Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Love Africa 2025:Celebrating our Agricultural Practice in Northern Nigeria (ID: 22884612)/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)
Wiki Love Africa 2025 in Northern Nigeria start with both online and offline promotions campaigns reaching out to both amateur and professional photographers in the all 19 states of the region while introducing Wikimedia Commons to them and the WLA contest. After getting a reasonable number of people we then organize a training workshop. Were we get mostly our community members who attend, and we trained them on how to participate to the campaign to document the rich food delicacy of the region. That was the day we officially launched the local contest although there has been two online introduction to the contest with the participants before that time for the proper preparation. We then grouped ourselves into 2, each group having one of the 5 organizers as their team lead and begin the photo walks both in Jigawa and Borno State. We then trained and helped engaged some of the most experience editors from our community in attending WLA office hours and similar workshops organized by other communities such as Wiki in Africa, Wiki Love Africa at global stage lead by Hillary which help them understand the concept of uploading the entries better and then use the community's router for the upload sessions but some were reimbursed to upload on their convinet time for the sake of giving us the best upload.
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 on Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_in_Northern_Nigeria
- Dashboard Link
- some photos uploaded
- Event Photographs
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
Some learning materials
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_audio_material_of_five_pillars_of_wikipedia.wav
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steps_to_Article_translation.wav
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 gain a deeper understanding of the unique cultural narratives and creative expressions found in Northern Nigeria. This knowledge will enhance our ability to document and represent these stories on platforms like Wikipedia. Additionally, we want to learn how to establish effective feedback channels that allow us to adapt our initiatives based on community input, ensuring our projects remain relevant and beneficial. We also hope to explore the dynamics of collaborating with local organizations and institutions to see how these partnerships can strengthen our credibility and outreach efforts. And, we intend to evaluate the long-term effects of our initiatives on community resilience and social cohesion in a region that faces significant challenges due to conflict and instability.
2. We also hope to built tenacity in our User Group and extend the work of the community.
3. We are hoping to learn the impact we can achieve as Community in the Wikimedia movement through contributing to the international campaign like Wiki Love Africa WLA
4. We are hoping to grade the capacity of our community to run a contest of this scale, to record our achievements as the remaining global community.
5. We hope to make our community members feel completely engaged and attached to the Wikimedia movement by participating in this international campaign to showcase the Fulfulde community work to the world.
Learning 1
The project helped us to bring our enthusiasms photographers across Northern Nigeria together to capture the rich and beauty of our dishes and showcase those pictures to the global community which help in telling the untold story of our region.
Learning 2
The project helped us build more tenacity within our community members
Learning 3
The project helped us to make our community members feel completely engaged and attached to the Wikimedia movement by participating in this international campaign and we look forward to expand our efforts in the future.
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, meanwhile we had some delayed due to the technical difficulties we have with our bus on day 2 of our photo walk which left us stunt for good 4 hours before we arrived Mallam Madori integrated farm.
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)
That has been done in our monthly meeting. I will also share the outcome of the project in the next Naija office hour, I will also meet with the global team of Wiki Love Africa at Nairobi Kenya on how we can expand our efforts.
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 | 55 | 60 | We use Outreach Dashboard tool and attendance to register our participants |
| Number of editors | 35 | 36 | Wikimedia Foundation Outreach Dashboard tool |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 | Wikimedia Foundation Outreach Dashboard tool |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 | 987 | 112 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 400 | 476 | 105 |
| Wikidata | |||
| 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)
2250000
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1395.32
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/14pYvAhd79at-p8wfnVGOO0zQ9zH0u5HzOTiasvpCK98/edit
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