Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Linason Blessing/ Wikimedia Fan Club Kwara State University (KWASU) Wiki Loves Africa 2023/Report

Goals edit

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

Yes, we are delighted to have met our goals. The Wiki Loves Africa 2023 Campaign with the Theme: Climate and Weather which aims at increasing the quality and quantity of African content on Wikipedia. The Students were excited during the campaign and they were engaging especially since it has to do with pictures and the Students were glad there is this kind of campaign that they can contribute to about the Climate and Weather of their environment.

Outcome edit

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
No of events	3, Photo Walk, 1 Online Meeting, 1 Physical Meeting.	We had Photo walk, an Online training where we teach the student about the essence of the Campaign Wiki Loves Africa and went ahead to teach the participants on how to upload pictures on Wikipedia Commons, And Finally we had a physical event on the same Purpose and participants uploaded pictures during the Physical Training.
30 participants	31 Participants	The target set was achieved
20 old Editors	29 old Editors	The target set was achieved and exceeded
10 New Editors	2 New Editors	The target set was not achieved
100 media files uploaded on WikiCommons.	160	The target set was achieved and exceeded. dashboard

Learning edit

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What worked well?

Yes, we did and we are happy that the project was a success. We had 3 series of event we stated with the Photowalk it was so impactful we got to see many places that we haven't seen, I had the opputunity to see a tortoise for the first time in my life and tho it was dead due to the impact of deforestation in the area. Then we have the online meeting it was impactful and the students were eager to learn how to contribute on Wikipedia Commons with their media files, they asked relevant questions about the campaign. And Finally during the physical meeting we had an interesting session during the meeting more questions were asked and various attributions of the pictures were better explained and how to add categories to pictures as well were better explained. With the data support for the Online meeting we had more student join the meeting and it was very effective.

What did not work so well?

Well our Visit to the Niger River basin in Kwara State was unfortunately unsuccessfully because we were asked to tender a Letter from the ministry to be able to access the water area and when the Project was approved we had just one week to plan and go for the photwalk so we were unable to Visit the Niger River basin, but we visited Agba Dam and Asa Dam and it was a great visiting these places as a replacement for the Niger River Basin.

What would you do differently next time?

Make sure the places to Visit there was prior notice to the ministry and other organizations we are to work with.

Finances edit

Grant funds spent edit

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

Transportation/Hiring of Bus (to and fro) to convey 5 persons for photowalk to 3 different sites = #45,000

Refreshments 33 plates of food @#2,000 per plate = #66,000

Drinks (4 packs) = #6,400

Table Water (4 packs) = #3,200

Airtime and subscription Data subscription for 30 participants for online training @#1,000 x 30 = #30,000

Airtime for calls for the organizing of the event and reaching out to some of the participants = #2,000

Data subscription for the 3 Facilitators = #1,000 x 3= #3,000

Designing of the Wikiloves Africa flyers = #12,000

DSLR Camera Rental = #15,000

Gate Pass to the Niger River Basin 5 persons @ #500 x 10= #2,500

Club Registration Renewal = 20,000

Contingencies = #10,000

Total - #215,100

Remaining funds edit

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No, all grant funds were used exactly as proposed and approved.

Anything else edit

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Photos from the events can be seen here Wiki Loves Africa 2023 KWASU Fan Club

Pictures from the events