Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Creating Wikipedia Awareness In Gombe State University (ID: 21883303)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Usmanagm
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Gwanki Ibjaja055
- 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 User Group Nigeria
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Creating Wikipedia Awareness In Gombe State University
- 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.
Due to the absolute dearth of knowledge about Wikipedia and its sister Projects in the university, Gombe State University, the Creating Wikipedia Awareness In Gombe State University is targeted towards laying a solid foundation for the widespread of Wikimedia Foundation projects among the students of the university. This is in addition to revamping and modelling them on numerous digital and offline skills so as enable them contribute massively on contents that have to do with the university in its entirety, alongside deploying the knowledge and skills learnt to contribute contents with original images for Wikipedia.
Gombe State University is a state-owned university in northeastern Nigeria. It is located in Shamaki Ward, Tudun Wada, Gombe. Gombe State University was founded in 2004 under the Mohammed Danjuma Goje administration. The university was established by the government to meet the academic needs of indigenes in the state and further improve the educational sector of the state. Despite the fact that the university has been there for over ten years with many local and international scholars, tourist attraction sites such as the Gombe Zoo, historical and research places, and many more, but there exist zero information about/on the university on Wikipedia. The training hopes to bridge that with the help of experienced editors. Also, unlike in other universities, there has never been any Trainings or Awareness that can train people and notify them about the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation and how they can contribute to it in the university. No doubt, the awareness and creation functions will help a lot to establish the first ever Wikipedia community in the university, including a club specifically meant for group of editors and learners.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The project will deploy the following approaches:
Creating awareness about Wikimedia Foundation projects in Gombe State University.
Mobilizing, training and recruiting new editors for the Wikimedia Community in Gombe State University. Adding or improving local contents about Gombe State University on English Wikipedia and Wikipedia Common.
Creating a community of English Wikimedia Editors in Gombe State University.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The Creating Wikipedia Awareness in Gombe State University will cover three different sessions with the establishment of a Wikimedia community in the university;
The Virtual Forum: This is targeted towards exposing the participants to basic knowledge about Wikimedia Foundation and its landmark projects, including contributing to Wikipedia. This will be actualized via Zoom with some soft copy materials presented to the participants before and after the online session.
The Physical Session: This is a one on one physical event with the participants The medium will also be used to sensitise the community on the projects of Wikimedia Foundation and how they can massively join.
The Physical Training Session and edit-a-thon: This is a hands-on physical training where the new editors will be given the avenue to practice what they have learnt through theoretical and practical engagements. After the training, there will be a three a three Edit-a-thon where winners will be awarded a certificate of excellence.
Developing and creating the first ever Community of Wikipedia in the university.
- 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)
- Creating a widespread Awareness about Wikimedia Projects. Engaging and training New Editors on how to contribute local contents to Wikipedia and Wikipedia Common in Gombe State University.
Creating a group of Wikimedia Editors.
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Gwanki is volunteer an experienced Wikimedia editor and an Administrator on the Hausa Wikipedia. He has organised and facilitated several Wikipedia projects Awareness in Kano Metropolis. He is a facilitator of the project.
Ibjaja055 is volunteer and an experienced Wikimedia editor. He is a volunteer and the overall winner of the edit-a-thon of Wikipedia Awareness and Training in Gombe. The Lead participant at the WikiProject Public Domain Contest Nigeria, a member of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. He is the organiser of the project.
- 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, Age (regency), Geography, Language, Socioeconomic Status
- 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.
Gombe State University is a state based cosmopolitan university with different people with numerous cultural backgrounds, ethnicities and races. The contents of the programme will prioritize bridging the information gap by documenting them on English Wikipedia and also facilitates the uploading of Wikipedia Commons of various information about the university.
- 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, Advocacy
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , 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?
Creating Wikimedia Awareness in Gombe State University is an open proposal for the diverse students of Gombe State University. No prior experience with Wikimedia is needed to participate. We hope to engage these participants by working with students' union and writing organisations where the target audience are already actively participating as intellectual members. The call for participation will be done through effective local communication channels such as posters, social media and through students' union leaders.
During the project, I and the team member I will be actively involved in facilitating the training and also making sure that the participants get the act and art of contributing to Wikipedia and sister projects. Also, will be monitoring the three weeks online edit-a-thon for the new editors to make sure that Wikipedia is not vandalised out of ignorance.
At the end, the project will contribute and support wikipedia and wikimedia Commons in knowledge building as well as total development of wikimedia movement through relevant article development, creating more active editors and good quality photo uploading.
To ensure the sustainability of the project, I will Maintain tight contact with the participants involved in the project by creating WhatsApp group titled Gombe State University Wikipedia Editors' Community where issues related to the development of Wikimedia projects will be the subject matter. Also, information on the latest wikipedia events and workshops will be shared on it.
- 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 summarised and be read at the beginning of each event to remind the participants and the organisers of the importance of friendly space policy. In addendum, the following 24 hours phone numbers will be made available throughout the events; The organisers, Local hotel/venue security Local law enforcement Local sexual assault hotline Local emergency and non-emergency medical services Local taxi company.
- 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 have informed them at the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria for their suggestions and inputs. The link can be found here:
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Community_Notification_32
- 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?
- Already, I am in touch with numerous coordinators of Wikipedia. For example, a Wikipedia Training and Awareness was carried out in Gombe, a neighbouring state, last month. We are going to recruit the Project Lead (Atibrarian) to also share his experience with the organisers and the participants.
- 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 Gombe State University Students Union: The body will help to mobilise and communicate with the students by using their social media platforms.
- 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
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
Gwanki is volunteer an experienced Wikimedia editor and an Administrator on the Hausa Wikipedia. He has organised and facilitated several Wikipedia projects Awareness in Kano Metropolis. He is a facilitator of the project.
Ibjaja055 is volunteer and an experienced Wikimedia editor. He is a volunteer and the overall winner of the edit-a-thon of Wikipedia Awareness and Training in Gombe. The Lead participant at the WikiProject Public Domain Contest Nigeria, a member of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. He is the organiser of the project.
Alongside my humble self, Usmanag.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Creating Community Awareness about Wikimedia Projects | Students Union body, online and offline outlets will be used to create a massive awareness about the aims, goals and objectives of Wikimedia Foundation | 50 |
| Training of new editors | 70% of the participants will be new editors and they will be trained by experienced Wikimedia editors in four different sessions. Two online and two offline sessions. | 30 |
| Contribution of local contents to Wikipedia | A three weeks closely monitored edit-a-thon will be created that will ensure massive contribution/improvement of local contents about Borno State. | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Online and offline participants | 50 |
| Number of editors | 100% new editors. | 50 |
| Number of organizers | Facilitators - 2
Co-ordinator - 1 Community volunteers 5 |
8 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Creating/ improving articles on languages, history, administration, professors, works, ethnic, culture, foods and tourist attractions in Gombe State University. University. | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Contributing original and non-copyright images of historical and places in Gombe State University. | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
- 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.
Number of participants: Program and Events Dashboard
Number of Editors: Program and Events Dashboard
Number of Organisers: Program and Events Dashboard
Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia Projects: Program and Events Dashboard and Wikimedia Hashtag Tools
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1116861 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2690 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Trvk8PhzQyhKBhCwpCXOMltycbpHgRwRBycdHcdfOfE/htmlview
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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