Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/MEDIAWIKI HUB in KAD ICT HUB Kaduna (ID: 22659242)

statusDraft

Rapid Fund

MEDIAWIKI HUB in KAD ICT HUB Kaduna

proposed start date2024-07-22

proposed end date2024-10-20

budget (local currency)

budget (USD) USD

grant typeIndividual

funding regionunknown region

decision fiscal year2023-24

applicant• Umar-askira

organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Umar-askira

Organization

N/A

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N/A

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Main Proposal

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

MEDIAWIKI HUB in KAD ICT HUB Kaduna

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2024-07-22 - 2024-10-20

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)

Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom

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)

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.

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.

Umqr-askira: Project Lead. I will be the organizer of the project and the supervisors of the facilitators to ensure the event work successfully.
: Training organizer, he will organize training schedules and handle the new users needs e.g creating usernames, installing mediawiki application and help and support.
Hamxo: Spokesman, he is an experienced editor and lead the team of editors that create wikipedia hub in Kaduna State University (KASU)
Iliyas Umar: Facilitator, he is an experienced editor and organized several event in Kaduna and mentor the newcomers how to contribute to wikipedia

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)

The target participants are the staffs of Kad ICT Hub Kaduna. We will engage the participants before the event by promoting a general awareness by sharing flyers, notice board and school social media handles. After the events, we will create social media groups for helo and support purpose. we will follow up the participants by engaging them in to massive contribution to wikipedia especially mediawiki because all of the participants are software developers.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

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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.

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)

Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Open Technology

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Digital Access

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

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Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	30	The participants will be the staffs with some students of KAD ICT HUB Kaduna. The staffs developers and ICT/IT experts.
Number of editors	25	The editors would be combined, some wikipedia experience editors and the participants of the events who we would train and show them how to contribute to wikipedia especially mediawiki
Number of organizers	5	The organizers are experienced wikipedia editors from different user groups and all of them have organised and facilitate several wikipedia projects.

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	50
Wikimedia Commons	50
Wikidata	50
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki	50
MediaWiki	100
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

The project is mostly going to be focused more on Mediawiki, wikidata and commons. with this hub we planned to have mediawiki developers community that will keep the hub maintain active.

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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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)

I am going to outreach dashboard to track the participants activities.

Financial proposal

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)

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.

USD

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