Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania 2.0 (ID: 22916373)
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Applicant Details
edit- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Rwebogora
- Organization
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- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania 2.0
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-02-07 - 2025-04-07
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Tanzania
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Gender and diversity
- 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)
Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania aims at bridging the gap of including people with disability in a digital space and increasing Swahili language contents to Wikimedia projects relating to people with hearing impairment. This proposal concerns Phase 2 (two) of the project after a big step that we made in phase 1 (one) or launching of the project for the first time in our country reaching out to the underserved community of people with hearing impairment and sign language interpreters. As being narrated in our previous report, we intend to make the project sustainable and more engaging to our target groups, that why we are seeking support to implement planned activities to be implemented in our next move, and this is what is expected from our collaborators like academic institutions such as school where we established our club and being challenged to make the initiative sustainable and not be an one time event. We wished for this opportunity and we are ready to take advantage of it by providing more trainings and enrolling other members after the first intakes. So, in Phase 2 we are expecting to: 1. To provide more training to our group and club members (Wiki4Inclusion Dar Group and Wiki4Inclusion Patandi Maalum Sec. School Club) 2. Recruit other new editors (or members) to our group and club, this will be the outcome of other physical editathons which will be organized and facilitated by our team which consist of experienced Wikimedians. At Patandi Maalum Secondary School, we formulated a club with first intake of 20 members, so in Phase we are expecting to add another group of 20 and train the with our first intake for sustainability.
3. Add images, videos to Wikimedia Commons as well as improving Wikidata
items.
4.Introduce and contribute to Swahili Wikiquote which is in Wikimedia Incubation as an initiative to add more contribution and editors for it to be moved to the main space and add disabilities contents including concerning hearing impaired people. We will touch category like this [1] in our implementation.
- 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.
We are planning to conduct (2) editathons in Dar es salaam and three (3) editathons in Arusha. As usual, these trainings or editathons will involve our group or club members plus new members or participants with hearing impairement and sign language interpreters. Our plans with the Ministry of education and school administrations in Meru district Arusha is to extend or reach out to other special schools and see on how we can work jointly or organize inter events in the future.
These activities will include providing training and editing articles for Wikipedia, Wikidata and Swahili Wikiquote. They will most touch topics of disabilities especially hearing-impaired people and sign language interpreters.
Also, we plan to add more images and videos to Wikimedia Commons relating to our project.
- 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.
The campaign will involve the following team members who will work as volunteers: User: Rwebogora - Project Lead, Coordinator and Trainer - A social scientist by professional and an experienced Wikimedian who joined the movement in 2019 contributing to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects, having experience in editing, training, organizing, facilitating, mentoring and photographing. He has participated in different Wiki projects and contests (local and international) such Wiki Loves Africa, Isa Tool Campaign, WPWP, SheSaid 2023 in Tanzania, Afrocuration Project in Tanzania, Africa Wiki Challenge, African Women on Wikipedia and WikiForHumanRights just to mention a few. User: Anuary Rajabu - Facilitator - An experienced Wikimedian and a founder of Wikimedians of Tabora. User: Killy95 - Facilitator - An experienced Wikimedian from Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania with experience in editing and organizing events. Beatrice Chiluka - Sign Language Interpreter - An experienced sign language inyterpreter and a Deputy General Secretary of Tanzania Sign Language Interpreters Association. Meshack – an experienced sign language interpreter and a teacher by proffessional.User:Olimasy : Technical Advisor - A telecomunication engineer by professional and an experienced Swahili Wikipedia admin.
- 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)
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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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)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Disabilities
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics
edit- 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)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 80 | |
| Number of editors | 80 | |
| Number of organizers | 8 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 50 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 50 |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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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)
Outreach dashboard and Event registration tool
Financial proposal
edit- 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
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
No
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