Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedians of Kilimanjaro group & WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign (ID: 22115552)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Justine Msechu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Hussein m mmbaga 1:Hussein m mmbaga 2:Mohamed mfuu 3:Anuary Rajabu 4:Siwema Nikini 5:Brenda Philbert 6:Super8 Devs 7:Brayson Mushi 8:Kelvin-Meena 9:Abubakari Sixberth
- Organization
Wikimedians of Kilimanjaro group (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.
1:Wikimedia Community User Group Kilimanjaro (Organizer) 2:Wikimedians of Arusha User Group (Member) 3:Let’s Connect Peer Learning program Tanzania (organizer) 4:Organizer Lab Graduate
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedians of Kilimanjaro group & WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign
- 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: https://twitter.com/UserKilimanjaro 2: https://www.instagram.com/wikimedia_kilimanjaro/
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The global annual WikiForHumanRights campaign rallies Wikimedia communities to take action to improve and contribute to Wikimedia projects and stories With the effects of climate change being felt across the globe, it's more important than ever to have accurate and informative information available to everyone. By collaborating with diverse individuals, we can work together to ensure that these vital resources are up-to-date and accessible to all—environmental rights which enable a safe and stable climate, healthy ecosystems, and a non-toxic environment. Through this campaign, we hope to build the knowledge of participants and the public about climate change and environment words in the Swahili language that will serve as useful tools for local climate advocacy and communication in Tanzania. Also, a program seeks to document climate change-related topics on Swahili Wikipedia to raise awareness and knowledge about the topic on the internet through Wikimedia projects. Through this, we hope to bridge both the topic and language gap while creating opportunities for people to access climate change information in a way that would build awareness of the various effects of climate change in their community.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Build and empower a community of contributors to contribute climate change knowledge on Swahili Wikipedia: This will provide better positions to contribute Climate Change and other environmental information on Wikipedia. We believe this will give opportunity for environmental experts and other environmental enthusiasts the to improve local expert (environmental) knowledge in Wikipedia
Document climate change and sustainability-related topics on Swahili Wikipedia
Improving the visual coverage of environmental topics: By organizing activities that focus on widening the coverage of quality and underrepresented content in Swahili to attract readership by adding images to articles with no images and improving them. This theme relates to the Wiki Love Africa 2023 campaign and WikiForHumanRight campaign as well.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Strategie 1: Activities Recruiting new and existing participants to contribute to Swahili Wikipedia in Kilimanjaro
Training ( in-person ): This will be a series of events for training to ensure that new contributors get enough understanding about the Wikimedia movement and their sister's projects, and how to contribute.
these trainings are about 3 hours of live workshop-like sessions to learn, share, and practice skills. Also, participants will have some time to review the material beforehand, which takes approximately 1 hour,, and engage with learning material after the session, which may take a minimum of 3 hours of their time. With this proposal, we hope that each participant will be part edit two articles in their sandbox and the organizer will review them before publishing.
Strategie 2: Activities
Edit-a-thon: We will organize a series of events of edit-a-thon by including experienced editors in writing articles about climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia.
Contest: We will organize a writing contest to incentivize contributions about Climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Africa, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Project Coordinators Justine Msechu (User Justine Msechu) Hussein m mmbaga (User Hussein m mmbaga)
Training Facilitators Idd Ninga (User: Idd ninga) Caroline Mshanga (User: Caroline Mshanga) Abubakari Sixbert (User: Abubakari Sixbert)
- 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, Geography, Language
- 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.
The event is aimed at bringing together climate enthusiasts, Wikimedians, and experts from various fields to work collaboratively toward creating accurate, up-to-date, and reliable content on this critical topic. The event is set to take place at Kilimanjaro providing a unique opportunity for students, researchers, and academics to contribute to the creation of free knowledge on climate change.
- 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, Advocacy, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , 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 target participants are active members across the Wikimedia community Kilimanjaro, new editors, and volunteers working and interested in the relevant theme.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will let participants know of the WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct as well as put equity in consideration for their participation.
- 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 use our Social media pages (Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Telegram, and Twitter) as well as our meta page to let participants know.
- 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.
Yes
- 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.
1: Dunia Salama Foundation It's a registered organization that focuses on youth and the environment so through this partnership we will be able to reach more youth.
2: Ksm Agro Industry Company LTD the organization focuses on the agriculture value chain by producing agriculture inputs ( Organic fertilizers and pesticides ) by using organic waste, animal waste, and microorganisms for the purpose of saving climate change. We will get some of the participants from this organization to share knowledge.
- 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. To what extent the Participant has contributed to expanding, qualifying, and diversifying climate change and sustainability content?
- 2. Has Climate change and sustainability knowledge been included on Wikimedia platforms?
- 3. Have we been able to collaborate with other organizations to gain access to underrepresented
knowledge?
- 4. Are new participants interested in continuing to volunteer on Wikimedia 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Retained Participants | We will measure this by looking at how many participants have returned to more than one event throughout the campaign. | 40 |
| Participant engagement | We will measure this by identifying how the community members have participated in the campaign through the number of Participants, and contributions. | 40 |
| Knowledge included on Wikimedia platforms | We will measure this through the results yielded by participating in three Wikimedia projects that is Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia commons. | 3 |
| 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 expected to take part in the event | 40 |
| Number of editors | Total number of editors expected to take part in the event | 40 |
| Number of organizers | Total Number of organizers to ensure a successful project | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Number of existing wikipedia articles related to the theme and regional topic focus that are translated or written onswahili language wikipedia | 500 |
| Wikidata | Number of items related to the theme and regional topic focus that are created or improved | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of images, videos or audio recordings related to the theme and regional topic focus uploaded | 50 |
| 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.
Number of images, videos or audio recordings related to the theme and regional topic focus uploaded
- 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.
Hashtags and 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.
10155244 TZS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4975 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1htWTpL9_6GjzpvPClFIaHuTU4i4xoAvsJ23rY3Q6CNo/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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