Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/SheSaid 2025 in Nigeria (ID: 23438030)/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 the SheSaid 2025 campaign in Nigeria as a collaboration between four Wikimedia communities located in Abuja, Anambra, Imo, and Kogi States respectively. The campaign timeline was set between 1 September to 31 December, 2025. Communication materials, outreach and publicity were adequately coordinated before, during and after the campaign. The virtual launch was hosted on 7 December, 2025 with over 50 participants in attendance. We delivered 3 virtual training sessions, in addition to organizing a physical event/training session in each of the four participating communities. A total of 137 editors were engaged. The project realized 26 Million words added, 1.88 Million article views, 1.13 Million articles edited, 3,700 articles created, and 21,200 references added. We also established a mentorship program during the campaign (which will continue as the campaign ended) to help support participants learning, improve their editing skill, and give room for discussions.
The outreach and publicity, practical training sessions, organized physical events, awarding top contributors with gift vouchers, close monitoring and evaluation, and clear tracking methods were most effective in achieving these results.
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://w.wiki/GUSv Outreach dashboard - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/shesaid_2025_in_nigeria/programs Wikimedia Commons category - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SheSaid_2025_in_Nigeria Diff blog post -
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
Session recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nQO2PXh8YNykAmmjN9YISoFswTfp2Qrs/view?usp=drivesdk
Slide deck 1 - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d5dNcRIoMJS3sF_rc_KMAqSGsMMlgCdYT5WooOBOdOM/edit?usp=drivesdk
Slide deck 3 - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ohTC-07W2dq3MA2YR5yXlpI5uPPTPr9s1p47Pm3_Vw0/edit?usp=drivesdk
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 | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly 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. We aim to have achieved a recruitment and training of new editors, in all four participating communities, who will further contribute to the movement under close mentorship. Existing editors will improve their editing skills in article/item creation, improvement, and source reliability. We intend to build a growing community with continued contribution beyond this project.
2. We expect new and meaningful content to be created about women, helping to bridge the gender gap and improve visibility.
3. Through this project, we expect to further develop and build our project management and organizing skills as facilitators, from activity coordination to resource management, to editor support and mentorship.
We learnt that clear communications, outreach and publicity materials are key essentials for successful project implementation. Through this, new editors as well as existing editors were recruited and engaged in the participating communities. We learnt that organizing workshops and training sessions helped to build and develop editing skills and also promote community engagement. As organizers, we also learnt and practiced the concept of collaboration, resource management, and effective project organizing towards achieving maximum positive outcomes.
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)
Most editors weren’t familiar with editing Wikiquote and article translation using the content translation tool, thus the training sessions, physical events, and close mentorship productively helped to bridge that knowledge gap.
Aside that, we had complaints from editors who faced poor network connectivity, IP-blocks. We shared useful tips to overcoming these challenges like switching to alternative network services, also provided data support, while we encouraged them to request for the IP-block exempt rights.
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 published a diff blog post. We plan to host an office hour to share our learnings, session recordings, draft mentorship notes that also document best editing practices for editors and share useful tips for organizers.
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 | 100 | 137 | Available on outreach dashboard |
| Number of editors | 100 | 137 | Available on outreach dashboard |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 | 777 | 3404 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | 300 | 864 | 616093 |
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | 200 | 1804 | 1141 |
| 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)
3834675
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
2500
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/1EkryU4gP6qHu5_QoRH1Dn0niHkCfG_ZAbfWmuvvEBOc/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)