Grants:Project/Rapid/Improve the vital articles in Vietnamese Wikipedia/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

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

As of 31 August, after the first month of edit-a-thon, everything is more than my expectation. Our group of 6 members work hard on more than 20 articles with hundred kB updated. In the end, we have 46 vital articles which were updated by our group members.

I realize that all team members have very good skills of translating and synthesizing content mostly from English and outside sources to Vietnamese articles.

Outcome

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Detailed outcomes

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of participants: 3-20	We have 6 members in this edit-a-thon.	Though we send our invitations over 40 members in the projects related to Vietnamese, we just have 6 members agree this. There are many reasons to explain this, such as the first time of this event, the nonchalant of the community, the community awareness, or the members have different interests.
Number of articles created or improved: 20-150	46 vital articles, the full list can be viewed here User:Alphama/Improve the vital articles in Vietnamese Wikipedia/Tên bài viết.

Updated articles

Our working space is here: User:Alphama/Improve the vital articles in Vietnamese Wikipedia/Tên bài viết.

Learning

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What worked well?

We did outline the clear mission and process of how to join the edit-a-thon.

At this moment, we are on the right track of organizing the edit-a-thon when all members understand the written policies and work well with the translation task. Due to the first time, we invite different kinds of members but only experienced members accept our invitation. Therefore, we do not face the problems which happen with new the members such as Wikipedia written styles and formats.

What did not work so well?

Some topics may be too hard to translate and express the content exactly from the original language, thus we take more time to validate the content and also ask for the help of other experienced members.

What would you do differently next time?

We do wish to hold these kinds of edit-a-thon in the future. From what we learnt and our experiences about the edit-a-thon, we will update minor writing policies (the minimum kB of updated content per article) that are more proper to the context of viwiki.

We will invite more members who will play the role as mentors to help proofreading the newly written content because there are some topics indeed really hard to translate and express the fluently content in Vietnamese. Our advise for the members is to choose the topics that they are on the right hand but we can not prevent who choose other topics based on their interest. In this edit-a-thon, we just have 1 member to do this task with the help of several editors in viwiki. Since many participants tend to write more content than our minimum requirement (15.000 bytes) even there are some updated content with near 100.000 bytes, therefore we may increase this metric higher a bit in the next time.

We also care for the newly members. We will investigate on the work that newly members can involve to the edit-a-thon based on their ability. There are some easy and simple tasks such as check typos/grammars, search available sources, and check the readability of content.

There are 5 levels of vital articles, ranked from the most important (level 1) to the less (level 5). In this edit-a-thon, due to the first time of organization, we let our members freely to choose the articles based on their favorite. However, in the future, we will ask for the most popular or the most important ones first, then we will change the writing measurements. For example, an level-1 article may be equal to 2 level-2 articles. We have so many ideas about this but we will think and choose the best solution next time.

Many members wish to submit their articles to the Wikipedia:Did you know and may be make a stress on the staff there when they have to check the articles before posting on the Main page. So we will ask for a limit of articles every week to submit to this section.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Each of us received 118 USD (1700000 VND), the remain our group decided to contribute our COVID-19 fund in Vietnam.

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

We total spent all of our grant.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Some of us who are doctors and volunteers of COVID-19 campains faced some difficulties in participating the edit-a-thon. Therefore, we went slow some moments focus on more important things.

The vital articles and most viewed articles in each language project should be focused first to disseminate helpful knowledge to everyone in everywhere in the world. We do hope our projects will be a model which encourages future projects to continue contributing new content to Wikipedia projects.