Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Unity School Old Association (USOSA) ABU Chapter (ID: 22000822)
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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, Ahmadeemah, Sadauki11, Abubakr111 and Sanusi Gado and Lucy Iwuala
- 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 and Hausa Wikimedians User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Unity School Old Association (USOSA) ABU Chapter
- 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.
Unity School Old Association (USOSA) Ahmadu Bello University Chapter is an association for old students that graduated from Federal Government Colleges of Nigeria and are currently studying in Ahmadu Bello University, they are old student of different F.G.C’s from Nigeria and are currently studying in ABU, they are USOSA under ABU Chapter.
After a mutual meeting discussion and planning with the president of USOSA under ABU Chapter. The president seek to engage USOSA students to learn Wikimedia Skills from experience editor, As a result of that this project aim to engage USOSA Students of ABU chapter to learn Wikimedia sister projects basic editing/contribution conceptual skills, through offline and online workshops. The project aim to train USOSA ABU chapter students on four Wikimedia Sister project, starting from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikitionary.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
This project aim to carry out 4 online trainings and two in person events to mentor USOSA students on four Wikimedia Sister projects starting for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikitionary, it will take us the duration of one month for the USOSA students to acquire the skills.
Part of the scheduled bulletin is for them to carry out assignments, participate in online courses and participate in in-person events, at the end a certificate will be awarded to the successful student. Moreover, a special WhatsApp group will be created for the USOSA students for any questions and answer or any further mentorship.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
- Online training: during this project we plan to carry out like 10 online trainings about four Wikimedia Sisters projects, students of USOSA will be joining to learn and build their skills/experiences of contributing to Wikimedia sister projects.
- In person event:After ten 10 online trainings have been carried out and participants are more well satisfied with knowledge they have acquired on Wikimedia editing skills, then we would organize two events inside ABU or in zaria to engage the participants physically.
- Physical advocates in A.B.U
- 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 user:Anassko will lead this event as lead facilitator, with Ahmadeemah the USOSA President for ABU chapter as project coordinator for the entire program. We have Musa Vacho77 as the logistics officer. abubakr111 an admin in Wikitionary as a Wikitionarian Mentor during the event. We have Sadauki11 as an experience editor to Mentor participants on Wikimedia Commons, Shaba50 as the monitoring officer during the events, Iwuala Lucy as a Linguistic Officer to monitor other participants interested in Yoruba or Igbo language Wiki.
- 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
- 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.
This project will as well work on languages, according to the information we have received from the USOSA president there many people from different regions with different language and ethnicity. We plan to take them all along.
- 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?
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 targeted participants are Unity School Old School Association students that are based in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, after showing interest in learning Wikimedia conceptual skills of editing and contributing in various Wikimedia sister projects. Their number exceed our capacity to volunteer in mentoring them alone, we need support from Wikimedia Foundation to help in enrolling them into the Wikimedia movement.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will adhere with Universal Code of Conduct (UCOC), Wikimedia Foundation friendly space policy and basic terms of use of various Wikimedia Sister project rules, without violating any Wikimedia policy.
- 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.
We have made an announcement in four local language wikis Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulfulde. So that interested users can join us, The link is below
- Hausa
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Fulfulde
- 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?
- 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.
- 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, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We hoped to see that many students of USOSA learn and acquired Wikimedia skills and are willing to contribute massively in Wikimedia ecosystem and it’s sister project.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Target participants | The number of USOSA students we are targeting is 50 | 50 |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The participants to attend online and inperson events | 100 |
| Number of editors | The number of participants to edit and contribute in differing Wikis and different Wikimedia Sistet projects. | 40 |
| Number of organizers | There will be 7 or more organizers in this program to facilitate the entire program. | 7 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Articles to be created in different Wikis. | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Photos to be uploaded in Wikimedia Commons from participates as part of their assignment and from organizers as part of their mentoring process. | 200 |
| Wikidata | Wikidata item to be created or linked | 50 |
| Wiktionary | Words to create in Wikitionary from participants and organizers. | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Ef6BWbOmkC1VtTxeDcdz1FVC2X_p-3sL-8BknvFayI/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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