Grants:Project/Rapid/Inyor4mr/Wikipedia Awareness for Librarians at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria/Report

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


Goals edit

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

Yes, we meet our goals and we are happy with how the project went, The project went smoothly and successfully. We hosted 2 Edit-a-thons and had new editors and existing editors. The librarians were so eager to learn and explore the various Wikimedia products to promote open access to information for quality service delivery. The facilitators were very helpful in providing them with the answers to their questions and guiding them through the editing process as they followed up with new editors between sessions and helped monitor the articles they worked on.

Outcome edit

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Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
Number of events:2 2 Edit-a-thon 2 physical events
Number of Participants: 30 participants 43 participants We had 13 more participants than expected
Number of new editors: 20 25 new editors
Number of articles created or improved: 100 50 Articles / 381 Improved [[1]] 50 Articles were created and 381 articles were edited


Learning edit

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  • What worked well?

The librarians were very excited and enthusiastic to participate in the Wikipedia Awareness and there was great turn-up.

  • What did not work so well?

It took longer than we expected for new editors to learn the basic skills to create new articles, so we focused our efforts on helping them add reliable sources, and hyperlinks to existing articles as well as improving existing Wikidata Items.

  • What would you do differently next time?

We will consider organizing more online training to coach the new editors.

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.

  • Library Space rental: NGN 70,000.00 X 2days = NGN 140,000.00
  • Food and drinks: NGN2,500.00 X 33 for 2days= NGN 165,000.00
  • Internet Bundle for team members and participants (during the awareness and post project report writing) = NGN 40,000.00
  • Graphics designing, printing of posters and Roll up banners = NGN 40,000.00
  • Projector rental for 2days = NGN 10,000.00
  • DSLR Camera Rental = NGN 10,000 x 2 days = NGN 20,000.00
  • Nose Masks =NGN3,000.00
  • Hand sanitizers for participants and facilitators at the 2days seminars = NGN 3,000.00
  • Certificate of participation for participants = NGN 30,000.00
  • Local running and interstate fare for 1 Facilitators (2days) = NGN40,000.00
  • Accommodation for 1 facilitators = NGN 15,000 x 2days = NGN30,000.00
  • Wikipedia Branded Shirts for organizers and active participants: NGN18,000.00
  • Wikipedia Branded Shirts for organizers and active participants: NGN18,000.00
  • Souvenirs for participants : NGN 2500 x 30 participants = NGN75,000.00

Total = NGN 614,000 |USD 1473.24

Remaining funds edit

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else edit

Anything else you want to share about your project?