Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Igbo Wikimedians User Group Annual Grant 2024 and Beyond

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Applicant information[edit]

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Igbo Wikimedia Organization

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required): Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required): Yes

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?: No

Fiscal organization name.: N/A

Main proposal[edit]

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Igbo Wikimedians User Group Annual Grant 2024 and Beyond

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year funding or renewal process? (required): Yes, multi-year funding with similar program, budget, and structure every year (strategic plan can be provided but is not required)

2.1. For how many years of multi-year funding are you applying? (required): 3 years

2.2. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

Our strategies for the Year one includes but not limited to: ntroduce Wikimedia projects to more Igbo people that are literate in the Igbo language at any level.

Maintain and grow the Igbo Wiki community worldwide.
Mentor and improve skills of community members
Work towards the growth and development of other Igbo language Wikimedia projects.
Promotion of topics related to Igbo language, culture and community.
Cooperate with local authorities, organizations and individuals to promote free knowledge through Wikimedia projects

With these strategies, we'll be focusing on:

Organizing edit-a-thons to increase the number of articles on the Igbo projects. (Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wiktionary)
Training new editors on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
Outreach events to promote the Igbo Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Mentorship and skills improvement of existing and new community members.
Collaborating with other organizations to promote the Igbo language and culture.
Partnering with tertiary institutions to introduce Wikimedia in Education while recruiting more young people.
Community development and cohesion to ensure sustainable growth.

These activities will span to the Year 2 and 3 with some changes which would factor in the Wiki Mentor Africa program going back to being funded by the community as the grant period with the WMDE expires.

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2024-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2026-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): No; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vd4FCJANW7gfXmzTKJOY6RhszYQNar1S/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114499195913596826747&rtpof=true&sd=true

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vd4FCJANW7gfXmzTKJOY6RhszYQNar1S/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114499195913596826747&rtpof=true&sd=true

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required): Nigeria

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

Challenges

Low representation of the Igbo Language on the internet.
The Igbo Language is endangered.
Low capacity/skills of the target community.
Lack of trust on the reliability of Wikipedia across the South East
Low representation of the Igbo Language on Wikimedia projects.

Solution

Organizing edit-a-thons to increase the number of articles on existing Igbo projects on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
Conducting outreach events to promote the awareness of the Igbo Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Mentoring and improving the skills of existing community members.
Collaborating with other organizations to promote the Igbo language and culture.
Partnering with tertiary institutions to introduce Wikimedia in Education(Wikiquote, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource)
Training new editors

The Igbo Wikimedians user group believes that by increasing the amount of high-quality content about the Igbo language and culture on Wikimedia projects, they can help to:

Increase awareness of the Igbo language and culture around the world.
Promote understanding and appreciation of the Igbo language and culture.
Empower Igbo people to share their stories and experiences.
Document the Igbo language and culture for future generations.

Goals

The Igbo Wikimedians user group has set the following goals for 2023:

Introduce Wikimedia projects to more Igbo people that are literate in the Igbo language at any level to increase the number of articles about the Igbo language and culture on the Igbo Wikipedia by 10%.
increase the number of active contributors to the Igbo Wikipedia by 5%..
Mentor and improve skills of community members
Work towards the growth and development of other Igbo language Wikimedia projects.
Organize at least 5 outreach events to promote the Igbo Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Develop a new training program for Igbo Wikipedia contributors.
Cooperate with local authorities, organizations and individuals to promote free knowledge through Wikimedia projects

Strategies

The Igbo Wikimedians user group will use the following strategies to achieve its goals:

Partner with educational institutions and other organizations to promote the Igbo Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikisource.
Conduct outreach events in Igbo communities around the world.
Develop new resources to make it easier for people to contribute to the Igbo Wikipedia.
Provide training and support to Igbo Wikipedia contributors.
Organize edit-a-thons to increase the number of articles on the Igbo projects.
Train new editors on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
Collaborate with other organizations to promote the Igbo language and culture.
Partner with tertiary institutions to introduce Wikimedia in Education while recruiting more young people.
Community development and cohesion through mentorship and skills improvement to ensure sustainable growth.

We assume that these strategies will:

By increasing the amount of content on Wikimedia projects in the Igbo language, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group will help to make the Igbo language more accessible to people around the world.
They will also help to preserve the Igbo language and culture for future generations.
They will help to create a more diverse and inclusive Wikimedia community.
Teachers will change their idea of Wikipedia
Create more awareness of the Wikimedia and Igbo language projects.

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)


Category	Yes/No
Education	Yes
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Wiki Club, Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training, Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other Wikimedia project programs; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required): Secondary school students, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors; Other groups if any: N/A

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required): Documenting or incubating languages on Wikimedia projects, Introducing new approaches to underrepresented culture and heritage, e.g. decolonising or reparative work; oral and visual knowledge; outreach to communities of origin, indigenous and first nations self-determination, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.: Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Building organizer skills in women and diversity groups, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.: On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering microgrants and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required): 1Lib1Ref, Feminism and Folklore, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CK6wdDvl00AMs2hXhB0_sIkDHB79pJRrtH4mEdyK6Q/edit?usp=sharing

11. Describe your team. (required)

User: Tochiprecious - Who is an experienced Project and Program Manager would lead the team as a Project/Program Manager. She would be salaried.

2. User: Kingsley Nkem - Communications Facilitator experienced and salaried.

3. User: Olugold - Program Assitant who is experienced in program and community management will assist in programs as well as community and hub coordination.

4. User: Ceslause Okechukwu - Partnership consultant this would be salaried but on contract.

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

For the duration of this funding period, we hope to work together with the Kenya, Sudan Wikipedia community in terms of cultural collaboration. This is in line with advocacy and doesn't involve funding, payments, donations etc.

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge

Metrics[edit]

Wikimedia Metrics[edit]

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	300	This would be measured by the number of participants both old and new who participate in our activities.
Number of all editors	200	N/A
Number of new editors	50
Number of retained editors	20
Number of all organizers	20	This will be measured by the number of participants who apply for the internal grant and organize projects.
Number of new organizers	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	3000	500
Wikimedia Commons	2000
Wikidata	2000	300
Wiktionary
Wikisource	100
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote	300
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

The Wikidata metric includes Lexemes

Other Metrics[edit]

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No


Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget[edit]

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): N/A

17. Your local currency. (required): NGN

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 193149765 NGN

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	64383255 NGN
Year 2	64383255 NGN
Year 3	64383255 NGN

Requested amount in USD: 276752 USD ^{[note 1]}

Multi-year funding request summary in USD
Year	Amount USD ^{[note 1]}
Year 1	81000 USD
Year 2	81000 USD
Year 3	81000 USD

↑ ^a ^b ^c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required): Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

1. Project and Program Manager - long term

2. Communications and Outreach - long term

3. Program Assitant and community management - long term

4. Partnership Coordinator - contract

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

1. Project and Program Manager - 1.0 FTE.

2. Communications and Outreach - 0.75 FTE

3. Program Assitant and community management - 0.75 FTE

4. Partnership Coordinator - 0.5 FTE

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): N/A

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).


Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contactor costs	20984172 NGN
Operational costs	794855 NGN
Programmatic costs	42604228 NGN

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xApfcn5R0mjD-c2Nz65egrqBg7ALA247-00ayLwfix4/edit?usp=sharing

Additional information[edit]

22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

Feedback[edit]

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[fixedrate-1] The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

[note 1]