Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness Campaign and Wikidata training for Undergraduate students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka. (ID: 22022760)
[MEA _ Rapid] [ Not Funded] Wikipedia Awareness Campaign and Wikidata training for Undergraduate students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka[edit]
Dear Chiemezie
Thank you for submitting your grant application. We appreciate your interest in contributing to the mission of the Wikimedia Movement. We are continuously strengthening our grants review process, ensuring that grant funding is being invested towards impactful projects and efforts geared towards contributing to the mission of the Wikimedia Movement most efficiently and effectively.
After thoroughly reviewing your application, we have decided not to fund your Rapid Fund request. The reasons for declining your funding application are as follows;
- We found the scope concerning the impact not well established and, therefore, the project not feasible over the suggested period.
- We also would encourage focusing on specific Wikimedia projects and aligning that focus with the strategies, measurement, learning and timeline; we found this lacking in the proposal.
- It was unclear how you plan to support the editors so that you have 40 active editors after the project. It would have been useful for us to learn and understand your editor's retention strategies.
- We had a challenge understanding the advocacy elements of the project; we see more of the efforts being awareness focused and less on advocacy which we may have misunderstood.
- Lastly, the proposed budget does not align with the impact proposed.
We advise that you incorporate the feedback shared in future funding proposals you may submit.
Thank you.
Best regards, Middle East and Africa Regional Funds Team VThamaini (WMF) (talk) 14:21, 11 January 2023 (UTC)