Grants:Project/Rapid/Bashir/Improving Quality of Hausa wikipedia Articles/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 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/Bashir/Improving Quality of Hausa wikipedia Articles.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? yes, I am happy with how the event went. it was well planned and a list of translated articles were created Link which were improved during the contest. A number of articles were 465 articles were edited which has trippled the initial plan of 150. Here's the link to the detailed event page Link

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
3+ events	Achieved	A number of 2 editathons were carried out and 1 online meetup to discuss on the contest. 3 libraries were also visited within 2 weeks
10 participants	7 people participated in the contest
150 articles to be improved	Achieved	up to 465 articles were improved [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Hausa_Wikipedia/Improving_Quality_of_Hausa_Wikipedia_Articles/home

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? almost every aspect of the event went well
What did not work so well? Number of turn up was low due to network blockage in some parts of the state and the country at large.
What would you do differently next time?

Find an alternative means to reach participants in offline mode.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Hall = 150 x 2 =300 USD
Computer rentals = 20 x 5 =200 USD
Promotional materials = branded shirts 220USD
refreshments = 300USD
Access to 3 Libraries = 73 x 3 = 219 USD
Transport and logistics = 26USD x 11days = 286
Facemasks 45USD, and sanitizers 70USD = 115USD
Prizes = 110

1st Position = Techno Pop3 = 76 USD
2nd Position = Oremo Power bank = 21 USD
3rd Position = itel 2173 = 12 USD

Grand total 1750 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? we have no funds remaining (Due to high rate of inflation in Nigeria, we are forced to make adjustments from the initial budget)

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? This project has led to improvement of a number of Hausa Wikipedia articles and even after the event we will keep on motivating ourselves to continue improving such articles. pictures of the event can be found here