Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness in Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil (KUST) (ID: 22050654)

statusFunded
Wikipedia Awareness in Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil (KUST)
proposed start date2023-03-27
proposed end date2023-04-25
grant start date2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
grant end date2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)798567 NGN
budget (USD)1733 USD
amount recommended (USD)1733
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Fulani215
organization (if applicable)• N/A
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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Fulani215

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

1. Aleeyuadam123

2. Ardido Ardake
3. Sa'adatu Yakubu
4. Hadiza salihu
5. M I Idress
6. Hamxo
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.

1. Fulfulde Community User Group

2. 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 in Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil (KUST)

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.

Fulfulde Wikipedia has left behind due to the lack of active editors, many of our existing editors has no expreince on how to cite a good references and also dont know reference is required for any article created on Wikipedia, many articles in Fulfulde Wikipedia has no references especially biography of notable people in Fulfulde language, this happen as a result of absence of adequate actives contributors in Fulfulde Wikipedia this bring huge obstacles in contributions in Fulfulde Wikipedia, in fact no any training or awareness have ever made in Wikipedia here in the university. Kano state university of science and Technology Wudil has more than 2000 student and native Fulani speaker occupied 40% which are willing and ready to contribute to Fulfulde Wikipedia, but lack of training and awareness has hindered their efforts. Moreover kano state is the largest city in time of population in Nigeria, this has to be the first Fulfulde Wikipedia awareness to chaired in kano University of science and Technology Wudil, With this problems in Fulfulde Wikipedia we are going to carryout Wikipedia awareness in the university where student will be open Wikipedia account, and we are going to select some students train them on how to edit Wikipedia and add references on any articles created. And we are going to put 2 long banner, the first one will be on the school main entrance gate, and the second one will be inside our event hall, the school press club will be invited for broadcasting of our event on school radio station.

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

The changes that we are hoping to bring in Fulfulde Wikipedia is to work hard and make sure that we have provide the authentic references to more than 250 articles in Fulfulde Wikipedia, hopefully articles that are related to the biography of notable peoples and also make sure that our existing editors have develop huge experiance and skills in editing Wikipedia and adding a references, and train them on how to become an active editors in Wikipedia. I will use like this resource, introduction to editing with visual editors trained our participants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_editing_with_VisualEditor/1

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

our activities will specifically focused on 2days awareness, adding a reference to the existing articles in Fulfulde Wikipedia, and creating Wikipedia account for new users and expanding the knowledge of our existing editors. And we are to go round the university and some selected department on the university. Below are the list of the department we are going to visit:

1. On day 1 we are going to visit department of computer science and information technology.
2. On day 2 we are going to visit department of chemistry, physics and Biology
3. On day 3 we are going to visit the department of Architecture, Geology and geography
4. On day 4 we are going to visit the department Estate management, Quantity survey and Urban and regional planning
5. On day 5 we are going to visit department of Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering

After the visitation we are going to select some students and train them on how to edit Wikipedia and make a good references.

6. Yes all the facilitators are living close to the location of the event.
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
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Yea i have a team, which are willing and set to contributes to the events. I Abdulkadir Abdulkadir will leads the team personally with all the expreinces i have in Wikipedia and several events and awareness i have been organizing so far. Among the awareness, I have facilitate in Hausa Wikipedia movement strategies in Gombe state where i have train some participants on how to edit Wikipedia in Fulfulde language and even after the event i continue to organize the online training for those participants. Here are my fellow team:

1. Aleeyuadam123 is a well expreinced Wikipedia editors and he organized different online and offline training in schools and colleges, and also facilitated in Hausa Wikipedia awareness in some local government area of kano state and outside the state.
2. Ardibe Ardike. she is an expreinced editor, a Teacher and also a program organizer she lead Fulfulde WikIpedia team during the Hausa WikIpedia movement strategies in Gombe state, and also engage in many Fulfulde programs at national and international level, she is also among Miyyeti ALLAH leaders.

3, Hadiza Salihu she is active editor in both Hausa and Fulfulde Wikipedia, she engage in different Wikipedia awareness and training in kano, Kaduna, and other states.

4.Sa'adatu Yakubu
5.Hamxo
6.M I Idress

All the team members are aware of this event! Since before the project to be applied we discussed vividly with all the team members and they selected me to apply for the project as an individual. And I keep in touch with them throughout regarding this project all the time. Four of my team members are native Fulfulde and the can speak and write on Fulfulde fluently and they are currently editors in Fulfulde Wikipedia, while two of my team members are from Hausa community I invited them to help me organise the event because there are well expreinced editors with huge skills and experience and they organize several events so I believe they will help me to carryout this project successful.

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, 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.

my work specifically will address the knowledge gab by implementing some numbers of student from different departments in the university and spent 2days training them on how to edit Wikipedia. We will be sharing pamphlets during our visiting that contains keynote about Wikipedia.

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.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Diversity

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

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Socioeconomic status

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?

I am final year student in Kano University of Science and Technology wudil our targeted participant are both students and staffs of the university generally, i deeply spokes with ALEEYUADAM123 severally who is also a final year student in the Faculty of engineering and he hosted several Wikipedia awareness both online and offline and attended several Wikipedia events inside and outside Kano state.

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

Wikipedia friendly space policy will be strictly consider to all participant and make sure everything are in proper control before starting the events, and all the participant will be treated with respect, kindness, and gender equality without considering any social background of any participant, equal right will be giving to each and every participant of the events.

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 our Wikipedia communities be aware of this events through our social media handle that we have Facebook, Telegram, whatsApp and i have informed some important Fulfulde organization body such as Gattal Hure, Miyetti Allah and Coalition of native Fulfulde speakers association. And i have spokes with university student deanery affairs and university security division about the events, they have approved and very glad with the events as it going to expose student into adding knowledge to education, and also make Fulfulde language globally. I have notified Fulfulde wikimedian users group on Fulfulde Wikimedian users group discussion page on meta.

1. We are already members in Fulfulde Wikipedia and we are contributing in Fulfulde since, but even though we cannot say this project is on behalf of Fulfulde Wikimedians User Group.
2. We also notified Hausa Community in Hausa Community 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, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

1. I wish Fulfulde Wikipedia will get more and more new Users

2. Hopefully to see that the existing editors in Fulfulde Wikipedia has more expreince and good oreintation on editing Wikipedia
3. willing to see that morethan 80% to 85% of Fulfulde articles get references
4. wish to see that all the References should be from reliable source
5. Willing to see all the editors in Fulfulde Wikipedia become active editors
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 the new editors Total number number of new editors to be recruited 30
Number of events Total number of events and trip to facilitated 10
Total number of repeated participants Total number of repeated participants in the events 20
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants Total number of participants that they will participate during the two days training including repeated participants 30
Number of editors Total number editors that will be editing during the event 20
Number of organizers Total number of Organizers that will be organising trips during the event 7
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia Total number of articles to be created and improved 300
Wikimedia Commons Number of photos to be uploaded on Wikimidia commons 250
Wikidata Number of new items to be and other lexemes to be created in Wikidata 250
Wiktionary Number of words to be created and improved in Wikitionary 250
Wikisource Number of short story, plays and poem to be created in Wikisource 30
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.

Well we are going to use WMF outreach dashboard to track all the activities during the events and trips, hopefully we are also going to use hashtag tool to measure all contributions made during the events. All the new users will be added to our social media handle.

Financial Proposal edit

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

798567 NGN

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

1733 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nCGhJbQx5f58wHxHN523x5SrPVo7FdYRID2GDqmzd90/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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