Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Outreach and Editathon at Isah Kaita College of Education, Dutsinma (ID: 21904714)

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

ibkt

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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.

Wikimedia Usergroup Nigeria and Hausa Wikimedia Usergroup

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wikipedia Outreach and Editathon at Isah Kaita College of Education, Dutsinma

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.

There's widespread lack of awareness and editing know-how of Wikipedia in the Dutsin-Ma metropolis and the environ. The school is a strategic college of education that has students from diverse environment. Bringing Wikipedia to the community will be a great service to education and open knowledge. I seek by this project to bring Wikipedia closer to them, through editing tutorials and live support as well as train potential trainers in the future.

Bringing Wikipedia editing and awareness to students has great potential. Note only they become editors and valuable contributors they have the potential to also introduce it to other students and peers and even beyond teh school campus. This will ultimately help improve Wikipedia articles and contents and overall Wikimedia mission of providing free knowledge to all and sundry.

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

Creating awareness about Wikipedia, the important online encyclopedia as well as other Wikimedia educational projects. Providing avenue for training of potential trainser from students and the college faculty and also recruiting new editors for improving Wikipedia. Additionally it will provide room for improving skills of editors that already edit Wikipedia. Another important change would be adding content, creating and improving content of Wikipedia and other projects during the event.

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

Organize a full day physical event for training and editing workshop to students of the college and other interested individuals.
Hold interactive session will school union leaders to devise means to sustain the project via providing support to new people and
Create and organise a group of Wikimedia editors in the college, for activities coordination, community building and sustainability.
Collect metrics about the project and measure progress.

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)

Increasing Wikipedia reach and promoting awareness to it and also introducing editing to College students who are mostly passive readers of the encyclopedia.

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

Yes, three staff colleague will help me to make the project sucessful. Also User:Ammarpad the co-founder and leader of Hausa Wikimedians Usergroup and expert editor will be co-facilitator and chief adviser of the project. I communicated with him and he agreed to help. There are also other experienced Wikipedia editors that are ready to help these are: User:BnHamid, User:Wizkid49.

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.

This project will help in several ways to address knowledge content gaps in the areas of culture, religion, diveristy and other related topics by empowering active college students to learn the process of editing Wikipedia and help in developing and improving content about local important topics that might otherwise not be in Wikipedia. The project will alsp address the knowledge inequity by creating new articles and improving already existing articles in the aforesaid areas.

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, Diversity

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?

Primarily students and staff of Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsinma (https://ikcoedm.edu.ng/), but also all other interested individuals from the area and otehr Wikipedia editors from Wikimedia community.

Social media and students union will be leveraged to engage students. I am already in many students social media groups, so I will make direct posts. At the end of the project, survey will also be used to gauge participations reaction to the projects so as to make improvements or adjustment to future event and also learn what went well and what needs change or improvement.

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

The project training will be conducted in a conducive and safe environment and there would be no discrimination of any kind. Extant schools safety and health rules and Wikimedia guidelines will be strictly followed before, during and after the project.

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 send notification to Hausa Wikimedians Usergroup and Nigerian Wikimedians Usergroup.

Here are the links

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wikipedia_Outreach_campaign_at_Dutsinma_College_of_Education

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hausa_Wikimedians_User_Group#Wikipedia_Outreach_campaign_at_Dutsinma_College_of_Education

I will also send post posters in the school and social media to help inform more people about the 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?

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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

I would like learn how the project can raise awareness of Wikipedia in the school.

I would like learn the effect of the project in growing editors from the school when they're trained.

I would like learn how the project can help in building and sustaining school community of active editors.

I would like learn how the project will overall make Wikipedia and open knwoledge better.

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
People reached	Staff and Students and other communities which the project will reach	500
Number of events	Total number of all events Trip and Workshops	1
Acoount creation	Total number of new accounts to be created during the event (This is for people who don't have Wikipedia account; other participants might have it already, so they wll not create new one)	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	Number of people who participates directly or indirectly to make the event happen and be successful	50
Number of editors	Number of people who will become editors and add or improve Wikipedia content during the event	30
Number of organizers	This will include at least 3 staff members of the college who already expressed willingness to help execute the project. It also includes the facilitators and project leader (myself)	6

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	Number of articles to be created or improved during the all events	50
Wikimedia Commons	Number of Photos to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons	100
N/A	N/A	N/A
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.

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 Wikimedia outreach dashboard and some other metrics will be collected manually.

Financial Proposal edit

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

1211400 NGN

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

2929 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S99akohd-zIeuTQKxb68Q53qRUwDMBb_LyIVMzHy96k/edit#gid=0

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

Yes

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