Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa Côte d’Ivoire Fan Club (ID: 22894684)/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 Loves Africa's 2025 campaign, centered on the theme "from Farm to Plate," allowed us to document the production of Ivorian dishes through beautiful videos of excellent visual and audio quality, enriching Wikimedia Commons and filling the gap in video content on Wikipedia about Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) and Africa. To successfully carry out our campaign, we remained faithful to our previous action plans, which unfolded as follows:
Two virtual training sessions on the following topics:
Introducing participants to the Wiki Loves Africa contest, its objectives, and its vision.
Presenting best practices for uploading to Wikimedia Commons and the types of licenses authorized on Wikimedia Commons.
Training participants on choosing their camera and lens (for those who are able to do so).
Training mobile phone users on the correct settings, proper configuration, and applications that provide a cinematic look.
The objective of these training sessions was to help participants better understand the competition theme and maximize their chances of success in terms of image and sound quality.
2 in-person training workshops
5 field meetings with participants to see how they implement the advice we provided.
6 days of fieldwork with participants during the filming of their videos.
1 final in-person training workshop aimed at addressing challenges encountered during fieldwork, as well as helping participants improve their videography and photography skills.
3 training workshops on video editing best practices and helping participants effectively edit their images.
3 in-person meetings related to image uploads to Wikimedia Commons
The uploaded images represent the theme "from Farm to Plate," related to the culinary practices of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire): high-quality visual and sound images.
We uploaded 18 videos and 94 photos.
Total images: 112
Our most effective approaches are the physical training sessions and support we provide to our participants.
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
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2025_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire_Fan_Club
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558502999315
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)
| 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: This time we hope to learn if we can implement strategies to see, if we can bring on board, novice sound engineers, novice musicians and lyricists, for the audio category of Wiki Loves Africa 2025.
And we hope to improve ourselves further in the effective and sustainable development of our community.
We encountered some challenges in this regard. In particular, the lack of availability of target artists, due to their professional schedules. We hope to approach them much earlier 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)
Everything went well.
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)
Our plan is to share it on our dedicated WhatsApp group.
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 | 17 | 17 | |
| Number of editors | 17 | 17 | |
| Number of organizers | 2 | 2 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | 102 | 112 | 112 |
| 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)
592338
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
947
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)
The Wiki Loves Africa 2025 campaign was a wonderful journey. Thank you for granting us the 2025 grant.
Review notes
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
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