Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Ruhengeri (ID: 22059269)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
MrTallBoy
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
MrTallBoy Nirwanda12
- 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.
Wikimedians of Ruhenegeri 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 Ruhengeri
- 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.
Meta:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Ruhengeri_User_Group
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Ruhengeri will focus on recruiting new volunteers in our user group and on involving participants in media shooting that illustrate the theme of this year's campaign: "Climate and Weather". Pictures and videos will be uploaded on Wikimedia commons, and they will be used to update and visualize Rwanda related contents on Wikipedia and on its sister projects.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
As volunteers of Wikimedia through Wikimedians of Ruhengeri User Group, we plan to do this project to raise awareness about Wikimedia and help in thinning internet photo gap by uploading free licenced photos and videos on WikiCommons. Through this project we will provide space where participants from Ruhengeri community will learn, improve their skills of uploading captioned, described and categorized photos & videos to contribute on Wikimedia projects especially WikiCommons through Wiki Loves Africa 2023. This is the first time the campaign will be organized in our community, we will apply different strategies including reach out to participants through all our communication channels and social medias. It will be effective because young or new participants will get environment for learning and contributing to Wikimedia movement.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will organize physical event of launching project which will aim to explain, train and share all guidance about project, after launching project we will do follow up and continue helping participants in all corners. In closing of project, we will share the success of the community campaign, recognize and award prizes to 5 top contributors who uploaded quality and quantity photos & videos.
- 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?
Our local activity will be organized within a global framework, local organizers are User:Nirwanda12 User:MrTallBoy and User:Fabnk they are trained editors who can support our work. The campaign will be globally organized by the Wiki In Africa team. The global team does provide communication material (e.g. social media cards and posts), communication channels and is organizing online training and support for participating groups (office hours, one-on-one, telegram group, etc.) Key people for mentorship are User:Anthere and User:Islahaddow, and key communication support is User:Ceslause. Several formally participating people, including other participating Communities are already indicated that they will join again and can further help, more in depth.
- 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, Socioeconomic Status, 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.
The project will help to have more photos and videos from Ruhengeri, Rwanda related to the theme of the 2023 campaign, Climate and Weather.
- 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, Climate Change and sustainability, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
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?
Target participants are existing and any interested volunteer from Ruhengeri, Rwanda in general, I will reach them via social media, WhatsApp groups and email as well. In retaining new participants, I will add them in community WhatsApp group.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will adhere strictly to the Wikimedia friendly space policy and Universal Code of Conduct to make sure that everyone is exercising all the rights they deserve.
- 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 will announce the project through various local communication channels like Whatsapp groups of Wikimedians of Ruhengeri User Group and on its discussion's pages on meta.
The global coordination page may be accessed here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Participating_communities
Discussion on meta may be accessed there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedians_of_Ruhengeri_User_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?
Yes
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- Yes
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- This joint will increase the participations and contributions.
- 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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We hope to learn impact we can achieve as Wikimedians of Ruhengeri User Group in the Wikimedia movement through contributing to this year Wiki Loves Africa campaign.
- 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.
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
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| Number of participants | total number of people who will participate in project. | 25 |
| Number of editors | Total number of people that will at least improve or upload a photo or video on WikiCommons | 25 |
| Number of organizers | Team of Wikimedians of Ruhengeri User Group will help in organizing activity | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
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| Wikimedia Commons | Number of photos and videos to be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons | 250 |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
The reason can be lack of experience in taking photos and materials to be used like Cameras, to avoid this we will hire 3 cameras and provide enough trainings to participants before and within project implementation. We will also provide award recognition to top 5 contributors as a motivation.
- 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.
1.Outreach Dashboard
- 2. creating our category on WikiCommons
If there are other helpful tools we would like to learn and use them.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
2961190 RWF
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2749 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s33zmfM0endvGnbvimaLu_t_OKVSGZlruOkC1KaCrDk/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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