Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/EveryBookItsReader - SADC (ID: 22895731)
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Applicant Details
edit- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Herschal Jackson (WMZA)
- Organization
Wikimedia ZA
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
I'm a staff member or contractor in a Wikimedia Affiliate, group, or allied organization.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Executive Coordinator for Wikimedia South Africa
Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
EveryBookItsReader - SADC
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-04-01 - 2025-04-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region) Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Everybookitsreader Campaign
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
From a regional perspective we are looking to participate in the 2025 Everybookitsreader campaign with events running up to world book day on the 23rd of April 2025. This would be a collaborative effort with our sister African countries to celebrate and enhance content available on African authors and african books and african literary works
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
Main Activities(Per Country): 1. Engage with communities to increase knowledge about the campaign and to improve content on african books, authors and literary works. 2. Run workshops to train new editors on Wikipedia and on contributing to the movement strategy and on affiliate works and how to get involved. 3. Host a collaborative editathon on the 23 April with all participating countries which will include local african authors celebrating World Book Day.
Planned Partnerships: 1. we would like to include our existing partners in these events to strengthen our bonds with partners but would also like to use this oppurtunity to engage potential new partners at the World Book Day editathon.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Primary Project Manager - Herschal Jackson (WMZA) Salaried Staff Secondary Project Lead - Bobby Shabangu - Wikimedia ZA President Volunteer COT Members and project leads from all particpating SADC Country
- 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? (required)
Target audience would be all community members and public members who would like to participate and are patient about books and litery works particularly about Africa and in African Languages
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Wikimedia ZA hosted an online meeting with members of other affiliates to isolate interest in collaborating with the chapter on this event. The feedback from the community members was resoundingly in favour of the collaboration. This collaborative effort will allow for the newer affiliates to gain practical experience hosting events such as this which we believe will assist them in future initiatives the request funding for.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
In what areas can we improve on across our communities? how can we as African Affiliates work together to increase knowledge and help each other improve as emerging leaders. How can events such as World book day serve to aid the movement, improve the affiliate knowledge and collaboration and increase knowledge online.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | We will be looking at a 50% new participants vs 50% returning participants across the 5 countries (50 participants per country) |
| Number of editors | 50 | We will be looking at a 50% newly registered editors vs 50% returning editors across the 5 countries (50 participants per country) |
| Number of organizers | 15 | this would primarily be volunteers with a few staff members. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | 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 |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Outreach dashboard will be utilised to track impact as will surveys pre and post events. (Seperate Surveys for editors, participants, partners)
Financial proposal
edit- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
90000 ZAR
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
4947.77 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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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.
- 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).