Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/ Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom in Morocco (2nd edition, 2022)/Midpoint Report

Midterm Learning Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z

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 MA User Group
Title of Proposal: Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom in Morocco (2nd edition, 2022)
Amount awarded: 35614 USD, 323386 MAD
Amount spent: 108667.98 MAD

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?

During the first phase of this project, we worked with our partners to contact teachers and introduce the program to encourage them to register. We used ads on social media and had an introduction session with a group of teachers that are also members of the reading network of Morocco. In addition to that, we sent press releases to many national newspapers to share information publicly about the program.

The project team managed to receive +764 applications from teachers all over Morocco, exceeding our expectations. We selected 200 participants based on specific criteria to achieve diversity and engage multiple regions in the program.

We launched surveys to evaluate the participant’s vision of Wikipedia and their expectation of the program. Then, we welcomed the teachers and started the training sessions each week. We provided continuous support to the participants regarding the internet, digital skills, questions about the training module, etc. We managed to keep most of them engaged so far in the program.

We were also working on the 4th module materials, which are almost done, along with the logistic set-up (hotels propositions, transport, etc.) for the onsite activity that we will organize by the end of the training.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?

Project management:

To maintain a good advancement of the project, we adopted the Kanban methodology. By doing so, we could organize and manage work more efficiently. It also allowed us to keep track of every task with ease. Therefore we:

Created a document with a list of tasks assigned to each member
Kept track of deadlines
Managed the flow and the order of tasks based on priorities

A specific team member was assigned to manage and keep track of the kanban document.

The project team also adopted an internal routine for its organization, including reporting in weekly meetings called by the user group board (also representing the project steering committee), where the status was discussed, including different risks and their mitigations, and general updates on progress and financials.

Communication and outreach:

The team tried to capitalize on its network, partnerships, and press releases to reach a larger public and share information about the program. We performed the following actions:

Invite members of ‘the reading network of morocco’ to an introductory session of the program
Create social media pages, a website, and a dedicated email address to promote our program.
Use ads on social media to target teachers.
Send a press release where we explain the program and encourage teachers to be part of it.

Launching the training sessions:

To guarantee the best experience for the participants, we followed the steps below:

The session date and hour were fixed based on the participant’s preferences.
Each participant had a contact person in the team responsible for supporting them and answering their questions.
Internet support is offered for participants in need to ensure attendance at the session.
Trying to highlight participants with less activity and contacting them directly to provide the necessary support.
Creating a WhatsApp group for all participants to keep them posted and provide another environment for discussion.

3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?

Ensuring a good Internet coverage/well-covered location for the facilitation - Although having a good Internet connection at home, the primary facilitator sometimes experienced challenges in terms of the Internet (where it was cutting - which can be expected). Having children, he also had to find a good and quiet location to facilitate the sessions outside of his home, which presented risks with transportation. The project is still studying this situation to find the best solution to address it. It is not a complete blocker, but improving it would be appreciated.

4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.

We initiated a discussion with community members from the region (Ghana, Nigeria) who have launched similar projects, and provide guidance and support.

5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.

This section was included after MA UG submitted the report

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?

So far, all our continuous effort has helped participants learn more about Wikipedia and how it can be considered a great educational tool. Many of them have already changed their mind regarding that. The engagement plan we set was helpful for both instructors and participants. Each team member is assigned to support 50 participants. We check their advancement every week while contacting those of them who seem to face difficulties and try to help them to finish their assessment. We use all communication channels to keep the participants motivated,; as an example:

We post flyers every week to remind them to complete the tasks.
We encourage them and address their questions using Facebook group
We provided a general email address and phone number to contact if they needed any extra help.
We set one-to-one calls for those of them who need guidance.

The flexibility of team members is also a key point to highlight as it helps the project's progress.

7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?

The following steps for the second part of the program would be:

Completing all the training sessions according to the schedule
Providing the certificates to teachers who worked to fulfil the requirements
Celebration ceremony.
Selecting the top twenty active teachers to participate in the onsite activity.
Securing the onsite activity logistics and materials.
Preparing the agenda and activities for the onsite event.

Part 2: Metrics[edit]

8a. Open and additional metrics data.

Open Metrics
Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
N/A	N/A	N/A	40	40% of the participants are women (a higher % compared to last year’s edition, which was 24%)	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	11	11 regions (covering 92% of Morocco)	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A	764	764 teachers (exceeding the expectation)	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

Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	Teachers who will continue as active editors after one month of the end of the program	5	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	People who will continue being active in Wikimedia movement after	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	Reading network in Morocco is considered as a strategic partner, given its very extended network, as well as the number of members within it, who are interested in free knowledge, who can become a strong ally for us, as well as an important source of volunteers and editors in the future.	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	Surveys from participating teachers. We intend to have 3 surveys, one at the beginning (to know the expectations), one in the middle (to see how it goes), and one at the end (to see what worked well and what could be improved)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	We are planning to work on gender, geographic and socioeconomic diversity within the teachers of Morocco, by targeting female teachers, as well as teachers living in different regions of the country, including the rural ones with low digital literacy and difficult access to the Internet. Target: 40% of female teachers participating 10% of teachers based in rural areas Teachers from at least 6 regions of morocco (among the total of 12 regions)	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications	Number of new followers of Wikimedia Morocco on social media. In addition to the new people, the group will use paid advertisements, and try to touch as many people as possible.	500	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of activities developed	Zoom sessions In person Event One-on-one calls with teachers requesting them Target: 20 online sessions on Zoom (1 session of 2 hours per week for 5 months). 1 in-person event 10 One-on-one calls/meetups	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of volunteer hours	Number of volunteer hours from the organizers, mostly the project advisors, but also editors who will help in sessions.	100	N/A	N/A	N/A

8b. Additional core metrics data.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments
Number of participants	Teachers who will participate to the program	100	200	200 participants to the program
Number of editors	People who will be writing in Wikipedia either during or after the program	40
Number of organizers	People involved in the organization and implementation of the program and its different activities	8	8	8 participants (four staff members and four volunteers/members of the steering committee)

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	New Wikipedia articles that will be generated as a consequence of this program	40	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	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?

No.

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 helped support affiliates in our region to start the implementation of the 'Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom' project in their countries (Ghana and Nigeria), and provided advices and responded to their questions. Also, one of our member team participated in a training of trainers (ToT) session of the WMF Education Team and shared our experiences and learnings with the participants.

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).

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Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.

Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nLzo_wEkta8ZvIJQol_b0hAtcCZ-AvTeVTJQoJc8y7A/viewform

Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5L_BSN8kYTeQXmZcUjbUtenzfRYG5UvzXODOJBAv1Hldltw/viewform

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]

12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

108667.98

13. Local currency type

MAD

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.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OSqZEKJX1YCnGkEFJfVnzza-M0wr1daQ/edit#gid=867760549

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.

Reading Wikipedia in the classroom is a particular/special project that needs to be reviewed while considering the evaluation metric. It’s always recommended that the grant committee collaborates with the educational team of Wikimedia to evaluate and analyze the grant applications and reports.