Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth Zambia 2022 (ID: 21861184)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Icem4k
- 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.
Wikitongues
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Earth Zambia 2022
- 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.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Wiki Loves Earth is an annual international photo contest of the natural monuments. Our goals are to increase the number of freely licensed images in Commons, which we can later use in other Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikinews, Wikiquote etc.).
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
This being a photo contest we will reach out to media house and photographers in Zambia through Social media and visiting them personally. This will be effective cause we would have met the people face to face to give an assurance that this is not s scam.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will make video ads and posters for social media
- 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?
Isaac Kanguya (User:Icem4k)- Coordinator Imanga Kayama (User:Imangaa) - Partnership/consultants Edward Phiri (User:Edward phiri jnr)- Social Media Frank Bwebupe - Support/Volunteer Musenga Katongo - Support/Volunteer
- 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, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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.
Zambia as a country is under represented with this gap of missing and or no information this will help fill that void and a place to start from.
- 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, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 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 target is Zambia we plan to bring on broad new members. How will we engage is through edit-a-thons and we will follow the up through the outreach-dashboard.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
For covid 19 we want to purchsace Covid it face masks and Hand sanitizer. All the member will be requested to sign the friendly space 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.
Based on previous contests: The most important way to advertise the contest will be central notice banner arranged by the international team. Communication through our social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Posting announcements in local photo and tourism related Facebook groups (quite effective), forums and sites. Writing a press release before and after the contest.
- 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
If no:
- 12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
- We do not have a community just yet. Through these activities i hope to kick start something.
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 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.
We plan to work with Zamtel so that can offer us internet data at lower price.
- 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?
How to improve the Leadership skills How to collaborate with partners in Zambia Improve the peer-to-peer interactions.
How many people have returned after the events? How many people have seen my event through social media ?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Uploaded images to Commons | Number of images uploaded on Wikimedia Commons | 300 |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of participants | 30 |
| Number of editors | The number of people that will help improve the wikimedia project | 15 |
| Number of organizers | The support team behind this | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | We wish to improve some of Zambia's articles | 25 |
| Wikimedia Commons | The number of images uploaded on Commons | 300 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 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 be using the dashboard
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
58880 ZMW
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3479 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133X9eCpFMMoax61EB1q0B3VgLiYLNSPPy32OcVKwERY/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
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- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).