Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Wiki Climate Africa
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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.
Wiki Climate Africa
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Wiki Climate Africa is an international Writing campaign that is currently underway in Tanzania and aims to record and publish articles on environmental issues and climate change. The Swahili Wikipedia has been active for many years, but we have noticed a huge gap in writing Climate-related content on the Swahili Wikipedia. Out of the eight members who have contributed to climate articles,
- 1. One only wrote about the environment, statistics show that out of 250 articles, I tried to generate using the List Building tool, not one is on the Swahili Wikipedia. The aim of the campaign is:
Goals
Goal 1:Close the gap of Climate content in the Swahili language
Goal 2: help to advance a healthy environment in Tanzania
Goal 3: Recruit new volunteers who are enthusiasts and conservationists in climate issues
Goal 4: Increase quality content coverage
Therefore this project will help increase the content on Swahili Wikipedia related to Climate change and sustainability topic and bridge the language gap, this will help give awareness to Swahili readers about Climate change through their own native language, and as a result, Swahili readers will be aware of various effects caused by climate changes and what to do to address climate risks.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Strategies:
Goal 1: There are over 4000 articles on climate change on the English Wikipedia. A lot of the climate change-related articles on English Wikipedia use technical and advanced words and most of them do not exist in the Swahili language. We will organize several workshops(online/in-personal) to teach people how to write these environmental articles, especially those involved in environmental issues. The language gap is the main problem we want to solve by organizing this Wiki climate Afrika 2022 in Tanzania which will be contested. This will help create a public understanding of what is going on about climate right now.
Goal 2 Also, another goal is to help advance a healthy environment in Tanzania by training Wikipedia Volunteers on issues relating to Climate Change. This theme relates to the WikiForHumanRight campaign as well.
Goal 3: The main strategy for achieving this project is to Build and empower a community of contributors to contribute climate change knowledge on Swahili Wikipedia so they can be better positioned to contribute Climate Change and other environmental information on Wikipedia. We believe this will give opportunity for environmental experts and other environmental enthusiasts to improve local expert (environmental) knowledge in Wikipedia Also, We will be organizing a meet-up and training edit-a-thon in all Wikimedia communities in Tanzania to announce the theme and retrain the participants on the areas we realized they need more coaching and support.
Goal 4: Organizing Workshops 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. Also, we will have Photowalk where we will take pictures relating to climate change. This theme relates to Wiki Love Africa 2023 campaign.
Collaborating with other organizations in order to get access to underrepresented knowledge resources.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Activities
The in-person training event, 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, how to use Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia commons ect, for example how to open a Wikipedia account, how to interact with the interface and make small edits such as how to add references, citation, etc
Edit-a-thon, We will organize a series of events of edit-a-thon after new users get an understanding of the Wikimedia movement and their sister's projects as well as experienced editors and also how to use Wikipedia effectively so that they can able to make small edits such as adding references, citations, etc to the existing articles about climate change and sustainability topic on Swahili Wikipedia.
Write-a-thon, We are planning to organize events by including experienced editors in writing articles about climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia. This will help to create many impactful articles about climate change and sustainability topics on Swahili Wikipedia.
Photowalks: We are also planning to 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.
Data-a-thon, also we will engage in Wikidata projects to add and documents all written articles from Swahili Wikipedia during the Wiki climate Africa campaign.
- 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?
1. Justine Msechu (User Justine Msechu) Project Coordinator
- 2. Anuary Rajabu (User Anuary Rajabu) Program Assistant Coordinator
- 3. Idd Ninga (User Idd ninga) Organizer
- 4. Caroline Mshanga (User Caroline Mshanga) Responsible for logistics and training sessions
- 5. Alex Method ( User Rwebogora) Organizer
- 6. Mohamed Mfuu (User: Mohemed Mfuu) Photographer Coordinator
- 7. Amne Dauda (User: Amne Dauda) Organizer
- 8. Abubakari Sixbert (User: Abubakari Sixbert) Organizer
- 9. Mary Calist (User: Christian Anold Mosha ) Communication officer
10. Ebenezer Mlay (User: CaliBen) Advisor
11. Magoiga Mtatiro (User: Magotech) Advisor
12. Gladys Gibbs(User: Gladys Gibbs) Organizer
- 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 Wiki Climate Africa 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 Wiki Climate Africa campaign 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 the impactful contents on Swahili Wikipedia about the topic.
Also since the majority of the target participants will be new editors, efforts will be made to link them to 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 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 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 content?
2. Has underrepresented knowledge been included on Wikimedia platforms?
3. Have we been able to collaborate with other organizations to gain access to underrepresented
knowledge?
4. How many Articles have been created during the campaign
5. How many new Participants have participated in the campaign,
6. Are participants interested in continuing to volunteer on Wikipedia by writing about environmental articles?
7. What percentage of activities and programs are in underrepresented knowledge
Assessment objectives:
1. Number of activities and programs performed
2. Number of partner associations engaged,
3. Number of Participants
The number of activities and programs performed.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| wikipedia | Number of articles created in Swahili Wikipedia | 1000 |
| Wikidata | A number of Wikidata items were created or improved. | 1000 |
| Wikimedia commons | Wikimedia Commons files uploaded and added to the articles. | 300 |
| Number of participants | Participants from 4 communities in Tanzania will benefit from our Campaign. | 200 |
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | 150 |
- 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 200 participants and 40% of them will be new participants |
200 |
| Number of editors | We target about 150 editors and 40% will be new editors | 150 |
| Number of organizers | We target about 10 organizers throughout the campaign. | 10 |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 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.
46011326 TZS
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
19736 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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