Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Deforestation in Nigeria
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Ngozi osadebe
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
User:Ngozi osadebe User:Beatrice Ewa User: Obuezie User: Olugold User: Ngostary2yk User: Amakanne User: Ezimoo
- 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 Art and Feminism (A+F), the Nigerian Wikimedia User Group, Wikimedia Hub, Enugu, SPURG, South East Nigeria Wikimedians on Climate Change and Sustainability; and Nnamdi Azikiwe Library Wikimedia groups. SPURG, South East Wikimedians on Climate Change and Sustainability, and Nnamdi Azikiwe Library Wikimedia groups are unrecognized Wikimedia groups based at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Deforestation in Nigeria
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
It is necessary to make information on deforestation (Climate Change and Sustainability) in Nigeria available on Wikipedia. Currently, there is no information on the topic. A search on Wikipedia on “Deforestation in Nigeria using Petscan, Wikidata and List building tool yielded zero articles. A general search using Petscan yielded 37 articles. A quick scan on three of the articles (Deforestation, Afforestation, and Reforestation) shows that they have no information on Nigeria and very little information on Africa. This creates a content, contributor, and reader gap in Wikipedia. The result is that Nigerian citizens have no culturally relevant information on deforestation. It is the intention of this proposal to minimize these gaps.
It is also important that information on deforestation in Nigeria is available for Nigerian users and other researchers on Wikipedia. The information may help to change people's attitudes and behavior towards deforestation and may even inform people on alternatives to deforestation thereby contributing to the drive towards sustainability.
In Nigeria, there is no policy guiding deforestation, even if there is, it is not being implemented. This may not be unconnected with the lack of relevant information to guide policymakers. This proposal, if accepted and implemented, will provide a guide to policymakers on making a policy to combat deforestation in Nigeria by making relevant information available to them. Moreover, we would like to equip a group of professionals in Nigeria with the skill to contribute high-quality content on deforestation (Climate change and Sustainability to Wikimedia). This is to ensure that there are capable hands that will continue to update information on Climate Change and Sustainability as it affects Nigeria.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
My main approaches are as follows. I will:
1. Partner with Institutions (Institute of Climate Change Studies, Energy and Environment; and the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN)) and experienced Wikimedians in Nigerian Federal Universities (Federal Universities in Southeast, Nigeria only) to deliver the project.
- 2. Use the Wikimedia training manual (available at https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training.) to empower my partners with the skill to communicate their expertise in Wikipedia.
- 4. Share responsibilities with partners
- 5. Establish a method of capturing learning from the project.
- 6. Form a community of participants using the WhatsApp platform.
- 7. Organize a monthly webinar on emerging issues around climate change and Deforestation
- 8. Delegate a participant to track the readership and visits to the published Wikipedia articles to enable review of comments and addition of new content.
- 9. Establish a method of evaluating the project and its outcomes based on our stated criteria on the metrics.
- 10. Mainstream Wikipedia editing into my partners' teaching and learning process.
The above strategies were chosen because the project is partner-based. Strategies such as the ones listed above have been used in partner-based projects and proved successful. Elisabeth von Muench (User: EMSmile) partnered with the project every one to host an SDG edit-at-hon using a related strategy and the project was successful. Wikipedians in Central and Eastern Europe partnered with other lovers of free knowledge in the region to create information on Wikipedia on every country in the region and it was a success.
Moreover, the above strategies were based on teamwork (team decisions). In our Organizer Lab Class, Unit 6.2.1, 1st paragraph, we were told that well-organized campaigns are done by teams not a single person. The passage went further to exclaim that each team member facilitates a different part of the campaign.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The activities I will develop include
- 1. Organize a brainstorming session with my partners to brainstorm on the process of implementing the project
- 2. Share responsibilities among partners based on their expertise (i.e who does what for the success of the program).
- 3. Design a reporting system through which each person will report back to the group how he/she has been managing the responsibility assigned to him or her.
- 5. Organize three-day training to build up the capacity of the participants from the Institute of Climate Change and Department of Geography and a short training session to refresh the memories of experienced editors.
- 6. Create a list of articles that participants will work on.
- 7. Make the program public by setting up a dashboard
- 8. Assign articles to participants
- 9. Organize a series of online edit-a-thons in English.
- 10. Design an online form through which participants' data and their expectations of the program will be captured at the beginning of the program.
- 11. Design an interview guide through which the key participants' perceptions of the program will be collected at the end.
- 12. Organize Focus Group discussion (FGD) with the participants to capture learning.
The above activities were chosen because they will lead to the expected successful outcome for our project which is to improve or create Wikipedia articles on deforestation in Nigeria, and to produce participants who will be interested in continuous updating of information on deforestation (Climate Change and Sustainability) in Nigerian in Wikimedia. Moreover, the activities will help us to learn and evaluate the project. Related activities to these were used by Wikipedians in the Central and Eastern European countries and User: EMSmile and they proved successful.
- 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?
Yes, we have a team that is capable of implementing this project. Our team members include: User:Ngozi Osadebe, Deputy University Librarian, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Coordinator/Organizer, Nnamdi Azikiwe Library and SPURG Art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. A volunteer Wikipedian and a participant in the Organizer lab. Ngozi is the Principal Organizer for this program.
User Ezimmo. Co-facilitator, Nnamdi Azikiwe Library and SPURG Art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. A volunteer Wikipedian. Ezimoo will be in charge of logistics in this project.
User Olugold. User Olugold is a librarian and the coordinator of the IG Wiki Librarians hub, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. She is a member of the Ombuds Commission. She will bring her vast experience to bear on this project.
User: Obuezie. Obuezie is a librarian and an educator. She is a member of the Wikimedia User group Nigeria and a volunteer. She will be the Secretary of this project.
User:Amakanne is an accountant and Volunteer Wikipedian. She works at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN). In this project, she will manage all finances.She will also help to secure the support of FRCN and other media houses in publicizing the project.
User: Ngostary2yk. Ngostary2k is a Librarian and volunteer Wikimedian. She is a certified Wikipedia trainer (Reading Wikipedia in the classroom. She is the coordinator of Wikipedia Anambra Network. She is a member of the Wikimedia User Group, Nigeria (WUGN), IG Wikimedia User Group, WikiAfLIB, GLAM and Creative commons. She will be the communication secretary of this project.
Prof. F.N. Okeke, Director, Institute of Climate Change Studies Energy and Environment, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). She is a Professor of Physics and a Laureate of L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for women in science for physical sciences 2013. Prof. Okeke is representing the Institute of Climate Change in this project. She will recruit participants, train and lead participants through the Wikimedia reporting format, commission participants and create templates for input and output data, review participants’ input, and lead participants on field trips to deforestation sites in Enugu state.
Prof. T.C Nzeadibe is a Professor of Environmental Management & Sustainability, and Head, of the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His research and publications have focused on Gender analysis, Justice and sustainability, Climate Change, and Flood risk vulnerability among others. Prof. Nzeadibe is representing the Department of Geography in this project. Like Prof. Okeke, she will recruit participants, train and lead participants through the Wikimedia reporting format, commission participants and create templates for input and output data, review participants’ input, and lead participants on field trips to deforestation sites in Enugu state.
- 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.
Content Gender gap, Geography, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 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.
My project will specifically address the content gap by using mostly articles publish by Nigerians in Nigerian journals to edit existing content if any, create new ones and train new editors to continue to add or update information in this area (deforestation in Nigeria). Articles published by world bodies such as the United Nations will be utilized too. Pictures of forests, deforestation, afforestation sites etc. in Nigeria will be uploaded to the Wiki Commons.
- 7. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic
- 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?
My target participants are experienced Wikipemedians in Federal Universities in South East, Nigeria , students of the Institute of Climate Change Studies, Energy and Environment and Department of Geography (Post Graduate students only), University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The names of the Wikimedia groups in Federal Universities in South East Nigeria are Nnamdi Azikiwe Library and SPURG Art and Feminism Wiki groups, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Igbo Wiki Librarian Hub, Wiki Librarian User group, Wikimedians Anambra Network, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
The aim of adding the students of the institute and postgraduate students of the department of Geography in the project is to ensure that there are volunteers in the subject area with the skill to continue updating the information in the future. . The Wikimedia groups were notified of this project through Whatsapp chat and personal phone calls to the group leaders while the Institute of Climate Change and Department of Geography were notified through the Director of the Institute and Head of Department of Geography. All the partners contributed ideas to the writing of this proposal.
During the activities, the participants will be engaged through physical meetings, online meetings; and WhatsApp conversations. Already there is an existing WhatsApp group platform for the participants. From time to time, I, User:Ngozi Osadebe will organize a meetup for the participants to discuss our progress. During the activities, We will ensure that the communications manager User: Beatrice ewa sends out weekly messages to participants through our WhatsApp platform aimed at encouraging participants to continue editing. All participants will be encouraged to paste information of all innovations arising from this project on the WhatsApp platform. The aim is to ensure that everybody is carried along in our topic of impact journey.
- 9. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct will be rehearsed with all participants on the first day of the training. The use of titles at the event will be minimized to level the playing ground for all participants and to ensure that nobody is intimidated by titles.
COVID-19 protocols involving the use of sanitizers, handwashing, and social distancing will be maintained. The University Medical Centre will be notified too to send their First Aid Team in case of emergency.
- 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.
My participants are fully aware of this proposal. They were part of all the meetings called to draft this proposal. The processes I carried out to make the communities involved in planning this proposal are:
- 1. I placed a notice on the Nigerian Wiki-Librarians WhatsApp platform informing members that I participated in an Organizer Lab training and would like to put up a proposal to implement what I learned, and would love to collaborate with interested groups in Universities in South East Nigeria to implement the proposal.
- 2. I visited the Director of the Institute of Climate Change Studies, Energy and Environment and the Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Nigeria and informed them of my desire to collaborate with the institute and department respectively to write Wikipedia articles on deforestation (Climate Change and Sustainability) in Nigeria.
- 3.We wrote the draft proposal on google Forms, reviewed it, and uploaded it to the flux.
- 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?
No
If yes:
- 11.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 11.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 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.
This project is a partner-based project involving experienced Wikimedians in Federal Universities in Southeast Nigeria, the Institute of Climate Change Studies, Energy and Environment, and the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Experienced Wikipedians in Federal Universities in South East Nigeria joined the project out of their love to make knowledge freely available, mentor and review the contributions of new editors, ensure that the contents created are of high quality and train a team of professionals that will take up the responsibility of updating information on Climate Change in Nigeria.
The Institute of Climate Change and Department of Geography joined out of excitement to learn more about Wikipedia and its sister projects, love of research and writing; and as an opportunity to make their topical knowledge freely available online. They have no financial contributions to make but can mobilize their students, and help with to review participants output.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 13. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
My learning questions.
- 1. What attracted the non-Wikimedian partners to respond to the invitation to participate in the project?
- 2. What made it possible for my partners to participate in all the training sessions and also participate in the editing sessions despite their school workloads?
- 3. What are the strategies for retaining my participants interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
- 4. What are the resources needed by the non-Wikipedian partners to collaborate in implementing this proposal?
- 5. What are the actions participants took on Wikipedia pages?. Did they expand existing content, add images, and/ or add new articles to Wikipedia pages.
- 6. What are the perceptions of the participants towards contributing content to Wikimedia?
- 7. What skills did the participants gain while contributing content to Wikimedia that can be used beyond Wikipedia projects.
- 8. What are the likely challenges the participants will encounter in remaining regular Wikimedia contributors?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Participants motivation | It is important to learn the participants motivation for responding to the call to join the program and why they remained to the end of the program. This information will be captured through focus group discussions with 20 participants. | 20 |
| Skills learned | What are the skills the participants learned in the project that can be used in and beyond Wikipedia projects? This information will be captured through focus group discussions with 20 participants. | 20 |
| Method of engagement with Wikimedia. | What are the action's participants took on Wikipedia pages? Did they expand or translate existing content; and/ or add new articles to Wikipedia pages? This information will be captured through one on one interviews with 10 participants. | 10 |
| Participants Perception of the project | How do participants view the project? Is there a likelihood that they will remain committed to the Wikipedia mission and even recommend others to join? This information will be captured through one on one interviews with 4 participants and communicated through a video clip. | 4 |
| Challenges participants encountered in the project | What are the things that worked or did not work well for the participants? What would the organizers have done differently? What are the participants' suggestions for the future management of Wikimedia projects? This information will be captured through video clips from 4 participants. | 4 |
- 15. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The people that worked for the success of the program. This includes the organizers, editors, technical assistants, cleaners, medical personnel, child caregivers, and children waiting for their parents. | 82 |
| Number of editors | The people that engaged in the main editing event. They are made up of 15 people from the Institute of Climate Change, 15 participants from the Department of Geography, UNN, and 30 experienced Wikimedians from the participating Wikimedia groups. Each experienced Wikimedian will be entrusted with one new editor as a mentee. This is to ensure that articles created or edited are of high quality and also to ensure that the new editors acquired sufficient skills to work without supervision in the future. | 60 |
| Number of organizers | Representatives of the participating groups and the accountant (User:Amakanne )and the principal organizer (User: Ngozi osadebe). | 6 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | The number of articles created =60. (This refers to new articles introduced to Wikipedia) Each participant is expected to create at least one article of not less than 750 words with at least 6 references.
The number of articles improved =120. (This refers to existing articles in Wikipedia that participants impacted on). Each participant should at least read two existing articles and correct grammatical error(s), add more information, link to other articles online, and add references or images. |
180 |
| Wikimedia Commons | New photographs uploaded 120. Each participant should upload at least two images to Wikipedia to support the articles he/she created or improved. | 120 |
| Wikidata | Create wikidata entries for books on Climate Change, Sustainability; and the environment in Nigeria. | 180 |
| 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.
1. Number of participants: I will use Program and events dashboard. The dashboard provides an easy way to organize groups of editors who are working on common projects, and to keep track of what they are doing and what they've contributed.
- 2. Number of editors. Program and events dashboard will be used.
- 3. Number of Organizers. Program and events dashboard will be used.
- 4. Number of new content contributions to Wikipedia projects. Program and events dashboard will be used.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 17. & 17.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
9187000 NGN
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
19922.6 USD
- 19. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qksqwu2nBcan6KBo9qkn3rOgqOradX-QNqCN1cQDibg/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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