Grants:Project/Rapid/Dagbani Wikimedians/Translatewiki.net/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/Dagbani Wikimedians/Translatewiki.net.
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Goals

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

We met our target by translating 100 messages from the most used category on the MediaWiki from English language to Dagbani language.
We actively translated the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net
We have continued to update/add new translations as and when required or necessary.
It was so interesting seeing the interface of the various Wikipedia sister projects being switched from Englsih to Dagbani language.
The interface changed to Dagbani language after switching.
This makes usage of these wikis easy by people from the Dagbani language community.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of participants: 20	20	20 people participated in translating the the most used messages and beyond on translatewiki.net interface.
3 inperson workshop training	4	In all, 4 inperson workshop training were organized, 2 separate ones to teach participants how to translate messages from English to Dagbani language and other two to teach them how to translate the interface of translate.wiki. This was to make them familiar with the interface of translate.wiki

Learning

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What worked well?

It was interesting and fun having to get views of participants on certain words before coming into consensus on which ones should be used.

What did not work so well?

Getting direct translations for some words in Dagbani language was very difficult for certain. We finally resorted to transliterating instead of translating.

What would you do differently next time?

Though we had some language experts, we will request the services of more of them to complete the task in time.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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


BUDGET FUNDS RECEIVED IN GHS				11450
Item	Details	Unit Ghc	Quantity	Total Ghc
Food and Water	We had 2 inperson workshops to equip the community with the skills they will need to be able to participate in translations (10 participants at each workshop)	50	20	1000
Data package for internet router during offline training workshops	We had another 2 inperson training workshop to train community members on how to use translate wiki.net and core media wiki	500	2	1000
Internet router rental and data allowance	We rented internet routers and provided data allowance for the 20 core volunteer members.	400	20	8000
Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipments (PPE)	Liquid soaps, Hand sanitizers and face masks	500	n/a	500
Venue rental	Cost of venue to host 2 workshops	400	2	800
Bank charges, miscellaneous	Transfers and Reimbursement charges	n/a	n/a	150
Based on Oanda Exchange (February 28,2021)			Ghc	11450
1 USD = 5.76235 Ghc			USD	1987.04

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No remaining funds

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Participants benefited a lot from this project for they learnt from the language experts the rules in translation and the rules that govern the spelling of Dagbani language words.
After successfully translating the most commonly used messages on Media Wiki, we applied for the approval of the Dagbani language Wikipedia subdomain which has recently been approved by the Wikimedia language committee