Grants:Project/Global Open Initiative/Wikidata GLAMs Campaign Ghana/Timeline

This project is funded by a Project Grant

Timeline for Global Open Initiative

Timeline	Date
Completion of data gathering for 5th parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana	13 June 2020
Launch of First Parliament of Ghana Contest	03 July 2020
Milestone 3	Day Month Year

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

June

In this month, we were able to accomplish a lot, despite the challenges we encountered.

Data Gathering

After our grant was approved, we drafted a letter and submitted to the Parliament of Ghana Library, seeking permission to use the library. While waiting for approval from the Parliament of Ghana Library, we designed and opened registrations for people to apply for the role of the Wikidata-in-residence. Then we reviewed applications, selected and interviewed applicants for the role of the Wikidata-in-residence(WIR). We later drafted contract agreement for all selected Wikidata-in-Residence applicants. We also designed quick guides and excel sheets to be used for data gathering for all WiRs. To ensure that less errors are made in the gathering of data, we organised training for all WiRs.

First Parliament of Ghana Contest

After designing flyers and promoting the events for a week on all our social media platforms, we had about 49 people register to participate in the contest.While our social media team handled promotion of the event, our IT support team designed a comprehensive landing page on Wikipedia which provides the contest rules, resources, leadership board and the list of members of parliament of the 5th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.

Challenges

Finding the data of all the Members of each parliamentary term is more difficult than we expected. We could only find books containing details of the MPs for the 1st and 5th parliament of the 4th republic; the 1st parliament of the third republic; and the 1st parliament of the second republic at the Parliament of Ghana library. The remaining parliamentary terms, we had to teach all those playing the role of Wikidata-in-Residence how to search for the information of the MP's on the internet. We thought them creative ways of searching and using google books to find the information about the various MPs.

July

Data Gathering

Some Wikidatain-in-Residence continued to search for information for the members of the parliamentary term they were assigned.

5th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Contest

We launched the first Parliament of Ghana contest on Saturday 4th July 2020. Out of the 50 participants that registered, about 28 were able to attend the launch. And about 28 participated in the contest. Instead of a month like we expected, the participants were able to finish working on 230 members of the 5th Parliament of the 4th Republic within two weeks. And the jury used a week to clean up, announce and award winners. We can conclude that this first contest was a success because the participation was great and we were able to finish in two weeks. Although we had some participants who were making hasty contributions which turned out to be mistakes we corrected, we also had some participants contributing articles that were well sourced, with info box and a lot of information. As a result we have had to make some revisions to our rules which required that we give more marks to participants that produce quality work and deduct marks of participants that add wrong information to either Wikipedia articles or Wikidata items.

August

Data Gathering

Some Wikidatain-in-Residence continued to search for information for the members of the parliamentary term they were assigned.

4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Contest

We launched the contest on Saturday, August 1, 2020. Out of 40 participants that registered, 22 participants attended the launch on zoom. And about 22 made contributions on both Wikipedia and Wikidata. Participants were able to finish working on all entries within a a week. The jury used a week to finished reviewing and marking all entries. So a total of two weeks was used in executing the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana contest.

University of Ghana Bibliographic data

We have began work in preparing the batch upload bibliographic data from the University of Ghana Digital records. We have submitted an application for a Wikidata Authority control identifier for the University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace),UG Space URL Identifier. Also, we have began building a script to scrape the data from the University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) website.

September

Data Gathering

Some Wikidatain-in-Residence continued to search for information for the members of the parliamentary term they were assigned.

3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Contest

We launched the contest on Saturday, August 29, 2020. Out of 30 participants that registered, 20 participants attended the launch on zoom. And about 22 made contributions on both Wikipedia and Wikidata. Participants were able to finish working on all entries within two weeks. The jury used a week to finish reviewing and marking all entries. So a total of three weeks was used in executing the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana contest.

8 Virtual Wikidata Workshops

Reached out to some institutions through Facebook, linkedin and Instagram.

October

November

Is your final report due but you need more time?

Extension request

New end date

30th September 2021

Rationale

It is has been quite challenging completing all the batch upload aspect of this project due to unstable internet connectivity and some technical challenges with Open Refine. The extension will give us more time to complete the batch uploads of Bibliographic data and then submit our report.Celestinesucess (talk) 14:47, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Request Accepted_New Final Report Date _30th September 2021

Thank you User:Celestinesuccess for your request. We understand the delay in completing some of the steps in your project due to technical issues and hope that with the extension of time, it will support you in finalizing on your project outcomes. Your request is approved and we look forward to reviewing and learning from your final report. User:VThamaini (WMF)