Grants:Project/Rapid/Hamza DK/Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Kafur/Report

Report accepted
This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Goals edit

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes I've meet my goals and I'm happy with the how the project went.

Outcome edit

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Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
Number of events - 3 3 Achieved
Number of Participants - 40 45 Achieved
Number of New editors - 30 28 We targeted 30 but we got 28, this is due to some of the participants already registered with Wikipedia but didn't know how to edit Wikipedia. While event we train them how to edit Wikipedia.
Number of articles created or improved - 300 333 Achieved Dashboard
Number of repeated participants - 20 33 Achieved


Learning edit

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?

How the participants quickly understand how to edit Wikipedia went well.

  • What did not work so well?

We planned to run this project in Kafur LGA of Katsina State, but unfortunately the shutdown of the Networks in the area due to Security Challenges have make us to change the event location from where we have planned to another location in Shanono LGA of Kano state. We do this in order to achieve our goals because the network take several weeks not open. This didn't work well because of this some of our planned participants didn't not attend full three days of the events.

  • What would you do differently next time?

Next time I will plan another program which will engage our previous event's participants.

Finances edit

Grant funds spent edit

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

  1. Event Space - 80,000 × 3days = 240,000
  2. Food and Refreshments - unit 2000 × 40 = 80,000 × 3days = 240,000
  3. Laptops hires - 1000 × 10 10,000 × 3days = 30,000
  4. Data - 1000 × 40 = 40,000 × 3days = 120,000
  5. Branded Tshirts two for facilitators and Participants - 2000 × 5 = 20,000
  6. Transportation - 1000 × 40 =40,000 × 3days = 120,000 Note The expenses of the events space has remained but we use it for Transportation.
  7. Banner - 40,000
  8. Fliers and Tags = 50 each = 30,000

Total' NGN = 820,000 Total USD =1,993.42

Remaining funds edit

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No,

Anything else edit

Anything else you want to share about your project? Because the network shutdown in the area which the project is planned to run, we use buses to transport our participants from Kafur and Danja Local Governments to Shanono LGA of Kano state. We also got some Participants from Shanono LGA.