Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kanuri Wikipedia Awareness in Borno state, Nigeria. (ID: 22192426)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-01-17T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: MohammedBama123
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1935.82
- Amount spent: 1930 USD, 1487000
Part 1: Project and impact edit
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
In Summary, the carried-out awareness led to heightened community involvement, improved content within the Kanuri Wikimedia Incubator, and the recognition of potential contributors via a focused awareness drive. The achievements emphasize the significance of tailored strategies and community-centric methods. The continual endeavors will center on maintaining engagement and tackling particular challenges to continually improve Kanuri content across all Wikimedia platforms. Some of the approaches deployed by the project team was the:
- 1. Targeted Community Engagements:
Engaging the Kanuri community through tailored initiatives proved effective in garnering interest and active participation. This was possible as a result of elites involvement of the Students Union Government (SUG) in both tertiary institutions in borno state namely: A. Borno State University B. Ramat Polytechnic respectively, as seen in the pictures links provided. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_09.jpg
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
We utilize the Google forms to collect the registration details of participates as shared in the social media platforms,after which we shared the training guide link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFVolLk6V1BC5W1elDw3CE6njvlfVrZ8/view?usp=drivesdk And Hashtag tool to measure the metric of registered editors: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Kanuri_Wikipedia_Incubator/Kanuri_Wikipedia_Awareness_In_Borno_State,_Nigeria/home We shared the project fliers and banners to catch of more targeted audience: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fRa38gihriToZ6elvA_Wih-vq7pCQI7s/view?usp=drivesdk
And these are links to the pictures below: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_09.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_06.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_03.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_07.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_04.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanuri_wikimedia_awareness_05.jpg
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
The training guide use was https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFVolLk6V1BC5W1elDw3CE6njvlfVrZ8/view?usp=drivesdk and the compose presentation guide shared to participate was https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fhUrQpzO1JoXFQS8E48OdUtgJJUygSZm/view?usp=drivesdk
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| 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 | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning edit
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: 1. We Will learn more about the language and culture of the kanuri people which does not exist in Wikipedia.
- 2. We will share more knowledge to other participants about Wikipedia and its sister project.
- 3. We hope to also learn how editors and Wikipedia users manage the information found in Wikipedia as their own advantage for educational usage.
We learned that a lot of spoken languages especially in the north eastern parts of Nigeria are unaware they can contribute to Wikipedia in their languages, for such more awareness program should be carried out in such places so that other people across the globe can learn from those languages not documented.
5. 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? (required)
Yes, most of the Kanuri speakers were surprised to see their language is inclusive in the wikipedia platform, for such they were happy and willing to advance it at all levels.
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
We plan to share it with other upcoming communities who are also on the verge of getting their own sites, so that they can imitate and achieve the target goals as we achieved
Part 3: Metrics edit
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | 60 | As we stated we targeted 50 but the presence of students union government in both campuses leads to a slight increase in number due to their anxiety to contribute to Wikipedia using their own language |
| Number of editors | 50 | 24 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 | The team was anxious because of how the Kanuri's were eager to contribute to Wikipedia with constant questions across all created social media handles. |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | 100 | 603 | 603 |
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 603 | As seen in the hashtag tool, we targeted 100 articles but we supercede our target by having over 603 created, this simply shows how committed the team, participants are on advancing Wikipedia at all levels. Hence; we tends to achieve more with more collaboration. | |||
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
No
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. 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? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting edit
10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
1487000
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1930
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h_A3xUNmgOMMVYgdslw9l1CPAlYxm2Cd/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=108153995667645348119&rtpof=true&sd=true
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes Your response to the review feedback. 14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
14.3. 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
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes edit
Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A