Grants:Project/Rapid/Folkore Multimedia Recording 2022/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 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/Folkore Multimedia Recording 2022.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes. I did. Most of the outcomes of the project have been achieved.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of University Students: 12	Number of University Students: 22	Due to the Emakhuwa minor, many students who do Bantu Linguistics at Universidade Rovuma were advised to join the project to learn. Many Volunteered to transcribe and correct the content in Emakhuwa. Other Translated into Portuguese and English but due to lack of references we were not able to publish these 72 articles (36 in Portuguese and 36 in English).
Number of Community Leaders: 28	Number of Community Leaders: 13	The Community leaders delegated their responsibility to one male leaders and one female leader in each community. These one helped to engage the storytellers.
Number of Community Leaders: 28	Number of Community Leaders: 13	The Community leaders delegated their responsibility to one male leaders and one female leader in each community. These one helped to engage the storytellers.
Number of storytellers from the community: 48	Number of storytellers from the community: 28	Some storytellers asked to tell more than one story. Even though we ended with 36. Some of the stories were repetition.
Number of videos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons:48	Number of videos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons:36	I uploaded 36 stories. These task was very challenging because the systems requires .gg format and it was difficult to back to the editors so that they could change from WVM format. The free software limited to 200MB and the original videos had more 300MB.
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects: 48	Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects: 48	48 photos
Number of videos used on Wikimedia projects:48	NNumber of videos used on Wikimedia projects:36	The videos are used with the stories so that one can read and watch.
Number of articles published by the rojects:144	Number of articles published by the projects: 88	These numbers of articles reduced because the articles translated did not accepts publication due to lack of reference requirement.

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?

We found out students were very interested in working with the content. The community leaders accepted to film during the day, which was against the tradition. We hit most of the indicators.

What did not work so well?

Articles in Portuguese and Ingles which resulted from Translation did not accept publication due reference requirement.

What would you do differently next time?

Next time I would rather apply for a photo walk, which entailed either a photographing or video recording or improving articles separately. Doing three of them is very, very time-consuming;

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on. • Transport (van rental)= $1,609.61 • Communication (vouchers for students) = $389.00 • Internet (for Students) = S$348.22 • Shootings and editing service= S$471.11 • Video Transcription= S$495.00 • Food during the walk = S$1,327.00 • T-Shisrts= S$188.44 Unexpected expense • Unexpected expense = S$41.68 • Total = $4,834.62

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of US$58.31 were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Digital Landscape 1.0 (ID: 21989831).

I am left with $ 58.31.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? Yes. There are 67 teaching institutions among primary schools, secondary schools, community school, and institutes, in Nampula city which exist for 30 years and nothing is written about them in Wikipedia neither are they available on the Internet. This is my next content creation project. In this project I am going to work with the 22 volunteers to write the profiles of these institutions and others.