Grants:Dagbani Wikimedians User Group Grants/Mabia Community Support Fund/Wali Wikimedians Community Micro Grant 2025 Fiscal Year

Name of Community

Wali Wikimedians Community

Contact person or Applicant Bio

- Full Name:Zakaria Tunsung Bukari
- Username of Applicant:Zakaria Tunsung
- Email address:wali.wikimedians@gmail.com

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This project aims to increase the amount of content on Wali Wikipedia (Incubator) by creating and translating articles on a variety of topics, including Ghanaian towns, notable personalities, art, and feminism. We would also focus on adding more Wikidata items and labels to improve data accessibility and multilingual support for the Wali (Gur) Language. The initiative is a continuation of our efforts to empower the Wali-speaking community to contribute to and access knowledge in their native language, thereby preserving cultural heritage and expanding digital literacy.

Furthermore, the project would also incorporate Wikimedia Commons as a key component to enrich the project's visual and multimedia content. We would focus on uploading high-quality, freely licensed media such as photos and videos related to Wali culture, history, and the broader topics covered in the project (e.g., Ghanaian towns, personalities, art, and feminism). This effort would not only support the Wali Wikipedia articles with relevant imagery but also contribute to the global repository of open knowledge, making Wali cultural heritage accessible to a worldwide audience. Our primary goal is to bridge the knowledge gap by making information about Ghana and the world available in Wali, a language with limited online presence.

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.

Wali Wikipedia (Incubator)
Wikidata

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

Two Tertiary Workshop trainings _6th to 20th September_

Two Wa in-person workshop trainings _4th October 2025 and January 2026_

Photo walk _December_

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 or improve content

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 would be series of editathon contests to encourage participation. This would be implement along side with the workshops stated above.

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 community is registered on all the most interactive social media platforms in Ghana where we interact participants. The proposal would be posted along with all our project activities within the fiscal year. One could interact with us on:

X

Email

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 interacting with participants via our Social Media platforms listed above. Our Communication Manager would frequently to keep on reminding participants.

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

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

Edit counts via Outreach dashboard.

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

Project really going to improve the incubator.

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 - 15
Number of new editors - 30
Number of articles created - 300
Number of articles improved - 400
Number of images uploaded - 50
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 30

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)

We would use the Outreach dashboard 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: Zakaria Tunsung would facilitate and coordinate the project.

User: Yaw tuba would be responsible for outreach of the project activities especially on our Social Media platforms.

User:Umar Asiya would 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. Feel free to attach a budget link here but remember to allow view access

View Our Budget Here

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