Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki and Health articles in Nigeria 2.0 (ID: 22817416)

Aim of project

After the success of the first stage of this project, This 2nd phase aim to involve more editors in medical line in Nigeria who will work together in order to increase the visibility of health articles.

After the project, the health editors will be retained and mentored to continue to work on similar projects which is part of the aim of wikimedia foundation.

I will be available physically to ensure the success of the project Taofeeq Abdulkareem (talk) 06:21, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Impact of the project

The project's impact is measurable. The project has both short and long-term impacts. For the short impact, it will bring together editors that will improve articles related to health in Nigeria and this has started since the last project. For the long-term impact, the project aims to create an annual regional campaign that would focus on health after establishing an affiliate. Abdullahalaba (talk) 06:32, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Sustainability of project

The sustainability of the project is hinged towards the mainstreaming of the participants into the already established network of Wiki health editors in Nigeria and Wiki Project Medicine, a thematic organization responsible for curating health related articles on Wikipedia. Kamoranesi90 (talk) 09:39, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Rapid Fund Request : Not Funded

Hello , thanks for submitting your Rapid Fund request. We appreciate your willingness to contribute to the Wikimedia Movement.

We have completed the initial review of your application and we decided to not fund it. We made this decision considering several factors:

• Completeness of the grant application, including amount of AI generated content.
• Clear goals, objectives, and impact aligned with the requested budget, activities and metrics.
• On-wiki experience of the main applicant and the team.
• Completeness of the proposed budget, including alignment of the proposed expenses with local costs.
• Additional notes from reviewer for future applications; Budget needs to be evaluated including on areas such as T-Shirts and Caps for all participants to maximize on funds effciency. Also the internet cost of 800,000 is on the higher side and should be reduced. Lastly, the last project done hasn’t been sustainable, all the partipants from the first edition have not contributed to any health related topics after and 90% of the participants from the previous event did not even contribute to any related topics per the dashboard so for future funding requests this needs to be taken into consideration.

On behalf of the Sub-Saharan Africa regional review team. VThamaini (WMF) (talk) 14:46, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello Thanks @VThamaini (WMF) for the comment.

While this grant might not be funded based on more reasons best known to the reviewing committee. I will like to point out some information which are false, insultive, and incriminating .

1. I have never used AI tool to review my grant proposals. I wonder what AI reviewer you used to correspond the findings
2. Lack of Experience from Applicant and Team? I have over 100 articles created on English Wikipedia, A Teahouse Host for new editors, Experience on Article for Deletions and a probabatory reviewer for Article for Creation so what exactly are on the onwiki experience I don't have? All my team members are active editors who are experienced in organizing projects too
3. The local costs are in line with the budgets and in fact not with current situation of Nigeria where we buy fuel for N2,000 per litre.
4. The review of reducing budgets is duly noted but kindly put into consideration we have less health editors in Nigeria who will only be motivated to contribute to articles in line with their career line so please don't expect larger volume of contribution. Sustainability from my end is having a platform for health editors in Nigeria, sharing projects related to Health with them which I have not seen since I last carried out last project. I don't possess resources to organise edit-a-thon on my own so I wonder how it's on me when grants I applied for were not funded.

This is a complicated one especially for an applicant like me who aim to build health project in Nigeria on the free space. I find it more disappointing that my last project was not funded because I chose wikiquote and then this on my home wiki too? Please I demand explanatory reasons instead

Side note: I just noticed all grant not funded were rejected due to the same reasons as mine.

Tesleemah (talk) 11:18, 1 November 2024 (UTC)