Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Tajik Wikimedians User Group event (ID: 22196904)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-01-26T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: Darafsh
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4640
- Amount spent: 4610 USD, 4132
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)
We have several activities with this fund in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. We had a great meetup with Tajik Wikimedians UG and other activities that spread the idea of free knowledge in Tajikistan.
These are the implemented activities we had in Tajikistan:
- 1. Conference in the Tajik National University with over 100 participants (Dushanbe, Tajikistan, December 2023)
- 2. Meeting with the Tajik National Encyclopedia, which resulted in mutual collaboration between Wikipedia and the Tajik National Encyclopedia (Dushanbe, Tajikistan, December 2023)
- 3. Two Tajik Wikimedians User Group members were on Tajikistan National Radio and talked about Wikimedia
- 4. We visited a school to tell students about Wikipedia (Hisar, Tajikistan, December 2023).
You'll find all the activity details in the following part of this report.
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
The Tajik National University posted about the conference on its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/601621884840925/permalink/878287493841028/
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
We used presentations and slides. They helped us share important numbers and data with everyone there.
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 | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Not applicable to your fund |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Not applicable to your fund |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly 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: The most important thing for our community is having a voice among the Wikimedia movement. We hope after this conference, members of our community can work with the Wikimedians around the world and can participate to discussions about Wikimedia.
Our community's main focus is making our voice count in the Wikimedia movement. We're excited because after the conference, our community members are getting involved in discussions worldwide. For instance, they're joining meetings like CEE online gatherings. Plus, we've kicked off our own monthly online meetings inspired by this participation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tajik_Wikimedians_User_Group/Online_meeting_(January_2024)
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)
During our activities, some surprising things happened.
We discovered that our young community members need more help learning how to edit Wikipedia and join in Wikimedia activities. This taught us that we should give them more attention and support.
It was unexpected that the president of Tajikistan issued an order to some organizations to help Tajik Wikipedia in 2015. This allowed us to get more notice from local authorities, which was good.
We also learned that many people, especially students and educated people, understand Russian well. This showed us that using Russian can help us reach more people and involve them in our actions.
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 have already shared several reports on our user group's first page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tajik_Wikimedians_User_Group Additionally, while doing our activities, we shared updates with other communities. We used our Telegram group and reached out to the CEE hub group as well as the Central Asia Wikimedian group to keep them informed.
We have plan to write our story on diff and CEE newslatter.
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 | 80 | 110 | |
| Number of editors | 50 | 30 | |
| Number of organizers | 7 | 9 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 8 | 5 | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 | 50 | |
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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)
4132
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
4610
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x1_2VUhK5cOA5Ji2G5IRnKb1IEHgSQfn7uL7IBpQyqM/edit?usp=sharing
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