Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary Enrichment and Community Engagement Activities (ID: 22022702)

statusFunded
Hausa Wiktionary Enrichment and Community Engagement Activities
proposed start date2023-02-06
proposed end date2023-04-29
grant start date2023-02-06T00:00:00Z
grant end date2023-04-29T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)1234000 NGN
budget (USD)2780.18 USD
amount recommended (USD)2780.18
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Salisu Adamu
organization (if applicable)• N/A
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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Salisu Adamu

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Abubakr1111 Musa Vacho77 Anasskoko Aliyu Shaba

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 Wikimedians User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Hausa Wiktionary Enrichment and Community Engagement Activities

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 two series of wiktionary projects held this year, we saw the need to maintain the change being achieved in Hausa wiktionary in terms of contributions and community engagements. We intend to organise meetup, this is with the goal of encouraging and sharing knowledge about wiktionary among existing and new editors. Interact with existing editors one-on-one as previous projects was an holistic approach, since we are an emerging active community members with a lot of semi experience volunteers that are motivated, we seek to improve retention rate, continued engagement of new and existing editors on wiktionary acitivities.

This proposal aim at building capacity of members, train selected volunteers with necessary skills to take up responsibity roles in the community, such that they can train others , to be able to input their ideas and initiatives in creating words, helping newbies in tackling their challenges in terms of editing and problem solving. Promote community interaction and networking

Secondly, in refresher training we are engaging our community members to increase the tempo of editing in Hausa wiktionary by throwing challenge to them, including creating words that are in redlinks that is non existence words in Hausa wiktionary, to be created fully with reference, images and audio to build our momentum. There is good chance that Hausa wiktionary will be much improved and upgraded, it will be in form of contest and highest contributors will be given prizes, the organisers will serve as jurors.

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

As this project is about building the capacity of the community members,attending to learning need of the participants, train selected volunteers on leadership skills to take up roles in the future, and expand Hausa wiktionary community engagements for a duration of two months. Participants will be sensititize online and they will be highlighted on the topics to work on during the project implementation. One on one approach being a necessary tool together with engaging them online through social media handles.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

As this project aims at building and expanding the capacity of Hausa Wiktionary community memmbers, we plan to advertise the events on social media handles, creating awareness on the plan activities and about the wikimedia foundation movement and what its stand for.

There will be offline in-person trainings engaging participants one-on-one, time will be spent training the editors into wiktionary activities and engagements discussiong ongoing projects, challenges, clarifications, future events, and school hours and time management. Three (3) days edit-a-thon challenge for participants to create words that are in redlinks and prizes will be awarded to top three contributors. This approach is vital to skills building in other to be able to train others. As we seek to improve retention rate and continuous process of developing an active volunteers. There would also be an available brochure containing basic editing commands, and an English-Hausa Kamus to be used in hard copy and handed over to them to aid their translation.

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)

Wiktionary enrichment and community engagement activities
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

I Salisu Adamu will be in charge of planning, organising and execution of the project. Abubakr1111 (Facilitator) Anasskoko (Facilitator) Musa vacho77 (Facilitator)

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

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.

The content of the project will prioritize creating words in redlinks, available audio files from wikimedia commons added, words that need images. we anticipate this will lead to more community engagements and would bring more understanding of the language to the global populace. Moreso, majority of the existing editors are female whom have shown glimpse of prospect, we hope when they are engage more the gender disparity will be much improved and represented online.

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, Culture, heritage or GLAM

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

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?

The target participants are existing members from the Hausa wiktionary community, and anyone from Hausa community who can contribute will be engage, our social media handles most especially WhatsApp and Telegram serve as our primary means of communication with existing editors, and we shall identify most prolific, knowledgeable, and motivated contributors especially from the female semi experience editors and inviting them to this future events. A condusive avenue will be created to recruit new participants whom will be assisted and mentored by existing editors to keep both and new volunteers connected and encourage learning and sharing.

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

We will abide by universal code of conduct, and friendly space policy of the Wikimedia foundation.

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.

We inform our community members about the planned activity through Hausa Wiktionary discussion page and our social media handles.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

- We hope to learn how best to retain existing editors and recruit more into Wikimedia Foundation movement as volunteers

  • How best methods to effectively train selected volunteers on leadership skills to take up roles in the future.
  • And to manage our existing community partnerships and creating new ways of sustaining and creating new ones
  • To know existing and new editors have the skills and motivation to continue contributing, and how to adequetely manage an open community.
  • Have participants learn anything new about wiktionary.
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
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants Existing and new Volunteers to engage 40
Number of editors 30 Existing Editors

10 new editors

40
Number of organizers Number of Organisers 4
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wiktionary Number of words to be created 250
Wiktionary Number of Audio Files to be attached to words from Wikimedia commons 200
Wiktionary Number of Image Files to be attached from Wikimedia commons 200
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.

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.

1234000 NGN

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

2780.18 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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