Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wiki Wake Up Afrique 2022/Final Report

Final Learning Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 31 July 2023

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

This form is for organizations, groups, or individuals receiving Wikimedia Community Funds or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their final results.

Name of Organization: Wiki Wake Up Afrique
Title of Proposal: Wiki Wake Up Afrique 2022
Amount awarded: 15368.52 USD, 9662700 XOF
Amount spent: 9670960.5 XOF

Part 1 Understanding your work

1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented.

We had contacted contributors in countries that did not yet have a user group. These are Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Gabon, Senegal and Madagascar. The Comoros Islands, the Mauritius Islands, and the Republic of the Congo At the level of each country, at least one or two people are identified and maintained as representatives. It then systematically becomes a co-organizer after a series of meetings and training sessions. Weekly or periodic training workshops are regularly organized, in addition to a few face-to-face workshops. This is the case in Senegal, Niger and Burkina Faso.

For the most part we do online workshops for the community. We create small whatsapp groups to discuss how people want to join the community and we empower one or two people for community mobilization in each country. For a first online meeting we give them an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister projects. Depending on the needs expressed, we discuss with those in charge and we send them the means they lack to motivate them and relieve their difficulties if these people express them to us. To make them autonomous and more responsible, we share with them the work before , the work during and the work after to enable them to understand their level of responsibility in the work to be done. We teach them how to report, how to mobilize the community and how to interact with it. We teach them things to avoid doing them for them and make them more independent. We also support them in leading on-site and online workshops for their community, which allows them to feel close to their community. And finally we lead them to consider the creation of user groups in these countries.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals?

Yes some strategies have worked. This is for example The fact of making resources available to certain communities to relieve certain difficulties related to travel and internet connection costs helps to keep them motivated. Teaching them how to mobilize the community, how to report and also allowing them to do training for contributors allows them to better involve the communities. The resources made available to them for photographic hunts in their localities gives them the motivation to go and do more photos for their communities. Make discover and motivate to participate in international events and meetings around the wikimedia movement. This allowed Senegal to participate in Wikindaba 2022 in Kigali and Burkina in the French-speaking wiki convention in 2022 in Paris. For 2023, the Central African Republic and Senegal have obtained the scholarship to participate for the first time in Wikimanais 2023 and will jointly present the Wiki wake up Africa initiative at Wikimania 2023.

3. Would you say that your project had any innovations? Are there things that you did very differently than you have seen them done by others?

In implementing our activities, we have worked to involve underrepresented groups. This is the organization of the gender gap that we organized with the Burkina Faso community partially supported by Wiki Wake Up Africa funds. Similarly, with the community of Senegal, we organized and financially supported the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wikidata in 2022 for librarians, archivists, documentalists through a face-to-face workshop. Francophone Contribution Month 2023 in Niger, Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Senegal, Niger, Madagascar, Central African Republic Francophone Contribution Month 2023 in Niger, Madagascar, Central African Republic wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Niger, Madagascar, in the Central African Republic. World Earth Day in Niger with photographic outings in 2023 and photographic nettles in the Central African Republic.

4. Please describe how different communities participated and/or were informed about your work.

In the implementation of the project several means are used to inform the community to participate. These are direct contacts with knowledge, the use of digital channels of Wiki Wake Up Afrique (Facebook, Twitter, telegram group and whatsapp) Our exchanges are based on meetings, online sessions as well as monthly activity reports published on the project's meta page.

5. Documentation of your impact. Please use the two spaces below to share files and links that help tell your story and impact. This can be documentation that shows your results through testimonies, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, etc.) social media posts, dashboards, etc.

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mois_de_la_contribution_francophone_2023_en_RCA_du_02_au_04_03_2023

6. 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.

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
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	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.	Agree

7. 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?

According to our methodology, women represent the majority at a rate of 4/5 in the construction sector. As for geography, the photowalks have allowed us to explore areas that are very remote from urban centers, particularly in the Central African Republic, Niger, and Madagascar.

Part 2: Your main learning

8. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?

During the implementation of this project, we learned many lessons including: Human resources management Project management and Wikimedia for new communities; The importance of activity reports and accountability: Online and on-site community management; The need to have a strategic plan for at least 3 years in accordance with the strategic vision 2030 wikimedia Several requests to create user groups in the pages are already being created and will be submitted as soon as a community is ready. Among the meta pages being created, these are: Wikimedia Community User Group Niger, Wikimedia Community User Group Senegal, Wikimedia Community User Group Madagascar, Wikimedia Community User Group Burkina-Faso, Wikimedia Community User Group in CAR Every day, this project continues to teach us more through the difficulties we overcome as well as the challenges to be met.

9. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?

Currently, we are amazed by the ease with which our beneficiaries are embracing Wikimedia projects and movements. This is evident in their growing ability to be self-sufficient. Moreover, certain communities have become increasingly motivated in establishing their own User Groups.

10. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?

Find new strategies to bring in communities with which we have been in contact for several months and who are reluctant to join the movement. These include the Republic of Congo, Republic of Mauritius, Republic of Comoros, Republic of Guinea-Bissau, etc. recruit more people to be involved within the different communities that we had managed to contact. Continue to carry out several activities around the various annual campaigns of the Wikimedia movement. These include the Francophone contribution month, African contribution month, the various anniversaries of wikimedia projects. Sustain face-to-face activities within each community. Make sure to help the communities to create their first User group in at least 4 countries Organize and/or make trips to certain countries to support certain communities there. Seek partners to support on-site and online communities to alleviate some logistical challenges. Also go to meet English-speaking communities in Africa to extend the scope of the project. Work on drafting the strategic plan for at least 3 years in line with the wikimedia 2030 strategic vision.

11. If you were sitting with a friend to tell them one thing about your work during this fund, what would it be (think of inspiring or fascinating moments, tough challenges, interesting anecdotes, or anything that feels important to you)?

For an objective of three countries at the start, the project impacts seven countries, four of which are led by women, a very rare fact in the Wikimedia movement, especially in communities in Africa. Furthermore, the presence of the Wikimedia movement for the first time in history in these countries and the creation of the first user groups under construction and some requests for which are being validated because it is thanks to this initiative that Wikipedia and the other projects are known in these countries.

12. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_S%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_Niger https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_Burkina_Faso https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_Madagascar https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_RCA

Part 3: Metrics

13a. Open and additional metrics data

Open Metrics
Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	Participants (Toutes les personnes qui participeront aux activités)	200	187	The 187 participants represent contributors from all the countries where activities took place.	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Number of editors	Il s'agit des rédacteurs: Tous les participants aux différentes et toute personne qui contribuera aux projets Wikimédia	30	187	All participants appearing as editors on the dashboards	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_Juillet_2022_-_D%C3%A9cembre_2023_(Juillet_2022-D%C3%A9cembre_2023)/home
Number of organizers	Personnes impliquées dans les différentes activités (Chefs projets, formateurs et assistants)	5	27	All those who help implement the wiki wake up africa (WWUA) project in Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Centre African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Madagascar.	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Nouveaux recruts	Personnes nouvellement inscrites	20	141	Of the total of 187 registered on the dashboard, 141 accounts were created by participants during the activities organized in the various beneficiary countries.	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_Juillet_2022_-_D%C3%A9cembre_2023_(Juillet_2022-D%C3%A9cembre_2023)/home
Nombre de participantes (femmes)	Nombre de femmes participantes	10	N/A	Nous espérons en impliquer plus de femmes dans les mois à venir	Statistiques du dashbord et les rapports mensuels d’activités.

Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	Nombre d'éditeurs maintenus	50	159	Out of 187 publishers, 159 present contributions	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	Nombre d'organisateurs	7	27	All those who help implement the wiki wake up africa (WWUA) project in Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Madagascar.	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	Nombre de partenariats maintenus	6	N/A	AfroCROWD, wikimediens du Bénin, Noicir wikipedia urkina-Faso MoussoNews Orange Digital Center Teminys Médias Sénégal Goethe Institut Dakar, ASBAD (Association Sénégalaise des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes), ATBAD association Togolaise de Bibliothécaires, archivistes et Documentalistes Niger 1. ESSCOM ( anciennement IFTIC) 2. Association OSM Niger 3.Le centre Incubateur de l'Université de Niamey Centrafrique Leti Béa Africa	Statistiques du dashbord et les rapports mensuels d’activités.
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	Feadback des participants	150	20	For this report, we opted for conversations with participants through Google Meet, followed by submission of a feedback form using google form. To this end, exchange sessions took place with the main organizers and those of the communities.	Google meet, Google form
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	Informations démographiques et géographiques	500	187	From a geographical standpoint, the people directly impacted come from 9 African countries (Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Central African Republic, Burundi, Gabon, Congo and Madagascar). However, exchanges are still underway with other communities, notably the Comoros, Mauritius and Guinea Bissau.	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports. Social networks
Number of people reached through social media publications	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of activities developed	Nombre de sessions	15	49	38 online and 11 face-to-face sessions (Senegal 2, Niger 3 and Burkina faso 2, Central African Republic 1, Madagascar 3 for physical workshops)	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Number of volunteer hours	Total masse horaire hebdomadaire effectuée par les organisateurs et les formateurs	105	98	As no salary compensation applies to the project, we no longer calculated the number of hours spent by organizers and trainers during data collection. But based on the 49 sessions, we count over 98 hours, sometimes more than 2 hours per session. For organizers and facilitators, we spend an average of over 4 hours per week, excluding photowalks and country-specific sessions for focal points.	Activity reports

13b. Additional core metrics data.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	Participation de toutes les activités	200	187	Out of 187 publishers, 159 have submitted contributions	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Number of editors	Nombre de personnes ayant créé/améliorées sur Wikipédia après les sessions	20	159	187 registrants, including 159 active after sessions and 28 not inactive	https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/course_csv?course=Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_Juillet_2022_-_D%C3%A9cembre_2023_(Juillet_2022-D%C3%A9cembre_2023)
Number of organizers	Nombre de personnes formatrices, les animateurs et support	10	27	All those who help implement the wiki wake up africa (WWUA) project in Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Centre African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Madagascar.	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikipedia	Nombre d'articles créés, modifiés et/ ou améliorés	40	5764	According to the dashboard, 586 articles were created and 5178 modified and/or improved.	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Wikimedia Commons	Nombres d'images, vidéos téléversées	400	6887	6886 uploaded et 1498 used on 700 articles	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Wikidata	Nombre d’insertion/création/modifications wikidata	150	968	15352 modifications with 3034 items affected and 968 created	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Wikiquote	Nombre de quotes insérés	20	51	51 modifications with 11 quotes modified and 6 created	Dashboard statistics and monthly activity reports.
Wiktionary	Nombre de mots insérés / améliorés	20	0	We preferred to orientate our activities towards other projects	N/A

14. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?

No

15. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future.

N/A

16. Use this space to link or upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., dashboards, surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, etc).

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Nos Tableaux de bord:

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique/Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique_2022-2023_(Juillet_2022-D%C3%A9cembre_2023) https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wiki_wake_up_afrique_2022

Catégorie pour rassembler toutes les images prises dans le cadre du projet Wiki Afrique en images Project et sous projet de Wii Wake Up Afrique tous accessible sur meta: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Supported_by_Wiki_Afrique_en_images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Barke11 Catégorie pour regrouper toutes du projet Wiki Wake Up Afrique dans différents pays: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Wake_Up_Afrique

Part 4: Organizational capacities & partnerships

17. Organizational Capacity

Organizational capacity dimension
A. Financial capacity and management	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
B. Conflict management or transformation	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
C. Leadership (i.e growing in potential leaders, leadership that fit organizational needs and values)	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
D. Partnership building	This capacity has grown but it should be further developed
E. Strategic planning	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
F. Program design, implementation, and management	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
G. Scoping and testing new approaches, innovation	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
H. Recruiting new contributors (volunteer)	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
I. Support and growth path for different types of contributors (volunteers)	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
J. Governance	This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it
K. Communications, marketing, and social media	This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it
L. Staffing - hiring, monitoring, supporting in the areas needed for program implementation and sustainability	This capacity is low, and we should prioritise developing it
M. On-wiki technical skills	This capacity has grown but it should be further developed
N. Accessing and using data	This capacity has grown but it should be further developed
O. Evaluating and learning from our work	This has grown over the last year, the capacity is high
P. Communicating and sharing what we learn with our peers and other stakeholders	This capacity has grown but it should be further developed
N/A
N/A

17a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.

Peer to peer learning with other community members in conferences/events, Peer to peer learning with other community members in community/ies of practice* (structured and continuous learning and sharing spaces), Using capacity building/training resources online from sources WITHIN the Wikimedia Movement

17b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build capacities? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.

Lack of awareness of capacity building needs, Lack of financial resources, Barriers to access training because of connectivity or equipment

18. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your organizational capacity has grown, and areas where you require support?

N/A

19. Partnerships over the funding period.

Over the fund period...
A. We built strategic partnerships with other institutions or groups that will help us grow in the medium term (3 year time frame)	Agree
B. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to bring in more contributors from underrepresented groups	Agree
C. The partnerships we built with other institutions or groups helped to build out more content on underrepresented topics/groups	Agree

19a. Which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.

Institutional support from the Wikimedia Foundation, Volunteers from our communities

19b. Which of the following factors hindered your ability to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors.

Local policies or other legal factors, Limited funding period

20. Please share your learning about strategies to build partnerships with other institutions and groups and any other learning about working with partners?

Identification and direct contact with potential partners; Presentation of the wiki wake up Africa initiative (objectives, impacts and prospects); What is expected of the partnership.

Part 5: Sense of belonging and collaboration

21. What would it mean for your organization to feel a sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement?

We're proud to have brought wikipedia and its projects to communities where the movement was previously inexistent. This initiative has played a crucial role in showcasing these communities and their localities by generating local content.

22. How has your (for individual grantees) or your group/organization’s (for organizational grantees) sense of belonging to the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?

Somewhat increased

23. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.

N/A

24. How has your group/organization’s sense of personal investment in the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement changed over the fund period?

Increased significantly

25. If you would like to, please share why it has changed in this way.

N/A

26. Are there other movements besides the Wikimedia or free knowledge movement that play a central role in your motivation to contribute to Wikimedia projects? (for example, Black Lives Matter, Feminist movement, Climate Justice, or other activism spaces) If so, please describe it below.

none

Supporting Peer Learning and Collaboration

We are interested in better supporting peer learning and collaboration in the movement.

27. Have you shared these results with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?

Yes

27a. Please describe how you have already shared them. Would you like to do more sharing, and if so how?

The wiki wake up Africa initiative shares experiences with communities through online meetings via google meet and zoom, meeting by tetelgram through questions and answers. it is often done in a friendly atmosphere during meeting or Wikimedia conference like Wikiinda, Wikiconvention francophone, wikimanias

28. How often do you currently share what you have learned with other Wikimedia Foundation grantees, and learn from them?

We do this occasionally (less than once a month)

29. How does your organization currently share mutual learning with other grantees?

The wiki wake up Africa initiative shares experiences with communities through online meetings via google meet and zoom, meeting by tetelgram through questions and answers. it is often done in a friendly atmosphere during meeting or Wikimedia conference like Wikiinda, Wikiconvention francophone, wikimanias

Part 6: Financial reporting and compliance

30. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

9670960.5

31. Local currency type

XOF

32. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

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Report funds received and spent, if template not used.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V2sv7wzP-Dl6xbzdEb-4iWjC4mu8wM929VKCeUW9GLU/edit?usp=sharing

33. 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

34. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

34a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

N/A

34b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

N/A

34c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

N/A

35. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?

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.

36. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?

Yes

37. 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

38. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.