Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2025 au Burundi (ID: 23059356)/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)
The project of Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Burundi enabled the Wikimedia volunteers in Burundi to contribute to the international campaign Wiki Loves Earth by sharing photos from protect areas in Burundi. Participants to the WLE 2025 campaign in Burundi visited protect areas in Burundi to shoot photos that they uploaded and share on Wikimedia Commons. During the campaign, it was an opportunity to recruit new contributors who contributed to the campaign and we hope they will continue to contribute to the Wikimedia projects, as we remain with the new volunteers with our communication channels.
In order to support us to achieve the results we provided a continuous feedback and regular communication to enable problem-solving; we also established trainings to support contributors in their activities.
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
Below are links that help to tell our story for the project of Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Burundi: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Burundi/Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025_au_Burundi
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025_au_Burundi
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025_in_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
We have used the Event registration and outreachdashboard to track the contributors and contributions of volunteers.
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 | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | 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: Were the photos shooted from protected sites in 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?
Volunters from the community of Burundi visited protected sites where they shooted photos. The photos were then uploaded and shared on Commons? Volunteers tried to shoot of good quality photos which are useful for Wikimedia projects in general, and for Wikipedia mainly. During the campaign we succeed to recruit new members for our community. In total 354 photos were uploaded to Common from the Wiki Loves Earth campaign in Burundi.
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)
We had short time for the activities. Activities began with a late as we were waiting for supporting funds. We learnt that it is better to apply and request funds early to give more time to deciders to deliberate and decide for the funds distribution.
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 communications in the community channels of communication and on the community metapage.
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 | 35 | 38 | |
| Number of editors | 30 | 22 | |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 10 | 20 | 12 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 460 | 354 | 57 |
| Wikidata | 25 | ||
| 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)
7605063
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
2591
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:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A