Grants:Project/Rapid/Cmwaura/SheSaid/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

My goals were met which were to recruit new editors and i am happy with how the project went on.

I managed to recruit 10 editors, who were trained on the following
Introduction to Wikipedia
Introduction to Wiki Loves Women
Introduction to Wiki Quotes
Introduction to Wiki Commons
Identifying the gender gaps in Kenya
Organized an Edit-A-Thon

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
3 Events	I held 3 physical meet up and 4 online events	I did more online training because the group was big and also due to availability of the participants
12 participants. 11 New and one experienced Wikipedia	Introduced new participants to Wikipedia	-Learnt how to edit on Wikipedia -The Five Pillars of Wikipedia -How to make an edit on Wikipedia -The structure of a Wikipedia article
37 Wikiqotes created	Earning how to navigate from Wikiquotes, commons to identifying notable women	The participants pushed themselves to at least learn more on wiki gaps and they all did a good job of creating new quotes.

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

What worked well? Participants learning about Wikipedia for the first time
The planning for all the events went really well since there were people assisting with the logistics. Early planning helped a lot
What did not work so well?
Some Participants did not commit themselves and dropped out in the middle of the project.
Internet become very expensive especially considering the number of people who stayed till the end of the project.
I taught most of the new things to participants on day one which was quite overwhelming and some were confused with everything
What would you do differently next time?
Learn how to balance between work, personal life and Wiki projects
Plan around well on the internet funding.
Train participants in bits (introduce them to Wikipedia and its projects on different days)

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Grant Received = KES 158,298

Money Spent= KES 156,464

Transport & Data KES 61,261
Food & Refreshment KES 21,053
Gifts & Certificates, Rollup Banner, Bookmarks, shirts KES 40,000
Stationery KES 2,850
Call Airtime KES 10,000
Masks & Sanitizers KES 2,600
Miscellaneous KES 18,700

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

Yes I was left with KES 1,834
I would like to use it in my next project

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Learning experience for myself and the participants