Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia Community Arusha/Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Arusha/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 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/Wikimedia Community Arusha/Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Arusha.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
• You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes, we met the goals and we are happy the project went well.

Outcome

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 participants-40	Number of participants- 58	The number of participants exceeded the target outcome. Many more participats wanted to take part but due to time and resources limitation we could not accommodate more.
Number of new editors - 10	Number of new editors - 22	The number of new editors who participated were more than the anticipated number. Many more new volunteers wanted to participate. We intended to allow more new participants and thus we tried to reach out to more new editors of which was successful.
Number of articles created or improved - 150+	Articles created - 869 Articles edited - 897	The target outcome was achieved

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?

We intended to reach more new volunteers and it was a success we have learnt on better ways to reach new volunteers. We also increased number of participation of existing editors which led to a high contribution in the number of articles.

• What did not work so well?

There were lots of new editors that wanted to participate but due to limited time and resource the were not able to participate.

• What would you do differently next time?

Increase the time and resources to accommodate more new editors.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

• Awards - 200USD
• Food, Snacks, and drinks: 640USD
• Venue - 114 USD
• Internet support during in-person sessions -77.9184 USD
• Transport reimbursement for participants: 640 USD
• Coordination and Communication for facilitators & Bank rates)=150 USD
• Souvenirs for judges selected to judge the articles =150 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No any amount remaining.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? Here is the link to the Outreach dashboard for the project [[1]]