Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness Campaign and Workshop at Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi. (ID: 21950145)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
A Sulaiman Z
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
Hausa Wikimedians User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikipedia Awareness Campaign and Workshop at Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi.
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Wikipedia awareness campaign and workshop have never take place at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi, while this college is among the most popular colleges in Nigeria and this college has almost six thousands students whose study under the department of Hausa language and most of them don't know on how to make a research and contribute to the Hausa Wikipedia. Therefore, through this project I will use this opportunity to bring a changes by recruiting the new editors for the Hausa Wikipedia. In advance, the less improved articles that are related to the college and the areas that are surrounded the college will be improved through this project.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The main strategies that will be used into achieving these changes are:
- Creating the Wikipedia awareness campaign at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi.
- Building the Wikipedia contents by creating new articles.
- Building the wikimedian community by recruiting new editors.
- The improvement the articles that are related to the college and the surrounded areas of the college.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The activities that will be developed and delivered as part of these approaches are; Firstly, we will ask for the request from the college management corporation into allowing the activities to take place in their college. Secondly, we shall provide posters and stickers that will be distributed during the awareness campaign, and then the organizer and facilitators will trip to some departments and students' hostel for visiting some lecturers and the students of the college in order to explain and describe them about what will be happen during the event of workshop. After that, the provided posters and stickers will be distributed to the lecturers and students of the college, so that this will encourage them to have an absolute information of what Wikipedia is all about before the major training of the workshop.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, I have some experienced editors who will assist me into the implementing this proposal. These are their Wikipedia usernames below:
- A Sulaiman Z: the project organizer.
- Gwanki: He is an experienced editor on the wikimedia, because he is well and an expert editor in Hausa Wikipedia and wikipedia sister projects. Even though, he is an administrator at the Hausa Wikipedia also he is an administrator at Hausa Wikimedians User Group and then he is a member at the Wikimedian of Nigerian Group. Also he has organized several projects before.
- M Bash Ne: He is a well and ventilated experienced editor in Hausa Wikipedia and other Wikipedia sisters projects, he organized several projects before. Therefore, he is among the experienced editors who will assist me into the delivering this project. Also he is a member at the Hausa Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedian of Nigerian Group.
- Ibrahim Sani Mustapha: He is an editor at the Hausa Wikipedia, therefore he is among the experienced editors that will assist me into the delivering this project.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Language, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
The project is aim to promote and make a wikipedia's workshop to the lecturers and students of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi after the awareness campaign. So it will be an encouragement if the articles that are related to the college and the areas that are surrounded the college be improved during the workshop's event, which will help into the giving a way to the new potential recruit editors grabs their opportunity to edit content they are most familiar with.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Public Policy, Open Technology
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
The target participants are lecturers and students of the college. I will try to inform the college's management before the time of event and highlight them about what the event is all about. Lastly, the WhatsApp group will be opened for the participants because of the responding to their questions and to be guiding them after the activities.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The security and the environmental health care agents will effectively be observed in order to make sure that the lives and the health of the participants been secured and safe, therefore the participants will be in peace and tranquillity manner. The participants may not necessarily have the skills of this because they are new but I believed that most of them will come with their smartphone, laptops and other supportive devices that will help in carrying out this project.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
I carried out the process in which the community will be involved, through the user group on social media, group on WhatsApp and Facebook.
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Manage Internal Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I hope to learn or to see whether the project could improved the Wikimedian projects by recruiting new editors, training an existence editors, creating new articles related to the college and the areas that are surrounded the college and improving an existing ones and creating the wikimedian community in the society.
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Creating awareness | We shall create an awareness in both online and offline in order to promote the objectives of the Wikimedia project. | N/A |
| Training the recruited editors | We shall recruit the new editors and train them on how to create the articles and improve the existing ones. | N/A |
| Creating articles | New and existing articles that will improve and grow up the Wikimedia projects will be created and improved. | N/A |
| Creating WhatsApp group | WhatsApp group and facebook page will be created after the event and add whose have an interest in Wikipedia. | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The target participants are lecturers and students | 50 |
| Number of editors | The target of new Wikimedia projects editors. | 20 |
| Number of organizers | I am an organizer of the project and three facilitators. | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | 15 |
| Wikidata | N/A | 20 |
| Wiktionary | N/A | 20 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
Wikimedian foundation dashboard is the tool that will be used to measure the metrics.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
986000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2339 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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