Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Community Building and Wikimedia Promotions at Federal Polytechnic Bauchi (FPTB) (ID: 22114392)

statusNot funded
Community Building and Wikimedia Promotions at Federal Polytechnic Bauchi (FPTB)
proposed start date2023-05-13
proposed end date2023-06-22
budget (local currency)758000 NGN
budget (USD)1720.66 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Ibrahim442
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Ibrahim442

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

1. Musaddam Idriss

2. Abubakar A Gwanki
3. Awwerl
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.

Wikimedia Fulfulde Community

Grant Proposal edit

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Community Building and Wikimedia Promotions at Federal Polytechnic Bauchi (FPTB)

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.

This project seeks to create a more reliable avenue for the participants to explore information be it written, visual, pictorial, or audio on Wikipedia, engage/recruit new editors across different gender and age groups, promotes people awareness on Wikipedia and other sister projects and add/improve contents on Wikipedia.

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

1. Permission had been granted and all arrangements made with the polytechnic management with regard to programme venue within the polytechnic compound.

2. Wikipedia branded jotters and pens, t-shirts, tags, and hand bands for female students would be used for the campaign throughout the programme.
3. Pamphlets and stickers would also be produced with vision and mission statements of Wikimedia foundation clearly written on each cover page and a brief introductory notes on Wikipedia.
3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

To promote Wikimedia movement activities at Federal Polytechnic Bauchi (FPTB), there is need to build a strong and stable network. Hence this project would cover the following activities:

1. Open-Campaign: this will involve sensitization talks within the different departments of the polytechnic.
2. Edit-a-ton: this involves session for introduction to editing (hands-on-keyboard) training.
3. We would assigned an article to each participant and monitor them through an outreach dashboard.
4. A separately created whatsapp group would be used for further coaching of the participants after the conduct of the event.
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.

Not applicable

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Yes This programme would be executed by the following experience editors:

1. Ibrahim442 Project coordinator: he is an experienced editor and facilitated numerous events such as Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at Federal University Gashua, Wikimania2022 Satellite Event, Fulfulde Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at Government Girls Science and Technical College Potiskum, Wikidata Workshop at Potiskum Town Hall Secretariat, and won awards in many Wikipedia contest such as W4HR 2022 among others.
2. Musaddam Idriss Co-facilitator: he is a seasoned editor with several contributions and awards that cut-across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wiki commons to his credit. He coordinated different projects like Photowalk@Bauchi, Wikipedia Awareness Campaign at Potiskum Metroplis, Wikidata, Wikimania 2022 Satellite Event, Thematic weeks and lots more.
3. Abubakar A Gwanki is a highly experience editor who executed and co-facilitated a number of projects such as Wikidata, Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at Potiskum Town Hall Secretariat, Photowalks and many more.
4. Awwerl is an experience editor, project lead and facilitator in various events such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimania 2022 among others.
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, Socioeconomic Status, 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.

Although polytechnic students are usually faced with a lot of problems sourcing information online for their academic projects write-ups, little did they know that they can contributes and as well access and download (text books, videos, pictures, and audios) contents from wikipedia thus:

1. The project would create and promotes community building.
2. It would increase numbers of Wikipedia editors.
3. It would increase Wikipedia contents and enhanced peoples understanding of Wikimedia movement.
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.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Digital Access

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?

Targeted participants for this programme are Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma (ND) students of the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi. On a one-on-one contact, I will engage the newly recruited editors on lectures, discussions (hands-on-keyboard) training, and questions and answers sessions. Follow-ups would be made through Whatsapp group for further discussions.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

Participants would be taught about Wikimedia friendly space policy and the universal code of conduct. Also arrangements have been made with management of the polytechnic for the released of an ICT friendly laboratory for smooth conduct of the programme.

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.

Information would be shared/dispersed to the members of community through local phone calls and social media handles e.g Whatsapp, Twitter, Face Book, etc.

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
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.

We would partner with the polytechnic management to ensure a strong collaborative response in implementing the project that would give the students genuine and reliable outcomes for the benefit of all the participants.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

1. I have the necessary technical skills needed to impart to the newly recruited editors and the required competence to address any learning difficulties they may likely encounter during or after the training programme. Hence I hope this project would yield the desired outcome.

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 Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
Page views increase in wikipedia page views 1000
Number of new participants Estimated number of participants 50
Number of events There would be 2 0ffline campaigns and 1 Edit-a-thon 3
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants The participants are Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma (ND) levels students in the polytechnic. 100
Number of editors The expected targeted new editors for this project event. 50
Number of organizers Ibrahim442, Musaddam Idriss, Abubakar A Gwanki and Awwerl 4
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia articles 100
Wikidata new lexemes 150
Wikimedia Commons photos and audio 50
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.

N/A

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.

We would employ the use of a program Dashboard to measure these metrics.

Financial Proposal edit

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

758000 NGN

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

1720.66 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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  • Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
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  • Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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