Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Digi (ID: 22890389)

statusDraft
Wiki Digi
proposed start date2025-02-10
proposed end date2025-06-09
budget (local currency) 
budget (USD) USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
applicant• Lutarchitecture
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Lutarchitecture

Organization

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Main Proposal

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

Wiki Digi

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2025-02-10 - 2025-06-09

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

International (more than one country across continents or regions) Canada (Canadian Center for Architecture)

The proposal will also be implemented at the Architecture Museum—Canadian Centre for Architecture in Canada. The CCA and I are collaborating on this project, as the data collected will be used to train some CCA staff on article creation and contribute to the Wikimedia movement generally. The CCA team will partner with the community to create quality articles.

Ghana (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group)

As part of the efforts to enhance cross-border collaborations in the African region, the proposal aims to make this collaboration as seamless as possible, having participants from both the Nigerian Community and the Ghanaian Community learn booth PattyPan and Open Refine to support quality contributions on the different wiki projects The proposal aims at contributing to and further inculcating a spirit of camaraderie amongst all participants that will be involved in the training.

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Wikimedia Hackathon

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)

CHANGES THE PROPOSAL WILL BRING

1. Skill Development and Growth of Community Members

2. Capacity building of community

The proposal aims to elevate the capacity levels of the community members and the general wiki community in Nigeria. It involves all-around capacity building, from personal development to life skills acquisition, leadership prowess, wiki skills, and general community buildup on various levels and strata.

3. Awareness creation for Wiki Projects

The proposal will enhance the awareness of Wikimedia projects among varying Wikimedia community user groups. Posters that will be made during the course of the proposal will be used to create awareness and help newly onboarded members with the wikimedia projects.

4. Goal-oriented Training and Mentorships

5. Sustainable Retention of Members


Problems to solve

1. Contribution Limitation: Most community members are newly onboarded, and this proposal serves as a means to equip them with relevant skills and knowledge needed to aid and support contributions and unhinge them from the varying limitations that plagued on them due to uncertainties about how to contribute to different projects and hence building their capacity, preparing them ahead of other projects 2.Skill limitation 3. Growth redundancy 4. Loss of interest 5. Non-participation of members 6. Low updated knowledge of members

approaches to achieve

a. guidance and counselling: The proposal will provide avenues for participant opportunities to receive counsel and guidance from trainers and more experienced wikimedians that will be in volved in the proposals b. effective task distribution and monitoring: the proposal will help participants get more involved in the projects by getting them involved in every step of the projects, distributing tasks ranging from curation to research and development to editing and providing necessary support and monitoring for them as well to check and oversee performance metrics c. Regular team member engagement: Based on the engagement strategy of the proposal, meetings and events will be held to expose the community to Wiki projects and campaigns as it relates to the proposal. Engaging the community through this events and activities will enhance the sustainability strategy of the community in its entire operations and help create a strategic means to always keep members informed and aware of the various programs and campaigns unfolding on-wiki that may be unaware of d. Graphics designs aimed at creating awareness: The proposal will engage a team of volunteer graphic designers to create visually appealing designs to enhance reach and spread about Heritage Archives and the role of Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia in archiving this knowledge gathered. the designs will help share relevant information about the process of digitization and curation of Heritage Archives e. Basic Training f. Mentorship g. Sustainable engagement h.Upskilling of members i. Introduction to skill acquisition and development j. Outreaches and visits k. Targeted audience reach l. Content Creation, engaging post m. User-friendly community orientation and Friendly Space policy n. Checks, follow-up strategies o. Constant education p. Webinars and events q. Workshops and training

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.

Open refine and PattyPan Trainings Curation and digitization trainings Curation Digitization Cross border Collaboration and partnership Interministerial collaboration and partnerships Stakeholders and custodial partnerships


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.

Dnshitobu OgaliHillary Lutarchitecture ‪Kristbaum

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)

Heritage groups in Nigeria Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Library archives and Museum groups in Nigeria

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.

Global Glam Telegram Group Whatsapp Community Group Talk pages Email message sending

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)

Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage or GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Geographic

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning and metrics

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17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

Building Heritage Architectural History Climate Change Architectural Design Style Community management stakeholder Management sustainable Heritage conservation

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics Target Optional description
Number of participants 50
Number of editors 30
Number of organizers 15
Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia 20
Wikimedia Commons 1000
Wikidata 100
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia
Optional description for content contributions.

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19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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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)

Tool forge Support provided from the created Dashboard for the project that automatically updates based on the contributions of Participants

Financial proposal

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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

Endorsements and Feedback

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  • Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
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  • Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
  • Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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