Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Art+Feminism 2024:Solidarity Campaign in North East Nigeria (ID: 22456658)
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Applicant Details edit
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
De-Invincible
- Organization
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (not recognized affiliate)
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group., I'm a bank account signatory for the joint bank account of a Wikimedia affiliate, group, or organization.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
The Executive Director of the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community User Group is the head and overall leader of the User Group, he; 1. heads the work of the Executive Board of the Group. 2. presides all the meetings of the Executive Committee. 3. represents and acts on behalf of the User Group in all the legal dealings of the Group which involve the third parties or within the Wikimedia movement.
Main Proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Art+Feminism 2024: Solidarity Campaign in North East Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-04-06 - 2024-05-25
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Art+Feminism
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
Previously, during our most recent project organized in 2023, we focused on recruiting participants and developing contents that cut across topics and areas including; Geography, People, Culture, Wildlife, Rivers, Theatre and Films, Sports, History, Languages/Race etc. all in our efforts to bridge the existing content gap issues on Fulfulde Wikipedia and also to provide readers with information on the diverse topics and areas thereby keeping them active visitors of Fulfulde Wikipedia, and so, the effect of which is noticed from the rapid increase in page views of Fulfulde Wikipedia as shown by the Wikimedia Stats Tool and this show how greatly the importance the diversity of topics can play in helping small language versions of Wikipedias like Fulfulde can grow and this made the Art+Feminism an important opportunity to help us develop art and women related contents for our underrepresented communities from underrepresentive perspectives. In addition, going by the current situation of Fulfulde Wikipedia we believe participating in Art and Feminism Campaign will not only help us in bridging content gaps by developing articles related to Arts, Feminism and/or women only but also help us in solving/over coming these problems or challenges:
- Community Mobilization/Engagement: it was just recently that we launched four new networks/hubs in our community with aimed of bringing more impacts and engagement amongst the Fula Wikipedia editors. Therefore, our participation in Art+Feminism campaign will in one hand become the first writing related campaign to bring in involvement of all these launched networks of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community which are geographically distant from each other to mobilize their members and engage new ones to take part.
- Competitive Atmosphere/Environment: since it was just a month from the launching of our new networks, we believe all eyes of the general members of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community are open now looking forward to what event is coming up in order to give their optimum best, members of each network are hoping for a chance to showcase their strength in order to lay a claim of being the most active group and this competitive environment will help keep the spirit of our editors especially the new ones to keep on even after the campaign.
- Technical Support/Machine Translation: the newly launched version of the MinT support Fulfulde language and this will be a great opportunity to introduce the general community of Fula Wikipedia editors to this Content Translations Tool as it has been our long awaited dream as that would help the editors in creating more relevant articles, faster and easier. Additionally, being a community that is supported by WMF in purchasing certain equipment like; a projector, sound system and a router this will helps us at this early time of the year, to strengthen our technical team by training some participants (from each network/hub) on how to operate these tools and how they are maintained. This is prepare them before hand as we foresee a greater development and growth coming to our community.
- Solidarity and Involvement: as an underrepresented community working on a small Wikipedia version of an underreprensented language, we believe taking part in Wikimedia movement campaigns is of highly importance as through that we can get the chance to associate and learn from more advanced Groups. Also, going by the theme: Solidarity we considered it a call that request the participation of not just bigger communities but also small, underrepresented communities like us. Moreover, we have since before the last year edition participated in many online sessions of Art+feminism and was contacted by the regional Ambassador of Art+Feminism, Zita Ursula Zage in the previous year who shared some relevant materials with our community that gave us in-depth knowledge as to what the campaign is all about. This year also, we were contacted by Jude and from Art+Feminism and will be receiving support from her to make this event a success.
- Reducing Content gaps/Content Enrichment: our participation in Art+Feminism campaign will help us in developing contents that could help bridge gender gaps and enrich the Fulfulde Wikipedia which now gets near to zero articles on arts and very few articles related to women.
- Community Building/New Participants Recruitment: the campaign will gives us an excellent opportunity to increase the number of our community members as well as the impact, especially women as we currently have fewer than 20% number of female contributors when compared to men and also this would help us increase the capacity of existing volunteers.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
We plan to conduct the the campaign by following these steps:
- We would spend time in preparing a list of articles for translation which would be use by the participants to ensure that their contributions is within the scope of Art+Feminism and/or aligned with the theme. This will help in keeping especially new and inexperience participants from overlapping to topics irrelevant to the campaign.
- We will be organizing a meet-up and training edit-a-thon at the beginning of the campaign to introduce the new participants on the values of Art+Feminism, how to edit Wikipedia, using the Content Translation Tools etc. and retrain/add more knowledge to the experience participants on the areas we realized they are needing more coaching and support.
- Hold on air interviews to promote the Art+Feminism campaign in Fulfulde Language reaching out to more Fulfulde language speakers.
- Create an online meeting space to share feedback and encourage the participants at the end of campaign to keep their spirit up before planning on another activity.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Musaddam Idriss (username: De-Invincible) will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project. Ibrahim Musa (username: Ibrahim442) will be the co-organizer and will help to mobilize new participants around the project and in organizing the planned activities. Aisha Aliyu Harande (username: Harandee) as a female expert in communications will serve the role of communications and outreach in the cause of this project. Amina Idriss Musa (username: Hajjare) has experience in engaging women and developing women related contents on Wikipedia, she will aid with articles listing alongside other facilitators and will be responsible for the welfare related stuff like making contact with the drink supplying vendors, food bookings and similar tasks. Ahmerd Adam will be task with handling the hands-on tech related session to guide the yet to be recruited technical team of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community with the knowledge of how to operate a projector, sound system. router connection and their maintenance.
- 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? (required)
The target participants for this project are the general members of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community from all its networks and hubs, interested staff of media organizations and institutions, linguists and students of various educational institutions. Men and women of different backgrounds and age group will be considered part of the participants in this project.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
We planned the activities together and discussed them in the community's dedicated WhatsApp group.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Identify Topics for Impact
Learning and metrics edit
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. What major impact did participating in Art+Feminism campaign bring to your community? 2. Does the Content Translation Tool helps in creating articles faster and how would you rate its accuracy? 3. Does the machine translation of articles into the Fulfulde language create more impact in your community rather than the previously adopted manual approach of writing it on paper first? 4. For newbies, can article translation be considered the best way to master navigating the Wikipedia platform?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | We plan to host at least 40 participants |
| Number of editors | 30 | We aim to obtain at least 10 new editors and 20 returning editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | There would be 5 experience editors from among the community members to coordinate the activities related to this planned activities. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 350 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
1. Outreach Dashboard Tool 2. Wikimedia Stats Tool 3. Ordia Tool Forge
Financial proposal edit
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
1112500 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
1180.84 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).