Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Elles font le monde (ID: 21940498)
This is an automatically generated Meta-Wiki page. The page was copied from Fluxx, the grantmaking web service of Wikimedia Foundation where the user has submitted their application. Please do not make any changes to this page because all changes will be removed after the next update. Use the discussion page for your feedback. The page was created by CR-FluxxBot.
Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Victoire Chris
- 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.
N/A
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Elles font le monde
- 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.
After our first activity, we realized how important it is to reduce the gender gap on the Foundation's projects, especially on Wikipedia. Through the activity "Elles font le monde", we want to highlight about thirty African women and Afro-descendants who have marked or are marking the history of the world on the political, economic, social, technological, etc... by creating for each of them articles on Wikipedia in French. This activity will have the particularity of bringing together women who will create articles on these women.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
We are sure that this series of trainings will bear fruit because our last activity for women was a success and this one will be the same. To achieve this, we will organize a series of twelve (12) meetings during three (3) months each saturday's month from November 23th to February 18th where we will bring together women to write, highlight and value women who have marked and are marking the history of the world. This Editathon (They make the world) will take into account all women with a special emphasis on African and Afro-descendant women. We will meet to write articles on these women and their works every Saturday for three (3) months.
Timeline: November, Wednesday 23rd and 26th; December, Saturday 3rd, 10th and 17th; January, Saturday 7th, 14th, 21rst and 28th; February, Saturday 4th, 11th and 18th
Venue: Sèmè, Abomey-Calavi
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
"They make the world" is an Editathon that takes place in person and will be divided into two phases: of the twelve (12) contribution meetings planned, the first two (2) will be devoted to the training of participants. The first two meetings will be dedicated to the training of the participants, providing them with all the tools they need to easily contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects. The other ten (10) will be dedicated to the editing itself.
- 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, we have a team; it is the one with which we did the previous activity, "Des citations et des femmes (Quotes and Women)": User:Victoire Chris and User:Iyabom
and we will be supported by User:Ross.Patrick
- 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, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 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.
- 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
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
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?
As in our previous activity, we will proceed to a selection of participants through a call for applications via google form. This activity will be announced on our media and the Beninese wikimedia community will be informed. The selected participants will be a mix of those who already have experience in training projects and those who have none to allow them to help each other during the activities. In order to maintain contact and engage the participants, we plan to organize monthly meetings to share our experiences and help those who need it.
In order to keep people informed and to get the support of the community, we spread #Ellesfontlemonde on :
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
As announced, before the start of the Editathon, there will be training sessions for participants to show how to contribute to the foundation's projects. These sessions will also allow us to keep participants informed about Universal Code of Conduct. This will allow us to have participants who are aware of the rules governing the foundation. This will ensure that we have a respectful space of civility, collegiality, mutual support and good citizenship, and will ban unacceptable behaviour.
- 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.
As announced upper, in order to keep people informed and to get the support of the community, we spread #Ellesfontlemonde on :
- 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.
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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
The first step will be to reduce the gender gap on Wikipedia; for this, we will work exclusively with women. This activity is innovative in that it is women who will be highlighting other women who are making an impact in the world through their work, and thus we will be both narrowing the gender gap and involving women in our activity. This is our way of contributing to art and feminism. By putting women in the spotlight by other women, it's our way of helping to reduce gender bias on Wikipedia. We're sure we can do it, no matter how small. Because, these women who will participate in our training series will in turn carry the message around them. The gender bias reduction machine is thus on its way and will continue to grow.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of article to be write | Number of women to highlight | 30 |
| Number of participants | Between 5 and 10 participant or more plus two trainers. | 12 |
| Numbers of created databases | There will be 30 articles and probably more! | 30 |
| Number of active participant after the project | The ten participants will still active after the project. | 10 |
| Number of impacted people | Expected number of visitors to the online pages. | 1000 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 10 | |
| Number of editors | 10 | |
| Number of organizers | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | 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.
We are planning to use the outreach dashboard to measure each metric. This is the link to it: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Victoire_Chris/Elle_font_le_monde...
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1470000 XOF
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2223.26 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vQ-SAgDK-GMUd-0CVeJhNnbwI5Wc6N9S/edit#gid=1099420329
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
editPlease add endorsements and feedback to the grant discussion page only. Endorsements added here will be removed automatically.
Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:
- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
- Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).