Grants:Project/Rapid/Dagbani Wikimedians/Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 Ghana/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Dagbani Wikimedians/Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 Ghana.
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Goals

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

We met our goal and exceeded our target. We are happy about the outcome of this project.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
A total of 3 photo walks	3 photo walks	We organized 3 photo walks across 3 regions in northern Ghana, Oti, Savannah and northern regions.
A maximum of 10 participants in each Photowalks.	10 at each photo walk.	Due to covid-19 restrictions, we invited only 10 participants for each photo walk.
A maximum of 10 participants at upload session and editathon.	10 each	We invited only participants for the upload sessions.
Upload a minimum of 400 photos from this project.	1,278	We exceeded our target by 878 photos.
Use about 15% of the total images on Wikimedia projects.	over 30%.	over 30% of the total images been used across Wikimedia projects, Dagbani Wikipedia (incubator), English Wikipedia and Wikidata Lexemes
Create/improve at least 15 articles/items on Dagbani Wikipedia and Wikidata.	34	15 Dagbaini Wikipedia articles, 6 Wikidata items and 11 Wikidata Lexemes.

Learning

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What worked well?

Photo walks: We had a very high number of people registered to participate in the photo walks. We were able to select only 30 participants for 3 photo walks. We exceeded our target by uploading 1,278 images as against the original target of 400 images. Upload sessions: We successfully organized 2 upload sessions to teach new participants to upload images for the contest. 11 people created new accounts at the workshop. Edit-a-thon challenge: A total of 9 people participated in the online edit-a-thon challenge to create 15 Dagbani Wikipedia articles, 6 Wikidata items and 11 Wikidata Lexemes.

What did not work so well?

Everything went well except that the duration of the edit-a-thon was shorter for the participants.

What would you do differently next time?

Next time we will increase the duration of the edit-a-thon contest to 2 weeks to allow more participation.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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


BUDGET FUNDS RECEIVED IN GHS				11400
Item	Quantity	Unit GHS	Total GHS	Comment
Transportation	10	450	4500	Cost of transportation for the entire trip
Refreshments	10	120	1200	Paid for food and water for the entire trip
Venue Rental (Upolad)	1	500	500	Cost of venue rental for upload session
Projector	1	200	200	Paid for the cost of projector rental
Internet Data Allowance	20	50	1000	Paid to all participants to compete in uploads and article creation
Internet Data for Workshop	1	500	500	Paid for internet data for upload session
Venue Rental (Workshop)	1	500	500	Paid for venue for editathon session
Upload Session Refreshment	10	50	500	Paid for food and water
T Shirts for Participants	20	35	700	Paid for all participants of Photowalks and workshops
Best Photo Prize (Gift voucher)	1	400	400	Paid for Melcom shopping vouchers
First best Contributor (Gift voucher)	1	300	300	Paid for Melcom shopping vouchers
Second Best contributor (Gift voucher)	1	200	200	Paid for Melcom shopping vouchers
Camera Rental	2	200	400	We rented a professional camera for the photo walk
Covid-19 prevention equipment	20	10	200	Paid for hand sanitizers and face masks
Bank Charges	1	300	300	bank transfer charges
Total expenditure in GHs			11400
Remaining balance			0	No balance remained

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No remaining funds.

Anything else

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