Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Hour Initiative/Wiki4SDG’s Ghana Campaign/Report
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Goals
[edit]Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
I must say that every Wiki Event hosted especially around SDG's brings out a lot of enthusiam from those participating, both newbies and old editor, because this are topics would make an impact in our world today and in the future.
1. We recruited new editors
2. Increased skills for existing editors
3. Created and improved WikiData items on Human rights and climate topics.
4. Increased skills for existing editors on Human rights, institutions and climate topics, healthy natural systems.
5. Add or improved and create content SDGs which includes; Climate, Human Rights and Inclusion topics.
6. Uploads to Wiki Commons in all areas above
Outcome
[edit]Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.
| Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
| Recruit new editors | We recruited 35 new editors during the training session but most of these new editors couldn’t contribute because of IP block. | To create the new accounts, we used the dashboard which was efficient |
| Increase skills for existing editors | Existing editors were able to focus on SDG related topics in Ghana and contributed efficiently. We provided training on fact-checking and in-depth research. | Trainings consultations provided additional resources in data and information gathering. |
| Create and improve WikiData items on Human rights and climate topics. | There was a total of 10.1K revisions for Wiki Data Items. Also, a total of 51 items where created in relation to the topic | |
| Add or improve and create content SDGs which includes; Climate, Human Rights and Inclusion topics. | Below are the statistics for the campaign:
- 635 articles created - 8.34K articles edited - 37.4K total edits - 43 editors [8 existing and 35 new editors] - 906K words added - 45.1M article views |
Learning
[edit]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?
Providing virtual working hours helped to address various (technical and individual) challenges encountered in participating in the edit-a-thon.
Providing both online and on-site training helped to bridge gaps, geographically and digitally.
We also had more language Wiki's join the campaign, like Gurene and pidgin.
We also trained three sign language interpreters, and had one assist during the events.
Dashboard metric [1]
Article list which worked on [2]
- What did not work so well?
The IP Block experienced by new editors discouraged them from contributing. This was as a result of the extended waiting time for those who appealed, as there seemed to be no response to the appeal
- What would you do differently next time?
Working on how best to get more audio visual representations for the events on Inclusion. I believe there is more content to be gotten from there, to support the hearing impaired community.
Finances
[edit]Grant funds spent
[edit]Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
- Refreshment - This will cater for food, snacks, water and drinks,for the training and edit-a-thon for participants at $130 per each event (USD650)
- Communication & design -Engagement time, promotional materials, boosting and design, cost of printing/scanning of documents (USD200)
- Venue - This will serve as the training ground for the 5 workshops (USD110) per each event (USD550)
- Data scholarship - participants who have a need for data support. This will be approximately $10 each for an estimation of 10 participants (USD100)
- Internet bundle for router - for all meetings and training (USD200)
- Jury - This comprises of transportation cost, souvenirs and internet support to Jury members for all 2 contest(USD320)
- Administrative expense - Internet/gift and support for the team and organisers (USD800)
- Transportation -To and from Winneba and also transportation in Accra, for team members for 5 in person trainings (USD350)
- Awards - Although certificates will be given to all top 10 winners, special prizes will be given to the top three (3) winners as indicated below. per each event (USD400)
- Protocol kits - This will support the acquisition of nose masks and hand sanitizers for the 15 participants(USD100)
- Hardware -needs such as extension board, HDMI to support the campaign(We rented instead)
- Space rental and food -The cost here is for only securing a place and provide food for the working meeting (USD300)
- Miscellaneous - Thus bank and transfer charges, conversion and transportation charges (USD50)
TOTAL - USD4,250
Expected amount for this project received from the bank was 30,317.00 instead of 31,175.10ghs so we had to reduce the number of data scholarships, rented the hardware's used and also further reduce what was given to the jury.
Remaining funds
[edit]Do you have any remaining grant funds?
No funds remaining
Anything else
[edit]Anything else you want to share about your project?
The team had a wonderful opportunity to learn from participants and also share as We're excited to raise awareness of SDG-related issues and Wikipedia and its sister projects in Ghana. We would want in the coming year to broaden our audience to include people in rural areas because the information movement hasn't yet reached everyone there.