Jump to content

Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Program 2025 (ID: 23644693)/Final Report

Add links
From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Ibjaja055
Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Program 2025
01 February 2026 - 30 June 2026
Report ID: 13410
Report status: Under review
Report due date: 30 July 2026
Grant ID: G-RF-2510-20850
Amount funded: 3927853 NGN, 2750 USD
Amount spent: 3927853 NGN
Rapid Fund 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)

1. Call for Applications: This is the first activity carried out, and we received 271 applications across 50 African countries. The publication was done on social media, especially LinkedIn, without any additional cost for ad running.

2. Participant Onboarding and Orientation: 20 participants were selected across 10 countries in both anglophone and francophone countries. A volunteer francophome trainer User:Chaido007 and a volunteer French to English translator were also onboarded for the five months journey. We limited our participants to 20 instead of 30 listed during the application because of the limited resources.

3. Mentorship Program: The participants were paired with different mentors who guided them during the three-month training. We also involved another experienced volunteer Dave Palfrey who introduced and trained the participants on the art and the act of Wikidata.

4. Guided Edit-a-thons: The participants participated in a guided edit-a-thon where they contributed to both Wikipedia and Wikidata. During this period, 280 articles were created on the English Wikipedia and 1, 170 articles were edited.

5. Peer Learning and Knowledge Exchange Sessions: During the project, there was peer learning sessions where we discovered that participants needed to be taught on how to documents their stories on the wikimedia diff platform. therefore, we carried out a training and 70 percents of the particpants now have diff stories on the diff platform.

6:Documentation and Reporting: For transparency, two diff bloposts were published during the project. The [ https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/13/introducing-the-wiki-afrodemics-mentorship-project-cohort-1/ first one introduced] the public to our project and the activities that we have carried out while the last one docummented our achievements and area of improvement.


Most Effective Approaches

.1. Leveraging on social media, especially, Linkedin and different Wikimedia Whatsapp groups produced a great inter-countries participants. there is no need to run ads looking for participants.

2. Mentorship: One on one training proved to be very successful. With years of training over two thousand participants across different projects, this proven to be very succesful because the participants were taught according to their pace and the fear of failure was removed from theor heart. As it is documented in their success stories on Diff blogs. Some samples are: [ https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/06/20/from-learner-to-contributor-my-experience-in-the-wiki-afrodemics-mentorship-programme/ Malona Adige], Adufe 262

Don'ts during the project 1. Before embarking on cross country campaign, especially the ones that involved data reimbursement or stipend. Check the cross-country money transfer choices available. During the project, I had trouble sending reimbursement to a participant in Namibia as all the mobile money transfer and PAPPS transfer did not include Namibia. The other option is to use FX transfer, but that added an additional 50 dollars to a data reimbursement of 30 dollars.

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


  • Diff Blogs Written by the Participants (Success stories)

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

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 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: Did the project Onboard 30 participants?

Did the project provide mentorships for the participants on WIkipedia and Wikidata?

Did the project provide mentorships for the participants on resource mobilisation and sustainability?

Did the project provide supervised edit-a-thons for participants to confidently edit?

Did the participants showcased their proposed community project?

Did the project onboard 30 participants? No, the project onboarded 20 participants because of the reduction in the budget.

Did the project provide mentorships for the participants on WIkipedia and Wikidata? Yes, the project provided mentorship and guides for the participants.

Did the project provide mentorships for the participants on resource mobilisation and sustainability? Yes, the project project provided different pathways where the participants can access grants.

Did the participants showcased their proposed community project? Yes, the participants showcased their proposed community project. See Adige's Malona Proposal

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)

1. Due to the large number of Francophone applicants, the campaign also created space for the training of francophone participants and added two Francophone personel . This ensure wider participation across English and French Wikipedia. We also added a new team member who served as volunteer for the success of the program.

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 have already published a diff post detailing the beginning and the middle of the project. The Comprehensive draft report has been submitted to the Wikimedia diff blog for the wider community members.

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 30 20 We used the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard
Number of editors 30 20
Number of organizers 3 6
Wikimedia project Target Result - Number of created pages Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia 1350 281 1170
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata 1350 81 2650
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

[edit]

10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

3927853

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

2750

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/1mxwy-b-xOmRFdsh2qnGDvNyyewZUc-qr/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113539316120342551846&rtpof=true&sd=true


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)

Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Wiki_Afrodemics_Mentorship_Program_2025_(ID:_23644693)/Final_Report&oldid=30891463"