Grants:Project/Rapid/User:Agbalagba/Yoruba Language Wikipedia Workshop/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 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/User:Agbalagba/Yoruba Language Wikipedia Workshop.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes, we are happy with how the project went.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Articles created

The list of articles below were created by participants;

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
If two workshops are organized	Two workshops were successful organized	We targeted Yoruba language teachers and students. We contacted members of Akomolede Yoruba, an association of Yoruba teachers in Lagos and they sent representatives who took part in the workshop. We also contacted the President of Yoruba language students of the Lagos State University. They participated in the workshop.
If at least 25 people participates	More than 25 people participated. We have forwarded the attendance sheet to WMF.	Although, we plan to train 20 attendees but we also welcomed those who came with their friends and interested in contributing to Yoruba Wikipedia
If at least 10 new editors are recruited	More than 10 new accounts were registered.	We do want to measure this outcome with the number of new editors that will continue to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia. A written contest has been lunched and we have created a whataspp group to mentor atendee. Thus, we are confident that some of the user will continue to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia after this mentorship program
if at least 50 articles are created/translated	There is an ongoing contest to achieved this outcome	At the end of the contest we will be able to determine if this goal is achieved

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?

We are happy with how the program went and we got a good feedback from participants. In fact, the Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University approved a free hall for the two days workshop with the influence of Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation.

What did not work so well?

Internet connection was a very big challenge, so we were unable to do much hand-on training. We were also affected by the 6 account limits but User:T Cells who is an administrators on Yoruba Wikipedia helped us to create accounts for participants having difficulty creating accounts.

What would you do differently next time?

We will not rely on only one internet service provider

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Sl.No	Item	Budget	Grant money spent	Remarks	Receipt
1	Food	90,000	150,000	We earlier budgeted for 30 people but more than 30 people participated and we also gave food to cleaners and security provided by the university	Receipted
2	Event space	200000	NIL	We were provided with free hall	Free
3	Internet	25000	25000	spent as budgeted	Non-receipted
4	Transportation for event facilitators within Lagos	25000	25000	spent as budgeted	Non-receipted
5	Transportation for event facilitators outside Lagos	20000	20000	spent as budgeted	Non-receipted
6	Hotel accommodation for facilitator outside Lagos	60000	60000	spent as budgeted	Receipted
7	Meal for facilitators	24000	24000	spent as budgeted	Non-receipted
8	Certificate of participation	25000	30000	spent as budgeted	Non-receipted
9	Name tags	15000	nil	We did not do name tags	Not done
10	Wikipedia T-Shirt for event facilitators	15000	15000	spent as budgeted	Non-receipted
11	Prize for contest winners	100000	100000	Contest is ongoing	NA
12	Projector	Nil	32000	We didn't budget for a projector in our original budget as we believe it would be in the hall we plan to rent but we got a free hall and we needed to hire a projector for the two days	Non-receipted
13	Compensation and transport support for cleaners	0	10000	Saturday is not a working day and staff members would not come on Saturday. We provided stipends to support their transportation and compensated the cleaners for their time on Saturday	Non-receipted
14	Alternative power supply	0	17000	We rented a generator as an alternative power supply. We didnt use it on Friday as electricity was available but it was very valuable on Saturday as there was no electricity at all in the school on that day	Non-receipted
15	Extension box	0	4000	We bought two extension boxes to allow people plug their devices.	Non-receipted
15	Public address system	0	6000	We rented this for two days	Non-receipted
15	Calls airtime	0	11000	The is the cost of call card used for communications	Non-receipted

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Yes, we have remaining grant funds. We have NGN 81,000 (USD 265.57) left. I'll like to roll it over for our next project

Remaining funds from this grant have been returned to WMF in the amount of US$180.57 (or US$265.57 minus bank fees).

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Account created

Participants were asked about challenges to contributing to Yoruba language Wikipedia and possible solutions;

Challenges

The native Yoruba speakers lack motivation from their immediate environment.
There are many speakers who still don’t know how to write their native language.
Inability of many researchers to write down their knowledge in Yoruba which is their mother tongue for student accessibility purpose.
Some Yoruba native speakers believe that Yoruba language is inferior because of the dominating power of the foreign languages especially English.
Lack of support from government and NGOs.
Laziness from Yoruba scholars to digitize their work for easy access by others.
Poor funding and support from government.
Lack of good understanding of the language as a result of foreign language domination, thereby mislead the readers.
Private schools attitude towards Yoruba language.
Lack of good and standard enforcement from the government.
Lack of cooperation from the association that focus on Yoruba language.
Professionalism in certain field of learning such as medicine should be able to convey information in Yoruba Language.
Yoruba language is not fit to teach scientific subject, due to lack of scientific terms embedded in scientific field.
Lack of penalization of private school that are not promoting Yoruba as an indigenous language.
Lack of good and reliable internet access.
Costly internet services
Media influence hampers Yoruba language as it has much of foreign contents and costumes

Possible solutions

Exposure to digital literacy
Collaboration of Wikipedia with the literate Yoruba scholars.
Motivation of Yoruba teachers and students through various programs
Using role-model to promote Yoruba culture and language.
Full enforcement from the teaching of Yoruba languages by government such as the one enacted by the Lagos State Government