Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/WIKIMEDIA COMMUNITY USER GROUP RWANDA SUPPORT GRANT 2022/2023/Midpoint Report

Midterm Learning Report

Report Status: Accepted

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

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Midterm

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General information edit

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: Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda
Title of Proposal: WIKIMEDIA COMMUNITY USER GROUP RWANDA SUPPORT GRANT 2022/2023
Amount awarded: 30000 USD, 30000 RWF
Amount spent: 30000000 RWF

Part 1 Understanding your work edit

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

Engaging community members on social media via WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter, and Facebook has also been an effective strategy in ensuring involvement.

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

We used the hybrid mode (both online and offline formats ), and using the two formats helped us to reach and engage those whose time is limited to attend the physical event and those whose interest in virtual events is limited.

Community outreaches also helped us to engage community members beyond contributing to the Wikimedia movement, this involved visiting and engaging in weddings and helping those in need in our community.

Continuous orientations to newbies, this a weekly program to orient newbies, this helped the newbies to easily catch up and find where they can easily contribute.

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

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.Limited turn-up: We didn't reach the expected number of newbies .Account blocking; numerous accounts for the newbies were blocked, which to some extent discouraged the newbies who were very enthusiastic .Volunteer retention: Retaining volunteers after contests is still a hard task .We were not able to liaise with many partners as we have expected. .Insufficient funds: The limited resources have affected us throughout the implementation.

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

Different community members have been informed via our social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, word of mouth and using press( Newspapers)

Links:

1.https://twitter.com/WikiRwanda

2.https://www.instagram.com/wikirwanda/?hl=en

3.https://www.facebook.com/WikiRwanda/?locale=da_DK&paipv=0&eav=AfbnAuZAW03CKdkD6QAtrPybuTRiVZ6sI01pHOBVJH71ftA5wnjh8pg2Hmlx8tHAAAM&_rdr

4.https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/1886/news/technology/over-500-articles-added-onto-kinyarwanda-wikipedia

5.https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/2346/news/women/wikimedians-to-increase-visibility-of-women-in-worlds-largest-encyclopedia

6.https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/1886/news/technology/over-500-articles-added-onto-kinyarwanda-wikipedia

7.https://www.ktpress.rw/2022/11/rwanda-to-host-wikipedia-conference/

8.https://www.ktradio.rw/2022/11/02/mu-rwanda-hagiye-kubera-inama-ya-wikipedia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mu-rwanda-hagiye-kubera-inama-ya-wikipedia

9.https://www.kaianalytics.com/post/examining-digital-literacy-with-the-wikimedia-community-user-group-rwanda

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

Through continuous engagement, we have learned that it's important to begin a mentorship program for the newbies, with this program we hope to assign newbies to experienced Wikimedians both locally and outside Rwanda.

In the second half of our work, we shall create wiki clubs that will operate in thew 4 divisions of the country, with this approach we will be able to reach out to new bies and actively active new communities in areas that are not fully represented in the overall User group activities.

We intend to resume partnerships that were established during the WikiIndaba conference in 2022.

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

possible outcome; Increased awareness: Communities will be more aware of the value of open knowledge and the use of Wikimedia and will be interested in continuing to connect and share this awareness with others.

Learning questions: How have Rwandan people's(Women, men and young people ) perspectives about Wikipedia changed after participating in our User Group activities? If you are working with several diverse groups you may want to disaggregate for each. Are more women and young people using Wikimedia projects/open knowledge projects differently in their daily life, if so how or why didn't they? Do they share this with others, if so how or why not?

Community members will transform from consumers of knowledge to contributors to Wikimedia. learning questions: What sparked their interest to join the movement? what needs to be done.

expected outcome: New/existing editors will be having the skills and motivation necessary to continue contributing to Wikimedia projects

Learning questions: What of our new approaches helped them and which ones didn't work ..

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

For the second half of our activities, We want to focus majorly on the university students, this is informed by the findings of our recently concluded research, which revealed that the majority of our community members are within various universities in Rwanda, therefore we intend to establish partnerships with universities respectively.

Part 2: Metrics edit

8a. Open and additional metrics data.

Open Metrics
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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	1. Wiki Loves Earth 2022 2. Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 3. Wiki Loves folklore 2023 4. Wiki Loves Africa 2023	200	27
Number of editors	1. Wiki In Africa Challenge 2022 2. Afrocine 2022 3. WPWPW campaign 2022 4. Wiki Loves sports 2022 5. Kinyarwanda Wikipedia Destubathon 2022 6.Wiki4Highschool writing contest 2022 7. WIKIGAP 2023 8.Wiki4HumanRights 2023 9. Wikipedia @22 celebrations	500	41	.Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2022: 27 participants .Wikivibrance Campaign: 14 participants	Dashboard and Wikimedia hashtag search
Number of organizers		5	10	The number of organizers increased from 5 to 10

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	1. Wiki In Africa Challenge 2022 2. Afrocine 2022 3. WPWPW campaign 2022 4. Wiki Loves sports 2022 5. Kinyarwanda Wikipedia Destubathon 2022 6.Wiki4Highschool writting contest 2022 7.WIKIGAP 2023 8.Wiki4HumanRights 2023 9. Wikipedia @22 celebrations	500	557	1.WikiVibrance IYD 2022 in Rwanda, Wikipedia: 557 articles created,725 edited and 74 commons uploads 2. Wpwp campaign 2022: 579,revisions:439 pages 3 projects	Dashboard : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_UG_Rwanda/WikiVibrance_IYD_2022_in_Rwanda_(From_14th_September-_30th_September) Wikimedia hashtag search: https://hashtags.org/graph/?query=WPWPRW&project=&startdate=2022-05-01&enddate=2022-09-30&search_type=or&user=
Wikimedia Commons	.Wiki Loves Earth 2022. .Wiki Loves Monuments 2022. .Wiki Loves folklore 2023. .Wiki Loves Africa 2023	2000	359	Wiki Loves Monuments 2022: 27 uploaders. 359 uploads	Toolforge : https://ptools.toolforge.org/uploadersincat.php?category=Images+from+Wiki+Loves+Monuments+2022+in+Rwanda
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9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?

No

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?

We are organizing an annual community Meet-up that is aimed at sharing the learnings with all community members and collecting their ideas for improvements.

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).