Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia awareness and edit-a-thon in Nile University of Nigeria (ID: 21904732)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2022-12-04T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia awareness and edit-a-thon in Nile University of Nigeria
- Username of Applicant: Olabisi11
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1570.8
- Amount spent: 1570 USD, 668978 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
Before the date of the physical training, there was a two-day in-house training for the library staff. I took the library staff on how to create a wikipedia account, how to do various edits on wikipedia articles. The physical training happened at the software lab of the University where we had in attendance faculty members and students. It was a hands-on training where participants were putting into practice what the facilitators were showing them. One of the facilitators explained the overview of wikimedia foundation, the various projects on wikimedia foundation and she went ahead to show participants how they can create wikipedia account, add citations to articles, add hyperlink to articles and other edits that can be done on a wikipedia article. We also organised virtual training, which was a follow-up to the physical training, we had two facilitators for the virtual training. For the edit-a-thon, one of the facilitators show them the metrics that will be used in selecting top editors, how to sign up as an editor on the outreach dashboard and to monitor edits on the outreach dashboard. During the process of registration for the training, the goggle form sent to participants had a question about their watsapp number, this was used in creating a watsapp platform where we engage participants and attend to their questions and also encourage them to be actively involved in the project.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes, during my conversation with the deputy vice chancellor about how we were going to select the participants for the training, he proposed we select junior faculty members (lecturer II and assistant lecturers) and postgraduate students. The reason for this was because, these categories of participants are enthusiasts who will be ready and willing to want to explore more about the various wikimedia foundation programs. Also, since the postgraduate students are into research, the knowledge from this training will help improve their digital literacy skill and research skills thereby knowing how to source for verifiable, reliable and authentic information during their research work. We had to select participants from these groups, and we were able to get willing and ready participants.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://www.nileuniversity.edu.ng/wiki-media-foundation-offers-digital-literacy-training-to-nile-university-community/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cki6EQCokCt/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6996014519864954880?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6996014519864954880%29
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 | 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 | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | 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?
Now, faculty members who have a wrong impression about wikipedia articles can now see why they need to help improve wikipedia articles and not just disregard it.
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?
Now, I understand what type of information faculty members and postgraduate students look out for and now I can easily provide the right information to these categories of information users. The project also exposed me to interaction with the participants and also understand their perspectives about wikipedia. I have also understood how to use wikipedia to support teaching, learning and research activities in the institution.
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?
Yes, the academic calendar of the University changed, and this affected having enough students on ground since the students were just coming in for registration of the new session when the proposed date of the event was on. Now, I understand that going forward I have to ascertain the date of resumption when fixing dates for subsequent training.
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?
Going forward, I will have to communicate with the academic division to know when students will be on campus, and we are also planning to establish a wiki fan club in the institution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The page views | What is the average of the views of the pages created at the editathon each page individually | 150 | 152 | N/A | Outreach dashboard |
| Frequency of Use | What is the average period students and staff make use of wikipedia when sourcing for information | 200 | 200 | N/A | N/A |
| User Satisfaction | What is the average satisfaction derived from the use of wikipedia articles for information gathering | 200 | 210 | Highly satisfied with the contents from wikipedia | interactions |
| Citations Added | How many new reliable citations added to wikipedia articles | 500 | 320 | N/A | Outreach Dashboard |
| Number of new editors | How many new editors were registered and stay to contribute during and after the project | 50 | 28 | Outreach Dashboard |
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 | There will be at least 10 experienced editors who have been contributing to wikipedia articles | 50 | 50 | Outreach Dashboard and the physical training attendance register | |
| Number of editors | Expert and Intermediate levels of editors | 10 | 28 | Outreach Dashboard | |
| Number of organizers | This are members of Nile University of Nigeria Library staff and some other volunteers who are ready to support in actualizing the goals | 8 | 8 | The University library staff with two members of staff from the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor assisted in organising the project |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Adding citations to articles | 200 | 320 | 320 citations were added to wikipedia articles | Outreach Dashboard |
| Wikimedia Commons | Adding pictures to articles | 50 | 16 | N/A | Outreach Dashboard |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
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 have shared the link to the dashboard with the facilitators and the Wikimedia Abuja Hub.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
668978 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1570 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.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aMeypI-xpSXLD8zeVOgpWX9FA4m8f7uq/edit
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.
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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