Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Filling Health Articles Content Gap through Translate-A-Thon in Fulfulde Wikipedia (ID: 23537456)/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)
We organized and awareness campaign were we reach out to interested inviduals, we then organized a physical training session were we introduced the participants to Wikimedia projects and the need to create Health contents on Fulfulde Wikipedia. We also organized a one day photowalk were we documented/shot images of nearby health facilities, rural clinics, primary health care centers, dispensaries and maternity centers. Essential steps taken were the mockup session which was conducted online during/in the mid of the project's period which addressed the issues observed and problems identified related to the translations made by the participants. Also, contest was organized among the participants which encouraged the participants in creating as many health articles as possible on Fulfulde Wikipedia in the one month long project period.
We created over 1,000 new articles and edited/improved over 2,000 mainly on Fulfulde Wikipedia but also improved some English Wikipedia articles with images like the UMTH.
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
- Project page on Meta-Wiki: landing page
- Registered Participants on the Event Registration Tool: participants enrolled
- Dashboards and tools used for tracking contributions: dashboard here
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Hospital_Geidam, https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asibiti_Leydi,_Abuja, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borno_State_Specialist_Hospital,_Maiduguri, https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Reproductive_and_Sexual_Health, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Hospital_Potiskum, https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_Hospital,_Ibadan
- Photos from the event in Commons: Photographs
- Examples of photos uploaded on Commons: File:UMTH Gate (1).jpg, UMTH Stroke and Neuroscience Center.jpg, UMTH Trauma Center (2).jpg, UMTH Heart Center (3).jpg, File:General Hospital Damagum Gate.jpg, Nakowa Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri (1).jpg
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
Training materials and guides/presentations and slides can be found in the Wikimedia Commons category for the event here Communication materials/posters used: File:Filling Health Articles Content Gap through Translate-A-Thon in Fulfulde Wikipedia Poster1.jpg, File:Filling Health Articles Content Gap through Translate-A-Thon in Fulfulde Wikipedia Poster2.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 | Strongly 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 | 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. How did you sustain the participants of this project? 2. As a female organizer what challenges you encounter in organizing the project? 3. In what way your project help in filling content gap in Fulfulde Wikipedia? 4. What approach works best in your project? 5. Do you have any plan for similar project in the future?
1. We created a dedicated WhatsApp group were communications related to the project were handled during the project period and we plan to continue using it for retaining the event participants.
2. Based on our locality lifestyle, leadership and technical roles are still male-dominated. So, being a female organizer sometimes meant not being taken seriously at first, especially when coordinating contributors, or community stakeholders. There is also a low number of active female contributors on Fulfulde Wikipedia already. Encouraging women to participate required extra effort due to time constraints, household responsibilities, and lack of confidence in contributing to an open online platform. These are the challenges I faced while organizing this project.
3. There were no articles related to health on Fulfulde Wikipedia and this project helps in creating hundreds of health articles thereby filling the existing gap in Fulfulde Wikipedia.
4. All the approach plays a unique role in making this project a success.
5. yes, we plan to work on similar project in the near future to ensure sustainability is maintained.
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)
No, we had the opportunity to run the activities as expected except that in some hospitals we had difficulty convincing the securities to allow us shot images of the buildings while some buildings were totally restricted for us to shot. This has prevented us from documenting some important places that we planned to added on Wikimedia Commons.
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)
We have a dedicated WhatsApp group were communications were handle during the project period and we plan to continue using it for retaining the event participants. The results were shared in this platform.
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 | 60 | 60 | 60 participants were reached during awareness and invited to participate |
| Number of editors | 30 | 30 | At least 30 editors were retained including new and returning editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 | There were 5 organizers who helped in making this project a success |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 | 1000 | 2000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 30 | 50 | 10 |
| Wikidata | 100 | 800 | 53 |
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | 50 | 10 | |
| 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)
1756715
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1199.25
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report 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)