Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos at Wikimedia Hub,Owerri/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/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos at Wikimedia Hub,Owerri.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

We are happy to have surpassed our goals. 30 people registered for the contest and 25 out of thirty participated.This resulted in 7267 articles improved with photos on en-wikipedia over a two-month period. We exceeded our target outcome of 1000 with 6267. We were also able to engage new editors, 3 of whom are in the top five Contributors and 1, in the top 10 Contributors. This is impressive given the challenges encountered in the contest and the fact that the hub is still very much young.

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
30 Participants	30 Participants	30 Participants registered for the contest check link, 25 of them participated in the contest https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/graph/?query=WPWPIM&project=&startdate=2021-07-01&enddate=&search_type=or&user=
1000 Articles improved with photos	7267 Articles improved with photos	7267 Articles improved with photos during the contest https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/graph/?query=WPWPIM&project=&startdate=2021-07-01&enddate=&search_type=or&user=
5 New Editors	5 New Editors	Five new editors among whom were those editing for the first time and those with less than 30 edits, participated actively during the contest.

Learning

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What worked well?

The two month period adopted for the contest was an advantage for the participants. It presented them with more time, convenient and accommodating to participate at their own pace. More importantly, it was enough time to get participants who were not initially motivated in the beginning of the contest to step up to activeness during the contest timeline.

What did not work so well?

One of the challenges experienced nationally and globally in the 2021 WPWP campaign was the incorrect placement of images and captions on Wikipedia Pages by some of the participants. Some participants from our hub were implicated in this situation and as such, were advised to suspend participation for a period of time. In a bid to address this issue, we organized a one-day physical meet up, not originally planned in the project, with the concerned participants in order to guide them in cleaning up their mistakes where applicable.

What would you do differently next time?

Given that the hub is still young and members still have more wiki-skills to learn, we would love to make it a physical event in the future. This was not the case in this year's edition due to security challenges experienced in the state as at the time of the contest.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Prizes (Android phones and certificates) = $400
Internet support for team members (event trainings and check In) = $252.72
Internet support for participants during the event = $364.8
Branded hoodies for team members = $100
Promotions and branding = $300
Airtime for Communication = $100
Miscellaneous funds (logistics for prizes procurement and delivery and bank charges) = $100

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

Yes! I have 10 USD remaining.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?