Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (July 2024 - December 2024) Semiannual Plan (ID: 22675936)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 31 January 2025
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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[edit]- Applicant username: De-Invincible
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4276
- Amount spent: 4276 USD, 6062500
Part 1: Project and impact
[edit]1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
We were able to host 7 edit-a-thons; five (5) on ground events (i.e physical trainings) spanning across 3 states of the north eastern region of Nigeria and two (2) virtual/online cleanups. We organized each event/training while taking into account the project aims which are: community mobilization, members enrichment and participants engagement acceleration. This helped us in focusing on adding to the members skills, identifying uncovered topics and genres on Fulfulde Wikipedia to bridge the content gaps, reshaping the members' translation skills using the Machine Translator, and more importantly introducing to our community members a new initiative which helped address their concerns and challenges for accessing the internet to make contributions to Wikipedia which is the Data Support Program. We designed a page as a key way to achieve a transparent and a fair processes were the partcipants used the opportunity to request for reimbursement and the dedicated team from the organizers would review the partcipants contibutions and reimbursed the top contributors. The process take place after every two edit-a-thons through the period of the planned ectivities. The partcipants were also provided with a free internet access in the event halls using the community routers. This helped make the partcipants contributed with ease which results to having the project period the time where the Fulfulde Wikipedia has the most growing number of new articles created the previous year of 2024 and the years before then as can be seen here.
As hoped in our application, the implemented activiities helped us maximize our community engagement, build a strong sense of connection between them and Wikimedia projects, and also grant us with the opportunity to offer them the needed support for internet access which helped gather our strengths in making effective contributions to the targeted Wikimedia projects leading to this huge success.
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
- The project page on ffwiki: here
- Link to the Dashboard tool used: [1]
- Some photos from the campaigns and event: here
- Some of the important social media posts: here
- Diff blog post:
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
- Some of the Powerpoint presentations and slides used:
- Link to Video documentary played during the events: here
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 | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | 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
[edit]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: 1. We hope to learn whether long term plan activities can solve the aforementioned challenges. 2. We hope to learn whether the participants engagements would accelerate. 3. We hope to learn what to do next by the end of this plan activities.
Learning 1:
We happened to learn the influence of long term plan activities in solving small community challenges while exerting huge impact on the community's growth and developemnt. We were able to see its effect in keeping the community members' spirit so high and instilling the feeling of sense of belonging in the movement as well as mutual understanding and team work among members. We also came to realization of the vital role long term plan activities can play in furthering the community members engagement and how that is reshaping their passion for continuing the contributions on Wikimedia projects.
Furthermore, the opportunity we had for frequent meet-ups/edit-a-thons with all the members of the community hubs and fan clubs has become another benefit of this long term plan activities as it provide us with a chance of making the community members' bond more stronger.
Learning 2:
The project helped us boost the commnunity members' engagement in a number of ways including; retaining the existing editors which help make their contribution rate to accelerate. The chart here show the gradual increase of contents contributed to Fulfulde Wikipedia from July 2024 to December 2024 and how it superseded the year 2023. This implies that the participants' engagement have accelerate since there is a significant improvement which helped in achieving the overall results of the project.
Learning 3: After careful review of the activities implemented, we find out that this long term plan activities has helped our community members skills improved, boost their morale, support their challenge for internet access, unify and developed our community members' sense of comraderie and friendship. We also learned that, not every new participant can become skillful editor at one time, hence we would plan to make another long term plan activities to reshaping the skills of our newly recruits and keep the community members warmed up so that we can compare the success of this and next activities to see if there will be another solid achievement.
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, except for the delays experience from the printing shops were the work of branded t-shirts was given that led to the cancellation of one of the physical trainings because we believe consistency in the training intervals is one of the keys that would help us achieve a great success.
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)
The project's results and learnings were already shared with the members through our dedicated WhatsApp platform.
Part 3: Metrics
[edit]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 | 160 | 180 | We had about 180 attendees in the overal training events |
| Number of editors | 80 | 80 | We were able to retain 70 old and 10 new editors and made them contribute to the targeted Wikimedia projects |
| Number of organizers | 10 | 10 | We were able to work with 5 organizers from our community members and other 5 from Hausa Wikimedia User Group |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 600 | 12303 | 13039 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 400 | 600 | 200 |
| Wikidata | 500 | 4620 | 468 |
| 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)
6062500
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
4276
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report report link
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?
Yes
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
There is $83.89 USD remaining. 59.39 USD was the amount for the event space of the one training we were not able to conduct. While the 24.50 USD was meant for one of the invited facilitators transport fares which he wasn't able to attend due to illness of his relative whom he was taking care of in the hospital. The other facilitator who replaced him was from the location of the event.
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
We are planning to apply for another plan activities next month and it is similar to this one. So we hope to keep the fund until our next project.
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