Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Awareness and Editathon in Vocational College (ID: 22276068)
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Applicant Details edit
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hajjare
- Organization
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Main Proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Awareness and Editathon in Vocational College
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-10-28 - 2023-11-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Editathon
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
Over quite a long time, gender gap has been my serious concern when it comes to comparing the number of female contributors volunteering across Wikimedia projects with their male counterparts. The case is even more serious when one look at the available active contributors from Nigeria more especially the northern part to be specific which is the region where I come from. From what I discovered was that this huge gender gap difference between male contributors and female volunteers across Wikimedia projects was due to the fact that there was lack of women inclusion during organizing and recruiting of new volunteers which caused the women participation to be very little or limited. While another key factor is in some parts not all female trainees feel so relaxed to be train by male organizers and some could have been feeling very shy to be open to ask questions especially when they found out their number was quite a few among other male trainees which in the end result to them leaving the training hall without having the chance to learn the necessary skills since the basic idea here is that projects led by men will encouraged more men participation and hinders women on the other side. Consequently, this might be one of the reasons why females are underrepresented on Wikipedia by looking at the contents availability when compared to those created about men since based on a common sense, men would normally prefer to write more and more about men while women would also love to contribute contents about women. So, looking at the case in northern Nigeria, this project aims to promote women inclusion and participation across Wikimedia projects just I did in my past and also the first project to addressed similar concern in the region while keeping the believe that women participation is essential and would be of great support in creating contents promoting women which would help to balance both volunteers and contents gender-gap across Wikimedia projects.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
I planned to carry out a two days awareness campaigns amongst women to promote Wikimedia projects and let them know about the project goals and activities. Following that, I will lead the way to organize an editathon to train them on how to contribute contents on any of these four Wikimedia projects which I want to introduce them to including; Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons. The activities would go on like this:
- 1. Awareness: the first two (2) days will be for the awareness campaign
- 2. Editathon/Training: on the the first workshop day, the participants would be introduce to Wikipedia and Wikidata. On the second training day, the participants will be introduce to Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons. While in the mid of the project another session will be organize to retrain the participants to highlight and correct all possible errors and mistakes observe from the contents which the participants made during the time they were contributing.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Yes, I contacted the following experienced editors to support me in making this project a success:
- 1. Musaddam Idriss, is my community leader and a long term Wikimedia volunteer. He is a well experienced organizer and coordinator of similar projects. He would be in my team to help me coordinate and plan the activities in accordance with the project period and in areas I may find some difficulties.
- 2. Harandee. is my fellow female colleague from Wikimedia Fulfulde Community and have been playing roles in the previously organized project.
- 3. Zaynab05: is also my another female colleague in the community who is also a vice president in the college's students union, she will aide in local arrangements and pre-event local communications to the students as she has good talent and skills in public speaking.
- 4. Ahmerd Adam is also part of the experienced editors we have in the community. He would help will online communications and technical support during the physical trainings.
- 5. Hajjare; myself have been a facilitator in the Thematic Weeks Project and Wikidata Workshop organized by Wikimedia Fulfulde Community. I have serve the role of welfare and maintain the tracks of participants' activities during both the projects. I led a similar project and was a huge success.
- 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? (required)
The target participants are completely women who have interest for volunteer works, knowledge of internet space and also have passion for writing as a hobby or helping the humanity. They would be from different ethnic background to help bring more women to each of the existing Wikipedia(s) so as to help start addressing the problem of content gender gap. Before and after the event, these women would be actively engage by opening and adding them to the designed project group and also by submitting their names and introducing them to the leaders of various groups/communities where each of them belong in order to meet other editors who would also encourage them to continue volunteering.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
I expressed my intent to organize this event in the prospective communities groups and also informed my community leaders. Some of them are even attach to the project as facilitators in order to help make the smooth implementation of the activities and to help the participants learn from their wealth of experience.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics edit
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. As a woman, I want to see if my effort can help bridge the gender gap by bringing more female participants from northern Nigeria as editors and volunteers to Wikimedia Projects.
- 2. I want to see if my role as organizer will trigger the interest of my fellow women in devoting themselves into the Wikimedia volunteer activities so as to become like me.
- 3. I want to know if I could create impact in the Wikimedia projects and in the lives of the participants involved.
- 4. I hope to learn what to do in my next project from the results of these learnings and the proposed activities.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | The project aim to train 40 female participants |
| Number of editors | 40 | Out of the 40 participants, the project aim to recruit 30 newly registered female editors and 10 returning editors from my previous project to improve their skills. |
| Number of organizers | 5 | I will get the support of 4 experienced editors who will provide their knowledge and support as facilitators in making this project a success. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 500 |
| Wiktionary | 200 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 50 |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Outreach Dashboard Tool, Stats Tool and Commons Category Tool
Financial proposal edit
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gNYs6MVoU1POBnwKFhU7Ydox1Kn-GjZejdl6dhhisoM/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
1248250 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
1602.21 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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