Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (July 2024 - December 2024) Semiannual Plan (ID: 22675936)
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Applicant Details
edit- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
De-Invincible
- Organization
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (not recognized affiliate)
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
I'm a board member or president of a Wikimedia Affiliate or mission-allied organization., I'm a group leader of a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee)., I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group., I'm a bank account signatory for the joint bank account of a Wikimedia affiliate, group, or organization.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
The Executive Director of the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community User Group is the head and overall leader of the User Group, he; 1. heads the work of the Executive Board of the Group. 2. presides all the meetings of the Executive Committee. 3. represents and acts on behalf of the User Group in all the legal dealings of the Group which involve the third parties or within the Wikimedia movement.
Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (July 2024 - December 2024) Semiannual Plan
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-07-19 - 2024-12-31
- 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)
Our recent activities help us in realizing the power of long-term activities because it open a new chapter within our small community by enabling our members to make effective contributions that is noticeable across Wikimedia projects. Previously, in the year 2022, we only run a month long activities or 40 days maximum. While in 2023, we begin to grow our impacts beginning with 2 month long, 3 months long and even achieved a successful execution of a project of six different trainings in 4 months this year leading to the creation of our four new hubs/fan clubs. This is of course a long but a successful journey that led to having so much experiences and a demonstration of the team's determination.
One of the crucial changes identified is the growing number of new articles created this year which can be attributed to the participants having the chance to be reimbursed for a longer period of time than usual which enable them to keep the spirit high and as such, this helps us in furthering the community members engagement and building on the success of previous years. After careful observation and discussion, we learned that lack of data to access the internet, activity or project to work on, communications gap are some of the problems that a long term plan activities can solve effortlessly. So, with the experiences we have, we believe we can make this plan activities a great success.
We therefore, seek to maximize our community engagement, build a strong sense of connection between them and Wikimedia projects, offer them the needed support and gather our strengths to make effective contributions to 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.
We plan to host a total of 8 editathons/trainings with 3 weeks intervals between each training and the next, i.e, after every one training there would be three weeks of contributions and engagement from the facilitators before we would host another training, the same goes to the subsequent trainings up to the last one.
Since our sole aim is community mobilization, members enrichment and participants engagement acceleration, we planned to make this activities an effort to boost the morale of everyone within and outside the community. Hence, the training would be hosted in 3 out of the six states of north eastern Nigeria which are the places were our hubs/fan clubs situated, namely; Bajoga - Gombe, Potiskum - Yobe, Gamawa - Bauchi.
The overall activities would be 6 physical trainings and 2 online cleanup events.
- 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.
1. Musaddam Idriss (username: De-Invincible) will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project.
2. Ibrahim Musa (username: Ibrahim442) will be the co-organizer and will help to mobilize new participants around the project and in organizing the planned activities.
3. Aisha Aliyu Harande (username: Harandee) as a female expert in communications will serve the role of communications and outreach in the cause of this project.
4. Amina Idriss Musa (username: Hajjare) she will be responsible for the welfare related stuff like making contact with the drink supplying vendors, food bookings and similar tasks.
5. Ahmerd Adam will be task with handling the hands-on tech related session to guide the yet to be recruited technical team of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community with the knowledge of how to operate a projector, sound system, router connection and their maintenance.
- 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 for this project are the general members of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community from all its networks and hubs, interested staff of media organizations and institutions, linguists and students of various educational institutions. Men and women of different backgrounds and age group will be considered part of the participants in this project.
- 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.
N/A
- 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.
We planned the activities together and discussed them in the community's dedicated WhatsApp group.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. We hope to learn whether long term plan activities can solve the aforementioned challenges. 2. We hope to learn whether the participants engagements would accelerate. 3. We hope to learn what to do next by the end of this plan activities.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 160 | Number of participants to train, 20 in each training. |
| Number of editors | 80 | Number of trained participants to edit Wikipedia |
| Number of organizers | 10 | 5 organizers from the community members and 5 more from other groups to poster collaborations and friendships |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 600 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 400 |
| Wikidata | 500 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
1. Dashboard Tool 2. Commons Category Tool
Financial proposal
edit- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
6062500 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.
4276 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).