Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki For Human Rights 2023 in Togo (ID: 22091522)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Akouete
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Akouete Hermannkass Ametovenak Bamouzou
- Organization
Wikimedia Community of Togo (not recognized group)
- 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.
Wikimedia community of Togo
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki For Human Rights 2023 in Togo
- 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://twitter.com/WikimediaTg https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078171596072 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Togo
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The global annual WikiForHumanRights campaign rallies wikimedia communities to take action to improve and contribute to wikimedia projects stories of environmental rights which enable safe and stable climate, healthy ecosystems and a non-toxic environment. In its third year of operating under the theme ‘’Right to a Healthy Environment’’, regions are empowered to coordinate community or country efforts according to what is suitable for the region. The Africa region is shaping the campaign to build local knowledge related to the broader theme by shifting focus of action to wikimedia projects such as wikidata that have knowledge gaps on the local actions, initiatives or projects led by local climate or environmental activists in Togo in Africa. In addition, we seek to improve the knowledge gap about these existing topics on french wikipedia in the region in a way it will be accessible to people in Togo. Through this campaign, we hope to build the knowledge of participants and the public about climate change and environment words in French that will serve as useful tools for local climate advocacy and communication in Togo.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1.Document stories, people and words related to environment and climate change in Togo
- 2.Build knowledge of participants and the public about climate change and environment vocabulary in French
- 3.Build the knowledge of participants on how to contribute climate change and environment vocabulary to wikimedia projects.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Document stories, people and words related to environment and climate change in Togo Organize Word-a-thons, Transl-a-thons, Data-a-thons, and wikiquote content drive to increase the coverage of climate change and environment knowledge about Togo in French, Ewe and others. Build knowledge of participants and the public about climate change and environment vocabulary in French, Ewe language. Organize Word-a-thons that will help participants learn how some environment words are pronounced and written in French and awareness about the importance of building local knowledge about such words in diverse language. Build the knowledge of participants on how to contribute climate change and environment vocabulary to wikimedia projects. Support participants to benefit from the different capacity building sessions and resources on wiktionary, wikidata and wikiquote organized by the campaign for the African region.
- 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.
WikiForHumanRights
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Akouete : Coordinator of the campaign in Togo Hermannkass : Trainer Ametovenak : Geographer and climate expert Bamouzou : Trainer
- 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, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), 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.
Togo has implemented many actions to tackle climate change and to protect the environment. However, few of these informations are available online, especially on wikipedia, wikidata and commons. This campaign will help us to correct all these gaps and make known the Togolese efforts in this field.
- 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, Advocacy, Human Rights, Public Policy, Climate Change and sustainability, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Age
- 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 target participants are active members across the Togo Wikimedia community, new editors, and volunteers working and interested in the relevant theme.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will let participants know of the WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct as well as put equity in consideration for their participation.
- 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.
Members are already informed on this campaign at our first meeting of the month. We have already published the informations on our whatsapp group, meta-wiki pages ; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Community_of_Togo & https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights_2023_in_Togo . We will organise very soon an online information session in other to let everyone be informed about all activities of this campaign.
- 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.
Yes
- 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.
In this project, we will work with NGO's who are working in environmental & climate change area especially Young Volunteers for the Environment (YVE) : https://jveinternational.org/ . YVE will help us in raising awareness on climate change but will also provide support in establishing the list of topics that will need to be modified and created.
- 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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We would like to learn the level of coverage of the topic we can achieve on other wikimedia projects aside wikipedia and our capacity to contribute to them. We would also love to understand the level of knowledge about the topic we can build in and outside the community.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Improve of articles related to environment and climate change in Togo | Number of articles created or modified | 40 |
| Increase the picture of environnemental and climate change issues in our country | Number of uploaded picture | 800 |
| Increase the number of new contributors | Number of new account created during the campain | 20 |
| Organise a photowalk | Number of photowalk organized | 1 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | New participant: 20
Returning participant: 10 |
30 |
| Number of editors | New participant: 15
Returning participant: 10 |
25 |
| Number of organizers | We will have 4 organizers for this event .Two of them will be new organizers . Then they will also help in trainings and support of the participants. | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | At least 40 articles will be created or modified | 40 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 600 new pictures will be uploaded on wikimedia commons. | 600 |
| Wikidata | 60 items will be added or modified on wikidata | 60 |
| Wiktionary | 50 words related to climate change will be modified/added on Wikitionary | 50 |
| Wikiquote | 60 citations will be added to Wikiquote | 60 |
- 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.
3041750 XOF
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
5000 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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