Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness Campaign in Federal Polytechnic Damaturu (FEDPODAM) (ID: 22030381)

statusWithdrawn
Wikipedia Awareness Campaign in Federal Polytechnic Damaturu (FEDPODAM)
proposed start date2023-01-19
proposed end date2023-01-26
budget (local currency)747500 NGN
budget (USD)1642.53 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
applicant• El-hussain14
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

El-hussain14

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Muhammad Idriss Criteria Mamman AA

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 Nigeria User Group Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wikipedia Awareness Campaign in Federal Polytechnic Damaturu (FEDPODAM)

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.

Federal Politechnic Damaturu (FEDPODAM), is an Institution of Art, Science and Technology with the thousands of students and has so many departments.

Its is located at Damaturu LGA which is the capital city of Yobe State, Nigeria. Most of the Lectures and students of FEDPODAM doesn't use Wikipedia as research source because they misunderstood Wikipedia and they mostly think that the Wikipedia can be edited by everyone and some blieves that the contents were provided by machine or AI automation. They don't know that Wikipedia is the best source for academic and social research. I will use this project to make campaign and Awareness in FEDPODAM to teach and train both some of the lectures and students. We plan to carry out an online and offline promotion campaign in the schools in order to raise Campaign and awareness of Wikimedia projects to the students, lecturers and the general community on how to edit and improve Wikimedia contents. We will also teach them how to use Wikimedia Projects especially Wikipedia for researches. This project will attract the attention of many staffs and students of the schools to become Wikimedians and contribute more to Wikimedia Projects.

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

- My first approach is to create awareness among 30 students and staff of the FEDPODAM of which I am already in contact with the student Union government concerning it.

  • My second approach will be to organize workshops to train students and staff of the FEDPODAM on how to contribute and become active contributors.
  • My third approach will be mentorship and followership, of which follow-up/mentorship will be done via social media platforms that will be created for the sake of the project also participants will be added to existing User groups and various ongoing wiki projects. Why I think the will be effective it’s because the facilitators and organizers involve in the project are well experienced in delivering such projects.
3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

On the first day of the event, I and other facilitators will tour the School's premises, Academic offices, and Faculties in order to explain Wikipedia and it's sisters projects as well as sharing fliers containing information about Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

On the second day I will introduce and explain Wikipedia and sister projects to the participants. And creating Wikipedia accounts to the new editors. On the third day, I and others Facilitators we will lead the Workshop of teaching how to edit Wikipedia to the participants.

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)

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

Hussaini Mohammed Inusa (lead) Muhammad Idriss Criteria (facilitator) Mamman AA (facilitator) Musaddam (facilitator) Maryam Saleh Isah (facilitator)

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.

Geography, Language, Topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context, 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.

The project will help students and staff to identify knowledge gaps in the fields of culture, religion, and other The project will address the inequality of knowledge by creating new Article And improving existing ones in culture, religion, and other interesting topics. Then The project will expose participants to the movement knowledge and Wikimedia projects. It will also developed the little idea they have about Wikipedia's articles.

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 , Advocacy, Climate Change and sustainability, Public Policy, Open Technology, Diversity

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

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Age, 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 lecturers and students of the FEDPODAM. I will try to inform the college's management before the time of event and highlight them about what the event is all about. Lastly, the WhatsApp group will be opened for the participants because of the responding to their questions and to be guiding them after the activities.

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 them know via our social media handles especially WhatsApp and Telegram. I will also notify them via Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion Page on Meta.

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.

Especially students of the schools and some of the academic staffs that will help me to get official access to the school academic main body.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, 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?

If the participants have a full awareness about Wikipedia. If the Wikipedia contents were built by creating new articles. If the Wikimedian community were built by recruiting new editors. If the less improved articles were improved by editing some articles.

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
Participants Participants will be the staff and students 30
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants Lecturers and students 30
Number of editors The editors that will create Wikipedia accounts and contribute 25
Number of organizers Facilitators 5
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia Articles to be improved/created in Hausa and English Wikipedia. 50
Wikimedia Commons Total number of items to be uploaded in Wikicommons 40
Wikidata We will add contents and improved the current items in wikidata 50
N/A N/A N/A
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17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

I will use the Outreach Dashboard to track and assign articles to the participants. It will also be used to measure some project metrics such as number of participants, number of articles created/improved, number of references added to articles, article views amongst others. And some other metrics will be collected manually.

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.

Program and Event Dashboard and Wikimedian Hashtag Tools will be used to measure the metric.

Financial Proposal edit

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

747500 NGN

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

1642.53 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ln0Zn3f-SRE7Z--tijG9xCA_t5eIn_nMKbW7Xxxvtx8/edit?usp=drivesdk

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

Yes

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