Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign/Midpoint Report

Midterm Learning Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 15 April 2023

Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund

Report type: Midterm

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General information

This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.

Name of Organization: N/A
Title of Proposal: WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign
Amount awarded: 10100 USD, 4173553.31 NGN
Amount spent: 3548000 NGN

Part 1 Understanding your work

1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?

As mentioned in the proposal project page we said we would start by creating promotional campaigns across Wikimedia sister projects to create awareness among Wikimedians, the initial plan was changed as this time we started by conducting a research on Wikimedia and on other major languages to see how we plan the promotional campaign, how we can engage participants from different communities by looking at the results of the research, so we started by research, follow by campaig, trainings (online and offline) and Wikimedia Pages Wanting Pages at last.

2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?

All our strategies and approaches are effective, as it helps efficiently in training participants from different communities, the strategies helped in uploading different languages audios, with effective impact in using the audio in relevant Wikimedia sister projects l.

3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?

We have encountered problems of finance, as we have to limit the number of participating communities to Nigerian communities only, other communities reached out to us but we have briefly take them in for training and workshop activities, like the French community and Ghanian, even in Nigeria some participants are engage on voluntary basis. Moreover, we experience delay in organizing Wikimedia Pages Wanting Audios contest due to delay in training different communities from different language background, because we have organize Different event for different communities to have a comprehensive training acquiring.

4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.

Different Communities are engaged, we recruited Mentors from each participating community so that language communication skills should be well understood, the mentors organize online trainings and conduct surveys and campaign in their respective communities, also they engage their community to participate in the WPWA.

5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.

We have worked to engaged different mentors from different communities so that we can fully engaged Wikimedians, also we include three females as a mentor to help in engaging female participants to the project.

6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?

We learned that we still need more time to run different workshops, trainings and Edith a thon for Wikimedians to fully understand audios activities on how to record, convert, upload and link audio files, moreover, to understand how to use Wikimedia tool (Lingua Franca and Spell4Wiki) also to be familiar with the Contest participation,

7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?

We will now be focusing on the general contest and training the engaged participants that need additional trainings. Also, we will now be focusing on collecting data files and the impact of the general projects. We are also focusing on having a successful contest outcome considering the experience we acquired from WPWP.

Part 2: Metrics

8a. Open and additional metrics data.

Open Metrics
Open Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Online promotional campaign	Promotional campaign onwiki and social media handles; call for onboarding and participation	1000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Trips Campaign	Trips walking campaigns in different areas explaining what Wikimedia projects is in relationships to Audio files contributions.	100	N/A	N/A	N/A
Training online and in-person workshops	Number of trainings to be carried for the entire program.	3	N/A	N/A	N/A
Data support	Number of people to benefit	50	N/A	N/A	N/A
New and existing editors	Number or existing editors to be recruited and number of existing users to be train on audio Wikimedia activities	100	N/A	N/A	N/A

Additional Metrics
Additional Metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	Sound uploaders, files linkers and contestants: Atleast 50% of editors in active editing are retained and continue to engage in the community after the project ends	100	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	Local mentors/ambassadors and local audio event organizers: At least 70% of organizers will be continue to be involved in organizing various activities after this project	15	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	At least 5 strategic partnership with User Groups and Groups of individuals that will contribute to the longer-term sustainability of this project and community will be forged.	5	N/A	N/A	N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	There would be at least 5 surveys to evaluates our approaches and impact, base on progress works, learnings of what need to be improved and how participants wish to be receiving any kind of support.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	We will use the result of our surveys and in-event attendance sheets to evaluate the diversity of participants.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications	At least 10,000 people would be reached through our social media activities and video campaigns As well as onwiki reaching out.	10000	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of activities developed	At least 15 distinct programs and activities would be developed and implemented by the end of the project.	15	N/A	N/A	N/A
Number of volunteer hours	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

8b. Additional core metrics data.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Number of participants	Five hundred participants from different languages Wikis.	100		70	*https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/WikiSound/WikiSound_Audio_Speaks_Campaign_General_Dashboard/home
Number of editors	Four hundred editors from different local communities.	70	52	That is the number of editors that we have so far, the number might increase any time.
Number of organizers	Fifteen Organizers from local communities to form a team, and train Wikimedians online.	7	9

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target	Results	Comments	Methodology
Wikimedia Commons	Five thousand audio files to be uploaded or more	1000	885	N/A	N/A
Wikipedia	Files to be linked in different languages Wikis	100	100	N/A	N/A
Wikidata	Audio files to be added as statements in Wikidata item under Lexemes.	100	30	N/A	N/A
Wikiquote	Files to be linked into	100	10	N/A	N/A
Wikibooks	Pronouncing name of books orally	100	0	N/A	N/A

9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?

No, we are not having problem in collecting data, we use glamourous tool and outreach Wikimedia to register participants and to collect their contributions across all Wikimedia projects.

10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?

Yes

10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?

Yes, we have shared our experience with different communities ranging from Hausa, Yoruba, Fulbe, English and Fulbe. Also we share our experience by having different meet up, we create video tutorials to mentor other participants.

11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.

Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).

Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSound_Audio_Speaks_Campaign_Report_Page

Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance

12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.

3548000

13. Local currency type

NGN

14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.

Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
Provide links to your financial reporting documents.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLBP57VgLGXUMKpz8yMAP3IvJFY2d2T6k-RyB9JWVLA/edit?usp=sharing

15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?

Yes

15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.

We currently have one community that to send them data disbursement, the number of the participants are yet to be collected not knowing how much amount will be spent in giving them data disbursement.

16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.

As a grantee I understand that helping in sharing free knowledge to world by training Wikimeidans that will help in boosting effective content is something very important and necessary, as we the grantees now focus on training Wikimedians to contribute to Wikimedia mission towards 2030, and part of the learning I have is to achieve uploads of many audio files before 2030 and to make use it worth encyclopedic in relevant Wiki languages and related topics.