Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wiki in Africa Multi-Year General Support 2023-25/Yearly Report (2025)
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Part 1: Understanding your work
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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.
Wiki In Africa continues to encounter both expected and unanticipated challenges as its programs flex, evolve, and scale to support the ever-growing, complex community across Africa and beyond. To do this effectively, the organisation has evolved into a stable, sustainable organisation, with well-managed, planned work processes that support and facilitate the work of actively engaged participants, volunteers, community members, staff, and board members.
In 2025—the final year of our 3-year funding cycle—Wiki In Africa continued to operate with a small, supportive, increasingly experienced, and highly effective part-time team. Although it faced challenges, this small team completed most of the planned organisational goals and project activities – in some cases exceeding expectations – which provided a satisfying close to the cycle.The project’s activities are documented in this report and on the links below. From an organisational perspective, we looked ahead, reviewing our past work and goals to inform our future activities. We consulted the full breadth of our community in targeted interviews, discussions, and a community-wide survey. We consulted our partners and, guided by an external specialist, we interrogated our values, stakeholder needs, and future opportunities. This led to a fresh approach to our work and to the future.
Staffing: Over the last 3 years, we have solved the full-year staffing concerns. In 2025, Wiki In Africa retained 6 existing staff (with the welcome addition in October of the Grant Pathways facilitator) by providing inflation-adjusted pay, skill training, and a three-year (albeit) reprieve from the stress of funding uncertainty relating to long-term security. This has enabled our diverse community to be better represented through our fantastic staff members, and has contributed greatly to consistent program development and activities, as well as to community participation and activation.
Governance: Our original concerns were over the suitability and sustainability of the Board, as well as the organisation’s financial reserves (to diminish unexpected risks). Year 3 focused on reviewing our governance structures, policies, and guidelines. It also saw the Board expand to ensure diversity and fundraising expertise. The Board and Staff were involved in a 6-month strategic review that analysed our current position and relevance, resulting in a Strategic Impact 2030 document.
Fiscal Sponsorships: We continue to support the Wikimedia Community across Africa (and beyond) through the programs we run, and beyond that by facilitating and supporting communities that exist in challenging socio-political environments. In 2025, Wiki In Africa fiscally sponsored six WMF grants for five Wikimedia groups. In total, the Wiki In Africa administrative team made 16 separate payments to individuals across a wide range of locations and via 5 platforms. Each sponsorship has its own challenges, and we implemented systems and funneled each group according to their needs and contexts.
General challenges: External challenges from the original proposal persist into Year 3, including limited internet access (29% in Africa), widening gender digital gaps, and content biases (e.g., 1.5% of African editors despite 17% of the global population). Unfortunately, despite several efforts, we have not yet secured external funding.
You can read about the specific activities around governance, operations, and the strategy processes during 2025 here: [1]
Programmes:
Successful programme strategies and successes as per the Pillars:
- Activation
- Consistent growth across all main programs
- Research and feasibility study on WikiFundi offline (final report due 2026):
- Activities report [2]
- Community engagement:
- Consistency has shown a notable increase in engagement from local Wikimedia organisers in our programs, specifically in WLA, WLW SheSaid, and WikiChallenge
- Consistent community consultations and feedback loops are implemented for all programs and activities
- Community partnerships and involvement at all levels: ambassadors
- Results & best practices pages: [3] and [4]
- Consistent growth across all main programs
- Research and feasibility study on WikiFundi offline (final report due 2026):
- Activities report [5]
- Consistency has shown a notable increase in engagement from local Wikimedia organisers in our programs, specifically in WLA, WLW SheSaid, and WikiChallenge
- Consistent community consultations and feedback loops are implemented for all programs and activities
- Community partnerships and involvement at all levels: ambassadors
- Leadership and Capacity Building
- Training and skills transfer at the core of all our programs
- Explicit training schedules for Wiki Loves Africa + Wiki Loves Women’s Focus Group, SheSaid + WikiOTO
- Training and skills transfer at the core of all our programs
- Enablement
- Language: Great inroads to balancing the English / French divide - content (translations), engagement (ambassadors), training sessions in three languages (English, French and Arabic), etc
- Partnering
- Collaborating partner on the VizWp Research Project
- Support and collaborative development of the Content Partnership Hub, and grantee partner
- Increased collaborations on the WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique programme
- Collaborating partner on the VizWp Research Project
- Support and collaborative development of the Content Partnership Hub, and grantee partner
Key Highlights
- Announcing the Wiki Loves Africa 2025 International Winners during the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2025
- Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Farm to Plate contest breaks entry records with 30,356 photos, 229 videos, and 23 audios submitted.
- Launching the Wilson Olouha Prizes for Regional Excellence live to close Wiki Loves Africa 2025
- Wiki Loves Women’s Focus Group members collaboratively devised and ran the WikiOTO pilot programme
- Wiki Loves Women contributed to the global discourse around gender equity by presenting at the Art+Feminism programme in March 2025, hosting a discussion on Women Visibility: How Wikimedia Movement sheds light on women in the 44th episode of WikiAfrica Hour, sharing the Wiki Loves Women journey during the opening of the WikiWomen Summit at Wikimania 2025, presenting at WikiConvention Francophone 2025 and …
- Wiki Loves Women was featured by Afek Ben Chahed at the United Nations Open Science Conference in Japan, where it contributed to conversations on gender equity in open knowledge and data accessibility.
- New Partnership between Wiki Loves Women and Les Sans PagEs A new partnership with Les Sans PagEs is underway, including the launch of the FrancAutrices card game.
- The continued success of WikiAfrica Hour not only leads discussions and sheds light on Wikimedia-focused topics, but also highlights the many tireless volunteers and organisers who make up our movement, both as guests and guest hosts.
- Involving Wikimedia volunteers and Media professionals in a new WikiAfrica Hour Advisory Panel to ensure that all topics are relevant and timely for the movement.
- Launching two new community-supporting special WikiAfrica Hour series’ – three WikiAfrica Hour Offline Demo sessions hosted for OEWeek 2025 and four (very early) Morning Briefings live from Wikimania 2025.
- WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique concluded its 8th edition with notable achievements, that included bilingual expansion with the contest now being organised in both French and English, increasing participation in Anglophone countries; stronger local collaboration between the Wikimedia groups and local Orange teams were more involved in training and follow-up; and reinforcing central coordination with an additional team member adding to the work of User:Anthere and User:Afek91.
- ISA Tools is the chosen catalyst for new contributors at the Wikimania 2025 Hackathon. After Wikimania, interested contributors organised the WMA Tool Series – ISA Spotlight Session to sustain momentum from the Hackathon.
- ISA Tool’s original developer and continued supporter, Eguene, was recognised as Tech Wikimedian of the Year at Wikimania 2025.
Wikimedia Community Involvement:
Wiki In Africa participated in the conceptual development workshop for the Content Partnership Hub in Berlin in May and presented at Wikimania Nairobi, WikiArabia, and the Wiki Convention Francophone conferences, and was poised to send a delegate to WikiIndaba Tanzania. Unfortunately, WikiIndaba Tanzania was cancelled.
The inner workings of the Wikimedia movement events, policies, governance, community structures, and projects were repeatedly showcased, discussed, and made visible through WikiAfrica Hour. The WikiAfrica Hour team documented the experiences of African delegates at Wikimania and WikiArabia, which were later shared as “Echoes From” segments. In addition, the WikiAfrica Hour team hosted 4 daily live Morning Briefings from Wikimania Nairobi to bridge the gap between attendees and those watching from home. Donia Domiaty, WikiAfrica Hour facilitator, interviewed four female leaders in the Wikimedia movement for the Inspiring Open segments. We further deepened audience understanding of offline options beyond WikiFundi by hosting WikiAfrica Hour discussions and offline demos across 3 platforms during OEWeek.
Finally, we were excited to implement the New Funding Pathway with the Wikimedia Foundation for some of our key programs - specifically SheSaid and Wiki Loves Africa.
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)
In 2025, following feedback from the Wikimedia Community and a comprehensive review of our focus areas, theory of change, stakeholders, risks, strategy, and program outcomes, we developed the Impact Strategy 2030 and a multi-year plan for 2028-2026. The Wiki In Africa team developed these plans based on the pace and shape of prior growth, insights from 12 years of experience, and the demands and expressed needs of the diverse communities we collaborate with.
Essential elements of the Impact Strategy involved:
- validating and recalibrating our initial aims and intentions,
- reinforcing our organisational values,
- reaffirming our position and role within the Wikimedia community,
- isolating the key expectations of our community,
- assessing internal and external threats,
- considering our stakeholders’ needs and expectations,
- consolidating our approach towards four strategic pillars, and
- ultimately developing and publishing our new Impact Statement.
In light of the considerable work completed during the Strategy Process, we identified four strategic pillars that will be applied from 2026 onward. These are:
- Activation: Creating entry points and return touchpoints that build interest, momentum, and integration into the Wikimedia movement.
- Leadership & Capacity Building: Making explicit our investment in people, thus creating longer-term sustainability.
- Enablement: The explicit and implicit support that our staff and programs provide, ensuring that communities thrive.
- Partnering: Building relationships that strengthen and sustain the wider open-knowledge movement.
Guided by these documents through 2030, and specifically for this plan between 2026 and 2028, Wiki In Africa intended to continue its support and expand its current range of projects in alignment with, and through the lens of, extensive community feedback, these recalibrated strategic pillars, and the guidelines of the Impact Strategy. The organisation’s overall strategy is to develop our projects to their full sustainable potential, facilitating content development by supporting the growth and development of Wikimedia and aligned communities. It also included the activation of new programmes to close identified gaps in content and community development.
The documents served as the basis for a multi-year application to the WMF Grants team in 2025 for an additional 3 years.
This multi-year application was rejected and reduced to 1-year funding only, with an authorised budget below its 2025 equivalent. This required us to rethink and review what is achievable in the funded year of 2026. We will continue running our most successful campaigns, recalibrate some of our other support mechanisms, and reduce the output of energy-intensive programs. We will have to de-prioritise smaller programs, and not begin the others we were planning for 2026-2028.
Review the following links to learn more:
- Wiki In Africa Core Views
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Results of the Wikimedia Community Survey
- Strategic Pillars
- Updated Risk Analysis
- Pestle Framework
- [6]MultiYear Plan 2026-2028
- SMART Goals 2026
Note: all documentation relating to the MultiYear Plan for 2026-2028 should not be considered final, as the scale of implementation has changed due to reduced expectations and constraints resulting from 1 year of funding.
Winning Programmatic Strategies
All 2025 program activities are available here: [7]. Below are a few examples (not a comprehensive list) of the successful strategies we have applied to our programmes.
Intentional Linguistic Support
- Intentional financial support for Wikimedians dedicated to the translation of Wiki In Africa program pages on Meta, Commons, WikiQuote, DIFF articles, and websites into French.
- Linguistic ambassadors for Wiki Loves Africa to work closely with the community to activate, encourage, and support involvement in Wiki Loves Africa.
- Targeted training in at least three different languages (English, French, and Arabic).
- Intentional inclusion of both anglophone and francophone community leaders in the New Grant Pathway grant review juries.
- Invite community members to be involved in the Wiki Loves Africa First Review process; in many cases, this is the first time that some people take on a role with a “safe” level of responsibility. In our survey, it has been cited as a “confidence boost” to more direct involvement in the movement.
Capacity transfer and exchange
- Comprehensive training programs for each of Wiki In Africa’s major campaigns and drives, held in 3 main languages (English, French, and Arabic).
- Approaching experts on topics (Wikimedian and Professionals) to be hosts or lead trainers in specific training to ensure high-quality and accurate information and best practices are shared with the wider community.
- Tailor training session to support the skills growth of both organisers, and in the case of Wiki Loves Africa, participants, an example in 2025 is featuring a training session on Audio production.
- Constant review of metrics tools to ensure that organisers have access to the correct data for their reporting and documentation.
Organiser Support & Visibility
- Training and support offered at every stage of the campaign development process, from how to apply for a rapid grant through to campaign activation support and how participate with quality content to final documentation, categorisation, evaluation, and metrics training.
- Hosted WikiAfrica Hour morning briefings @ Wikimania 2025. (Read more about it in the "WikiAfrica Hour in conferences" section of the WikiAfrica Hour Results and Best Practices 2025 page).
- Introduction of the Wiki Loves Africa regional - Wilson Oluoha - prize category; this new prize category is designed to spotlight winning photographs at the community/national level and make visible the community organisers and participants involved in the contest.
- WikiAfrica Hour guests and “Echoes From” interviewees bring a spotlight to Wikimedia organisers and Wikimedians across Africa and beyond.
- The Inspiring Open project from Wiki Loves Women has continued to make visible “inspirational” female Wikimedians during its segment of WikiAfrica Hour. In 2025, 4 female Wikimedians were featured through these targeted interviews.
- Through its fiscal sponsorship program, Wiki In Africa continues to support volunteers and community groups that face challenges due to their country’s global socio-political or economic context, or because they are more recent additions to the movement. In 2025, the Wiki In Africa administrative team supported four WMF-sponsored grantee groups in Zimbabwe, Gabon, Sudan, and Angola. The fifth fiscal sponsorship for 2025 was for the WikiWomen distributed group.
Partnership, Collaboration, and Outreach
- Wiki Loves Women contributed to major international spaces, including Art+Feminism, WikiWomen Summit at Wikimania 2025 in Nairobi, WikiConvention Francophone 2025 in Benin, and the UN Open Science Conference 2025 in Tokyo, bringing gender equity conversations into global open knowledge forums.
- Through the #SheSaid campaign, Wiki Loves Women collaborated closely with other gender-gap initiatives and Wikimedia groups, including Noircir Wikipédia, WikiDonne, and Les sans pagEs.
- During OEWeek, WikiAfrica Hour conducted an extended series of interviews with offline platform leaders to showcase how each platform works.
- Wiki In Africa is a partner on the program, VIZ WP.
- Wiki In Africa is a co-signatory and partner of the Content Partnership Hub, along with 11 affiliates, on an initiative spearheaded by Wikimedia SV.
- Through its fiscal sponsorship program in 2025, Wiki In Africa is a collaborating partner with five Wikimedia volunteer groups.
Feedback Loops
- Wiki In Africa’s programs consistently check in (survey or interview) with its community partners, organisers, and participants; please view the results and best practices pages for each program here: [8] and [9][10]
- In 2025, we invited leading members from across Wikimedia community groups to get feedback on our current approach, impact on their Wikimedia journey, and future hopes and dreams. We received 46 responses from 20 African countries (and 4 European countries) to our survey. Their responses were pivotal to the development of our Impact Strategy 2030.
- Read more in our response to question 5 and the Metrics sections below.
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).
2025 Overview – General Organisation and Programmatic Activities Report: [11]
Wiki In Africa Results and best practice category: [12]
- Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Results and best practices page: https://w.wiki/Hg$V
- Wiki Loves Women 2025 Results and best practices page: [13]
- WikiAfrica Hour 2025 Results and best practices: https://w.wiki/Hg$e
- WikiChallenge African Schools 2025 Results and best practices: https://w.wiki/Hg$i
- ISA Tool Results and best Practices 2025: https://w.wiki/Hg$N
Wiki In Africa media coverage:
- Wikimedia coverage, articles and Diff + Media Mentions
- Wiki In Africa news in English across all projects can be found here
- Wiki In Africa news in French across all projects can be found here
- All newsletters here (in English) here
- All newsletters here (in French) here
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 always looking for opportunities to share and learn from other organisers.
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.
2025 Community feedback
In the 2nd quarter of 2025, we decided not to guess how Wikimedians saw us, so we sent a survey in two languages to our community. We wanted to know: What is going well? Where can we do better? What should we focus on in the next five years? Their responses are already helping us make a plan that aligns with the community's needs and keeps African knowledge easy to find, important, and open to everyone.
We received 46 responses from Wikimedia organisers in Africa and elsewhere (in both French and English) from 20 African and 4 European countries. Their feedback covered how our programs have helped them, the benefits they have seen over the years, and ideas for future collaboration. Most of the feedback was very positive. They said our programs were key to their success as Wikimedians.
Key Takeaways:
The 2025 survey responses indicate that Wiki In Africa is recognized as a key catalyst in the African Wikimedian ecosystem. Respondents consistently describe Wiki In Africa as:
- A gateway into Wikimedia participation for individuals and emerging communities.
- A capacity builder, especially through practical campaigns such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women, and SheSaid.
- A connector and promoter of African voices, cultures, and narratives at both continental and global levels.
- A trusted convenor and mentor, especially for gender equity, leadership development, and community sustainability.
The most valued impacts include skills development, confidence-building, reducing gender gaps, cultural preservation, volunteer recruitment, and community activation. Respondents also point to Wiki In Africa’s distinctive strengths: its pan-African scope, strong visual and communication identity, partnership-building capacity, and thematic focus on Africa.
Looking ahead, communities encourage Wiki In Africa to strengthen its role in mentorship, leadership development, advocacy, and partnerships, and to expand into education, African languages, audio-visual knowledge, AI literacy, contributor well-being, and policy literacy. There is strong demand for co-organizing future initiatives, reflecting trust, alignment, and readiness for deeper collaboration. Read the full report here.
Wiki Loves Africa
Detailed information: https://w.wiki/Hg$V
Since the contest's inception in 2014, we have sought feedback from organisers and participants each year. This feedback has helped shape the contest as it has grown in scale and scope, becoming more complex and layered. Each year, we post the reports and analyses on our Results and Best Practices pages and are intentional about implementing agreed-upon recommendations and working to solve the identified problems.
We also take pains to ensure, through our external practices, that the organisers and volunteers who help drive and assess Wiki Loves Africa are acknowledged, made visible, and thanked. It is important to us that the organisers, ambassadors, jurors (photography + video + ‘new’ regional jury for Wilson Olouha Prize), and winners can share their journeys in their own words.
As is done every year, at the end of the 2025 contest, a general participant survey was released, and the organizers conducted interviews with four local organizers. The general survey was available to all participants. The interviews were with lead local organizers, a prospective winner, and a member of the jury. m:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2025/Survey
Participant feedback:
- “Wiki Loves Africa campaign actually changed my perspectives today about knowledge sharing in general. It helped me promote my culture through a lens, document, and safeguard it for future generations. For me, it's beyond just the campaign, it's a cultural preservation, and I'm much grateful to the organisers of this event.”
- “From a personal perspective, the best aspects of participating in Wiki Loves Africa 2025 for me were the opportunity to enrich the content through my photographic contributions, share images that reflect African culture and heritage, and the feeling that my creativity helps spread knowledge about the continent to as many people as possible. Participation also gave me the chance to engage with a global community interested in culture and the arts, and to develop my skills in photography and presenting content attractively and reliably.”
- “There are big gaps in how Africa is shown online, and they affect how people, even Africans, see the continent. Often, Africa is only shown through problems like poverty or conflict, while its culture, beauty, and creativity are ignored. This makes many people have a limited or wrong image of Africa. That’s why Wiki Loves Africa is so important. It gives Africans a chance to share their own stories and show real life on the continent. As a jury member, I have seen many amazing photos that highlight Africa’s diversity, innovation, and spirit. These images help change the old story and show the world what Africa truly is.
Key Takeaways from Participant Survey:
- We received 61 responses to our survey, offering valuable insights into participants' experiences with Wiki Loves Africa 2025
- Participants were highly satisfied with their Wiki Loves Africa 2025 experience, rating it 4.44 out of 5.00.
- More than two-thirds (72%) learned about Wikimedia Commons through the campaign.
- One-fifth (20%) of respondents were introduced to Wikimedia projects through Wiki Loves Africa.
- For more than half (78%) of respondents, the best aspect of contributing to Wiki Loves Africa 2025 was the chance to share their community's story with the world.
- The majority (90%) of respondents expressed enthusiasm for participating in Wiki Loves Africa 2026.
Final reports:
- Participant Surveys Report here
- Organiser Interviews Report here
At the end of 2025, a feedback meeting (online) was held with the Ambassadors. The ambassadors' feedback highlights a continued commitment to the growth and success of the Wiki Loves Africa campaign. Key priorities for future improvement include earlier planning, structured communication, strengthened training for organisers, and enhanced recognition for outstanding contributions. Implementing these recommendations will further strengthen collaboration among ambassadors and organisers, improve efficiency, and ensure a more impactful campaign experience in subsequent years.
Further to the controlled feedback loops (one-on-one interviews, surveys, and group meetings), we also received input from the organisers, ambassadors, jurors, and winners' experiences through the following live broadcast public-facing mechanisms:
- the launch event, watch on YouTube
- the winners announcement at Wikimania 2025, watch on YouTube
- the WikiAfrica Hour episode - Celebrate Africa through the lens: Stories from Wiki Loves Africa 2025, watch on YouTube
- the Wilson Olouha Prize Video announcement
We covered the involvement of our jury members and shared the views and professional journeys of the Winners on the Wiki In Africa news pages:
- Videography Jury Spotlight
- Photography Jury spotlight
- 1st Prize photography
- 2nd prize photography
- 3rd prize photography
- Narrative video prize
- Reportage video prize
View just a few of the articles and videos spotlighting Wiki Loves Africa’s organisers on Diff and YouTube:
- Wiki Loves Africa 2025 in the Wiki for Senior Citizens Network
- My First Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Experience In The Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
- Celebrating Excellence: Announcing the Inaugural Wilson Oluoha Prize Winners for Wiki Loves Africa
- Farm to Plate: Celebrating the International Prize Winners of Wiki Loves Africa 2025
- All Wiki Loves Africa 2025 YouTube videos
- Wiki Loves Africa 2025 in Uganda Launch Event
- Wiki Loves Africa 2025 in Tyap Community
Wiki Loves Women
Detailed information: here
Wiki Loves Women conducts annual surveys with members of the Focus Group and the organisers of the SheSaid drive to assess success and uncover challenges. This feedback guides the next iteration. In 2025, the team added a set of questions to the Focus Group survey to gather critical feedback on the success of the WikiOTO pilot.
Focus Group Annual Survey Results
Overall, participation in the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group had a positive impact on most respondents, both personally and professionally. Members reported increased confidence, leadership development, professional exposure (especially in librarianship and community leadership), and a strong sense of belonging to a pan-African women’s Wikimedia network. Several highlighted feeling empowered, heard, and motivated to contribute more actively to Wikimedia projects.
While Focus Group members appreciated the training sessions, many cited limited availability, workload, or competing community responsibilities, which reduced consistent participation.
The WLW Focus Group fostered a supportive, women-centered learning environment with meaningful personal and community impact. Strengthening structure, inclusivity, and participation will be critical to maximizing the effectiveness of the upcoming Cohort Training model.
Key Finding:
- Satisfaction with 2025 sessions: Mostly moderate to high (3–5)
Focus Group Feedback:
- "Since the first round I joined the community, I felt welcomed. I was glad I had the opportunity to be able to express my thoughts, suggest ideas, and even share my personal feelings about my capacity and my dreams in a community where I felt safe and supported. I am grateful for the whole journey that has made me a stronger leader in my own life and the community of Wikimedians. »
- "I really enjoyed connecting with new people and learning through hands-on activities. I hope the new Cohort Training continues to empower contributors, build skills, and foster collaboration."
'Wiki OTO & “Learning by Doing” 'Model
The Focus Group members widely appreciated the hands-on approach of Wiki OTO.
Key benefits:
- Practical learning through real campaign design and implementation
- Skill-building in planning, communication, leadership, and coordination
- Co-creation strengthened ownership and community bonding
Key challenges:
- Uneven participation and follow-up
- Difficulty sustaining motivation and engagement
- Lack of clear guides, milestones, or reference materials
- Language barriers and fixed meeting schedules
Participants applied lessons learned to:
- Improve local campaign planning and execution
- Strengthen community management and mentoring
- Encourage women’s leadership and participation
Despite challenges, most respondents agreed that organizing a real campaign significantly supported their growth. Respondents reported that, even when Wiki OTO engagement was limited, exposure to cross-cultural collaboration increased their confidence and understanding of Wikimedia processes.
SheSaid
The Wiki Loves Women team report is based on feedback from local #SheSaid 2025 organisers, collected through a survey with responses submitted in both English and French. Respondents include experienced organisers and newer participants, representing diverse communities, languages, and event formats.
Key findings:
- Across all responses, organisers expressed deeply aligned motivations:
- Addressing the systemic underrepresentation of women on Wikiquote and other Wikimedia projects
- Amplifying local, African, Asian, and underrepresented women’s voices
- Encouraging women’s participation as editors, especially first-time contributors
- Strengthening local language communities and cultural representation
- Addressing the systemic underrepresentation of women on Wikiquote and other Wikimedia projects
- Amplifying local, African, Asian, and underrepresented women’s voices
- Encouraging women’s participation as editors, especially first-time contributors
- Many organisers described #SheSaid not only as a content campaign, but as a tool for feminist advocacy, digital inclusion, and collective memory-building
- With regards to the communications developed for use by the team, Organisers strongly preferred adaptable materials rather than fixed designs.
- Most respondents applied for Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants, and the application template and guidance provided by the #SheSaid team were rated as Very Helpful. Organisers generally found the application process clear and well supported.
- Several organisers, however, noted longer-than-expected response timelines for funding decisions. In some cases, communities chose to self-fund initial activities to proceed as planned. In contrast, others extended their local campaign timelines to allow sufficient time to complete activities only after the organisers received the grant funds. As a result, some final reports and outcomes are expected to be submitted later than originally scheduled. These experiences highlight the value of clear, country-specific guidance on funding pathways and timelines to help organisers align campaign planning with funding cycles.
Organiser quotes:
- “The success of SheSaid 2025 in Nigeria invites communities across the movement to rethink who gets to contribute, why, and how. When we widen the circle and scope, we don’t just close content or gender gaps; we build a richer and more inclusive Wikimedia ecosystem.”
- “Organising SheSaid in my country and in my local language (Fante) reminded me that when communities come together with a shared purpose, even small contributions can amplify voices that history has often muted. Through collective effort, we created space for women’s words to live on and inspire others.”
- "Beyond the activities and numbers, #SheSaid 2025 was a powerful reminder of the impact of language inclusion and community ownership. Working with volunteers showed how committed people become when they see their language and culture valued in global spaces like Wikimedia. The campaign strengthened collaboration, built confidence among new editors, and reaffirmed that documenting women’s voices, especially in underrepresented languages, is both necessary and urgent. Most importantly, it reinforced my belief that sustained mentorship and local partnerships are key to growing meaningful participation and ensuring long-term impact. »
- "SheSaid 2025 m'a permis de découvrir cette année une association féminine qui défend les femmes battues. Quelque part, ça m'a rappelé cette citation de la romancière sénégalaise Mariama Ba: 'Chaque vie recèle une parcelle d'héroïsme, un héroïsme obscur fait d'abdications, de renoncements et d'acquiescements sous le fouet impitoyable de la fatalité.’ "
Diff Links':
As with Wiki Loves Africa, it is important to the Wiki In Africa team that SheSaid organisers and their journeys and experiences are made visible. Here are the Diff articles from the Wiki Loves Women team and community organisers:
- 5 Reasons You Should Join the #SheSaid Campaign This Year
- SheSaid 2025 in Indonesia: The Inaugural Edition Advancing Women’s Voices on Wikimedia (by the community)
- SheSaid 2025 in Nigeria (by the community)
- CBSUA, PhilWiki Community boost digital literacy with Wiki Edu Program (by the community)
- SheSaid 2025 in the Wiki for Senior Citizens Network (by the community)
WikiAfrica Hour
Detailed information: 'https://w.wiki/Hg$e
In 2025, WikiAfrica Hour continued its annual feedback mechanism, gathering feedback from guests and guest hosts about their experiences on the show. It also launched a new initiative to ensure its topics remain relevant to the community. This saw an Advisory Panel being established. At the inaugural meeting, they provided input on the format of each session, how the episodes were described and framed to reach beyond the Wikimedia community, and on shorter discussion periods. They suggested inviting people outside Wikimedia to broaden the episodes' relevance to a wider audience and provided a fascinating list of future discussion topics. Feedback from the 2025 WikiAfrica Hour guest speakers and hosts was overwhelmingly positive. Participants consistently described the experience as welcoming, supportive, and community-driven, with many highlighting the warm atmosphere and sense of peer-to-peer exchange rather than a formal broadcast.
The majority of respondents rated their overall experience and level of support very highly (4–5/5). Guests felt comfortable and engaged during the live sessions. Several noted that participating in WikiAfrica Hour positively impacted their visibility within the Wikimedia movement—particularly by connecting them with African communities they had not previously engaged with.
Guest responses:
- “It felt like a conversation between friends hosted by friends.”
- “Everything was amazing—connecting with other Wikimedians.”
- “It opened conversations and expanded the audience for our project.”
- “Great project—keep doing the incredible work.”
ISA Tool
Detailed information: 'https://w.wiki/Hg$N
Community experiences of the ISA Tool:
- My Experience at the WMA End-of-Year Hack Challenge 2025
- Scholarship, Hackathons, and Swahili Words: Wikimania 2025 Through My Eyes
- Empowering Tech Contributors in Tanzania: Wikimedia Technical Training Ahead of WikiIndaba 2025 Hackathon
- Looking Back at ISA Tell Us About Her 2025: Women in Literature
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, indigenous groups , young people, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: women, indigenous groups, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 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)
Supporting participants and organisers
WikiChallenge Écoles d’Afrique: Youth + Organizer Retention
In the WikiChallenge Education Programme, we have involved the Wikimedia Usergroups as often as possible by connecting them with the local Orange Foundations. Bringing the local Usergroups and the local Fondation Orange branch together greatly benefits the Programme. Additionally, it provides local Usergroups with opportunities to network with Orange personnel, potentially leading to new independent collaborations.
When the initial contact is successful, Wikimedians may provide training and general support to the Orange team, or, in some cases, implement the programme in schools. In those cases, they receive a budget directly from the local Orange team. But because of the significant differences between a small association and a large corporation, the financial context can sometimes slow collaboration. In 2024, Florence negotiated with Orange Paris for a small budget to provide seed funding for at least one initial meeting and a training session for each group. This tactic worked well and will be retained for the 2026 edition.
We sometimes had to insist that Wikimedia volunteers be recognised locally as partners and invited to ceremonies, for example. This is improving year after year.
Wiki Loves Women: Focus Group: Women + Organizer Retention
Florence and Isla decided to “stay away” from the WLW focus group, leaving it to Afek and the group to decide on their annual activities and to empower the group's developing leadership capabilities without being constrained by a perceived overseer. The result was the Focus Group’s collaborative development of the WikiOTO drive.
Organizer Retention + Visibility of Women & Underrepresented Regions: SSA
- WikiAfrica Hour: Careful and deliberate choice of WikiAfrica Hour hosts, according to the monthly topic, allowed for more informative and impactful episodes
- Wiki Loves Women: The inclusion of Inspiring Open interviews in the WikiAfrica Hour In Focus segment, to make visible the leaders within the Wikimedia movement to an already engaged audience.
- Wiki Loves Africa’s Wilson Oluha Prize: Regional prizes implementation for the first time + online celebration with dedicated video generated a lot of engagement and love
Underrepresented geographic regions
- Contracting with 2 French Wikimedians to translate content from English to French enabled us to significantly increase the availability of French-language content, specifically articles, blog posts, wiki pages, newsletters, website content, annual reports, etc..
- Ensuring that the facilitator’s language does not disadvantage communities, Wiki Loves Africa has been working with 6 volunteer Linguistic Ambassadors to ensure that all our materials and Wiki Loves Africa opportunities are shared with the linguistic communities across the continent
Partnership Retention
- Partnering with les sans pagEs over SheSaid gave birth to the idea of producing a card game (that will be presented at Wikimania 2026)
- Partnering with WPVIZ
- Being a signatory organisation to the Content Partnership Hub ensures the simultaneous development and collation of training materials to support the training and onboarding of partners, content institutions, their communities, and volunteers.
Please note that the above points are not an exhaustive list but a sample of the new approaches we have used to achieve these aims over the last year.
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):
Permanent staff outreach, Volunteers from our communities, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics for Year 3
[edit]| Wikimedia Metrics | Target (Year 3) | Results (Year 3) | Comments and tools used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 1255 | 2566 | WLA participants = 886 creatives + 45 communities x 10 participants = 886+450=1,336
Wikiquote participants = 45 x 18 = 810 ISA participants = 367 WAHour guests = 41 guests + 12 hosts Multiple tools used |
| Number of all editors | 1255 | 2566 | WLA participants = 886 creatives + 45 communities x 10 participants = 886+450=1,336
Wikiquote participants = 45 x 18 = 810 ISA participants = 367 WAHour guests = 41 guests + 12 hosts New editors: Wiki Loves Africa can show new contributors … in 2025, this stood at 45% of the total, or 395 - we do not have similar figures for SheSaid … or other programs Retained editors: Wiki Loves Africa can show previous contributors (indicating retention) … in 2025, this stood at 55% of the total, or 491 - we do not have similar figures for SheSaid … ? |
| Number of new editors | N/A | ||
| Number of retained editors | N/A | ||
| Number of all organizers | 242 | 268 | WLA org team members = 45 x 3
WLW Focus group members / SheSaid= 18 + 35 ISA Tool campaigns: 70 WikiChallenge Wikimedians = 10 New organisers:
|
| Number of new organizers | N/A | 22 |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages (Year 3) | Target - Number of improved pages (Year 3) | Result - Number of created pages (Year 3) | Result - Number of improved pages (Year 3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | ||||
| Wikimedia Commons | 31497 | 136428 | ||
| Wikidata | 674 | |||
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | ||||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | 14196 | 232 | ||
| Wikivoyage | ||||
| Wikibooks | ||||
| Wikiversity | ||||
| Wikinews | ||||
| Wikispecies | ||||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
Tool used and comments (optional):
Quarry queries,
Petscan queries,
BaGLAMour recreation tool by User:Dominic,
GLAM Wiki Dashboard,
Wikimedia Analytics API: Commons analytics,
Page Piles,
Page Views (Massview Analysis) of total page views + per category,
Inbuilt ISA Tool analytics (https://w.wiki/97JM),
All Wiki Loves Africa tools (https://w.wiki/Hhjk),
All Wiki Loves Women SheSaid tools (https://w.wiki/6Kg2)
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes
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 | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WikiAfrica Hour impact | In 2023, we surveyed the 100+ WikiAfrica guests since 2021. We have since changed the format and flow of the program.
Have these changes imparted relevant knowledge and built community skills, encouraged cohesion, retention, and a shared purpose? What has been its value to the community? This is a qualitative metric we have revised and would like to continue to explore in 2025. |
N/A | N/A | Approach and Results
We could not find a way to survey the general audience and receive credible results. In the Community Survey 2025, we received the following unsolicited feedback about WikiAfrica Hour's impact:
The metrics we do have are from the annual guest survey and reaching out to a collection of potential members for an advisory committee, then hosted a first meeting with the ones who accepted to join, provided them with an overview of what has been achieved so far, what programmatic elements could be fine tuned, what is missing, etc. and get them involved in 1-3 online sessions to brainstorm on the strategy ahead. All feedback from the initial meeting was collated. A survey was conducted for all Guest participants in 2025. Overall, feedback from WikiAfrica Hour guest speakers and guest hosts in 2025 was overwhelmingly positive. Participants consistently described the experience as welcoming, supportive, and community-driven, with many highlighting the warm atmosphere and sense of peer-to-peer exchange rather than a formal broadcast.
Comments or Analysis WikiAfrica Hour Successes:
WikiAfrica Hour Challenges The guest survey detailed:
Support & Facilitation:
Impact & Visibility Many participants reported increased visibility and new connections, especially with African Wikimedians:
Willingness to Return
Final Reflections
Read more: https://w.wiki/Hg$e |
Google Forms for the surveys,
Meta page views tool, YouTube analytics. |
| Documentation of the leadership journey of Wiki Loves Women core participants as they enter a new phase | We have trained and mentored core participants in the Wiki Loves Women program since 2017. What has happened to them since their initial involvement in the program? What was the impact of the collaboration on their journey? Did that reinforce their leadership?
This is a qualitative metric we have revised and would like to continue to explore in 2025. |
N/A | N/A | In general, since its formation in 2021, the WLW Focus Group successfully fostered a supportive, women-centered learning environment with meaningful personal and community impact. The main model of a strong regular (monthly) training component intersperced with networking and bonding activites continued with more intention in 2025.
In 2025, the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group adopted a learning-by-doing approach to strengthen members’ skills through direct participation in real projects. This new model is implemented through the Wiki Àrà-Ọ̀tọ̀ (Wiki Ọ̀tọ̀) campaign, which serves as a practical platform for members to apply knowledge, collaborate, and develop leadership capacity. Results When asked about the ultimate impact of the Focus Group on their Wikimedia journey, most members reported positive personal and professional impact of the programme. Members reported increased confidence, leadership development, professional exposure (especially in librarianship and community leadership), and a strong sense of belonging to a pan-African women’s Wikimedia network. Several highlighted feeling empowered, heard, and motivated to contribute more actively to Wikimedia projects.
|
Google Forms. |
| Participation of professional photographers and filmmakers in Wiki Loves Africa | For the past 3 years, we have tried to reach out to photo professionals in Africa. We have employed this strategy throughout 2023 & 2024, particularly in the contest webinars and events. We will continue with this. Has there been an impact on photo quality? Is there enough awareness of the contest in the professional sphere? What is the level of awareness of the benefits of contributing to Wikimedia Commons ?
This is a qualitative metric we have revised and would like to continue to explore in 2025. |
N/A | N/A | * Social media research (especially Instagram) of professional photographers in Africa, with direct message invitations to just under 100 photographers, filmmakers and theme-focused organisations to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa contests. Read more about the methodology and success of this approach here
Results
|
Commons Category numbers,
Social Media analytics, Comparisons of submissions. |
| WLA focus on media - video and audio - quality contributions through support and development to Commons | Involve and expose WLA to the African documentary community. Do the filmmakers and audiophiles understand what is an encyclopedic entry? This is an additional qualitative metric in 2025 that refines a metric from year 2. | N/A | N/A | Approach followed
Results
|
Comparisons of submissions,
Comparisons of shortlisted videos and audios, Assessment of quality of submissions. |
| Validate and document excellence across the Wikimedia movement in Africa | Is visible validation required? Will it make a difference to the retention of editors and/or the transition from editors to organisers?
This is a new qualitative metric in 2025. Minimum of 10 prize categories awarded in 2025 |
10 | N/A | Approach:
What happened instead:
Note: Individual prizes and group recognition awards were awarded. Whilst this does not really answer the initial question (does that make a difference to retention or transition), there was ample evidence during the ceremony that the recipients of the prizes were very proud… Wiki Loves Africa: We launched the Wilson Oluoha Prize Category for Wiki Loves Africa 2025, which led to a second awards ceremony showcasing the Regional Winning images and increased visibility for the local organisers across regions. WikiAfrica Hour: The excellent work of Wikimedians were showcased monthly in each WikiAfrica Hour episode - in 2025, WikiAfrica Hour featured 41 guests, supported by 12 different guest hosts. African Wikimedians attending Wikimedia events were interviewed and shared their experiences during the WikiAfrica Hour “Echoes From” segments. Delegates were interviewed at Wikimedia Youth Conference and Wikimania Kenya. Four leading female Wikimedians were showcased through the Inspiring Open interviews during the In Focus segment of WikiAfrica Hour. From the Community Survey we conducted in 2025, we were honoured to receive this accolade:
|
Google forms,
YouTube analytics. |
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).
Internal Skills Development
- The whole team participated in the Impact Strategy Process (facilitating the discovery of new processes such as the PESTLE, workshop techniques, etc.
- Several new tools were adopted during the year, including Riverside, Depicts, and Xero.
- Training in translation tagging on wiki pages to facilitate translation processes (improvement noticed)
- Video editing, transcription, and audio editing skills through Filmora and other media production platforms
Links:
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)
Fundraising and financial security
- Refocusing our priorities
Capacity building and analysis
- Consolidate our existing training from all our programmes over 10 years+ into one portal topic, per language, application level, for more effective use across the community
- Identify gaps in the capacity-building sessions we currently offer
- Exploring tools that help gather metrics more efficiently
- Bonus: Learning how to use CapX and Wiki Learn as platforms for our WikiAfrica Skills program
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).
Gender balance:
- Our team is made up of 8 members; 6 of them are female; the leadership team is made up of two women.
Governance and Documentation:
All our governance materials including policy documents are accessible here:
Declarations of association:
All corporations, partnerships, associations, usergroups or other organisations of which the leadership is an officer, director, board member, partner, volunteer on a committee, or employee, and describe the affiliation with such entity in 2025.
Florence
- Anthere Consulting, individual company in France
- World Intellectual Property Organization, as a contractor since 2022
- Wikimania Steering Team Committee member
- Wikimania Core Team 2026 (Wikimania Paris)
- WikiFranca, French-speaking hub, as a member representing Wiki in Africa
- Ynternet.org, Swiss non-profit, where I am a volunteer vice president
- Les sans pagEs, voluntary community financial auditor (this is an official statutory role). Resigned December 2025
- Open Food Facts, voluntary board member since 2019
- Legal Service for Commons, a French non-profit providing services to community-led open projects, a voluntary board member
- Contact member of the Wikimedia for offline wikis usergroup
- Contractor Wikimedia CH for their programme CARE
- Contractor SUPSI University for the VIZWP programme
Isla
- Chairperson of Advance Edukos Foundation
- Employee – Director of Marketing - OEGlobal
- Member of the Content Partnership Hub Nominations Committee
Universal Code of Conduct
- Wiki In Africa has its support for the use of UCoC linked in the footer of its main website
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 | Amount spent (ZAR) |
|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 2319167 |
| Operational costs | 517869 |
| Programmatic costs | 705782 |
| Total (Year 3) | 3537138 |
| Other revenue | |
| Remaining funds (Year 3) | N/A |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
3537138 ZAR
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 517869 ZAR
- Programmatic costs: 705782 ZAR
- Staff and contractor costs: 2319167 ZAR
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): ZAR
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): ZAR
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.
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OCzvZmQhFEI0h9GZZPqE7_DXbGIBKeCDeRO3RkqaDXM/edit?usp=sharing
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)
Notes are available directly on the Financial Reporting Document (linked above). These include amounts set aside to cover 2026 payments for 2025 activities that remain outstanding.
Please note that one of our programmes is largely covered by Fondation Orange. However, because the agreement with Fondation Orange is not signed directly with Wiki In Africa and the funds do not pass through Wiki In Africa's accounts, we report "no other revenue sources". It should also be noted that our report does not include a full financial statement for the New Funding Pathway (NFP), as its funding cycle spans both 2025 and 2026. The NFP was not included in the original agreement signed a year ago; it was added several months afterwards. The final NFP report will be submitted separately, later in 2026.
The services provided as Fiscal Sponsors are not included in this financial report either, since they are not part of the Grant Agreement.
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
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