Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia 201 Education Program for Advanced Users in Turkey (ID: 22107350)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-03-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Wikipedia 201 Education Program for Advanced Users in Turkey
- Username of Applicant: Kurmanbek
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1812
- Amount spent: 1812 USD, 55125.06 TRY
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
I first started the project by creating a page on Meta-Wiki. I shared this with the community in Turkey by adding the online form link to the page for volunteers to join. After keeping the participant form open for a while, I contacted those who filled it out and asked what topics they could talk about. Then, I prepared a flow and invited them to the studio, and we shot on the determined days. After the shooting was completed, editing was done, the videos were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and YouTube, and they were made ready for viewing by adding Turkish and English subtitles.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
The process I found most effective was creating an opportunity for everyone in the community to participate and asking them questions about what they wanted to say. Thus, the participants' sense of belonging to the project improved and they participated more willingly. I think it is very important to give participants an opportunity to contribute in such projects where more than one person will take part. As I said above, this will both improve the sense of belonging and support the "Inclusivity & Participatory Decision-Making" and "knowledge equality" principles of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2030 Movement Strategy.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
Opinions of the volunteers participating in the project about the project: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ciG_Uj_-Rlg4MLS6Qb3BQ3WMqBDojXCrxyriG3czn1U/edit?usp=sharing
Story of Wikipedia 201 on Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/05/wikipedia-201-education-set-was-published-in-turkiye/
Wikipedia 201 on CEE Newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2024
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 | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Not applicable to your fund |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Not applicable to your fund |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | 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?
N/A
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?
During the project, I realized that community members were actually eagerly awaiting and showing interest in such projects. They are all excited about sharing their experiences with other Wikipedians. I also learned that the university welcomes such projects and that they can help us with such work on Wikimedia projects as long as there is a suitable environment and time.
I heard that some students and staff in the studio during the shooting found the subjects interesting and wanted to examine the series starting from the previous project 101. As a result, I learned that our community members are very eager to share their knowledge and experience about Wikimedia projects with new and existing Wikipedians.
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?
Frankly, I thought there would be many more participants and that the topics would include much more detailed things (such as Lexeme). However, there was no one in our community who volunteered for this project to explain this. Even if there is, they may not want to participate in the project because they want to remain anonymous. From here, I realized that such competencies should be taught in detail to our community. Thus, we can be able to produce content on subjects that require such advanced level competence.
Additionally, by carrying out such projects, we can strengthen the motivation of more participants to take part in face-to-face projects over time. Thus, they can take part in projects individually instead of anonymity. For this reason, I changed some topics. I was already keeping this in mind as plan B. Thus, I realized once again that I should evaluate every possibility and make backup plans before starting a project.
Another difficulty I experienced was that since the participants were shooting in a professional studio for the first time, we shot some videos over and over again. However, after a few tries, the participants got used to the environment and we completed the shooting without any problems.
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?
I will definitely create similar Meta-Wiki pages and forms in my future projects to ensure that more participants take part in the projects. I will also announce these projects to my communities through social media channels. In addition, the participants made suggestions by adding something from themselves to the project and the project was shaped accordingly, which made them feel a sense of belonging to the project. For this reason, I will collect various suggestions from participants about project content in my future projects.
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.
Wikipedia 201 videos on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_201_videos_in_Turkish Wikipedia 201 videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-kmz74nfL20igDNDpzbUdX5cwBolS7cn
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 |
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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 | Worker students and academics from university and WMTR members | 20 | 11 | Returning participant (WMTR members): 6
Worker students: 3 Academics and staff from university: 2 Comments: From this result, I think it would be better to determine the exact number of people before starting my next project. |
It was determined by census. |
| Number of editors | |||||
| Number of organizers | 1) Kurmanbek (main implementer)
2) Zafer (supervisor) 3) Basak (content manager) 4) Adem (technical support) |
4 | 4 | The users helped to realize the project. | It was determined by census. |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | We will upload videos on Wikimedia Commons | 12 | 12 | As we aimed, we obtained 12 videos within the scope of the Wikipedia 201 project. | Number of videos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and YouTube |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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.
Volunteer participant form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ReotWNqmCHw7cKRQhjKbKO5_dMkLFtNugYEoH1Fzp-4/edit?usp=sharing Project page on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_201_Education_Program_for_Advanced_Users_in_Turkey Application page on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_201_Education_Program_for_Advanced_Users_in_Turkey/application
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.
At the end of the project, I shared who participated and how many videos were produced on both Diff and the website of our local Wikimedia user group.
Diff post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/05/wikipedia-201-education-set-was-published-in-turkiye/ Wikimedia Turkey: https://tr.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi_201_e%C4%9Fitim_seti_yay%C4%B1nda Twitter post: https://twitter.com/WikimediaTurkey/status/1765379271462182992 Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4LPopxMN_I/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Wikipedia 201 videos on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_201_videos_in_Turkish Wikipedia 201 videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-kmz74nfL20igDNDpzbUdX5cwBolS7cn
Wikipedia 201 on CEE Newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2024 Wikimania 2024 presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lEnZX5pA2ZibQfu2iNW8tYuH6RzVhFdiJVdbbcAI5DY/edit?usp=sharing
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
55125.06 TRY
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
1812 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.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GoPmZZ_MKQAdnZpBO6wADb7BUELoLIU4zi1xNOBRNAw/edit?usp=sharing
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.
Due to the high inflation in our country and the extra shooting day we had due to circumstances that developed beyond our plan, food and transportation support was provided to students and participants for the extra day they worked. For this reason, we completed this need by making some shifts among the items written in our budget.
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.
I would like to thank the Wikimedia Foundation for caring about its users and supporting their dreams of realizing their projects. Completing my project with this support motivated me more for the work I will do in the future.
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