Grants:Project/Rapid/Bashir/Wikipedia Awareness in Urban Katsina/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes, but i encounter some issues as most schools are writing or about to start their end of semesters exams due to delayed project payment. nevertheless, I am happy with the whole experience.

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
1000+	1000+	I am confident that more than thousand people were reached especially with our radio station advert which was done on the largest radio station in Nigeria Federal Radio Corporatioion of Nigeria (FRCN) and our successful outreaches to 5 major tertiary institutions in Katsina
2 days Trainings	achieved	A 2 days training were organized successfully, after which new users were added to our group on Whats App were questions and tutorials take place
15 Participants	about 20+ participated in the event
Online & offline campaigns	achieved	Thousands of people were reached via the largest Radio Station for a week of announcements, social medias & outreaches to 5 tertiary intitutions which increases Wikipedia recognition among Hausa natives and in different parts of Nigeria. [Here's the link to the published Radio advert].
50+ new articles	achieved	more than 50 articles were created

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? Our plannings, advertisement & trainings
• What did not work so well? Am not happy with the turn up as most of the schoola were preparing for there semester exams, so very few participated in relation to the people invited
• What would you do differently next time?

Would try to fix any campaign related to students on or in the beginings of fresh semesters

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

1. Promotional materials = 250 USD
2. Transportation & Logistics = 300 USD
3. Radio Station Advert = 127 USD
4. Training Hall = 250 USD
5. Data Subscriptions = 250 USD
6. Projector & 2 Laptops rented = 150 USD
7. Refreshments = 300 USD
8. Certificates = 175 USD
9. Facemask, Sanitizers and Hand washes = 98 USD

Total grant spent= 1900 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? Yes, during the process of writing this project, I came to realize that most of the Hausa articles are incomplete, some lack essential parts such as citations and references. This spur me think on going for another project solely to polish the already existing articles on Hausa Wikipedia.

Pictures of the event can be found here. Link

Activities of the event can be tracked here; Link