Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Tyap Wikimedians User Group Celebrates Wikidata's 10th Birthday (ID: 21957027)

statusFunded
Tyap Wikimedians User Group Celebrates Wikidata's 10th Birthday
proposed start date2022-10-29
proposed end date2022-10-30
grant start date2022-10-29T00:00:00Z
grant end date2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)935000 NGN
budget (USD)2226.2 USD
amount recommended (USD)2226.2
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• User:Kambai Akau
organization (if applicable)• N/A
Review Final Report

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

User:Kambai Akau

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

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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.

Tyap Wikimedians User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Tyap Wikimedians User Group Celebrates Wikidata's 10th Birthday

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.

I am trying to bring to the knowledge of the Tyap Wikimedians, many of whom never knew about Wikimedia Foundation before September 2021, of the existence of a website called Wikidata, which is easy to edit with quite a minimum challenge faced while editing. This is important because some view editing on Wikimedia projects as very tasking, involving translations of word sentences, especially in Wikipedia and Wiktionary. I discovered this from previous in-person events we held together. In summary, this event is aimed at opening up their eyes to a new reality and making them know that apart from the other WMF projects they know of, there is another one they could develop interest in and edit with ease.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

My main approach here, is to have an onsite event as well as have an online event concurrently. When the announcement for the meetup event are put out through the respective social media outlets of the group, those who show interest in participating online would be asked to indicate, and incentives for participating online, such as gift internet bundles, would also be made available for those who attend and are able to edit online.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We are going to have posters designed to use for inviting participants to the Meetup event. The phone numbers of those who attended previous editing programmes shall be used to call and/or send messages of invitation to them. We are having an editing party on the first day and a more festive event on the second and closing day of the meetup.

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.

Other (please specify)

Tyap Wikimedians User Group Celebrates Wikidata's 10th Birthday
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Yes. My team is made up of the newly elected Tyap Wikimedians User Group Board of Trustees members. Their names and their official positions are as follows:

1. User:Kambai Akau (Executive Director)
2. User:Zbobai (Assistant Director)
3. User:Valtino44 (Events, Grants and Meetups Coordinator)
4. User:Bello Lydia (Secretary)
5. User:Steve Kally (IT, Communications and Outreach Coordinator)
6. User:Friday musa (Financial Secretary)
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.

Participants shall be encouraged to search for articles involving females to translate them into Tyap language. The event page on Meta-wiki would also stress this.

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, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Geographic , Linguistic / Language

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 main targets are those who have attended any of the previous editing events organized by the Tyap Wikimedians User Group. These participants submitted their phone numbers in previous events, so, those numbers shall be used to contact them for this event and after it. They were also made to join the Telegram group, others, the WhatsApp and Facebook groups. These are avenues for reaching out to them.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

The general environment under which we operate in any of our previous events is one which encourages self-respect and valuing what one has as an identity. If one values him or herself, one finds it easier to value others.

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.

This proposal is first of all a private discussion among the Board of Trustees members. After the submission of the proposal, we shall announce our proposal before the various members of the group in our social media channels which are as follows:

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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

I would want to learn about how people from my region view editing on Wikidata compared to editing on Wikipedia or the Incubator. This is to give me an idea about what to do next.

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 Data
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants The participants who attended on the first day can return on the second day. The average amount of people expected to be present offline is put at 20, while those expected to be present online are put at 15. 35
Number of editors In the Tyap Wikimedians User Group, there are about 40 members drawn from the past three offline/in-person editing events we held between October 2021 and May 2022. Out of these, six are active Wikimedia contributors on varying projects like Wikipedia, Incubator and Wikimedia Commons. In each programme we have held, inviting 20 people to attend such an each event, we got most times nothing less than half of that amount. In this event, we shall invite all the previous editors and new editors, with an attractive incentive of highest editor taking an amount of money home. In this way, many would be pushed to edit more. We hope to have as much as about 20 editors (or more) at the end of the meetup event including both old and new editors. 20
Number of organizers The organizers would have different roles according to their Offices in the Tyap Wikimedians User Group. The names of organizers and their official positions are as follows:
1. Kambai Akau (Executive Director)
2. Zwandien Bobai (Assistant Director)
3. Didam Valentine Michael (Events, Grants and Meetups Coordinator)
4. Linda Bello (Secretary)
5. Stephen Kalad Jonathan (IT, Communications and Outreach Coordinator)
6. Friday Musa (Financial Secretary)

All these people would work together to achieve the set goal of hosting a successful meetup event.

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Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
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17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

We hope to edit for Tyap language on Wikidata by translating terminologies into Tyap from English. We might not be able to effectively and automatically track how much contributions an editor makes due to the lack of knowhow to do so, but we would need help from experts on this. If we are to do so manually, there is a doubt as to if there would be enough time to manually look into the edits of each person at the end of the editing session. However, for the sake of awarding of prizes to editors with highest number of edits, we shall device a way to ensure that we get the highest editor in the whole event. All those editing Tyap language on Wikidata would be required to sign on the Wikidata event page created for this event so that their contributions could be tracked.

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, and maybe Integraality (though, I may need support in putting the latter to use).

Financial Proposal edit

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

935000 NGN

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

2226.2 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ydrsbXpozzVdNQA8V3u8wgw7k8EelVAPAFNxem9bDCM/edit#gid=0

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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