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Les Classes Wikipedia (Wikipedia Classroom)

summaryThe Wikipedia Classroom is a set of 4-5 weeks classes that teach Wikipedia to students by creating and improving articles of the 100 most notable Ivorian writers.

targetFrench Wikipedia ; Wikimedia Commons

amount6 095,43 (USD)

grantee• Papischou

advisor• African Hope

contact• donatien.kangagmail.com

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created on18:05, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

Poor number and quality of articles about the top 100 notable Ivorian writers

According the Ministry of Culture, the Ivorian literature is considered to be born in 1933 when the first book of Bernard Dadié was publised. Nearly 85 years later, According to the Ivorian writers association (AECI), the literature of Côte d'Ivoire encompasses over 500 writers. At least a hundred of them are notable enough to exist on Wikipedia.

In Wikipedia in French, only 67 Ivorian writers currently exist. This figure becomes more insignificant if we consider the poor quality of the existing articles. For instance, Bernard Dadié, who is said to be "the father of the Ivorian literature", has a French article resembling a stub. Not to mention the near inexistence of pictures related to these writers on Commons.

What is your solution to this problem?

Creating and improving the Wikipedia articles of the 100 top notable Ivorian writers

We provide 4-5 weeks Wikipedia training sessions to young people, under 35 years old, from two universities of Côte d'Ivoire. During each training session, learners focus on creating and improving the Wikipedia articles of the 100 most notable Ivorian writers. The course progression is inspired by the WikiEducation Syllabus and was experimented for more than 6 months in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire).

Project goals

• Recruit new Wikipedia editors or members of User Group of Côte d'Ivoire
• Increase skills for existing editors who have less than 50 contributions
• Add or improve content on Wikimedia Website (Wikipedia, Commons)
• Involve advanced wikipedians in mentorship of newbies

Project impact

How will you know if you have met your goals?

Outputs

• 100 articles about Ivorian writers have been created or/and improved by the end of the project
• 30 participants have been trained
• 20 newly registered users
• 6 existing Wikipedians have received a trainers' training

Outcomes

• 5 participants join the UG and get involved in our projects
• 5 participants become regulars contributors (at least 5 edits/month)
• By the end of the project, at least 2 trainers who were previously trained when the project began, will then be able to train new trainers

Project plan

Activities

• January/February :
  • Selection & Training workshop of Wikipedia Trainers
  • Recruitment of the 30 participant of the 2nd edition of Wikipedia Classroom
• March : Kick off
• April - June : 3 rounds of 4-week sessions, each session gathering 10 learners
• July/August : Graduation ceremony
• September/October : Evaluation

Budget

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Expense type	Activity	Quantity	Unit cost	Total (FCFA)	Total (USD)	Notes
Communication - Marketing
Communication - Marketing	Designing & printing (contractor)	1	150 000	150 000	272,91	Designing and printing roll up banner
		6	1 000	6 000	10,92	Printing training kit
		1	50 000	50 000	90,97	Printed documents set
		40	1 000	40 000	72,78	Printing completion certificates
Total Communication/ Marketing				246 000	447,58
Snacks
Snacks	Trainers' training workshop	1	53 200	53 200	96,79	Snacks and beverage for 6 participants
	Launching ceremony	1	77 000	77 000	96,79	Snacks and beverage for 50 participants
	Weekly training sessions	12	13 500	162 000	294,75	Snacks  (coffee-breack) for 10 learners and 2 trainers
	Graduation ceremony	1	77 000	77 000	140,10	Snacks and beverage for 50 participants
Total Snacks				369 200	672
Travel / Equipment / Human ressources coordination
Travel / Equipment / Human ressources coordination	Trainers' training workshop	6	5 000	30 000	54,58	Transport allowance for workshop attendees
		2	20 000	40 000	72,78	Workshop trainers' compensation
	Launching ceremony	2	10 000	20 000	36,39	Launching ceremony's staff compensation
	Weekly training sessions	6	50 000	300 000	545,83	Compensation for the trainers of Wikipedia Classroom
	Graduation ceremony	2	10 000	20 000	36,39	Graduation ceremony's staff compensation
	Coordination	12	100 000	1 200 000	2 183,31	Project coordinator's compensation
		1	350 000	350 000	636,80	EPSON video projector
		3	15 000	45 000	81,87	Surge protector multi-socket
		1	70 000	70 000	127,36	Wireless routeur
		12	40 000	480 000	873,32	Internet connection fees for the training rooms (monthly subscription)
		12	5 000	60 000	109,17	Telephone credit
		12	10 000	120 000	218,33	Equipment transportation
Total Travel / Equipment / Human ressources coordination				2 735 000	4 976
TOTAL BUDGET				3 350 200	6 095,43

Community engagement

We will use the User Group's mailing, Twitter, Facebook and Website channels to inform and engage all members to actively participate in the project and relay its news (call for applications, training sessions, kick off and so one ). We also plan to give communications and create printed material (Posters) to be affixed to schools, cultural centers and partner libraries for the recruitment of non-Wikipedian / medians.

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Participants

Please use this section to tell us more about who is working on this project. For each member of the team, please describe any project-related skills, experience, or other background you have that might help contribute to making this idea a success.

Donatien Kangah, Project Manager

Donatien Kangah is the current Chairman of the Wikimedia User Group Côte d’Ivoire. In 2015, He became “BSF young leader” for the innovation in libraries through Sub-Sahara. He had been selected by the french NGO Libraries Without Borders because of the “Ivory Coast GLAM project”, which aims to connect African libraries with Wikimedia Community in order to capitalize African knowledge through the world on Internet. Social entrepreneur and content editor, he is also the cofounder of the first Ivorian Bloggers Association. With his web agency E-voir, he has won many individual and community prizes like Ashoka Emerging Young Leader 2015, IYF Fellow 2015, Innov4Africa 2014, Best Community Manager of Côte d’Ivoire 2012, etc.

Samuel Guebo, Wikipedia Trainer

Since 2008 as User:African Hope, he has been editing Wikipedia, in French mainly, as well as sister projects, operating a bot and submitting few patches to MediaWiki on Gerrit. He was deeply involved in the growth of the local User Group. From its official affiliation in 2014 until today various roles were assigned to Samuel : Wikipedian in Residence, GLAM-WIKI Coordinator, and more recently, Vice-Chair of the WCUG-CI. However, what he enjoys the most is coordinating the editorial aspects of the User Group's edit-a-thons. This task implies preparing the topics that will be edited in advance, coaching contributors, reporting edits, etc. Also, he has been working for 7 months as the Strategy Coordinator for the French-speaking communities helping the French community speak with its own voice about the Wikimedia movement's future.

This project team will benefit from the support of the User Group actives members.

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Endorsements

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1.  Support This project will permit to increase the number of editors or members of User Group of Côte d'Ivoire. Mouahé (talk) 17:03, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
2.  Support Based on the results of the last session of Wikipedia classes, I support this project that permits to have new contributors on Wikipedia and also brings new members to our User Group. Manouka (talk)
3.  Support Wikipedia classes give the opportunity to people to know what Wikipedia and Wikipedia project are really about. They give learners writing and sourcing competences. Which helps our Community User Group grow with qualitative members. MKwadyo (talk)
4.  Support Wikipedia classes give the opportunity to increase the editors number of Côte d'Ivoire User Group. Modjou (talk) 14:28, 01 october 2017 (UTC)
5.  Support having more african editors is certainly needed! I hope you will pay attention to the gender gap as well, in this case les sans pagEs can help you to welcome new female participants and promote the articles concerning women. Dont forget the ressources of the #wikimooc for your classes! There are online tutorialsNattes à chat (talk) 08:56, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

   • Thank you for your support. As member of Wikimooc volunteer, I will use its ressources. Concerning gender gap, we are discussing with a female high school. User:Papischou 18:36, 03 november 2017

6.  Support That projet is one of those that will permit to increase our performance and increase to the number of the user group and contributors Yasield (talk)