Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness Campaign and Edit-a-thon at Shehu Idris College of Science and Technology Makarfi. (ID: 21883380)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Wikipedia Awareness Campaign and Edit-a-thon at Shehu Idris College of Science and Technology Makarfi.
- Username of Applicant: Iliyasu Umar
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2281
- Amount spent: 2281 USD, 950000 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
I firstly sought the school management cooperation in letting the project to take place in the college by personally visiting the college with the help of college's SUG president who happen to be my friend. The project is welcome by different offices visited including: provost office, students' affairs office, department of dental office etc. I created posters, and stickers which were distributed to the staff and students during the visit seeking permission in the college campus.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes, the approach followed which made my goal effective and achievable was having the SUG president of the college by my side. We made all things possible right from the seeking permission of the college authority down to the gathering of the student for the awareness campaign.
The most interesting part on the first day of the event is that I and other experienced editors took a tour round to the college meeting students at different joints explaining Wikipedia and its sister's project to them. We also visited some academic offices introducing Wikipedia, we got welcome remarks from both the students and the offices visited. On the second day of the event, I introduced Wikipedia and its sister's project to the participants after then , other experienced editors including Em-mustapha, Gwanki, Umar-askira, Mbash Ne, Salihu Aliyu and others picked specific parts and taught the participants. We enter a practical aspect of program which projector us used to teach the participants. Going round and mentoring, guiding, showing the participants how to edit has kicked off. We had a peaceful and successful, nice sessions where all participants and the facilitators are happy.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://chat.whatsapp.com/CzN4R9fuGAC8Ajpi5OaLFR
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 | Not applicable to your fund |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Not applicable to your fund |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Not applicable to your fund |
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?
As women are mostly underrepresented, so I provided all the necessary support like bus to pick them up to and from the event hall as most women don't have local transport to attend the event.
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?
The project's aim is to promote and make awareness of Wikipedia to people of Makarfi, particularly women who are underrepresented. Women are underrepresented and they shy to explain themselves so we tried as much as possible to bring women as editors so that they give and share their own knowledge and contribute to Wikipedia development. We showed them what Wikipedia and its sister project are all about making them to pick interest in contributing to Wikipedia I then moved ahead to create a WhatsApp group and added them up for more coaching, guidance and learning.
The most interesting part on the first day of the event is that I and other experienced editors took a tour round to the college meeting students at different joints explaining Wikipedia and its sister's project to them. We also visited some academic offices introducing Wikipedia, we got welcome remarks from both the students and the offices visited. On the second day of the event, I introduced Wikipedia and its sister's project to the participants after then , other experienced editors including Em-mustapha, Gwanki, Umar-askira, Mbash Ne, Salihu Aliyu and others picked specific parts and taught the participants. We enter a practical aspect of program which projector us used to teach the participants. Going round and mentoring, guiding, showing the participants how to edit has kicked off. We had a peaceful and successful, nice sessions where all participants and the facilitators are happy.
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?
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating awareness | We will create awareness both online and offline in order to promote the wikimedia project objectives | 30 | 20 | Wikipedia | Dashboard Outreach |
| Training new editors | We will recruit and train new editors on how to create articles and improve existing ones. | 50 | 20 | Wikidata | Dashboard Outreach |
| Creating articles | New and existing articles that will improve and grow wikimedia projects will be created and improved. | 20 | 5 | Wikipedia commons | Dashboard Outreach |
| Creating WhatsApp group | WhatsApp group, Telegram and Facebook page will be created after the event and add those that already picked interest in Wikipedia. | 5 | 3 | Wiktionary | Dashboard Outreach |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 2 | Wikivoyage | Dashboard Outreach |
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 target participants are people from 18-70 years and they are staff and students. | 50 | 35 | We targeted 50 participants but we couldn't even though the targeted students attended the event but not up the closing time. This is because a lecturer of the students needed their attention while conducting event so we couldn't signed them and added them up in outreach dashboard. | Outreach Dashboard |
| Number of editors | These are the targets number of new editors of Wikimedia projects. | 30 | 35 | Editors are serious they have shown their passion for Wikipedia and we looked forward to helping them anytime they need our aid | Outreach Dashboard |
| Number of organizers | Number of experienced editors who will run and organize the projects. | 6 | 7 | A team of experienced editors were invited and they gave their best in making this project successful. | 7 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | 20 | 101 | 101 articles were created | Dashboard Outreach |
| Wikidata | N/A | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wiktionary | N/A | 3 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikivoyage | N/A | 2 | 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.
N/A
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.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
950000 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2281 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.
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