Grants:Project/Rapid/Moore Wikimedia Community/TranslateWiki.net/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/Moore Wikimedia Community/TranslateWiki.net.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes, We can say we are happy about how the project went. We targeted translating 100% of the most used/important mediawiki statements and creating 15 articles in the moore incubator.We have been able to translate 100% of the mediawiki statements and have created 20 new articles on the moore incubator and are still counting. We are really glad to be able to pull volunteers to work with zeal and dedication to achieving these results.

We recruited new editors.
We trained new editors to translate the most commonly used words in the Moore language.
We increase skills of existing editors to improve content
Trained members on the basics of Wikipedia.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
100% Statements to be translated	100% Statements translated	Mediawiki statements were translated and after a series of outdated translations, the team was able to achieve the 100% translation.
20 participants to attend physical training	20 participants attended physical training for two consecutive times	20 participants attended physical training for two consecutive times. The participants were able to make it because they live within the catchment area of the training center.
20 participants to attend online training	20 participants and 27 participants attended first day and second day online training respectively	20 and 27 participants joined the online training for day one and day two respectively. The online training was also done twice in order to equip the volunteers with the needed skills to assist in delivering the task. It is worth knowing that not all the participants repeated themselves on the second day. Most of those who joined on the first day could not make it on the second day.
15 Moore Incubator articles to be created	20 Incubator articles created	Participants were trained on how to create articles on the moore incubator and how to apply basic references to the articles for subsequent improvement. This accounts for the greater number of articles expected to be created.

Learning

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What worked well?

Apart from the two physical training and two online training, I was able to find time to meet some of the participants one-on-one to take them through the step by step processes on how to translate the mediawiki phrases. The one-on-one meeting however, was not possible for some volunteers who stayed far away and could not attend any physical training but could squeeze time to join the online training. With those volunteers, I was able to schedule a video meeting through zoom at their convenient times to train them on the translation process, article creation and referencing. Most of the volunteers felt supported and so developed the passion of promoting their language through wikipedia and its sister projects. Due to the economic challenges the world is currently facing, the volunteers appreciated the data allowance given to them to cushion the cost of data in contributing to the project.

What did not work so well?

It is very difficult having all the volunteers to join a scheduled meeting at a time. The reason being that each of the volunteers have their own schedules. It is therefore very difficult to be able to estimate the number of participants who could make it for an online training. Moreso, internet instability is also a challenge. Online meetings could be postponed a number of times due to network challenges. This could reduce the interest of joining the meeting whenever it is organized. Last but not least, organizing volunteers to passionately contribute to projects of this sort is not an easy one. Taking time out of one’s busy schedule to organize and speak to the minds of volunteers to stand up for the promotion of their language is a task that cannot be underestimated. Participants also sparing their busy or leisure time for voluntary work is also to be recommended.

What would you do differently next time?

Some of the participants needed child care support in order to squeeze time for the project, next time, I will consider supporting the hardworking volunteers with child care support. I will next time find an appropriate medium (social media and local media) to advocate for the project to bring more people on deck for smooth execution of the project. A lot of people misconstrue our activities as online marketing platforms or network business as such they pay less attention to our advocacy. I would spend some time on advocacy and sensitizing the Moore community on the need to be part of promoting our mother tongue.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

tem	Comments	Unit Ghc	Quantity	Total Ghc
Breakfast and Lunch	Cost of Breakfast and Lunch for 20 participants in two in-person workshops to equip the community with the skills they will need to be able to participate in translations (20 participants at each workshop)	100	40	4000
Renting of Router	Cost of a router rental to connect to 20 participants during two sessions of our offline training	500	2	1000
Data package for internet router during offline training workshops	Cost of Data package for internet router during offline training workshops	600	2	1200
Data allowance for participants for two online training	Cost of Data allowance for participants for two online training sessions (20 volunteer members for the two sessions)	100	20	2000
Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipments (PPE)	Cost of Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipments (PPE)	n/a	n/a	1000
Venue rental	Cost of venue to host 2 workshops	700	2	1400
Rent of Projector	Cost of renting projector for 2 days for in-person training	200	2	400
Running Expense, Contingency, Bank charges, miscellaneous	Cost of running expense, contingency, bank charges, miscellaneous	n/a	n/a	1,400
Based on Oanda Exchange (March 14, 2022)			Ghc	12,400.00
USD =1 Ghc=7.16702			USD	1,730.14

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

There were no remaining funds left. Measures were taken to utilize the funds in order not to be indepted with the daily increase in cost of goods and services.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Link to Translate to Moore Dashboard

Link to Translatewiki.net

Group Pictures captured after In-person training