Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/ Wikipedia Awareness In Osun State (ID: 21918278)/Final Report

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 2022-10-30T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Final

Application

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General information

• Title of Proposal: Wikipedia Awareness In Osun State
• Username of Applicant: RukayatAjeigbe
• Name of Organization: N/A
• Amount awarded: 3487.64
• Amount spent: 3469.76 USD, 1428100 NGN

Part 1 Understanding your work

1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented

The Wikipedia Awareness Program in Osun State was able to introduce Wikipedia to the Osun State community and the youth and people of Osun State were able to show their interest, they also wanted to share their story as well as contribute their quota to the development and advancement of creating and improving sum of all knowledge.

Creating/ improving articles on languages, places, history, administration, people, works, ethnic groups, culture, foods, and tourist attractions in Osun State.

We trained participants on how to contribute to the various Wikimedia projects.

The training focuses on; how to create a Wikipedia account.

How to understand the core content policies, and understand general editing principles.

How to perform minor edits among others to improve content about people, places, and organizations of Osun State on English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.

We were able to provide one-on-one support to the participants who attended both the physical and virtual training.

Participant were also issued certificate of participation at the end of the program.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.

Creating Community Awareness about Wikimedia Projects in Osun State by using social media for example Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp groups, and Instagram.

Giving out flyers and posters about the introduction to Wikipedia in Osun State to campuses at the Universities in Osun state and the colleges

We were able to engage these participants before the project implementation through the students' union of various institutions and the Osun Youth Representative at the federal level helped us in promoting and also following up with youths that are interested in knowing about Wikipedia and its sister projects

The training was slated for two physical meetings and two online meetings. The online meeting makes it diverse and participants who are unable to join the physical meeting made it to the virtual meeting they were able to learn the rudiments of how to explore and navigate Wikipedia, wiki data, and wiki commons effectively. the participants were thought how to contribute to Wikipedia articles and also how to use the information on Wikipedia.

3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.

Field to type in URLs.

Recording for the first virtual meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/lUHy0_de8ther-_Do_iKGk_dmXuqQj299KQSWnJfKA2PpuBrkmuMGYhSJUoV5lGF.43AlCibw-eU3aJ07 Passcode: 68.iDarh

Recording for the Second virtual meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/7MJXCn1OP7L0w3q_VbGxtprnN6UffJluIJi1Fe7i0A3_ymiWBVjTqFH9sDjYwIkV.TLy4dc7G7TDM_nzU Passcode: RXc791$7

Pictures taken during the Physical meeting can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YhShr7Pk6MG7N5f3V27Xzpsk_qq4TtzI

Wiki Common Pictures for Osun State Wikipedia Awareness Creation: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Osun_Wikipedia_Awareness_Program_2022

Picture of presentation of Certificate given to one of the participants that were at the Physical event: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presentation_of_certificate_to_participants_at_the_Osun_Wikipedia_Awareness_Program.jpg

Social media post about the program:

https://twitter.com/Real_MOAS/status/1574352764716695552?t=3w9mCytxW2596WrU58FChg&s=19

https://twitter.com/Real_MOAS/status/1574075523898056704?t=geWmoqm58ePFTrxS-vKlmw&s=19

https://twitter.com/ComradeMukhtar1/status/1574353737862234113?t=ifE2gCAVCsRbw5Fe3tQYoA&s=19

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.

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	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?

We conducted a physical workshop whereby we bring interested participants who want to be involved and learn about what Wikipedia is all about and how they can volunteer to contribute to free knowledge that can be accessible to everyone.

We had representatives in various institutions like the Fountain University, Osun state University and Federal Polytechnic Ede, in Osun state and also the Osun State Youth Parliament,

Profesor Wasiu Oyedokun Alli the Director of General Studies, Fedral University, Oye Ekiti, Dr. Adedeji Ologun, Chief Responsibility Officer, Ranroy Media and Leadership Institute was also present at the physical event this bring about diverse contributions and participation of underrepresented groups in Osun state.

The Osun State Youth Parliament: The body will help to mobilize and communicate with the students (youth) by using their social media platforms. The stakeholders in Education Sector in Osun state for monitoring and approval to host the program in some selected institution in Osun state. The school management of Fountain University, Osun state University and Federal Polytechnic Ede, in Osun state.

Part 2: Your main learning

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?

We hosted 2 Physical meetings and 2 virtual meetings for new editors/participants in Osun State community, the Students and the people of Osun State were so eager to learn and explore the various Wikimedia projects to promote open access to information for quality service delivery.

The participants asked relevant questions about the reliability of Wikipedia sources, creating articles, and editing wiki pages.

The facilitators were very helpful in providing them with the answers to their questions and guiding them through the editing process as they followed up with new editors between sessions and also, helped them by monitoring the articles they had worked on.

It took longer than we expected for new editors to learn the basic skills to follow up, so we focused our efforts on helping and coordinating them to add reliable sources, and hyperlinks to existing articles as well as Creating and improving existing Wikidata Items.

We were able to effectively improve content gaps on Wikipedia and its sisters project and also able to enhance community engagements, prioritizes relevant skills which improves the contributions of the new participants as well as the sustainability of new editors in various Wikimedia sisters projects

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?

It took longer than we expected for new editors to learn the basic skills to follow up, so we focused our efforts on helping them add reliable sources, and hyperlinks to existing articles as well as Creating and improving existing Wikidata Items.

Due to the general IP address block during the meetings we have shared the links on how to create a Wikipedia account to the WhatsApp channel that participants were in for them to have Wikipedia account before the first physical meeting in order to avoid IP block.

I also learnt that partnering with relevant community bodies, institutions and student unions helps to marginalize participants which brings about effective outcome.

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?

These engagement will bring about more robust contribution and also retention of Wikipedia editors n my community.

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.

Financial Document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16UdqkFxcKWYIl5GAuEmgsWvi5P9a0WBs/edit#gid=1065403492

Outreach Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikipedia_Awareness_In_Osun_State/Wikipedia_Awareness_In_Osun_State_(1st-_30th_September)/home

Part 3: Metrics

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 Summary

Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Creating Community Awareness about Wikimedia Projects	Students (youths), online and offline outlets will be used to create a massive awareness about the aims, goals and objectives of Wikimedia Foundation	54	75	The target set was achieved and exceeded	Dashboard
Training of new editors	90% of the participants will be new editors and they will be trained by experienced Wikimedia editors in four different sessions. Two online training and two offline(physical) workshop.	50	68	The target set was achieved and exceeded	Dashboard
Contribution of local contents to Wikipedia	A four weeks closely monitored edit-a-thon will be created that will ensure massive contribution/improvement of local contents about Osun State.	150	75	N/A	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

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 Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	Number of Participants	54	75	The target set was achieved and exceeded	dashboard
Number of editors	Number of Editors	50	75	The target set was achieved and exceeded	dashboard
Number of organizers	Number of Organizers 1 Project Lead 3 online Facilitator 3 Physical Facilitator	7	7	The target set was achieved and exceeded	dashboard

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	Creating/ improving articles on languages, places, history, administration, people, works, ethnic groups, culture, foods and tourist attractions in Osun State	50	645	246 articles created, 645 articles edited, 1.71K references added, and 1.55M page views, 56 commons uploaded. The target was met and exceeded	dashboard
Wikidata	Creating and editing Wikidata items about Osun State	50	246	The target was met and exceeded	dashboard
Wikimedia Commons	Contributing original and non-copyright images of historical and places in Osun State.	50	56	The target was met and exceeded	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

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.

Dashboard and event track https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikipedia_Awareness_In_Osun_State/Wikipedia_Awareness_In_Osun_State_(1st-_30th_September)

Osun State Wikimedia Awareness Campaign (Responses): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xtD6wspTv5C7E-jEQOoeknTeSzJpysZXAkNvYT1274E/edit?resourcekey#gid=1841147598

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.

it was shared via the community WhatsApp group and on social media platforms.

Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance

15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

1428100 NGN

16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.

3469.76 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.

Report of Osun Wikipedia Awareness Budget https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HuCW_YrC-1rXqDno4iZ76lx2wrcpYEmv/edit#gid=1065403492

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.

The budget list was spent according to the budget proposed.

18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

Yes

18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

The local running expenses were met and the remaining amount of unspent expenses is the sum of $17.88

18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval

18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

it will be added to the next grant project request in the WMF with the Program Officer approval.

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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