Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Enrichment and Hubs Launching (ID: 22199783)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2023-12-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: De-Invincible
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2789.65
- Amount spent: 2789.65 USD, 1892000
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 successfully conducted four trainings/edit-a-thons and extra two meet-ups for the launching of fan clubs as planned. The trainings were conducted in two of the six states in north eastern part of Nigeria involving Yobe and Gombe states. Following are the some of the designed strategies we find more effective during the implementation of this project:
- Media Publicity: Collaboration with Fulfulde language media outlets helps alot in alerting the targeted individuals who benefited from the training. Graphics/poster designs used on Social media platforms also played a vital in arising the curiosity of majority of the Fula speakers in the region where the trainings were conducted.
- Open Documentation: we kept records of each participant including their phone numbers through both manual and Online forms. This helps us find it easy in assigning each participant to their respective group leaders and fan club/network associates.
- Scope/Area of Focus: The organizing team put heads together in prioritizing the themes/area of focus to make the editing enjoyably easy for the participants in one hand and also help in covering underrepresented topics on Fulfulde Wikipedia.
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
*Event's Dashboards: Dashbord
*Event's Photographs: Uploaded Photographs
*Diff Blog Posts: Diff Post
*Arab Wikimedian Shared our success story with the Middle Eastern Wikimedia Communities by translating the blog post into Arabic: Diff Post Arabic version
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
*Video Documentary played during each session: Video
*Wikidata presentation used: Slides
*Other relevant files: includes Wikipedia presentation, Commons presentation and pamphlets.
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[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 wish to learn whether regular meet-ups would help strengthen the spirit of contributions enormously among editors and boost their spiritual level for group/teamwork.
- 2. One of our identified problems through previous events was improving the retention rate of recruited participants, so we wish to know whether our devised solution of having trainings on regular basis is enough to tackle the problem.
- 3. We wish to learn whether through this event, editing of Wikimedia projects in Fulfulde language will be sustained enough and more group of contributors will be trained.
- 4. We will also wish to learn what can be done to improve awareness about Fulfulde Wikipedia in our community to prepare us for more greater impacts in our subsequent projects.
1. We truly understand that Fula Wikipedia editors are more active/high spirited when there's an ongoing project judging from the fact that, the Fula Wikipedia page views metric as well as number of new created aricles rised rapidly than the previous two weeks before the project was implemented. As can be seen on the Pageviews site here
- 2. The idea for lauching Fan Clubs initiated in this project has help us in making it so easy to retained the participants.
- 3. We saw it clearly how these fan clubs were aiming at each other with the goal of doing what it takes to be the best. Each group were encouraging their members to do more and that help in achieving this great success that can be witnessed from the outcome of the project.
- 4. More experience and enlightment is necessary as there are still those who need to understand how the Wikipedia principles work and the Wikimedia movement general community in a broader term.
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)
Actually, nothing unexpected happened. Everything goes as planned.
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 results was shared with the general and the sub-groups of the Fulfulde Wikimedians Community together with the newly lauched fan clubs/networks
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 | 80 | 80 | We selected and hosted 80 participants in all the trainings (20 attendants in each) from the total number of individuals who applied for participation. |
| Number of editors | 50 | 50 | Dashboard Tool, and participant's attendance register |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 | Dashboard Tool, and participant's attendance register |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 400 | 1200 | 2395 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 20 | 81 | 20 |
| Wikidata | 1000 | 1178 | 5054 |
| 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)
1892000
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
2789.65
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 Your response to the review feedback. 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