Grants:PEG/WM ZA/WMZA Wiki Afrikaans
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Background
[edit]Goal
[edit]- Afrikaans Writing competition
- Increases awareness of Wikimedia South Africa and the Wikimedia Foundation amongst the general public and Afrikaans speakers in particular.
- Directly increase the number of new editors to Afrikaans language Wikipedia by incentivising Afrikaans speakers to learn about and engage in the writing of Wikipedia articles.
- Increases the number and quality of Afrikaans language Wikipedia articles.
Plan & Activities
[edit]Small Language Activities
[edit]- Daily communication with Afrikaans community on talk page
- Afrikaans Writing Competition
- Afrikaans Wikipedia community on Facebook
Africa community facilitator- Chapter outreach
Content Generation
[edit]Wiki Loves Afrikaans-2015: Global Metrics
[edit]The following are global metric goals for this project
| Metric description | Goal | Notes | Metric description | Goal | Notes |
| PARTICIPATION (COMMUNITY) | CONTENT | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Number of active editors involved | 6 | [1] | 4. Number of new images/media | 0 | [2] |
| 2. Number of newly registered users | 20 | [3] | 5. Number of articles added | 20 | [4] |
| 3. Number of individuals involved | 30 | [5] | 6. Number of bytes added | 0 | [6] |
- ↑ This will be 6 active users on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.
- ↑ We don't foresee the addition of any media through the writing contest.
- ↑ We hope to introduce a minimum of 20 new users to Wikipedia
- ↑ As this is the first time that we are introducing the competition, we are unclear as to response it will receive. We anticipate an contribution of 20 articles
- ↑ We expect participation of over 80 participants, but as we have not launched such a competition before, we are unclear about the number so will put an estimation here of 30
- ↑ We are unclear of the value of contributions at this stage
Partnerships
[edit]Impact
[edit]Target readership
[edit]All the editing communities in South Africa will benefit from the continuation of this position. We further believe that, as the only Chapter in Africa, we are in an ideal position to reach out to and coordinate existing and new user groups throughout Africa.
Fit with strategy
[edit]This position increases the capacity of the Chapter for outreach and facilitation.
Increasing reach
[edit]The continuation of this position will ensure the visibility of WM ZA within the SA community and will also ensure that activities throughout Africa increase and are supported.
Participation
[edit]The continuation of this position will further increase the visibility of the Chapter. In the time that the Administrator has joined the Chapter, we have already seen an increased number of participants through various outreach initiatives.
Quality
[edit]We believe that for the first time, WMZA is in a position to reach out to the broader wiki-community in South Africa. This is the first step in ensuring that a greater number of articles / edits / contributions are made to Wikimedia. As the only Chapter in Africa, we are also in an ideal position to facilitate the creation of African specific content on various Wikimedia projects.
Credibility
[edit]As a Chapter we have come a long way in establishing credibility of the Chapter. Not only in South Africa among local editors / contributors, but also across various Chapters and communities in Africa.
It is interesting to note here that only 31% of the editing community had knowledge of the existence of the Chapter.
Measures of success
[edit]Addressing the needs of the Wiki-community in South Africa
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WM ZA has just completed an online evaluation survey in the South Africa context (the first) to reach out to the community as a large. As of the 24 July 2015 a total of 412 survey's were started with 316 of them being completed. Wikimedia ZA feels that this is a very large and representative sample of the editing community in South Africa.
In the preliminary findings of this report, the following are noted:
- The overwelming majority of respondents were male (85%)
- Respondents were of all ages with the largest cohort (medium average) being between 31-35 years old (17%) and the smallest cohort being bewtween the ages of 10-15 years old (1%)
- Most respondents were based in either Gauteng Province (43%) or the Western Cape (33%) indicating that in South Africa there are two 'hotspots' where editing takes place.
- About a third (34%) of editors were relatively new having only signed up for a Wikimedia account within the past few months.
- 81% of respondents were active on Wikipedia.
- 47% of respondents were employed, 23% reported being self-employed, and 20% reported being students.
- 62% of respondents reported editing Wikipedia "less than once a month" indicating that the majoritory of editors edit on a causial basis. The remaining 38% of editors reported editing more frequently.
- 75% of respondents reported being "very interested" in technology.
- 60% of respondents stated that they would like to be included on the Wikimedia ZA mailing list to learn more about WM ZA projects.
Resources and risks
[edit]Resources
[edit]==== Afrikaans Writing Competition ====
Budget Summaries
[edit]- Total project budget
- ZAR 345,534.00 or $28,224.13 rounded total as calculated to be R12.2425/1USD on 03/06/2015 using latest exchange rate
- Total amount requested
- ZAR 345,534.00 or $28,224.13 rounded total as calculated to be R12.2425/1USD on 03/06/2015 using latest exchange rate
- Are there additional sources of revenue that will fund any part of this project? List them here.
- Yes - These are project support contributions from partners (see below)
Non-financial requirements
[edit]- None
Partners
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Discussion
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[edit]Endorsements
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