Grants:Project/Rapid/Udehb/Wikidata Justice Nigeria/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Udehb/Wikidata Justice Nigeria.
You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? YES the project goals were met. and yes am supper excited about the project.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.
To see the metrics, feel free to visit our outreach dashboard and our Project page a summary of which can be found below:

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of events : 5	Number of events : 5	We had 5 live sessions on zoom and multiple follow-up/mentorship sessions on the Whatsapp platform. you can find pictures/videos from the project on our project page
Number of participants : 30	Number of participants : 44	we about 44 participants in total and averaged about 35 participants per live session which is the highest we have had
Number of new editors : 4	Number of new editors : 5+	This project served as an introductory platform for some of our participants even those who were editors in other wiki-projects while some others got to know about the wikimedia movement from this project for the very first time. In summary, about 30% of the participants started editing wikidata for the first time from this project.
Number of Items created or improved : 80	Number of Items created or improved : 184	over 77 items was created and over 107 items edited. the metrics can be found on our outreach dashboard
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) : 15+	Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) : 20+	We had an average of 35 participants per live session and about 23 were returning participants.

Learning

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?

This is by far one of our best project yet. The idea of assigning task to participants after every live session/training was such a huge success in that we were able to get more participants to contribute to the project. this idea was one which we got from our previous project Everything Food Nigeria

What did not work so well?

We still faced a bit of internet issues during the live sessions
We could not afford to give data subsidy to all our participants as we got far more than we anticipated. so we resolved reimbursing the first 30 participants to attend each event.

What would you do differently next time?

This project is one of the projects we set out in achieving our grand goal which is to build a community of wikimedians who are focused on contributing to the wikidata project. So in our next project, we will consider taking it to schools to recruit more members/editors who will be interested in the wikidata project. thereby getting a more active wikidata community in Nigeria.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on. The grant for the project received: 1,698.0245 USD or 698,466 NGN ( Conversion rate: 1 USD == 411.34 NGN)

Flyers : 50 USD Zoom : 14.99 * 2 = 29.98 USD Internet access for both admin and participants in each live event: 8.5087762 X 31(30 participants + 1 facilitator) X 5(live event) = 1318.860311 Wikidata branded shirts for top 10 editors = 29.1729 X 10 = 291.729 USD

Total money spent: 695398.780387 NGN => 1690.569311 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? Remaining funds = 1,698.0245 USD - 1690.569311 USD = 7.455189 USD Yes.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?
Oh Yes.
This project won the WikidataCon 2021 Community Award. Also, this project has helped us in achieving our grand goal of building a Wikidata community in Nigeria Ig Wikidata Hub. These project being one of the projects I have had in order to achieve this objective was indeed a huge success and we are looking forward to solidifying on this great achievement as we now have over a 100 members on the Whatsapp group and about 50 members on our meta page. I'm hoping to get even more Nigerians involved in the wikidata Project and by extension the wikimedia movement.