Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Awareness and Training in Maradi (ID: 21870146)
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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.
Gwanki, Hamza DK, M Bash Ne, Umar-askira
- 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 and Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Awareness and Training in Maradi
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
International
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
Niger Republic. The project will be in Maradi Region a Hausa city state near to Katsina State of Nigeria, my indigen state.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The city of Maradi is the second largest city of Niger Republic. And is the Hausa city state with the historical Hausa traditional emirate named "Sarkin Katsina of Maradi". There is a thousands of people living in the city and there is also higher institutions in the city, this project will try to reach out to the students and lectures and teach them how to make a research in Wikipedia and contribute to Wikimedia projects. And also this project will discover the Hausa heritage sites within Maradi city and also Maradi region to take images of them and upload to Commons. We also take images of Cultures, foods, buildings architectures, rivers and other sites of the all Maradi Region. The project will also create and improve Maradi Related articles. The importance of change is, when this project reached people it will provide new editors and Veiwers of Wikimedia Projects. It also help people by making their research in Wikipedia. When we take images and upload to Commons, They will help by imroving Wikipedia articles related to Maradi, Niger and also Hausa.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- Building Wikimedia Community in Maradi.
- Recruit new users.
- create new and improving Maradi related artucles
- Photowalk
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will take a trips around all Maradi Region's departments sharing flyers, discussion with the people and taking pictures. there is a workshop which we will train participants how they make research in Wikipedia and contribute to Wikimedia projects in order to recruit new editors.
- 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.
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
- 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.
As a result there is a Photowalk among the objectives of this Project, We will take pictures of Cultures, People, Geographical Areas and we will also help the participants to write articles related to Maradi's Culture, Geography, Religion, Racial and Ethnicity. Writing articles about these will help in addressing knowledge gap.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 9. 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?
Our target participants are students of universities and calloges and their lecturers. These universities include Annahda University Maradi compus, Maryam Abacha American University Maradi, University De Maradi and others. We also targeted other people of Maradi residents.
Before activities we are discussing with some university students in Maradi via Telegram and Facebook. The call for participants will be done through social media. We will also work with the students Unions. During the event Me and other Facilitators we will help participant for creating account and make sure they learn how to edit Wikipedia and Wikipedia sister projects. Then during the trips we will be sharing Flyers to the people and giving them more information face to face. For follow up with participants after the activities, We will create a WhatsApp, Telegram or WhatsApp group were me and other Facilitators will continue engaging the participants.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will make sure to have a hall in a safe and secure place. The remind the participants and the organisers of the importance of Wikimedia events friendly space policy we summarize the General friendly space policy for Wikimedia events before starting the event. We will hiring a local Texi for safer drive during Trips. Organisers will accommadate in a secure hotel.
- 11. 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 inform them via Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion pages and Hausa Wikimedians community WhatsApp group.
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
If no:
- 12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
- This project will be done in Niger Republic and it will be first of it's kind in the country. I'm leaving in Katsina State which is the closest of Maradi Niger Republic, I've a lot of freinds there. I just decided to run the project in order to introduce the Wikimedia Projects in Niger Republic. And develop Hausa Wikimedians Community in the Country as well as French community if possible.
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
I have freinds who are the students of Maryam Abacha American University Maradi they will help me to mobilise and communicate with the participants. There's a my freind who's the student of University De Maradi, he will help me to mobilise people and guide us during trips.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
If the project create community awereness in Maradi.
If the project recruite new editors.
If new articles created and improve some related articles with related photos.
If the participants contribute local contents such as history, culture, tradition, schools, cuisine, tourist areas, tribes, language and images of Niger to Wikipedia.
If the project create Wikimedia Community in Maradi or Niger in general.
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Creating Awareness | We will have a Trips of Awareness offline where will will tour throughout Maradi Region especially Universities and Schoos and other historical places distribution flyers to the people and taking pictures of Important palaces, geographical areas, people and cultures and Architectures. | 500+ |
| Training new editors | We will train new editors how to create new article, and also improve exist articles. | 30 |
| Creating articles | We will create articles and improve some existence related to Maradi and Niger Republic during and after the project | 30 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | |
| Number of editors | 15 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | We will create and improve artices related to Maradi Niger Republic and Hausa Region, and traditional rules. | 15 |
| Wikimedia Commons | After the completion of Trips we will upload images to Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. 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.
We will use Program and Event Dashboard and Wikimedia Hashtag Tools.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
2569952820 XOF
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3165370 USD
- 20. 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.
No
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