Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Libraries 2.0 (ID: 22458891)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-07-28T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: Linason Blessing
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 780
- Amount spent: 780 USD, 1154000
Part 1: Project and impact[edit]
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
Wiki Loves Libraries Nigeria 2.0, a follow-up initiative, aimed to address the content gap on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and WikiCommons concerning Nigerian libraries and librarians. From April 7th to May 20th, 2024, a series of online training sessions via Zoom and two series of physical training session and Edit-a-ton provided participants with essential skills, including Wikipedia's core content policies, article creation, editing techniques, citation practices, media file uploading, item merging, and scholarly publication item creation on Wikidata using SOURCEMD. Participants engaged in editathons with one-on-one support from the project team, using resources on the campaign's Metapage.
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
All required Link are available on this link below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ahRMko5euYgFdQ4Wm0ixdQIh4JQB4H7zErUA2e7b8X4/edit
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
All Relevant links and description can be found below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nc6Z1svGsECWr43G1pAyApCkyXqnfTGbkupAUT1Vesw/edit
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Strongly agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning[edit]
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: Wiki Loves Libraries Nigeria project will offer a rich learning experience across various dimensions. Here are some aspects i hope to learn from this project:
Working with a diverse group of editors, including new and existing ones, from different library schools, associations, and types of libraries can provide insights into community dynamics and effective collaboration. Learning how to foster a sense of shared purpose and engagement among participants is a valuable skill. Through several training sessions and practical editing tasks, I hope to effectively improve content gaps on Wikipedia and its sister's project.
And we hope the following questions are answered after completing the project:
What is their perception of Wikipedia? What are the best metrics to be used in measuring the outcome of the campaign? Did the campaign meet the expectations of the participants?
Most new student Librarians that were present during the trainings had a different perception about Wikipedia and have a better understanding of the open Knowledge platform and are ready to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister project. The event page was used and it helped in effectively registering the participants and adding them to the dashboard. The outreach dashboard was used in tracking the outcome of the project. Yes the expectations of the participants was met using the post evaluation survey given to them at the end of the project.
5. 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? (required)
Yes, more participants joined the campaign dashboard than planned, which affected the team's budget and metric-tracking activities as some were on multiple campaigns. And one bigger issue was when the outreach dashboard stopped tracking the contributions of the participants and it affected the motivation of the participants, which made us to check contributions of the participants using the X tool and checking the participants contributions individually for all 68 participants on our dashboard. During the physical training sessions, we had in person the Chairman for the National Library of Association, Kwara Branch. She was really enthusiastic to learn, especially the part where we use the SOURCEMD in creating scholarly related articles by Librarians in Nigeria. And we had new student Librarians, especially from the University of Ilorin, some students were passionate in writing articles from scratch for new notable lecturers of Librarianship.
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
There was a diff publication that is published, on the online sessions and physical sessions of the project.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/23/wiki-loves-libraries-nigeria-2-0-takes-flight/
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 44 | 67 | Event Page and outreach dashboard |
| Number of editors | 40 | 67 | There were 14 New editors registered on the Outreach dashboard 53 returning editors |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 | 3 | 75 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 | 222 | 222 |
| Wikidata | 100 | 57 | 57 |
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
Yes
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. 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? (required)
Yes, the outreach dashboard was not tracking wikidata contributions and other contributions on Wikipedia which made the participants to panic thinking their contributions are not tracked. The dashboard should be improved upon so it will make tracking seamlessly for event organizers.
Part 4: Financial reporting[edit]
10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
1154000
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
780
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q1B2WoBUKohcKumr_sb8y084fxX9bnnyxgGDfIh-33A/edit?gid=0#gid=0
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes Your response to the review feedback. 14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
14.3. 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
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes[edit]
Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A