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== Project status ==
;Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?
YES
;Is your project completed?
YES
== Activities and lessons learned ==
===Activities===
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====January====
Pre-grant activities included:
Organizing 3 organizational online meetings between New York and Belgrade in order to clarify details of future cooperation and prepare methodology
Organizing 2 preliminary workshops with 3 people invited in order to test methodology and technology (January 10th, January 24th)
Testing equipment session with Brooklyn Public Library (January 31st)
Preparing material for the future workshops
In person meetings with subgroup heads to introduce ideas, including attendance at International Decade for People of African Descent events
Creation of social media pages and website afrocrowd.org
Organizing outreach campaign for February kickoff at the Brooklyn Public Library
Wikimedia grant writing
Developing evaluation methodology for events, including evaluation form that helped us monitor participants' feedback https://docs.google.com/a/interglider.com/forms/d/1bjkuKF-nYGQ4velBKzU5Mngw-sa73--a80brx-gIhbA/viewform
====February====
Kickoff workshops have been held on February 7th and 8th in the Brooklyn Public Library. The aim of these workshops was to provide general introduction to Wikimedia and the Wikipedia editing process for the larger Afrodescendant community with targeted segmented culturally specific outreach to each subgroup. The workshop on February 7th was attended by 31 attendees and on February 8th 18 participants were present. Several people were present at both meetings.
The trainers were the co-founders of Afrocrowd:
Aliceba (talk) 19:36, 19 February 2015 (UTC), a Brooklyn-based free knowledge and free culture proponent who has been aggregating and disseminating Haitian citizen media since 2005.
Milos Rancic, a Belgrade-based veteran Wikimedian with over 10 years in the movement, Wikimedia Language Committee member and chair of Interglider.ORG (remotely via Google Hangouts, Skype or other live streaming app projected onto the screen);
More details on this event could be found on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Kickoff.
This event was a part of Black WikiHistory Month - a wiki-coordinated program of article writing, image/picture creating, events and edit-a-thons focused on Black history in the United States and worldwide, working with multiple outreach partners. In February 2015 BHM is being celebrated for the first time in the USA in association with the United States' Black History Month.
This event had great media coverage and the list of press articles could be found here http://afrocrowd.org/?q=content/press.
On February 24th AfroCROWD presented about the Haitian Creole wikipedia to a class of the Haitian Creole Language Institute.
====March====
HaitiCROWD, editahon for Haitian subgroup was organized on March 14th in Brooklyn Public Library for 18 participants.
More information about this event could be found at its official wikipedia page, both in english and Haitian Kreyol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/HaitiCROWD
Besides Alice Backer, three presenters joined for brief presentations:
Wynnie Lamour, founder, Haitian Creole Language Institute
Carmel Balan, founder, Port Académie Research and Reference Platform for Haitian Studies - an online digital library of Haitian studies
David Goodman, Wikimedia NYC - on translating between Wikipedias
Articles were edited in both English and Haitian Kreyol.
AfroCROWD was on a panel about the gender and multicultural gap at Wikipedia Day NYC. Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 is a celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday,* held on Sunday March 22, 2015, hosted at Barnard College starting at 10:00 am, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City and fellow Free Culture Alliance NYC partners.
On March 25th AfroCROWD attended a workshop organized by the Haitian Creole Language Institute to discuss Quechua, Garifuna and Haitian Creole mother tongues where we announced about the forthcoming Afrolatin@CROWD editathon and the potential of the Garifuna Wikipedia Incubator.
====April====
AfroLatin@CROWD, editathon in Spanish, Garifuna and English was held on April 12th in Brooklyn Public Library. Number of participants 14.
Besides a brief intro to Wikimedia and Wikipedia the topic was the gaps that exist about Afrolatino/as the largest online reference site in the world and ways to use this resource to make Afrolatino/a children and adults more digitally skilled and more knowledgeable about their culture, history and languages.
Featured speakers were:
Amilcar Priestley of Proyecto Afrolatin@
Sandra Abd´Allah-Alvarez Ramírez from the Blog Negra Cubana Tenía Que Ser
Alice Backer of AfroCROWD
The training at this workshop was provided in Spanish via Google Hangouts by Cuban blogger and Wikipedia Editor Sandra Abd´Allah-Alvarez Ramírez. In addition to those present in the room, some participants from Cuba attended via Google hangouts.
The training’s archived livestream can be viewed here, starting at minute 20: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/114974904099484097190/events/ck65l17qr9iesk1f5e6emvaij74
Several members of the Garifuna community attended and made the first edit to the Garifuna incubator, creating an entry for the word Belize.
Official event page in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfroLatinoCROWD
and in Spanish https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_virtual_de_AfroCrowd_en_NYC
On April 14th Presentation to the class of Professor Michelle Materre about Wikipedia and film resources in Wikipedia at New School Film Distribution and New Media Class. Added an edit to Raoul Peck as a demonstration of how to cite.
====May====
AfricaCROWD was organized in cooperation with Afri Diaspora, Yoruba Cultural Institute in May in Brooklyn Public Library. Number of participants 14.
Official page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfricaCROWD
AfroCROWD offered a presentation at the NYC Afrofuturism Conference. a three-day student-led conference at the New School for Social Research, with participation of Wikimedia NYC. Afrocrowd also responded to the Black Lunchtable’s request to assist with training and one-on-one assistance in their first editathon at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
On May 30th, AfroCROWD was part of Afrobeat Radio’s panel at the Left Forum 2015, offering an introductory talk about Wikipedia and is relevance to afrodescendants.
====June====
Training the trainers event on June 20th took place at the Brooklyn Public Library. Number of participants: 9
Official page of the event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd#AfroCROWD_Training_the_Trainers_on_June_20th
The project activities continued even after official project closure in June, so on July 14th AfroCROWD organized editathon at MOMA http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/24483 with the Black Lunch Table. (This event will be accounted for in the report for your second cycle ending in December.)
=== Lessons learned ===
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:;What worked well?
* Providing additional context to show the benefits of involvement in the free knowledge movement was important given that this project was targeting communities that have lesser participation in the Wikipedia movement
* Extensive social media campaign to invite and promote events was a very useful tool which eventually led to evidence of virality when several groups in the target audience asked us to organize editathons for their constituencies in May.
* Cooperation with the Brooklyn Public Library that has generously provided venue and makes laptops available to the public.
* Developing evaluation methodology beforehand was quite helpful in improving details for future events.
* Subgroup targeting
:;What didn't work?
Skype or Google Hangouts presentation by remote team members from Belgrade were not so engaging so it was much better use of time to substitute them for presentations made by the local team.
Had we anticipated the virality brought on by the rhythm of editathons (monthly) and by our use of social media, we would have planned less of our own events and been less fatigued by the onslaught of community demand of our services in May.
:;What would you do differently if you planned a similar project? <!---Please also include if you would measure the success of the project differently--->
Had we anticipated the virality brought on by the rhythm of editathons (monthly) and by our use of social media, we would have planned less of our own events and been less fatigued by the onslaught of community demand of our services in May.
=== Learning patterns ===
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==Outcomes and impact ==
===Outcomes===
;Provide the original project goal here.
The Project aims at
# improving participation in Wikimedia projects and free culture, knowledge and software movements by
Improving editor diversity by recruiting new editors from the Afrodescendant community (people of African descent in New York with appropriate segmented outreach to Afrodescendant self-identified subgroups such as African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American, Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian.
# Educating new editors through a series of workshops, and organizing edit-a-thons related to the topics of interest to the Afrodescendant community.
;Did you achieve your project goal? How do you know your goal was achieved? Please answer in 1 - 2 short paragraphs.
The project has definitely succeeded in improving editor diversity from the Afrodescendant community. The list of partner organizations on this project could be found here http://afrocrowd.org/?q=content/outreach-partners, so not only did the individual editors reached, but also groups/organizations of Afrodescendant communities were supportive of this initiative.
Organized editathons had positive impact and inclusive atmosphere. Some of the responses collected through evaluation form say:
''I believe using Wikipedia will definitely enhance the visibility of our endangered Garifuna Language. The ability to write in Garifuna is a sure way to keep it alive. I suggest that AfroCrowd team up with Garifuna speakers, musicians, writers and storytellers so that more Garifuna articles could be documented in Wikipedia. I am available to facilitate this endeavor.''
''This was awesome! Good stuff. More people should do this! Its important to have a say in the dialogue of history. Thanks for putting this together.''
===Progress towards targets and goals===
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* 6 AfroCROWD editathons organized
* 7 additional events in cooperation with outreach partners attended
* 112 people present at 6 AfroCROWD editathons
* 40 newly registered users
* 5 articles in NYC press
* 1 Wikimedia blog
* 1 podcast
* 3 radio interviews
3. Explain how your outcome compares with the original target. Did you reach your targets? Why or why not?
The original target is reached and the project has improved editor diversity by recruiting 40 new editors from Afrodescendant community ( people of African descent in New York with appropriate segmented outreach to Afrodescendant self-identified subgroups such as Haitians, Caribbeans, West Indians, Africans, Black-Americans, Blacks, Biracials, African-Americans, Counter-Racists and Afro-Latinos) and educating new editors through a series of 6 editathons organized by AfroCROWD and 7 additional events attended in cooperation with outreach partners.
There was an adjustment in project methodology – there were a lot of opportunities for additional events (7 was organized in total in cooperation with outreach partners), so we decided to leave out final editathon, and to focus attention on promoting Wikipedia and AfroCROWD on partner events.
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Improving participation by increasing editor diversity by recruiting new editors from Afrodescendant community ( people of African descent in New York with appropriate segmented outreach to Afrodescendant self-identified subgroups such as Haitians, Caribbeans, West Indians, Africans, Black-Americans, Blacks, Biracials, African-Americans, Counter-Racists and Afro-Latinos
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Improved editor diversity by recruiting 40 new editors from Afrodescendant community ( people of African descent in New York with appropriate segmented outreach to Afrodescendant self-identified subgroups such as Haitians, Caribbeans, West Indians, Africans, Black-Americans, Blacks, Biracials, African-Americans, Counter-Racists and Afro-Latinos)
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AfroCROWD invested a lot of efforts in campaign to promote Wikipedia and free knowledge movement in general, which resulted in high interest in AfroCROWD editathon events, so 112 people attended 6 AfroCROWD events, out of which 40 become newly registered Wikipedia users.
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| target outcome = Educating new editors through a series of workshops, and organizing an edit-a-thon related to topics of interest to the Afrodescendant community.
| achieved outcome = Educated 40 new editors through a series of 6 editathons organized by AfroCROWD and 7 additional events organized in cooperation with outreach partners.
| explanation =
Besides 6 events organized by AfroCROWD, we also participated in 7 more events in cooperation with outreach patners. AfroCROWD was recognized as the organization working on the issue of increasing the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements.
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====Global Metrics====
''We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees. In addition to the measures of success for your specific program (in above section), please use the table below to let us know how your project contributed to the [[m:Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_Metrics|Global Metrics]]. We know that not all projects will have results for each type of metric, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. ''
# ''Next to each required metric, list the actual outcome achieved through this project. ''
# ''Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome. For example, if you were funded for an edit-a-thon which resulted in 0 new images, your explanation might be "This project focused solely on participation and articles written/improved, the goal was not to collect images."''
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;Learning question: Did your work increase the motivation of contributors, and how do you know?
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===Impact===
What impact did this project have on WMF's [[mission]] and the [[Grants:PEG/Strategic_Priorities|strategic priorities]]?
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''Option A: How did you increase participation in one or more Wikimedia projects?''
This initiative was created because certain indicators signal non-proportionate participation of people of African descent (including but not limited to self-identified African, African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American, Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian subgroups) in the Wikimedia movement in the US. This project contributed to a positive perception of Wikipedia among users in these communities, and increased skills for contribution to Wikimedia projects.
''Option B: How did you improve quality on one or more Wikimedia projects?''
The project had impact on English Wikipedia, but also on Haitian, Garifuna, Spanish, Igbo and Yoruba. It has helped improve articles on Afro descendant community in English, but also contributed with articles on other mentioned Wikipedias.
''Option C: How did you increase the reach (readership) of one or more Wikimedia projects?''
AfroCROWD editathons took into account that many Afrodescendant groups in the United States might find that access to Wikipedia’s multilingual crowdsourcing platform can help them transfer free knowledge to populations of African descent outside of the United States that they are connected to through origin or direct familial bonds.
The workshops took into account Multilingual Afrodescendants may also want to use such platforms to develop and maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Twi or Yoruba, thereby contributing to the survival of -and increasing their proficiency in-- those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded.
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=== Expenses ===
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:;Total project budget (from your approved grant submission):
::$1300
:;Total amount requested from WMF (from your approved grant submission, this total will be the same as the total project budget if PEG is your only funding source):
::$1300
:;Total amount spent on this project:
::About $700 (including donations)
:;Total amount of Project and Event grant funds spent on this project:
::About $500 (Exact amount still being determined with fiscal sponsor treasurer)
:;Are there additional sources that funded any part of this project? List them here.
::$1000 Technical Support - Interglider.com
::$5000 Estimated Venue Costs - Brooklyn Public Library
=== Remaining funds ===
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:YES
:;Please list the total amount (specify currency) remaining here. (This is the amount you did ''not'' use, or the amount you still have after completing your grant.)
:About $800
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