Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Writing Rivers History in Wikipedia (ID: 22066436)/Final Report

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Under review

Due date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z

Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Final

Application

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General information

• Title of Proposal: Writing Rivers History in Wikipedia
• Username of Applicant: Ugwulebo
• Name of Organization: N/A
• Amount awarded: 2000
• Amount spent: 2000 USD, 918934 NGN

Part 1 Understanding your work

1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented

The project strategy of building capacity of historians and history students at the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, University of Port Harcourt, was achieved through series of online and in-person trainings which were organized in the University. The was followed by an edit-a-thon and write-a-thon, where participants improved and created new Rivers related Wikipedia articles. A documentation page was created by the organizers, where a topic list was created.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.

Yes. Creation of a documentation page, where articles to be created and improved was listed helped the participants to know what was missing on Wikipedia. The series of online and in-person trainings organized also helped in achieving our goals as over 50% of the participants were new to Wikipedia editing.

3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.

Field to type in URLs.

Kindly find the link to the dashboard below:

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home

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.

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	Strongly 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?

We had series of engagements with the Head of Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, University of Port Harcourt. This helped increased participation in the training and write-a-thon. We equally had virtual learning circles and office hours, where participants were trained about content creation on Wikipedia.

Part 2: Your main learning

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?

It was interesting to learn that a good number of history students and lecturers have good perception about the use of Wikipedia for documenting Rivers History. Furthermore, the revelation from this project shows that Wikipedia is usually the first point of call for a good number of history students and historians when seeking information. Given their exposure, history students and historians are willing to continue contributing content to Wikipedia even after this project. Although, challenges like high cost of Internet Data and continuous IP block issues could hinder their future participation.

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?

Nothing unexpected happened

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?

The learnings from this project has certainly reinforced the need to scale up this project in other parts of Nigeria.

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.

N/A

Part 3: Metrics

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 Summary

Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Survey Data; Mentimeter and Focused Group	Qualitative data will be collected via survey, Mentimeter and Focused group discussion. This will be done before, during and after the event. Target number or kinds of qualitative data to be collected is four (4) to align with the learning questions asked.	4	2	Data were collected from participants using survey and focused Group while implementing the project.	Survey, Focused Group
Article Views	Minimum number of articles views as a result of this project	100000	1777000	Over one million page views were generated as a result of this project. The organizers exceeded the target for this metric. See link to the dashboard below	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home
Number of Words	Minimum number of words added to articles	15000	61800	Over Sixty Thousand words were added to Wikipedia articles through this project. The organizers exceeded the target for this metric	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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 Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	This refers to those who benefit or attend any of the activities planned for this project. Overall, we target a total number of 50 participants for both the online and offline events. Out of which, a minimum of 15 persons will be returning participants while a minimum of 35 persons will be new participants.	50	59	Over 50 persons participated in this project. The organizers exceeded the target for this metric	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home
Number of editors	This refers to people who will edit Wikimedia projects as a result of this grant activities. The target number of editors for this project is 42, comprising 30 newly registered editors and 12 returning editors.	42	59	Over 50 editors registered for this project, with over 30 of them being new participants. The organizers exceeded the target for this metric	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home
Number of organizers	This refers to people responsible for the implementation of this project.	2	2	The project was organized by user:Ugwulebo and User: Omorodion	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	Atleast 60 new Wikipedia articles will be created while at least 140 existing articles will be improved	200	212	Over 200 articles were created and improved as a result of this project. The organizers exceeded the target for this metric.	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home
Wikimedia Commons	Minimum number of Photos to be uploaded on Commons as a result of this project	50	134	Over 50 images were uploaded on Wikimedia Commons as a result of this project. The organizers exceeded the target for this metric.	Outreach dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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.

Outreach dashboard

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Omorodion1/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia/home

Project Meta Page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_Rivers_History_in_Wikipedia

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.

Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance

15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

918934 NGN

16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.

2000 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/u/0/d/1DW2GkDJxiTXZj8UG_Wf689HhY_6nc7N3Sf-ToLMWOpY/htmlview#

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.

N/A

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.

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