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Women for Sustainability Joins Wiki Women in Red to Celebrate 8th Anniversary to Project Africa Women in Sports from Africa

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 2024-02-14T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

Application

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General information

• Applicant username: CoachAni
• Organization name: N/A
• Amount awarded: 3660
• Amount spent: 44172 USD, 3681

Part 1: Project and impact

1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)

Recognizing the critical significance of women's participation and empowerment in our society, it is critical to provide them with the skills needed to enable their participation and contribution. This requirement applies equally to the Wikimedia ecosystem, which includes Wikipedia and its sister projects. With only 9% of Wikipedia editors being women, there is a considerable gender imbalance that influences the content that is available on various Wikimedia platforms. The low representation of women on Wikipedia is due to a systemic gender bias among Wikipedia editors. One out of every five biographies features a woman. Even with 25% women's bios, only 20% of women's articles have images. As a women's group dedicated to women's empowerment and closing the gender gap, we viewed this as an excellent chance to encourage women in our network to participate in this initiative.

The change we made In response to this challenge, and with the goal of improving the diversity of Wikimedia content, we recognized the need to empower more women in our network to be a part of the Wikimedia Ecosystem. We empower women by providing them with the skills, knowledge, and resources they need to become active members of the Wikimedia community. These are the changes that the campaign brought about.

Introduced Wikipedia and Its sister project to participants especially women Offered opportunity for 38 women and 16 men to participate in our in-person training Created Wikipedia awareness to 100+ participants who joined the WhatsApp group and drew their attention to the knowledge gap Offered virtual wikipedia training to 50 participants Supported 66 newcomers to their new wikipedia accounts Developed articles list and Engaged existing experience and new editors to bridge knowledge gap Participants had opportunity to participate in Wikipedia, WIkidata, Wiki Quote, and Wikimedia Commons

Contribution focus Although the goal was to document women in Sport as that was the theme for the Women in Red at 8 anniversary we also thought it wise to engage participants to share their suggestions on themes they would like to contribute on during the campaign. Some of of the areas they suggestions included; Women empowerment Women in Tech Women celebrity Women in Education Women In Sport Women in Sustainability etc.

Workshops organized To commemorate the Wiki Women in Red at 8 anniversary, Women for Sustainability Africa organized several workshops both in person and online in collaboration with the SRC women's commissioner for University of Professional Studies and Women for Sustainability Africa Community members.

Workshop 1 with Women for Sustainability Africa community

The first workshop which was organized on the Saturday the 25th November 2023 was attended by women in our community some of whom are also students from the university of Ghana. The workshop was attended by 20 participants of which 18 were women. The workshop and Bootcamp lasted for 5 hours. Link to testimonials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfY7xylCaqk

Workshop 2 with University of Professional Studies SRC Women’s Commision

The second training was held in collaboration with the SRC office of the Women’s Commission on Sat 1st Dec 2023 which trained about 34 students 20 of which were women. Link to Video Testimonials of participants after the event - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4_BQPGTgKw

Short videos

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1464535337461376?fs=e&mibextid=UalRPS

https://web.facebook.com/reel/326891949723163

Virtual Trainings

Following the in-person training, participants received a series of virtual training sessions as well as one-on-one help from mentors. We had a seasoned Wikipedian who assisted us throughout the campaign and provided us with one-on-one mentoring.

We organized online sessions on; How to create a Wikipedia Page - 160 views Introductory to Wikidata Editing - 117 view Introductory to Wikimedia commons and uploads - 123+ views How to contribute to Wiki quotes. - 104 views Resolving IP Block 108 views

All of these training sessions were recorded and uploaded on our Youtube channel to serve as a resource and also for those who could not participate to later visit it. These Youtube recordings have gained 80+ views, 21, 26 and 12 views respectively. You can find all the recordings on this playlist here. We also created training resources in the form of presentation slides to rely on.

During the workshop we realized that most of the participants, although aware of Wikipedia, did not know much about what goes into it, left alone to think of it as something that anyone can just contribute to. They were also not aware that Wikipedia had other sister projects. We educated them about wikipedia sister projects and how they can make use of them as well as contribute to them. The workshop also educated participants about the knowledge gap that existed on Wikipedia. They also learned about Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons during the training as these are also vital areas of contributing. The participants learned about Wikipedia and what goes into editing the platform. Because the majority were new editors we focused more on supporting them to make small edits like creating or improving Wikidata Items. During the practical sessions for instance some of the women although didn't not submit photos of women during the training session, rather as a way of practicing uploaded other existing photos they had of an event, food etc to gain that practical experience. Some of the interesting highlights were articles that were created about the two Ghanaian women who made headlines in Ghana by participating in the Guinness Records for longest singing time and Longest cooking time. Thus Afua Asantewaa and

The mentorship opportunity incorporated in the program offered participants the opportunity to book one on one meetings with experienced editors. Some of the things mentees wanted to learn was to understand the wikimedia ecosystem and how it works.

Other opportunities that were offered included sharing Lets Connect meetings for them to join and learn from others.

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

Link to Meta page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_For_Sustainability_Africa_Wikimedia_Activities/Women_In_Red

Photo Category on Commons- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_in_Red_2023

Registration Tools Used Event registration page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W4SAfrica_Wiki_Women_in_Red_Workshop

Google form registration form will be made accessible upon request to protect participants data. Virtual Training Registration Link- (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_KXcgxYADxGoeLOUFKn0iJ_5wa68emr-zKLrNB650Yu_mqg/viewform?usp=sharing Boot Camp registration - (39 registered) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckrMUj122fSeoksumnctVFGKIZZNDsWCgyAcvIE1T8uCd4Mg/viewform?usp=sharing UPSA registration - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsdogC1vogKIf9OdvJ1pt3-f2jhkhyvVVvKkp8xARJbaZkww/viewform?usp=sharing

W4SAfrica Suggested article We used various lists. We created our own list and also made available a red list from Wiki Women in Red Page.

List from campaign Meta page- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_For_Sustainability_Africa_Wikimedia_Activities/Article_list Women in Red List - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index

Campaign Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Women_for_Sustainability_Africa/Wiki_Women_in_Red_Workshop_(Nov_18th_2023)?enroll=

Testimonial Video UPSA: https://studio.youtube.com/video/K4_BQPGTgKw/edit Bootcamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfY7xylCaqk

Training Videos Play List https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq1wT7yTCG7Jm9uP4Yof4OPCN7mMQVUyb

Short videos

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1464535337461376?fs=e&mibextid=UalRPS

https://web.facebook.com/reel/326891949723163

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

Training materials can be found on the meta page- Link to Meta page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_For_Sustainability_Africa_Wikimedia_Activities/Women_In_Red

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)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...

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	Agree
F. Encourage the retention of organizers	Strongly agree
G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement	Strongly agree
F. Other (optional)

Part 2: Learning

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. How many women were able to create usernames?

2. What challenges they encountered?

3. Which Wikimedia project appeals to them more?

4. How many edits were attained?

5. How many existing Wikimedians returned?

6. What the women thing will enhance their contribution in the space

We have had 62 new account that was created during the campaign, 70% of which were women. Wikipedia projects that appealed more to the participants were Wikidata wikimedia commons and Wikipedia.

Amongst some of the challenges that we encountered included; IP block on English Wikipedia, due to the high numbers we couldn' t mentor everyone,

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)

We were surprised to have a lot of people show interest which for us was positive most of these people were newbies.

We got support from Euphemia and Ilana with the event registration tool- This first experience was very enlightening we were surprised that we needed permission to be able to activate event registration tool. Throughout our first experience, we have learn so much about the event registration tool and know we can get it right on our second try.

We received tremendous support from Wiki Women in Red via social media and we exchanged some souvenirs in the course of the campaign. This was encouraging and motivating.

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 the program blog on Diff. We have already shared a lot on our social media handles and youtube channel as well as Wikimedia Commons

Part 3: Metrics

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	30	70	We trained 70 people in person and through our virtual trainings We used event metrics to attain these numbers
Number of editors	30	70	We used dashboard to track contributions
Number of organizers	5	8	We used event metrics

Wikimedia project	Target	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia	100	100	500
Wikimedia Commons		972	0
Wikidata	100	687	687
Wiktionary	0
Wikisource	0
Wikimedia Incubator		14	0
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

10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

3681

11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)

44172

12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)

Provide the link to the financial report Budget- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6CmjJ-J_spcbyXZe6sLg9YdqNMND35t/edit#gid=879032730

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)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6CmjJ-J_spcbyXZe6sLg9YdqNMND35t/edit#gid=879032730

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)

Find other detailes of our report here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/17yCLr7W2ShSA0d2t3vGoGDWuo9nXTuy9yQjtY1eQlMs/edit?usp=sharing

Review notes

Review notes from Program Officer:

N/A

Applicant's response to the review feedback.

N/A