Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Panaroma and Drone Photo tour in Nigeria (ID: 22000851)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Anasskoko
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Musa Vacho77 and others across NCPUG
- 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.
Planning Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Panaroma and Drone Photo tour in Nigeria
- 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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Commons_Photographers_User_Group
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The changes we are trying to bring out is to have a panoramic and drone view images of some prominent places, heritage and monuments. This is because Nigerian related articles lack those images in relevant Wikipedia pages, seeing panaromic view of heritage and monuments helps to make effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge acquiring.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
We plan to carry out this photo tour with the help of Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group members and other Nigerian communities like Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani. A strategic plan to visit 2 states in every geographical region in Nigeria, in every state we will carry out a two day photo walk to get the shots.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
First of all we will engage professional photographers with the abilities and tools T o help in seeing the effectiveness of the tour, next members of
- 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.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
I will lead this project with the help of Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group members, in person of Musa Vacho77, Uncle Bash007 from Hausa Community and Lucy Iwuala from Igbo Community and members from four Nigerian communities.
- 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
- 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.
We selected geography to cover some prominent places, monuments and heritage in Nigeria.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Not applicable
- 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 the Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group members whom came from different region of Nigeria.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
During the Edith a thon we would definitely comply to the UCOC and to the Wikimedia Foundation friendly space policy, to ensure safety and privacy of participants.
- 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 reached out the four communities in Nigeria to engage them, members of Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group are from different communities. Below is a link to the announcement and engagement in different communities.
- 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.
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We wanted to see that over 100 articles have panorama image in different language Wikis, having that will help readers to understand a written article more visually. Moreover, nowadays as an innovative concept, it is required in every article to have a panaroma image under section Gallery, that’s in article related to places, monuments, heritages and what have you. Looking at that angle this project will work effectively to see that we created the change want through through the strategic plan.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | The number of panaroma images to upload to Wikimedia Commons. | 500 |
| Wikipedia | The number of images to be linked to Wikipedia | 250 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | We will engage 30 participants in the photo tour, 10 in different states and region in Nigeria. | 30 |
| Number of editors | The editors that will participate in Workshops to help in uploading the content and linking | 50 |
| Number of organizers | There will be five organizers, I will be the lead organizer with other four organizers as facilitators. | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number images to Uplaod | 500 |
| Wikipedia | Number of images to link | 240 |
| 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.
Yes some times we experience difficulties or technical issues that result in not getting the proper metrics measures, if such happens we will follow up to users contributions to see the number of images that have uploaded/linked
- 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.
We will use the following tools;
- Outreach Dashboard: to create the event program and track users uploads, though sometimes a page link created in Outreach Dashboards results in page not found, to scale through this obstacle a category in Wikimedia Commons will be created to categorize every image uploaded.
- Glamorous Tool will be used to figure out the number of images linked to various Wikis.
- WMF Xtools will be used to track users contribution in Wikimedia Commons in case of technical issues.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1429228 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3218.75 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1auDcC67PmaL--dNjD9m8vm8KYFKp8EI64S5sMOGqm8g/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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