Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Community Wiki For Human Rights 2025 (ID: 23080624)/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 workshops to train people how to edit Hausa Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons about human rights topics. We also held an online writing contest. From the project, participants created 6,110 new articles and improved 14,700 articles. Together they made 32,000 edits. A total of 59 editors joined the project. They added 87,700 references and about 70.7 million bytes of new content. The articles got more than 295,000 views. On Wikimedia Commons, 15 new files were uploaded. On Wikidata, participants added 127 claims, 185 labels, and created 35 lexemes. The most effective approach was the workshops. They helped participants learn step by step and ask questions directly. The contest also worked very well, because it gave motivation and prizes to keep participants active. Using mentors and the Outreach Dashboard helped us to guide and track the work easily.
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
- Meta Page
- Project Dashboard (Outreach Dashboard)
- Facebook post
- Winners Announcement on Facebook
- During the project
- Article example
- Article example
- Photo album of Jigawa's Program
- Photo Album of Kano's Program
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
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 | 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 | Strongly 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: Through this project, we hope to learn how to better engage the Hausa community in creating and improving content related to human rights, health, and the environment. We want to understand what training methods work best, how to support new editors to stay active, and how partnerships with experts can improve the quality of articles. We also aim to learn how to increase participation from women and youth in our campaigns.
From this project, we learned many things. First, we saw that the Hausa community is very interested in human rights, health, and environment topics. When we gave clear training and support, people were able to create and improve many articles. We learned that workshops and step-by-step training work best. New editors understand better when they practice with mentors. The contest also helped to keep people active because they were excited to compete and win prizes. We also learned that it is not easy to keep new editors active after the project. Some stop editing when the contest ends. To solve this in the future, we want to keep small follow-up activities and regular mentorship so that new editors can stay. Partnerships with experts helped us to improve the quality of some articles, but we need stronger partnerships to bring more trusted information. We tried to involve women and youth, and some joined, but the number is still small. We learned that we must make more special outreach to women and young people in schools, universities, and community groups. In the future, we will use these learnings to design better projects: more mentorship for new editors, stronger partnerships for quality, and focused outreach for women and youth.
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, some unexpected things happened. A positive surprise was that many participants created more articles than we expected. This showed us that the Hausa community is very active and ready to contribute when given the chance.
Another surprise was that some new editors quickly became very skilled and even helped others. This was good for building new mentors.
On the negative side, we had some challenges with internet and electricity. Because of this, some people could not join workshops or finish their work on time. Also, after the contest ended, some participants stopped editing, which we did not expect.
From these experiences, we learned to always prepare backup plans for internet and power, and to plan follow-up activities so that editors remain active even after the contest ends.
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 shared the results of our project with the Hausa Wikimedia community through our WhatsApp groups, social media posts, and community meetings. We also updated the project page on Meta-Wiki so that anyone can read the results and see the statistics. Some participants also shared their experience with friends and students in their schools and universities, which helped more people to know about the project. Our plan is to continue sharing the learnings in future trainings, workshops, and conferences. This way, other community members can use our experience to improve their own projects and activities.
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 | 160 | 160 | We were able to achieve this goal. The trainings brought together both new and returning editors, who joined either in person or online. This helped us to build a strong and active group across the three states, and many participants made real contributions during the project. |
| Number of editors | 50 | 59 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 1500 | 6113 | 14652 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 | 72 | 100 |
| Wikidata | 200 | 10 | 6586 |
| Wiktionary | 200 | 3 | 9 |
| 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
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
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?
No
14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
No
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.
No
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
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