Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Funds for Annual Projects and Activities of Kurdish Wikimedians User Group (ID: 22023127)/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2024-03-13T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Funds for Annual Projects and Activities of Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
- Username of Applicant: Kushared
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4000
- Amount spent: 3270.2 USD, 4859976 IQD
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
As Kurdish user group, we were pleased to apply for funding from Wikimedia for the first time. It was a good experience to do new activities, competitions and projects. Through this financial funds, we were able to organize the first ever Edit-a-thon for Kurdish Wikipedia and award the winners. The results of the competition were pleasing to us since our plan was 500 papers, but the results were more than doubled. We used the social media to engage new users as well, resulting in 37 new users registering, and 121 articles written by new users.
On the other hand, we were able to conduct the GLAM project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Thanks to this project, we have access to some important Kurdish photos and archives that were not previously available on the Internet. For that project we hired someone as a Wikimedian in Residence. He published 1900 images and more than 100 articles during his career. After the project is completed, the Zheen Center will continue to volunteer with us. This was after the project realized the importance of contributing to Wikipedia.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
The use of social media was effective in encouraging and signing up new users. At the same time, the awarding of prizes also made experienced users compete to write the most articles.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CjvIvVQWIUIWnI9MXED2cIHmgohJVV3h4MlIbYAQU/edit?usp=sharing
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 | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Neither agree nor disagree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | 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?
N/A
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- We learned more collaborative work among organizers, because our work was not organized in that way before.
2- Overall experience of this period and making some mistakes in submitting proposals and conducting editathon (example in writing some rules of the competition and distributing the prizes. This would lead us to think and make upcoming project/activities much better.
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?
One of the obstacles was getting the funds through Iraqi banks. This process is not impossible, but it has created many obstacles for us. However, we were able to solve the problem through our usergroup relations.
One of our targets was to upload 20,000 photos through the GLAM project, but we couldn't reach that number. In the second month of the project, we found out that Zheen Foundation could not upload that much photos by the end of the project. Consequently, we decided to keep the project but with a reduced duration and budget. This is in order to continue our relationship with the Zheen Foundation. Our work on this project enabled the foundation to volunteer to continue writing new articles on Wikipedia and uploading images.
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 learned a lot of good things about collaboration and working together, dealing with groups and foundations outside Kurdish Wikipedia. Therefore, we believe that in the future, if the Kurdish user group applies for funds and announces new projects, we can do better based on learnings through this experience.
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.
N/A
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upload to commons | We are targeted to upload at least 20000 media file related to Kurdish topics by Zheen Center | 20000 | 1900 | The number is lower than we had worked for. However, the ability of the Zheen Foundation was limited for uploading more images from their archive. In return, they decided to write articles that have published more than 100 articles to date to personalize the photos they uploaded.
After the project was completed, the Zeen Foundation decided to continue voluntarily. As of today, March 20, the number of photographs has reached 1881. |
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploads_by_Zheen_Archive_Center
https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/ckb.wikipedia.org/zheenCenter?limit=3300 |
| Adding Refs to articles | As we have 2500 articles in category:All articles lacking sources; we are targeting to solve minimum 500 of these articles by providing references. | 500 | N/A | Not Done | Not done yet. We got fund by May and with limited time our priority goes to GLAM and editathon project. We might use the remaining amount for this contest or replace with new contest. |
| new articles | We are targeting to add 500 articles through edit-a-thons | 500 | 1224 | A bot used by user:Aram
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/Statistics | |
| New users | We are targeting to teach 35 new users to write their first articles + keep and engage them to remain as editor | 35 | 37 | During the editathon we got new 37 registered user. In addition, we trained 22 of them through online. | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/kuwiki_participants
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/ckbwiki_participants |
| 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 | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | 55 | Total number of participants in the editathon: | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/kuwiki_participants
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/ckbwiki_participants | |
| Number of editors | 12 | 37 | 37 new registered user and 18 experienced user participated. | We used Xtools to see users information: | |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 4 | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/Contact |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | We are targeting to upload 20,000 media to Wikimedia Commons. | 20000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | We are planning to write new 500 articles and add refs to 500 existing articles which doesn't have any reference. | 500 | 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 | 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.
We used bot to collect numbers of articles and generate points to registered participants: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/ckbwiki_statistics https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kurdish_Wikipedia_Editathon_-_2023/kuwiki_statistics
We also used Xtools to review quality of articles and accepting point, for example articles by user:Aro Salar: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/ckb.wikipedia.org/Aro%20Salar?limit=3000
For tha GLAM project, we create a template which generate a category for those images which were uploaded during the project:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Zheen_Archive_Center_project
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploads_by_Zheen_Archive_Center
https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Uploads+by+Zheen+Archive+Center
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.
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.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
4859976 IQD
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
3270.2 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.
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.
683 USD + 42,750 IQD (Total approx. 713 USD)
The reason for not spending the money is due to lack of time because with the staff we had, we were only able to run the GLAM project and the editathon.
We accessed the Fund on April 17 2023, That is lead to reduce our planning time from 12 months to 9 months.
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.
We want to spend the remaining amount through one of these activities 1-photo walk & photo contest 2-Workshops for learning Wikipedia
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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