Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Igbo Wikimedians User Group Wiki Loves Africa 2023 - Climate and Weather (ID: 22023400)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
OtuNwachinemere
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
OtuNwachinemere
- 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 Igbo User Group Commons Photographers User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Igbo Wikimedians User Group Wiki Loves Africa 2023 - Climate and Weather
- 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.
Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute free media that is relevant to their experience to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in the Wikimedia movement, also make this shared media freely available for the rest of Humankind. This contest will be open to all interested professional and non-professional photographers in Nigeria with a focus on the members of the Igbo Wikimedia Commons community. This year's contest is themed 'Climate and Weather'.
Photos to be uploaded will be available for use on other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Participants will be trained on how to participate, and knowledge of the nature of copyrights, Creative Commons Licenses, and Wikimedia Commons licenses.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
This project aims to introduce the WLA contest to the IG Wikimedia community focused on contributing through Wikimedia Commons. There will be two training sessions in the build up to the contest proper and the the contest itself which will last for about 30days.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will organise two online training sessions focused on copyrights and licenses and how to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa contest.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Africa
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User: OtuNwachinemere - Lead project coordinator, Wikimedia Commons Trainer and experienced Wikipedian
- 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.
Geography, 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.
This year's theme, Climate and Weather will provide the opportunity to provide graphics and media to illustrate the topic of Climate and its effect across the continent of Africa.
- 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, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic
- 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 members of the IG Wiki-Commons Hub who have demonstrated continued interest in contributing content through Wikimedia Commons. There is an existing WhatsApp group of the members of this community and new participants will be added to the group.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The Wikimedia friendly space policy and UCoC will be strictly adhered to. There will be room for every participant to express individual opinions that align with project objectives. Also, because uploading media files would require increased internet consumption, data subsidy to cushion this expense will be arranged for.
- 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 also informed the Igbo Wikimedia community here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group#Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023_-_Climate_and_Weather
- 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, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I look forward to introducing this very interesting and educating annual campaign to our local Wikimedia community and seeing all the amazing media that this contest will produce for storage on Commons and use in various open knowledge movement projects including Wikipedia.
- 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 Participants | Including experienced editors | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons uploads | Number of photos, audio and related media to be uploaded to Commons | 300 |
| Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects | N/A | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | |
| Number of editors | 30 | |
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
300
- 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.
Outreach Dashboard and Xtools
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
801450 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1810 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O7uVjaDhTvM9YYneFNdD91_TKSgG-KBUqlP6OPNd_qA/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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