Reports:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Report/Wiki Loves Monument 2024 Kwara

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? We achieved our goals for the project with the photo walk and physical training and we are happy about the results and outcome. As our participants understood and learnt something new about the tradition and culture of the Esie people through the Wiki loves Monument campaign

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
2 events	2 physical events	we had two physical events. Training session and photo walk session.
30 participants	24 participants	we have 24 total participants attend the physical session and photo walk session and not all engage in the edit-a-thon contest
150 photos to be uploaded	117 photos tracked but over 150 photos were uploaded	117 photos were tracked by the outreach dashboard which is below the campaign goal which is due to the issue of the dashboard and participants uploading photos without joining the dashboard first.
outreach dashboard	outreach dashboard was used to track the contribution of the contest.	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_fan_club_Unilorin/Wiki_Loves_Monument_2024_Kwara/

Learning

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What worked well?

The participants turn out was great, during the physical event and the photo walk. It was a great experience for everyone as we learnt about the history behind the Esie Museum and how the esie town was discovered. It was an amazing experience as participants were fully engaged and were able to learn how to upload photos on wikimedia commons.

What did not work so well?

The tracking of the outreach dashboard was poor and the contribution spirit dropped. The outcome of our monumental photo walk could not be uploaded by our participants as the dashboard experience system error. A lot of our participants contributed with joining the dashboard therefore reducing the number of photos uploaded by participants.

The planned budget were affected by over price of current commodity. Especially the transportation sector and refreshments

What would you do differently next time?

Outreach dashboard: We hope to ensure that we can build up the full participation spirit in our community members to be able to contribute and for it to be tracked by the dashboard. Laying emphasis on the importance of the dashboard tracking to the edit-a-thon contest.

Finances: we don’t really have full control over this but we will try to make sure we do not affect the budget of other things again hoping for a stable price in commodity.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Approved budget

Refreshment and Take away pack during physical training (2500*30) : NGN 75,000 Refreshment during the photo walk(1500*30):NGN 45,000 T shirt for team members: (7000*3): NGN 21,000 Transportation for participants(Bus rental) :NGN 90,000 Camera rental and photography : NGN 20,000 Appreciating prizes for any five highest editor for the training(gift vouchers) : NGN 40,000 Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 9,000 Total NGN 300,000

Break down of expenses

Refreshment during physical training(3000* 20): NGN 60,000 we had a little turn out of participants at the first event

Refreshment for the photo walk(2200*24): NGN 52,800 due to the distance from the university campus to Esie we broke the refreshment into two during the photo walk and after the photo walk.

Shirt for facilitators (7000*3) NGN 21,000

Camera rental and photography NGN 30,000

Graphics and E-fliers NGN 10,000

Transportation (70,000+ 45,000) NGN 115,000 due to the number of participants we had to hire two buses, a big bus and a small one through and fro from the university campus to Esie museum and back.

Prize NGN 10,000 for top contributor

Bank charges NGN 3,000

Total amount spent: NGN 303,000

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No, we do not have any remaining funds after every payment and expenses made.

Photos from Event

Photos of event activities should be shown here. (This is different from Wiki Loves photos)

image of the statue
participants at the Esie museum
group photo by few participants

Anything else?

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