Luganda Wikipedia Quality Control
Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?
- This was an in person intended conclude Luganda Wikipedia Quality Control campain.
- The activity planned was well implemented. It was a physical event at Hive Colab - Kanjokya on 18th, November, 2023.
- 12 Volunteers attended the event and they signed on the Dashboard for Luganda Wikipedia Quality Control 1and started to participate in the campaign and 21 articles were updated/ Translated.
- There were no changes made in the strategies and activities.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?
- Yes: The approach of having a physical training is very important and works because volunteers learn as they practice and they can ably work from their homes after the training.
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?
- There is still a challenge of inadequate computers. They are very many people who would be willing to join the group, but they do not have computers.
4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.
Different communities including Teachers especially those of Luganda Language are participating. Among others are journalists who are now greatly contributing to the cause.
5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?
We plan to keep improving our Luganda Wikipedia.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
| N/A | Individuals who attend various community organized events | 100 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | Individuals who contribute to Wikimedia's projects : | 60 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | Individuals that are engaged in and support community activities but are not necessarily editors | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | 21 | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | 3 | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A | 7 so far responded | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A | 11 women and 10 men | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A | 5 | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
| Number of participants | Community volunteers who attend or benefit from the usergroup's activities throughout the year | 21 | |||
| Number of editors | Editors who edit various Wikimedia projects, creating and improving content | 17 | |||
| Number of organizers | Change agents and implementors of what has been learned | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
| Wikipedia | |||||
| Wikimedia Commons | |||||
| Wikidata | |||||
| Wikisource |
9.Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
. We had challenges with the outreach dashboard that could not display the usernames of some volunteers and their edits.
10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
.Yes
10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?
We share Wikipedia articles that we always Translate from those projects to Luganda. GLAM also helped in teaching us how Wiki Data works.
11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.
- Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).
- Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.
- https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Uganda/Luganda_Wikipedia_Quality_Control?enroll=jxnomktv
Paul Galiwango, Sauyah Namwanje and Peter Ssuuna, during a Luganda Wikipedia event at Hive Colab, Kanjokya House
