Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness And Workshop In Azare (ID: 21944565)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Yusuf Sa'adu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Gwanki, Hamza Dk, M Bash Ne.
- 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 Wikimedias Usergroup
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikipedia Awareness And Workshop In Azare
- 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.
Azare is the second largest town in Bauchi state after Bauchi town the Capital of Bauchi State. The town is the home of Federal Government College Azare, and the Aminu Sale College of Education Azare. This program will create Awareness in Azare town especially the higher institutions existing in the city.
Many peoples especially students and teachers don't believe in Wikipedia because they think anyone can edit and add anything they want because wikipedia is an open space to everyone, this is reason why they do not accept wikipedia as a sources for references. And another thing is that, some peoplea knows about Wikipedia and sometimes they making their research in Wikipedia but they always think Wikipedia is like Blogs. And some only knows about Wikipedia but they don't heard anything about it's sister projects like Wikidata, Wiktionary, and other Wikimedia Projects.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- Creating awareness about Wikimedia Foundation projects in Azare town
- Wikipedia Training and Edit-a-thons
- Recruiting new editors
- Improving the skills of the existing editor (if any)
- Adding or improving local contents about Bauchi State on Wikipedia
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will spend three days running the Program. In the first day I and other participants will be touring Azare town especially important places including schools distributing Flyers containing Wikimedia Foundation informations. And we will keep people informed about the Wikimedia Foundation. But we will focus on Hausa Wikipedia. We will also focus on photography of Monuments, Buildings, Cultures and Foods to promote Commons. On the last two days we will also host an event which will be awareness about Wikimedia Foundation Projects and Workshop and Edit-a-thon focused on Hausa Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
- 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?
- Yusuf Sa'adu, I'm project's lead. I have participated in many Wikimedia events in Kaduna and Kano, I also organised Wikipedia Workshop in Funtua which I have recruited some editors in Funtua.
- Hamza DK, is an active Wikipedia and Wiktionary editor, he has organised a Wikipedia event and has facilitated and Participated in so many Wikimedia projects.
- M Bash Ne, he's an experienced Wikimedia editor and has experience in organizing events. He has organised and been a facilitator in so many Wikimedia events.
- Gwanki, Is an experience Wikimedian, he has organized many Wikimedia Projects in Northern Nigeria. He's an administrator at Hausa Wikipedia
- And Two of the people in Azare Yahaya Danno Azare and Adamu Jumba these people they will help to organize a trips in the Azare
- 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.
Age (regency), Language, 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.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Not applicable
- 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?
Participants are the people of Azare, especially young people. Our plan includes a trip that we will reach out to the Azare residents. Focused participants of the workshop are youths students
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The Wikimedia friendly space policy will be strictly adhered to the participants before the event starts. We will make sure we have a good space with the materials to assist participants.
- 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.
I will let the participants know via our existence WhatsApp groups. I will also announce via Our Hausa Wikimedians WhatsApp and Telegram groups, I will also announce via our Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wiktionary Discussion pages.
- 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, Manage Internal Knowledge, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
- Did the project Create awareness about Wikimedia Foundation projects in Azare town
- Did The project has recruited new editors?
- Did the project has Added or improving local contents about Bauchi State on Wikipedia?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peoples reached | Students and staff and other communities which the project will reach | 500 |
| Training new editors | We will recruit and training new editors on how to create articles and improve existing one's | 20 |
| Number of events | Total number of all events Trips and workshops | 3 |
| Create WhatsApp group | WhatsApp group and telegram page we will be created after the event | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of peoples participants the event | 30 |
| Number of editors | These are the targets number of new editors | 20 |
| Number of organizers | Number of experiences Wikimedians whose they will be organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Number of articles to be created or Edited during the event | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of photos to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons | 20 |
| Wikidata | Number of wikidata items to be created or Edited | 15 |
| Wiktionary | Number of articles to be created or Edited in Wiktionary | 10 |
| 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 WMF Dashboard and hashtag also
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1020000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2439930 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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