Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Digital Landscape 1.0 (ID: 21989831)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Digital Landscape 1.0
- Username of Applicant: Tomas Armando Moz
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2500
- Amount spent: 2643.31 USD, 168643.18 MZN
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
When we received the funds we called a meeting with the students who did English course ant Universidade Rovuma. We presented them with the 67 schools which we intended to profile. They received the funds and resources. They had four weeks to do the profiling. Each student had to work with three schools. The first thing that happened is that they were asked to present a permission letter from the university. We issued the letter. Even with the letter some schools did not provided information. While they did the profile, I went from school to school to take the two pictures from each school. I waited for the profile and which I had to type revise and publish since we did not have budget to access computers. After revision, I discarded those which I found that did not qualify to be published due to reliability of their sources. Those found qualifying were added to the Wikipedia in English. Then to the VMW incubator. Then allocated to three volunteers to work on the translation.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
The fact I decided to type and revised the criteria for publication allowed to post of reliable content. Now the volunteers are free to improve anything of the initial published article, which has minimal acceptability.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
N/A
4. 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 | 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 | Neither agree nor disagree |
5. 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?
The participant to write the article in Emakhuwa into the incubator had existed already. So we worked with new 22 students who do English course to conduct the the profile the schools in English. This was to make sure that we had article both in English and Emakhuwa as planned.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
The mains lessons included:
- 1. From now on, students who do intership in these schools which we have written their profile, will have a starting point. They will not have to start from scratch.
- 2. Most of the secondary school were started after the year of 1992. Many started as primary schools and evolved to secondary school.
- 3. There is little availability of the specific laws but the implementation of the constitution in 1992, allowed private schools to existed. Since then people did not rely only on the government.
- 4. The ministry of Education and Human Development is responsible to create public schools and confer permission to private education institution nationwide.
7. 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?
This time the application timeline was very good. the funds were released on time. We spend all project period doing the research to profile the 67 targeted schools. However, we learned that time was very tide.
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
If we were to apply again we would only work with the number of schools to make that had time to work on translation.
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Schools | The number of schools which we will target and write their brief history (profile) | 67 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of articles in Portuguese | The articles will originally written in Portuguese | 67 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of articles in Emakhuwa | The articles in Portuguese translated to Emakhuwa | 67 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of articles in English | The articles in Portuguese translated to English | 67 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of Pictures | We will take two pictures from each school. One showing the school landscape and one showing where the name is written. | 134 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | There will be 28 main participants (Tomas Castelo Armando and Amelia Tocova, the 22 students and 2 lecturers who will support us correcting the texts on Wikipedia. | 28 | 52 | More students were involved due to language issues. The original articles were written in English by a group of students who study English Language Teaching Course and Then, I translated to Portuguese and published in the Incubator, whereby only the names of the schools is translated into Makhuwa Language. | The students took the pictures using camera, and they collected the students about the schools to write an article portraying the profile of the school. |
| Number of editors | The main editor will be the students. we are encouraging them to embrace the "digital landscape" project and write their final papers from these activities. | 22 | 22 | There 22 active editors who are still working on the articles because there were very long descriptions of these schools | |
| Number of organizers | I and Amelia are going to serve as cue organizers. | 2 | 2 | The second organizer is still very busy in six months course in South Africa, I had to work with these students alone to ensure that objectives are achieved |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | We will contribute 201 articles to wikipedia project; 67 in English, 67 in Portuguese and 67 in Emahuwa | 201 | 112 | We managed to publish 112 articles 56 in English and Emakhuwa | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | We will take 134 pictures to be used in the 201 articles | 134 | 112 | Two pictures were taken from each school which was written about. These pictures can be found on Wikicommons under the name of the school. They are published under educational institution category. | N/A |
| Incubator | We will Contribute to 67 articles in Emakhuwa incubator project | 67 | 56 | Although we target 67 schools only 56 displayed information which was amiable to writing a school profile. Others did not have reliable information and we decided to ignore. | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
Yes
12a. State what difficulties you had.
It is still a challenge to finish the translation of the article into Emakhuwa because of budget. We expected to spend USD1000 to engage editor but we had no more budget to pay the internet café which we had budgeted. Now only three volunteers are working on finalizing the translations of the article because they have their own laptops.
12b. 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?
I think the project goal were very ambitious this time. Next I will set more narrow goal to avoid falling short in hit them.
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
Partially
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
I share with more than fifty people who participated in Afrocuration 4.0, which was held on 25th February. Especially the availability of the pictures' of these schools, which otherwise would not possible to find if this project was not funded.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
168643.18 MZN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2643.31 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
N/A
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.
17c. 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.
The original Budget Included:Training Equipment (Rent Computer), Transport, Photocopying, Communication, Camera (photography of schools), Perdiem, Translating allowance, and T-Shisrts. However the final budget which was executed only included: Transport, Photocopying, Communication, and Perdiem, including the remain previous funds (USD58.31)
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. 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
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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