Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Reviving Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group Initiating Programs /Midpoint Report

Midterm Learning Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 2023-01-15T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Midterm

Application Final Learning Report

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General information

This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.

• Name of Organization: Association Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
• Title of Proposal: Reviving Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group Initiating Programs
• Amount awarded: 69151.82 USD, 69151.82 XAF
• Amount spent: 4437500 XOF

Part 1 Understanding your work

1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?

Program Officer Notes:

Wikimedia Cameroon implemented their programming at a later period due to challenges with the banking process.

They, however, prepared an update report on the activities they were able to do, and this can be found here are well; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM80EV-fbgMr-SJAVOBmnSQHABBVeJkDTOMg3lTbarY/edit

Financial report: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nNT3tbtQ-MzdNmbkGJ5J_aX4uObsVGAViHr0cNaJrrg/edit#gid=0

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?

Please refer to this report; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM80EV-fbgMr-SJAVOBmnSQHABBVeJkDTOMg3lTbarY/edit

3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?

Please refer to this report; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM80EV-fbgMr-SJAVOBmnSQHABBVeJkDTOMg3lTbarY/edit

4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.

Please refer to this report; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM80EV-fbgMr-SJAVOBmnSQHABBVeJkDTOMg3lTbarY/edit

5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.

N/A

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?

N/A

7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?

N/A

Part 2: Metrics

8a. Open and additional metrics data.

Open Metrics

Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
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Additional Metrics

Additional Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of activities developed	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of volunteer hours	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

8b. Additional core metrics data.

Core Metrics Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	Number of participants involved in all programs activities as language contributors, photographers, and editors from sub-regions This metric can be shown in detail below: Language participants: 25 (5 per group for 5 groups) Community group members from sub-regions: 100 (25 per group for 4 regions) Number of photographers: 20 (5 per region)	145
Number of editors	The number of editors in all program activities. Every participant in our community ought to be an editor.	130
Number of organizers	Added to the 4 sub-communities is a lead for each language community (sums up to 5) and photographers community (1)	10

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	New articles on the neighbourhoods in Cameroon	1000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikimedia Commons	Images and audio file pronunciations for words (Could be more if batch uploads could come from potential partners)	6000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wiktionary	Words added with connection to local languages	3000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wikidata	Items created consisting of words in local languages (Could be more if batch uploads could come from potential partners)	5000	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	Mediawiki words while translating interface into local languages	5000	N/A	N/A	N/A

9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?

N/A

10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?

Yes

10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?

Please refer to this report; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM80EV-fbgMr-SJAVOBmnSQHABBVeJkDTOMg3lTbarY/edit

11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.

• Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).

• Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance

12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

4437500

13. Local currency type

XOF

14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

• Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
• Provide links to your financial reporting documents.

15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?

No

15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.

N/A

16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.