Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Training (ID: 21978470)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Justine Msechu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
1:Hussein m mmbaga 2:Mohamed mfuu 3:Anuary Rajabu 4:Siwema Nikini 5:Brenda Philbert 6:Super8 Devs 7:Brayson Mushi 8:Kelvin-Meena 9:Abubakari Sixberth
- Organization
Wikimedians of Kilimanjaro group (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.
1:Wikimedia Community User Group Kilimanjaro (Organizer) 2:Wikimedians of Arusha User Group (Member) 3:Let’s Connect Peer Learning program Tanzania (organizer)
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Training
- 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: https://twitter.com/UserKilimanjaro 2: https://www.instagram.com/wikimedia_kilimanjaro/
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
1: Create awareness about Wikimedia projects in the Kilimanjaro community. 2: Recruit and train new editors to contribute to Wikipedia 3:Define “encyclopedia” and describe how that definition informs the style and content of Wikipedia articles 4:Understand the history of Wikipedia, the community behind it, how it is organized and functions 5: Be able to communicate the “Five Pillars of Wikipedia” and their significance to both readers and editors 6:Understand how the Wikipedia community and libraries share a common goal of providing access to information 7: Describe the unique definition of “notability” used by Wikipedia to identify appropriate article topics 8: Use Wikipedia article quality standards to coherently evaluate articles 9: Write a clear “Conflict of Interest” statement for their own user page 10:Comfortably use the Wikipedia editing tools to edit existing articles.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Participation in Training: these trainings are about 3 hours of live workshop-like sessions to learn, share and practice skills. Also, participants will have some time to review the material beforehand, which takes approximately 1 hour,, and engage with learning material after the session, which may take a minimum of 3 hours of their time. With this proposal, we hope that each participant will be part edit two articles in their sandbox and organizer will review them before publishing.
We will be organizing three trainings in the first trimestre of 2023, however this may change due to any logistical or community dynamics that may arise.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
First Events The first event introduces learners to Wikipedia as a reference source, an organization, and a community. We look at how articles are created, who creates them, and what guides the thousands of volunteer editors in determining what is appropriate content. We also consider the limitations of Wikipedia, with its own content gaps, biases, and flaws.
- Learners complete a 20-minute Wikipedia Essentials tutorial that introduces key
concepts, policies, and guidelines Wikipedia editors follow when building Wikipedia.
- The first session begins with unpacking the definition of an encyclopedia, We will discuss the Wikipedia community, whose goal of providing open information
- participants will do further reading about Wikipedia’s Five
Pillars, and share their thoughts and impressions in a discussion forum. They will also make their first edits to Wikipedia by creating user pages for their Wikipedia accounts.
Second Events
- Learners complete a 26-minute Wikimedia Foundation Evaluating Articles and Sources
tutorial, which describes how to read Wikipedia articles and sources with a critical eye.
- Learners complete a Wikimedia Foundation 23-minute Editing Basics tutorial, covering
the practical basics of editing Wikipedia pages.
- Learners complete the Wikimedia Foundation 7-minute Sources and Citations tutorial.
- Following the live session, learners will add a conflict of interest statement to their user
page; make at least 1 copy-edit; and add at least 1 citation or external link.
Third Event:
- Learners complete the 17-minute Wikimedia Foundation Contributing Images and Media
Files tutorial.
- Learners complete the 13-minute Wikimedia Foundation Sandboxes and Mainspace
tutorial.
- Individually or with a partner, learners will make a substantive content edit to an existing
article (suggest an article of local interest).
- Learners will propose a new article, providing justification for notability
- 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.
Other (please specify)
- Wikipedia Training in Kilimanjaro
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
1:Justine Msechu(project manager) 2:Kelvin Charles (Event Manager) 3:Anuary Rajabu(Trainer) 4:Abubakari Sixberth(Project facilitator)
- 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.
Language
- 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.
This project is focused on generating content for Wikimedia projects in the Swahili language, and developing skills that may lead to volunteer capacity to address knowledge gaps in terms of content.
- 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
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Disabilities, Digital Access
- 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?
Fund will be supporting participants who are new at Kilimanjaro and some participants from Arusha user group will get the chance to share their skills with the new community. Participants from Arusha are: 1:Hussein m mmbaga 2:Anuary Rajabu 3:Brayson Mushi 4:Abubakari Sixberth 5:Bryson Kweka 7:Mohamed mfuu
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We are going to promote a learning culture in all the spaces participants benefited from this proposal participate in and also develop a friendly space policy for the events we organize.
- 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 use our Social media pages (Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, and Twitter) as well as our meta page to let participants know.
- 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?
- No
- 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.
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 are planning to work with different organizations, especially universities which will be easy for us to get more participants, and other government buildings which will give us a venue for an affordable price and friendly
- 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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We would like to gather data to help us answer some of these key questions that are related to the desired outcomes of this proposal:
Are participants interested in continuing to volunteer on Wikipedia? Do they feel that it is a safe and inclusive learning environment? Are the opportunities the program offers and the processes clear for participants? Are participants learning and sharing skills that can be applied to their Wikimedian activities? Are we building collective capacities that can further support Wikimedian communities in our context? Is the support offered through this funding helping to reduce barriers to participation in language spaces? Are there any existing barriers? Are the learning methods adequate for participants' needs and interests?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Articles transaltion | Article translation to Swahili and improved | 100 |
| Wikicommons | Number of articles created or improved with photo 50+ | 50 |
| 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 editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
The tools that will be used will be: 1:Number of new articles created 2:Registration of participants in Dashboard. 3:Number of repeated participants in all events
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
3939216 TZS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1697.36 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l32gKQztkzqkdgk4IvQCBvVBPE_friTA9yxCJEUq4sw/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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