Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Islamic Related Contributions Translation Edith a thon and Bridging Islamic Gap in Hausa Wikipedia (ID: 22458296)
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Applicant Details edit
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Captain1044
- Organization
N/A
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
Other
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
I am a member to Nigerian Commons Photographers Network formally known as Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group.
Main Proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Islamic Related Contributions Translation Edith a thon and Bridging Islamic Gap in Hausa Wikipedia
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-05-04 - 2024-08-02
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Let's Connect Peer Learning Program
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
I want to translate and edit some Islamic articles that are not in Hausa Wikipedia, edit them and add pictures to them and to highlight path for wikimedians to start contributing on Islamic articles. Some of these articles that are not translated to Hausa language are:
- 1. Nafi' al-madany. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafi%CA%BD_al-Madani
- 2. Warsh.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsh
- 3. Qalun.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalun And the articles of the remaining six Imams and their twelve students.
People are not contributing much to Islamic articles thinking that Islamic articles are not much in Wikipedia.
This changes are what we want to bring through enlightening Hausa community on Islamic related articles that are translated to Hausa language. Professionals on Qur'an Qira'at are to train the wikimedians so that they will surely understand what Islam says about it and have courage to start editing in Islamic articles on Hausa Wikipedia.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
I planned to get participants by performing an awareness for the project, where professionals on Qira'at will be there to enlighten people on the 7 Imams and their 14 students. Training wikimedians on how to edit, translate and upload pictures to these articles will come after getting the participants. So also competition will be done between the participants where they will be ask to get some Islamic articles edit, translate and add photos to them. A participant with highest number of articles will be declared as the winner follow by 2 participants. There will be a main event where the final activity of the project will be done with which among is announcing the winner of the competition and training on the aspect of free license in Wikipedia. Below are the list of the activities for this project.
- 1. Awareness of the project within two hausa communities.
- 2. Online meeting with organizers and editors.
- 3. Online training for participants.
- 4. Physical training for participants.
- 5. Competition for participants
- 6. Main event and prize presentation.
- 7. Certification of participants.
Timeline of activities https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15dC4OaaD4YbsLNU6z1gpsG6jANa9PCbG/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=110201114078040673568&rtpof=true&sd=true
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
1. Abubakar Ishaq Hussain program facilitator with username captain1044.
- 2. Sadauki11 program manager.
- 3. Aliyu shaba communication manager.
- 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? (required)
We are targeting 40 participants from 2 Hausa communities. Where we are targeting 25 new users and 15 olden users. Before the activities, there will be an awareness for the project where we are expecting to get the participants. There will be online meeting with them, a WhatsApp group will be open for the participants where we will get to know each of them and we will be communicating throughout the activities there. After the activities, phone numbers of the participants will be collected so that we will be having random phone calls and also there is our social group channels of our user group named Muslim Wikimedians User Group. They will join and we will be contributing to Wikipedia through them.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
We have one on one discussion with leader of NCPUG on the project where he highlights the importance of what we want to do and encourage us on it he will also be part of the organizers of the project. On the community side we try meeting the wikimedians within the community like unclebash, musavachoi, and sadauki. So that they guide us through and they really appreciate. You can find the discussion page through the link below https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussion_for_Islamic_Related_Contributions_Translation_Edith_a_thon_and_Bridging_Islamic_Gap_in_Hausa_Wikipedia
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics edit
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
I will like to learn how effective translation of articles to peoples language is and how it will promote the quality of the knowledge peoples get when they are taught in their mother's tongue. I will also like to know how the wikimedia tools are used to gather datas used in a project and in Wikipedia at large. I want to learn the concept of Qira'at ( various forms for recitation of the holy Quran).
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | 40 participants from two hausa communities where we will have at least 25 new participants. |
| Number of editors | 3 | There are 3 editors who volunteer to work with us and they are not among the 40 participants. |
| Number of organizers | 2 | Two Organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 70 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | 40 |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 10 |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
- WMF Hashtag
- outreach dashboard
- Glamorous Tool
- WMF XTool
Financial proposal edit
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2695000 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
2811.41 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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