Grants:Project/Rapid/Semmy1960/Wikipedia Awareness for Lagos State Information Officers/Report

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes i am happy how the project went. We met our goals and it was a very long and engaging project. We have ended it but we are still engaging. We had to have extra online session to add Wikicommons to the training because during the training there was a request for how can we upload pictures, we are information officers? So we had to add Wikicommons to the training.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of events: Two physical trainings	2 physical trainings took place	We had the training as expected
Number of participants = 100	We had 110 participants total.	At the physical training we had 70 people attend the training and we had 40 join us online.
Number of new editors = 80	We had 60 new editors.	We were only able to meet up with 60 new editors
Number of of articles created or improved =200	We created 483 new articles Link to the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikipedia_Awareness_for_Lagos_State_Information_Officers/Wikipedia_Awareness_for_Lagos_State_Information_Officers.	We created 483 articles which was above our target outcome of 200 articles
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)=20	We had 60 repeat participants	Participants that attended the online trainings also attended the physical trainings483 articles which was above our target outcome of 200 articles

Learning

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• What worked well?

The enthusiasm of some of the editors who are information officers helped us to achieve our target and this also has increased the number of members on the Lagos Wikipedians which has been created because we realise we now have many people from Lagos who are now Wikimedians and they were requesting for a community group they will join to become a part of the community. So we started the registration process of the Lagos Wikipedians under the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group. Some of them also attended the Wikimania, we have a Lagos Wikipedians which is under registration with the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group. Some of the participants have started joining other community programs. Some want to know more about the community, so the mentoring is still ongoing. The retention process of some of the new editors is impressive. The Permanent Secretary and the Commissioner also had to encourage their staffs to continue to contribute to Wikipedia. The level of acceptance from the ministry is amazing. They are encouraging the staffs that they are information officers and they must take it upon themselves to contribute to Wikipedia.

• What did not work so well?
• Timing was a big problem for us. We had to postpone the physical training many times because of unavailability of venue which we didn't budget for.The Ministry promised to give us the hall but it took a long time before they could secure the hall for us so it affected the completion of the project at the expected time and it also affected participation because some of the participants had taken time off to participate in the training at the stated time from their different ministries but the postponement really affected the full participation we were expecting.
• The training also clashed with some other activities the ministries had so we had 120 people registered for the training on the Whatsapp platform but some could not join because of the other activities. It is an election period so they have a lot of activities going on
• We had issues with alternate power during the physical training because we didn't make a budget for it. The generator had technical issues and it took a very long time before we could start the training. At a point we had to start doing one-one when there was no power supply.
• What would you do differently next time?
• Next time we will budget for our hall so that we don't have issues with timing and participation
• We will ask for a stipulated time that will not affect participation of new editors to the project
• We will always make available an alternate power backup

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

1. Data for participants= 4200x100= NGN 420,000
2. Data for Facilitators = NGN 33,600
3. Banner = NGN 40000
4. Designer =NGN 30,000
5. Projector = 30,000 x 2days= NGN 60,000
6. Food, drinks and snacks: NGN3,500.00 X 80 for 2days= NGN 560,000
7. Camera for two days=NGN 40,000
8. Transportation for 3 other facilitators within Lagos = NGN 22,000 x3 =NGN 66,000
9. Branded T-shirts= 7000x 30 =210,000
10. Nose mask= 600x80= 48,000
11. Souvenirs for participants and contingencies =NGN 100,000
12. Zoom =NGN 50,000
13. Bank charges and logistics=NGN 50,000

Total= NGN 1,717,600($4,139.42)

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? None

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

There was a request for physical mentorship. So i volunteered to go once a month to the ministry and have a mentorship session with them. I know how difficult it is for retention of participants. This mentorship will help keep some new editors and encourage their continuous contribution. I am starting in December, I will go there once every month for the next 4months to review their Wikipedia progress and journey and to put them through. I am glad they requested for such support from me. It helps to boost confidence in any trainer that retention can be slow but it will get better as we move towards our goals of ensuring everyone can have access to Free Knowledge and we can have more people contributing to Wikipedia.

Some pictures from the event: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lPHhfRKRwLMvGJDws_V62iRPQP4LfuZJ