Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Capacity Building and Thematic Weeks (ID: 21982169)

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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

Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (not recognized affiliate)

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.

Fulfulde Wikimedians User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Capacity Building and Thematic Weeks

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. Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/wikimediafulah/

2. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fulfulde-wikimedia-ug/

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

Currently almost 95% of articles in Fulfulde Wikipedia are about countries and major cities around the world. This project seek to improve and increase the quality of the articles as well as develop new contents to explore around other thematic areas like culture and history, education, biographies, monuments, fashion, heritage among others.
The Fulfulde Wikimedians thematic weeks will serve as a massive call to all volunteers within the user group to engage in the cleaning-up of contents on Fulfulde Wikipedia by improving them with proper citations, references and adding new sections and information to Stub articles.
There is still need for an increase in the awareness about Fulfulde Wikipedia. The thematic weeks will therefore serve as an approach for promoting Fulfulde Wikipedia and recruiting new volunteers.
Wikimedia Foundation have supported our community in purchasing some key equipment/material needed in training new volunteers. We therefore want to make good use of this material in a proper way hence that give us the idea of having the thematic weeks.
We want to build partnership with Fulfulde language Media organizations who will be broadcasting our theme in each week and also engage their staff by training them on how to become contributors of Fulfulde Wikipedia this is because establishing possible collaboration will help us to cover a very wide communities of the Fulfulde speaking populace thereby increasing our visibility and increasing the level of our promotion as well as in bringing new volunteers.
Fulfulde Wikipedia is in verge of becoming a large community of editors representing the estimated over 24 million global population of the Fula ethnic group. Therefore, teaching the community members knowledge about leadership roles and respect for the Wikipedia guided principles is of great importance and this can be achieved through the thematic weeks.
Improve the retention and engagement of the existing editors of Fulfulde Wikipedia.

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

Our strategies are as follows:

We will be organizing a meet-up and training edit-a-thon at the beginning of every thematic week to announce the theme of that week and retrain the participants on the areas we realized they need more coaching and support.
Part of our goals is to recruit new set of editors who will serve as the Fulfulde Wikipedia volunteers. Therefore, we will be organizing the events in a rotary manner (hosting each training event in a community that is different from the previous) thereby helping us in reaching out to more and more Fulfulde speaking communities and that will roughly gave us a chance to locate at least 4 - 6 communities.
We will use the collaborative partnership we are about to establish with media companies including Radio stations and online news channels to our advantage as a means of promoting the event and in addition to our social media channels.
We will at the end of the project designate from the locations of the communities which the thematic weeks were hosted the most engaged/contributed groups and launched them as Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Hubs/Fan Clubs/Networks in order to motivate them and ensure the retention of their very active participants.

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

We will be hosting 6 meet-ups/trainings every other week for a period of 3 months. This will includes other Wikimedia projects like Wikidata and commons but priority will be giving to Fulfulde Wikipedia and major contributions will be on it.
Hold on air interviews to promote the activities of Wikipedia and related projects in Fulfulde Langauge.
Create an online meeting space to share feedback and encourage the participants at the end of each thematic week before moving to another.

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)

Editathon

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

Yes, we have the team to implement this proposal. They are;

Musaddam Idriss who will be the Project lead
Ibrahim442 who will be the event co-ordinator
Mamman AA who will be the event communications and liaison officer
All other community members will be volunteers in this project

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, 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.

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.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, 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 project's target audience are the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community, Media Companies, Staff and Students of various educational institutions as well as individuals/organizations who may be interested to join the activities when attracted by our online and/or offline campaigns.

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

We will ensure the use of all security/safety measures of local authorities and also abide by the WMF friendly space policies.

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 let the community aware of this project through our WhatsApp group.

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, Identify Topics for Impact

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

1. We hope to learn whether having a series of trainings in promptly will help in establishing constant engagement and retention of recruited participants.

2. We hope to learn whether the campaigns we are going to develop when organizing these thematic weeks will open doors to opportunities for Fulfulde speakers in remote areas and those with expertise knowledge in various profession as well as the current editors to learn and understand that writing on Fulfulde Wikipedia is not specified to locations and places only, rather it can covers all areas of life just like the English Wikipedia.

3. We hope to learn whether through this event, editing of Wikimedia projects in Fulfulde language will be sustained enough and more group of contributors will be trained.

4. We will also hope to learn what can be done to improve awareness about Fulfulde Wikipedia in our community in preparation for having greater impacts in our subsequent project.

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
Number of events	Number of planned in-person trainings/editathons: 4 - 6 editathons	6
Number of participants	Throughout the events we aimed at training at least 120 participants; targeting 20 - 25 participants each week.	120
Number of facilitators	The number of community members who will ensure the smooth running of the editathons	5
Page views	Increase in Fulfulde Wikipedia page views	1000
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	There will be repeated and new contributors/editors to participate in all the editathons and we planned on targeting at least 20 - 25 in each thematic week	120
Number of editors	The main target is to grow the number of new editors on Fulfulde Wikipedia. We therefore expect to have at least 30 new editors out of the overall participants and 30 old editors.	60
Number of organizers	Number of organizers, trainers and facilitators will be 5 with the project lead, event coordinator and communications/liason officer from the community and 2 other experienced organizers who will be invited from other groups/communities.	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	Number of articles created/improved	240
Wikidata	Number of items/lexemes added on Wikidata	500
Wikimedia Commons	Number of photographs uploaded	10
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.

1. Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard Tool

2. Ordia Tool forge

3. Wikimedia Stats 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.

1350552 NGN

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

3065 USD

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

Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Capacity Building and Thematic Weeks.xlsx

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

Yes

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