Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiVibrance International Youth Day (IYD) 2022 in Ghana for the Gurene Wikimedia Community (ID: 21918178)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Dnshitobu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Dnshitobu - Project manager Uprising Man - Facilitator Akakiiri - Language Expert Awinebotima - Social media Ayire Adongo - Jury
- Organization
Gurene Wikimedian Community
- 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.
Yes Dagbani Wikimedian User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
WikiVibrance International Youth Day (IYD) 2022 in Ghana for the Gurene Wikimedia Community
- 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://web.facebook.com/search/top?q=gurene%20wikimedia%20community
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
This project is a local campaign to support the global event with a similar one in the Gurene Wikimedia Community.
This will celebrate and put a spotlight on community members who are contributing to the goal to digitize the Gurene language and culture on Wikipedia and its sister projects. These individuals include researchers, language translators, students, community groups, lecturers, software developers,
Young Wikimedians are part of the about 1.8 billion young people taking action to solve pressing issues in different corners of the world today. They are found in almost every wikimedia community in the movement. Their presence is felt in the communities they lead, belong to, and the actions they take in building free knowledge on Wikimedia projects.
Therefore, as young people's voices are celebrated all over the world on 12th August, 2022, it is important that we are moved to celebrate young wikimedians and the communities/individuals who are shaping these group of people, for their work in local wikimedia communities and the movement at large.
Beyond this, it creates an opportunity to leverage our number and capacity as a strength for collective action in bridging the knowledge gap on this year's IYD theme Intergenerational Solidarity: "Creating a World for All Ages" on Wikimedia projects.
In addition, we hope to increase youth participation, diversity, and capacity in the Wikimedia movement noting how important it is for movement sustainability.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1. Develop activities to celebrate young wikimedians, their work and the communities shaping them in Gurene Wikimedia Community. The strategy will be to develop artworks and audi-visual content on what community members have done.
- 2. Develop activities to bridge the knowledge gap on the theme "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages" in relation to the Gurene Wikimedia Community context.
- 3. Engage in activity(s) that highlights youth diversity and participation in the movement. This will focus on minority issues where artworks will be developed to sensitize members on the complexity of our society.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Develop activities to celebrate young wikimedians, their work, and the communities shaping them in Gurene Wikimedia Community: We will launch a simple community survey to identify two (2) young Wikimedians (preferably male and female where available) with the highest number of edits, led/co-led Edit-a-thons/training/campaigns, or other forms of leadership recognized by the community. We will also identify one Wikimedian who is not a young person but helping to shape the journey of young people or their communities within the Gurene Wikimedia Community. We will organize a celebratory community event for the identified people to recognize and award them with prizes. Where possible, we will also share with the WikiVibrance global coordination team to spotlight them through their social media and media partners. Develop activities to bridge the knowledge gap on the theme "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages" in relation to the Gurene Wikimedia Community context:
Edit-a-thons like ‘Learn about my community’ creates an environment where older people and historians can share resources with the younger generation to help their community and culture. Oral Tradition is a more significant part of our history therefore this will create a synergy between older folks and younger ones.
Engage in activity(s) that highlight youth diversity and participation in the movement:
Join the participants or communities from different countries in the Wikimedia movement to tell stories of our work and communities during the Wikimania conference which will double as a global launch event for International Youth Day 2022. Share our results and stories with the global coordination team to be included in the diff publication.
- 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)
- The WikiVibrance Project
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Dnshitobu - Project manager Uprising man - Facilitator Akakiiri - Language expert Awinebotima - Social media Ayire Adongo - Language expert
- 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, Age (regency), Language, Socioeconomic Status, 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.
With a focus on topics related to the theme "Intergenerational solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages", we will address the content gap among youths, middle-aged, and senior citizens of different cultural backgrounds, ethnicity, religion, and racial with varied socioeconomic status, politics, health, and employment sector; national youth policies/Programmes/action that support youth participation in politics, women presence in the health and legal sector
- 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.
Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Age, Digital Access
- 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 participants are going to be members of the Gurene Wikimedia Community and the Dagbani Wikimedians. We will engage participants on the WhatsApp and the Telegram pages and other local pages in the movement
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The Gurene Wikimedia Community’s constitution and Wikimedia policies always will be enforced to create a safer space for community members.
- 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 informed the WikiVibrance project core team of our intention to support the global campaign with a similar campaign in our local communities here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Youth_Day_2022/Join_Community_Event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Youth_Day_2022/Organize
- 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?
Yes
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- Yes
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- The joint proposal will lead to an increase in participation and knowledge sharing among members of the Mole Dagbani Group.
- 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.
Improve User Experience, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We would have learned and appreciated youth who have contributed in diverse ways to building our communities. We would also learn from their stories and network with some of them for greater good
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Editors | Number of editors | 40 |
| Articles | Number of articles | 50 |
| Wikidata items | Number of wikidata items | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons media | Number of media uploaded | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Volunteer editors meeting up | 40 |
| Number of editors | Editors who will be retained and continue active editing during the afterwards | 30 |
| Number of organizers | Groups of people to work with | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Incubator | Articles to be created or improved | 50 |
| Wikidata | Items to be created or improved | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Media to be uploaded or improved | 50 |
| 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.
These metrics are set based on the active new volunteers who study the Gurene language at the University of Education, Winneba, Ajumako campus as a major for their Bachelor of Education degree. They see this project as a digital version of what they learn in school
- 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.
1. Outreach dashboard: This tool will monitor participants' quantitative data and activities.
- 2. Hashtag: This will allow us to track the significant activities
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
18200 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1521.6 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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