Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Translation Local Meetup and Community Engagement, Kaduna (ID: 22156351)

statusNot funded
Wikipedia Translation Local Meetup and Community Engagement, Kaduna
proposed start date2023-07-30
proposed end date2023-09-30
budget (local currency)1386000 NGN
budget (USD)3016 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Iliyasu Umar
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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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.

1) Elmachphy 2) Ahmed Ibrahim91 3) Umar-askira 4) B0ssladyfina 5) Hafsat Rabiu

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

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wikipedia Translation Local Meetup and Community Engagement, 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.

Despite rapid campaign and awareness, my preliminary survey disclose poor engagement of the Hausa local communities particularly in the growing number of new internet users in the local community. Majority of these new users are not aware of the local content of the Wikipedia resources. I intend to begin step to remedy that by directly targeting these portion of the communities to develope the interest and understand how they can make more impact in helping to improve already translated articles and provide more supporting references. Again, there are large number of articles that are not available in Hausa language.

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

This program will utilize Local Community Unit such as NGOs and Civil Society Organization with objectives that are unrelated to developing the image, heritage and values of the Hausa Community. It will also be drawn from individual persons of significant interest such as pastors, imam and other local community activist. These will drive the initiative into the heart of the Hausa Community to partake in the development of articles and translation that depict the true narration of the Hausa by the Hausa people.

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

√ Three days workshop/ seminar to start the program. √ First day: Awareness and training will be conducted by assigning an experienced editor to make empherical research as new participants are invited √ Second and third day: translation begins as planned, we plan to translate s good number of articles as the untranslated articles are already picked and compiled in a single paper. √ A competition to award prize to the highest contributor within the next 10 weeks after the event. √ Continue coaching and mentorship through social media and other platforms.

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 carrying out 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) Ahmad Ibrahim91

They are well experienced wikimedians who lead and attend different Wikipedia projects both in their state and other states. They are also very good at leading and presenting papers, articles and books in various seminars and conference. These editors 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.

By engaging these local community members who have already identified with such need, the initiative will provide them with a practical know-how to help address these gaps and guide them to own their narratives.

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 , Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, 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?

The target participants are directly members of the Hausa Local Community from within and around Kaduna metropolis. These NGOs include

  • Kungiyar Tuntuban Matasan Unguwan Dosa.
  • Kungiyan Marubutan Unguwan Dosa
  • Kungiyan Makarantan Unguwan Dosa
  • Kungiyar Makada da Raye-rayen Kaduna North
  • Kungiyar Matan Unguwan Dosa
  • Kungiyar Hadakan malamai na Badarawa
  • Kungiyar Matsan Rigasa
  • Kungiyar Makarantan Kawo.
  • Kungiyar Matasan Arewa shiyar Kaduna ta Arewa
  • Kungiyar Matasan Badarawa

Before the activity, preliminary introduction engagement will be held with each group specifying what the initiative is all about after the proposal is approved. The activities will then take place in the central location where all participants will be converged for a three days workshop. After the event, Social media platforms will be utilized for continuous engagement and coaching.

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

The demographics constitute mainly of Hausa speaking communities, equal chances will be given to all the selected group using a proper quota. Season editors and writers will be invited. I will lias with with local police and other security outfit for maximum security.

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 eight 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) 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?
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, Manage Internal Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit

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

Area of lapses as intended to be corrected. The extent of these engagement and the outcome will compare to the intended objective.

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
Creating articles New and existing that will improve and grow Wikimedian projects will be created and improved 50
Improving articles Articles that are less improved will be developed 50
Creating awareness We will create awareness both online and offline in order to promote Wikipedia objectives 50
Training new editors We will recruit and train new editors on how to translate and edit articles and improve existing ones 50
Creating Whatsapp group Whatsapp group, Telegram and Facebook page will be created after the event and add those that already picked interest in Wikipedia 3
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants The target participants are members of Hausa Local Community and they are people from 18-70 yesrs 80
Number of editors These are the target number of new editors of Wikimedian project 80
Number of organizers Number of experienced editors who will help me run and organize the project 8
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia N/A 50
Wikidata N/A 30
Wikimedia Commons N/A 20
Wiktionary N/A 30
Wikiquote N/A 10
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 Wikipedia Hashtag tools will be utilized 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.

1386000 NGN

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

3016 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lz3RSOUXAV8ocsDGFU5-cz02sdteC9c9Hrd49TEbn9g/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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