Grants:Project/Rapid/Mayor85/WikiLaws/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/Mayor85/WikiLaws.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? The goals were partly met

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
Expected number of events to be hosted: 2	Event hosted : 2
Expected Number of participants: for the two events: 25	12 participants registered and participated in the event.	The event clashes with the court session and thereby affected the participation of the interested lawyers.
Expected articles to be created : 10	The actual articles created 4	Many of the articles created were listed in the draft awaiting review . See the number of articles created here articles created
Expected Number of existing articles to be improved: 25	Actual number of edited articles 10	actual articles edited
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)20	Actual number of repeated person for the event : 10

Learning

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What worked well?

The involvement of many Nigerian lawyers in the project through our partnership with the Nigeria Bar Association. Although many of the lawyers were not happy with the poor visibility of the Nigerian laws on Wikipedia and its sister projects, they want to be associated with creating their records on Wikipedia. They feel there is a huge aspect of the Nigerian laws to bring onboard Wikipedia. Also, our partnership with the Nigeria Bar Association presents a good platform to meet with the stakeholders in legal issues in Nigeria.

What did not work so well?

The event clashed with the court session and thereby affected the participation of the interested lawyers who wished it had held between July and August when the court observes it's annual vacation as they had to attend court sittings first before coming for the training very late in the day.
We had IP range block of many of the participants and prevented them from registering and opening their accounts and some others that registered were blocked.
Internet problems prevented some that successfully created their accounts from editing along with the trainers.
Many of the articles they created are still in draft and it's discouraging them from creating more.

What would you do differently next time?

Nigeria Lawyers do observe annual vacation between July and August, this could be a good time to organize our next event.
Since many of our participants contribute in English language , we are considering a discussion with the English wikimedian community that can help to identify us when we are having an ongoing training.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Venue: USD 130 by 2 = USD260
Internet= USD 78.79
Customised T-shirts = 5by 10.5USD= USD 52.5
Digital Banner= 51.32USD
Camera= 2by 40USD=USD80
Entertainment= USD 723.5
Alternative Power Supply= 2 by USD 15=USD30
Local Transport for the 3 Facilitator= 3by USD52.3=USD157.39
Participants Packs (older, Wrist bands, pen, wikidata cheatsheet, stickers) lots= 25by USD5.77 USD=USD144.45
Certificate of participatsion; 25by USD2.62= USD65.66
Bank Charges= USD15
Phone calls= 15 USD
Total 1673.52 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?