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Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal.

    • Projects focusing on increasing Mabia language lexicographical data in Wikidata.
    • Projects focused on increasing items and improving of articles content

Wikimedia Project

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Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Dagbani Wikipedia, Gurene Wikipedia, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

  • Dagaare Wikipedia
  • Wali Wikipedia

Contact person and Location

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Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

  • Full name: Bismark Lanidune
  • Email address: bismarkderysaabeyagr@5gmail.com
  • Address: Wa
  • Location of Project: Wa

Project class

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Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

  • Applying as an individual

Timeline of activities

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Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project

  • One full month starting from October 1 to October 31, 2025

Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

  1. recruit new editors
  2. Add or improve content

Project Plan

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Add or improve content

Activities

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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?

I am doing one editathon

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I will be communicating it with the Dagaare community WhatsApp channel daily, Facebook page of the community

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

I will be communicating it with the Dagaare community WhatsApp channel daily, Facebook page of the community.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

Yes!
User:Joachim Yirkang
User:Vision L1
User:Zakaria Tunsung

5. If you are going to have a contest, you need to state your scoring criteria

the scoring criteria will base on points which ranges from point 0 to point 10 depending on how durable one creat an article or made improvements to an article.

6. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Yes participants really posses the needed skills. Effort will still be made to equip and bring onboard new number os participants to also participate

7. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Their basic mistakes when identified after the contest would be shaped through series of workshop trainings.

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Yes!
My ultimate goal of this project is to improve upon the content and quality level of an existing articles and as well as creat a good number of lexemes in Dagaare. This will help improve the Dagaare wikipedia interms of quality of work but not only quantity.

Impact

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How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

  1. Number of events - 1 event
  2. Number of participants - 50 plus
  3. Number of new editors - 30 plus
  4. Number of of articles created - 250 articles
  5. Number of of articles improved - 200 articles
  6. Number of of images uploaded -
  7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

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How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding) A dashboard would be created where points would be spelt out clearly. Higher point would be given to an editor who effectively created or improve on an article and in that other.

Resources

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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).

The resources will include the myself and the Dagaare wikipedia co-leads who will organize about 2 workshops via zoom where participants who attended the workshop would be compensated with data reimbursement allowance of 30GH each.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense as a unit amount and include a total amount. Feel free to attach a budget link here but remember to allow view access

  1. Participants workshop training where data reimbursement of 20GH each would be used to compensate attendees of about 50 which will be amounted to 1,000GH
  2. Prizes or awards of 4 categories where Top winner takes 500GH, first winner takes 400GH, Second winner takes 300GH, third winner takes 250GH and then top female winner takes 200GH amounting to 1,650GH
  3. Data/bundle support to active and effective editors in the contest period.

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • Username Zakaria Tunsung
  • User Joachim Yirkang
  • User Vision L1

Submit your report

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