Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Central Africa Republic

Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Daniel236

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

• Daniel236,
• kondotikodro,
• DUDIEU,
• Zakalingba,
• ngbongbote,

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.

Wikimedia Community Central African Republic, Wiki Wake Up Afrique

Grant Proposal

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Central Africa Republic

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.

The competition will focus on freely licensed and high quality images of natural heritages in Central Africa , that will be contributed to Wikimedia Commons for free usage and spread its importance by its utilization in Wikipedia articles. We also want to attract newcomers to the movement. This competition is important because it allows us to have a first community of wikimedians in Central Africa that is very dynamic. The Central African community will organize the WLE 2023 competition for the first time. This will solve the lack of information on the state and type of biodiversity of Central Africa's natural heritage and the lack of images related to local biodiversity in Central Africa's Wikimedia articles.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

In order to achieve the changes we want in this project, we plan the following approaches or strategies : Training and capacity building: To provide participants with knowledge related to the topic, we will organize training sessions and editathons to skill our participants with knowledge on how they will contribute to the project. Several communication channels will be used to allow people from all over Central Africa to discover and participate in the competition. We will use different communication platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram public and private media to communicate well and involve the maximum number of participants.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

As part of the approaches related to our project, and in order to make our project known to its public, we plan to establish information releases through various media and communication channels for awareness and sensitization. We also plan to carry out an official conference to launch the project where we will invite some authorities.

We will organize photo walks in the interior of the country; we will upload photos to Wikimedia Commons; we will organize several Wikipedia workshops on how to add photos to Wikipedia articles. After the campaign, we will document the contributions made by the participants.

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 Earth

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Aggée Daniel DOUMAÏ (Daniel236), Pascale APPORA GNEKINDY (kondotikodro),Cyr Herbert AMEDI (DUDIEU), Débonnaire MBOMBAWANGUIN (Zakalingba),Aaron KOYASSOUKPENGON (ngbongbote): We are the lead of the project and will lead this campaign. 3 Volunteers will be selected as part of the jury with the help of the Lead and the whole team. We will also be accompanied by Geugeor

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

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.

Central Africa Republic has an abundance of animal and plant species in its protected areas. However, little of this information is available online, especially on wikipedia. Wiki Loves Earth is an opportunity to promote a better knowledge of local biodiversity through photography. This competition will be an opportunity to collect numerous photos of species in Central Africa Republic protected areas. This will help fill the information and image gap on Central Africa protected areas.

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 , Climate Change and sustainability

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Geographic

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 competition is open to all in Central Africa Republic. There are no exceptions. Anyone with a smartphone or a camera is welcome to participate. We will encourage professional photographers to participate in the competition in order to have better quality photos. Before and during the activities, we will involve the participants through communication and the organization of capacity building sessions. In order to follow up with the participants after the activities, we have already created a WhatsApp group to integrate all the participants in order to stay in constant contact with them. We have a Meta-Wiki event page where we ask all participants to register.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We are willing to apply and promote the Universal Code of Conduct(UCoC) throughout the competition.

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.

Participants will be informed about the competition via: Social networks like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Whasapp where we already have pages and groups of people, the different messaging platforms will be used. Finally we will organize an official conference to launch the project where we will invite many photographers, journalists, public and private media to talk about this project.

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.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

In this project, through these collaborations with photographers, new contributors we hope to build a very dynamic community in Central Africa to create and promote knowledge that is free and open to all.

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 Data

Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Main Open Metrics Data Main Open Metrics Description Target Number Of Participants	We have targeted 43 or more participation in the photowalks	43
Number of photos	500 or more	500
Number of photowalks	Number of photowalks during event	4
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	Number of participants	20
Number of editors	10 or more	15
Number of organizers	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikimedia Commons	500 or more photos	500
Wikidata	Photos will be added to Wikidata	450
Wikipedia	New Photos used	30
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.

With the number of people joining the photowalk the target is achievable.

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.

Dashboard tool, Survey, Outreach Dashboard and Meta-Wiki event page

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

2 760 000 XAF

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4 600,5216 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F5ImT20JrZoWi51DjoyOAC_2fPzjpEHa/edit#gid=47306426

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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