Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2024 au Burundi (ID: 22591863)/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 Earth 2024 au Burundi project has enabled the wikimedia members in Burundi to contribute to the international campaign Wiki Loves Earth with photos shooted from protected sites in Burundi. The project helped to retain our members for the photographic contributions on Wikimedia Commons. During the campaign, we also recruited new members to the competition as well as to our community. Participants have been trained in taking pictures and uploading them on Wikimedia commons.
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
Bellow are story telling links for the organization of the Wiki Loves Earth au Burundi 2024: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2024_in_Burundi; https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Burundi/Wiki_Loves_Earth_2024_au_Burundi; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Burundi
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
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wle-bi
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 | Not applicable |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Neither agree nor disagree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Neither agree nor disagree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | 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: Were the photos related to the theme from Burundi uploaded on Commons? Were the photos uploaded of good quality? Are the photos useful for Wikimedia projects in general, and for Wikipedia mainly? Was the contest useful to recruit new members for our community? How many photos were uploaded to Common from the Wiki Loves Earth campaign in Burundi?
We are happy that we have organized the Wiki Loves Earth in Burundi. The contest was an occasion for our community members to visit protected sites, to shoot photos and upload them on Wikimedia Commons. We are glad with the outcomes, our community members are improving the quality of photos they upload on Wikimedia Commons. Durinng the contest like the Wiki Loves Earth, we profit of training in shooting photos, and this is important to learn and to improve skills.
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)
The requested grant for our contest has delayed for a long time. We had to reorganise our activities timeline accordingly.
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 share the project learnings and results with other community members by telling through channels like Diff.
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 | 50 | |
| Number of editors | 25 | 36 | |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 5 | ||
| Wikimedia Commons | 450 | ||
| Wikidata | 10 | ||
| 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)
7082311
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
2491
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)
Review notes
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A