Grants:Project/Rapid/Kaizenify/Wikidata:Eighth Birthday in Nigeria/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/Kaizenify/Wikidata:Eighth Birthday in Nigeria.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
• You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.

Goals

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

Yes i did and very happy about the whole project as it was super successfull and created a new drive for Wikidata in Nigeria which also resulted to the creation of Wikidata:WikiProject Nigeria with lot of partipants ready to be part.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of total participants: Atleast 25 at the venue , 25 on Virtual Zoom	We had a total of 28 participants at the hall and 26 partipants virually on zoom	We exceeded the targets and still had over 50 viewers from Facebook
Number of Wikidata items created or improved: 1,200	We had only about 700 items created or improved	This was due to some technical issues on the part of the partipants and still continious as partipants pledged to continue improving.
Number of Wikipedia articles to be linked with these data: 500	Only about 200 articles was linked.	Tecnical challenges aswell on the part of the partipants.

Link to the program dashboard where the metrics of the campaign can be found here

Some of the pictures from the celebration

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  Group photograph.
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  Group photograph with Cake
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  Ayokanmi facilitating the seesion
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  Ayokanmi facilitating the seesion
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  The celebration cake
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  Croos-section of some of participants.
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  Croos-section of some of participants.
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  Croos-section of some of participants.
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  Isaac Olatunde helping out a participant.
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  Croos-section of some of participants.
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  Croos-section of some of participants.
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  Croos-section of some of participants.
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  Ayokanmi presenting the throw pillow to one of the top contributors.
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  Isaac Olatunde presenting the throw pillow to top contributors.
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  Ayokanmi presenting the throw pillow to one of the top contributors.
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  Ayokanmi presenting the throw pillow to one of the top contributors.
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  Ayokanmi presenting Wikidata branded t-shirts to other top contributors.
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  Presenting Wikidata branded t-shirts to other top contributors.
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  Ayokanmi with the cake.
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  Ayokanmi with other organizers.
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  The setup of the camera.
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  Online banner used.
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  Throw pillow sorvenir given out
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  Online banner.
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  Book sorvenir.

Some videos from the celebration

• Isaac Olatunde session
• Ayokanmi session
• Olushola Olaniyan session
• The edit-a-thon
• Awarding of price and group photos

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?
  • The participants were very eager and happy with what they learnt as they showed so much interest.
  • The live stream was a very good developmet as this is the first of its kind for any Wikimedia project in Nigeria as partipants from different part of Nigeria was able to join and still feel part of the celebration.
  • Gifting the top contributors throw pillows and t-shirts increased the morale of the partipants as they readily embraced it.
  • The celebration birthed a new Wikidata community in Nigeria and also active contributions to Wikidata:WikiProject Nigeria
  • The choice of facilatiors which include Alice Kibombo and Geoffery from Uganda who joined virtually proved very useful as partipants enjoyed their sessions.

• What did not work so well?
  • The funds arrived very late and that affceted some plans which also include postponing.
  • Most participants arrived very late as the Governor of the state was passing around at that particular period and hence caused long gridlock of traffic which affected us not starting at the planned time.
  • Starting very late changed the program scheldule and disenfrenchise some of our facilitators as some couldnt make it again as they had another meeting by the time we were ready for them.
  • The live stream technilaties prooved very stressful at a time and went thorugh lot of trobleshoot being our first time and that didnt make us go live on Facebook on time until after a hour.
  • We planned the foods and packs for only 25 particpants but we had about 28 participants so some organizers had to do without food and packs.

• What would you do differently next time?
  • Choose a time that is atleast 1 hour before the main time for publicity: for instance; instead of putting 10am, i will put like 9am so partipants would be able to make the 10am cut eventually.
  • If am doing something new for the first time, i will create a mock test before the main day to test run first as that woold have solved the live stream technical challenges.
  • Always prepare for more extra people just incase.

Finances

Sl.No	Item	Quantity	Rate (NGN)	Total (NGN)	Total (USD)	Notes
1	Venue	-	-	100,000	263.15	The hall provided sounds, projector and space.
2	Food and drinks, Tea & buscuit	25	5,500	137,500	361.84	Covered the cost of the food, drinks and also the Tea break and biscuits.
3	Participant packs	25	1200	30,000	78.94
4	Cake	1	50,000	50,000	131.57
5	Local transportation for facilators/organizers	5	5,500	27,500	72.36
6	Wikidata branded T-Shirts	10	4,000	40,000	105.26
7	Internet (at the venue)	1	31,000	31,000	81.6	Internet cost at the venue
8	Internet (Data allowance for virtual participants)	26	2,500	65,000	171.05	For our virtual participants
9	Branded Nose Masks (PPE)	25	1,200	30,000	78.94	This was helpful
10	Customized Wikidata Pillow as gift	4	17,000	68,000	178.94	As a gift for the top 4 contributors
11	Video production	1	150,000	150,000	81.6	Covers cost of the camera, technicians and the live streaming process.
12	Zoom host	1	5,700	5,700	15	Forvirtual participants to join
13	Miscellany	-	-	16,150	40.26	Calls, bank charges, logistics, graphics design, banner
-	TOTAL EXPENDITURE	-	-	750,850	1,975.92

Grant funds spent

A total of 750,850 Nigerian naira (1,975.92 USD) was spent

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

• No i dont.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

• See our project page here: here.