Grants:Project/Rapid/Advancing Wikimedia Projects in Gungbe Language: Gungbe Wiktionary, Gungbe Wikipedia, Wikidata & Commons/Report

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes, I met my goals and I am happy with how the project went.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of events: 10	10	10 events were held
Number of participants: 20	31	A total of 31 participants partricipated in the events
Number of new editors: 5	5	5 new editors paricipated
Number of Gungbe Wikipedia articles created or improved: 20	47	47 Gungbe Wikipedia pages were created
Number of Gungbe Wiktionary pages created or improved: 100	697	697 Gungbe words was created
Number of Gungbe Lexemes on Wikidata created or improved: 100	229	229 lexemes were created as tracked on the dashboard and here is also a query result to it.
Number of Gungbe audio files created and uploaded on Commons: 100	326	296 Gungbe audio files were uploaded and the dashboard and here is also a link to the category to it.
Number of Gungbe audio files used on Gungbe Wiktionary and Wikidata: 100	264	A total 264 audio files were used on Gungbe Wikitionary and Wikidata which can be seen on the dashboard. Link
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events): 10	16	16 participants were repeat participants

Here is the Link to the Dashboard of the events

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well?

1. Having series of events for each project reinforced the understanding of participants.
2. Providing internet subscriptions to participants on event days and post event days helped participants to actively contribute to the projects.

• What did not work so well?

1. Not making provision for child care in the budget affected having a very low representative of women in the events as most women that attended some of the events were nursing mothers.
2. Gungbe is spoken in Republic of Benin. Based on the online awareness created for the event, these people wanted to participate but it was very difficult to carry them along even on the google meet organized for participants engagement.

• What would you do differently next time?

1. I will make allowance for child care in the budget next time.
2. I plan to carry out series of event for participants from Benin Republic or encourage other experienced editor to hold similar event in Benin. Some of these interested participants are already being engaged onm the WhatsApp group created for them.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Gungbe Wiktionary trainings/editathons

• Space Rental: $150 x 4 events = $600
• Food and Drinks: $10 x 20 X 4 events = $800
• Router hire: $25 x 4 events = $100
• Data subscription on router: $50
• Data Subscription on individual participants Mobile device to contribute post event days: $8 x 20 = $160
• Local Transport for organizers: $8 x 3 = $24
• Branded Nose Mask: $1 x 20 = $20
• Pocket Size hand Sanitizers: $1 x 20 = $20
• Communications before and after event(calls and internet subscription):$30

Total = $1,774

Gungbe Lexeme on Wikidata training/editathon

• Space Rental: $150 x 4 events = $600
• Food and Drinks: $10 x 20 X 4 events = $800
• Router hire: $25 x 4 events = $100
• Data subscription on router: $50
• Data Subscription on individual participants Mobile device to contribute post event days: $8 x 20 = $160
• Local Transport for organizers: $8 x 3 = $24
• Branded Nose Mask: $1 x 20 = $20
• Pocket Size hand Sanitizers: $1 x 20 = $20
• Communications before and after event(calls and internet subscription):$30

Total = $1,774

Gungbe Wikipedia trainings/editathons

• Space Rental: $150 x 1 event = $150
• Food and Drinks: $10 x 20 X 1 event = $200
• Router hire: $25 x 1 event = $25
• Data subscription on router: $25
• Data Subscription on individual participants Mobile device for recording and uploading post event days: $4 x 20 = $80
• Local Transport for organizers: $4 x 3 = $12
• Branded Nose Mask: $1 x 20 = $20
• Pocket Size hand Sanitizers: $1 x 20 = $20
• Communications before and after event(calls and internet subscription):$30

Total = $562

Gungbe words recordings on Spell4Wiki and Commons training

• Space Rental: $150 x 1 event = $150
• Food and Drinks: $10 x 20 X 1 event = $200
• Router hire: $25 x 1 event = $25
• Data subscription on router: $25
• Data Subscription on individual participants Mobile device for recording and uploading post event days: $8 x 20 = $160
• Local Transport for organizers: $4 x 3 = $12
• Branded Nose Mask: $1 x 20 = $20

Total = $592

Other expenses

• Branded Shirts for top 4 contributors: $12 x 4 = $48
• Branded souvenirs for all participants and organizers: $10 x 20 = $200
• Miscellaneous: $50

Total = $298

Grand Total: $5,000

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

This projected resulted in creation of gungbe Wikipedia subdomain (guw.wikipedia.org) and approval of gungbe Wiktionary subdomain (guw.wiktionary.org) by the Language Committee. See here and here

Below are some of the photos taken at events

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