Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiAct4SDGs Nigeria/Report

Report accepted

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

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? As proposed for this project the highlighted goals were achieved:

We recruited new editors in Ibadan, Added and also improved SDGs' related content about Nigeria to Wikipedia and WikiData.

Existing Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development in Nigeria editors were engaged in Ilorin especially.

Engaged SDGs Crusaders in Nigeria on how to bridge the content gap on SDG on Wikipedia with a focus on Nigeria related content.

Trained selected SDGs' crusaders in Nigeria on how to contribute to Wikipedia.

Taught the participants the use of Wikidata to create link-data

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: 3	during the project, we had two physical events; one opening at Ibadan, and the second one with the active members at Ilorin with additional online training and follow ups.	three events took place.
Number of participants: 25	we exceeded this target	The opening session was attended by over 30 participants physical aside online participants who also joined across different states in Nigeria.
Number of new editors: 10	more than 15 were new editors	we enrolled more than 15 new editors
Number of of articles created or improved: 100	exceeded expectation.	Over 200 articles were created and 591 articles were improved.
Number of partners: at least 3	We had more than the number planned: The list of organizations below were highly supportive: SDGs Community University of Ibadan YALI Network Oyo State Millennium Campus Network- UI Chapter Solution17 Global UNDP Nigeria BTY Community	We had at least one representative from each of the organization listed above.

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?

Our established partnership with Major organisations who advocate for SDGs on and outside campus really helped in the mobilisation of participants for the event at the opening location.

What did not work so well?

The period at which the event was held was when students were not much in school. The internet in the location was not very good. We had to find a lasting solution to it.

What would you do differently next time?

Prepare the mind of the participants before the d-day of the event as many were clueless of what was being discussed which elongated the time allocated for few of the items that were to be taught.

• Make provision for courseware or a easy to understand materials for new and existing Wikimedians before the events.