Africa Day Campaign 2023 in Rwanda

Africa Day Campaign in Rwanda

Welcome to the Africa Wiki Challenge in Rwanda. The main objective of this campaign is to bridge the information gap about the continent by creating high-quality content that accurately reflects its culture, heritage, people, and all other relevant information. Without African knowledge and narratives created by Africans, we are prevented from experiencing an accurate representation of our world, our people, our languages, and from being able to contribute to developing this.

This year’s edition is under the theme ‘Africa Continental Free Trade’. This seeks to provide a unique opportunity to document Africa's stories and promote the benefits of free trade.

The content will be improved on Wikipedia and on others Wikimedia's sisters projects: Wikidata , Wikiquote ....

Local Organisers

Campaign timeline

Opening ceremoiny: 1st June 2023

Closing day : 20th June 2023

Theme: Africa Continental Free Trade

Topic Focus

During this contest we are going to focus on the following topics:

Jobs/Employments opportunities and challenges in Africa
Types of trades in Africa
Organizations in Africa promoting trade and investment in Africa
Africa Currencies
Financial Institutions in Africa
Investors in Africa
Innovations from Africa generating revenues
Businesses
Transportation systems
Africa economies
Trade Infrastructure Industrialisation in Africa
Consumer Electronics Manufacturing companies in Africa
Commercial Real Estates in Africa
Fast Food Restaurants
Apparel Manufacturing companies in Africa
Coal Mining
Tourism in Africa
Auto Parts & Accessories Manufacturing
Inventions from Africa
Technologies that facilitate trade
Internet interoperability in Africa
Africa Entrepreneurs
Globalization in Africa
Africa Trade agreements
Challenges around the Africa Continental Free Trade
Women and Youth in Trade
Digital Trade Protocols

The Report

Here you have the link of activities report and financial report

NB: Kindly note that this report must be submitted by 30th June 2023

Community Name: Wikimedia Community User group Rwanda
Title of your event: Africa Day Campaign in Rwanda
click here to see project dashboard
Start Date: 20th May 2023
End Date: 20th June 2023
Activities organized (pls list all) :
- 1st June 2023: Opening ceremony event
- 10th June 2023: An online edithathon
- 12th July 2023: Closing ceremony and gift giving ceremonies

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes, we absolutely achieved the goal we had an overall of 530 Articles created, and 809 articles improved. Yes I am very happy with how the project event went, we only used 20 days to achieve to this amazing results, For sure the big gap we have on wikipedia has been reduced because of the above contribution,

Outcome

Please report on the original project targets seen below assigned to each community from the campaign start. You could refer to the meta page if need be. There is no pressure on this. We just would like to find out about your achieved outcomes and what helped you achieve them or hindrances in achieving less.

Campaign Target Outcome	Achieved Outcome	Explanation
New Article Created	530	During the campaign we successfully achieved the creation 530 articles
Article Improved	809	During the campaign we successfully achieved the improved 809 articles
Images uploaded to commons.	6	During the campaign we successfully achieved the 6 uploads

Top contributors:

1st winner: User : abatagatifuu
2nd Winner: User: Renov

3rd winner: User: giseletuy

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the campaign organizers learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

What worked well? this project was very fun and interesting, it was another time for us to share experience and knowledge through the wiki projects. The organizing team was really happy that participants were happy and ready to bring their contribution, they were very happy with the Project Theme: AFRICA CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE and the provided list of topics to focus on, they said that it was easy to contribute...
What did not work so well? Women contribution still very low , We didn't have a contribution to other languages ( English, French) contributors still have fear to bring their contribution their because of speed deletion or usernames blockage
What would you do differently next time? We plan to encourage more women to participate and take responsibility and encourage them to diversify languages to which the contribute to such as French , English and Swahili

What retention engagement strategy or framework did you implement in your campaign?

Pairing new editors with experienced ones to learn from each other.
We came up with a list of possible articles that could be explored before starting contributions.
We run follow up events or 1 on 1 support to keep everyone on track.
We provided in-kind appreciations such as posting participants who are progressing to encourage and motivate others.

Please share the Wikimedia projects impacted, language Wikipedia impacted, meta page, outreach dashboard, and link of event photos on Wikimedia Commons.

[Dashboard]

Photos

Africa Day campaign Training in Rwanda 2023
Africa Day Campaign training au Rwanda 2023
Africa Day Campaign Day 2023 Rwanda
First Winner of Africa Day Campaign Rwanda 2023, Nkurunziza Deo
Jury team member Alice
Gisele Tuyishimire, the third winner of Africa Day Campaign in Rwanda 2023
Africa Day Campaign in Rwanda 2023 Jury member Ange Dusabe

Please tell us how you conducted outreach for the campaign in your community. This could be a television show/talk, podcast, article or news publication and the links to such activity. Given your knowledge of the audience base of such a channel, how many people would you estimate were reached through the outreach activity?

Finances

Grant Funds Spent

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

Financial Report

Description	Unit price	Quantity	Total Frws
Internet connection and data vouchers for participants	16950	15	254250
Transportation subsidy for participants closing ceremony and gifts giving to participants	11300	10	113000
Data and transport subsidy for Facilitators	16950	3	50850
Rental of a space to organize an edit-a-thon	79100	1	79100
Gifts for participants	11300	10	113000
Food and tea break 15$/ per for 10 participants during Closing ceremonie and Award giving	169500	1	169500
Marketing material (banner ,Flyer design)	56500	1	56500
T shirt	11300	10	113000
Rental of a projector	33900	1	33900
Advert and publicity	28250	1	28250
Jury gift	33900	3	101700
Miscellaneous and contingency funds	0	0	0
Total			1113050

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No remaining amount, we applied for microgrant 1500$ and received 970$ , we did our best to reajust the budget, we did exchange on the ate of 1$ = 1130Frws which means that we used the total of 970$ X 1130= 1,096,100Frs and the total amount we spent= 1,113,050 Frs, the difference of 16,950Frs was covered by the project organizers, and it was well done.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? This project theme was very nice, and easy to find articles to work on and I am sure that the gap of “Africa Continental Free trade “ on Wikipedia has been reduced,