Grants:Project/Rapid/WMDRC/Mois de la contribution francophone RDC 2020/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2019-20 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/WMDRC/Mois de la contribution francophone RDC 2020.
• 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, I'm so happy.

Outcome

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

Due to COVID-19, we have split our project into activities. The first one happened during Covid in July 2020, online, and the last one in November 2020.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Recruit new editors	6+	We did run an online WikiGap DRC challenge
Train CS Students how to hack MediaWiki software and do technical contribution	15+	In 3 days our participants have learned about the technical aspect of the Wikimedia project and how to get started
Increase skills for existing editors	We did run some office hours
Add or improve content	35+ articles, 235+ items	The participants have created/added content on Wikipedia, Wikidata...
Add audio content using Lingua Libre	-	Unfortunatly we could not run this activity due to time.
Translate content into local languages	6 articles in Swahili and 1 in Lingala	Many articles were translated into Lingala and Swahili

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? I'm so happy to see that people (or students) are little by little getting involved in Wikimedia projects. We need to run more and more activities in order to raise awareness.
• What did not work so well? Having organized a Wikimedia-like hackathon, we did neglect the time i.e we did think that everything could just work as planned. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Our attendees needed more time than expected.
• What would you do differently next time? Organize a **pre-hackathon** where we install and/or update everything we'll need in the hackathon

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

• Internet: 150$ (March) + 100$ (July) + 150$ (November)
• Communication: 50$
• Food 15$ * 3d * 15p = 675$ (November)
• Food (Avril - Mai): $15 * 6d * 3p = $270
• Food (March): 15$ * 1d * 15p = 225$
• Award price: 300$
• Misc: $65 (cancellation fees)

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? N/A

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?