Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedians of Arusha/Midpoint 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: N/A
- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedians of Arusha
- Amount awarded: 65438 USD, 58900 TZS
- Amount spent: 61763808.14 TZS
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?
- The strategies to attain the our goals are described below with how they were implemented.
Strategies Strategy: Organizing events that focus on widening the coverage of quality and underrepresented content in Swahili to attract readership. How it was implemented: We have been able to contribute content in Swahili in Wikipedia via different activities like the Swahili Month Project Strategy: Collaborating with other organizations in order to get access to underrepresented knowledge resources. How it was implemented: We have been able to collaborate with the WikiVibrance project, African Knowledge Initiative, African Union, and Africa No Filter to gain access to Africa Youth Knowledge that was only accessed by African Union. Strategy: Organizing events that motivate editors to get involved beyond the event and organizing new activities on projects that attract and retain the participation of community members. How it was implemented: We have been able to hold varieties of activities with different topics which allows for a diversity of topics that editors have an interest in and this allows for editors to get involved in their topics of interest after the event. Strategy: Establishing collaboration with interested other organizations or groups that may enlarge the community. How it was implemented: We have been able to collaborate with media houses in Tanzania to publicize the work that we are doing so that we could enlarge the Wikimedia Community. Strategy: Organizing training the trainers' programs for the community members and empowering skilled and competent members to take leadership roles. How it was implemented: We have conducted the training of trainers program which allowed more community members to take leadership roles as trainers. We have also launched the mini-grants program to support these trainers to get the required resources to conduct activities and widen the community.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?
- Organizing women-led programs to mitigate and address the gender gap. This strategy has enabled the community to almost have a balance in gender participation in the activities that we have conducted. Having women leading activities inspire more women to participate in the activities we are conducting. Also, having women-specific activities allows for recruiting more women volunteers to join and participate in our activities.
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?
- Partnership with other organizations becomes difficult as we are not yet registered as a legal entity in the country.
We are working to be legally registered as an NGO in the country as without legal registration it hinders the many opportunities for us to spread our wings higher to achieve our maximum potential to create more awareness and contribute to Wikimedia projects.
4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.
- Social media: We use social media platforms to inform different communities about the work we are doing. We have social media accounts on Instagram, Fcebook, WhatsApp and Telegram that we use.
Media houses in Tanzania: We have been able to publish an article about the work we are doing in Mwananchi Magazine. We have also been able to go on national television to inform different communities and also call for participation on the work we are doing.
Direct communication: We have been able to communicate directly with different communities about the work that we are doing and ask them to participate in several activities. For example, We have been able to inform the University Student Wikimedians about the African Youth Month project and they were happy to participate with them in this activity.
5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.
- Participants are actively participating in the activities that we conduct. They are used to a few Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. It will be good to introduce other projects in the community. They are building a habit of being involved in global discussions about the Wikimedia Movement.
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?
- To what extent the community has contributed to expanding, qualifying, and diversifying content?
We have learned that we are in a very big capacity to expand and diversify the content on Wikimedia projects as so far we have contributed a lot and it is only the mid of the project.
Has underrepresented knowledge been included on Wikimedia platforms? Have we been able to collaborate with other organizations to gain access to underrepresented knowledge? We have learned that there is so much underrepresented knowledge in Wikimedia platforms but for the first half we have tried to contribute as much knowledge as possible through the programs we have executed.
What events have been carried out to contribute to the emergence of new leaders? What retention strategies were adopted? What have we learned from other experienced communities?
We have carried out a training of trainers program to train new trainers who are the new leaders in the community. We have the mini-grants program that empowers these trainers to conduct activities that lead to achieving our goals.
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?
- Our next steps are to empower the trainers with the necessary resources via the mini-grants program to conduct activities and to empower more community members to be leaders/trainers which will allow us to amplify the work that we are doing.
Part 2: Metrics edit
8a. Open and additional metrics data.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants from at least 4 Nothern regions of Tanzania will benefit from our activities.
We target about 250 participants throughout the year and more than 50% will be new participants |
250 | 385 | N/A | Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedians_of_arusha_user_group_annual_programs/programs |
| Number of editors | Editors from at least 4 Nothern regions of Tanzania will participate in our activities.
We target about 200 editors throughout the year and more than 50% will be new editors |
200 | 385 | N/A | Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikimedians_of_arusha_user_group_annual_programs/programs |
| Number of organizers | We target about 25 organizers throughout the year. | 25 | 15 | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia articles created or improved throughout the year | 1500 | 104000 | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | Wikimedia Commons files uploaded throughout the year | 500 | 338 | N/A | N/A |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | 3 | 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 | 300 | 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 | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants from at least 4 Nothern regions of Tanzania will benefit from our activities.
We target about 250 participants throughout the year and more than 50% will be new participants |
250 | 385 | ||
| Number of editors | Editors from at least 3 Nothern regions of Tanzania will participate in our activities.
We target about 200 editors throughout the year and more than 50% will be new editors |
200 | 385 | ||
| Number of organizers | We target about 25 organizers throughout the year. | 25 | 15 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia articles created or improved throughout the year | 1500 | 104000 | Wikipedia | Outreach Dashboard |
| Wikimedia Commons | Wikimedia Commons files uploaded throughout the year | 500 | 338 | Wikimedia Commons | Outreach Dashboard |
| Wikidata | Wikidata items created or improved throughout the year | 500 | 92000 | Wikidata | Outreach 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 |
9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
- No however we would love to learn if there is any other way we can collect data
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 collaborating and sharing learning with other Wikimedia communities and community members
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 edit
12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 61763808.14
13. Local currency type
- TZS
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?
- Yes
15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.
- We hope to adjust the budget for the mini-grants program. The amount was $ 1000. We would love to change this so that we can accommodate more activities from our certified trainers.
We also love to use some of the contingency amount to allocate it to legal registration and development of an official website.
16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.