Grants:Project/Rapid/BamLifa/Wikipedia in Libraries (Kisangani)/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/BamLifa/Wikipedia in Libraries (Kisangani).
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes, we have successfully met our goals and are so happy with how the event went so far, especially how our UG made a great collaboration with librarians of the city.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Recruit new editors	13	We have been able to achieve this target by 130%
Increase skills for existing editors	5	5 members from our UG were able to attend this event. The very important skill learned here was how to add references using visual editor and wikicode editor
Add or improve content	111 (as of our dashboard on July 30, 2021)	We're so proud of this. We have achieved this goal by 317%

Learning

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What worked well?

Participants were helping each other to work in teams. The content was mainly focused on DRCongo

What did not work so well?

We had two main difficulties: most of our attendees don't use Internet in a daily basis, so they need more time to adapt themselves. The second problem we had was about the quality of Internet that did not allow us to finish on time.

What would you do differently next time?

Given all these issues, we think it'd be better to run a pre-event of at least 1 h so that we can make sure everyone has an account and can easily navigate to the Wikipedia Interface. For Internet issue, we'll need to diversify providers.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Food for 20 persons during 3 days: 1200USD
Transport for 20 persons during 3 days: 300USD
Internet package: 150USD
Communication fees: $50USD
Printing & goodies: 75USD
Misc (wire fees, preparation transport...):75USD

Total: 1850USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? 100USD

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

We'd like to use this for Internet package.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?