Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Wiki Update & Organizer Lab Project
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Jwale2
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
NanaYawBotar Joris Darlington Quarshie
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
Yes, I am a member of the Open Foundation West Africa Usergroup
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Update & Organizer Lab Project
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The community podcast is solving a knowledge gap through capacity building, advocacy approaches which will lead to a broad knowledge of understanding of various campaigns and projects in the wiki space.
We are also looking at engaging stakeholders to discuss a topic of impact eg Water Pollution etc and how we find certain elements in the discussion that we can make it available on the rewritable web i.e wikipedia or build an article list.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Kindly view link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6sEHurlSlSms3psIPDVFObrSCIFCfMPFSYX1k_BCxo/edit?usp=sharing
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Kindly view link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16WONv8Wg4RTNTm6Nu3KMWY0Js7ilTrThcPfONxxGJE8/edit?usp=sharing
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Wikiforhumanrights, Africa Knowledge Initiative, Wiki Loves Africa
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
1. Jwale2: Podcast producer, he will lead the production and podcast creation.
- 2. NanaYawBotar: Marketing, campaigns, distribution to various digital stores.
- 3. Joris Darlington Quarshie: Providing insights in relation to technical support.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Age (regency), Geography, Language
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
As a result of the Wiki Update podcast partnership with various usergroups in the ecosystem and beyond we seek to cover the space of providing article lists and also encourage contributors to contribute.
We are also engaging highly distinguished personalities on record who will provide us with details which will be essential for the community to use as a result of advocacy in order to close the content gap and beyond that.
- 7. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Linguistic / Language, Digital Access
- 8. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
As a result of telling stories around the movement and beyond our initial key focus was various wikimedia usergroup,emerging communities, language groups & more in the ecosystem but as result of changes in the movement coupled with other activities we will also engage members who are outside the movement because our work do affect their activities in terms of research. So people we are looking forward to impact are people in the Ghanaian community and beyond.
- 9. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
In our partnership and working with organizers when building pages like meta, we make sure that we enshrine the FPS/UCOC so that everyone can have the opportunity and space to operate and move freely.
- 10. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
Informing communities about the Wiki Update project via emails and also group whatsapp messages.
We will ensure that our works are featured on organizers pages so that members or participant will hear or know what we are doing for various communities and beyond,
- 11. Are you aware of other Organiser Lab proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
Yes
If yes:
- 11.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- No
- 11.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- What we seek to do will be different from what various organizers seek to do and we are looking forward to engaging various organizers and their works.
- 12. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 12.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
Wiki Update as the open community podcast which provides training and tells community stories will surely engage with partners to extend our reach.
- 1. Wiki-Green Conference - As a result of our partnership with the organizers, we are king in telling the stories around the campaign and how effective the campaign is going to be as a result of the initiative which started last year, we continue to tell the climate story.
- 2. Abena.ai - A language voice ai community that we are looking at partnering and engaging them in their activities and see how their activities can have an impact on Wikipedia and its sister project.
- 3. Open Foundation West Africa: Support us with reach and engagement with community members.
- 4. International Podcast Day (IPD): We will also celebrate the day in telling more stories in relation to the movement and beyond the movement and the team around that will be in-charge of sharing our works on various social media channels.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 13. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. Impact made during the project - How community have been affected as a result of the project.
- 2. Key focus on the level of listeners - Number of listeners and growth.
- 3. Minutes listened - Minutes calculated during the duration of the project.
- 4. Competitiveness - How wiki update can be competitive brand for the wiki movement and beyond.
- 5. Language & Growth - We will also have a mixture of local language.
- 14. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to Filling out your main metrics.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of listeners | Number of audiences who listen to the podcast when the podcast is released. | 600 |
| Number of organisers | In terms of our partnership, we can know the number of organizers that are available for the event. We will engage organizers and participants as they engage in their projects. | 10 |
| Article build list | With most countries engaged in this project (WikiForHumanRight & Beyond), Wiki Update is looking forward to build article list for participating communities to use and engage with their communities to enable them to contribute. So, we will look at various communities participating in the campaign and create a list that will be easy for them to use. | 500 |
| Devices used | This will enable us to know the kind of devices used in listening to the podcast. | 6 |
| Geographic location | Increasing the number of location where we will have more audience listen to us, at the moment we have 60 countries, and we are looking forward to reach 100 countries by the end of the year. | 100 |
- 15. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | For participant we are looking at an increase in their activities during campaigns | 20 |
| Number of editors | From our partnership with a community or user groups we will provide number of editors | 20 |
| Number of organizers | In terms of our partnership, we can know the number of organizers that are available for the event. | 6 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 16. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
We will use the Anchor metric tool to measure our engagement.
We also monitor how our engagement has affected contributions of some editors on the outreach dashboard.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 17. & 17.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
76105.65 GHS
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
6132.51 USD
- 19. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kpo7Ze4m2Ca1eKsYY1KlyYSVZguGo9HPz2AoR0K8Q6A/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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