Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki for Senior Citizens Network Wiki Loves Africa 2023 (ID: 22025139)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
Wiki For Senior Citizen Network
- 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.
No
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki for Senior Citizens Network Wiki Loves Africa 2023
- 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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_For_Senior_Citizens_Network
https://twitter.com/WNetwwork https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087039080702&mibextid=ZbWKwL
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Since 2012, Nigeria has been noticing the effect of climate change. It began to manifest in rising water levels of rivers during raining season, increased heat during dry season, flood, poor agricultural production, faster encroaching desertification in the north etc. in 2022, Nigeria witnessed the highest flood in history with thousands of damaged homes, hundreds of deaths etc. Flood and other effects of climate change is also predicted to continue next year. Pictures and video of all these natural changes has not been preserved in Wikimedia commons. If this are not done now, it will be a a problem in the future to effectively tell the story of how changes in weather and climate over the years have gradually evolved and changed the way we live. For example, persistent flood is forcing native communities that traditionally live along river banks to abandon their homes. Many of them are however resisting because tradition will not allow them to abandon their shrines, burial places, ancestral homes etc. In some area the harsh effect of very hot weather is apparent and denying natives their farm lands since they largely rely on natural rainfall. The traces of the effect of climate change needs to be preserved now that we can still find them.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Members of the Wiki For Senior Citizens Network have discussed and agreed to carry out photo walks and edit a thons to capture different changes and effect of climate change in Nigeria and upload in Wikimedia commons. We will do this by participation in the 2023 Wiki Loves Africa which interestingly is centred on weather and climate change. Our Network have membership across Nigeria. Our members are senior citizens who are 55 years and above. Many are retired civil servant who have plenty of time and experience in different aspects of life. We will first organise a physical and online training session for our members where a professional photographer will train them on photography. Those who are within north central states will attend the physical training while others in other parts of the country will join online. Thereafter, we will host 2 photo walks in each of 3 carefully chosen locations in Nigeria that represents the 3 climatic zones. Nigeria has 3 distinct climatic zones. A tropical monsoon climate found in the southern part of the country. Progressing northward is a tropical savannah climate for most of the central regions. Over the north, a Sahelian hot and semi-arid climate is experienced. After the photo walk, we will organise an edit a thon to upload the pictures to Wikimedia commons. The photo walks will be organised between May and September when the season in all the part of the country moves from dry season to raining season and when the predicted flood of 20233 would have started. For each of the areas, one photo walk will take place during the dry season, that is, between March and April/May depending on the area while the second walk will take place at any time between June and September. In that way we capture the areas before and after seasons and be able to tell a true pictural story of Nigerian climate change.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will hold meetings of the network to inform members of the approval of the proposal and firm up the present agreements on the dates for the different events including training, photo walk, edit a thon, departure points for the walk, attendees etc. we will hold a training session where a trained photographer will teach members on photography. The training will be both physical and online. We will then be watching the weather to determine when the different teams will do their first visit to the different location so that they will capture the different environment during the hot season when the places are very dry and when they will make the second visit when weather have changed and the rains have started. The places we will do the walk are (1) areas where the effect of climate change in very obvious. They include Lokoja to cover flooding, effect on fisheries, rise in level of Rive Niger and Benue etc; (2) areas around Niger State to show effect of heat on agriculture, sand/dust storms because of its arid/semi-arid regions and whirl winds which lift huge amounts of sand and dust from bare dry soil into the atmosphere, Harmattan dust which is characterized by the dry and dusty northeasterly trade wind, which blows from the Sahara over West Africa into the Gulf of Guinea; (3) areas between Anambra and Warri to cover erosion, flooding, some human activities to leads to climate change including burning of fossil fuels logging of woods and deforestation. After the photo walk, there will be an edit a thon for members of the Network to upload the pictures to Wikimedia commons.
- 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?
The programme will be primarily coordinated by two founding members of Wiki For Senior Citizens including Mrs Bernadette Ezeilo (Username: Igboanude) and Mrs Celine Nchekwaram (Username: Onyenachi64). They will be supported by every founding member of the Network. They will be working as volunteers. Founding members of the Network are Wikipedians who have been participating and have led different projects at different times
Mr. Seyi Ogbonulaiye (User: AdastralNg22) will lead the training on photography. He is an experienced photographer and the chief executive of Rockies studios. He will be paid an allowance for the training. Obiageli Ezeilo (Username: Oby Ezeilo) will conduct the edit a thon for uploading the pictures into Wikimedia commons. She is an experienced wikimedian. She is a founding member of the Wiki For Senior Citizens Network and a founding member of the Igbo Wikimedian User group. She has conducted and led several Wikipedia programmes. She will also make a presentation on editing Wikimedia commons to commence the edit a thon
- 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.
Discussion of the effect of climate change has been going on for a long time now but there has been few input to the discuss from Nigeria. Indeed some people from Nigeria believe that such effects are only happening in the western world. This programme will bring out the fact that this phenomenon also affects us in Nigeria and we all have a duty to do what we have to do to reverse the trend.
- 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.
Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
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?
The target participants are members of the Wiki For Senior Citizens Network. We had discussed this proposal and continue to discuss it in our different physical and online meetings. Once this proposal is approved, we will hold series of meetings in the project planning and execution stage. We will also continue to meet to urge individual members to continue to contribute pictures on climate change. Members of senior citizens are also an underrepresented group as most programmes of Wikipedia focus on the youths, female etc and not senior citizens.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We are an open group that admits interested members who are more than 55 years. It has given many senior citizens in Nigeria a space to participate and a platform. We may not be as fast as the youths. We may not easily learn. But we can be more committed when we learn and are encourage. Participation in this programme and indeed in the network is free and open to all people who are within our age range. We even encourage a few younger ones who are happy to work with seniors to join us.
- 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 have discussed this proposal severally with the community members. we have also announced it in our discussion page and whatsapp. the link is https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wiki_For_Senior_Citizens_Network&action=edit&redlink=1 https://chat.whatsapp.com/LfgQVoEGMxHEsaAhPYkUmg
- 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
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We want to learn whether there are clear and visible impart of climate change in Nigeria. if there are such impact, we want to know whether such impact is serious that will attract attention of Nigerians to take it serious and act
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Effect of climate change | Whether our pictures show that the changes in climate have adverse effect to the environment | 1 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of people that participated in the photo walk | 15 |
| Number of editors | Number of people who participated in the edit a thon to upload the pictures | 25 |
| Number of organizers | Number of people who participated in organising the programme | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of photos or videos uploaded | 350 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
nil
- 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 use outreach 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.
1488000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3360.72 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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