Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Commons Workshop in Kano (ID: 21972406)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Gwanki
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Commons Workshop in Kano
- 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.
As a result of the different projects I've led in Kano State, there are more editors of Wikimedia projects in the region especially from Sa'adatu Rimi College of Education and Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano. Many editors are focused on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Individually, editors often asking me for more information about many questions related to Wikimedia Commons, because of this I understand some problems with editors that I wanted to solve. The problems include;
- Lack of contribution to Wikimedia Commons
- Lack of experience in using files especially photos to other Wikimedia Projects like Wikipedia
- Not knowing how to add files to Wikidata Items
This program will help to solve these problems that editors from my area are usually asking me.
The purpose of this program is to teach editors some important things that will help them in their editing. I want to teach people how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons, especially photos and audio files. And how to use files in Wikipedia and Wiktionary. I will also teach them how to add files to Wikidata Items.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- Teach new and existing editors how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons
- Learn how to use files from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects
- Learn how to upload files to Wikidata Items
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Our program will be for four four days, two days in-person and two days online.
Physical
- On the first day, the first program we will do is the registration of new editors, although the program will focus more on existing editors but we will go with few new editors. On this day we will teach editors how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons. This program will include full training on the type of the files that should be uploaded and how to give the good and accepted informations to the files.
- On the second day I will show how to use files from Wikimedia Commons to other Wikipedia Sister Projects. I will expand this by explaining in detail how to search for files in Wikimedia Commons and the requirements before using files in articles. And also we will focus on teaching how to add files to Wikidata Items.
Virtual
- Before the physical event day, I will organise a virtual meetup in order to guide the participants on what they have to do on the day of physical event and also asking them some questions related to the event in order to understand what they need.
- I will also organised another Virtual meet up after the physical event to understand what they've learned and what should I do next.
We will also use Presentation slides during presentations, after completing the Projects we will share the slides to the participants in our WhatsApp Group.
I will also create survey after the project to deep understanding of participant's understanding.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes I have the team.
- I Gwanki, I've organised several Wikimedia projects in Kano, I also facilitated in some projects outside Kano State. I'm currently Sysop editor at Hausa Wikipedia and i'm member grant commitee Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. I'm this project lead
- Hamza DK, he's experience editor at Hausa Wikipedia. He will be project's Liaison and communication and also speaker.
- Musaddam Idriss, founder of Fulfude Wikimedians User Group and also Hausa Wikipedia experience editor he will help me during workshop.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 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.
- 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?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 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?
Our target participants are mainly existence Wikimedians from Kano State but we will also go with the new editors. We have a WhatsApp group called "Kano Wikimedians" which contains Wikimedians from Kano State through the WhatsApp group we will accessing participants and share all information before, during and after the event. But I will also call some participants via phone call.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will ensure compliance with all the terms and conditions of the Wikimedia Foundation and comply with the legal framework of the Venue where we will hold our events.
- 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.
The Participants already knows about the project via our WhatsApp Group of Kano Wikimedians, I'm also admin at Hausa Wikimedians Community general WhatsApp Group and Facebook page, I will inform about the project there. I will also reach out to others via phone call.
- 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.
Improve User Experience, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
At the end of this project I want to learn
- If the participants can upload a file to Wikimedia Commons successfully
- If the participants can add images to Wikidata Items
- If the participants can use files from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia and other projects
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Recruit new editors | This project will register new Wikimedia editors | 10 |
| Improve existence editors | The aim of the project is to improve the experience of existence Wikimedians from Kano by teaching them how they can add files to Wikimedia Commons and also how they can use files from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia and Wiktionary. | N/A |
| Number of events | Total Number of events is five, Two days are virtually and three days in-person events. | 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 | Total Number of participants including new and existence editors | 50 |
| Number of editors | Target number of total editors | 30 |
| Number of organizers | Number of organisers | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia articles to be improved during all events this includes Hausa Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and Fulfude Wikipedia. | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Target number of files to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons | 40 |
| Wikidata | Target number of Wikidata Items to be improved with files | 20 |
| Wiktionary | Target number of Hausa Wiktionary articles to be improved with files | 20 |
| 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 use Wikimedia Foundation's Dashboard tool
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1430000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3306.13 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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