Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Capacity Building Program for Rivers State Lecturers (ID: 22114075)

Endorsment from James Rhoda (talk)

This project will help build the capacity of Educators in Rivers State which will ultimately help in educating their students on the proper way to make use of Wikipedia and its sister project. It will also help correct the common misconception Educators in River state Nigeria have concerning the Wikimedia projects  Strong support

--James Rhoda (talk) 17:38, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Endorsment from Aliyu Shaba

 Strong support of this project and it will be very helpful Aliyu shaba]]^Talk 20:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Endorsment from Iwuala Lucy (talk)

 Strong support Nigerian teachers and educators being the first point of knowledge transmission for their students, need to be equipped with adequate and proper information to reorient their wrong mindset towards Wikipedia as a free knowledge repository; hence the essence and importance of this project.

--Iwuala Lucy (talk) 18:28, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Endorsement from Akanmu Olaide

Strong support of this project as it will be an enlightment and eye opener for Educators in Rivers state. They get trained and train their students to contribute to Wikipedia articles and use it as source in their thesis. Zeemahgan (talk) 21:13, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Not funded

Hello Ugwulebo, thank you for submitting your grant application. We appreciate your interest in contributing to the mission of the Wikimedia Movement.

After reviewing your application, we have decided to not fund your Rapid Fund request. Here are the main reasons for our decision:

• Project impact and capacity. The project impact is not aligned with the capacity described in the project. The applicant aims at training 150 participants from three universities. However, we have concerns regarding the sustainability and viability of the project. Additionally, the main applicant does not have recent Wikimedia contributions on the target Wikimedia project.
• Lack of coordination. Although the applicant notified the local User Group on their discussion page on Meta-Wiki, there have been no attempts to partner with the User Group. We recommend that the applicant and team partners with the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group and their established networks when implementing such large scale projects. We also recommend applying for local micro-funding opportunities for projects with a reduced scope.
• The applicant and some of their team members (User:Omorodion1 and User:Nosakhare_Okuons) periodically apply for individual funding through the Rapid Funds program for similar projects. However, it seems that they organize activities with the same core team acting like an established group in these projects. We highly recommend applying as a group for any future grant requests, so that group eligibility criteria apply to the team.

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 07:45, 17 April 2023 (UTC) (on behalf of the Middle East and Africa regional funds team)