Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Karai-Karai Wikipedia Outreach and Community Building (ID: 23741208)/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)
The project kicked-off with the orientation and awareness campaign across the targeted communities where local native speakers, students, activits and linguists got introduced to the Wikimedia projects espacially Wikimedia Incubator, Commons, Wikidata and later Karai-karai Wikipedia (after it successful migration). Technical orientation was organized on how to navigate the Wikimedia Incubator followed by a session on basic Wikipedia editing with practical hands-on examples on how to translate articles, Wikidata items creation, and media uploads to Wikimedia Commons.
Contest was held throughout the project period and the participants were awarded with certificates followed by the official launching of the Karai-Karai Wikimedia Community.
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: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Karai-Karai_Wikipedia_Outreach
- Event Dashboard: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EventDetails/3492
- Event Photographs: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Karai-Karai_Wikipedia_Outreach_and_Community_Building_Events
- Photos Uploaded: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Karai-karai_Wikipedia_Outreach_Event
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
Link to resources used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Karai-karai_Wikipedia_Outreach_Event
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 | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | 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: 1. Did the project create awareness about the Wikimedia movement and its projects in Karai-karai language?
2. What are the best practices in mobilizing new editors?
3. Which approaches works best and the challenges encounter while organizing this project?
4. What are the ways of sourcing materials to support editors in translation?
5. What can be done to enhance participants' learning experiences?
6. Were you able to establish a sustainable community for Karai-karai Wikipedia?
1. Yes, absolutely.
2. With regards to this project, proper communications has been the key to mobilizing new editors. We ensured to produced enough and catchy promotional contents for online and offline promotions and we since we have the team of well-experienced volunteers, they took the lead in the outreach campaigns ensuring effective communication and good impressions. This has helped us mobilizing enough range of diverse individuals from language advocates to linguists, academics, librarians, students and activists.
3. We believe all the approaches have played a role in the success this project achieved. For challenges, these are mostly travels related as sometimes we were faced with questionings from securities on military check-points on the roads when they saw us wearing the matching campaign t-shirts while sometimes it is the delays at the motor parks due to lack of passengers whcih affect the programme schedules.
4. We tried achieving a partnership with the Karai-karai Language development Committee who also gift us some books, novels, dictinaries and textual materials for the language.
5. Organizing more continous project and inviting well experienced editors from existing affiliattes and organizations for workshops and training sessions.
6. Yes, we have successfully launched the Karai-karai Wikimedia Community for sustainability of activities in karai-karai language on Karai-karai Wikipedia.
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)
I will share with the community in the established WhatsApp group
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 | 50 | Total of 50 participants were reached |
| Number of editors | 30 | 21 | 21 editors contributed to Wikimedia projects |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 | Total of 5 experienced editors facilitated the events |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 1122 | 100 | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 | 200 | 50 |
| Wikidata | 200 | 200 | 50 |
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | 300 | 300 | 50 |
| 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)
1246401
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
900
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Upload the financial report
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)