Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Igbo Wikimedians User Group Simple Annual Grant 2022/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results. See the midpoint report if you want to review the midpoint results.
- Name of Organization: Igbo Wikimedia Organization
- Title of Proposal: Igbo Wikimedians User Group Simple Annual Grant 2022
- Amount awarded: 67560 USD, 27738109.87 NGN
- Amount spent: 69357 USD
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
- Our proposed activities were implemented through people/community members, openness and unity. An adage in the Igbo language loosely translates that when we urinate together, it foams. In other words; unity is power. We tested this in 2022 and realized that community is our power. We got more people involved and realized that they were always willing to help.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
- As mentioned earlier, our strategy was community. Using the communal approach and letting everyone know that we were in this together and not just one person leading the troop helped to get all hands on deck.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
- Yes, the communal efforts gave openness for people to share their ideas and have them implemented as community ideas and not everyone running off or fear of anyone stealing their ideas.
We also let our community members know that we're not magicians and can't do it all. It was amazing seeing people come up to volunteer and feel very important and useful
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
- We used Social Media
Telegram groups Diff articles to inform people about our works
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
6. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Neither agree nor disagree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Strongly agree |
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
- Our Wiki Mentor Africa program has helped get more African tools developers into mentorship and tool development/maintenance.
Our Say-it-right project has helped in proper pronunciation of Nigerian names which was low on Wikipedia. Our openness and being a welcoming community has made us accommodate more members who are not Igbo speakers but feel welcomed and connected to the community.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
- We have learnt that working together as a community is important but developing the skills and abilities of our community members while also empowering, listening, giving opportunities and supporting them helps achieve more
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
- Yes, we realized that when you give room to people and not micromanage them, they put in more efforts to achieve the vision.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
- Since we have learnt that people are open and willing, we'll keep being and open community, supporting our members, getting them involved to helps us achieve our goals as one.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
- One highlight of our 2022 fund was when we realized how willing the community was to help and support if called on. It all started with wishing community members well on their birthdays. Some were wished well with beautiful fliers carrying their photos while some weren't. Not because we hated anyone but because we couldn't keep up. This sparked a conversation where I asked if people were interested in a committee that collected peoples birth dates, made fliers with their pictures with a template I already designed and wished them well on their birthdays. Amazingly, lots of people were interested. We set up the team and have never had birthday challenges again. This made us realize how willing people are to help if we considered them important.
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | 1000 people reached through social media publications | 1000 | 930 | We had 930 participants who continued to participate across 32 programs we had in 2022. | Outreach Dashboard |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | 20 | We had over 20 organizers who continued to ideate and organize projects | Dashboard |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | 2 partnerships | 2 | 2 | Last year, we had two partnerships that helped us to improve and grow our projects. | Sheets |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | New participants - 70
Returning participants - 30 |
100 | 930 | We did various outreaches and created 4 additional hubs which helps make the community closer to people | Outreach Dashboard |
| Number of editors | |||||
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 | N/A | 10761 | This was achieved through various community efforts. | Igbo Wikipedia Cover page. |
| Wikidata | Add 500 Wikidata items and lexemes | 600 | 471 | N/A | N/A |
| Wiktionary | Definitions added and improved | 400 | 3018 | We achieved this milestone through various community edits. | Outreach Dashboard |
| Wikiquote | Increase the number of new quotes on Igbo Wikiquotes in the incubator by 100. | 100 | 471 | The Igbo Wikipedia left the incubator making us lose over 2500 pages but we were able to add 471 new pages through various community edits within 2 months of losing previous edits. | Igbo Wikiquote interface. |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
- No
15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
- N/A
16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships[edit]
17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| D. Partnership building | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Peer to peer learning with other community members in community/ies of practice* (structured and continuous learning and sharing spaces), Using capacity building/training resources online from sources WITHIN the Wikimedia Movement
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Barriers to access training because of connectivity or equipment
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
- The year 2022 saw us bringing in more capable hands to support and also made us to realize that people were willing to support in various areas.
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | Strongly agree |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Volunteers from our communities
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
- Lack of knowledge or capacities to reach out to strategic partners
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
- We learnt that to build partnerships, you have to identify the need for the partnership, who you want to partner with and the kind of partnership and finally be ready, up and doing. This helped us to better work together with the partners we got in 2022.
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration[edit]
21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
- Being invited to make decisions that concern us is one way for us to feel a sense of belonging in the movement. Another way is finding a solution to the IP block challenge which makes some of our events unsuccessful and gives the idea that we're specially targeted.
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
- Somewhat increased
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
- Getting more people involved in the community as volunteers in various decision making areas makes them happy and gives them the sense of being stakeholders.
24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
- Increased significantly
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
- N/A
26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
- Language Activism movements help motivate me to keep contributing to keep my language alive while also sharing free knowledge.
Secondly, Black Lives Matter motivate me to tell the African story without waiting for someone else to tell it for us.
Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration[edit]
We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
- Partially
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
- We shared lessons on how to recreate programs with Wikimedia Rwanda and Wikimedia Sudan especially in relation to incubator projects.
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
- We do this rarely (less than twice a year)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
- We rarely do this but informally, we try to guide other communities handle some project difficulties through our experiences
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 69357
31. Local currency type
- USD
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19xImRqf2Sno99A1aVm90I-hYSb6RIn_5ec7wHdPZHok/edit?usp=sharing
33. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
- None
34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
- N/A
34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
- N/A
34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
- N/A
35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
37. 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
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
- The year 2022 was a good one for the Igbo community. In addition to our metrics, we had 4 member developed projects: Wiki Mentor Africa, Wiki Loves Names, Say-it-right, Lingua Libre. We also had learning webinars to boost the capacities of our members as well as our members getting various positions both paid and volunteer in the global community including WMF.