Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary Outreach and Content Initiative (ID: 22159749)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2023-10-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Hausa Wiktionary Outreach and Content Initiative
- Username of Applicant: Salisu Adamu
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1827.85
- Amount spent: 3012.7 USD, 1390000 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
The project aimed to collaborate with academic institutions and organisations interested in supporting Hausa wiktionary, and to increase a reliable content in Hausa Wiktionary. To make make it possible, we collaborate with Hausa Language Department of Kaduna State University. sensitization and outreach was conducted through various means, pamphlet shared among the prospective volunteers of the institution, recruited volunteers added to our social media handles. We had the opportunity to meet students and lecturers from department, and it was really interesting to learn from the students understudying at the Degree and the masters level, as well as the keynotes and guidance delivered by the lecturers. We are opportune to make use of the language laboratory during one of our in-person event.
We held two in-person events editors were mentored on Wiktionary editing skills, content curation, creating and uploading audio files to Wikipedia commons and linking to Wiktionary. Additionally, we carried out three online events the on-going project was discuss, future activities, support provided and building a community of volunteers. The volunteers were able to carryout task and assignment to close the content gap in Hausa Wiktionary despite their tight academic schedules.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Both the in-person and online events was enormous approach in achieving our goals, also using an academic environment has giving the editors much needed motivation and interest and also giving every participant the desired opportunity has yielded a positive outcome.Communication through our social media handles within the time frame as keeping in touch with volunteers, posting videos in the group about editing process help them whenever they find something challenging, and this serve as motivation and encouragement to the volunteers, also serve as a medium used promoting community interaction, problem solving and networking. Resources such as brochure and hard copy English-Hausa Kamus used also help in content contribution. Also, keeping in touch with our community members during implementation period help them to understand what we collectively trying to achieve.
These strategies was adopted because we are dedicated to improve retention rates and continuous engagement of participants to edit Wikimedia projects, and to train and groom community leaders to take up responsibilities.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1cTQoo3IfU4lES_mfF3SvgBs2xuKCDgb6
https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=%23WOCI&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user=
4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
Our initiative to introduce Hausa Wiktionary to the academic community have been successful in recruiting more participants that are natives, students, lecturers who are knowledgeable and can guide others, this serve as a step to establish a community of volunteers for Hausa Wiktionary.
Tasking participants to work on contents gap that a paramount in understanding the language through educational contents has brought participants to work as a team and learn more about Hausa Wiktionary and different ways of contributions.
Though the challenge we are facing that limit community members contribution among others is the high cost of Data, and academic schedules, a most of the volunteers are students.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
Our aim to establish partnership with Kaduna State University, which has open up reserch opportunities, and creating a community of volunteers in an academic setup, this serve as a motivation on the serious of what we trying to achieve. We hope to maintain the sustainability of the partnership and optimistic to collaborate again in the future. We understand in-person event was the most effective way equipping the skills of editors, where they could demonstrate what they learn and interact with others for knowledge sharing, while the online event serve as a way of following up and attending to challenges of the volunteers. More also we established new partnership with Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group, we seize the opportunity for some of our volunteers to participate in the Wiki sound campaigns.
Participants were train and contributed enormously in closing content gap in Hausa Wiktionary, content curation and contributed to wikimedia commons, given data enable them to a large extent and they learn various ways they can contribute to wikimedia projects.
Deficiency of lack of references, vocabulary and grammatical words was contributed by participants, as such Hausa Wiktionary is improved extensively. This outreach has expose Hausa Wiktionary to the academic community whom have shown desire and commitment to our course, thus we are already in the position of using Hausa Wiktionary in academic setting as well as a learning tool.
7. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences?
The surprising thing is how community members related and work as a team to achieve the same goal. Conducting the in-person event within an academic environment has brought the participants to new dimension and opportunities. Participants have shown motivation to use their initiatives in editing words and carrying out task they are given. We learn community members are willing to contribute with proper guidance and support, follow up.
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
The Hausa Wiktionary Community aims to have a more expanded contributors across the region and to partner with other communities and to use our learning to improve in future events. As a growing community we will make efforts to introduce the teeming contributors of Hausa Wiktionary to have the necessary skills, knowledge and resources to other wikimedia projects that compliments Hausa Wiktionary. This will be achieved through continued capacity building for the volunteers and team organisers.
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
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10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Number of participants | Existing and new Volunteers to engage | 40 | 41 | 30 existing and 11 new editors. | Wmf Hashtag #WOCI
https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=%23WOCI&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user= |
| Number of editors | 30 Existing Editors
10 new editors |
40 | 41 | 30 existing and 11 new editors contributed throughout the timeframe | Wmf Hashtag #WOCI
https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=%23WOCI&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user= |
| Number of organizers | Number of Organisers | 5 | 5 | 5 total organisers partake in training sessions, and co-ordination. | Wmf Hashtag #WOCI
https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=%23WOCI&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user= |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
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| Wiktionary | Number of words to be created | 1000 | 771 | 771 words created, 848 words improvement. The editors who join the task/assignment initiative demostrated dedication, but they are restricted by time due to delay in organisation since we collaborating with partners, and also busy academic schedule. | Wmf Hashtag #WOCI
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| Wikimedia Commons | Audio Files to be created and link to wiktionary. Hooked letter words will be emphasize, and will be link to wiktionary | 1000 | 1006 | A total of 1006 audio files uploaded to wikimedia commons and link to wiktionary, with emphasis of hooked letter words. | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hausa_Wiktionary_Outreach |
| Wiktionary | Number of Image Files to be attached from Wikimedia commons, depends on word created that will need images. | N/A | 123 | 123 Image files link to Wiktionary from Wikimedia Commons | Wmf Hashtag #WOCI
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12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
No
12a. State what difficulties you had.
N/A
12b. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges?
N/A
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
https://hashtags.wmcloud.org/?query=%23WOCI&project=&startdate=&enddate=&search_type=or&user= https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1cTQoo3IfU4lES_mfF3SvgBs2xuKCDgb6
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
Yes
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:Babban_shafi
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
1390000 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
3012.7 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
N/A
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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