Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Names (ID: 21911671)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2022-10-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Wiki Loves Names
- Username of Applicant: Onyinyeonuoha
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1600.4
- Amount spent: 1640.4 USD, 711051 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
There were 2 hybrid sessions eg physical and online training, the physical training took place at Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka, Anambra State while the online training took place on Zoom. The hybrid trainings took place on16th September 2022 and 23rd September, 2022 respectively.
A contest started immediately after the training and ended on 6th November, 2022.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Publicity were done in all Igbo community Whatsapp group and my personal social media handles.
The hybrid method also afforded the participants a rare opportunity to participate fully and comfortablely to the training.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Wiki_Loves_Name_1st_Day_Training_Video.mpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Wiki_Loves_Names_21.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Wiki_Loves_Names_16.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Wiki_Loves_Names_13.jpg
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?
When I saw that the participants exceeded the number of persons I budgeted, I allowed them and used my personal fund to sort them out know that they will contribute positively to the project. We had 54 participants instead of 40 budgeted.
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?
I learnt to forecast my budget and not to under budget in regards to the participants and economic situation in the country. The project made me to pay more attention to my budget and forecast the number of expected participants. Or only allow number of shortlisted participants to attend and rescript others.
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 positive part of it was the number of participants that attended increased and their output which is their contribution increased too.
The negative part of that is that I under budgeted the cost of participants data, number of participants, feeding and transport reimbursement.
The funds arrive very late, it came in on 7th September, 2022, so we couldn't start the project on 1st of September, 2022 so the project commenced on 16th of September, 2022.
This taught me to give more attention to my budgeting. Another was the outreach dashboard tracking issue- that will find another track the edit a thon ( contest) or fix the issue before next edition.
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, from my findings, this project can be replicated in all the African countries. I have a plan of partnering with all the User Groups in Africa for 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 Event | There will be two hybrid trainings and two editathons | 2 | 2 | Number of Events- We had 2 hybrid sessions eg physical and online trainings | Zoom and attendance register.
We used to social handles to reach the targeted participants. |
| Participating Institution | This targeted at Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Nigeria | 1 | 1 | The participanting institution were the members of Igbo User Group, we also had 10 new contributors that joined the project. | Outreach dashboard |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | 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 number of participants is expected to be 40, while at least 5 of them will be new participants. | 40 | 54 | 54 participants attended the event, 32 persons attended physically while 22 persons attended online | Outreach dashboard, attendance register and Zoom |
| Number of editors | All participants, including the newly recruited are expected to edit and contribute to Wikitionary. | 40 | 26 | Newly registered user were 10 in number while the old ones were 15 in number. | Outreach dashboard |
| Number of organizers | There are three organizers from IG Wiki- Onyinyeonuoha will facilitate the sessions while Tochiprecious and Ceslause will offer technical support. | 3 | 3 | Achukwu Onyinye Jane with the username - Onyinyeonuoha was the facilitator of the trainings while Tochiprecious and Ceslause gave the technical support. | Whatsapp group |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiktionary | Total number of Wikitionary articles to be created | 100 | 1187 | The number of contributed words (1,187) exceeded massively against the targeted number (100). | We tracked the output with Outreach dashboard and manually. |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | 0 | 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.
Yes
12a. State what difficulties you had.
We had a very difficult challenge when the Igbo Wiktionary came of the incubator on 13th of October, 2022. The outreach dashboard tracking tool failed to track the contribution even we added the new landing page url, we postponed the date of the contest twice and contacted the technical team yet, the problem was unable to be resolved, we had no other choice than to end the contest on 6th November, 2022 and track it from 13th October,2022 - 6th November, 2022 manually because the Outreach dashboard stopped tracking on 12th October, 2022.
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?
I recommend that such problem should be fixed. The problem reporting button on outreach dashboard should be fixed because it is not functional. And their should be easy access to the Outreach dashboard team.
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.
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.
This project was presented that Wiki Indaba 2022.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
711051 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1640.4 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?
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.
I suggest that the funds should come on time in order to meet up with the commencement date.
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