Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Visibilizing Women on Fulfulde Wikipedia through Celebrating the International Women's Day (ID: 23647393)/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 two physical workshops; the first day provided a training on editing Wikipedia, and Wikidata while the second day focused on Wikiqoute and Wikimedia Commons followed by online guide and mentoring for the rest of the project's period. We selected topics including Women and their history, culture, and social life in Northern Nigeria to aligned with our goal for celebrating the International women's day. We ensured many young and married women have joined us both physically and virtually for this activities.
The project was a huge success as it recorded more than 2000 new articles about African women biographies thereby reduccing the existing content gender gap. Also many more women articles were created on the Fulfulde Wikiqoute which is still in the Wikimedia Incubator.
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/MN$C Dashboard tool: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Fulfulde_Wikipedia/Visibilizing_Women_on_Fulfulde_Wikipedia_-_Celebrating_the_IWD/home Some of the event photos: https://w.wiki/MN$X Examples of content edited on Fulfulde Wikipedia: https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemtsehay_Wedajo, https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saamugol-reedu_nder_Bahreyn, https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meskerem_Abera, https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anja_Ignatius.
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
Training materials and guides:shared in the Commons link Presentations and slides
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 | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | 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. How do cultural and social factors influence women’s participation and retention as editors?
2. Which strategies are most effective for attracting and sustaining women editors on Fulfulde Wikipedia?
3. How did the organizers encourage the creation of high-quality articles on topics related to women and gender issues?
4. How can insights from this project contribute to Wikimedia’s global efforts to close the gender gap?
5. What indicators can show that diversity and inclusivity have improved within the Fulfulde Wikimedia community?
1. Cultural and social factors have influenced women’s participation and retention as editors in this project due to how the women were percieved in attending outdoor activities like the physical workshops in the hosting community. 2. Telling them that the event focused on women issues and that it's women only event is the trick that works best because many women are afraid to attend mix gender events due to the societal norms. 3. The contest arranged with the prizes as well as rules guiding the participation in the contest have helped alot in that. Also, regular reminder which the organizers keep sharing in the group has helped in making the participants understood the importance of creating good articles. 4. Giving more female organizers the necessary support can help in bringing in more female contributors. 5. The contents created and the gender majority of the participants.
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, things worked as planned.
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 shared the results in the project's group and the general group for Fulfulde Wikimedians.
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 | 60 | 60 | |
| Number of editors | 30 | 25 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 500 | 3000 | 2000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 150 | 250 | 20 |
| Wikidata | 400 | 289 | 124 |
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | 150 | 100 | 10 |
| 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)
1428310
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1000
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)