Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Introducing Wikimedia Projects to Al-Mawarid Institute of Information Technology (ID: 22113470)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Hajjare
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Harandee, Awwerl, Musaddam Idriss and Zaynab05
- 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 Fulfulde Community, Wikimedia Nigeria User Group and Art+Feminism
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Introducing Wikimedia Projects to Al-Mawarid Institute of Information Technology
- 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.
As a woman, it come to my realization that there's currently a very wide gender gap difference between male contributors and female volunteers across Wikimedia projects. One of the key factors to that is the fact that men more than 80% of the projects are being organized and lead by men which in the process encourage men participation and hinders women on the other side. This might be part of the reasons why females are underrepresented on Wikipedia by looking at the contents availability when compared to those created about men since based on a common sense, men would normally prefer to write more about men and women would also contribute more contents that speaks about females. So, looking at the northern Nigeria which is where I live, I believe women participation is essential and would be of great support in creating contents which promote women which would help to balance the contents of Wikipedia and reduce the existing issue of gender gap.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
It's without doubt that not all women in northern Nigeria are really good in technological know-how or have the basic knowledge of using the internet. Therefore, selection of the event hosting location is an approach to make sure that the targeted women have the required exposure to internet space and posses even a little knowledge of what Wikipedia is all about in addition to their knowledge of operating computer systems and smart phones. Secondly, women participation is not limited to a particular community, therefore the project is planned to be a kind of a small hybrid event where women from different ethnic groups and background would be invited and be introduced to Wikipedia as well as the languages in which the Wikipedia is currently which they could contribute whether in English or their prospective home languages. Finally, women in literary world, those who are writers and educators/teachers would also be giving more emphasis and encourage to participate because such women have the potentials to serve as a voice of women on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
I planned to carryout an edit-a-thon and awareness campaigns to ring a bell amongst women to know about the project and also train them on how to contribute contents on any of the three WIkimedia projects I want to introduce to them which are; Wikipedia, Wikidata and WIkimedia Commons. The activities would go on like this:
- 1. Three days making awareness campaign
- 2. Two days editathon/workshop: the first workshop would be the introduction to the Wikimedia projects. While in the mid of the project we would organize a retraining session to correct possible errors and mistakes we observe from the contents which the participant might make in the process doing their edits. This would also help us give them additional guides and supports where necessary.
- 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.
WikiGap, Other (please specify)
- Training
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, I contacted the following experienced editors to support me in making this project a success:
- 1. Musaddam Idriss, is a long term Wikimedia volunteer and a well experienced organizer of similar projects. He would be in my team to help me coordinate and plan the activities in accordance with the project period and in areas I may find some difficulties.
- 2. Harandee. is my fellow female colleague from Wikimedia Fulfulde Community and have been playing roles in the previously organized project alongside Zaynab05 and Ahmerd Adam who are all part of the experienced editors we have in the community.
- 3. Hajjare; myself have been a facilitator in the Thematic Weeks Project and Wikidata Workshop organized by Wikimedia Fulfulde Community. I have serve the role of welfare and maintain the tracks of participants' activities during both the 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, 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.
Women are underrepresented on Wikimedia projects and to tackle this emerging issue women volunteers are needed to be recruited in other to contribute contents related to women.
- 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, Human Rights
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, 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 merely women who have interest for volunteer works, knowledge of internet space and also have passion for writing as a hobby or helping the humanity. They would be from different ethnic background to help bring more women to each of the existing Wikipedia so as to help start addressing the problem of content gender gap. Before and after the event, these women would be actively engage by opening and adding them to the designed project group and also by submitting their names and introducing them to the leaders of various groups/communities where each of them belong in order to meet other editors who would also encourage them to continue volunteering.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
I will ensure that the Wikimedia policy is duly observed and that the local authority rules is also abide.
- 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 expressed my intent to organize this event on the talk pages of the prospective communities and also reach out to the community leaders.
- 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, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. I want to see that the project help in minimizing the content gender gap by creating new contents about women
- 2. I want to see that I encourage female participation in Wikimedia volunteering from north
- 3. I want to know if I could create impact in the Wikimedia projects and in the lives of the participants involved.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Participants | Number of participants | 40 |
| Contributions | Number of articles created/improved | 200 |
| Views | Increase in page views | 1000 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of female participants to attend the training | 40 |
| Number of editors | Number of participants to at least edit the Wikimedia projects after the training | 30 |
| Number of organizers | Number of facilitators | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Contents contribution related to women across the concerned Wikipedias like English Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Fulfulde Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia etc | 200 |
| Wikidata | Wikidata items created | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | photo uploaded | 20 |
| 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.
Outreach Dashboard Tool
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
860000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1863.94 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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