Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Africa Wiki Challenge in Burundi 2025 (ID: 23067941)/Final Report
Application type: Standard application
Part 1: Project and impact
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
Implemented activities were to improve Wikimedia projects with African content. The activities aimed to represent African content on Wikimedia project with existing African narratives. The Africa Wiki Challenge helped us to encourage our community volunteers in Burundi to reclaim the narrative and amplify authentic voices. African content, mainly from Burundi was shared on Wikimedia project, like Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
Below are links that help tell our story, impact, and evaluation. Within the links are found the number of participants, the dashboard outlining the contributors, created articles, etc.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2025_in_Burundi https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2025_au_Burundi
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
Events Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Burundi/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2025_in_Burundi; https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Burundi/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2025_in_Burundi_2;
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uz2hXjW2_cmYE2ulesf0vOqIydF1WaEQcXQwwlxEuuk/edit
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| 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 | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: 1.What topics related to Burundi attract the most interest from contributors and audiences? 2.What are the main challenges that Burundian contributors face when contributing to Wikimedia projects? 3. How can we better support contributors beyond the campaign period to build a sustainable Wikimedia community in Burundi? 4.How does contributing to Wikimedia projects influence participants' perception of knowledge sharing and digital literacy?
Contributors have shared content on Burundi culture and history. In order to support our community contributors and build a sustainable community of Wikimedia in Burundi, we need to build an inclusive community wherein different categories of contributors. We need to partner with organisations having common goals as for our community.
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
Activities began later than planned as we were waiting for funds decision and funds transaction. We have learned from the experience, we hope that having available funds for our community with planned activities could be better for our community to implement the activities following a planned calendar.
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
The results of the project learnings are shared with other community members through our channels of communication. For this campaign we had also an opportunity to share the learnings during the closing ceremony.
Part 3: Metrics
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 35 | 47 | |
| Number of editors | 30 | 41 | |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 35 | 102 | 112 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 80 | 782 | 37 |
| Wikidata | 300 | 164 | 213 |
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
No
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
5889980
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
2000
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Upload the financial report
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
14.3. 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
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A