Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Fulfulde Wikipedia Articles Cleanup and Editathon (ID: 21878875)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2022-09-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Fulfulde Wikipedia Articles Cleanup and Editathon
- Username of Applicant: Musaddam Idriss
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2196.67
- Amount spent: 2106.25 USD, 873291 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
Well, we begin with the promotional campaigns in the two targeted tertiary institutions; the Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum and the College of Administration, Management and Technology reaching out to Fulfulde student unions and cultural groups. Before these campaigns, we had the designed Editathon training flyers printed and have them distributed during the promotional campaigns. We also left some copies to leaders of the unions to give them to the rest of their members who were absent by the time. Consequently, the flyers contain a link of the designed Jotform, an online form were were the reached populace expressed their interests for participation and from which we selected the required number of individuals as stated in the project proposal to take part in the Fulfulde Wikipedia training/editathon. The workshop training took place at the CAMTECH's newly renovated ICT Lab were we had a full day single phase training due to enough, well equipped facilities that guarantee the smooth running of the project.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes, developing the online form/means of collecting the participants' information before hand as a preselection strategy had really an effective impact on this project because it helped in not only our decision making during the selection process to figure out the most determine and responsible individuals with stronger interests and willingness to begin the journey of contributing to Fulfulde Wikipedia but also in tracing and tracking records of some vital information about each and every individual participant like learning about their background (where they come from and live), contact details (email addresses and WhatsApp numbers) which make subsequent communications and reminders about the event much more easier and also speed up our work in adding them to the community's group.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
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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 | 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 | Strongly agree |
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?
This project was so far the first of its kind since the existence of the Fulfulde Wikipedia, therefore its positive impact in contributing to both bringing in more Fulfulde Wikipedia contributors being and underrepresented community and in building out contents in Fulfulde language which is also one the underrepresented languages on the Wikipedia cannot be overemphasized.
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?
Part of what I was hoping to learn from this project as outlined in the project's proposal was to see that whether the recruited participants will be able to improved at least 100 articles which of course helped me to discover that by recruiting responsible individuals such target can be out numbered since we've been able to improved over 300 articles. Also, I came to realize that the increase in the visibility of the Fulfulde Wikipedia (page views) depend highly on the promotional and awareness campaigns we made since we have seen the effect so far on how we get increase in the number of Fulfulde Wikipedia page views during the project.
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?
Yes, we were both happy and really surprised to see that the management of the institution we conducted the training provide us with extra free 30mins to finished the remaining part of the training when the specified renting hours exhausted. This made us believe that the management are in full support of our activities and we will not hesitate to have a proposed partnership with them in the future events.
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?
Well, new ideas always crossed one's mind and that depends on the nature of the place, kind of project involved, location and even the period among others a certain project is intended to be held. So, I can yes, there might be new ideas but they are dependent to the situation.
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).
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Participants | Increase in the number of Fulfulde Wikipedia volunteers | 30 | 30 | Target was met; on the Outreach Dashboard Tool there was increase in the number of Fulfulde Wikipedia volunteers by 28 new participants while on the attendance sheet passed to the participants to record their presence there were 30 new participants recorded. | Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard Tool and Recorded Attendance Sheet |
| Page Views | Increase in the number of page views | 1000 | 9094 | Target was met as there were 9.94K increase in Fulfulde Wikipedia page views. | Outreach Dashboard Tool and Wikimedia Stats Tool |
| Contents | Number of articles created or improved | 100 | 348 | Target met | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Returning participants | Number of already registered participants attending | 20 | 20 | Target met | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 235 | Number contributed items to Wikidata | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
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 | New participants 30
Returning participants 20 |
50 | 50 | Target met | Outreach Dashboard Tool and Attendance Sheet |
| Number of editors | Number of new editors | 30 | 30 | Target achieved | Outreach Dashboard Tool Attendance Sheet |
| Number of organizers | 1 Organizer, 2 experienced editors and 2 community members as facilitators | 5 | 5 | Target achieved | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | New articles created or improved | 100 | 348 | Target achieved; over 300 articles were created/improved | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| Wikimedia Commons | New photographs uploaded | 20 | 20 | Target met; 20 photographs of tertiary institution gates, places of worships, markets, government ministries, secondary schools, hospitals, emirate palaces, etc were added to Wikimedia Commons | Outreach Dashboard Tool |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 235 | Wikidata; over 200 contributions were made on Wikidata during the project | 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.
No
12a. State what difficulties you had.
N/A
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?
N/A
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.
1. Program and event dashboard link: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Fulfulde_Wikipedia/Fulfulde_Wikipedia_Articles_Cleanup_and_Edit-a-thon_(July_-_August,_2022)
- 2. Link to the 20 photographs of places added to Wikimedia Commons during the project period:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fulfulde_Editathon
- 3. Link to some of the photographs from the Editathon:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fulfulde_Wikipedia_Articles_Cleanup
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.
Yes
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.
Yes, I shared the final report link in the community's group and they have seen it
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
873291 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2106.25 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.
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.
N/A
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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