Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Reviving Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group Initiating Programs /Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2024-07-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results.
- Name of Organization: Association Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
- Title of Proposal: Reviving Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group Initiating Programs
- Amount awarded: 69151.82 USD, 69151.82 XAF
- Amount spent:
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?
As we are a new office, we wanted to develop and implement a more inclusive and less centralised strategy for managing resources and implementing projects. Reorganising the User Group into zones was highly effective in making us more active and effective in organising workshops, reaching out and gathering more people around the movement and helping them discover new opportunities of knowledge sharing. With different people coordinating different zones, the participants were more at their ease in coming together and the task was clearly less heavy.
3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?
Here we can say that decentralisation is the key. Ensuring an excellent level of communication between the various players was the greatest challenge, as a high level of effectiveness had to be maintained throughout the process. Empowering other people has increased their level of involvement in the activities. It was very encouraging. It was difficult to do so, but for all the periods we were able to maintain it, the results were encouraging.
4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.
Social media has been our most impactful communication channel. The division into clusters has enabled the communities in the far north to be more actively involved. In the south, we managed to reach more university students. The "spotlight on women" competition has enabled us to involve more women in our activities.
5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.
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6. 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 | Not applicable to your fund |
| 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 | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement. | Strongly agree |
7. 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've started to work on interesting more women to our activities and their number start to grow slowly but surely.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
During the process, We found out where users preferred to meet up, and at what times. We also found out what subjects they were most interested in, so that we could identify those among them who could easily take on the role of trainer in the future. We also discovered that communities in the far north were interested in sharing their culture via wikimedia platforms, which gave us ideas for further projects. The main limiting factor is the lack of information. Communication has been one of our weak points this year and we have identified ways to improve.
9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?
The nicest surprises were the assumption of responsibility by some of the volunteers, who had previously taken a back seat. They showed great commitment and were a real source of ideas.
10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
We are preparing a project aimed specifically at the populations of the far north. We also intend to explore the untapped potential of the Western Region. We also intend to involve and encourage the involvement of the volunteers who stood out last year.
11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?
This year has been particularly instructive for all of us. Not only have we learnt a lot about ourselves, but we've also learnt how to manage people better. We've discovered some wonderful talents who are able to work in a variety of ways, in a relevant way, and with excellent timing. It's a human adventure from which we've grown.
12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
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Part 3: Metrics[edit]
13a. Open and additional metrics data
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of participants | Number of participants involved in all programs activities as language contributors, photographers, and editors from sub-regions
This metric can be shown in detail below: Language participants: 25 (5 per group for 5 groups) Community group members from sub-regions: 100 (25 per group for 4 regions) Number of photographers: 20 (5 per region) |
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| Number of editors | The number of editors in all program activities. Every participant in our community ought to be an editor. | 130 | |||
| Number of organizers | Added to the 4 sub-communities is a lead for each language community (sums up to 5) and photographers community (1) | 10 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Wikipedia | New articles on the neighbourhoods in Cameroon | 1000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | Images and audio file pronunciations for words (Could be more if batch uploads could come from potential partners) | 6000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wiktionary | Words added with connection to local languages | 3000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | Items created consisting of words in local languages (Could be more if batch uploads could come from potential partners) | 5000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | Mediawiki words while translating interface into local languages | 5000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
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15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.
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16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).
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Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships[edit]
17. Organizational Capacity
| A. Financial capacity and management | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| B. Conflict management or transformation | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values) | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| D. Partnership building | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| E. Strategic planning | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| F. Program design, implementation, and management | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers) | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| J. Governance | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| K. Communications, marketing, and social media | This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it |
| L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| M. On-wiki technical skills | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| N. Accessing and using data | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
| O. Evaluating and learning from our work | This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high |
| P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders | This capacity has grown but it should be further developed |
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17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Formal training provided by a Wikimedia Movement organizing group (i.e., Affiliates, Grantees, Regional or Thematic Hub, etc.), Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events, Peer to peer learning with other community members (but that is not continuous or structured)
17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
Lack of awareness of capacity building needs, Lack of knowledge of available capacity building opportunities
18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?
We have improved our ability to carry out activities throughout the country, sometimes spontaneously.
19. Partnerships over the funding period.
| A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame) | |
| B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups | |
| C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups |
19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
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19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.
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20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?
Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration[edit]
21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?
22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
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24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?
25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.
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26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.
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Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration[edit]
We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.
27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?
28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?
29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?
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Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
31. Local currency type
32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
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33. 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.
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34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
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34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
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34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
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35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
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.
36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
37. 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.
38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.