Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Vital Articles II (ID: 22673778)/Final Report

Hausa Vital Articles II

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 30 October 2024

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

Applicant username: Muhammad Idriss Criteria
Organization name: N/A
Amount awarded: 1691.27
Amount spent: 1373.85 USD, 2316000

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)

Our main aim was to create awareness on Vital Articles and there significance towards growth of Wikipedia. These campaign was organised in Potiskum, Yobe State, Eastern Nigeria. We invited participants from different areas of the region. We invited students from University. Both the online and offline trainings were carried out and a total of 55 students participated in the contest (465 articles were created and 4.6k were edited). The number of pages visited on Hausa Wikipedia were increased during the event (25.5K article views). We are happy with the results of this event and we hope to see more participation in the upcoming events.

we have organised online and in-person trainings. i) The online training was organised to reach out for mare participants who can not attend the in-person training.

ii) The in-person training was organised in the school premises and number of 52 students attended the event. The vision and mission of Wikipedia were introduced to the students. A contest was organised to inspire participants in giving large contributions.

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

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Foundation/Hausa_Vital_Articles_II_(October_4th_2024_-_10_sept)/home

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

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZsvI5aQ_sPwumJU6XNIIdsXxCc_4vWGy/mobilepresent?slide=id.p7

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	Agree
B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community	Strongly agree
C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups	Not applicable
D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives	Not applicable
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: Via this project, we want to answer the following questions i. are vital articles essential to the growth of Hausa Wikipedia? ii. Do we achieve the goal of this project by creating/improving vital articles and creating awareness on them? iii. will this project increase the vitality of Hausa Wikipedia to it’s readers?

We are happy to say; we have achieved all our objectives.

a) we have created and improved 465+ articles around vital topics b) and via this event, we have increased number of page views by 25.5k, created 465+ articles, improved 4.62k, added 4.19k of references, and uploaded 204 pictures on commons.

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)

No.

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 will share results and findings in our Hausa Wikimedians pages on whatsapp and Facebook.

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
Number of participants	50	55
Number of editors	30	55
Number of organizers	4	4

Wikimedia project	Target	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia	500	465	4066
Wikimedia Commons	50	204	50
Wikidata	100	245	113
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)

2316000

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

1373.85

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

Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sfmPcXuZNNujoSfL1P4bi0GtRN4gcXBgPCFuGhWeDxA/edit?usp=drivesdk

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?

Yes

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

Six thousand Naira (NGN)

13.2. 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

13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

Data support for some participants

14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?

Yes

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)