Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Fulfulde Wikipedia Women Marathon (ID: 22587219)/Final Report

Fulfulde Wikipedia Women Marathon

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 2024-07-31T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

Applicant username: Hajjare
Organization name: N/A
Amount awarded: 800
Amount spent: 800 USD, 1196000

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)

During the first week of the project period, me and the team members started to make an open call, carrying out online and offline awareness campaigns among the Fulfulde Wikimedians Community members and women from the targeted location where the project took place. While this was going on, I started preparing the list of articles to be used by the participants in translating them from English to Fulfulde Wikipedia. After sorting a list of over 400 articles I contacted our community leader where he reviewed the list and add another 300 articles. We then classify and leveled them according to their lengths; shortest articles (stubs) as easy level which were the articles the participants where introduced to in the first place. then we move to longer ones (medium level). Before we bring them to the fully well developed articles, they have already master the basics of editing. another important point is that, our second editathon helps us in reiterating and correcting some mistakes made by the participants in parts of some articles including using templates inappropriately, copying references and adding sections. This helps us in achieving a super great outcome with the participants creating over 800 new articles in less than the first two weeks. Certificates and prizes were giving to the top participants at the end of the project period and I introduced them to Wikimedia Fulfulde Community as new members of the community they were welcomed by everyone.

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: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fulfulde_Wikipedia_Women_Marathon
Dashboard used to track contributions: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikipedia/Fulfulde_Wikipedia_Women_Marathon/home
Event photographs: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fulfulde_Wikipedia_Women_Marathon_2024
Examples of contents edited:

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

Graphics designs and posters used to promote the event: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fulfulde_Wikipedia_Women_Marathon_Posters

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	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
G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement	Strongly 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. Did Women Marathon helps in enriching Fulfulde Wikipedia in bringing more female contributors and more content related to women? 2. How does the Women Marathon helps in changing the Fula women perspectives about participations in Wiki related events? 3. Are the community members ready and happy to adapt the Women Marathon to be one of the community's annual events? 4. In what way does this Marathon affects the participants performance, negative or positive?

1. Yes, the participants are entirely women and the 1000+ contents they worked on are entirely on women biographies and women lifestyles.

2. This marathon helps the women from Fulfulde Wikimedia Community realize their power and full potential to make impact in the Wikimedia ecosystem. This was unveiled through different testimonies and confessions made by both newbies and experience female editors within the community after realizing how heigh they have greatly achieved in feeding the Fulfulde Wikipedia with needed contents about women.

3. Yes, the participants have shown their earnest support for the adaptation of the Fulfulde Wiki Women Marathon to be part of the community's reoccurring event. And we used the opportunity of having our community leader present during of our physical trainings to extend the request to him for the required guidance and support.

4. Positive.

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)

Yes, I am so surprise by the fact that the editor with the highest number of edits in this marathon happened to be a lady I coached personally through chats, video calls and screen recording. She wasn't able to attend both the physical trainings because she's so far as she lives in another state different from where the trainings holds. Yet, she made such a bold step and huge contributions. This was indeed something that moved me in surprise.

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)

The results will be shared in our community group immediately after submitting this report alongside the results for the top most contributing participants.

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	50	53	Dashboard tools
Number of editors	25	25	Dashboard tools
Number of organizers	5	5	Dashboard tools

Wikimedia project	Target	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia	300	2400	3100
Wikimedia Commons	50	40	10
Wikidata	50	450	1760
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)

1196000

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

800

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

Upload the financial report

Fulfulde Wikipedia Women Marathon Report.xlsx

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 Your response to the review feedback. 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