Grants talk:Project/Rapid/M Bash Ne/Wikimedia Promotion in Haɗejia

Comments from DSaroyan (WMF)

Hello M Bash Ne, thanks again for submitting this Rapid Fund proposal. I have completed the initial review of the application and I have a few questions in order to make my final decision.

• If I understand correctly, your plan is to travel to Hadejia Emirates and Jigawa State, run a series of promotional activities, take photos of different buildings/objects, and organize a training session in the end. Am I correct or am I missing anything?
• Are there any experienced editors in Hadejia Emirates and Jigawa State who could organize these activities?
• Could you please list all locations where you plan to organize any promotional activities or training sessions?
• You mentioned there would be a radio program. Could you please provide more details about these programs?
• How do you plan to engage new participants from these regions?
• In the outcomes section, you mentioned that you would have 5+ new editors, while in the budget I saw that you plan to have 30 participants. Could you please clarify this discrepancy?
• Please respond to question #5.
• Given the requested amount for the travel/accommodation, we will only fund expenses for 2-3 facilitators. Please update the requested budget accordingly.
• Please reduce the contingency expenses to 50 USD.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:47, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello DSaroyan (WMF), thanks for review my rapid grant.

I've responded your questions here.

• Yes you're correct
• Currently we don't have any editor from Hadejia, but we have a friends who will help us as Facilitators. One of them is a Master of ceremonies and both of them are social media activists and currently students.
• We plan to visit almost all local governments of Hadejia Emirates.
• This Radio program will be live program were we will discuss about Wikimedia Projects. The program will be after awareness trips and before Workshop. We will open telephone line which audience call and ask questions about Wikimedia projects.
• Yes We'll have at least 30 participants if the event
• I've responded
• I reduced the Facilitators to 3 persons
• I also reduce the contingency amount as you requested.

Thanks Best Regards M Bash Ne (talk) 18:32, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Not funded

Hello M Bash Ne, thank you for submitting your grant application for Wikimedia Promotion in Haɗejia. We appreciate your interest in contributing to the mission of the Wikimedia Movement. From October 2021, we are continuously strengthening our grants review process, ensuring that grant funding is being invested towards impactful projects and efforts geared towards contributing to the mission of Wikimedia Movement in the most efficient and effective manner.

After a thorough review of your application, we have decided to not fund your Rapid Fund request.

Here are the main reasons for my decision:

• I think there is no clear plan behind the promotional activities. The details you provided on the application and discussion pages are not sufficient for me to move forward with this application.
• The need for radio programs and its general impact is not well described too.
• Your budget planning practices are unclear to me. You have increased some items' prices during the review process while making other requested changes. I think that this is an unacceptable approach; when proposing an application you should have a well-planned budget that aligns with your context.

Thanks again for your work for the movement. Wishing you all the best. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Response From M Bash Ne

Hello DSaroyan (WMF), thanks for continuing review my rapid grant.

I've proposed again and updated my rapid grant details here:

I wish you all the best and good luck this time. then I inform you that:

• I corrected information that was not clear.
• The program will be after awareness trips and before Workshop. Sawaba Radio 104.9 FM Hadejia We will open telephone line which audience call and ask questions about Wikimedia projects. We are launching it to increase the awareness of our community members, to make them aware of its importance and to contribute to it. I chose this method because it will help us to raise awareness among the people of Hadejia Emirates and Jigawa state to easily understand the benefits of Wikimedia projects and how they can contribute. Then we will tell them that there is actually an event going on to show what Wikimedia projects are like and to teach people how to become editors so that they too can contribute.

• And as I said there are important places about traditional emirates, ethnic groups, festivals and cultures in Hadejia Emirates and Jigawa State without images on Wikimedia commons like:
• Kazaure
• Gumel
• Ringim
• Dutse
• Garun Gabas
• Auyo
• Dawa
• Fagi
• Kazura
• Gatarwa
• Bulangu
• Kafin Hausa
• Maruwa
• Gafasa
• Majawa
• Kaigamari
• Shakato
• Baushe
• Biram
• Hadejia
• Jigawa state

and some of them have their articles in Wikipedia and other not, Please note that I will not just only awareness, I will improve the articles by uploading relevant photos to them, I will also improve their textual contents as well as most them are too short with very little texts. Therefore, as seen from the above list, the objects I plan to photograph in this project include places, traditional emirates’ palace gates, river, lakes, ethnic groups, monuments, cultural festivals, traditional foods, government buildings, ancient city walls, springs, tourist attractions, mountains, tertiary institutions, etc.

• Before I applied for this grant, I have the opportunity of writing a letter to the Executive Director of Sawaba Radio 104.9 FM Hadejia, telling him about Wikimedia projects, its goals and activities and also seek for his consent that if my grant application for this project is accepted then I would like him to have his support/permission to visit their Radio Station to discuss about Wikimedia projects,

I also have it in mind that I will give my time during the project to do it well.

Thank you Again and looking forward to hearing from you and I will be available to explain more, anything that is needed or have another set of questions.

Best regards M Bash Ne (talk) 06:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello M Bash Ne, thanks for making updates and resubmitting the proposal. I will review it in March and let you know. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 07:10, 8 March 2022 (UTC)