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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/LUCG Wikimedia Community/ Final Half Schedule

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statusWithdrawn
LUCG Wikimedia Community/ Final Half Schedule
start date2022-05-25
end date2022-12-31
budget (local currency)66260 GHS
amount requested (USD)8893 USD
grant typeGroup of individuals not registered with an organization
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2024-25
funding program roundundefined round
applicant and people related to proposalLUCG Community Sunkanmi12
organization (if applicable)LUCG Wikimedia Community

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Applicant details

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Wikimedia username(s):

LUCG Community

Sunkanmi12

Organization:

LUCG Wikimedia Community

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

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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)

Whatsapp Group

https://chat.whatsapp.com/FTI5sVIzuyg132umQ15iSb Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lucg_community/?hl=en

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal

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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?

LUCG Wikimedia Community is a student-based group with the sole aim of contributing to Wikimedia and its related projects. We oversee all projects at the institution and are run by the students at Lakeside University College, Ghana. We seek to promote Wikimedia projects among the students through the execution of projects and training as a way of exposing the students to the movement. The aim of this community is to raise young Wikimedians, promote open and free knowledge and bridge the gender gap in the institution. We aim to achieve this by hosting several projects and events such as edit-a-thons, Wikipedia Education programs, Arts + Feminism events, collaboration with GLAMs, and other related projects, which aim to promote Wikimedia projects in the institution.

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

1. Internet Connectivity: This is a common constraint in the region but the recent event we organized was almost altered by the poor service from the internet providers. Therefore, we concluded that we will be using a better provider for our subsequent event after trying different options because it is nearly impossible to execute the task without a stable internet connection.
2. Content Gender Gap: Ghana is a female-dominated country but still has lesser articles or items about notable women on Wiki projects. This issue is important to us because we as a community will want to contribute our effort to reduce the systematic bias in the movement.
3. Community Engagement: Although the community is still growing, we have seen the interest of community members reduce due to a lack of consistency in our events.

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

1, Internet Connectivity: Previously we relied on wireless connections but it didn't seem to be effective. Since our venue will not change, we will be installing fixed Fibre networks which are faster and will improve our productivity.
2. Content Gender Gap: We will be focusing more on the subject of women on Wikipedia and its sister project.
3. Community Engagement: We have chosen to adopt projects that will last for a longer period.

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

Content Gender Gap: We will ensure that more than 50% of the articles that are being created or improved are women-related.

Community Engagement: On this particular project, we will be organizing an online and in-person workshop on Wikipedia and Wikidata fortnightly for the remainder of the year. We will also continue our one-on-one mentorship system that has seen our community grow at a better rate.

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?

Sunkanmi12 - Lead Coordinator/Project Manager/Facilitator

Elkay20 - Communications/Facilitator

Nimot123 - Finance/Facilitator

AWahab515 - Welfare

Oladipupo193 - Outreach/Facilitation

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.

Content Gender gap, Age (regency) , Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

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 , Diversity

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.

Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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

Gender: We will make a deliberate effort in including women who are underrepresented in the movement here in Ghana. They will play vital/important roles in our activities. Some of these roles include; Organization, Facilitation, and Participation.

Geographic: The community constitutes of people from different regions in West Africa. Frantic efforts will be made to ensure that people of underrepresented regions are represented in the community.

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background: The community constitutes people of different underrepresented religious and ethnic backgrounds.

We plan on retaining participants through our one-on-one mentorship system which ensures continuous engagement of participants in Wikimedia activities. We also track the contributions of community members through the Outreach Dashboard to give incentives to top contributors who contribute after the events.

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?

We will ensure that we include a friendly space policy in our form for participants who intend to participate in our activities. All forms of harassment will not be tolerated.

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

No

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

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

No

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.

institution's Holiday Period: Although a date has not been set for the holiday period, we anticipate that it might clash with some of our events. We hope to mitigate this by scheduling our event on more flexible days.

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, Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

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

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

1. How to reach new editors or volunteers?

In the previous event we had, we communicated with participants by getting to know them and explaining what the movement is about. We then made them anticipate the event by using the "tell a friend to tell a friend" method which boosted their motivation to attend the event. This time, we hope to maintain that method and also continue learning from the process. We also plan to use the school's structures to promote the movement in the institution.

2. How do we plan to be consistent with our Activities?

We will be having both in-person and virtual meetings every month. We observed that some participants learn better in groups and some do privately. We consequently decided to have both in-person and virtual meetings to ensure everyone learns in their preferred mode. We are curious to see how this turns out.

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
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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 We plan to retain at least 70% of our participants 70
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A 6
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 An evaluation survey will be rolled out to participants to share their experience and provide possible areas that can be improved upon 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 Since we will be hosting 7 events 100
Number of editors N/A 70
Number of organizers N/A 6
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia Number of articles improved: 300

Number of Articles Created: 50

350
Wikidata Number of items improved: 250

Number of Items created: 100

350
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21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

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

Program and Events Dashboard

Financial Proposal

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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.

66260 GHS

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

8893 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nHy17BrlHIIAdeLts33Uzl8nPaZw75LcLKt2LbvO4c4/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.

Other public document(s):

Final Message

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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

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