Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Namibia (ID: 22026998)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
N/A
- 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, Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia (an emerging 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 in Namibia
- 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.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Namibia is the arid country that is most vulnerable the consequences of climate change such prolong drought that lasted for years, increased flooding I some are and change in rain patterns are the major impacts of climate change in Namibia. Most of Namibians rely heavily in agriculture to survive. Raising awareness on the impacts of climate change in Namibia through collection of photos is a significant step. This will prompt citizens to adopt new ways of mitigating the impacts of climate change. As well as to do away with activities that are contributing to the climate change. This is an alternative way of documents these impacts.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
We will recruit volunteers that will be taking photos and upload them on Wikicommons. As a result volunteers will be acquainted with the impacts of climate climate change in Namibia. In addition these photos will be uploaded on Wiki commons and that will contribute to Namibian content narrative with visuals on Wikicommons . In return the these visuals will rise the awareness of impacts of climate change have on Namibia that is one of the driest country in the world.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. Virtual Training Workshops: The workshop will help with equipping editors with advanced Wiki Common Photo uploading editing skills so that they will be able to create, edit and improve articles.
- 2. Photo Contest: Photo contest will help with achieving the project outcomes
- 3.Price-giving ceremony: This will be a motivational event to
thank all the top contributors and hand over the project certificate and awards to the top contributors.
- 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?
1. User:Tautiko Shikoha- Project Lead User: Martin Hipangwa- Assistant Project Lead
- 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, 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.
As indicated in above questions, Namibia is blessed with a rare climatic condition which is desert and savannah encoupled with arid climates, thus documenting this information will help improve the knowledge on Wikipedia and Wiki Common. We aim to contribute photos on climate and whether in Namibia, which will greatly add to the open body of knowledge on Wiki Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia projects.
- 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, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Socioeconomic status, 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?
1. Target Audience: Namibian Youth
- 2. We will engage with the participants through our social media platforms for recruitments, and train them through online meetings. There will be a WhatsApp group to communicate daily communications to the participants and also to post frequently asked questions. Through their participation journey, their contributions will be tracked with the Dashboard to determine the winners and the overall contribution the project has made.
- 4. Participants will then be added to our emailing list to communicate and update participants on the way forward with joining the local community user group that was recently established.
To make sure we have a pool of Wikimedians, we will urge participants o continue with editing and adding content to Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikicommons, Wiki data etc. through various projects until we see a realization of a standing recognized community user group in Namibia.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will provide a safer inclusive virtual environment for all participants and make sure that no form of harassments or abuse. Since we are a new group, we don't have a policy, we will follow the Wikimedia policy on ensuring a safer space for all editors.
- 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.
I have discussed with the fellow co founder of Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia on the current communication platforms that we use such as email and on WhatsApp. We will move all the discussion to the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Namibia so that others can add their inputs and endorsements. We will then keep them updated on the rapid grant application process through the Meta page.
- 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?
- No
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- The other grant proposal we applied for had to do with Wikipedia edit-a-thon and not a photo contest. So the merging won't be possible.
- 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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
Did we reach the targeted number of photos we have planned to add to Wiki Commons? How many young unemployed youth are equipped with relevant digital skills on how to add photos on Wiki Commons. If I have achieved this, then the project is a success. I would like to be equipped with relevant leadership skills on how to run these grands and positively engage with fellow Wikipedia that are participating in the same contest from different countries.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Participants | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | Number of editors | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | Number of photos used on Wikimedia Projects | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of Participants including 2 organizers | 22 |
| Number of editors | Number of editors | 20 |
| Number of organizers | Number of Organizers | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of photos added | 300 |
| Wikipedia | Number of photos used in Wikipedia Articles | 20 |
| 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.
We will use the dashboard to count and track the number, contributions of entries by editors.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
32725 NAD
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1925 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tma3ueq05rJ7Y2snp2-QGJMlWuyszGuZXQQZUKCc5TY/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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