Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness in 7 local Areas in Kaduna State. (ID: 21877138)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
captain1044
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Emadamx Sadauki11 Captain1044
- 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.
Nigeria Commons Photographers User Group (NCPUG) Hausa wikimedia
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikipedia Awareness in 7 local Areas in Kaduna State.
- 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.
1. Base on what i realized in kaduna state, the metropolis areas know more and are using Wikipedia. But the local areas around the kaduna state does not know about Wikipedia. So i will be glad to have the opportunity to highlights Wikipedia to this various local areas.
- 2. Wikipedia is a non profit domain, so also everything in Wikipedia is free, so why not preview the benefits of Wikipedia to those local areas so that they may use this opportunity to get ease in their education.
- 3. Providing talented new users within the local areas.
- 4. Many people have talents but they don't even know what they got. I think with various Wikipedia sisters, one will be able to know his talent. And the credit will directly reflect Wikipedia.
- 5. New editors from the local areas will be a great achievement, because we want Wikipedia to go round the world even how local area is there must be Wikipedia God willing.
- 6. Education is very expensive and difficult in these local areas. With Wikipedia, the people in there will have some relief regarding their education.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1. Three days virtual and physical announcement about Wikipedia within the local areas.
- 2. Three days training for new users and editors.
- 3. Short competition on best article writer among the editors /new users.
- 4. A one day training on wikimedia commons.
- 5. Lectures, lessons and meetings to be held by other wikimedians in the metropolis areas in kasuna state.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. Training of new users.
- 2. Competition for participants.
- 3. Lecture by wikimedians from kaduna metropolis.
- 4. Certification of the best participants.
- 5. Keeping participants in touch on wikipedia activities.
- 6. Photo shots training to promote wikimedia Commons.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Sadauki11 NCPUG Anasskoko NCPUG Musa Vacho77 NCPUG Captain1044 NCPUG
- 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, Geography, Language
- 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.
1. Participants must be someone who is attending school so that he will be familiar with Wikipedia and hence he will be a good editor.
- 2. Articles writing competition as i am looking forward to upload 70 articles.
- 3. Promoting and elighting the methodology of learning via photo captions.
- 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 , Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Linguistic / Language, Age
- 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?
Participants are students from the 7 local areas. Before the activities there will be virtual and physical announcement in the various areas, so also a legit form will be provide for a person to participate he must fill that form and that form will give us the person's data so whenever we will do something we will contact the registered participants. The same procedure we will use during the activities and also after the program. We have so many social media groups so the link to the grotwill be distributed to the participants.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The program will hold in two different sessions for every local area. And a very conducive hall will be available for 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.
Through our social media groups. 1- NCPUG WhatsApp group 2- Lets connect peer learning telegram group(https://t.me/Lets_Connect_PeerLearningProgram) 3- Posting of berners in all of the local areas.
- 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?
- As we all know two heads is better than one
1- Single person experience is not better than many people experience so there will be a good and perfect result when we have many people's experience.
If no:
- 12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
- 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.
Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1- I will like to learn and practice how to use the tools in wikimedia to analyze this project. 2- I will to have more knowledge on how to use Wikipedia. 3- This program will help me improve my skills in Wikipedia program.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | New participants 20 from seven local areas
Returning participants 15 from seven local areas |
35 |
| Number of editors | New editors 15
Returning editors 5 |
20 |
| Number of organizers | 3 planners 2 volunteers 1 paid staff
7 trainers 4 volunteers 3 paid staff 7 teachers 4 volunteers 3 paid staff 2 publicity volunteers 2 speakers volunteers |
21 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | This is the photos that we will get from the participants during the photo shot training. | 70 |
| Wikipedia | This the new articles that will be created in respect of the gender bridge to avoid it by the participants | 35 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Words to be uploaded to wiki commons in form of sounds. | 70 |
| Wikipedia | Hausa articles on education | 10 |
| Wikipedia | Some articles to be reviewed | 10 |
- 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.
We will like to use the outreachy dashboard and the hashtag tool.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1116000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2232 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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