Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Fulfulde Wikipedia Outreach Campaigns and Editathon (ID: 21964762)/Final Report

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Final

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General information[edit]

Title of Proposal: Fulfulde Wikipedia Outreach Campaigns and Editathon
Username of Applicant: Musaddam Idriss
Name of Organization: N/A
Amount awarded: 1778.53
Amount spent: 1708.64 USD, 733409.4 NGN

Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]

1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented

We started the activities with a promotional video (documentary) on Fulfulde Wikipedia giving its overview and explained how it works and the outcome of it/the result was even beyond the expected. The video clip posted on the Fulfulde Wikimedia Community's page went viral on Twitter and got over 1,000 impressions. And while we posted that video documentary, we also embark on the offline promotional campaigns reaching out to the targeted communities, peoples and individuals were our main focus being creating awareness about Fulfulde Wikipedia and trying to persuade the audience on becoming part of the participants during the edit-a-thon. One important thing we did was that we visited each of the communities on their local market days and that has giving us the advantage of taking beautiful photographs as planned in the proposed activities and reaching to people of even other communities as well. After the outreach campaigns, we moved on to holding the editathon were we trained the participants how to edit Fulfulde Wikipedia articles and how they could create new ones by translating contents of English Wikipedia. It was following the editing workshop that we released the second video in order to keep reminding the participants of the steps and processes they need to follow in creating/editing the contents on Fulfulde Wikipedia. We also have the documented video been broadcast on air at Sakiraabe Media; a news organization devoted to broadcasting news in Fulfulde language.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.

Yes, the impact of that video documentary was so effective in both rising the interest and giving a clear view of what Fulfulde Wikipedia is all about and also in promoting it to reaching the group of individuals who were unaware of its existence.

3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.

Field to type in URLs.

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.

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
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	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?

Our strategy and efforts of visiting the targeted communities of Jajere, Kolere and Jama'are on their market days was because of the fact that we knew so many Fula people from both remote rural areas to villages and towns will gather for the buying and selling. It was a unique and promising strategy that we gave it a try and were so happy with the result because it led to growing number of page views increase of the Fulfulde Wikipedia.

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?

1. This project helped us to learned that audio/visual contents are great tools to help boost the growing of Fulfulde Wikipedia pages views and volunteers.

2. We were also able to learned that a distance can hinder some people from attending the training if it's not going to happened within their community. This problem was faced especially with the women were there participation was very much less during the held physical editathon.

3. We also learnt that the produced videos were capable of increasing the number of Fula Wikipedia contributors.

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 happy to have had some discounts when making the payment for the video production services of the documentary. We also got discount from the food/drinks related expenses.

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?

We hope to implement the strategy of using the produced videos in the future as a pre-event campaign to draw the attention of the people to the activities we planned to carryout.

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.

Feedback Collection Form for the participants [[1]]

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 Summary
Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of events	There will be 2 different events: outreach/offline promotion of Fulfulde Wikipedia and workshops/training editathon.	2	3	Both the planned events were executed in addition to the photowalk	Dashboard
Total number of participants	The target number of participants is 40; 30 new volunteers, 10 existing volunteers to increase their skills	40	60	60 individuals participated during the training while 51 enrolled on the dashboard.	Dashboard
Number of Facilitators	One organizer and two facilitators with one of them from another Wikimedia community	3	3	Three experienced editors	Attendance Sheet and Dashboard
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	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 Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	New participants 30 Returning participants 10	40	60	There are 60 individuals who participate during the editathon planned for this project.	Microsoft forms and Outreach Dashboard tool
Number of editors	Three (3) editors/facilitators	3	51	There were 10 new users and 41 returning editors	Dashboard tool
Number of organizers	There will be one organizer and two facilitators	3	3	Three (3) experienced editors served as organizers in this project.	Organizer feedback form and Dashboard

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	Number of articles created/improve	150	444	Over 100 new articles were created and more than 300 were improved	Dashboard tool
Wikidata	Number of new items/lexemes created	300	594	More than 500 new items were created on Wikidata and over 1000 revisions made.	Dashboard
Wikimedia Commons	Number of new photographs of places uploaded	10	10	Over 10 distinct files uploaded on Commons	Dashboard Tool
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.

[Dashboard]

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.

I shared it with them through the community's WhatsApp group and so the community's Twitter handle.

Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]

15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

733409.4 NGN

16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.

1708.64 USD

17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

17a. Upload a financial report file.

Fulfulde Wikipedia Outreach Campaigns and Editathons Report.xlsx

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.

N/A

18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

Yes

18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

N30,000 (NGN) remain from this project. This is due to the fact that we had N10,000 (NGN) discount for the video production and also N15,000 (NGN) remain from the amount stated for the local transports. There's also another 5,000 of a discount from Food/Drinks expenses.

18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval

18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

I am planning to organize a follow up editathon in the next cycle, so I hope to use it during that period.

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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