Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Awareness and Gender Promotions in Dukku (ID: 23478518)/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)
During the reporting period, several activities were carried out to recruit, train, and support new Wikimedia editors in Dukku, with a strong emphasis on gender balance and local content improvement.
Recruitment and Needs Assessment:
A Google Form was developed and circulated across youth and student networks within Dukku Local Government. This enabled the recruitment of interested participants and helped us assess their prior knowledge and specific needs. The needs assessment guided our training focus, ensuring that sessions addressed the most crucial skill gaps.
One Online Training Session:
After recruitment, we conducted one virtual introductory sessions. These sessions introduced participants to Wikimedia projects, supported them in creating user accounts, and explained the basic rules, guidelines, and expectations of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. This foundation prepared participants for more advanced, hands-on training.
One Physical Training:
We organized one in-person training in Dukku, which focused on practical editing skills. Participants were trained on improving Wikipedia articles, adding or refining statements on Wikidata, and contributing photographs to Wikimedia Commons. These sessions resulted in improved confidence and active contributions from participants, especially regarding local Nigerian content.
Office Hours (Check-in Calls):
One office-hour session was held as follow-up support. These served as troubleshooting moments where new editors sought clarification, received guidance, and resolved challenges encountered while editing. This support strengthened retention and motivated continued engagement.
Creation of a Wikimedia Editors Group in Dukku:
A sustainable local community group was established to keep participants connected, informed, and continuously mentored. This group will remain a long-term platform for collaboration and skill growth among newly trained editors.
Integration into the Africa Wiki Women Network:
In line with the project’s gender-inclusion objective, all female participants were integrated into the Africa Wiki Women group. This has opened doors for continuous learning, mentorship, and involvement in global Wikimedia initiatives.
Most Effective Approaches
Several approaches proved highly effective in achieving these results:
Recruitment Through Youth and Student Networks:
Leveraging community-based organisations, student associations, and youth clubs in Dukku proved to be the most effective recruitment strategy. It ensured wide reach, quick mobilization, and participation from motivated young people.
Gender Gap Promotion Strategy:
Intentionally allocating 70% of recruitment slots to women significantly advanced our gender-balance objective. This approach empowered more women to gain editing skills and contributed to reducing male dominance in Wikimedia spaces.
Focus on Local Content Creation:
Encouraging participants to work on Nigerian topics—particularly local history, culture, and notable women—increased their motivation and improved the relevance of their contributions. This approach also enriched Wikimedia projects with underrepresented content from Northeastern Nigeria.
Community Building for Sustainability:
Establishing a Wikimedia editors’ group in Dukku ensured continuity beyond the training period. The group structure encourages collaboration, peer learning, and long-term growth of the local editing community.
Integration into Africa Wiki Women:
Linking trained female participants to a wider continental network created an extended support system. This boosted their confidence, exposed them to global Wikimedia opportunities, and ensured sustained mentorship.
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
1. Group picture 2. Hands-on Experience picture
3. Hands on experience picture 2 3. Training picture 5. training picture 6. Other pictures here
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
Presentation Slide (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z3nw8CRGOWgSsJNlDtD87ixxUUX3Zj9rhJgcbWHeuaY/edit)
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: Did the project recruit and train new participants?
Did the project recruit 70% women?
Did the project improve local contents?
Did the project create a wikimedia community in Dukku?
Did the project integrate the Women into the African Wiki Women Community?
Did the project recruit and train new participants? 90 percent of the participants are completely new. Though, 87 percents participated in the entire process while the remaining three joined the trainings but did not participate
Did the project recruit 70% women? Yes, 80 percent of the participants are women
Did the project improve local contents? Yes, the project Improve local contents
Did the project create a wikimedia community in Dukku? Yes, the project create a local wikimedia commujnit in Dukku Campus
Did the project integrate the Women into the African Wiki Women Community? Yes, the participants were integrated into the African Wiki Women Community
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 have shared the project through the diff blog: https://diff.wikimedia.org/?p=183098
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 | 40 | 40 | Attendance sheet and Dashboard |
| Number of editors | 40 | 40 | Dashboard, metapage and attendance sheet |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 | 230 | 2400 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 | 150 | 150 |
| Wikidata | 150 | 1280 | 16000 |
| 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)
1533367.5
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1000
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/1Ojasmt6UqErh6MAsgSLbgLRv3KbiyaHdBTLZW-2RSrI/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)