Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Campaign and Awareness (ID: 21931568)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
S.H Ningi
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
S.H Ningi Hamxo ,SadamMuhammad11234,holysman,and SIRTEE1
- 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.
Hausa wikimedia user group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Campaign and Awareness
- 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.
The creation of Wikipedia and project awareness In Kaduna State is targeted towards laying a solid foundation for the widespread adoption and use of Wikimedia products among the youths especially students in higher institutions in Kaduna State.
This is in addition to exposure and helping them acquire numerous digital and research skills to enable them to contribute massively to articles that will increase the visibility of the growth and development of Kaduna State by creating numerous contents, alongside deploying the knowledge and skills learnt to contribute contents with original images for Wikipedia.
This 2 days training has the potential to bridge the content gaps that exist about articles on different topics relating to Kaduna with the help of experienced editors ; many notable local and international scholars, organizations, tourist attraction sites such as the historical and research places, and many more in Kaduna state do not have wide coverage on Wikipedia.
Also, unlike in other states where there has been a series of training and presence of the Wikimedia community, there has never been any training or series of edit-a-thons to train people and notify them about Wikimedia projects and how they can contribute to it them in kaduna state. No doubt, this project if approved will help to establish the first ever Wiki community meetup in Kaduna state, including a club specifically meant for a group of editors and learners.
Also, unlike in other states where there has been a series of training and presence of the Wikimedia community, there has never been any training or series of edit-a-thons to train people and notify them about Wikimedia projects and how they can contribute to it them in kaduna state. No doubt, this project if approved will help to establish the first ever Wiki community meetup in kaduna state, including a club specifically meant for a group of editors and learners.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Recruiting 50 new editors across different higher institutions of learning in kaduna State. This will allow full participation of students from different institutions within kaduna State.
Creating awareness about Wikimedia projects among participants in Kaduna State. Many of the participants may be familiar with English Wikipedia but few are aware of other existing languages Wikipedia especially the Hausa people Wikipedia as well as other Wikimedia products that promote free knowledge and open access to information enhancing the need for this approach.
Training participants on how to contribute to the various Wikimedia projects that the training focuses on; create Wikipedia account, understand the core content policies, and understand general editing principles, performing minor edits among others to improve content about people, places, organizations of kaduna State on English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.
Use outreach dashboard to track contributions and provide one on one support for editors.
Giving out prizes to top 3 contributors as incentives to motivate them at the end of the campaign.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The project will run for a period of 2 to 3 days to introduce Wikipedia to this community.
The strategies that will be adopted in carrying out the project will include:
- 1. Two (2) days of an in-person (physical) workshop.
Regular one-on-one support for the contributors (new editors) during the physical training.
- 2. One (1) series of online reinforcement training.
To properly equip them with needed skills about how to edit on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.
- 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.
WikiForHumanRights, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
The only team needed are all Wikimedians volunteers and experience editors and Hausa Wikimedians User Group members. Hamxo,SadamMuhammad11234,holysman,and .Idriss sanusi,Itzedubaba,Umar a Usman, and SIRTEE1
- 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, Language, Sexual Orientation, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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.
The contents of the program will prioritize bridging the information gap by updating existing articles and creating new articles about people, places and organizations in Kaduna state, whilst documenting them on English and Hausa Wikipedia, by promoting knowledge equity aligned with the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement because it will increase the investment of resources in underrepresented Wikimedia communities around the world.
- 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, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability, Public Policy
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 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?
This proposal is targeted at the diverse students (youth) community in Kaduna State.
We hope to engage these participants before the project implementation through the students' union of various institutions and Kaduna Youth Representative at the federal level. The call for participation will be done through effective local communication channels which the students belong to using E-posters, and banners to promote the program on social media platforms. All Participants will be sent an online form to get their data and for registration.
During the project, I and my team member will be actively involved in facilitating the training and also making sure that the participants get the act and art of contributing to Wikipedia projects; how to edit Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.
Also, the training is set to have 2 physical and online training/ edithatons to ensure that editors are properly guided on how to bridge the knowledge and content gap across various Wikimedia projects.
To ensure the sustainability of the project, After the events, participants will join as members in the Wikimedia community, this will keep them updated and encourage participation during wiki events. Participants will be added to the existing messaging channel for follow-up, updates, questions, etc. These participants would also be invited to future events.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The General friendly space policy for Wikimedia events will be summarized and to be read at the beginning of each event to remind the participants and the organizers of the importance of a friendly space policy.
We will adhere to the Wikimedia-friendly space policy during the event. The Wikimedia-friendly space policy and UCoC will be distributed to participants before the event starts. The event premises will be safe and conducive.
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedians User Group plans the proposal. We will notify community members, through all our social media channels, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, as well as notice on our website.
- 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?
- Yes
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- With me and my team and a good funding I will achieve a better result
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 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.
The partnership is so important because it will add value to my work contributing in the project and they will help in sharing of resources. The potential partners are motivated by this new idea bridging language and knowledge gap. They also want to benefit from the knowledge experience.
- 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, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I aim to learn how to coordinate and manage How to effectively improve content gaps on Wikipedia and its project.
I hope to learn from participants to enhance my community engagements and priorities skills that improve contributions of editors as well as sustainability of new editors in various Wikimedia strategies
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Awareness | The project will reached and bring Wikimedia awareness to the people of kaduna but focused to the youths students. | 200 |
| Page viewers | The project will bring Wikimedia views especially hausawa Wikipedia readers | 200 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | I will try get new participants for this program | 20 |
| Number of editors | My target is to get 20editors | 20 |
| Number of organizers | I will get 3 organizers for this program | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | We will creating 10 articles on Hausa Wikipedia with participants during the Edit-a-thon, after we open an account to them | 10 |
| Wiktionary | We will creating 10 words with participants during the Edit-a-thon after creating an account and teach them how to edit in Wikimedia | 10 |
| Wikidata | We will creating 5 Wikidata items with participants during the Edit-a-thon | 5 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
Creating Community Awareness about Wikimedia Projects in Kaduna State We can't capture the actual data because it's the first time and our partners are from different society and we want to start it locally before moving forward with it globally.
- 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.
I’m not sure need support.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
937552.5 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2250 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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