Grants:Project/Rapid/Kaizenify/Wikipedia 20th Anniversary 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/Wikipedia 20th Anniversary 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 project goals was met and surpassed

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
at least 50 people partipated for the meetup; 25 physically and 25 virtually	We had a total of 26 participants at the hall and 35 partipants virually on zoom	The target was exceeded
at least 20 new people participate	a total of 33 new people joined	The target was met and exceeded
at least 8 people help organize the event.	About 5 people helped organize
at least 30 articles created or improved	over 30 articles were improved using the citation hunt tool	The target was exceeded
If at least 5 Nigeria celebrities were reached	5 Nigerian celebrities was reached and gifted. They include: Woli Arole, Nkiru Balonwu, Elsie Godwin, Black Satino and Betty Abah	The target was met
at least 30 number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons	Over 30 photos was uploaded to commons	The target was exceeded

Some of the pictures from the celebration

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Images and Videos from the celebrities that were gifted the Wikipedia at 20 branded box of gifts

• Popular blogger and OAP Black Satino campaign video receiving the box of her gifts which was posted on her Instagram page
• Media personality Elsie Godwin campaign video receiving the box of her gifts which was posted on her Instagram page
• Popular children activist Betty Abah campaign video receiving the box of her gifts which was posted on her Instagram page
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  Woli Arole receiving his Wikipedia at 20 branded box of gifts

Images of the gift boxes

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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?
  • Gifting the celebrities the box of gifts was so productive as it attracted lot of attentions.
  • The style of the box gifts and the celebrities posting it on their social media allowed m,ore Nigerias to know about Wikipedia
  • The event was well attended with lot of participants willing to attend physically.
  • The live stream was helpful and made other virtual partipants to still particoate.
  • Gifting top contribuors TWikipedia branded hrow pillow, shirts and Mugs also made the event more colorful.
• What did not work so well?
  • Gifting the celelbrities the branded gift boxes and making them to make a video prooved much of a difficulty.
  • We were not able to do so much of on wiki activities of creating new artciles so instead we just focused on adding ciatations using the Citation hunt tool
• What would you do differently next time?
  • Will start preparation early enough next time.
  • Will create more time for on wiki activities.

Finances

Sl.No	Item	Quantity	Rate (NGN)	Total (NGN)	Total (USD)	Notes
1	Venue	-	-	90,000	236.84	The hall provided sounds, projector and space.
2	Wikipedia branded T-Shirts	15	4,000	60,000	157.89
3	Internet (at the venue)	1	16,000	16,000	42.105	Internet cost at the venue
4	Food and drinks	25	5,500	137,500	361.84	Covered the cost of the food and drinks
5	Birthday Cakes	-	70,000	70,000	184.21
6	Customized Wikpedia Pillow as gift	10	17,000	170,000	447.36
7	Customized Wikipedia Mug as gift	10	8,000	80,000	210.52
8	Video prdocution for online stream	-	90,000	90,000	394.73
9	Local transportation for facilators/organizers	-	23,500	23,500	61.84	Covers all the transport by volunteers in delivering the gift boxes 733500
10	Miscellany	-	-	23,000	60.52	Calls, bank charges, logistics, graphics design, banner,
-	TOTAL EXPENDITURE	-	-	760,000	2,000

Grant funds spent

A total of 760,000 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?