Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Art and feminism training and edit-a-thon for oau wiki community (ID: 22488177)
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Applicant Details edit
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Starheroine
- Organization
OAU Wikimedia community
- 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.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
I am the co-leader of the Obafemi Awolowo wikimedia community, I assist in recruiting and training new editors alongside (Praise03).
I represent the community in inter-fanclub trainings. During editathons in our community; I take new editors through editing Wikipedia.
Main Proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Art and feminism training and edit-a-thon for oau wiki community
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-06-21 - 2024-07-22
- 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)
Looking around our campus environment, there’s a current prevalence of inequality of gender. That is why we as a wikimedia community having discovered this trend of injustice. We see the art and feminism campaign as an opportunity to create awareness to dismantle this oppression.
This program aims to train its participants on how to create female articles on wikipedia. And also emphasize the importance of accurate and neutral content while encouraging participants to showcase the achievements and stories of female journalists in Nigeria. Practical sessions on Wikipedia editing and guidelines can empower them to contribute effectively to Wikipedia, fostering a more inclusive representation of women in journalism on the platform.
Through the art and feminism campaign we intend to build a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender,feminism, and the arts, using Wikipedia as a tool.
- 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.
Introduction of participants and invited guests.
General Introduction session to introduce participants to Wikipedia, and its projects, the current gaps, and art +Feminism.
Short speech/introduction on what art and feminism is and its importance in our present day society.
We will have 2 training sessions aimed at teaching editors how to edit articles carefully without going against editing rules. Also,how to add images to articles, What to edit on.
Edit-a-thon/Contest ;
The contest will last for two weeks.
Where editors contribute to gender related articles as much as they can. With prizes attached.
- 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.
1. Praise Adetoro Role: Acting leader of the OAU wikimedia community./unpaid. Username: Praise03
He has contributed to articles on Wikipedia, wiki commons and other sister projects. He is an educationist, a young leader, and has actively taken part in contests and campaigns that enrich articles. He is the leader of the OAU wikimedia community
Groups; Oau wikimedia community, Osun wikimedia network, Wir anglophone community, Unilorin fan club.
2. Rukayat Ajeigbe
Username: RukayatAjeigbe Role: Trainer in the OAU wikimedia community./ unpaid
I share my experience on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sisters' project by improving articles to promote visibility and accessibility to Open knowledge and access to free information on the largest online encyclopedia.
I am a founder of Wikimedia community User Group Osun based in Nigeria, a community for Osun State-based Wikipedians. I have participated in several Wikipedia workshops, trainings and also organized trainings for New editors on how to edit Wikipedia. I have also organized an awareness program about Wikipedia on how to contribute to Wikimedia movement and core content policies in my community.
Groups; osun wikimedia network. Ilorin wikimedia hub.
4. Dr Diyaolu
Username: Diyaolu123 Role: Instructor Oau wikimedia community. Unpaid role.
He is a professor at Obafemi Awolowo university. Assisting to get the fan club registered on campus. Also he’s involved in training his students on editing Wikipedia.
4. Esther Adeleye.
Username; Starheroine Role; co-leader Oau wikimedia community./ unpaid
I have actively participated in contests and campaigns such as Wikipedia, Africa Wiki Women, Wiki loves Africa campaign and other wikimedia sister’s project by improving articles to promote visibility and accessibility to open knowledge and access to free information on the largest online encyclopedia.
- 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)
Target participants are majorly young women that holds a position in any aspect on campus, and other active and passionate volunteers. With the program dashboard, I will be able to track all their contributions before, during and after the event. We already have a WhatsApp community, I am going to engage them through the whatsap channel.
- 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.
The team and some of our community members had zoom meeting on 2nd of march where we discussed important issues. From the meeting we were able to come up with the date for the event, our prospect, the value we intend to add to the campus society and how we would implement them.
We suggested working with 25 active and passionate editors/volunteers who will through available resources make incredible contributions. We also came up with the set of special invitees that will be present to let us know the role of advocating art and feminism on campus. One of them is Dr Diyaolu( an already active editor on wikimedia). Goggle document was used to track our community members interest. Through the document we were able to come up with more ideas on what to do during the event, how to ensure participants are adequately taken care of without any barrier.
- 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)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics edit
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
From the art and feminism campaign I aim to build a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, to put an end to sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression and to achieve full gender equality in law and in practice using Wikipedia as a tool.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | A total of 30 participants will be available for the event. While 3 people are specially invited guests to educate us more on what art and feminism entails. |
| Number of editors | 27 | 17 newly registered editors are present for the event. While we will take them through the process of creating Wikipedia accounts and training them on what wikimedia is all about.
10 returning editors will also be present. They already have the necessary experience on editing Wikipedia. |
| Number of organizers | 4 | Praise Adetoro; event planner, community coordinator.
Dr Diyaolu: in charge of publicity, special speaker, Rukayat Ajeigbe: facilitator and advisor Esther Adeleye: community transportation coordinator, in charge of publicity. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 2800 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| 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 |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 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)
Our major tool is the Dashboard which we will use to track all registered editors. It has been created.
During our publicity (publicity is still ongoing),Goggle form is our major tool to know how passionate and enthusiastic our volunteers are. And also to know whatever challenges they tend to face during the course of the programme.
Also, if there’s any area where you think we’d need support, you can reach out to us.
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)
820000 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.
517.23 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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