Grants:Project/Rapid/Ampimd/3 Music Awards/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

Music & Entertainment Wiki Edit-a-thon II Poster

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

Yes, we meet our goals; we engaged 19 existing editors and recruited 11 new editors who we introduced and guided through Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons mainly in line with the project goals and the broad introduction of Wikimedia Foundation and its overall projects.
We added and improved the content of 2000+ articles on English and Twi Wikipedia in relation to Music and Entertainment Industry players in Ghana. We created more than 100 articles also on both English and Twi Wikipedia in line with the project.
We added quality content in the form of images on Wikimedia Commons and created new categories for existing and newly added images. We also added captions and descriptions to existing images.
We also added and improved content on Wikidata of existing data of musicians. We also created new data items and added data of newly created articles on Wikipedia and Twi Wikipedia.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
2 in-person workshop training	2 events	There were two physical training sessions and edit-a-thons in Accra. 15 volunteers attended the first event, and a total of 12 participants were available for the second event. The edit-a-thon and training sessions were dubbed Music & Entertainment Edit-a-thon I and Music & Entertainment Edit-a-thon II.
Number of participants: 30	30	30 people participated in creating articles, improving articles, and cleaning up articles over the entire duration. As part of showing appreciation and to encourage participants, a certificate of appreciation was given out to participants at the end of the project. See sample [1]
Number of new editors: 10	11	11 new editors participated in both events.
Number of articles created or improved: 165+	2150 (60 created)	2000+ articles were improved, and 60 articles were created on Wikipedia and Twi Wikipedia along with their respective Wikidata Items during the campaign. Find the event dashboard here. [2]
Number of Photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 200+	200+	200+ images were uploaded which had a direct relation to the project, check the dashboard for images. [3]
Number of Photos used on Wikimedia projects: 50%	40%	Close to 40% of the images uploaded have been used on Wikimedia Projects.

Learning

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What worked well? The organization of the edit-a-thon or events went extremely well, as the team was able to introduce new members to Wikipedia whilst guiding them through on the 101 Wikipedia workshop and friendly space policies. It gave us the chance to introduce them to Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

What did not work so well? Due to the limited time and the team therefore couldn’t exhaust all lessons under Wikidata. However, the new editors were taken through all the necessary beginner needed tools for Wikidata and as part of the project continue to check up on new participants to guide them through to make their editing time on Wikidata and its other sister projects a wonderful one

What would you do differently next time? We would get ensure to get more people in the music and entertainment industry involved even though some did show interest but were few.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Item	Details	Unit Ghc	Quantity	Total Ghc
Administrative expense	Each team member was provided with data, airtime for communication between organizers, reminder calls and follow up to participants for the period of the campaign.	500	4	2,000
Transportation & Accomodation	Each team member was provided with a transport allowance (to attend the 2 editathons) and accommodation for a day (after the awards).	600	4	2,400
Gate Fee	Entry fee for three (3) photographers into the awards night.	300	3	900
Food and Water	For the two (2) in-person edit-a-thons.	70	30	2,100
Projector	Rental of projector.	200	2	400
Internet Data	Data used for the events.	400	2	800
Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)	Liquid soaps, hand sanitizers and face masks.	500	n/a	500
Venue rental	Cost of venue to host two (2) workshops.	600	2	1,200
Communication material	Event flyer, social media campaign etc.	200	n/a	400
Miscellaneous	Unforeseen events.	200	n/a	200
Bank charges, miscellaneous	Transfers and Reimbursement charges.	n/a	n/a	200
Based on Oanda Exchange (March 8, 2022)			Ghc	11,100
1 USD =7.09245 Ghc			USD	1,565.04

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

There was a surge in editors who showed a lot of interest in editing articles related to the Music and Entertainment Industry in Ghana and outside Ghana. Out of that, we look forward to forming a small community or working group with the name Wikimedia Ghana Entertainment Community. This is still in the ideation and deliberation stage whilst we continue to edit such articles. Participants really enjoyed the sessions.

Find remaining Photos from the the events below;