Grants:Project/Rapid/Oby Ezeilo/Igbo Wiktionary edit a thon/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes I met my goals. I hosted 4 edit-a thon and had a mix of new and old editors. However before the start date i spoke to some people about Wikipedia. They were so eager to participate that i was forced to train them before the start date. Another happy moment for me was training a 73 year old retiree who joined as a new editor in the first edit a thon project. She became addicted to wiki edit a thon experience and participated in most of the project.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Proposed 4 events	4 events
Number of Participants 30	42	Total number of editors for the 4 events
Number of New Editors 12	12	total number of people that worked on the wiktionary project for the first time
Number of Articles created or improved 50	117	We exceed our target
Number of repeat participants 15	30	total number of editors that repeated in the events.

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?

organizing a pre training really helped me throughout the event because they helped train the other participants. Another fun part was debating and reaching on a consensus before a word is created.

What did not work so well?

The venue i wanted to use initially could not offer rentage services by the time i was ready to commence the project. the projected cost was $800 (288,000 Naira) for the 4 events. i had to rent another meeting room at the cost of $880 (316,800 Naira) for the 4 events

What would you do differently next time?

I will organize the pre training events not only for new editors but for old editors who have not been steadily editing or who have not stayed long with the foundation

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Venue = $220 x 4 events = $880
Food and drinks = $200 x 4 events = $800
Internet access: $48 x 4 events = $192
purchase of stationers = $20

Total = 1,892 USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? some of the new editors have shown a lot of interest in developing Igbo Wiktionary. i do expect a lot of growth in Igbo Wiktionary and other Igbo content in the Wiki foundation. The link for this project is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Oby_Ezeilo/igbo_wiktionary_edit_a_thon.