Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wikipedia Patrol (ID: 22095387)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Uncle Bash007
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Anasskoko Gwanki Em-Mustapha BnHamid
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedian User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Hausa Wikipedia Patrol
- 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.
A lot of Hausa Wikipedia articles are not properly patrolled. Most of the editors also are not aware of different Wikipedia Policies in writing articles, ranging from Notability guidelines (General notability guidelines & Specific notability guidelines), to Sources ( Primary sources, Secondary sources, Tertiary sources), to Article Titling (Article name), Biography of Living Persons Guidelines, Images Copyright, Neutral Point of View, Verifiability among others. Even the administrators are not wary of much of these policies required for guiding other editors and thus eliciting articles having such issues. There a number of policies which are very vital for editors to be aware of, which are a driving force to creating coherent and good articles, making Wikipedia a more reliable encyclopedia, but sadly majority of our local editors lack these knowledge (including me, before joining the Patrol School), and this has a great negative impact to Hausa Wikipedia, as most articles do not meet the basic Wikipedia criteria, thus (perhaps) making it unreliable for most native speakers. This project will tend to minimise these impacts.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The project will minimise the above issues through the following approaches and strategies: i). Guiding editors and administrators on these problems: I as a graduate of Patrol School will summarise the major guidelines such as Notability Guidelines, Source (primary, secondary & Tertiary, Reliable and Independent sources), Biography of Living Persons Guidelines etc and train Hausa Wikipedia administrators and experienced editors ii). Highlighting and summarising some major guidelines for editors iii). After the workshop we will review articles with related problems and patrol them (I will sort out atleast 1000 Hausa articles with related issues) iv). We will tag articles such as Good Articles, Articles for Deletion, etc. v). We will clean up Bad articles and therefore improve ones with lesser issues
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
i). I will personally highlight and summarise some major criteria related to Notability (GNG & SNG), Sources (Primary sources, Secondary sources, Tertiary sources, Independent, reliable, verifiability etc), Article Title, Neutrality and Images Copyright and dedicate it to editors (both new and experienced) as a manual guide
- 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)
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
I, a graduate from NPPS will lead the project. Other experienced editors (administrators) will join me in making the project a success.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 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.
This project will help in testing the quality of Hausa Wikipedia articles, thereby elicit bad ones for improvement or deletion.
- 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, Public Policy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , 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?
The main target participants for these project are the Hausa Wikipedia administrators and other experienced editors. Although newbies will be involved in the post training which is less complex for beginners. i) Administrators: they are very crucial in these project because they oversea every activities and contributions made by every editor. They will be engaged in our first training on the major Wikipedia Guidelines stated above. A guide manual (summarised and compiled) will be shared. After the entire training, we will create time for patrolling the sampled articles. ii). New editors: they will be train (partially) on some of the major guidelines for creating articles or adding citations or images.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
- 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.
- 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?
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.
- 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.
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.
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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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