Grants:Project/MSIG/Osun Wikimedian Community/Movement Charter Ambassador Program
Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.
Project Goal edit
The project aims to making the movement charter documentation more accessible to the Yoruba-speaking Native by translating the key materials especially the updates, recommendations and conversations in the wikimedia community to the local language. With an overall objective to make community awareness and engagement in the Wikimedia Movement Charter, by contributing to movement recommendation of equity in decision making and collecting feedbacks as way forward, this will foster collaborative effort and involvement in governance and decision making process in the movement strategy. The project will help members of our community, the Osun Wikimedian Community to fully understands the movement strategy and the need for every member to contribute to the movement and also enable our community members to contribute effectively.
What will be the outputs of your project and how will those outputs contribute to advancing a specific Movement Strategy Initiative
- What specific Movement Strategy Initiative does your project focus on and why? Please select one of the initiatives described here
- 4. Ensure Equity in Decision making
Project Background edit
- When do you intend to begin this project and when will it be completed?
- We intend to start by September 2, 2023 and finish by October 7, 2023.
- Where will your project activities be happening?
- Virtually and On-site
- Are you collaborating with other communities or affiliates on this project? Please provide details of how partners intend to work together to achieve the project goal.
- We intend on working with Community Members in Osun Wikimedian Community.
- What specific challenge will your project be aiming to solve? And what opportunities do you plan to take advantage of to solve the problem?
- We are aiming to ensure that our communities are fully engaged in conversations about the governance of the movement, especially on equity in the decision making processes which directly affect the communities including barriers to international languages and the culture to read and write in local languages, we will ensure that translations are done professionally and bring in context the movement charter and discussions will evolve around a shared translation process in the community.
- We aim to address the language barrier first by making accessible the materials and from these we will tackle the awareness challenge which is associated to the knowledge in movement regulations and opportunities available.
- Does this project aim to apply one of the examples shared in the call for grants and if so which one?
- Yes, the community members who participated in the outreach Campaign will be ask to give thier feedback, the feedback will be collected in form of survey to better understand thier understanding about recommendations on the Movement strategy in the Charter, this will allow more informed decision making process in the future.
Project Activities edit
- What specific activities will be carried out during this project? Please describe the specific activities that will be carried out during this project.
- Community Engagement:
Outreach: While we are working on translations, we will make sure to reach out to the communities and inform them about the upcoming engagements.
- MCDC community workshop: We will host an initial 90 minute workshop. This workshop will be about sharing the details of the Movement Charter with our community members. We will share practical examples of why their contribution to the Movement Charter discussions is important.
- MCDC community conversation: We will host another 90 minute conversation session with our community members to discuss a shared plan and approach for how we engage in Movement Charter discussions.
- Translations: the following documents and pages will be translated
Movement Charter content pages
- Reports pages
- Forms / Survey translations
- Conversation events pages
- Announcements
- How do you intend to keep communities updated on the progress and outcomes of the project? Please add the names or usernames of these individuals responsible for updating the community
- Meta page
- Twitter page
- Facebook page
- Mailing List
- Whatsapp Group
- Who will be responsible for delivering on this project and what are their roles and responsibilities?
- RukayatAjeigbe :will be the Coordinator, She will be responsible for the major activities of the project, including receiving the grants funds, writing the grants report, and implementing the project.
- OTim75: He will mobilize members, collate contributions, disseminate reports, create awareness about the program. He will ensure that every member have enough notices and opportunity to contribute fully throughout the program.
Additional information edit
- If your activities include community discussions, what is your plan for ensuring that the conversations are productive? Provide a link to a Friendly Space Policy or UCoC that will be implemented to support these discussions.
[https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct UCoc for Wikimedia Foundation
- If your activities include the use of paid online tools, please describe what tools these are and how you intend to use them.
- zoom
- Do your activities include the translation of materials, and if so, in what languages will the translation be done? Please include details of those responsible for making the translations.
- Yoruba Language: To be done by the Community Members. The materials will be translated into the Yoruba Language, as our community is a Yoruba-speaking community and they communicate in native English as well.
- Are there any other details you would like to share? Consider providing rationale, research or community discussion outputs, and any other similar information, that will give more context on your proposed project.
- Movement Strategy and Implementation Grants Coordinator: Will be responsible for the major activities of the project, including receiving the grants funds, writing the grants report, and coordinating between the other collaborators.
- Translator: The community member will be working to translate Movement Strategy pages to our languages.
- Outreach & Awareness: Another community member will distribute the translated documents to introduce our community to Movement Strategy and Implementation Grants
Outcomes edit
After your activities are complete, we would like to understand the draft implementation plan for your community. You will be required to prepare a document detailing this plan around a movement strategy initiative. This report can be prepared through Meta-wiki using the Share your results button on this page. The report can be prepared in your language, and is not required to be written in English.
In this report, you will be asked to:
- Provide a link to the draft implementation plan document or Wikimedia page
- Describe what activities supported the development of the plan
- Describe how and where you have communicated your plan to relevant communities.
- Report on how your funding was spent
Your draft implementation plan document should address the following questions clearly:
- What movement strategy initiative or goal are you addressing?
- What activities will you be doing to address that initiative?
- What do you expect will happen as a result of your activities? How do those outcomes address the movement strategy initiative?
- How will you measure or evaluate your activities? What tools or methods will you use to evaluate your activities?
To create a draft implementation plan, we recommend the use of a logic model, which will help you and your team think about goals, activities, outcomes, and other factors in an organized way. Please refer the following resources to develop a logic model:
- Overview of logic models on Meta-wiki
- Example logic models for reference for other movement activities (such as partnerships and edit-a-thons)
- Blank logic model template on Google Drive
Please confirm below that you will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document by the end of your grant:
- ...I confirm that I will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document at the end of this project.
Optionally, you are welcome to include other information you'd like to share around participation and representation in your activities. Please include any additional outcomes you would like to report on below:
Budget edit
How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!
- Research (time needed to review, perform analysis, or investigate any information needed to support implementation ideas or planning): 50 USD
- Facilitation (facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing):50 USD
- Documentation (document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work):50 USD
- Translation (translation costs for briefs and global materials):250 USD
- Coordination (coordinator work to manage or support multiple workflows to prepare for meeting): 50 USD
- Online tools or services (subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion): 100 USD
- Data (internet or mobile costs for organizers or participants to access or participate in activities):50 USD
- Venue or space for meeting (costs of renting a physical meeting space):50 USD
- Transportation costs (costs of supporting organizers or participants to attend the meeting):50 USD
- Meals (costs related to refreshments, lunches, or other meals during in-person activities):50 USD
- Other:
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED USD: 750 USD
Completing your application edit
Once you have completed the application, please do the following:
- Change the application status from
status=drafttostatus=proposedin the {{Probox}} template. - Contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.
Endorsements edit
An endorsement from community members (especially from outside your community) will be part of the considerations when reviewing your application. Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
Strong support<nowiki> the project aims to make the movement charter documentation more accessible to Osun people who are indigenous Yoruba speakers. More visibility is guaranteed with this project. User:Ogundele1
- Strong support I believe in my ability and in the ability of the project lead to make this project a successful and impactful one.This Project will bring quality training on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wiki Commons, and it will also enrich, enlighten and empower them on how to make quality contributions on these platforms.OTim75 (talk) 11:00, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- Strong support I believe this project will help wikimedians to learn skills needed to promote open knowledge MaskMan (talk) 11:36, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
Support This project is targeted to ensure the growth and sustainability of Youth-led Wikimedia communities in Osun State and also collect feedbacks from the community members through the Movement Strategy discussions, and recommendations. Thier contributors has led to increase in contributions and participation in various Wikimedia campaign and contest. This program will ensure successful implementation of this project using the detailed proposal as shown on the grant page. Riocyborg (talk)
- Strong support This is a great opportunity for the members in Osun Wikimedia Network to understand and also to contribute and discuss the Movement Charter.
