Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Introducing Wikimedia Projects to Al-Mawarid Institute of Information Technology (ID: 22113470)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Introducing Wikimedia Projects to Al-Mawarid Institute of Information Technology
- Username of Applicant: Hajjare
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1863.94
- Amount spent: 1863.94 USD, 860000 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
As planned, I carried out awareness campaigns for three days and one virtual meetup plus physical trainings for the participants. These steps have helped in making the editing process very easier from the participants' point of view. I understand that through the supportive attitude they demonstrated during the second meetup where the first attendees helped in guiding the attendees of the second meetup through the processes from account creation to making their first edit and that was really a huge success.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Personal engagement on one-on-one basis has helped in bringing courage for the shy participants. As a northern lady, I do know that there are girls/women who are intelligent enough to give than expected but at times shyness overcome them. So, what I did was that apart from the general engagement, I befriended all the participants and that made them so comfortable with me, I then begin to show them how easy and simple the things are (encouraged them). Soon, they begin to develop a habit of asking deep questions in order to know how to do it, that approach has been a strong pillar among the other things that supported the the project success.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
N/A
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?
Topics about women or more precisely women's biography is underrepresented on Wikipedia and local Wikipedias particularly lacked them the most when compared to the amount of those available on English Wikipedia. So, this project has helped in given the women participants involved the voice and chance to bring their fellow women celebrities and those with notability into limelight by creating and/or translating their articles into Hausa, Fulfulde and Pidgin and other similar versions of local Wikipedia.
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 want to see that the project help in minimizing the content gender gap by creating new contents about women Observation: it's evident that the project has achieved the goal for minimizing the content gender gap by providing over 2000 articles.
2. I want to see that I encourage female participation in Wikimedia volunteering from north.
Observation: this is achieved as it increases the number of women editors by 39 individuals from northern Nigeria.
3. I want to know if I could create impact in the Wikimedia projects and in the lives of the participants involved.
Observation: this was also achieved and can be deducted from the impact the project made in going beyond the targeted metrics.
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, except for a fact that in the first meetup not all the entire participants were able to make it as it falls in a week before the school resume from their end of semester holiday but in the second meetup they appeared beyond the number expected as some whom on resumption claimed that they have to be benefited from the training and they were given the chance because we believe Wikipedia is for everyone.
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?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants | Number of participants | 40 | 40 | The targeted number of the participants during the reach out and training is met | Google form, attendance record, opened dedicated group |
| Contributions | Number of articles created/improved | 200 | 2000 | Over 1000 articles about women were created/translated from English to associated local Wikipedias and more than 1900 were improved | Dashboard tool |
| Views | Increase in page views | 1000 | 6000 | There was an increase in the page views by over 6000 views | Dashboard and Stats 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 |
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 | Number of female participants to attend the training | 40 | 40 | The targeted number of the participants during the reach out and training is met | Attendance record and Google form |
| Number of editors | Number of participants to at least edit the Wikimedia projects after the training | 30 | 39 | There were 39 editors enrolled in this training which is greater than the target. | Dashboard Tool |
| Number of organizers | Number of facilitators | 5 | 5 | Five expensive organizers supported me in making this project a success | Dashboard, attendance record |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Contents contribution related to women across the concerned Wikipedias like English Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Fulfulde Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia etc | 200 | 2900 | There were over 2900 contributions made by the participants across different language version Wikipedias | Dashboard |
| Wikidata | Wikidata items created | 200 | 111 | Over 100 lexemes were contributed on Wikidata and many other revisions were made. | Dashboard Tool |
| Wikimedia Commons | photo uploaded | 20 | 20 | Some photographs were uploaded on the Commons by the participants | 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. Project page on meta with number of the first 600 translated articles about women: here
2. Event dashboard: here
3. Event Photographs on Commons: here
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 the result/outcome of the project immediately with the participants using the dedicated group created on WhatsApp.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
860000 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1863.94 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.
Link to the Financial Reporting Document: here
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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