Grants:Project/Rapid/Linason Blessing/Wikipedia Awareness for Library and Information Science Students in Nigeria/Report

Add links
From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Report accepted
This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.


Goals[edit]

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

Yes, we are delighted to have met our goals. The awareness campaign and training of the Library and Information science students was a welcome change at the Lens Polytechnic, The Awareness campaign further expose and equip the students and even Lecturals with the skills needed for editing Wikipedia and its sisters project, and also expose them to other areas of study outside their regular academic curriculums.

Outcome[edit]

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


}}
Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
No of events 2 physical Event Each physical training had 1hr,30mins of edit-a-thon which was organized as scheduled, After each session of training
50 participants 59 The target set was achieved and exceeded
30 new editors 49 new editors The target set was achieved and exceeded
100 media files uploaded on WikiCommons. 238 The target set was achieved and exceeded
50 articles/Wikidata items to be created or improved upon. 205 articles created, 679 articles edited, 1.29k references added and 328k page views. 205 articles and items was created or improved. There was more work focused on improving articles and Wikidata items than creating new articles dashboard


Learning[edit]

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?
  • Yes, we did and we are happy that the project was a success.
  • We hosted 2 Physical meeting and had new editors and existing editors. The Students were so eager to learn and explore the various Wikimedia products to promote open access to information for quality service delivery. The students asked relevant questions about reliability of Wikipedia sources, creating articles, and editing wiki pages. The facilitators were very helpful in providing them with the answers to their questions and guiding them through the editing process as they followed up with new editors between sessions and helped monitor the articles they worked on. It took longer than we expected for new editors to learn the basic skills to follow up, so we focused our efforts on helping them add reliable sources, and hyperlinks to existing articles as well as Creating and improving existing Wikidata Items.
  • With the help of the router, we had fast internet at the venue to bridge unstable internet connectivity.
  • What did not work so well?
  • Even though the guest speakers, and facilitators arrived the venue on time, we had to delay the commencement of the program due to the lateness of some of the students who were coming from far distance because we had students from different schools and this made the event to exceed the time set on our order of event.
  • Many student had issues of IP address being blocked and they could not follow up during the 1st day of training.


  • What would you do differently next time?
  • Make sure most of the participants try to create a Wikipedia account before the day of the training to avoid the issues of IP address being blocked, Thereby training them online on how to create a Wikipedia account.

Finances[edit]

Grant funds spent[edit]

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

  • Venue rental for 2days: $482
  • Food and drinks (2days); 50 participants + 5 facilitators =$942
  • Internet Bundle for team members and participants for 2days (during the seminar and post-project report writing): $120
  • Graphics designing, the printing of posters and 1 Roll banner =$100
  • Projector rental 2days: $25
  • DSLR Camera Rental for 2days:$48
  • Nose Masks for participants: $15
  • Hand sanitizers for participants and facilitators at the 2days seminars: $15
  • Certificate of participation for 50 participants: $50
  • Accommodation:$25x3facilitatorsx3nights = $225
  • Shirts for 5 facilitators and 3 active participants=$77
  • Branded Souvenirs for 50 participants + 5 facilitators (Jotter=$72; Pen=$33) = $105
  • local running for 3 facilitators = $100 X 3 = $300
  • contingency= $100
*Total USD:2,604 | NGN:1,081,137

Remaining funds[edit]

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No, all grant funds were used exactly as proposed and approved.



Anything else[edit]

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Photos from the events can be seen here Wikipedia Awareness for Library and Information Science Students in Nigeria

Pictures from the events

Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:Project/Rapid/Linason_Blessing/Wikipedia_Awareness_for_Library_and_Information_Science_Students_in_Nigeria/Report&oldid=25254741"