Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Love Africa Nigeria 2024:Celebrating African Creativity (ID: 22393206)
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Applicant Details edit
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Favourdare123
- 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.
Wiki Love Africa Nigeria 2024:Celebrating African Creativity
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-03-04 - 2024-04-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Wiki Loves Africa
- 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)
Wiki love of Africa is an annual contest that encourages people to take and upload their photos and videos experiences on Wikimedia Commons.
Joining the Global campaign:Add more images about the theme (Africa Creates) in our community and improve articles by integrating these images in their related articles
Advocacy:Recruit and train new editors through the various photo expeditions, upload sessions and edit-a-thons.
Engage existing editors to contribute to Commons and other sister projects in our community
Create awareness about the Wikimedia movement and its activities through the photo walk and the campaign generally
- 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.
Awareness campaigns: we will be carrying out awareness campaigns about the event and also promoting awareness of our community to the public using our social media channels and also creating E-fliers and posters about the event to create awareness to our members and interested participants.
Photo Walk/ Training: we will be organizing a photo walk as part of the global campaign to create awareness about wikimedia commons and also upload photos and video about Africa. During the course of the photo walk will be having a training session to train participants on how to upload their photos on wikimedia commons and how to be part of the photo contest globally.
Virtual learning: There will be a follow up session virtually to discuss on the contribution of our participants during the contest and engage the participants to know their experiences and challenges during the process of uploading their photos from the photo walk.
Contest: As the global campaign is about contest the will be a local contest within our community and prizes will be given to top contributors during the contest.
- 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.
Favourdare123(president): I am the president of the Wikimedia fan club Unilorin, and also an active contributor on wikimedia projects, i have hosted project like Hackathons 2022, WikiVibrance and Wikipedia awareness in Oro and I also have Co facilitated Info tourism and Wellness which was a photo Walk.
I will be handling the physical training during the event.
Akintundedaniel(general secretary): he is also an experienced editor and trainer who has lead lots of projects under the wikimedia movement and has also trained a lot of participants
He will be in charge of the training virtually and also engaging editors during the contest serving as the local jury for the community.
Mijesty(Social Media Manager) she is an experienced editor and also a experienced trainer. She has been involved in training participants in project like reading Wikipedia in class, Let’s connect in kwara state 2022 and many other projects.
She will be in charge of information and communication with the community and it interested participants. She will be handling the awareness campaigns and active communication with the participants.
- 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)
Our target participants are our community members and everyone who has interest in joining our fan club
Before the event: we aim at engaging the community and informing them about the event through all our social media platforms and also posting e-flyers. This will encourage the to anticipate about the event creating awareness to interested participants who wish to participate.
During the event, the participants we would continually engage the participants through our social media platform, to keep them informed during the events and to be able to communicate with them and share information to them about the complete and also the process of the photo walk and encourage them to participate in the global contest.
After the event: they will be added to our community platform and we will engage the group to share more information about wikimedia projects and to keep them active even after the campaigns.
We believe that our strategy will encourage our participants to be active contributors to the community and the wikimedia movement.
- 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.
I have informed the wikimedia user group Nigeria about my project proposal via the meta page and WhatsApp group and I have also added my community to the meta page of Wiki loves Africa 2024 to indicate my project.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 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)
1.We hope to learn how the project has impacted the Wikimedia movement.
- 2.We also hope to learn how the project has been a tool to create knowledge about Wikimedia Commons to editors new to the wiki sister projects and how they can actively contribute.
- 3.We also hope to understand more about the project that can equip and help to building the knowledge platform.
- 4. We hope to learn from the challenges faced and how to correct it in our next application
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | 20 new participants and 20 existing participants |
| Number of editors | 40 | Both old and new editors from the community |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 1 projects lead
2 team members |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 400 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract 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
Financial proposal edit
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nQRjjBOHxnt8EJbqqn_v3Bsbu9OJh7le2M0vQr7GgSE/edit
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2495024.58 NGN
- 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.
3170 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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