Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Promotion Campaign and Awareness In Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria Kaduna (NUBA POLY) & Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery. (ID: 21916763)

statusNot funded
Wikipedia Promotion Campaign and Awareness In Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria Kaduna (NUBA POLY) & Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery.
proposed start date2022-10-23
proposed end date2022-12-31
grant start date2022-08-01T00:00:00Z
grant end date2022-08-01T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)1683000 NGN
budget (USD)4264.83 USD
amount recommended (USD)0
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Umar-askira
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Umar-askira

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

1- Abubakar A Gwanki 2- Aisha Yahuza 3- Salihu Aliyu

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.

Yes. Hausa Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Nigeria User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wikipedia Promotion Campaign and Awareness In Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria Kaduna (NUBA POLY) & Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery.

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.

Nuhu Bamallai Politechnic Zaria Kaduna (NUBA POLY), is an Institution of Art, Science and Technology with the thousands of students and has so many departments.

Its is Located at KM 5, Zaria-Kaduna Express Way, PMB 1061, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. You can read more about Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic (Nubapoly) : https://nubapoly.edu.ng

Kaduna State College Of Nursing And Midwifery is the a well known college that has thousands of students studying nursing and midwifery. The school has standard academic structure that awards both National Diploma (ND) and High National Diploma (HND) on Nursing and Midwifery.

The school is located at: Yusuf Dantsoho Memorial Hospital, Polytechnic Road, Tudun Wada Kaduna. PMB 2288, Kaduna

You can read more about Kaduna state college of Nursing and midwifery here: http://vls.kscnm.net

Many lecturers and students don't believe in Wikipedia because they think anyone can edit and add anything they want because wikipedia is an open space to everyone, that's why they do not accept wikipedia as a sources for references. And another thing is that, some students and lecturers know about Wikipedia and sometimes they make their researches in Wikipedia but they always think Wikipedia is like machine generated, they think it's written by no one. And some only know about Wikipedia but they don't no anything about it's sister projects.

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. So Help Me God!!!

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. Training and recruiting new editors. Improving the skills of the existing editor (if any) Adding or improving Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wiktionary articles.

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

Trips - On the first day of the event, I with other Facilitators will tour the School's premises Academic offices and Faculties as well as the lecture halls explaining Wikipedia and Sister projects and sharing fliers containing information about Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

Workshops- On the second day I will introduce Wikipedia and sister projects to the participants. And creating Wikimedia account 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 Promotion Campaign and Awareness
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Umar-askira (project lead) with: 1- Abubakar S Gwanki (Facilitator) 2- Salihu Aliyu (Facilitator) 3- Aliyu Shaba (Facilitator) 4- Hamza DK (Facilitator) 5- Hamzo (Facilitator) 6- M Bash Ne (Facilitator) 7- Yusuf Sa'adu (Facilitator) 8- Iliyasu Umar (Facilitator) 9- Aisha Yahuza (Facilitator) 10- Aishatunnabiyi (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, 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.

This project will focus on Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion and racial

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?

Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language

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 project is focused to the Staff and Students of Nuhu Bamalli Politechnic Zaria Kaduna & Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery. Before the event, I will engage the participants through our friends there they noticed them via their own WhatsApp group. And I will send the email to the some staff and also visited some in their office. During the activities, I and Facilitators we will make sure we keep track of what's going on there and help them create an account and how they can contribute to Wikipedia. After the event we will also create a WhatsApp group where we will continue engaging the participants.

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 notice 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. I am used to that and all of the ones i used i my past projects have joined wikipedia and they contributing in wikipedia pages.

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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

This project will create awareness about Wikimedia to the staff and the students of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria and Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery.

The project train new editors to have the required skills to edit Wikimedia projects.

The participants contribute in Hausa and English Wikipedia and at least two Wikipedia Sister Projects

I will also learn how this intending wikipedia editors, users make optimal use of information from 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 Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
People reached THe Students and the staffs of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria (NUBA POLY) Kaduna and Kaduna State College Of Nursing and Midfifery 1000
Increase in page views Increase in page views especially Hausa wikipedia and English wikipedia. N/A
Total Number of events The project has 8 events:

4 Events for Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria (NUBA POLY): 1- 2 days campaign and awareness. 2- 2 days Workshops.

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4 Events for Kaduna State College Of Nursing and Midwifery: 1- 2 days campaign and awareness. 2- 2 days Workshops.

8
Awareness and Campaign We will use the day 1 & 2 of the events for campaign and awareness. 2
Workshop We will use the 3 & 4 of the events for workshops 2
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants We will trains students staffs of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria and Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery. 60
Number of editors I am going to add experienced wikimedians to edit wikipedia pages in the project outreach dashboard 30
Number of organizers I Umar-askira will organize the project with the help of my team. 1
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia We will ad more contents in the wikipedia pages. 50
Wikimedia Commons We are going to upload files in the commons during the events 20
Wikidata We are going to add items in the wikidata page 20
Wiktionary We are going to defined words in Hausa and English word in the wiktionary page. 30
Wikiquote We are going to add quotes in the wikiquote page 20
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 am going to use outreach dashboard to track the all edits done by the editors and participants.

Financial Proposal edit

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

1683000 NGN

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

4264.83 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XYbIxaHwQOOw1YkboHqG6O9vkhSBGNo4LPRYhbElgm8/edit#

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

Yes

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