Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata:Tenth Birthday for Gurene Wikimedia Community and Sister Communities (ID: 21951057)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 19 December 2022
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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[edit]- Title of Proposal: Wikidata:Tenth Birthday for Gurene Wikimedia Community and Sister Communities
- Username of Applicant: Dnshitobu
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2289.42
- Amount spent: 1873.21 USD, 20700 GHS
Part 1 Understanding your work
[edit]1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
We invited 80 members in all from of the 3 communities and hosted a mini-conference for the birthday celebration on the October 29, 2022. The celebration started on Saturday, October 29, 2022 with float through some principal streets of Tamale to create awareness about Wikidata, burn participants calories and also set the stage for a fun-packed birthday celebration. The latter part of day, from to dust, was filled with a workshop on Wikidata and some tools that helps with Wikidata like SPARQLqueries and quickstatements. We climaxed the day with the cake cutting, socialization, party where participants merry.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes. we initially wanted to host the event in three separate places but on a second thought, we brought the 80 participants using targeted sampling technique under a common venue, and this was awesome as it automatically charged the environment with socialization from 3 communities who perhaps have never met like that.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
- Google potos drive https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPXlNBdzJGVXXBw1XJPTjVx2jHS-SECu9bWBha4N2QHCnPhdAM4YC29-vGuHVo3tw?key=cVZWWWlOY0xxRlIxOUNLX3JRVnhhV0ZVdWpXVWhR
- Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z57WWLbomhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84NPfMbyc0
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.
| 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 |
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?
We sampled our participants from the Gurene, Dagbani Wikimedians and Moore Wikimedia communities with a focus on gender inclusion and people who have been contributing to Wikimedia projects but stay far away from the capital, hence do not get the opportunity to attend events. We offered travelling scholarship and accommodation to members of the Gurene who are spread across Ghana to attend the event.
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?
In our prep for the workshop, we uncovered a lot of resources about SPARQL queries and the Quickstatements and some other useful tools on Toolforge.org. We equally learnt a lot about the organization of people and managing them.
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?
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?
We got lots of experience and they will be very much helpful in future in organising events of this nature and also conferences.
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.
N/A
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 | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old/Veteran editors | Number of participants who are old editors | 60 | 70 | Number old contributors | N/A |
| New editors | Participants joining for the first time | 20 | 25 | Number of new participants | N/A |
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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 | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of participants for the three communities | 80 | 80 | ||
| Number of editors | 60 old editors and 20 new editors for Gurene, Moore and the Dagbani communities | 80 | 80 | ||
| Number of organizers | Number of organizers | 4 | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Number of items created or edited | 300 | 420 | N/A | N/A |
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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.
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.
Yes
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.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
20700 GHS
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1873.21 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16TFPbuTmmHSRQDO7_6IwWFZntOSvn-0at4k1rYkDGV4/edit?usp=sharing
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.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
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.
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