Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Swahili Climate Voices
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Justine Msechu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Anuary Rajabu Justine Msechu
- 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: Wikimedia Community Kilimanjaro Let’s Connect peer Learning Group Tanzania Wikimedians for Sustainable Development Wikimedians of Arusha User group
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Swahili Climate Voices
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The Swahili Wikipedia has been active for many years but records a huge gap in Climate change-related content. One out of every 8 community members contributes to climate change articles. A search result on English Wikipedia using categories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Climate_change) shows that articles related to climate change are missing on Swahili Wikipedia. The over 500 articles on climate change on the English Wikipedia are written in technical and advanced words that would be difficult for people whose language proficiency is Swahili. Even so, many of the said articles are not available on Swahili Wikipedia. Stories of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation (https://www.usaid.gov/tanzania/environment) experienced in Tanzania should be communicated in a language accessible to the native Tanzanians who need a good understanding of these impacts to mitigate and adapt to the challenges facing them.
Swahili Climate Voices is a campaign that seeks to document climate change-related topics on Swahili Wikipedia to raise awareness and knowledge about the topic on the internet through Wikimedia projects. Through this campaign, we hope to bridge both the topic and language gap while creating opportunities for people to access climate change information in a way that would build awareness of the various effects of climate change in their community.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Build and empower a community of contributors to contribute climate change knowledge on Swahili Wikipedia: This will provide better positions to contribute Climate Change and other environmental information on Wikipedia. We believe this will give opportunity for environmental experts and other environmental enthusiasts the to improve local expert (environmental) knowledge in Wikipedia
Document climate change and sustainability-related topics on Swahili Wikipedia
Improving the visual coverage of environmental topics: By organizing activities that focus on widening the coverage of quality and underrepresented content in Swahili to attract readership by adding images to articles with no images and improving them. This theme relates to the Wiki Love Africa 2023 campaign and WikiForHumanRight campaign as well.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Strategie 1: Activities Recruiting new and existing participants to contribute to Swahili Wikipedia.
Training ( in-person and online ): This will be a series of events for training to ensure that new contributors get enough understanding about the Wikimedia movement and their sister's projects, and how to contribute.
Strategie 2: Activities
Edit-a-thon: We will organize a series of events of edit-a-thon by including experienced editors in writing articles about climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia.
Contest: We will organize a writing contest to incentivize contributions about Climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia.
Strategie 3: Activities
Photowalks: We will organize photowalk events by involving experienced and new photographers to take and document images and short videos regarding the topic of climate change and sustainability topics on Wikimedia commons.
- 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, Wiki Loves Africa
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Project Coordinators Justine Msechu (User Justine Msechu) Anuary Rajabu (User Anuary Rajabu)
Training Facilitators Idd Ninga (User: Idd ninga) Caroline Mshanga (User: Caroline Mshanga)
Communication Officer Mary Calist (User: Christian Anold Mosha )
Community organizers Amne Dauda (User: Amne Dauda) - University Students Wikimedians Awadhi Awampo ( User: Awadhi Awampo ) - University Student Wikimedians Abubakari Sixbert (User: Abubakari Sixbert) - Wikimedia Community Kilimanjaro Alex Method ( User: Rwebogora) - Tanzania Community User Group Pellagia Njau ( User: Pellagia Njau) - Tanzania Community User Group Gladys Gibbs(User: Gladys Gibbs) - Wikimedians of Arusha User Group
Photographer Mohamed Mfuu (User: Mohamed mfuu)
Advisors Ebenezer Mlay (User: CaliBen) Magoiga Mtatiro (User: Magotech) Antoni Mtavangu (User: Jadnapac) Euphemia Uwandu (User: Euphemia)
- 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, 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.
This Swahili Climate Voices campaign will involve the creation and improvement of articles about climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia which seems to have a huge gap about that topic. Also will involve taking and adding media files on Wikimedia commons regarding the climate change and sustainability topic.
- 7. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Linguistic / Language, Digital Access
- 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 participants of the Swahili Climate Voices campaigns are environmental activists and enthusiasts from Tanzania, also we will collaborate with existing Wikimedia communities such as Wikimedians of Arusha User Group, Wikimedia Community Kilimanjaro, Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania, and University Wikimedians of Students to ensure that we get many experienced editors to contribute impactful content on Swahili Wikipedia about the topic. Also, we will link new participants to the existing Wikimedia communities in Tanzania, so they can be better exposed to Wikimedia activities and also participate in other events in the community.
At the end of each event, we will use a survey to collect views and comments from our participants, sending mail, and also the Whatsapp group, and Telegram to get feedback from participants in each event and at the end of the campaign in general.
- 9. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will adhere strictly to the Wikimedia-friendly space policy and Universal Code of Conduct to make sure that everyone is exercising all the rights they have.
- 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.
We will use our Social media pages (Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Telegram, and Twitter) as well as our meta page to let participants know.
- 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.
1: Media partners We are seeking media partners who will support us to amplify the campaign we will be doing.
2: Dunia Salama Foundation It's a registered organization that focuses on youth and the environment so through this partnership we will be able to reach more youth.
3:Center of Research Cooperation(CRC) It is an organization registered in Tanzania with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. It has carried out various environmental studies, and in collaboration with them, we will be able to find more stakeholders who are involved in environmental issues.
4: Ksm Agro Industry Company LTD the organization focuses on the agriculture value chain by producing agriculture inputs ( Organic fertilizers and pesticides ) by using organic waste, animal waste, and microorganisms for the purpose of saving climate change. We will get some of the participants from this organization to share knowledge.
Also, we will need assistance to connect with other organizations.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 13. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
Learning questions:
1. To what extent the community has contributed to expanding, qualifying, and diversifying climate change and sustainability content?
2. Has Climate change and sustainability knowledge been included on Wikimedia platforms?
3. Have we been able to collaborate with other organizations to gain access to underrepresented
knowledge?
4. Are new participants interested in continuing to volunteer on Wikimedia projects?
Assessment objectives:
1. Number of activities and programs performed
2. Number of partner associations engaged
3. Number of Participants
Evaluation methods:
Outreach Dashboard Activity reports Evaluation
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Community engagement | We will measure this by identifying how the community has participated in the campaign through the number of Participants, and contributions. | 4 |
| Knowledge included on Wikimedia platforms | We will measure this through the results yielded by participating in three Wikimedia projects that is Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia commons. | 3 |
| Partnership | How we had been partnering with other NGOs and organizations | 4 |
| Retained Participants | We will measure this by looking at how many participants have returned to more than one event throughout the campaign. | 50 |
| N/A | N/A |
- 15. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants from 4 communities in Tanzania will benefit from our Campaign.
We target about 120 participants and 40% of them will be new participants |
120 |
| Number of editors | We target about 100 editors and 40% will be new editors | 100 |
| Number of organizers | We target about 12 organizers throughout the campaign. | 12 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | The total number of articles that will be created or improved on Swahili Wikipedia regarding the Climate change and sustainability topic | 500 |
| Wikimedia Commons | The total number of media files that will be added on Wikimedia Commons regarding the Climate Change and sustainability topic. | 100 |
| Wikidata | The total number of items that will be created and updated on Wikidata regarding the climate change and sustainability topic.
All articles that will be created on Swahili Wikipedia, will be connected to wikidata. |
500 |
| 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.
For metrics measurements, We will use the Program & Event Dashboard and survey (pre and post-survey) before and after the activities.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 17. & 17.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
46523223 TZS
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
19956 USD
- 19. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mm-trqVOdWj41UF0IMZqIJtPlxgRJ4bAldXTIi8wKdU/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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