Grants:Project/Rapid/Obihoja/Nigerian Creative Women on Wikipedia Edit a thon/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2019-20 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/Obihoja/Nigerian Creative Women on Wikipedia Edit a thon.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes, I was able to execute the project well. Two experienced editors have helped me throughout the duration of the project.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of events 5	5
Number of participants 35	40
Number of new editors 12	14	19 people registered but only 16 were active.
Number of articles created or improved 80	95	3 articles were created, 92 articles were edited, we had 393 total edits. attached is the Dashboard link to the project. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Obihija/Nigerian_Creative_Women_on_Wikipedia

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

What worked well?

It was a learning platform, the knowledge gained and happy moments for participants

What did not work so well?

Some of the participants left because most of their works were deleted, some find it difficult to navigate the interface.

What would you do differently next time?

Organize training on how to edit and contribute content to Wikipedia before the actual project.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Hire of laptop = $460
Payment for data = 410
Food and drink = $835
Total = 1,705 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

I had more persons than planned in the project and had to hire laptops more than was planned. i also paid more for data. these cost were covered by the miscellaneous sum provided in the approval