Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Afrodemics 2025 (ID: 23061927)/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)
Two online trainings: The online trainings were used to introduce the participants to account creation, project metapage navigation and other minor edits. This approach reduced the workload of the physical training, as many of the participants have familiarised themselves with Wikipedia, Wikidata and the project's metapage.
Two Physical trainings: Two physical trainings were conducted for the participants, and the trainings improved the participants' skills in article and item creation and improvements. During the training, the facilitators used live edits to show examples of how articles and items can be created.
Edit-a-thon: Two two-month closely monitored edit-a-thon was conducted. To avoid disruption on the Wikipedia main space, the participants were trained on how to use the draft space. They submitted all their contributions from the draft space and since the team lead and other team members are experienced reviewers, the article were edited and accepted into the main space.
Two office hours: The Office hours were used to attend to participants' problems during the edit-a-thon. This was very effective as we addressed issues around copyright, close paraphrasing, IP block, edit wars and so on.
Review: Immediately after the edit-a-thon, the reviewer reviewed edits that are related to the campaign because the outreach dashboard tracks general edits. The outcome of the review was used to announce the winners and the gift card vouchers were shared for the winners, including other awards such as new comer award, gender award and special good and featured articles award.
Certification: Certificates were given to only the active participants during the campaign.
Lastly, the most effective approach that we used was using the draftsapce for our edit-a-thon, we were able to protect the main space from any kind of vandalism. Also, the participants learnt and benefitted from the comments of ther exoerienced AfC reviewers.
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
Link to some pictures during the physical and the online trainings:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Wiki+Loves+Afrodemics+2025&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Afrodemics_2025_29.jpg
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Afrodemics_2025_011.jpg
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Afrodemics_2025_18.jpg
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Afrodemics_2025_37.jpg
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Afrodemics_2025_17.jpg
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Afrodemics_2025_010.jpg
Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects;
- Munashe Furusa (Created by a new editor)
- John Ongayo Kwaro (created by a new editor)
- Wandera Ogana (Created by a new editor)
- Livingstone Luboobi (An article created and improved to a Good article during the campaign.)
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
Resources
- link to the power point presentation
- link to the office hour
- link to the training
- The Wiki Afrodemics Projects African Academics and Scholars Database
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 | 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 guide/train new and existing editors to close the knowledge gap about African academics and scientists on Wikipedia and Wikidata?
Did the project close the gender gap that existed in the biographies of African academics and scientists on Wikipedia and Wikidata?
Did the project train and guide editors to create contents that are related to African academics and scientist on Wikipedia and Wikidata?
Did the project guide the participants on improving stub and start articles to categories such as C, B and A on Wikipedia?
- Did the project guide/train new and existing editors to close the knowledge gap about African academics and scientists on Wikipedia and Wikidata? Yes the project trained both new and existing editors and they close the gender gap of African academics and scientists by creating and improving articles on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Did the project close the gender gap that existed in the biographies of African academics and scientists on Wikipedia and Wikidata? yes, the project closed this gap by prioritising women biography some of the articles created are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie_Kayitesi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Okomo_Adhiambo, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Naanyu and so on.
- Did the project train and guide editors to create content that are related to African academics and scientist on Wikipedia and Wikidata? Yes the project trained and guided editors to create artilce related to African academics and scientists. The category can be found here
- Did the project guide the participants on improving stub and start articles to categories such as C, B and A on Wikipedia? Yes the project improved articles from stub to start, including a good article that can be seen here
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
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 plan to share with the Wikimedia project's community via the diff blog and this is the draft which is currently under review
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 | 83 | Google form for attendance |
| Number of editors | 50 | 50 | Wikipedia Outreach Dashboard |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 | 101 | 400 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | 250 | 220 | 600 |
| 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)
4059846
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
2532.77
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/1_Ib_duobJ2MPZOAN8OVw319g5qabVSF22bDVyLGftWE/edit?gid=928458698#gid=928458698
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:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A