Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Campaign and Outreach on Pronunciation of Nigerian Indigenous names on Wikipedia (ID: 21889461)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Kingsley Nkem
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
- 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.
I am a member of Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Ig Wiki Librarians Hub, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Campaign and Outreach on Pronunciation of Nigerian Indigenous names on Wikipedia
- 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.
African names are not always correctly pronounced by non-natives of the community. I have also observed that some Nigerian Wikipedia articles do not have audio pronunciations of names which should serve as a guide to reader on how to pronounce Nigerian names. Adding audio pronunciation to Nigerian articles will enable reader to pronounce it rightly, thereby preventing mispronunciation of Nigerian names.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
One of the strategies to achieve this is to use natives of the community who will pronounce these names correctly. secondly, there will be training on how to edit Wikipedia which will be mainly on adding audio files. The participant will also be shown how to upload audio to commons and how to add audio files uploaded on commons to Wikipedia articles. Another strategy is to use tools that will enable the participant edit these projects easily. The participants will be taught how to use the mobile spell4wiki app and the ligua libre for recording audio names. These strategies will be effective because these tools are user friendly.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. There will be campaign to get interested participants
- 2. There will be resources that will serve as guide to the participant, these resources will come in form of presentation slides, videos, etc
- 3. In-person and online trainings to guide participants on what to do
- 4. Follow-ups through messaging and communication channels
- 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.
Other (please specify)
- Adding audio pronunciation to Nigerian names on Wikipedia
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User: Kingsley Nkem - facilitator and organizer (volunteer) User:Akwugo - Experienced Wikimedian and a Linguist (volunteer) User: Timzy D'Great - experienced Wikimedian (volunteer)
- 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.
Geography, Language, 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 participants will be introduced to Wikimedia Foundation projects, especially Wikipedia and Wikicommons. The first thing that differentiates articles on Wikipedia is the page title. Biographies have subject's names as page title, these names serve as identities and it is necessary that these names are pronounced correctly or rightly. This work will address the issue of readers knowing the actual pronunciation of article names, especially biographies.
- 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, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 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?
The target participants will be tertiary students, include language and linguistic students. Before the event, google form will be used to retrieve responses of participant and to know the number of participant expected for the project, participant will be engaged with registration on Meta-Wiki and event dashboard.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Ensure participant adhere to the friendly space policy
- 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.
I informed my community, through community Whatsapp groups I belong to, Head of Departments and student's representatives were informed to with breakdown of intented activities. The Igbo community will be notified and I will expect feedback too.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group
- 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?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
If no:
- 12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
- In most trainings I organized in the university community, more students were eager to participate and join during the training but these interested students were turned down due to limited resources that may not give room for more participants. To avoid duplication of effort, I will keep my community informed and interested volunteers an also join the project to give room for more hands and impact.
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 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.
- 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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, 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?
- 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.
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
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| Number of participants | New participant: 30
Returning Participant: 20 |
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| Number of organizers | Organizers | 3 |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 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.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
0 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.
No
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