Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality (ID: 22067507)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality
- Username of Applicant: 787IYO
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 2500
- Amount spent: 2500 USD, 1149000 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
Generally, the proposed description of activities and strategies implemented were as follows:
- 1. Recruitment and training of female editors: The project team identify potential participants through partnerships with some Government Secondary Schools and they were trained on wikipedia editing and guidelines was developed and delivered through in-person and online training sessions. Ongoing mentorship and support is provided to participants in various platforms of social media created for such purpose. A document was shared to various interesting participants which was filled by them. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QAeugGLrrlzK6wWDa3nmOog1sLbVP8gKFPPE8ilS3nNA_g/viewform
- 2. Curriculum integration: The project team is working with interested schools of both the Governments and privates secondary school to integrate Wikipedia into their curriculum.
- 3. Content creation and improvement: Key topics related to gender equality that are underrepresented on Wikipedia were identified. The project team work in the field to create and improve articles. A content creation guide was also also shared for easy guide to editing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFVolLk6V1BC5W1elDw3CE6njvlfVrZ8/view?usp=drivesdk
- 4. Community engagement and outreach: The project team engaged with existing Wikipedia communities and groups on the need to address gender equality in education. Communication plans have been developed to share project goals progress with the broader Wikipedia community.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
There are several strategies and approaches that have been found effective in achieving goals of the projects:
- 1. Collaborative partnerships: Building strong partnerships with schools, organizations, and Wikipedia communities can facilitate engagement and knowledge sharing, leading to increased participation and impact.
- 2. Training and mentorship: Providing comprehensive training and ongoing mentorship to participants can enhance their skills, confidence, and understanding of Wikipedia editing, leading to higher quality contributions and increased retention.
- 3. Curriculum integration: Integrating Wikipedia into educational curricula can promote active learning and critical thinking while also increasing the visibility of underrepresented topics. This approach helps create a sustainable impact by reaching a larger number of students.
- 4. Addressing bias and harassment: Implementing measures to address bias and harassment on Wikipedia, such as providing guidelines, resources, and support for participants, helps create a safer and more inclusive environment, encouraging increased participation from underrepresented groups.
- 5. Community engagement: Actively engaging with the Wikipedia community through events, discussions, and sharing project progress helps build relationships, gain valuable insights, and foster collaboration, ultimately strengthening the impact and sustainability of the project.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality and https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ha.wikipedia.org/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality/students/overview
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 | 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 |
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?
In efforts to bring in participants build out content for underrepresented groups, there were additional considerations that was taken into account:
- 1. Targeted outreach: We conducted target outreach to underrepresented groups through partnerships with organizations, communities, and educational institutions that focus on promoting diversity and inclusion.
- 2. Cultivating inclusive spaces: We create a welcoming and inclusive environment where underrepresented participants feel valued and comfortable. This was achieved by actively promoting respectful communication, providing mentorship and support specifically tailored to their needs, and addressing any issues of bias or harassment that may arise.
- 3. Content campaigns: Online Content campaigns that specifically focus on underrepresented topics or themes related to gender equality was adopted and its help draw attention to the gaps in content and encourage participants to contribute to these areas.
- 4. Translation efforts: Translation efforts to make Wikipedia content available in languages that are commonly spoken by underrepresented groups. This helps to expand access to knowledge and encourages participation from individuals who were not fluent in English. By implementing these additional measures, the project actively promote participation and content creation from underrepresented groups, helping to bridge the knowledge gap and increase representation on Wikimedia platforms.
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?
Here are some potential learning priorities for the project "Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality":
- 1. Impact of training and mentorship: Understanding the effectiveness of training and mentorship programs in increasing the skills, confidence, and retention of participants, particularly from underrepresented groups.
- 2. Success of content creation efforts: Assessing the impact of content campaigns and edit-a-thons in addressing the content gaps related to gender equality on Wikimedia platforms and measuring the quality and diversity of the content created.
- 3. Engagement and retention strategies: Evaluating the effectiveness of engagement and retention strategies, such as community-building initiatives, in sustaining participation and fostering a sense of belonging among underrepresented participants.
- 4. Overcoming barriers and challenges: Identifying and addressing the barriers and challenges that hinder participation from underrepresented groups, such as systemic bias, lack of digital literacy, or online harassment, to inform future interventions and improve inclusivity.
- 5. Long-term impact and sustainability: Assessing the long-term impact of the project beyond its immediate outcomes, such as the continued involvement of participants, the influence of their contributions, and the creation of a supportive community for gender equality on Wikimedia platforms.
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?
Some of the positives activities that happened were:
- 1. Participant engagement beyond initial expectations: Some participants exhibit a higher level of engagement and dedication than anticipated, leading to increased contributions, Collaboration.
- 2. Emergence of new community dynamics: During the project, new community dynamics and relationships among participants and stakeholders have develop.
- 3. Principals were delightful during the event and request for more projects as written in the "Appreciations letter" below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MhKyYlf1o9ST-aC1MWxtIrY8hGN8dUnM/view?usp=drivesdk
- 4. Because of the project theme "Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality", the venue fees was subsidized by the owners to add their quota towards advancing education with Wikipedia.
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?
Based on general practices, the learning acquired from the project "Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality" can be utilized in several ways:
- 1. Refining strategies:The project team can use the learnings to refine their existing strategies and activities, making improvements based on the insights gained. This may involve modifying training approaches, enhancing content creation initiatives, or adjusting community engagement strategies to better support gender equality on Wikimedia platforms.
- 2. Setting new priorities: The learnings from the project can help identify new priorities and areas for further focus. The project revealed specific challenges faced by underrepresented groups in participating or contributing to Wikimedia, future activities can be designed to address those challenges more effectively.
- 3. Scaling up and expanding: The project proves successful, the learnings inform plans to scale up the project and expand its reach. This may involve replicating the project in different regions, partnering with additional educational institutions or organizations, or seeking funding for larger-scale implementation.
- 4. Collaboration and knowledge sharing: The project team share their learnings with other stakeholders, such as Wikimedia communities, educational institutions, or organizations working on gender equality. This can contribute to broader knowledge sharing and foster collaboration to advance gender equality efforts on Wikimedia platforms.
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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invitations | I will Sent out invitations to Government girls secondary schools within Kaduna State requesting the Principal to schedule a meeting with my team | 2 | 4 | We were targeting 2 Government Secondary school within Kaduna but unfortunately the schools increased to 4 because of the project topic. The project team analysed that in any upcoming events associated to schools we should increase the invitation. | We used the google docs to collect individuals response:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QAeugGLrrlzK6wWDa3nmOog1sLbVP8gKFPPE8ilS3nNA_g/viewform |
| Meetings | We will highlight what the project is all about in brief to the principal and other stakeholders present | 3 | 4 | When the team visited the targeted schools, the principals were highly delighted as the project will aid females in educational advancement hence achieving the target of gender equality which suffers alot of set backs in the region. | We shared hard copies and soft copy of the project goals, training manuals and alot more. This includes: Training materials https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFVolLk6V1BC5W1elDw3CE6njvlfVrZ8/view?usp=drivesdk and Presentation materials https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18sW_Ke6nwEcUdZ58BtN9iP9IDCOvH4Jg/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=113539316120342551846&rtpof=true&sd=true |
| Project activities | We are going to organized an event, to create an awareness, followed by a training to the females teachers and female students particularly the senior girls. The awareness and training will involve 25 participant for two days respectively (15 teachers and 10 students), This is so because when the teachers are well trained they will also teach and guide more students towards using Wikipedia in problem solving. | 50 | 55 | Teacher's invited were readily available and it was quite good session with them since they are all elites. | We shared the attendance docs and used the fliers for advertising how the project will look like. The attendance docs is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QAeugGLrrlzK6wWDa3nmOog1sLbVP8gKFPPE8ilS3nNA_g/viewform while the fliers for social media was https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N-Si1NIrQtrzfJplA3_C5QAYiLyw_9GX/view?usp=drivesdk |
| Enrollment | During and after the events there will be enrolment of new users to contributes there quota towards the achievement of wikimedia mission. | 50 | 40 | We achieve it because they were elite as easy communication was easy | We compile their list with usernames for easy registration |
| Follow up | Social media groups will be created and enrolled members will be added, time by time follow up on question and answer sessions will continue. | 4 | 5 | We created social media handles were we support and guide them in accordance. | We used Whatsup, Telegram group for answering questions regarding on how to navigate Wikipedia accordingly. |
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 | 25 participants will be trained at each of the events for 2 days making a total of 50 participants for the whole events. After which follow up will be maintained virtually. | 50 | 40 | We registered 40, but actively we have 21 who contributes in achieving the target. | We used the outreach tool to tracked activities: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ha.wikipedia.org/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality/students/overview |
| Number of editors | 25 participants (15 Teachers and 10 Female Students) from 2 Government Secondary school within Kaduna, making a total of 50 participants will be enrolled on Wikipedia by creating new accounts. | 40 | 40 | It was easy to achieve it because they are sound educationally | We used the google docs :https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QAeugGLrrlzK6wWDa3nmOog1sLbVP8gKFPPE8ilS3nNA_g/viewform |
| Number of organizers | The Project crews are :
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6 | 6 | 5 organizers makes the project crew, but the occasion was also graced by the presence of the Hausa Wikimedia User group Co-Founder to also deliver his quota towards achieving the target. | We met and discuss with many personality both online and offline to see how the project mandate will be achieved and continuously maintained. |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 articles (relating to gender equality) will be created or improved | 100 | 118 | We tend to improve or create 100 articles but with the successful collaboration we achieve creating 118 and improving 298, and a total of 3014 edits were made respectively. | We used the outreach program dashboard :https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ha.wikipedia.org/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality/students/overview |
| Wikimedia Commons | Teaching with aids of diagram or pictures gives clearer information on topics taught. We will guide them on how to use and upload pictures for clarity of understanding to students. We | 50 | 75 | We targeted 50, but we achieve 75 upload to commons respectively. | We used the outreach activity tool :https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Ha.wikipedia.org/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality/students/overview |
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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.
Some training materials used include: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MFVolLk6V1BC5W1elDw3CE6njvlfVrZ8/view?usp=drivesdk While the presentation materials is: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18sW_Ke6nwEcUdZ58BtN9iP9IDCOvH4Jg/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=113539316120342551846&rtpof=true&sd=true While the he communication channels was the google docs with the link below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5QAeugGLrrlzK6wWDa3nmOog1sLbVP8gKFPPE8ilS3nNA_g/viewform So also, members of the Hausa Wikimedians used the following pictures with Hashtags
- Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality#
and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N-Si1NIrQtrzfJplA3_C5QAYiLyw_9GX/view?usp=drivesdk respectively to create vast awareness of need of equity in education in Nigeria and the globe at large.
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.
We shared them through social media platforms of Hausa Wikimedia User groups, and meta page with the link below:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_as_an_educational_enhancer_for_gender_equality
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
1149000 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2500 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.
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.
The changes we have was that, we intended to changed the plan space we wanted to rent, due to the reduce budget we have, but unfortunately the space owners subsidized it to the amount we wanted simply for them to contribute their quota towards advancing education using Wikipedia.
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.
Here are some recommendations that may be relevant for the project "Wikimedia as an educational enhancer for gender equality":
- 1. Long-term sustainability: Develop a sustainability plan beyond the project duration to ensure the continued impact of the initiatives. Explore opportunities for securing funding, forging partnerships, and integrating the project's activities into existing educational programs or Wikimedia initiatives.
- 2. Amplify success stories: Share success stories and impact achieved through the project to inspire and showcase the value of Wikimedia. Highlight the contributions of participants, celebrate milestones, and disseminate these stories through various channels to create a ripple effect and encourage broader participation.
By considering these additional recommendations, the project can enhance its effectiveness, sustainability, and visibility, further advancing the goals of gender equality and knowledge representation on Wikimedia platforms.
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