Grants:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group Grants/Mabia Community Support Fund/Dagaare Wikimedians Community

Name of Community

Dagaare Wikimedians Community

Contact person or Applicant Bio

- Full Name: Joachim Yirkang
- Username of Applicant:Joachim Yirkang
- Email address:joachimyirkang@gmail.com.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This project is to increase the amount of content on the Dagaare Wikipedia, by creating articles on various cultures, adding Wikidata items to existing and newly created articles to improve data accessibility and multilingual support for the #Dagaare Language. This initiative is a continuation of our effort to empower the #Dagaare speaking community to contribute to and access knowledge in their native and local languages, thereby preserving cultural heritage and expanding digital literacy.

Also the project will incorporate more articles modifications and creation to enrich the projects visual and multimedia content.

Wikimedia Project

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

Dagaare Wikipedia Articles Modifications.
Creating Articles On Various cultures.

What will be the mode of your event?

Please state if you are applying to host online, in-person or hybrid events

hybrid events

Timeline of activities

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

online training ( three) from September_
One in-person training in Uew-Ajumako campus. February,2026
Two in person training Wa-UDS campus _ September to December
three Editathon that will help by Creating new Dagaare wikipedia articles that will focus much on various cultures_December_
Adding databoxs to improve existing articles September,2026

Project Goal

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

recruit new editors
Add and the improve content on Dagaare Wikipedia Articles

Project Plan

Activities

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?

There will be a three editathon to encouraged participation. It will be online with the workshop training.

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.

The Dagaare Wikimedians Community is resgistered on almost all the interactive social median platforms in Ghana where we interact with participants. The proposal will be posted along with our project activities within the facial year. One could interact with our community on;

@facebook
@WhatsApp
@X
@Instagram

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.

We would be having our interaction via this listed social media handles. The communication manager will be updating our participants frequently.

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:ABC

3. Vision L1

7. Yakubu

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

Edit count via outreach dashboard

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

The Project will greatly improve the Dagaare Wikipedia Articles and add more contents

Impact

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):

Number of events - 5 events
Number of participants -20 participants
Number of new editors - 35 new editors
Number of of articles created - 350
Number of of articles improved - 500
Number of of images uploaded - 40
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -35

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding) The outreach dashboard will be used to track metrics

Resources

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).

User: Anthionette Kuukye would facilitate and coordinate the project
User: Joachim Yirkang will be responsible for outreach of the program activities especially the social media platforms.
User: Daara original will be responsible for procurement and logistics throughout the project.

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

Budget here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10nHNkS_rRxTCHfgYIdZVaYt1mW6PUqMinP94d3isVE0/edit?usp=sharing

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