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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: Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
  • Title of Proposal: Yoruba Wikimedians User Group - Annual Activities 2022
  • Amount awarded: 50000 USD, 50000 NGN
  • Amount spent: 16680069 NGN

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?

Our strategies and proposed activities were implemented through some critical actions, which included effective management of projects by competent and experienced members of our community, communication flow, good financial practices, partnerships with mission-aligned organizations, and the involvement and participation of members of our community in our programs. We created an enabling environment that connected our volunteers to our strategic plan for 2022 and our mission, and this helped them understand why they should be involved and effectively participate in our programs. Some of the challenges facing our contributors include incessant IP blocking. We worked closely with the Yoruba Wikipedia administrator to grant local IP block exemptions for our volunteers. We also ensure that new participants create their accounts prior to the training dates. We document our activities on Meta-wiki and review them via monthly strategic meetings.
For reference, please see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group_2022-2023_annual_activities

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

Yes, we would like to highlight some strategies and approaches that are effective in achieving our goals. These strategies and approaches included the following
  • We'd like to emphasize the widespread fact that the general support grant from the WMF worked well for our group. Members of our group did not apply for a rapid grant because we already had a general support grant approved, and they were happy to work with the user group instead of having to apply for a rapid grant to do an individual project.
  • Collaborations with other established user groups locally (Wikimedia Nigeria, Igbo Wikimedians User *Group) and internationally (Wikimedia UK, Deoband Wikimedia Community)
  • Partnership with the International Center for Yoruba Arts and Culture
  • Yoruba Indigenous Vocation (Oral Knowledge) audiovisual recordings
  • Teamwork
  • Registration as a non-profit organization in Nigeria.

For reference, please see : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group_2022-2023_annual_activities

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

The only challenge we faced was the impractical deadline that we set for our audiovisual recordings of Yoruba indigenous vocations (oral knowledge). We earlier thought that we could complete the project in one month, but we exceeded the deadline because of rainfall.
We evaluated the challenges facing our volunteers via a survey. Some of the challenges experienced by our volunteer community includes
  • Costly Internet service and poor internet connection
  • Incessant Global IP Block
  • Failure to attend on-site training
  • Time management in relation to work
  • lack of tools such as laptops

For references, please see : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group_2022-2023_annual_activities#_Mid_term_survey

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

Different communities are participating and being informed about our work. See below for your references

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

Our strategies and activities are helping our community grow through the various engagements of participants, which have impacted their engagement with the Yoruba Wikimedia community. This is evident in our blog post that featured two new members of our community recruited via our strategy and activities who have continued to contribute 10 months after they were engaged in our activities.
For your reference, please see : https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/11/30/how-to-recruit-native-speakers-for-a-small-language-wikipedia-learning-from-the-yoruba-wikimedians-user-group-approach/
The growth of content and contributors who are native speakers has increased exponentially as a result of our strategy and activities.

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

We conducted a mid-term survey to evaluate our work and help us identify the next steps and opportunities we will be focusing on for the second half.

Our learning is documented here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group_2022-2023_annual_activities#_Mid_term_survey

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

For the next steps and opportunities, our survey result shows that we need to prioritize capacity building and the production of learning material (self-paced training materials) in Yoruba in the second half.

We conducted a mid-term survey to evaluate our work and help us identify the next steps & opportunities we will be focusing on for the second half. Our learning is documented here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group_2022-2023_annual_activities#_Mid_term_survey

Part 2: Metrics edit

8a. Open and additional metrics data.

Open Metrics
Open Metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Recruitment of new editors At least 200 new editors will be recruited for Yoruba Wikipedia and Wiktionary 300 N/A N/A N/A
Contents creation 1. At least 300 new articles will be created on Yoruba Wikipedia
2. At least 500 articles will be created on Yoruba Wiktionary
3. At least 200 new items will be created on Wikidata
4. At least 2,000 media files will be added to Wikimedia Commons
5. At least 30 audiovisual recordings of Yoruba vocational works will be created
 4000 N/A N/A N/A
Volunteers support At least a small grant (USD 500) will be awarded to at least 10 individuals or organizations for mission-aligned projects 10 N/A N/A N/A
Awareness Campaign 1. At least 2 short Nigerian Comedy Skits would be produced to promote the Yoruba Wikipedia and Wiktionary
2. At least 2 Take Yoruba to Street campaigns would be organized
3. At least a central notice banner will be hosted to create awareness for Yoruba Wikipedia and recruit more editors
 5 N/A N/A N/A
Capacity building At least 10 in-person and virtual training would be organized and at least 500 new editors would be trained 15 N/A N/A N/A
Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities At least 50% of all participants are retained and continue to be engaged after our activities 300 N/A N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities At least 15 people will be involved in organizing various activities. 21 N/A N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability At least 3 strategic partnership that will contribute to longer-term growth, diversity, and sustainability will be secured 5 N/A N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors There would be at least 3 surveys to evaluates our strategies N/A N/A N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees We will use the result of our surveys to evaluate the diversity of participants 100 N/A N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications At least 10,000 people 15000 N/A N/A N/A
Number of activities developed At least 20 activities would be developed 30 N/A N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours Volunteer hours would be evaluated and reported 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 More than 300 native speakers of Yoruba language, scholars, teachers, students and academic staff will participate, and at least 20 from mission aligned organizations will participate 500 600 More than 600 people have participated in our program. These include 205 new editors who registered accounts, 33 existing editors, more than 50 people who attended the launching of our collaboration with the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture, more than 200 people who attended our public presentation at the University of Lagos, 5 people who form our media team, 10 people who form our core organizing team, 20 members of the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture who helped in organizing the launching, and about 20 people from the Deoband Wikimedia community who collaborated with us, as well as 5 members of the audiovisual recording team. Five members of the Wikimedia UK team worked with us on the Celtic Knot Conference, among others. *event metrics tool
Number of editors At least 200 people will create accounts and at least 20 existing editors will participate in our edit-a-thons and various campaigns 300 238 In this first half, a total of 238 editors have been involved in our activities. These include 205 new editors who registered accounts, 33 existing editors, *We use the event metrics tool
Number of organizers At least 15 people will be involved in organizing various activities. There are 5 core team members, 4 people from mission aligned organizations, at least 5 community volunteers and 7 professional to implement the Yoruba Indigenous Vocational Works Documentation Project. 21 50 More than 35 people have been involved in organizing our event. These includes, 10 members of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group that form the core team, 10 members of the International Center for Yoruba Arts and Culture, 2 members of our media partner (Zivang Magazine), 5 members of the audiovisual recording team, and 5 members of the Deoband Wikimedia Community. *They are documented here
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target Results Comments Methodology
Wikidata We will be contributing at least 1,000 new items to Wikidata 1500 N/A N/A N/A
Wikipedia 200 new articles to Yoruba Wikipedia 300 888 As at the time of reporting a total of 888 new articles have been created on Yoruba Wikipedia *We use the event metrics tool
Wikimedia Commons We will be contributing at least 1,000 photos and 20 audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous vocational works to Wikimedia Commons 1530 1632 This result was achieved via our photography contest and contributions from photographers recruited via the contest. In addition to the 1,632 images contributed, we also produced 20 high-quality audiovisuals of Yoruba indigenous vocations. *We use the event metrics tool
Wiktionary We will be contributing at least 300 pages to Wiktionary 500 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. We did collect the data and documented the result on Meta-wiki

See: our mid-term survey

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?

Yes. We are collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates 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.
  • Mid-term documentation of our activities (July 2022 - December 2022)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group_2022-2023_annual_activities

  • Our training plan (Jan 2023 - July 2023)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KfptfeQEZGsdTv-z4F0VUylzg1I4QCcDlh5VzTdRQu8/edit?usp=sharing

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance edit

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

16680069

13. Local currency type

NGN

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.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gAK3Y75wGQBIVp0cbjamFgq0AE5FUsNY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103109401660180253748&rtpof=true&sd=true

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.

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