Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Effect of Climate Change in Northern Nigeria
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Yusuf Sa'adu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Effect of Climate Change in Northern Nigeria
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Northern Nigeria is currently experiencing one of the catastrophic effects of climate change across the country – flooding.
The 2022 floods described by experts as the worst Nigeria has experienced since 2012, have destroyed crops in over 500,000 hectares of farmlands belonging to thousands of smallholder and commercial farmers across the country. The climate change effect in Low crop yield, Reduced livestock production, Food shortage, Public health crisis, Low income, Decreased hydroelectric power supply, Loss of shelter, road networks.
This program will investigate the causes of Climate Change, and the problems that Climate Change has caused in northern Nigeria and find ways to solve them.
We will work with the Wikimedians of Northern Nigeria especially the Hausa Community in creating and promoting those related to Climate Change in Northern Nigeria.
The purpose of the program is to document quality articles related to Climate Change in Northern Nigeria and to improve the existing ones in Wikipedia. The project will create awareness about how people can protect the environment.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- To create awareness about climate change
- To create and improve articles related to climate change and environment in Northern Nigeria
- To recruit new Wikipedia editors from Northern Nigeria
- To reach out Northern Nigeria Wikimedians
- To train the editors how to create quality articles to Wikipedia
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
This project will be Awareness Campaign, Workshop and Contest.
Awareness
I and other facilitators we will travel between three state where the problem of flooding is most affected in Northern Nigeria. The states are, Kano, Katsina and Jigawa. The idea is, we will visit most of the affected areas to see and take pictures for uploading to Wikimedia Commons. We will distribute pamphlets that contain important information on how to protect the environment to the people.
The awareness will be for three days in the capital city and two second and largest city of each state.
Workshop
We will hold a Workshop for the editors of each state to train them on how to create good articles on Wikipedia. During every workshop we will recruit new editors.
Contest
We will organize a writing competition in which participants will create articles related to environment and climate change in Northern Nigeria.
- 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
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
I have the team of four experience Wikimedians who's will facilitate in all the project's long.
- Yusuf Sa'adu - I'm participated and completed the Organiser Lab course, I have also organised other Wikimedia projects and facilitated in many Wikimedia projects. I'm an active editor at Hausa Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I will be the project lead.
- Gwanki - He's experience Wikimedian from Kano State, active and sysop editor at Hausa Wikipedia. Active editor at Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and English Wikipedia. He has organised #WikiForHumanRights projects 2021 and 2022 for Hausa Community. He also have organised many Wikimedia projects like campaign and contest in Northern Nigeria. He will be facilitator and lead the jury team.
- Hamza DK - Experience Wikimedian from Katsina State, and professional photographer, he has organised a Wikimedia Projects and also facilitate and participate in many projects. He will be the project's photographer and facilitator in all the events.
- M Bash Ne - Experience Wikimedian from Kano State, winner of many Wikimedia Contest, overall winner of Wiki For Human Rights Contest Hausa Community 2022. Organiser and facilitator of many Wikimedia projects, Active editor at Hausa Wikipedia. He will be the project facilitators
- 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.
Geography, Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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.
This project will be taken place in Hausa geographical area, it will document the water flooding, soil erosion and climate change in Nothern Nigeria.
- 7. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 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?
The target participants of workshop are people from Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States. We will reach out to them the projects in each state through WhatsApp groups. M Bash Ne have organised a Workshop in Jigawa State were I Facilitated. During the project we have organised a WhatsApp group of Wikimedians from Jigawa State. We will reach out to them before the event and continue engaging them though the WhatsApp Group. Gwanki is the administrator of Kano Wikimedians in WhatsApp Group and I'm also the administrator of Wikimedian Community of Karadua in Katsina State. We will let all the target participants know through our active WhatsApp groups.
- 9. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will always summarize Wikimedia friendly space policy before starting each event. We will use realable transport services during trips.
- 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.
I will let them know through Hausa Wikimedian user group and Hausa Wikipedia discussion pages. I will also let them know through WhatsApp groups.
- 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.
No
- 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.
N/A
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 13. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
By the end of the project i wish to learn if the project reached people of target places. I want to learn if the project. give awareness to the people about climate change. I wish to learn if the provide quality article about climate change in Northern Nigeria. I wish to learn if the project recruite new editors to Wikipedia.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of trips | Total number of trips in all three states | 9 |
| Number of Workshop | Total number of all workshops in both three states | 6 |
| Increase in page viewers | Increase of Wikipedia pages viewers | N/A |
| People reached | Total numbers of people reached. | 3000 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 15. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of people to participate in all 6 days workshop in all three states. | 150 |
| Number of editors | People whose participates during contest. | 50 |
| Number of organizers | Number of total organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Articles to be created and improve during all event | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Photos to be uploaded, all files are related to climate changes in Nothern Nigeria, at least 50% will be used to Wikipedia articles. | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
I will use WMF Dashboard to track participant's contributions. I will use Wikimedia statistics tool to measure page viewers.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 17. & 17.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
5965000 NGN
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
13216.42 USD
- 19. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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