Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary annual contest (ID: 22824643)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 03 March 2025
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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[edit]- Applicant username: Abubakr1111
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1018.94
- Amount spent: 1018.94 USD, 1701000
Part 1: Project and impact
[edit]1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
We conducted various activities aimed at enhancing Hausa Wiktionary, as the primary goal of the contest is to create comprehensive Wikitionary Guidelines pages that will assist, direct, and guide Wikitionary editors when editing Hausa Wikitionary. Throughout the contest, editors adhere to the Wikimedia Wikitionary universal guidelines for Wikitionary editing. The contest achieved the goal of collecting a large number of words in Hausa Wikitionary. Hausa Wikitionary editors compete to improve Wikitionary in the Hausa language while adhering to Wikitionary's editing guidelines and competition rules. This lead to educational opportunities for participants and content contributions in the language's structure and cultural context, and a variety of language authenticity Training sessions both in person and online were carried out that help participants improve their Hausa Wiktionary editing skills to contribute effectively. We make use of different approaches to achieve our goal, a campaign was developed and implemented throughout the community by contacting existing editors in the Hausa Wikitionary community and current number of Hausa Wikitionary editors, whom we have trained and mentored for participation. Editors were provided with necessary information, resources, support, appropriate skills, and capacity-building engagement that help them rapidly expand Hausa Wikitionary. To solve the difficulty of editor retention, we implemented some initiatives. Such as regular check-ins, virtual meetups, and establishing dedicated communication channels via WhatsApp to provide continuous guidance and support. lastly the first five runners-up receive gifts, awards, certificates, and recognition to boost their morale and retention.
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
Wmf hashtag tool #WAC: https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=WAC https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/graph/?query=%23WAC&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user=
Example of the guidelines pages: https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hausa_Wiktionary:Sabbin_editoci Guidelines pages:https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rukuni:Shafukan_tsare-tsare
Winners announcing:
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
Event photos:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t_wnVH04hEcwsd6EJuvsWOWcsDnR6b_rUghGG4AJkbE/edit?usp=drivesdk
Material used: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1cTQoo3IfU4lES_mfF3SvgBs2xuKCDgb6
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 | 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 | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning
[edit]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: We hope to see Hausa Wikipedia guidelines pages created to assist and guide editors on how to contribute. We are excited to see how brave Hausa Wikitionary editors will be as they compete for incredible prizes. Through participation in this contest, we hope to learn and provide analysis on the rapid growth of Hausa Wiktionary by providing a statistical report Wikimedia Xtools. We are looking forward to creating an overall experience, understanding, and statistical report that will be shared on the Wikimedia diff blog post.
The created comprehensive Wikitionary Guidelines pages have assist articipants on how to create nd improved Hausa Wiktionary to the best practice and this has shape their knowledge and experience on the direction and goals we want to achieve and also guide Wikitionary editors when editing Hausa Wikitionary. Editors have work to improve Hausa Wikitionary by developing new features and combining them that make Hausa Wikitionary even better.Training participants with specific guidelines enhanced their ability to create well-research words, we learned there is a marked increase in participants' confidence and skills, although some needed additional support for complex tasks like citation integration. But it shows decrease in number of editors that need personalised mentorship.
Throughout the contest participants were supported and motivate with data which have encourage the editors and knowingly there is prizes to be awarded has increased the tempo of the contest and content contributions. By our evaluation there is a rapid growth of thousand of articles being created and improved and this has shown us that through community mobilization, engagement and proper communication can create the effect of a resilient community of Hausa wiktionary contributors. We have witness a boost in community engagement and recognizing contributors.
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)
Participants have shown motivation in making use of the created guidelines and their initiatives in creating and editing words. We learn community members are willing to contribute with proper guidance support, and follow up. skills that will improve user experience. We learn hausa Wikitionary editors worked tirelessly to improve Hausa Wikitionary by developing new features and combining them to make Hausa Wikitionary even better through adhering to the guidelines. We learn that participants are more concentrated on creating quality and standard words rather than quantity throughout the contest to the standard Hausa context. The newly created guidelines pages was important and valuable source of information and guidance on the entire Hausa word creation process.
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 this report with the participants and the community members in our communication channels Whatsapp group. This will allow community members to learn from our successes and challenges, fostering collaboration and encouraging more contributors to engage in improving content on Hausa Wiktionary.
Hausa Wiktionary discussion pages https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tattaunawa:Babban_shafi
Part 3: Metrics
[edit]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 | 100 | 104 | Manual registration |
| Number of editors | 50 | 44 | Wmf hashtag |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | 2000 | 1047 | 1128 |
| 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)
1701000
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1018.94
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/1BMKquFKb5c76MmSWqyiGk34rh_OqYbGk8uMS2UmEoM0/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?
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
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
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A