Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/SAPG 2022 Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda/Midpoint Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Midterm
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General information[edit]
This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.
- Name of Organization: Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda Ltd.
- Title of Proposal: SAPG 2022 Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda
- Amount awarded: 46866.96 USD, 161594550 UGX
- Amount spent: 66827074 UGX
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?
- Community feedback was obtained through a Community Engagement session. Other activities have been implemented through competitions, edit-a-thons, online interactions, and courses among others.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?
- Introducing hybrid (both online and offline) engagements helps engage a bigger community audience.
Engaging community members on social media via WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter, and facebook has also been an effective strategy in ensuring involvement.
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?
- We do not have a common channel to gather all the usergroup volunteers in one place as a central communication medium.
We have not yet established a formal recognition of official members of the usergroup.
4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.
- Use of social media (Twitter, WhatsApp, telegram) to share information about different activities
Use of email and the talk page. Updating the meta page with a list of past, on-going and future activities. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiUganda_Community_Engagement_Meeting
5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.
- We are developing partnerships with secondary schools on training and content generation in the Luganda Wikipedia, previously the Usergroup had focused on working with institutions of higher learning.
The Usergroup’s work with refugees (Wikiforrefugees) has supported the efforts to create a Usergroup in South Sudan.
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?
- We are yet to determine the learning priorities, as we currently still have activities running concurrently.
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?
- We will be focusing on processes to improve on our reporting.
Secondly, we will focus on the strategic consultation process for the usergroup. Community engagement, and formal structure of the Usergroup.
Part 2: Metrics[edit]
8a. Open and additional metrics data.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 300 | Number of participants
GLAM 50 EDUCATION 50 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT 150 |
N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 60 | Number of editors
GLAM - New editors 10 old editors 5 EDUCATION -New editors 10 old editors 5 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT -New editors 20 old editors 10 |
Wikimedia Course Outreach dashboard
Google forms Toolforge Zoom |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 10 | Number of organisers
GLAM - 2 EDUCATION -3 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT -5 |
N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 300 | Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
GLAM - 50 EDUCATION -50 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT -150 |
Wikipedia |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 300 | Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
wla 200 wlm 200 wle 2000 |
Toolforge |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 10 | 118 | Returning editors | Toolforge |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 3 | 7 | Project leads and editathon organisers | Dashboard |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | 2 | 7 | Photographic 1
GLAM 4 Education 2 |
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 |
8b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | GLAM 50
EDUCATION 50 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT 150 |
300 | 404 | The initial total target participants for GLAM, Education, Diversity and content generation was 300 | Wikimedia Course Outreach dashboard
Google forms Toolforge Zoom |
| Number of editors | GLAM - New editors 10 old editors 5
EDUCATION -New editors 10 old editors 5 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT -New editors 20 old editors 10 |
60 | 276 | The total number of editors (118 returning, and 158 new). The initial target was 60 | Wikimedia Course Outreach dashboard
Google forms Toolforge Zoom |
| Number of organizers | GLAM - 2
EDUCATION -3 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT -5 |
10 | 4 | The total number of organisers. The original target is 10 | Wikimedia Course Outreach dashboard |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | GLAM - 50
EDUCATION -50 DIVERSITY AND CONTENT -150 |
300 | 158 | Wikidata Items | Wikimedia Course Outreach dashboard |
| Wikimedia Commons | wla 200
wlm 200 wle 2000 |
600 | 87 | Wikipedia Pages | Wikimedia Course Outreach dashboard |
| Wikidata | N/A | 100 | 1075 | Images on Wikimedia Commons | Toolforge |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
- Yes. We have quite a number of social platforms where volunteers are engaged on social media, and there's sometimes no way of tracking their activities, contributions or interaction with the Usergroup
10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
- Yes
10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?
- We have collaborated with nearby affiliates in Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, and communities in Kenya, and South Sudan through event participation, training, and sharing of activities.
11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.
- Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).
- Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.
https://twitter.com/ntvuganda/status/1531301416748425218?t=72pxcwB8LWrVPRhs8TFeZQ&s=19
Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
- 66827074
13. Local currency type
- UGX
14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Provide links to your financial reporting documents.
15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?
- No
15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.
- N/A
16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.
- Community Resources Office Hours have been helpful to provide support, as well as the open email communication from the Program Officer and the CR Team