Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2023 with Campus Photo Fest Nigeria (ID: 22027086)/Final Report

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 2023-04-30T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Final

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General information[edit]

Title of Proposal: Wiki Loves Africa 2023 with Campus Photo Fest Nigeria
Username of Applicant: Ceslause
Name of Organization: N/A
Amount awarded: 4889.48
Amount spent: 5000 USD, 2247750 NGN

Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]

1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented

We planned photo hunts across the various locations where we initially had participants during 2022 contest. It was also a great idea merging the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and the Campus Photo Fest community.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.

The idea of merging the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and the Campus photo Fest community really helped us to gain a wider reach this year. It was also great organizing training around Mobile phone photography and editing. This helped us to have a good number of quality contributions taken with mobile phones this year.

3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.

Field to type in URLs.

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023

4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups	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	Agree
E. Encourage the retention of editors	Agree
F. Encourage the retention of organizers	Agree

5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?

No

Part 2: Your main learning[edit]

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?

It was eye opening to see the use of smartphones in taking photos and videos and editing the photos using Snapseed. The contributors who felt they need professional cameras to participate were really amazed at how much their smartphones could do for them if used rightly.

They also found out how they could contribute beyond Commons, like to Wikidata for instance.

It was also interesting seeing experienced Wikimedians and creatives exchange ideas on how to make quality and encyclopedic contributions.

7. 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?

An internal crisis rocked the Campus Photo Fest team. Unfortunately, it did affect our contest. This taught me more about how unresolve conflicts could affect a community and indirectly affect participation to. something like Wiki Loves Africa

8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?

9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).

Here is an additional field to type in URLs.

CC licences and IP rights training (https://drive.google.com/file/d/11aK3etEBn1Ywt7SLAJuv8v9mIsWY7_9S/view?usp=sharing)

Introduction to free knowledge and Wikimedia (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vz0pJOb_9FjKLx7GWx9H0nrLVKRqrmqP/view?usp=sharing)

Mobile phone photography and editing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EIMC7ke7rN9cBKyqDYXzm9e_O-ELS-ZA/view?usp=sharing)

Wiki Loves Africa 2023 info session (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yfiTO8jZxxKqIDYE3Ad2LzL2wF2EaOEo/view?usp=sharing)

Part 3: Metrics[edit]

10a. Open Metrics reporting

In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.

Open Metrics Summary
Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Grow the community	We currently have over 160 members in the telegram group that we built this year. We hope to get more active participants in there, people who could rub off on others or attract new members...that would definitely increase the number of people in the community.	50	61	We had 61 contributors	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
Diversity contribution	We hope to diversify the contents contributed by members of this community beyond Wikimedia Commons.	50	340	Over 300 of the images have been used to various Wikis so far by the participants	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

10b. Core Metrics reporting

In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	200	195	I believe the internal crisis at Campus Photo Fest somehow affected some elements of the contests, like publicity on their part for instance.	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
Number of editors	200	61	Some of the community members were taking sides in the internal crisis. This reduced the expected number of participants. We had 9 new editors.	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
Number of organizers	4	4	There was myself, Wilson, Ugochukwu Nwakeze and a liaison from Kodak Nigeria

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikimedia Commons	500+	500	1151	N/A	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
Wikidata	We hope to have up to 500+ Wikidata depicts through ISA tool campaign, added to the submitted images	500	0	Unfortunately, the ISA tool was broken for months. The develops are still working on it to restore the functionalities. We however focused on adding descriptions to the uploads	N/A
Wikipedia	We plan to improve 100+ Wikipedia articles with the images collected, through Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign	100	310	N/A	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group_and_Campus_Photo_Fest_Nigeria/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/home
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.

No

12a. State what difficulties you had.

N/A

12b. 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?

N/A

13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).

Here is an additional field to type in URLs.

N/A

14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.

Partially

14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.

After we had the Mobile phone photography and editing training, we saw how it helped our local participants immediately. We instantly made the recommendation to the Wiki Loves Africa 2023 International team, and had the training organized at international level.

Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]

15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

2247750 NGN

16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.

5000 USD

17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

17a. Upload a financial report file.

Breakdown of expenses for Wiki Loves Africa 2023 Campus Photo Fest in Nigeria.pdf

17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.

N/A

As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.

17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.

N/A

18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

No

18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

186 USD

18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval

18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

N/A

19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?

Yes

20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?

Yes

21. 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

22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.

My report was due yesterday, but I had to wait for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023 campaign to close first before doing my report. The Fluxx platform should be in sync with the end date of the project, but it started sending the requests for report from the end date of the the Wiki Loves Africa 2023. There are usually satellite events after the main campaign. Averagely, it's important to note that adding these satellite events to the campaign, it totals about 6 months to run all activities.

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