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Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc- Annual Activities 2022
Our core objectives include the following:
  1. Add N100 audiovisuals of oral history to Wikimedia commons, use them in over 500, Wikipedia articles in at least 10 languages.
  2. .Add more than 20,000 items to Wikidata
  3. . Recruits at least 500 new volunteers to the community
  4. . Train at least 1000 new editors
  5. Add at least 10,000 media files to Wikimedia commons
  6. . Partner with at least 10 mission aligned organizations.
  7. Add 800 new articles to Wikipedia and improve 800 existing articles
start date2022-04-01T00:00:00Z2022-04-01
end date2023-03-31T00:00:00Z2023-03-31
budget (local currency)84382200 NGN
amount requested (USD)205619.2 USD
amount recommended (USD)110000
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2021-22
funding program roundRound 1
applicant and people related to proposal1. Olaniyan Olushola 2. T Cells
organization (if applicable)Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation
Midpoint Report

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Applicant details

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Wikimedia username(s):

1. Olaniyan Olushola

2. T Cells

Organization:

Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation

Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

Organization details

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What is your organization or group's mission?

Our mission is to support and promote free access to knowledge, work with volunteers across the country, partner with governmental and non-governmental organizations, cultural and educational sectors and other mission-aligned groups to make knowledge available for free access.

Wikimedia Nigeria is committed to the ideal of a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge and we believe that free access to knowledge is a fundamental right.

If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

  1. https://web.facebook.com/WikimediaNG (Facebook)
  1. https://www.instagram.com/officialwikimediang/
  2. https://twitter.com/wikimediang/

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nigeria_Foundation_Inc.

Grant proposal

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

Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc- Annual Activities 2022

Where will this proposal be implemented?

Nigeria

Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

What are the main challenges you are trying to solve and your proposed solution?

Nigeria is the most diverse country in Africa in terms of population, ethnicity, language, culture, and lifestyles. In spite of this large population and diversity, Nigeria is underrepresented on Wikimedia projects in terms of contents and contributors. Recently, there is a surge in the Wikimedia related activities in the country which require a need for sustainability. This proposal aims at sustaining the various strategic projects and successes recorded by the Wikimedia community in Nigeria over the years and to address likely challenges facing Wikimedia volunteers in Nigeria in line with our strategic objectives to support volunteers and promote free access to knowledge via Wikipedia and other sister’s projects such as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

We want to better support volunteers in Nigeria in 2022 and recruit diverse contributors to various projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation and enrich Wikimedia projects with diverse contents relating to the Nigeria people, culture, and oral traditions.

What is the main objective of your proposal?

Our core objectives include the following:
  1. Add N100 audiovisuals of oral history to Wikimedia commons, use them in over 500, Wikipedia articles in at least 10 languages.
  2. .Add more than 20,000 items to Wikidata
  3. . Recruits at least 500 new volunteers to the community
  4. . Train at least 1000 new editors
  5. Add at least 10,000 media files to Wikimedia commons
  6. . Partner with at least 10 mission aligned organizations.
  7. Add 800 new articles to Wikipedia and improve 800 existing articles

Describe your main strategies to achieve this objective and the main activities you will be developing as part of these strategies.

Contents generations

Campaigns - We plan to participate in community driven international campaigns and contests such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, WikiGap, WPWP, 1lib1ref, Wiki Loves Monuments. We will engage at least 50 professional photographers. To do these, we will work with cultural heritage organizations such as the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, National Tourism Development Corporation and other mission-aligned organizations.

Local contents drive - We plan to organize a contents drive to create articles on the English Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Hausa Wikipedia.

GLAM – Oral history documentation is one of the most successful projects run by Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation. 100 Audiovisuals will be recorded, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, Wikitongues, the U.S. Library of Congress, and the Internet Archives will host our documented materials in perpetuity.

Edit-a-thons – We will organize monthly edit-a-thons to generate content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

2. Capacity Building and Community Support – We will train people on how to contribute to the various projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Participants will also be trained on how to sustain partnership, build community, plan conferences, event planning, grant-making and reporting. We will support community members who have limited resources to contribute to Wikimedia projects such as providing internet data, small routers and fund small projects or initiatives with a maximum budget of USD 1000.

3. WikiNaija- This is a monthly meet-up to that will be organised to discuss among our members ongoing issues, new findings, supports and also to invite experts to our community to share with us on how we could be a better community and also learn from their successes. We plan to organize 12 episodes of this meeting.

4. Advocacy Wiki4NaijaWomen: This is an online advocacy initiative designed to bring attention to the state of articles about Women on Wikipedia.

MybeautifulAfricanPlaces: This is an online advocacy aimed at bringing attention of people to beautiful places in Nigeria and Africa at large by using a collection of photos submitted during the previous Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Monuments etc

Wiki in school: We plan to run a pilot education program in one of the Nigerian universities. We have met with the management of the Lagos State University on this project.

Please state if you will be carrying out any of these activities within your programs? Select all that apply.

Organizing Meet-up online, Organizing Meet-up offline, Workshops, Edit-A-Thons, Photo/Media campaign, Wiki Loves campaign

Are you running any in-person events or activities?

Yes
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vP4mE2_ySGvOc8Vvxq1q1v87PYWRlMAza_TwsW7zDi0/edit?usp=sharing

Please state if your proposal aims to work on any of the identified content knowledge gaps?

Content Gender gap, Language, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or thematic focus.

Education, Advocacy, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Diversity

Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select all categories that apply.

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities, Linguistic / Language

Please tell us more about your target participants.

The Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation is an open movement for diverse people in Nigeria. This proposal has no discrimination on the basis of age, gender, color, geographic location, sexual orientation. Anyone who is passionate about free access to knowledge is welcome to join any of our activities.

Sexual orientation – We have no discrimination about sexual orientations. Members of the LGBT community are allowed to join us if they find any of the activities interesting.

Age – There are no age restrictions to participate in any of our activities. We welcome participation from people of different age classes.

Geography – People can join from different parts of Nigeria. We currently have hubs and clubs in many parts of Nigeria. They could also join remotely online.

Socioeconomic status – People of any class are welcome to participate in our activities. Employed and unemployed people are allowed to join us and no prior experience with Wikimedia projects is required.

Strategy to continue engage with participants

  1. Wiki Fan Clubs and Hub – We have Wiki Fan Clubs and Hubs in some parts of Nigeria. Students who participate in any of our activities will be linked to the fan club in their school or in a school close to them. Non-students would be linked to hubs in their geographical location.
  1. Engagement and Building Capacity for youth-focused organization:
  1. We plan to train the staff members of some youth-focused organization who will in turn serve as trainers and mentors for new volunteers. Also, we plan to train staff members of interested members of partners e.g. governmental agencies, embassies, private sectors etc on how to use Wikipedia and its sister projects.
  1. Meetup – There would be a monthly meetup with a mix of new and established editors and each month will have its theme and activities tailored towards understanding the challenges of new editors, and improve their works. Each month, the most positive and active editors will be appreciated with merchandise.

Do you have plans to work with other Wikimedia communities, groups or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

Please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

  1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wikimedia_Nigeria_Foundation_Inc._Annual_Plan_2022

Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

Yes

Please describe these partnerships.

  1. We will be working with the African Women in Media to train female journalists and women in the media sector as part of our advocacy efforts to bridge the gender gap on Wikipedia. African Women in Media will be responsible for the invitation of the participants to the training, management of the participants, provide data support for the participants and gift items for the best three participants.
  1. We will work with the Lagos State University to train hundreds of students on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects. Lagos State University will be responsible for managing the students participation, provide training halls and facilities and certificate of participation to the participants after completion.

We will partner with the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), and the National Commission for Museums on Wiki Loves X projects. They will issue photographers’ letters to restricted areas during the photo contests..

How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

Each of the works carried out in this proposal will be evaluated and the learning from the evaluation report would be useful in shaping our directions on future sustainability and scalability

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

Name: Ayokanmi Oyeyemi

Username: User: Kaizenify Role: Program Director (paid staff) Responsibility: He is responsible for the overall project management, coordination of all activities, staff and volunteers. He is responsible for report writing, learning and evaluation.    Name : Tunde Oladimeji Role: Producer and Director, Nigeria Oral History Documentation Project (contractor)     Responsibility:  He is responsible for implementing the programs, He would be responsible for managing the audiovisuals production from pre-production stage to post-production stage.   Name : Omolayo Ogunsiji Username: User:O'lahyours Role: Communication manager (Volunteer) Responsibility: She is responsible for the overall communication   Name: Mikaeel Sodiq Username: Agbalagba Role: Treasurer (volunteers) Responsibility: He’s responsible for managing all financial transactions and preparing financial reports.


Name: To be recruited Username: Role: Book keeper (paid) Responsibility: He’s responsible for keeping proper record of all financial activities   Name : Isaac Olatunde Role: Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata trainer and advisor, Oral History Documentation Project Responsibility: He is responsible for training participants on how to contribute to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata   Name:Ashioma Medi Username: User:SuperSwift Role: Wikipedia trainer and Wikipedia in Residence for Wiki-in-school project Responsibility: He is responsible for co-leading  volunteers training to contribute to Wikipedia and for managing the Wiki-in-school project.   Name:Yinka Maja (volunteer) Username: User:Abimaj Role: Social media manager (volunteer) Responsibility: She is responsible for managing all our social media networks.   Name: Daniel Bögre Udell – Advisor, Nigerian Oral Username :Bogreudell Role: Advisor, Nigeria Oral History Documentation Project (volunteer) Responsibility: He’s responsible for providing professional advice on the general implementation of the project.

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.

Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here. (optional)      

No

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

What Wikimedia projects interest participants the most?

What training strategy yielded the best results? What is the best strategy to engage volunteers? What is the best approach and strategy to retaining volunteers?

Core Metrics

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Enter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants More than 1000 students and academic staff will participate from different academic institutions in Nigeria, 100 from mission aligned organizations and at least 200 existing members will participate 1300
Number of editors at least 500 people will create accounts and at least 150 existing editors will participate in our edit-a-thons and various campaigns 650
Number of organizers At least 68 people will be involved in organizing various activities. There are 10 core team members, 30 hub and club coordinators across Nigeria, 10 people from mission aligned organizations, at least 10 community volunteers and 8 professional to implement the Oral History Documentation Project. 68
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikidata We will be contributing at least 20,000 new items to Wikidata 20000
Wikimedia Commons We will be contributing at least 10,000 photos and 100 oral history audiovisuals to Wikimedia Commons 10100
Wikipedia #200 new articles to the English Wikipedia
  1. 200 new articles to the Yoruba Wikipedia
  2. 200 new articles to the Hausa Wikipedia
  3. 200 new articles to the Igbo Wikipedia
  4. Distubation of 200 articles on the English Wikipedia
  5. Distubation of 200 articles on the Yoruba Wikipedia Wikipedia
  6. Distubation of 200 articles on the Igbo Wikipedia
  7. Distubation of 200 articles on the Hausa Wikipedia
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If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

Additional Metrics

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Enter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.

Additional Metrics Description Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications N/A N/A
Number of activities developed N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A
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What other information will you be collecting to learn about the impact of your work? (optional)

We will collect the following information to learn about the impact of our work;
  1. The total number of people who continues to contribute to the various Wikimedia projects after our activities
  1. The total numbers of people who continue to participates in our club activities
  1. The total amount of volunteers hours invested on each project and the entire programs
  1. The total number of mission aligned organization who continues to participate in our programs and activities
  1. The total number of partnership secured
  1. The total number of media coverages from independent reliable sources
  1. The numbers of new people who follow our social media handles
  1. Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors
  1. Feedback from participants on the Wikimedia project(s) they find most interesting
  1. Diversity of participants

What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

  1. The property P5008 to help organize and track items related to this proposal on Wikidata
  1. Wikimedia Outrach Dashboard will be used to track other contributions (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/)

How do you hope to share these results so that others can learn from them?

Create a video of our experience, Share results on social media, Share it on Meta-Wiki

Financial Proposal

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What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

84382200 NGN

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

205619.2 USD

Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

No

If you have calculated it, please provide an estimate of the year 2 or year 3 request.

N/A

Please share your budget for this proposal.  

We have added a google document for this purpose

What do you do to make sure there is a good management of funds?

We have included in the proposal a finance and book keeper to manage the fund and all paper documentations.

How will you contribute towards creating a supportive environment for participants using the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy?

Our community is very familiar with the Universal Code of Conducts and the Friendly Space Policy. We will dedicate one of the monthly editions of our Naija Office Hours to talk about the UCOC and the Friendly Space Policy. Some of the highlights will includes the behavior that are expected from every community members, where to fill a report and so on. We will invite a WMF from the T&S to speak at the event.

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Staffing plan or organogram:
Other public document(s):

Final Message

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By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

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

Yes


Feedback

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