Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Physical Training And Workshop on Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata in Karadua Community (ID: 22128904)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Yusuf Sa'adu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Yusuf Sa'adu Gwanki Hamza Dk
- Organization
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- 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.
Hausa Wikimedias User Group Nigeria Wikimedias User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Physical Training And Workshop on Lexemes on Commons and Wikidata in Karadua Community
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
- 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.
We have a great challenge as Wikipedia editors but don't know how to contribute in Wikidata and how to upload photo, video, sounds and improve in Common, although some of us attended wikidata workshop but majority don't know how to edit wikidata and Common,With this proposal most of our less experience editor will know how to contribute in Common and wikidata. Most of the Hausa Wikipedia editors have few contribution in wikidata. As a result of the different projects I've led in Karadua community like, Wikipedia workshop in Funtua, Wiktionary workshop and training in Karadua Community, Wikipedia Awerness and promotion in Kafur, there are more editors of Wikimedia projects in the region especially from Funtua, Dandume, Kafur, Bakori, Danja, Malumfashi, Kankara, Musawa, Matazu, Faskari, Sabua. Many editors are focused on Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Individually, editors often asking me and Hamza Dk for more information about many questions related to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, because of this I understand some problems with editors that I wanted to solve. The problems include; Lack of contribution to Wikimedia Commons & Wikidata Lack of experience in using files especially Wikidata items and photos to other Wikimedia Projects like Wikipedia
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The main approach to achieve the desired change is to train individuals to contribute to Wiki projects such as Commons and Wikidata. This project would be developing the capacity of new and existing editors in contributing to Wikidata and Commons as well as fostering exchange of ideas, informed engagements, concepts and resources and related tools that will aid the advancement of Wikidata items and Commons objectives, the project within the Karadua community.
The organizers & facilitators of this program will spend time in:-
- 1. Creating awareness about Wikidata and Commons
- 2. Commons and Wikidata training to the new and existence Wikimedias editors
- 3. Preparing a list of words
- 4. Uploading the words to Wikimedia Commons using appropriate labels
- 5. Training about Common and Hausa lexicography
- 6. Recording the words
The change am given trying to bring about is to improve items on Wikidata and upload photo, video, sound on Commons as most items are lacking information and also, to ensure that items on Wikidata and uploaded Common file are having the right and relevant information to them, by combing existing items 'checking and removing errors', deleted unreliable sources, adding reliable sources, checking and deleted grammar/spelling errors, removing duplicate items and also ensuring properties are having the correct values to them. The first purpose is to improve and upload the quality, reliability, and credibility of Wikidata items lacking information as we are having a lot of items with no relevant information nor sources like (reference) for information accuracy.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
- 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?
- 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.
Language, 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.
- 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
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
- 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 ultimately members of the Karadua Community, especially student of Abdullahi Aminchi College of Education Funtua, Maslaha Community College of Education Funtua, Katikan Katsina College of Education Dandume and many schools from our community, who are based from different/various location. It will be the physical meet-up where all active members of the community will be gathering together. It will also be an opportunity to discuss how we can improve the sustainability of the Karadua Community Group and her activities and also decide where and when to carryout our next projects. New participants will be added to the Karadua Community Whatsapp group where on-boarding information will be shared. The participants will be mentored on Whatsapp meetings in addition to the in-person trainings and edit-a-thons. After the events, all new participants will be encouraged to join the social media of Karadua Community in other to continue participating in the future events and training.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for 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.
- 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?
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
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- 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.
- 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
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
- 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.
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
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- 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.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
0 USD
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- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
No
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