Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Training And Competition For Senior Citizens (ID: 21879800)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Janebliss
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Oby Ezeilo
- 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.
Reading Wikipedia In The Classroom Abuja, The Youth Wing of Lord of Mercy Prayer and Power Ministry, Denalice International Schools, Dutse-Abuja
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
EduWiki Nigeria
- 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.
Most teachers around within my community are not acquainted with learning style adapted in this 21st century and this has in so many ways affected learning and learning output. I intend to enlighten teachers on how to inculcate Wikipedia into lesson plans via seminars and workshops. Trainings on how to use Wikipedia as learning resources backing their educational data presented within their learning environment will be inclusive, alongside apt and class based instructional aids.
After the training of Reading Wikipedia in Classroom Abuja, I carefully observed that a lot of students though socially active, are not familiar with the use of Wikipedia;some are not even aware of the presence of Wikipedia and its wonderful and exciting opportunities within their learning fields. Seeing this as a great disadvantage, I intend to educate students on how to be actively involved in Wikipedia;creating, editing and translating data relevant to their course content,encourage learning amongst students which could be in form of individual or group learning in line with their course objectives.
Having covered teachers and students, I believe it will be highly beneficial that collaborations be made and sustained via other learning communities such as educational groups, libraries, non profitable education groups concerned with digital literacy. All these will be achievable via joint projects, edit-a-thons, and outreach to schools and other learning organisations thereby creating and sustaining Wikipedia presence and relevance within the education sector most especially at the community level.
I strongly believe that there is a need to engage communities on Wikipedia activities as it will positively influence the community, teachers and students too.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
I intend to mobilize teachers and students from various learning centers with the community and hold a meeting on bettering learning processes within schools and other learning centres and contributing to the growth of Wikipedia. They will also be trained in the different projects of Wikipedia and be guided to do their first editing in each of the projects.
In inviting them, I will work with the secondary section of Denalice International Schools, Dutse-Abuja. I will circulate the flyer among the students of the Youth Wing of Lord of Mercy Prayer and Power Ministry, Dutse-Abuja. I have discussed this with these organisations and they are happy to encourage students to participate. I am confident that these learning fields will be great platforms to invite the target audience because they are grounds used to instill the right values and core education to students and they have recorded good success doing so. The meeting/training/competition will focus on the importance of using Wikipedia in Classroom, benefits of contributing to Wikipedia and bettering the education system within their community. Students and teachers will be trained on basics of Wikipedia which will cover projects on Wikidata, Wiki Commons, The English Wikipedia.The trainings will be well tailored to suit learners age and learning styles so as to enable proper assimilation and to awaken and sustain their interest in contributing to the wiki projects. After each training, there will be edit-a-thon and competition that will concentrate on edits to improve contents on the project trained on, create, translate and improve course contents . During this exercise, participants will be guided by experienced editors. After the series of edit-a-thon and competition, we will encourage participants to continue editing and participating in other programmes like contexts, organise seminars, meet ups and forums in line with the focus of this project in other communities.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
I will design and print flyers. The flyer will announce the meetings and the programme that will be held in the school. It will also have a short share information on the importance if the meeting, state the age limit and classes expected alongside teachers and invite interested person to register. The registration will be through text message, whatsapp message and email. 5 – 13 February 2024. It will be distributed to members of the Youth Wing of Lord of Mercy Prayer and Power Ministryand students of Denalice International Schools, all in Dutse-Abuja. It will also be distributed at neighbouring schools within Dutse-Abuja and online. 14 -28 February 2024, all registered participants will be invited to participate. This invitation will provide them the date, time and venue of meet ups. 14 March to 1st September 2024. the 1st meet up of all invited participants will be a 2 days progamme. Other experienced editors will also participate. The trainer will speak on Wikipedia generally and then concentrate on English Wikipedia.. After the training, there will be an edit-a-thon on English Wikipedia which will concentrate on editing existing contents, creating and translating new ones. This edit-a-thon will also be a competition for participants which will last throughout the programme- 2nd and 3rd September 2024. Between the meet-ups, participants will be encouraged to edit in Wikipedia project that they were trained and continue the competition. We will continue to encourage each other in the whatsapp group. We will provide data for participants in the competition. The 2nd two days meet up of training and editing will be on Wikidata.- 16th and 17th September 2024. The 3rd two days meet up of training and editing will be on wiki commons- 30th September and 1st October 2024. At the end, a short questionnaire will be administered to get participants opinions. They will also be urged to continue contributing in all the projects. The competition will end on 15th of October and result announced on the 30th of October and prices given to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th best 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.
It's applicable to Reading Wikipedia In The Classroom Abuja.
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User: Janebliss - will conduct teachers training and workshops, promoting Wikipedia and inclusive education in schools. She will also lead other Wikipedians who will support the participants in their first edit in English Wikipedia. She participated in Reading Wikipedia In The Classroom Abuja and African Campaign Day Project as a project assistant. She has volunteered to conduct the training.
User: Oby Ezeilo - will conduct the training on wiki commons and Wikidata. She will also lead other Wikipedians that will support participants in their first edit in wiki commons. She is a test Wiki Administrator of Igbo Wiktionary. She participated in Wikindaba 2019. She is a graduate of Wikipedia Education Project Management Course conducted by the Education Greenhouse programme. She is also certified by WMF as a trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. She had conducted several trainings and recruited so many editors into the Wiki Family. She has volunteered to conduct this training.
- 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.
Age and profession.
- 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.
All participants in the training and competition will be students and teachers in the field of Education alongside educational administrators.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Age and occupational qualifications.
- 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 audience are teachers, Students and educational administrators. However, we will concentrate on those who are living within Dutse-Abuja, precisely within Zone5 - Zone7 as the programme will be a physical programme. The training sessions will be interactive ones. We will take note that learning within the educational sector must be student centered and highly practical must we catch them young hence we will incorporate more practicals and interactive sessions to aid understanding. Consequently, the programme will be organized in such a way that there will be intermittent breaks, jokes and group presentation to enable proper assimilation. The programme is also a competition amongst the participants which will give them that urge to push on. In between the different trainings, participants will be encouraged to edit the project that they were last trained on. There will be a WhatsApp group of all participants, the trainers and some other experienced editors. This platform will be used to answer any question and resolve any challenge that any participant may have. In addition to this, a questionnaire will be distributed to participants at the end of the programme which will serve as feedbacks on how the programme was received and how we can better encourage participants to continue contributing. There will also be a whatsapp group of all participants, trainers and other experienced editors where we will continue to encourage each other.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Every person who responds to the advert inviting participants will have equal opportunity to participate as long as they are teachers, Students or educational administrators. Every participant will also be treated equally.
- 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 all the proposed trainers and they have all agreed to volunteer to conduct the training. I have also informed some communities in the following links https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nz%E1%BB%8Dr_ogbako https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria
- 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.
Promote and Strengthen Wikipedia in the educational sector of the community, Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I look forward to increasing the participation and contribution of senior citizens like me in the movement. We obviously have different perspective from the younger person. We also have more time to spent in volunteer work. Both formal and informal discussions during the project will help all of us appreciate how we can best contribute and how senior citizen will be encouraged to join and participate in Wikipedia. We also need to learn how Wikipedia could continue encouraging more senior citizens to join the movement. It is also important to know the best way to retain their participation.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| number of senior citizens who are interested to participate | the number of senior citizens who have shown interest to join the Wikipedia family | 25 |
| whether senior citizens who participated shows sufficient interest to continue volunteering | I will like to find out whether the participants are happy to continue contributing in wikipedia | N/A |
| 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 | this number is the total number of people who I hope will attend the programme. they include the senior citizens, the trainers and other experienced editors that will attend. | 30 |
| Number of editors | Number of senior citizens who will attend the trainings and carry out edits in wikipedia | 25 |
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | participants will be encouraged to edit already existing contents and not creating new ones | 70 |
| Wikidata | this will be edits that will be made in wikidata including new items created | 160 |
| Wikimedia Commons | total edits that is done in wikimedia commons | 50 |
| 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.
I will be using https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
I will also use the information collected in the questionnaire
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1758462 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4241.14 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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