosted the offline in-person training in three weekends which also serve as our meet-up within the time frame,in the first training both the selected volunteers and new ones were train on editorship skills,participants were engage one-on-one in regards to challenges,clarifications. A brochure developed containing basic editing commands helped a lot in enhancing volunteers skills, a hard copy Hausa Dictionary used also help in content contribution. The highest contributors were awarded phone as prizes at the end of the project timeline.Being able to host this series of activities is possible with financial and technical support of Wikimedia Foundation.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Communication through our social media handles within the time frame as keeping in touch with volunteers, posting videos in the group about editing process help them whenever they find something challenging, and this serve as motivation and encouragement to the volunteers, also serve as a medium used promoting community interaction, problem solving and networking. Also, resources such as brochure and hard copy English-Hausa Kamus used also help in content contribution. Throwing challenge to editors, including creating words that are in red links fully with reference, images and audio help in engaging the editors and building our momentum. Also, keeping in touch with our community members during implementation period help them to understand the importance of what we are trying to accomplish.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cTQoo3IfU4lES_mfF3SvgBs2xuKCDgb6
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 | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly 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?
Since from inception of our previous projects. We give more emphasis to female editors whom have shown glimpse of prospect. Base on contributions by editors we are contented our effort is yielding a positive result regards to more women representation online, and we hope they will play a vital role in the future.
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?
We learn the best way to retain existing editors as volunteers is through constant communication and keeping in touch with volunteers through our social media. Also, resources such as brochure and hard copy English-Hausa Kamus used also help in content contribution which we learn that equipping editors with resources will go a long way in retaining editors.Encouraging the existing editors in solving new editors challenges serve as an avenue that the community members understand that everyone can contribute, and it's an equal level playing ground. This method help in preparing the volunteers on leadership skills and to take up roles in the future.
We learn that coming together of trainers, existing editors and new volunteers and interacting in the course of the project serve as a best way to manage our existing community partnerships and creating new ways of sustaining and creating new ones. We learn communication is best way of managing an open community, through the in person training and engaging participants online they have acquired the necessary skills and motivation to continue contributing. The participants grasp something new in this project from our previous project they understand that Hausa Wiktionary is a system of related words by categories and they can perform different editing task simultaneously such as referencing, linking audio and image files from wikipedia Commons.
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 surprise and interesting situation is the way the community members related and work as a team to achieve the same goal. And how they have shown motivation to use their ideas in editing words and carrying out task they are given. Many community members are willing to contribute with proper guidance and support.
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?
We hope to seize this initiative since the community members are conversant with editing skills in Wiktionary, we plan to see how they could be engage more in the future in increasing content in Hausa Wiktionary. If possible to equipped with skill of recording,editing, converting and uploading free license audio files to wikimedia Commons images to wikipedia Commons in other to solve the problem of unavailability of some audio files in wikipedia Commons. Also, if possible to acquire skill to create or improve lexemes in wikidata.
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.
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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 | Existing and new Volunteers to engage | 40 | 40 | A total of 40 volunteers were mobilise and participated. 25 Existing Volunteers and 15 new volunteers. | Wikimedia Foundation Hashtag tool #WCE |
| Number of editors | 30 Existing Editors
10 new editors |
40 | 40 | There is total of 25 existing editors and 15 new editors, this is due to unavailability of the remaining 5 existing editors. Total of 40 editors edit throughout the project execution. Though the Wmf hashtag is showing 48 editors that is due to some volunteers not login a times, the 8 is just IP address. | Wikimedia foundation hashtag tool #WCE |
| Number of organizers | Number of Organisers | 4 | 4 | There is total of 4 organisers that makes the project implementation possible. | Wikimedia foundation hashtag tool #WCE |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Wiktionary | Number of words to be created | 250 | 250 | More than 250 new words were created. | Wikimedia foundation hashtag tool #WCE |
| Wiktionary | Number of Audio Files to be attached to words from Wikimedia commons | 200 | 400 | More than 400 Audio files was attached from wikimedia Commons. | Wikimedia foundation hashtag tool #WCE |
| Wiktionary | Number of Image Files to be attached from Wikimedia commons | 200 | 121 | The target of 200 images to be attached from wikimedia Commons, was not achieved due to the fact most of the words created and improved will not go along with pictorial illustration. | Wikimedia foundation hashtag tool #WCE |
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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://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=%23WCE&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user= https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/graph/?query=%23WCE&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user=
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.
We informed and shared with our community members. https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:Babban_shafi#Hausa_Wiktionary_Enrichment_and_Community_Engagement_Activities%2FReport
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
1230000 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2661.39 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.
We have 4,000 naira remaining. The amount of 100,000 was allocated to Miscellaneous,96,000 naira was spend to cover computer hiring for 40 participants for 3 days.
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 fund remaining from this grant may be allocated to another grant submission if it is approved, or spend as directed by WMF.
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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