Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness and Edit-a-Thon Campaign for The Universal Writers and Authors Training Center (UWA) Kaduna. (ID: 21997650)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Iliyasu Umar
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Gwanki, Umar-askira, Em-mustapha, Salihu Aliyu, M Bash Ne, Ahmad Ibrahim91
- 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
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikipedia Awareness and Edit-a-Thon Campaign for The Universal Writers and Authors Training Center (UWA) Kaduna.
- 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.
Going through many Wikipedia articles especially, about our local histories written in Hausa, I can't help but notice a great dearth and scarcity of information which even the most unlearned men on the street are aware of but are either stated incorrect or completely omitted. I believe by engaging these young writers who are already willing to make impact with their words, I will increase the chance of getting more accurate narration, content creation and information about our history, culture and heritage. Therefore, this project seeks to identify and address the aforementioned problems through engaging these writers. And if this proposal is approved, it will also grow the Hausa Wikimedians User Group as well as Wikimedian Movement, and subsequently, articles that are less improved will be developed.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
I have already sent an introductory letter to the Association seeking permission to let the activity take place and hence, was received with great enthusiasm. A pilot meeting will be arranged soon to discuss the modalities when the proposal is approved. The Association already has an established communication channel which is used to reach out all members at any moment notice. Posters and stickers will be designed and distributed to the members during the pilot meeting so that they get knowledge of what Wikipedia is all about before the major activity. Also I know one important person in the Association who happen to be the secretary of the Association i already contacted and introduced Wikipedia to him and accepted with great enthusiasm, subsequently Wikipedia user account was created for him. He is now an editor. The organization secretary also told me that the Association government is set to organise a National Summit in coming weeks, so I also have a plan of designing flyers that will be distributed to the members on the National Summit Day. The secretary is ready enough to give me every support and assistance needed for the success of this event. This will also add in ensuring Wikimedia Movement Strategy is achieved and highly effective.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The major activity is the Edit-a-Thon after the campaign awareness. We are organizing a two-day project.
During the activities an experienced wikimedian who will be showcase and the controversy of of over what is right and wrong will be discussed. This editor wil be directed to make empherical research and supplied the accurate information thereby walking through the process. After the activities all available social media platforms will be deployed and entry log will be maintained. This log will then be used to offer award and recognition to top editor at the end of the period. This will go on after event and also this will go a long way in ensuring long term engagement and highly effective.
The activities are as follows:
Trip: there will be a trip with 10 experienced wikimedians mentioned in this project to the official Center of the Universal Writers and Authors (UWA) explaining what Wikipedia is all about and the goals of Wikipedia projects.
Edit-a-Thon: On the second day of the project, as the project organizer I will introduce and explain Wikipedia and other experienced wikimedians will assist and take over in explaining Wikipedia mission and targetes.
Other activities on the day are:
- creating user account for newly recruited editors
- Editing
- Article writing
- Fixing errors
- Creating social media flatforms and add new editors
- 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?
Yes, I have experienced wikimedians who will help me in the execution of this project. Below are their wikipedia usernames:
1) Em-mustapha 2) Gwanki 3Musaddam Idriss 4) Umar-askira 5) Salihu Aliyu 6) Naim Bello 7) M Bash Ne 8) Yusuf Sa'adu 9) Hamxo 10) Ahmad Ibrahim91
First nine are well experienced wikimedians who lead and attend different Wikipedia projects both in their state and other states. The last one with username (Ahmad Ibrahim91) is the secretary of the Association that is, the Universal Writers and Authors (UWA) and also newly recruited English editor who is very good at leading and presenting papers, articles and books in various seminars and conference. This group of people will give their own best and time in the successful completion of 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, Language, 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.
These young writers consist of male and female who will be willing to give their own words in the writing, improving and documenting of knowledge so that future generations of young writers will find the knowledge beneficial and worthy of use
- 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
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, 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 the direct members of the UWA who are at the moment are about 3000 members. They are majorly drawn from northern Nigeria and they may be people fom different community backgrounds. During the activities an experienced editor will be showcase and the controversy of over what is right and wrong will be discussed. The editor will be directed to make empherical research and supplied the accurate information thereby walking through the process. After the event all available social media platforms will be deployed and entry log will be maintained. This log will then be used to offer award and recognition to top editors at the end of certain period. This will go on indefinitely. And also these will go a long way in ensuring long term engagement and highly effective.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The UWA is already a gender and religious balance organization with its members spread across all ethnic, religious, tribal and political affiliation. The construction of the Association has neutralized any bias that may be construe. They are a group of change makers who dream job is essentially writing.
- 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 the User Group's social media on WhatsApp and Telegram and discussion page. There are already a list of ten best experienced editors who are initially contacted and informed about this planned project. There usernames are listed below:
1) Em-mustapha 2) Gwanki 3) Musaddam Idreess 4) M Bash Ne 5) Umar-askira 6) Salihu Aliyu 7) Naim Bello 8) Yusuf Sa'adu 9) Hamzo 10) Ahmad Ibrahim91
These best experienced Wikimedians will no doubt give their best in the success of this project
- 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?
- No
- 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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
Wikipedia is a place where knowledge is deposited for people consumption, I noticed a great darth and scarcity of information which even the most unlearned men on the street are aware of but are either stated incorrect or completely omitted. I believe that by engaging these young writers who are already willing to make impact with their words, I will increase the chance of getting more accurate narration and information about our local history, culture and heritage.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Creating awareness | We will create awareness both online and offline in order to promote the Wikipedia project objectives. | 50 |
| Training new editors | We will recruit and train new editors on how to edit articles and improve existing ones. | 80 |
| Creating articles | New and existing articles that will improve and grow Wikimedia projects will be created and improved. | 600 |
| Creating WhatsApp group | WhatsApp group, Telegram and Facebook page will be created after the event and add those that already picked interest in Wikipedia. | 5 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The target participants are members of The Universal Writers and Authors and they are people from 18-70 years | 80 |
| Number of editors | These are the targets number of new editors of Wikimedia projects. | 80 |
| Number of organizers | Number of experienced editors who will run and organise the project. | 10 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | 50 |
| Wikidata | N/A | 60 |
| Wiktionary | N/A | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | 30 |
| Wikibooks | N/A | 2 |
- 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.
Program and event Dashboard and Wikipedian Hashtag tools will be used to measure the metrics.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1300000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2963 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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