Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Nigeria/Report

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This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Goals[edit]

Target Outcome Target achieved Explaination
Number of participants: 150 38 Into the contest, there was a huge chaos with admins on the English Wikipedia that a thread started on the noticeboard They were reverting #wpwpng edits, blocking users for vandalism and even threatening to block the hashtag from any edit summary. While much of these errors were from other #wpwp contests, much of them were over reactions from Admins. These made us go back to the drawing board, retrained participants and reduced our push for new editors as the noticeboard highlighted new editors as most likely to vandalize, not understand the reason behind WPWP and cause havoc to the entire Wiki. Hence we chose quality over quantity. If the event was in-person, it could have been easier to curb some of the issues faced by new editors. Regardless, we scaled.
Number of new editors: 30 Number of new editors: 3 Same as above
Number of articles are improved with photos: 3000 Number of articles are improved with photos: 18333 Participating editors were ranked daily and they were encouraged by that and words to improve their ranking the next day. Also participants used recommended tools to know which articles had a matching image on Commons.

Outcomes[edit]

Of the 38 new and existing users that signed up for the event:

  1. 21 contributors were active enough to contribute at least one #WPWPNG edit. 12 were active enough to contribute more than 200.
  2. Up to 12000 valid edits were made by the top 4 contributors.

The Google Sheet ranking winners by edits, their invalid edits etc. can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N6qcS-ygLef6rJsQNMCjQNb7cN8e1K-kWj65eknteAc/edit#gid=0


By Wikimedia hashtag search there were:

  1. 18594 revisions/WPWPNG edits.
  2. Over 18333 pages
  3. By 30 users
  4. The contest attracted a documented number of 3 new contributors (Blessatayo, Dolphyb, and Madeofblaq). 2 of these contributors did so well that they came #1 (Dolphyb) and #7 (User:Blessatayo). Asides from these 4, there were inactive new editors from other campaigns that joined in contributed significantly. They all still contribute to Wikipedia till today.

The Wikimedia hashtag search analysis can be found here:

https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/?query=WPWPNG&project=&startdate=2020-07-01&enddate=2020-09-30&search_type=or&user=


Other tools used:

We used Summary x Sigma and Hashtags x WMFLabs to compile participant activities, investigate quality and rank participants.


Learnings[edit]

  • Test before contesting: Before commencing on projects like this, evaluate the understanding of people from what they learned at the post-contest training/meetups. We did not and it ended up as a wreck with the admins. We then evaluated participants with this form. Results can be found here. We retrained those that failed the test before allowing them continue with the contest. This might not be needed when the outreach is for editors with certain level of wiki-knowledge.
  • Visualize and measure: We were able to go 600% the expected number of edits because we compiled the records everyday and ranked everyone via the Twitter handle. This encouraged people not to want to close the day at the base. If we left the calculation of scores to the end of the contest, some people would have forgotten that they were in the contest.
  • Delegating is the best way to get things done: Just as mapped out here, we owed a lot of our success to being able to work simultaneously on different aspects of the tasks.

Finances[edit]

Date Expense Cost Summary Receipt Folder
Jun 25, 2020 to Sep 30, 2020 Internet subscription (For the team members, contestants, during the project and post-project for report writing) 163,400 We used purchased and disbursed data and sent across several network using these forms and the sheets extracted from them:
Form Week 1.
Disbursement Week 1.
Form Week 2.
Disbursement Week 2.
Form Week 3.
Disbursement Week 3.
Form Week 4&5
Disbursement Week 4&5.
Form Week 6.
Disbursement Week 6.
Form Week 7&8.
Disbursement Week Form Week 7&8.
Unreceipted
Jul 2, 2020 Branding and Social media promotion N20,000 Paid for promotional graphic and shirt designer. Did not do paid promotions. See Receipt Folder
Jun 25, 2020 to Sep 30, 2020 Airtime for communication N27,740 For organizer and organizing team Unreceipted
Aug 5, 2020 to Sep 30, 2020 Logistics to dispatch prizes N38,760 Where and who got the shirts/prizes Unreceipted. Sent via several riders and buses who don't use receipts.
August 3, 2020 1st prize: HP 255 G7 AMD Dual Core 4GB RAM 500GB HDD 15.6-Inch Windows 10 Laptop + Bag N118,990 See Receipt Folder
August 5, 2020 2nd prize: Multifunction Jump Starter Power Bank 15,000mAh For Laptops N62,000 See Receipt Folder
August 3, 2020 3rd prize: Western Digital 2TB External Hard Drive N28,990 See Photo in Receipt Folder See Receipt Folder
Aug 15, 2020 - WPWP branded shirts for top 10 new participants N35,000 Where and who got the shirts See Receipt Folder
Jun 25, 2020 to Sep 30, 2020 Miscellaneous (Transport to move to the car park, workspace to use power, check around for printers and bank charge) N23320 Unreceipted
Total: N518,200

Remaining funds[edit]

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Remaining funds are retained by the grantee with WMF's permission until after the report review has been completed and report has been accepted, at which time the WMF program officer will also provide instructions regarding the grantee's reallocation or return of the unspent grant funds.

Yes we do have N30161 left and we can move it to future projects or as the Foundation advises.