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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Promotions in Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture (ID: 22590078)/Final Report

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Wikimedia Promotions in Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture
17 June 2024 - 12 August 2024
Report ID: 11002
Report status: Under review
Report due date: 11 September 2024
Grant ID: G-RF-2403-15694
Amount funded: 900000 NGN, 610 USD
Amount spent: 900000 NGN
Rapid Fund 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 implemented activities were categorized into three parts with the first part being a pre-training awareness campaign within the College which led to reaching out to the reasonable number of the College populace including the staff and the students, posters and flyers distributions on the faculties and departmental notice boards as well as online posts and emails. The second phase comprised the core activity which is the 'edit-a-thon training' where the participants involved were introduced to hands-on-key board practical session which involved account creation sessions for the newly recruited editors followed by introducing them to Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons. The final phase was when the team led a post-program campaign as a mop-up activity where the identified on-spot needs of the trained editors and the general members of the host community were cleared. This process lead the team in achieveing a great success of creating over 8,000 articles, 5,000+ wikidata contents and more than 200 media files were uploaded on commons

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

Dashboard tools: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikipedia/Wikimedia_Promotions_in_Binyaminu_Usman_College_of_Agriculture Link for the event photographs: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Promotions_in_Binyaminu_Usman_College_of_Agriculture Event page:

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

Link:

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)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
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 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: I let the communities know about this project through phone calls and social media handles. More importantly, the experienced facilitators that would be drawn from Hausa Wikimedia User group would be engaged by chats and calls throughout the life-span of the project for better results.

This project help me understand another reason for engaging experienced editors because unforeseen challenges are likely to occur and when such thing happened, the experienced facilitators involved always come up with a solution to solve that problem. It also help me realize that with guidance and proper implementation of the project, participants can do good to creating as far as thousands articles mot just hundreds.

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)

Yes, heavy rainfalls and floodings covering the areas of some of the facilitators and the location where the institution is located has caused continuous rescheduling of the training and photowalk days. In the end, the situation has forced us to relocate to the second event to another institution in a closeby location where the majority of the participants hails from and that's what bring the success of this project.

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 will share this report with the participants and the community members in the Whatsapp group

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 50 50 Outreach Dashboard
Number of editors 40 39 Outreach Dashboard
Number of organizers 5 5 Outreach Dashboard
Wikimedia project Target Result - Number of created pages Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia 250 8903 9275
Wikimedia Commons 100 200 156
Wikidata 500 2290 5427
Wiktionary 50 50 0
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator 50 0 0
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

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10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

900000

11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)

610

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

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Review notes from Program Officer:

N/A

Applicant's response to the review feedback.

N/A