Grants:Project/Rapid/Plan/Editatonas Encuentros/Ennegreciendo Wikipedia en Colombia.
Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.
Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.
Project Goals edit
- To create a more inclusive and diverse editing community.
- To build a afrodescendent wikimedian community in Colombia that could access and contribute to free knowledge.
- To recruit new editors and to engage them as contributors on all Wikimedia projects.
- To promote the participation of afrodescents in all Wikimedia projects.
- To increase the number of afro-colombians editors.
- To add and improve content about afro-colombian people.
- To promote editathons in order to make visible the contributions of afro-colombians people to society.
- To foster a meeting space between afro-Latin American contributors to strengthen ties and a sense of belonging and community identity.
- To promote the importance of Wikipedia as a source of free and accessible information and to stimulate the use of Wikipedia (and Wikiquote and Commons) for the afro-colombian community in Colombia.
Activities edit
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
We are planning one editathon focused in articles about afro-descendant colombiens women and two editathon with a final artistic performance.
Medellín. April, 27 & 28 2019. 2 days (workshop and editatona)
Place: University of Antioquia. Participants: Wiwas Women's Collective. Students of the Afro-descendant women's training school.
Bogotá. May, 2th & 3th 2019. 2 days (workshop, editatona, performance)
Place: Bukowski Cultural Space. Cra 16.# 33a- 50. 11321 Bogotá. https://www.facebook.com/elbkw/
Participants: Afrodescendant Artistic Collective "Agua Turbia". Public of the Cultural Space. http://colectivoaguaturbia.org/
Afro-Colombian Women Collective "Matamba". Participatory performance: Ennegreciendo Wikipédia" with the participants to the edition.
Cali. May 5th, 2019. 1 day. (workshop, editatona)
Amafrocol Association. Association of Afro-Colombian women. http://amafrocol.com/
2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
We'll posted notifications on the differents websites:
https://www.facebook.com/elbkw/
http://colectivoaguaturbia.org
3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?
Non. I lead the event.
4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
We will host the events in a cultural center and the Medellin's university. The Wiwas Collective collect books and Amafrocol association material that can used as references. In Bogotá,the "Red de Bibliotecarias del Chocó" will provide us with bibliographic material for the editatona. Those books will be listed on the event page so that people can find them. We'll bring material too.
5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
Online mentors will send a welcome message to new editors after the event. They will monitor de work done by new editors and they continue to edit with help of Wikimedia Uruguay volunteers. They will monitor the work done by new editors between events so they can answer questions and offer feedback. We will also start a Facebook group for editathon participants to talk.
6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
In order to encourage the Afrodescendant community of Latin America for the Wikipedia; We must be interested in its cultural legacy and that this work of inclusion in the online encyclopedia has an impact of recognition of the cultural contribution of the African diaspora to the foundations of Latin American culture. I will finish the edit-a-thon with artistic performances of the different communities linked to it. As a black antiracism activist, musicien and performer, I have been in contact with cultural and social activists of the different communities.
Impact edit
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- 1. Number of events: 3
- 2. Number of participants: at least 10 per event
- 3. Number of new editors: 30
- 4. Number of of articles created or improved at least: 30
- 5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events): 1
Resources edit
What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
We have already covered costs of internet connection, location and rooms for activities. We do not expect the Wikimedia Foundation to fund all aspects of the editathons or infrastructure. We already have spaces with computers, internet and projection equipment. I don't have reply from the Colombian Wikipedia to support me. The differents associations and cultural comunities staff will help us with resources and are providing the venue for free to the participants.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
1. We need to cover the costs of the round trip for IGonzalez / from Brasil to Colombia and the trips in the interior of the country.
1.1.Flight: Salvador de Bahia- Medellin: $500.
1.2.Flight: Medellin- Bogotá: $80
1.3.Flight: Bogotá- Cali: $90
1.4.Flight: Cali- Salvador de Bahía: $640.
3. Hotel in Medellin: 2 nights: $200
4. Transport from the airports to the cities: $150.
For the editathons
5. food and drinks for participants: 100 x 3 = $300.
Total = 1960.
Since we have to buy the tickets and book the hotel in advance we would appreciate an answer as soon as possible.
Endorsements edit
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
Support AfricanadeCuba is a leader in black collectives from latinoamerica and will easily achive the goal of bringing new editors to the event. Furthermore, her proposal of assembling an editathon with an art performance will increase the impact on contributors from the collectivity that will feel concerned. Finally, the objective of this grant fits on the wikipedia objective to diversify the encyclopedia. Galahmm (talk) 18:31, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
