Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Global Open Initiative Annual Wikimedia Activities For The Year 2023.

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Applicant details edit

Wikimedia username(s):

Mwintirew

Kinvidia Jemima2019

Organization:

Global-Open Initiative Foundation

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information edit

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

Ghana

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

Local

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

Global Open Initiative social media spaces

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GOIFoundation/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/goi_foundation/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D Twitter:https://twitter.com/GOIFoundation?s=20&t=tV-E_uGvVtc1sbUnbmU9Aw

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal edit

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

Our mission is to help groom the skills and talents of Ghanaian youth through volunteerism. By empowering them to lead and contribute to open source projects like Wikipedia, we provide a platform and opportunities for them to apply the knowledge they acquired from school. We also equip them with skills, knowledge, and experience that could be of so much benefit to them career-wise.

2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

Our experience with our previous annual grant has demonstrated that a lapse in volunteer engagement leads to a low retention rate because volunteers take up other interests. We have also identified that the contribution of content has mostly been on Wikipedia and Wikidata. However, there is more to contribute to Ghana and there are more people to be reached out to. For this reason, we would also want to introduce our partners to Wikimedia Commons, in addition to Wikipedia and Wikidata. In view of the above, we intend to keep our community members and partners engaged through edit-a-thons, contests, capacity-building workshops, and photowalks. We intend to maintain our relationship with our partners (Nubuke Foundation, Accra Archive, Ghana Library Authority (Effutu Municipality), Dallung Community Library, Jisonayili Community Library, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Ghana, College of Languages Education, Ajumako) for the year 2023 by continuing with our activities. Hopefully, this will draw in other interested organizations, especially public institutions.

Based on the above, we would like to see the following changes.

Increase in community and partner engagement Increase in volunteers and partners Close the content gap. Improve the capacity of community members.

We believe achieving this will greatly impact on MS recommendations 1, 6, and 9, which are to Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Innovate in Free Knowledge, and Invest in Skills and Leadership Development.

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

We intend to forge new strategic partnerships that will help us provide capacity training workshops for our community members and acquire resources to help us improve content about the various regions, ethnic groups and their cultures in Ghana. For instance, we intend to partner with influencers like Wodemaya to help us improve content and run contests. Partner with shows like Ghana’s Most Beautiful, which talks about the rich cultural heritage of Ghanaians, to help us promote Wikipedia to a wider audience and also improve content about the different cultures and ethnic groups in Ghana. We intend to make use of the Let’s Connect initiative to help provide skills training to our community members. In our bid to improve open knowledge and access to open knowledge, we also intend to partner with the Ghana School of Law Library to document all supreme court cases since its inception in 1960 to date on Wikidata and also document landmark cases on Wikipedia. We believe that making information in this manner available to the general public will go a long way to improving the judicial system of the country. While we improve and increase content on the various sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, lawyers and judges will be able to easily and freely access information that could be used for research work. Specific Wikidata properties will be used for this project to ensure its sustainability. In the future, data scientists can be consulted to assess the potential of developing a software application with the data. With our CSIR Librarians, we intend to introduce them to wikidata tools such as Open Refine and Quick statements. CSIR, as a research institution, has a huge database of bibliographic records that we will want to upload on Wikidata with the help of the librarians. Wikidata as a platform is leveraged by Google to create knowledge panels for searched items, and it is our belief that uploading bibliographic data of researchers from the institution will consequently enhance the visibility of the works of these researchers and the institution at large, while we increase content on Wikidata. In our next project with Nubuke, we will want to introduce them to Wikimedia Commons. In our bid to improve the visibility of Ghanaian art and Ghanaian artists to the world, we intend to partner with our Nubuke team to upload over 500 pictures of artworks by selected Ghanaian artists, and also pictures of cultural festivities that will be taken in the course of the year. These pictures will include exhibitions of indigenous art pieces from the indigenous Upper West Region of Ghana. Monthly Workshops with our partners and community members will refresh the skills of existing volunteers and train new volunteers. We will be organizing quarterly contests for our partners and community members. Our learning from our projects proved that contests are not only a great way to retain existing volunteers and also bring in new volunteers.

4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

Community and Partner Engagements Monthly training workshops Partnerships with both international and local communities Bi Weekly community calls and check Ins Wikipedia and Wikidata birthday Celebrations

Content Creations Edit-a-thons (Lexemes, bibliographic) Contest Photowalks

Capacity Building Skill training workshops (Content Curation, Taking and Uploading quality images etc.) Let’s connect Mentoring

5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?

No

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

N/A

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

2 Wikimedian in Residence for Ghana School of Law and CSIR - Vacant Paid Emmanuel Yeboah (User: Kinvidia)- Project manager (Paid) Harriet Henry Bayel (User: Mwintirew)- In charge of Finance and Logistics Jemima Antwi (User: Jemima2019)- Project Lead for Twi Community/Jury (Paid) Patience Ansah (User: Nana yaa series)- Communications (Paid) Abigail Darko (en:User:Amoaniwaa)- Graphic Designer/build pages, other maintenance, Twi Professional(Paid) Yvonne Darko (en:User:Naa2Darkoa)- Trainer and workshop facilitator Jacob Kondo Mustapha (User:Sunkanmi12)- Graphics designer Gabriel Amuzu (:en:User:Amuzujoe)- Photographer Valentine Badu (:en:User:Valentine Badu)- Twi Professional, Facilitate Twi Wikipedia training Nadaine (User:Warmglow)- Twi Trainer and workshop facilitator Gereon Kalkuhl (:en:User:Gereon_K.) - Advisor Greg McVerry (:en:User:Jgmac1106) - Advisor Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (:en:User:Masssly) - Advisor Franklin Oduro (:en:User:Afroprogrammer) - Support Jacob Kondo (:en:User: - Support Esau Kondo - (:en:User:E4Esau)Support

8. 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.

Age (regency) , Geography, Language, Socioeconomic Status, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

9. 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 , Advocacy

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, Age, Digital Access

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?

Our strategies include advertising our events via our social media channels and encouraging participation. We also reach out to non-wikimedia communities by first identifying a common goal or sharing the vision of Wikipedia and its sister projects. In addition to the above, we will continuously engage volunteers in editing activities, which include edit-a-thons, contests, capacity-building, etc. We will also add new participants to our WhatsApp group where we share resources and monitor their progress.

12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

Participants will be introduced to the UCOC and will be asked to abide by the UCOC and Friendly Space policy. Anyone who doesn’t will have to exit our group pages or will be prevented from taking part in our activities.

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

We intend to work with Dagbani and Igbo community which are both language community. We intend to learn, share and collaborate on resources for our members.

14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

Yes

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

N/A

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

We anticipate technological and technical risk. This is in view of the poor internet connection and IP blocks we are facing. To mitigate these, we intend to subscribe to different internet service providers during our edit-thons. We would also ensure to prepare a list of participants attending the event, create an account, and also request a block exemption prior to the event.

17. 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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.

No

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

Has the visibility of CSIR researchers improved by our uploading bibliographic data for their work on Wikidata? Have participants gained any new skills? What strategies helped us succeed in establishing partnerships with influencers and TV shows?

20. 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 space provided.


Main Metrics	Description	Target
Page views	Number of page views per 100 items	150
Acquisition of a new skill	Participants who have gained a new skill.	150
Strategies	Identify the strategies helped us succeed in establishing partnerships with influencers and TV shows	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.


Additional Metrics	Description	Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	N/A	N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	N/A	N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	N/A	N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications	N/A	N/A
Number of activities developed	N/A	N/A
Number of volunteer hours	N/A	N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	Total Number of participants	250
Number of editors	Total participants (editing activities)	250
Number of organizers	People that make sure that activities can be implemented by providing the necessary time, support, and knowledge - such as coordinators, trainers, facilitators, etc.	22

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	Number of content pages created or improved across English Wikipedia and Twi Wikipedia. Twi Wikipedia pages to be created- 300 (200 to be translated and 100 to be created) Twi Wikipedia pages to be improved- 150 English Wikipedia pages to be created- 100 English Wikipedia pages to improved- 250	800
Wikidata	The number of content pages created or improved across Wikidata.	3000
Wikimedia Commons	The number of quality images uploaded	500
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

Survey, Event metrics, Dashboard, Hashtag tool, Wikipedia Page View Statistics, Wikidata Page View Analysis and wiki loves competition tools

Financial Proposal edit

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

366300 GHS

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

36483.74 USD

23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11d96ZbBVcytz6fdniXFVHxVLobp6Q2JiikalUXhSCsc/edit?usp=sharing

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Final Message edit

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

Feedback edit

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