Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia for Hausa Women Inclusion 2023 (ID: 22070345)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Jidda3711
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Galdiz Bikhrah Mrym009 Abdullahi zailani
- 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, I am a member of Wikimedia Community Nigeria, Hausa Wikimedians User Group and Wiki Loves Women
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikipedia for Hausa Women Inclusion 2023
- 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.
Wikipedia for Hausa Women Inclusion: Embrace equity and level the playing ground. Is a project with the goal of recruiting Hausa women editors to Wikimedia projects to bridge the gender gap and increase their representation on Hausa edition of Wikimedia project's platforms. We aim to achieve this by conducting outreach activities, providing training and building a supportive community of Hausa women editors on Wikimedia projects. Hausa Wikimedia projects are among the fastest growing Wikimedia communities in Africa. However, the community suffer from a significant gender gap in terms of women content contributors, editors etc. Hausa language is one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with over 80 million speakers worldwide and a significant number of women, yet they are underrepresented on Wikimedia projects. This project will seek to address this gap by recruiting and supporting underrepresented Hausa women to contribute to Wikimedia projects in Hausa language.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Our project plan is to conduct outreach activities to identify and recruit underrepresented Hausa women editors who are interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects. This will involve partnering with local organizations, including women's groups, universities, and cultural organizations, to raise awareness of Wikimedia projects and recruit potential editors. We have already contacted the following partner organisations: Jam'iyyar Matan Arewa (JMA), Taskar Nasaba, and Badarawa Women Development Centre.
Provide training and support to these editors, including training on editing and contributing to Wikimedia projects, as well as support and guidance on best practices, community norms, and policies. This will involve developing and delivering in-person training sessions, online follow up discussions, creating training materials, and providing ongoing support to editors.
Build a supportive community of Hausa women editors, where editors can connect, share knowledge, and support each other in their editing activities. This will involve creating online spaces, such as email listings and social media groups, where editors can connect and share knowledge, as well as organizing in-person events, such as edit-a-thons and meetups, where editors can meet and collaborate.
Increase the representation of Hausa women and free knowledge sharing on Wikimedia projects, by supporting Hausa women editors to contribute articles, images, and other content related to Hausa people, places, culture and knowledge. This will involve working with editors to identify gaps in content related to Hausa, as well as providing support and guidance on creating high-quality content that meets Wikimedia's notability and other inclusion policies.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. We will conduct an awareness program to identify and recruit Hausa women who are interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects by reaching out to the partner organisations .
- 2. Carry out two physical training workshops on editing and contributing to Wikimedia projects and will also provide support and guidance on best practices, community norms, and policies.
- 3. We will build a supportive community of Hausa women editors, where editors can connect, share knowledge, and support each other in their editing journey.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Sure, we have the team available to implement this project proposal when it's approved. I am a penultimate undergraduate at the Ahmadu Bello University, an experienced Wikipedia Hausa editor, I have participated in several Wikipedia events in Kaduna State and help facilitate some of them. In the team we also have User Galdiz who is also an experienced editor and the person who introduced us to this amazing open platform, he will be available, Saudarh2 also will be available and there are also our fairly experienced colleagues who are more experienced in project execution and management like Mrym009 and Bikhrah will also help us in rendering 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, Sexual Orientation, 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.
Our project plans to increase the representation of Hausa women on Wikimedia projects, by supporting them to contribute articles, images, and other content related to Hausa people, culture, places and free knowledge sharing.
- 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.
Advocacy, Public Policy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, 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?
Our target participants are mostly Women from Hausa communities in Northern Nigeria but we have no worries if any young students of any gender identity shows up. We will send invitation letters to participants through the partner organization we reached out to and will engage them in all our social media groups where they will get to learn the basics of Wikipedia, later they will be invited to the physical in person events
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Wikimedia Foundation friendly Space policy will be adhere to during all of our programs and the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
- 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.
We will let them know through our User group communities social media handles and on their talk pages on Meta Wiki.
- 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.
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.
We reach out to Women organization and they show interest to participate in this project proposal as Women in this part of the world are always ready to improve their skills to become relevant in this contemporary world of technology. So far, these women groups are Jam'iyyar Matan Arewa (JMA), Taskar Nasaba and Badarawa Women Development Center (BWDC).
- 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.
Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We will try to understand the impact of gender diversity on the quality and quantity of content produced. We may learn which tactics were most successful in attracting women to participate in Wikimedia project, such as targeted outreach to women's groups or social media campaigns. We may also learn about the barriers to women's participation in Wikipedia editing: By speaking with the women who participated in the project, we may gain insight into the challenges they faced in becoming editors and any changes that could be made to improve the experience for future volunteers. We may understand by monitoring the ongoing participation of women editors in Wikipedia Hausa editions, whether the project's impact is long-lasting and whether it is possible to maintain and build upon our achievements.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | The goal is to engage and teach women participants from Hausa communities to contribute to Wikipedia project in Hausa language edition by providing them with basics knowledge of editing Wikimedia project and the community ethics. | 40 |
| Gender Diversity | Level the playing ground, we will like to see more women editors in the community by engaging more women and ensuring and improving equality in the movement | 10 |
| Contents | Create and Improve content related and more pressing to women issues on Wikipedia | 50 |
| Partnership | Partner with women organizations as basic for open platform education and improving digital literacy for the participants which will be a plus to the organization | 3 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | At least we will have 4 to 50 participants to participate in the project in person events, 20 at least for each event | 40 |
| Number of editors | At the end, we hope to retain 20 editors after the events who will be active | 20 |
| Number of organizers | 5 experienced facilitators will help in rendering this project | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
100 articles related or are more pressing to women will be created or improve
- 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.
We will use the outreach dashboard tool for the onboarding of the participants and to track their contributions. We will also use the hashtag tool if there's need for.
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1208370 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2490 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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