Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2023:Climate and Weather in North Eastern Nigeria (ID: 22021037)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Musaddam Idriss
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (not recognized affiliate)
- 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.
Fulfulde Wikimedia Community User Group
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Africa 2023:Climate and Weather in North Eastern Nigeria
- 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/Wikimediafulah
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
There are number of reasons that stimulate our interest to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) 2023: themed "Climate and Weather" one of these reasons is being for the fact that two-third of our community members are from places in that part of Nigeria which experienced drastic weather and climate change that caused serious effects to the lives of the people and the environment causing disasters like flooding, bush fires, drought in some parts, global warming etc. which has been lasting for a long time. With contests like Wiki Loves Africa which is an annual photo contest held on the African continent, our community members will have a chance to share their story though visual photographs, audios and videos. Secondly, our participation will also be an occasion to introduce the Wiki Loves Africa contest to the existing and new contributors in the community of Fulfulde Wikimedians User Group. Recently, we have had a workshop/editathon where the community members where trained on how to contribute/upload recorded words as audio files on Wikimedia Commons in which nearly 1,000 audio files where uploaded and this made us to believe that the community members will participate actively in sharing with the world the untold African stories that can be found in the North Eastern Region of Nigeria through relevant media files. Lastly, we aim to increase the number of visuals and audio visuals of African origin for use on various Wikimedia projects. This will be the 1st edition to take place in our community will be the first edition to cover the region of North Eastern Nigeria.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Following are the major approaches/strategies we will be implementing while carrying out this event:
- Workshop: we will introduce our community members to the Wiki Loves Africa contest and train them on how to contribute/participate and also invite professional photographers in the region and introduce them to Wikimedia projects and give them room to participate in the contest.
- Photo hunts: we will embark on a photo walks taking and gathering random pictures of about 150-200 different unrepeated, quality images related to climate and weather.
- Training sessions: another training will be held before the participants start uploading the media files to ensure accuracy and meeting of the requirements and to avoid having many problems with the uploaded files.
- Upload sessions: most experience editors from the community will lead and guide the rest of the participants especially the newly recruited ones during the upload sessions.
- Tracking Tools: we will use outreach dashboard, GLAM, Wikiloves and hashtag tools to track participants' contributions and also provide one on one support for them.
- Prizes: we will consider giving out prizes at the local level to the top 5 contributors as incentives to motivate them at the end of the contest.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will embark on a photo hunt during the months of March and April to provide photographs along with other Wiki Loves Africa contests. We will then select the best photographs and submit them to the international contest. We will also have a minor additional activities that will improve Wikipedia contents by adding the photographs to the relevant articles.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Africa
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, Musaddam Idriss will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project. Ibrahim442 co-organizer and will help to mobilize young people around the project and in organizing the planned activities. Harandee will serve the role of communications and outreach in this project, she will be responsible for notifying the security agencies to ensure a successful conduct of the activities. Two other experienced facilitators will also be invited from other Wikimedia User Groups to give their helping hands in this project.
- 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.
Geography, Language, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 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.
- 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 , Climate Change and sustainability, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 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?
This contest is open to all Wikimedia Fulfulde Community members and everyone outside the community regardless of their status and/or background. All photography lovers who have images to share related to Weather and Climate of north eastern region of Nigeria are welcome to join the contest.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will make an effort to notify the security agents of the related places where the event will cover and also put into account the Wikimedia Foundation's universal code of conduct policy
- 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 shared the proposal with the community members in our WhatsApp Group
- 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.
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
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. We hope to learn the impact we can achieve as Fulfulde Community in the Wikimedia movement through contributing to the year 2023 Wiki Loves Africa event.
- 2. We will also hope to grade the capacity of our community to run a contest of this scale.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Increase in pictures | Number of uploaded pictures | 200 |
| Number of new participants | Number of newly registered volunteers | 10 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of participants uploading a photo | 30 |
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers | Number of volunteers coordinating the activites | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of pictures uploaded on Commons | 200 |
| Wikipedia | number of photos used in wikipedia articles | 30 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
- 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.
Outreach Dashboard, GLAM and Wikiloves Tool Forge
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1101000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2441.89 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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