Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata:Tenth Birthday for Gurene Wikimedia Community and Sister Communities (ID: 21951057)

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Dnshitobu

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Uprising Man - Project co-lead Akakiiri - Logistics Officer Awinebotima - Secretary

Organization

Gurene Wikimedian Community

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.

Gurene Wikimedia Community Dagbani Wikimedians User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wikidata:Tenth Birthday for Gurene Wikimedia Community and Sister Communities

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.

Twitter: @gurenewikimedia Facebook: Gurene Wikimedia Community Linkedin: Gurene Wikimedia Community

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

WIkidata is a grey project that is popular in the diaspora but very little number of people are aware of it, nonetheless its essence.Through this project, we expect to:

1. Introduce participants to Wikidata query service (SPARQL) and quick statements

2. Create/update Wikidata items of Ghanaian public Senior High Schools.

3. Celebrate Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday.

Following the above, our ultimate goal is to:

1. Create awareness about Wikidata and its tools

2. Recruit new editors for the various Wikimedia projects

3. Increase skills for existing editors

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

1. We will organise party or celebration cum trainiing where we will be bringing together our community members and inviting new people.

2. To sensitize participants on Wikidata and the tools that automate edit or query the edits people do using SARQL query service

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

Wikidata's tenth birthday will fall on Saturday, 29 October 2022, we will host the event on Saturday, 29 October 2022, 5 November 2022 and 12 November for the Dagbani Wikimedians, Gurene Wikimedians, and the Moore Wikimedians. We prefer Saturdays to hope the weekend will be more convenient for everyone. While this celebration will be virtual for those that cannot make it to the in-person, we will use the 3 inperson events to introduce participants to Wikidata and show a short demonstration of SPARQL query service and Wikidata quick statements.

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)

Wikidata 10th birthday

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

Dnshitobu - Technical skills facilitatator Abugre - Project Coordinator Musahfm - Sister languague coordinator

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.

Content Gender gap, Language, Socioeconomic Status, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), 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.

This birthday will be organized among three communities spread across different Geographical locations with varied socio-economic status who speak different languages but are mutually related.

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?

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, Age, 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?

The target participants are the people in the Gurene, Moore and the Dagbani communities. We will engage them via our various social media platforms and there will be an evaluation form for participants to express their general thoughts on the project

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

The Friendly Space Policy document is pinned on our Social media platforms to give community members an idea about how we respect people. We will abide by the Wikimedia friendly space policy during the event as organizers. We will also explain this to participants during the launch of the celebration and also before the birthday meet up.

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 keep team members and the communities informed on our social media handles and project talk pages about our intention to celebrate Wikidata's 10th Birthday.

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, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

Would like to know:

1. hear the stories of participants about their general view of Wikimedia foundation especially Wikidata

1. how many participants are familiar with wikidata, the editing tools as well as tools that are most familiar?

2. how many participants contributes to wikidata from these three communities?

3. how wikidata have impacted their lives?

4. what can be done to improve the awareness and contribution on wikidata?

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
Old/Veteran editors	Number of participants who are old editors	60
New editors	Participants joining for the first time	20
N/A	N/A	N/A
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 for the three communities	80
Number of editors	60 old editors and 20 new editors for Gurene, Moore and the Dagbani communities	80
Number of organizers	Number of organizers	4

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikidata	Number of items created or edited	300
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.

Event 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.

20700 GHS

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

1873.21 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SqR1h5_4I-BcoIaYcdhzYO4ush4Z6811r32wsJVZxPw/edit?usp=sharing

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

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback edit

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Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
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.
Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
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).

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