Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Introducing Wikidata to ESUT Library (ID: 21963632)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Ngozi osadebe
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Ngozi osadebe Ezimoo Beatrice Ewa
- Organization
Literacy for Sustainable Living Nigeria
- 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.
A+F
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Introducing Wikidata to ESUT Library
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
International
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
USA, UK, INDIA, GERMANY, NIGERIA, South Africa, Singapore, Tokyo, China, France, etc. This project will create Wikidata entries for books on women found in the ESUT library published in different countries of the world.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
lsln.org
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
We want to introduce Wikidata as a useful method for describing library materials to Enugu State University Library. Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Library has not been introduced to any Wikipedia project. The NGO, Literacy for Sustainable Living Nigeria (LSLN) has through the University Librarian secured the approval of the Vice Chancellor to introduce Wikipedia projects to the University. Introducing Wikipedia projects to the university has a lot of benefits to the university. For instance, it will create visibility for physical library materials in the library by directing traffic to them. ESUT will be mentioned among the libraries where Wikimedia activities are taking place, and staff and students will gain more research, collaborative skill, and digital skills.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Education, information, and training will be our main strategies for achieving this. The Wikimedia training Libraries at https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training will be adopted for the training. Already the university Library is aware of this project and is expecting it with enthusiasm. It will be a two days event. The University Library computer laboratory will serve as the venue for the training. Users, Ngozi osadebe, Ezimoo and Beatrice Ewa, Wikipedia event organizers at Nnamdi Azikiwe Library and Surplus People in the Universities Research Group (SPURG), University of Nigeria, Nsukka will deliver the content. It has been the wish of the University Librarian Dr. Ifeanyi Ezema that the library should key into new developments in the librarianship field by collaborating with Wikimedia to make knowledge freely available.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will be celebrating the Wikidata 10th birthday anniversary with the Library Staff of ESUT through a two-day workshop. The workshops will be based on hands-on training on creating Wikidata entries. Books on Women and the African continent will be selected from the library collection for the training. Already, library staff has been assigned to this task. The library computer laboratory has been identified to serve as the venue of the training. The training will be delivered by Ngozi Osadebe User: Ngozi osadebe, Ezinne Njoku User:Ezimoo and Beatrice Ewa User:Beatrice Ewa.. We will set up the outreach dashboard to monitor participants' contributions to the project. Attendance and movement registers will also be used to monitor attendance and participants' movement during the program. Pre- and post-training questionnaires will develop and used to evaluate the impact of the workshop on the participants.
- 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.
Art+Feminism, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap, Other (please specify)
- Wikidata 10th Birthday
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, we have the team that is required to implement the project.
- Dr Ngozi Osadebe User: Ngozi Osadebe is versed in implementing Wikimedia programs. She is the organizer of Nnamdi Azikiwe Library Art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, SPURG art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Aflia #1Lib1Ref program, and the campaign organizer of the “Let’s make Wikipedia edit-a-thon inclusive. Ngozi has been organizing Wikipedia events since 2017.
- Ezinne Njoku User: Ezimoo, is a facilitator in all Wikipedia projects at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. As a special needs librarian, she has worked on different online training programs for the blind.
- Beatrice Ewa, User: Beatrice Ewa is the Climate change librarian in the Climate change special library, UNN. She has organized many projects for the African Climate Change Initiative (ACCAI) UNN. Among these projects are ACCAI World environmental Day seminars and World Cleanup Day events. User: Beatrice Ewa is a co-organizer in the all University of Nigeria, Nsukka Wikimedia projects.
- 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, Geography, Sexual Orientation, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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.
During this project, Wikidata entries will be created for books on women and the African continent. Few works on women and the African continent has been documented on Wikipedia and its sister projects. The result is that very few information is available on women and the African continent. This project will help to minimize the knowledge gap that exists in these areas.
- 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, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, 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 participants are library staff of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT). Currently, discussions are going on among the staff on creating Wikidata entries for library materials. The URL of the Wikimedia training library on Wikidata available at: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikidata has been made available to the participants to study in preparation for the training. After the training, a WhatsApp group of the participants will be created. Through the WhatsApp group, participants will be notified of future Wikidata events and other information from the Wikimedia foundation. Efforts will be made to create a Wikimedia community in the Library to enable the library to organize Wikimedia activities on the library under the supervision of LSLN
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Copies of the UCOC and Wikipedia-friendly Space policy will be made available to the participants through email before the training starts. The USOC and friendly space policy will also be discussed with the participants first thing on the first day of training. The NGO’s culture of less use of titles in public meetings should be called in to enable free communication among participants and to ensure that nobody feels intimidated.
- 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.
This project has been announced on the WhatsApp platforms of all university library-based Wikimedia groups in South East Nigeria. These are the NAU academia Fan Club led by Adaora Obuezie, IG Wiki Librarian Hub led by Goodness Ignatius, Nnamdi Azikiwe Library (NAL), and Surplus People in the Universities Research Group (SPURG) the University of Nigeria, Nsukka WhatsApp groups. (NAU stands for Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka). This project has been discussed extensively with each group's leadership. The group leaders have agreed to send volunteers to help deliver the project.
- 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
Where the objectives of this project met? Did the project take place within the specified time? What are the perceptions of the participants towards the project? What were the challenges encountered during the project?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-training and post-training questionnaire | A pre-training questionnaire will be administered to the participants at the beginning of the training. The questionnaire will seek information on awareness and knowledge of Wikidata as a good description tool among the participants. Responses from the pre-training questionnaire will be analyzed and recorded.
At the end of the training, the same questionnaire will be administered to the participants as a post-training questionnaire. Responses from the post-training and the pretraining questionnaires will be compared to find out if the training objectives were met. |
20 |
| Attendance register | To find out the number of people that attended the program on the first and second days. And to determine the number of repeat participants in the program. The presence of many repeat participants is an indication that participants like the program. | 20 |
| Interview with participants and volunteers | Interviews will be held with participants and facilitators to identify the challenges they encountered in the project. | 26 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants. 39 people made up of 20 library staff, six facilitators, two ICT personnel, One cleaner two child attendants, and eight children. | 38 |
| Number of editors | 20 participants made up of 17 new editors and 3 returning editors. | 20 |
| Number of organizers | 10 made up of six facilitators who will deliver the content. These facilitators include two members of LSLN, one volunteer each from Wikipedia groups in Eastern Nigeria such as NAU academia Fan Club, IG Wiki Librarians Hub, and SPURG A+F Wikipedia group. Two ICT staff (for technical assistance) from ESUT, one cleaner, and two babysitters. | 10 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | At least Wikidata entries will be created for 500 books on women and the African continent. | 500 |
| 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.
Wikimedia outreach dashboard Attendance and movement register
Not sure, I need help. I cannot find the guide for a list of 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.
1998000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4665.25 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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