Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Documenting Hausa Local Knowledge and Oral Histories (ID: 22747902)/Final Report

Documenting Hausa Local Knowledge and Oral Histories

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 30 January 2025

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

Applicant username: Gwanki
Organization name: N/A
Amount awarded: 1494
Amount spent: 1494 USD, 2400000

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)

We work hard to collect Hausa history and culture. We go to many places to take pictures and write stories. We also train people how to write on Wikipedia and how to improve things inside.

We work together with Gidan Dan Hausa to make sure what we do is correct. We also train people specially so they can help us. We also have a writing competition to encourage people to write stories.

All of these help to improve Hausa Wikipedia and increase the things inside.

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

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

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)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
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	Strongly 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	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: From this project, we hope to learn a lot about preserving and sharing the rich heritage of the Hausa community. We want to find out the best ways to collect and document local knowledge, making sure it's accurate and interesting for readers on Hausa Wikipedia.

We'll also learn about the challenges and opportunities of training and motivating a diverse group of people, including women and young people, to contribute to this important work. By working closely with local historians, academics, and community leaders, we aim to see how their expertise can enrich our project.

Another key thing we want to understand is how making more information about Hausa culture available online affects the community. Will it lead to more people reading and engaging with Hausa Wikipedia? We're excited to find out.

Our partnerships with places like Gidan Dan Hausa Museum and Gidan Makama Museum are crucial. We hope to learn how these collaborations can help us create high-quality content that truly reflects Hausa traditions and history.

Lastly, we aim to develop a sustainable model for future projects. This will help us and others replicate our success in different regions and languages, contributing to the global effort to preserve cultural heritage through Wikimedia projects.

From this work, we learned many things about keeping Hausa history and culture.

Good Writing: Working with Hausa history people, teachers, and places like Gidan Dan Hausa and Gidan Makama helped us get true information. We made sure the information was easy to understand but also correct.

Training People: We taught many people, including women and young people, how to write on Wikipedia. We learned that teaching them directly and helping them all the time is important to keep them working. We also learned to teach people at different levels to keep them interested.

Helping People: Putting Hausa culture online made more people interested in Hausa Wikipedia. This showed that writing about local things can make people more interested.

Working Together: Working with cultural groups helped us write better and also showed us how to work together on future projects.

Keeping It Going: This work showed us how to keep Hausa culture safe for a long time. We can use these ideas to help other languages and places on Wikimedia.

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)

During this work, we saw some things we didn't expect, good and bad.

Good things: More people than we thought joined, especially Hausa language experts. Also, many people joined the online training, showing they really want to keep Hausa culture.

Bad things: Because of safety problems in some parts of Northern Nigeria, we couldn't go to Kebbi and Sokoto. Instead, we went to Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa. Also, some new writers didn't sign up on the Meta page, which made it hard to keep track of them.

From this, we learned to be flexible. Even though we couldn't go everywhere, we still did a lot of good work. We also learned to be clear about signing up so we can keep track of people better.

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)

I will share what we learned and did on social media, using pictures and videos to show the important things. I will also write a lot about what we did on Wikimedia Diff. This will help more people know about our work and help other Wikimedia groups learn from us.

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
Number of participants	50	55
Number of editors	30	41
Number of organizers	5	5

Wikimedia project	Target	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia	500	602	3928
Wikimedia Commons	100	194	194
Wikidata	300	242	149
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

10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

2400000

11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)

1494

12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)

Provide the link to the financial report Budget link

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

Review notes from Program Officer:

N/A

Applicant's response to the review feedback.

N/A