Grants:Project/Rapid/Salihu Aliyu/Wikipedia promotion campaign in Minna/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? Yess! I have met my goals because all my targeted goals have been met. And I was really excited and please with the way my project went

  1. New editors were recruited and trained how to contribute to Wikimedia movement
  2. All expected rticles are created and improved some
  3. The number of participants were exceeded the target

Outcome edit

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


Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
number of event 2 number of event 2 target was achieved
number of participants 25 number of participants 30 target was achieved
number of new articles created or improve 100 number of articles created or improved 311 target was achieved
number of new editors 20 number of new editors recruited 20 target was 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? We have completed the project successfully all the expected target were achieved further more Wikipedia Promotion Campaign Minna have gained the attention from alots of people in and outside of Minna city, especially the schools that we have visited and some editors are even competent especially during the event.
  • What did not work so well? Alots of people from different areas shows their interest to participate but because of there was the limit of participants, despite that we have encouraged them
  • What would you do differently next time? We plan to propose an edit-a-thons project in Minna city to revise the current editors and recruits more editors I believe these will increase skills to the existing editors and encourage those who are willing to attend the Wikipedia Promotion Campaign Minna

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. here

Remaining funds edit

Do you have any remaining grant funds? There were No remaining funds


Anything else edit

Anything else you want to share about your project?

  1. We have created a WhatsApp group to make it easier for new editors to ask whatever they want to ask or learn about Wikimedia movement. See WhatsApp group link here
  2. Wikipedia Promotion Campaign Minna has gained alots of achievements and people were very happy with the project
  3. Here is the link contest dashboard
  4. The event reach out more than 300 people for online here
  5. The event also reached more than 800 people both offline and online campaign
  6. I'm happy to share some files of the event c:category:Wikipedia Awareness in Minna 2021