Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Sports Africa - WSA (ID: 21949663)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
PegCult
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- 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.
No
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Sports Africa - WSA
- 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.
Sport is a very widespread activity and very practiced by populations in the World in general and in Africa in particular and it goes a long way to unite these regions. Several sports studies focus on information and sports news. But information and even sports news is not always known by these populations; which further weakens this sector. Based on this observation, Michel Desbordes in a commentary on his book Économie du sport en Afrique, 2022 finds that: "African successes or achievements are not always highlighted in our latitudes. For example, Senegalese wrestling is almost unknown to us, ...Qatar: it will organize the world cycling championships in 2025 and sponsors even the football clubs of Arsenal and PSG. The "Kigali Arena" is very modern and the basketball league is developed locally by the NBA, for the first time in African history." The lack of information could primarily be due to the fact that less information is found on renown platforms such as Wikipedia, hence there is a gap in sports information which this project looks forward to solve. What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Sports information accessibility, behavioral change in young people in terms of Knowledge acquisition, activating communities to contribute to adding sports information to Wikimedia project How has the importance of this change been assessed Michel Desbordes' study allows us to position ourselves on the issue of Sports in Africa.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Directive, Educative and participative strategies will be the main focuses of this project. Those strategies include some steps: awareness to obtain new contributors desire is important for the involvement of new contributors for the impetus of a new dynamic in the working group, this is an important step knowledge comes from understanding and skill. These will be done through training and coaching. Ability and reinforcement
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
These will be done through: descent on the field (campus, stadiums, ...) training and coaching.
- 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?
We will contact volunteers with experience in organizing events and many wiki skills. These will accompany us throughout the 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.
Content Gender gap, Language, Topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context
- 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.
There is many information related to sports missing in Wikimedia projects, men and women are concerning: The languages focused will be for this time French and English; we project to reduce the gap of men and women presence in Wiki projects and insure permanent contributions around the topic.
- 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, Other, Diversity
- Sports
- 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?
We will work with all volunteers in Cameroon’s community who want to join the project. Also please describe your strategies to retain participants after your proposal is implemented. We will organize many sessions of training (physically and online) and assure reinforcement of capacities. We will give to the most participative contributor in the session a gift (motivation) and we will give thanks (remerciement) in an article where the contributor will do a good and positive action. This could arouse in them the feeling of belonging to a community.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We have already had to support Wikimedian activities in the past and the rules of the foundation were very much respected. It is in this momentum that we plan to continue with this project. Old and new volunteers will be read the Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policies.
- 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.
Presently, since this is a prototype of the actual project we look forward to developing, we have informed a few members of the Wikimedia community who will help us implement the prototype. We consider this grant proposal a proof of concept which will definitely be presented to the Wikimedia communities as soon as there is a clear vision of workability as this project is a cut across especially the African Communities. In order to involve more communities in this project, we intend to organize exchange sessions with the various leaders and project coordinators of these communities to expose them to the project and seek for potential partnerships.
- 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?
Yes
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- No
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- We plan to work in collaboration with members of User Group to etablish partnership with sports institutions which off course will benefit the user group in one way or other.
- 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, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
New ways and conventions of contributing to Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and WIkimedia Commons How to build a project and partner with Wikimedia Foundation and her affiliates. How to engage wikimedia community members in new projects The Wikimedia funding scheme for conceived projects How closing the content gap and inclusiveness could help the Wikimedia ecosystem in the long run through execution of the project. To learn recommended strategies to train and foster capacity in Wikimedia community members.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tools to assist | Number of available tools to assist in contribution | 2 |
| Members versed with existing | How many members are versed with the already existing contribution tools | 20 |
| Numbers of partners join the project | How many partners are available to collaborate on this project and what are the resources they are ready to bring in to promote the activities in the long term. | 2 |
| Number of effective participants | How many participants could effectively write quality articles( fully understood how to contribute) | 15 |
| Factors | What are the factors impeding contributors from contributing effectively to projects
What are the better ways to offer trainings and what are the topics to pay more attention to while offering the training |
2 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants (individuals who attend or benefit from the proposal’s activities, either in person or virtually. Does not include social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly. 20 | 20 |
| Number of editors | Editors (people who edit Wikimedia projects, creating or improving content as a result of grantee activities). 20 | 20 |
| Number of organizers | Organizers (people that make sure that activities can be implemented by providing the necessary time, support, and knowledge - such as coordinators, trainers, facilitators, etc.). 3 | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 articles | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 150 pictures | 150 |
| Wikidata | 150 entries of wikidata | 150 |
| 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.
New content contributions per Wikimedia project (contents created or improved). Please disaggregate between Wikimedia projects and/or languages when that makes sense in the context of your organization. 100 articles, 150 pictures, 150 entries of wikidata
- 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.
Since the outreachy dashboard is highly recommended in the Wikimedia movement, we will make use of the outreachy dashboard where we will create events for this project so as to gather statistics on participants and contributions.
As structured data is highly encouraged nowadays for images uploaded to Wikimedia commons we shall organize campaigns on tools such as ISA where our participants can add data to the images which are uploaded to a Wikimedia Commons category.
For events which will be held offline, we will document attendance sheets and other metrics which we can collect from participants.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
3135300 XAF
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4931.27 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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