Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Nigerian Wikimedians For Sustainable Development Campus Tour 2.0/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 31 March 2024
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.
- Name of Organization: Nigeria Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
- Title of Proposal: Nigerian Wikimedians For Sustainable Development Campus Tour 2.0
- Amount awarded: 22000 USD, 8264462 NGN
- Amount spent: 20298.09 USD
Part 1 Understanding your work
[edit]1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
We were able to reach out 8 institutions who were willing to host us. In these institutions were handpicked and trained local organizers oh how to go about the training and in some cases the core organizers were on ground to do the trainings for these newbies. These individuals were trained and edit-a-thons was organized to help students put to practice what they learnt.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
One strategy we used was adding participants to whatsapp group in order build the community and ensure that relevant information was passed to them.
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?
In terms of what we did differently, we think our approach was to ensure that new communities within campuses were established, which in turn ensured the growth of all Nigerian contributors to Wikimedia projects.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
Since most of these schools never had Wikimedia presence before we took the route of going through the Student Unions of these campuses to get participants to join.
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.
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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 | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| 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?
N/A
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?
Unlike the first campus tour, the level of enthusiasm was much higher, and this showed in not only the participation level but also the contribution. One thing I will say I learned is that more people are interested in the subject of SDGs and willing to participate in these kinds of discussions.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
No.
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?
At the end of this project I felt this kind of projects needs to be done on a wider scale to recruit and get more who may b interested in other institutions to participate.
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)?
It would be the sense of community that we were able to create during the course of the project and I'm grateful that we we were able to create the opportunity and give people the chance to be a part of educating people about SDGs
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).
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Part 3: Metrics
[edit]13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| English Wikipedia | Our target is to help create and improve Nigerian articles from English and the translation of English SDG articles into local Nigerian languages. | 100 | 200 | Our goal of 100 English wikipedia articles was surpassed due to the enthusiasm from the participants at each campuse where we had our campaign. | https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/sdgs_campus_tour_20/articles |
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| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | Our target participants per institution is 30 but we hope that we hope to retain half of participants who attend the trainings. | 120 | 50 | We were able to surpass our target and our biggest result came from the OAU campus which started a fan club and was granted the status of a fan club by the Nigerian Usergroup. | Outreach dashboard |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | Our partnership with FEGI will drive more discussions on the empowerment of the girl child and women in general within Nigerian society. | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | Surveys will be sent out to intending participants before and after the events to get their inputs on what they feel can be done for their continued participation in the of editing Wikimedia related projects. | 240 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | There will be no discrimination of any kind as all volunteers will be welcome to both attend and contribute. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | 400 | 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 |
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| Number of participants | Based on the projected number of participants. We have a target of 40 individual per school. | 240 | 270 | For each campus, our target was 40 participants culminating in a total of 240 but we were able to exceed that number. | Outreach dashboard |
| Number of editors | Based on the projected number of participants. We have a target of 30 individual per school. | 240 | 270 | Outreach dashboard | |
| Number of organizers | 20 | 20 | Overall we used the number of organizers with respect to each campus. | Outreach dashboard |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Wikipedia | Our projected target of articles created or improved on English Wikipedia is 100 articles while in Hausa languages we hope to get a minimum number 300+ artcles and Igbo we hope to get the same 300+ articles created or translated. | 800 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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).
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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 is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| 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 has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| J. Governance | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| 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 capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
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17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Formal training provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events, Peer to peer learning with other community members in community/ies of practice* (structured and continuous learning and sharing spaces)
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of volunteer time to participate in capacity building/training
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
No
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) | 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.
Institutional support from the Wikimedia Foundation
19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Difficulties specific to our context that hindered partnerships
20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
Strategies would include liaising with these institutions for the exchange of information through the participating of these institution in closing the knowledge gap. Academics in higher institutions who participate by sharing what they think will make wikipedia and sister projects more factual will help people to trust wikipedia as a verifiable source of information.
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?
It would mean freedom to put content on wikis to educate the world about Nigeria and Africa and counter misinformation and bias reporting.
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?
Stayed the same
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
N/A
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.
N/A
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?
No
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
We do this occasionally (less than once a month)
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
N/A
Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
20298.09
31. Local currency type
USD
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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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.
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.
No
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.