Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/GSF WikiDZ 2024/Final Report
|
|
Part 1: Understanding your work
[edit]Per the recent update on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy process, Wikimedia Affiliates that are General Support Fund grantees will fulfill their affiliate reporting requirements through their final or yearly grantee report.
If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate, you will use this form for your affiliate reporting and to address the affiliate health criteria. You do not need to submit a separate report to AffCom. Follow the guidance in the green boxes to report on how you met the corresponding affiliate health criteria.
If you are not a Wikimedia Affiliate, aligning your responses with the affiliate criteria is optional and not required.
1. Please share to what extent your programs, approaches, and strategies contributed to addressing the challenges you shared in your proposal. If they did not contribute as you believed they would, please share what obstacles you faced and what, if anything, you learned from them? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 1.) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 1.1 (Goal delivery). Describe how you actively delivered on mission goals, e.g. content creation.
Our initiatives have contributed significantly to several key objectives outlined in our original proposal, including heritage documentation, content creation, and community engagement. In-person workshops and campaigns successfully encouraged new contributors to join Wikimedia projects, while our social media program—enhanced by the group’s new visual identity—boosted visibility and community interaction.
The Audiovisual Identity Project, despite setbacks such as the passing of one planned participant and the illness of another, was completed for 8 out of 10 planned figures. The remaining work—video production and uploading to Wikimedia Commons—will require additional time. The Wiktionary Project was postponed due to its removal from the budget.
For Wiki Loves Africa, an Algerian participant won the award for the best African photograph. Wiki Loves Monuments exceeded all expectations in both participation and organization, making us the leading MENA participant in terms of the number of images uploaded. Wiki Nomad 2 in Bousaada greatly outperformed the first edition, with richer articles, entirely new participants, and a strong set of photographs, although articles are still pending publication.
'The 10th Anniversary of 'WikiDZ was marked by a major celebration that also served to evaluate our work; we published a detailed summary of our achievements in Diff.
Our workshop targets were significantly exceeded: photo workshops by six times the target, and improved articles by four times the target. In total, 94% of the target for new articles across all activities was achieved. Community strengthening included weekly and monthly meetings with the Foundation, as well as 10 in-person community events.
However, the ambitious programming schedule, combined with a limited number of active volunteers, restricted the overall reach and consistency of implementation. Nevertheless, despite this limitation in human resources, we exceeded our planned targets in several areas, which can be interpreted as evidence of the effective execution of our plan, even with a reduced volunteer base. Additionally, training and workshops relied heavily on in-person formats highly effective for building strong bonds and local engagement but require significant logistics and time, which limits outreach beyond local channels.
- Lessons learned: Flexibility and adaptability were essential to overcoming unexpected challenges while still meeting or even surpassing most targets. Our experience demonstrated the value of a strong visual identity for engagement and the need to balance program scope with volunteer capacity. Moving forward, our strategy will place greater emphasis on quality, sustainability, and expanding online modalities to complement in-person activities.Lessons learned:
- Flexibility proved to be one of our strongest assets. We were able to very quickly convert in-person writing workshops into online editing contests open to the entire Arabic-speaking community, which amplified the number of articles created.
- Our participation in photo contests, despite not having them budgeted, led to winning awards that placed us on the Wiki Loves Africa podium.
- The photo exhibition became possible thanks to budget adjustments that allowed us to catch up on delays.
- We observed that some paid applications we acquired were not adapted to our needs, given the small size of our team. For example, Trello turned out to be unnecessary for our scale of work.
- On the other hand, content creation tools like Canva proved highly beneficial for our social media manager.
- Zoom, in retrospect, could have been replaced by free alternatives since our meetings did not exceed the requirements covered by a paid plan.
- Similarly, some paid management tools could have been replaced with free resources without compromising our workflow.
2. Is there a plan to build on the key successes you had? If yes, please describe the plan and if no, please share the limitations to do so. For instance, did the activities lead to any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future? (required)
Yes. We plan to build on our key successes by maintaining our commitment to restructuring our governance, a process we intend to continue developing, and by ensuring strong communication within the group as well as with the Foundation. This includes regular consultations during periodic meetings with the Foundation and internal coordination meetings among group members.
Building on the momentum of recent activities, we will strengthen our partnerships with institutions that have recently hosted us, continue heritage-focused initiatives such as Wiki Loves X, and expand our online workshops, whose success has pleasantly surprised us. We also plan to establish new partnerships with other community members to collaborate on projects centered on shared themes that contribute to Wikimedia projects. This includes collaborations with individuals, user groups, or institutions at both local and global levels. These steps directly extend what has worked well this year while addressing identified challenges, such as volunteer capacity and geographical accessibility.
Our experience this year has shown us that not all paid applications or tools are equally necessary or well-suited to our needs, especially with a small team. Some can be effectively replaced with free alternatives, while others have proven particularly valuable and worth keeping.
The recent acquisition of equipment this year will allow us to reduce future material expenses and reinvest those savings into sustaining and expanding our projects in the framework of the next annual plan. The period between now and the submission of this plan will not be idle; it will be dedicated to completing the remaining tasks of our current plan, publishing pending articles, uploading missing files and writing diff article about our projects to share with the movement or initiatives, analyzing data, and more, as well as preparing, adapting, and planning the group’s next actions.
We are also planning to conduct surveys and gather feedback from the community after each project we implement.
Our goal remains to ensure the sustainability of our activities and to maximize both impact and knowledge sharing, which are the true added value our group brings to Wikimedia projects.
3. Please provide a link to reports that detail the activities that took place in the last year. This can include an annual report, Meta pages, and websites. If there are no links available, briefly describe the implemented activities and programs below or upload any files. (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 3.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.1 (Affiliate health & resilience), 4.1 (Internal engagement), 4.2 (Community connection), and 4.3 (Partnerships and collaboration):
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
- Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 contest
Rain way station contest Meta page: [3]
- Edathon meta page: [4]
Wikinomad :
- Merta page: [5]
- Commons category: Category:Wikinomad Project 2024 - Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata: Wikinomad Project 2024 - Wikidata
- Dashboard: [6]
WikiDZ 10 anniversary:
Diff article: [7]
Wiki Loves Africa:
Algerian women contest: Wikipedia page: [10]
Algerian sports contest: Wikipedia page: [11]
Wiki musume 0.2:
Photography workshop:
Meta page: [16]
Audiovisual identity for algerian articles
Meta page: [17]
Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 in Algeria Event page: [18]
Photography expo:
Social media accounts:
Wiki Loves Competitions in Algeria: [27]
4. Are you interested in sharing what you achieved or learned this year with the wider community through different peer learning programs (e.g. Let's Connect program, Diff)? (optional)
Yes, we are going to share our activities and our learning with the community
5. Did you collect feedback from your community or target groups on how the activities implemented impacted them? If yes, please attach/provide information on the results (e.g. community surveys, stories, impact booklets/reports, interviews with partner institutions, etc). Did you collect other impact-specific data? (required)
For affiliates, the response to Question 5. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criteria 4.1 (Internal Engagement), 4.2 (Community Connection), or 4.3 (Partnerships & collaboration), where applicable.
Yes. We collected significant feedback from participants in the WikiNomad project, as well as from community members through emails, particularly from the Arabic-speaking community. We also received constructive input from the jury of our contests, and additional feedback came from participants in the Algerian Women’s Contest. This feedback has been valuable for assessing the impact of our activities and identifying areas for improvement.
6. During the fund period, did your efforts do any of the following? (required):
For affiliates, the response to Question 6. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criterion 2.2 (Diversity balance).
- 6.1 Bring in participants from the following groups: women, young people, speakers of minority languages
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: women, speakers of minority languages
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Editors, Organizers, Partnerships
7. What, if any, effective tactics or approaches can you share that worked well when dealing with the programs under points 6.1-6.3 that you selected? (optional)
To keep participants, especially new contributors, engaged and motivated, we organized a follow-up contest after the workshop. Categories included “Best Photo” and “Most Contributions to Wikimedia Commons.” The winners were publicly recognized and celebrated by the Club of Ambassadors and the Friends of Mostaganem Museum, which not only rewarded individual efforts but also strengthened the sense of community and connection to local heritage.
For organizers, we invited them to take part in the preparation and coordination of events, ensuring they felt ownership and gained valuable hands-on experience.
8. If you developed partnerships, which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors (optional):
Institutional support from the Wikimedia Foundation, Volunteers from our communities, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics
[edit]| Metrics name | Target | Result | Comments and tools used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 163 | 110 | Event tool registration and commons category, and Tool Labs: Tools for Wiki Loves Photo Competitions, also Dashboard |
| Number of all editors | 88 | 63 | Event tool registration and commons category, and Dashboard |
| Number of new editors | 70 | 48 | |
| Number of retained editors | 30 | 21 | |
| Number of all organizers | 7 | 7 | Event tool registration and commons category, and Dashboard |
| Number of new organizers | 3 | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages | Target - Number of improved pages | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 395 | 115 | 364 | 631 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 300 | 1681 | 0 | |
| Wikidata | 52 | 147 | 218 | |
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | ||||
| Wikimedia Incubator | 25000 | 100 | ||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | ||||
| Wikivoyage | ||||
| Wikibooks | ||||
| Wikiversity | ||||
| Wikinews | ||||
| Wikispecies | ||||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No
11.1. Other Metrics.
In your application, you outlined some other open metrics that you would like to measure. Please fill out the achieved results for each of the open metrics you defined.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Part 3: Skill Development / Capacity Building
[edit]12. Reflecting on your programmatic (external) and organizational (internal) work, did your grant support you to undergo any skill development that made a difference to your success? If yes, what skill was developed, and how did it lead to success? (e.g. received coaching on public speaking, attended training on nonviolent communication, hosted professional development conversations on leadership, learned and used a new tool for project management, etc.)? Can you share any materials? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 12.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.2 (Diversity balance) and 3.1 (Diverse, Skilled, and Accountable Leadership):
- Describe actions taken to prioritize gender balance in affiliate leadership, as well as any areas of diversity relevant to your affiliate's context (2.2).
- Describe the management, financial, or other leadership skills of your affiliate leaders. If you have a succession plan, please include it here (3.1).
- Describe any training or skill development (as outlined in the question above) (3.1).
- Incorporate into the annual report a disclosure of conflict of interests (if any) from the leadership (3.1).
As a user group, we developed valuable skills and gained practical experience through the projects we implemented during the grant period. We improved our use of Wikimedia event registration tools, integrating them into the workflow for most of our activities to streamline participation and tracking. We also strengthened our capacity to build sustainable, long-term partnerships with community stakeholders.
A notable example is our collaboration with the Club of Friends and Ambassadors of the Museum of Mostaganem, which hosted the photo exhibition showcasing the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Africa in Algeria, and also helped us organize several workshops. We further partnered with local actors to successfully carry out the WikiNomad initiative. These partnerships enhanced our program reach, community engagement, and overall impact.
Although we did not directly benefit from formal training programs offered by the Foundation, we did attend Let’s Connect meetings, which reflected and shared the experiences of other groups. Internally, we regularly exchanged knowledge among our members, with experienced contributors transferring their expertise to newer members, a practice that has proven essential to building cohesion and strengthening the group’s collective capacity.
13. What is one capacity/skill area that you would like to focus on for the next year? And how do you plan to achieve this capacity? (required)
We would like to focus on developing our skills in online event organization. Building on the experience gained this year, we plan to organize a capacity-building session for our members to strengthen these skills and apply them to next year’s activities because the effectiveness of these skills, especially now, has been recognized knowledge contribution. This will help us design and deliver more effective, accessible, and scalable online programs.
14. If you have additional information or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. Use the space below to upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your report.
For affiliates, also use this section (Question 14) to fulfill the Affiliate Health Criteria requirements.
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for affiliate governance, including affiliate leadership and membership with a breakdown of the demographics; how elections are conducted; how conflicts of interest are declared; and how decisions are made and communicated (2.2, 2.3, 3.1).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for activities incorporating, promoting awareness about, or enforcing the Universal Code of Conduct in your affiliate's activities (3.3).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for internal membership engagement, such as notes from your regular meetings and how you communicate to or involve your membership (4.1).
We place great importance on valuing volunteer and collaborative Since our group’s creation, our guiding principle has been that knowledge must always remain the ultimate goal of any project. The right balance lies in adding the maximum possible amount of knowledge to projects while using the minimum necessary funds.
We firmly believe that impactful results and meaningful knowledge can be achieved through creativity, dedication, and resourcefulness rather than financial investment alone. While we recognize that external support can help accelerate progress, we see it not as a direct driver of knowledge creation, but rather as a facilitator that can enhance and extend the impact of the collaborative efforts at the heart of our work.
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]For affiliates, also use this section (Part 4: Financial reporting) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 3.2 (Financial & Legal Compliance).
| Description | Planned / received budget for this category (DZD) | Amount spent (DZD) |
|---|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 900000 | 825000 |
| Operational costs | 957656 | 597382.97 |
| Programmatic costs | 2589829 | 2365829.7 |
| Total General Support Fund | 3788212.67 | 3788212.67 |
| Other revenue | ||
| Remaining funds from General Support Fund | N/A |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
3788212.67 DZD
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 597382.97 DZD
- Programmatic costs: 825000 DZD
- Staff and contractor costs: 2365829.7 DZD
17. Did you have any other revenue sources (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No
- 17.1. Provide the total amount received from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): DZD
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): DZD
18. Provide a financial report document which will provide the details of funds received and spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
18.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
We turned the planned workshops into a contest and reallocated the budget for the workshops to buy gifts for the winners.
We spent the equivalent of $1,577, based on an exchange rate of 129.0505, which is 5.65% over budget. This overrun is mainly due to the purchase of the camera, lens, and recorder (lines 78 to 80) on Amazon France rather than Amazon US (as originally planned), due to differences in availability and price.
In order to cover the price difference between the two markets, we thought it appropriate to reallocate these supposedly remaining funds to purchase additional equipment essential to the completion and success of the audiovisual project mentioned in lines 88 to 95, such as high-capacity storage devices to process large video files and other complementary items that ensured the quality and smooth running of the work.
At the time of purchase, we believed that these expenses would remain within the approved budget, as they were directly related to the planned activities and in line with the project's objectives.
The slight budget overrun was only noticed during the final financial reconciliation after the project was closed.
Please note that the totals for Staff and contractor costs, Operational costs, and Programmatic costs are based on amounts calculated before the budget reduction to 28,000 USD, which skews the results. In Fluxx, the only reference is the table sheet uploaded
Following the budget adjustment, we reduced the number of activities from 13 to 10 and shortened contractor salaries by one month. As a result, the actual figures are different.
The outcomes, therefore, appear above target, because removing the Wiktionary activity reduced the targets by around 25,000 words, as well as a significant number of articles and editors.
19. Do you have any unspent funds from this funding?: No
20. Final confirmations (required)
- 20.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement? You must be in compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement. In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
- 20.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
- 20.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
This is an automatically generated Meta-Wiki page. The page was copied from Fluxx, the web service of Wikimedia Foundation Funds, where the user has submitted their report. Please do not make any changes to this page because all changes will be removed after the next update. Use the discussion page for your feedback. The page was created by CR-FluxxBot.