Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/African History Edithathon (ID: 23549356)/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)
This was aimed toward increasing the visibilty of articles related to African History on Hausa Wikipedia. we planned to collaborate with historical places and museums for better documentation of African history. We collaborated with two museums Yankari Game Reserve, Bauchi State and Kusugu well in Daura, Katsina State which is the birth place of Hausa language. We took photos, improved or update articles about the topics and organise an editathon for creating articles about African History. The implementation process was a success and participants participated in making the project a success.
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
We used the Wikimedia hashtag tool in recording the contributions made during the campaign. Here is the link https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=AHT&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user=
The contest is in progress till 30th April 2026.
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
Photos of visitations and trainings
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Training_session_African_History_Editathon.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Training_session_African_History_Editathon2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Training_session_African_History_Editathon_3.jpg
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 | 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 | 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: • Are the topics of history well covered in Hausa Wikipedia?
- Will this project bring more knowledge about African Histories within Hausa communities?
- Will this project increase Wikipedia visibility among historians and museums?
- Will it increase the number of African History articles and photos on both Wikipedia and commons?
- Will it increase the number of photographers who volunteer their work to Commons?
• I can boldly say that topics that relates to history are in fact our main target. Therefore we made sure we worked strictly on them.
- This project has brought more knowledge about African histories within hausa communities.
- It has increased the number of African history related articles. Moreover it has added vitally to the Wikimedia Commons platform as it has produced quite exquisite pictures of some forgotten African cultures.
- This project has also helped in encouraging photographers to dive more into contributing to the Wikimedia Movement as it has produced a reasonable number of photographers.
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)
Yes. First of all we had an amazing trips in terms of carrying out our photo walk programmes. All of the places we visited were phenomenon and the people welcomed us with big hands.
Nevertheless, we had to reduce our target due to the reduced funding.
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)
After the editathon is concluded, we will share the result on Hausa Wikimedia Talkpages and on our Whatsapp groups.
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 | 50 | 101 | People reached on our online and offine campaigns |
| Number of editors | 35 | 25 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 500 | 600 | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 | 50 | 0 |
| Wikidata | 200 | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Museums to visit | 3 | 2 | Yankari Game Reserve, Bauchi State and Kusugu Well Daura, Katsina State. |
| Wikipedia | History and Museums related experienced people | 15 | ||
| Wikipedia | Female participants | 10 | ||
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
Yes
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)
We encountered some difficulties like late disbursement of project funds, we also had issues with my bank where we were unable to access project funds till some weeks after disbursement. We also experience high prices due to high rate of inflation and therefore we had to reduce our targets like participants, trip to historical places (2 instead of 3), among others.
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
2197725
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1500
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NkwY3AZ_wKs_c8vMLC47qJLHokQAuvh3BE4aW5wHRhU/edit?pli=1&gid=928458698#gid=928458698
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)
The amount approved was N2197000 (1,592.28USD), we had to reduce our target to accommodate the new budget. We also have to reduce the target participants.
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)