Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Rapid Fund/Documantery of Assad Rustom and Subtitle editing (ID: 21937106)

statusNot funded
Documantery of Assad Rustom and Subtitle editing
proposed start date2022-11-30
proposed end date2023-01-30
grant start date2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
grant end date2023-01-30T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)3040 USD
budget (USD)3040 USD
amount recommended (USD)0
grant typeIndividual
funding regionMEA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Sandra Hanbo
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Sandra Hanbo

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

باسم، Michel Bakni, Dyolf77

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.

Wikimedians of the Levant

Grant Proposal edit

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Documantery of Assad Rustom and Subtitle editing

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)


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.

Assad Rustom is one of the most important historian in the Arab world, in this documentary, We had intrivewed his daughter, and the writer. Madam Lamia Rustom Shhadeh of his biography to highlight about his lif, and to learn from it. Mrs Rustom Shehadeh is Researcher, Writer and has a Phd in Sematic Languages from Harvard in 1969. She is also a feminst. This documentary will be a reference for academics and activist to know about Assad Rustom and brief view about Lamia Rustom Shhadeh Adding the Subtitle will help all the people to understand the language, and make it available even for people with hearing difficulties by adding closed caption.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

1. Present old important but forgotten figure to the new generation to become more attached to discover wider dimensions in the local cultures.

2. . Make this documentary available for larger audience
3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We set an interview with Mrs Rustom shhadeh, then we record a documentary about Assad Rustom. After receiving the grant we will add a Formal Arabic subtitle taking care the linguistics and to be grammarly right. In addition to review it, and adding details to clear points and mentioned stories, plus to review the whole work and make some editing if needed.

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?

Michel Bakni: Wikimedians of the levant,Volunteer. project coordinator, Bassem Flefl: Content editor, Volunteer Habib M’henni: Montage,Volunteer

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.

Content Gender gap, 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.

This work is for briefing a life of historian which the new generation should know and learn from his life. In this work we are making it available for more people. Miss Shhadeh Rustom is a feminst where she worked in the Arab world, also we highlighted about her life in this documentary.

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, Human Rights

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Not applicable

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?

This is a common work between wikimedia of the levant user group and tunisia user group, it targets all the Arab world and Academic relate to history and Religious studies.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

There are not participants

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.

By the mailing list of Wikimedians of the levant user group, in the official monthly meeting of the same user group and in the social media channels (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.

Yes

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.

The cooperation between individuals helps to get a special High quality documentary as Dr. Bassem Flefl has a philosophy digree in History, Michel Bakni also has a philosophy degree and interested in history, plus to Alhabib Al mehany who has a good experience in technical Work which makes this work complete and improve its quality and importance.

The translation and subtitling will be done by the group, in addition to our knowledge in Arabic as it is our mother tongue and the documentary is in labanese dialect, Thus making it in Standard Arabic will open the door wide to more interested people in Arab World.

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.

Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

This proposal aims to highlight a life of the Arab, levantene, historian “Assad Rustom” and his Daughter PhD and Feminist Lamia Rustom Shhadeh, where they both had a shining steps in there life, it should be transfer to other people and be known widely.

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 Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants
Number of editors
Number of organizers
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikimedia Commons 1. make the Documentary available on Wikimedia Commons.
2. Add Formal Arabic (Fosha) Subtitle.
N/A
Wikipedia Improve articles related to Assad Rustom, Lamia Rustom Shhadeh 3
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
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.

number of minutes in the recording.

Financial Proposal edit

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

3040 USD

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

3040 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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