Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Tyap Wikimedians Community Grant January-December 2026
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Applicant information
[edit]- Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
- Tyap Wikimedians Organisation
- 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
- Please provide links to the following documents if they are available
These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.
- Organizational website
- Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
- Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
- Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan
- - Organizational website: http://kcgwikimedia.org.ng/ (alternative: https://w.wiki/CKWi)
- Detailed financial reporting and/or audits: To be submitted after our current grant cycle
- Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes: https://w.wiki/DCcX
- Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tyap_Wikimedians_User_Group#Tyap_Wikimedians_Community_Grant_January-December_2026
Main proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)
- Tyap Wikimedians Community Grant January-December 2026
- 2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants)
- No
- 2.1. 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)
N/A
- 3. Proposed start date. (required)
- 2026-01-01
- 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)
- Yes
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O8nROCF0gFfT3SGIwEUSst13a3cdc11un1KmQra9Z6Q/edit?usp=sharing
- 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/1O8nROCF0gFfT3SGIwEUSst13a3cdc11un1KmQra9Z6Q/edit?usp=sharing
- 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)
1. Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement:
a. Mentor Me!: Created to help aspiring, new, and existing editors learn the basics of editing in the Wikimedia space. It is being organized in in-person and online sessions, with experienced editors invited from across the world to offer their wealth of experience in an online presentation and in-person. Participants attend and get the same through physical contact with local organizers. A Wikimedia Dashboard is set up to give assignments to participants, and a WhatsApp group is created for coordination.
b. Wiki Audio Walk: Aimed at increasing content from underrepresented language communities, such as the Tyap language-speaking communities. This involves recording words, phrases, and sentences of different Tyap language variants and related Nenzit languages for uploading to Wikimedia Commons via Lingua Libre.
c. Tyap Wiki Bootcamp: A bootcamp for Tyap-speaking people to immerse themselves in editing, recording words, and creating Wikipedia articles and Wiktionary entries in Tyap and English. This bootcamp will be organized in collaboration with the Tyap Language Development Board (TLDB).
d. Wiki Loves X Campaigns: Participation in Wiki Loves Folklore and Wiki Loves Africa to take images from underrepresented areas of the Central Nigerian Plateau for publishing on Wikimedia Commons.
e. Wikidata Campaign: Utilizing the Wikidata Birthday period to run a data-a-thon in the community and promote Wikidata activities in the community.
2. Improve User Experience:
a. Friendly Working Space: Establishing a dedicated working space with necessary equipment for Wikimedia organization staff and community members.
b. Equipment for Programs: Providing necessary recording devices, smartphones, laptops, cameras, lenses, and other equipment required for program activities.
c. Internet Bundles Support Programme: Providing internet subscriptions to active editors to support their efforts in volunteering their time and energy to promote the Movement's goals.
d. End-of-the-Year Get Together (Community Meetup): Organizing a relaxed gathering to appreciate contributors and engage in Wikimedia activities.
3. Coordinate Across Stakeholders:
a. Tyap Wikimedia Outreaches: Creating a new Wikipedia project and a hub in that language community to engage in a long-lasting edit-a-thon until the Wikipedia gets approved, paying visits to selected secondary schools and tertiary institutions to introduce our Movement to them and gain new partnerships, paying advocacy visits to legislators to influence policies, creating short videos to increase awareness about our mission as well as advocate for changes in our society in line with the Foundation's goals, and attending regional festivities to publicize the organization and gain support and new partnerships.
b. Collaborative Wiktionary Editing: Collaborating with other Wikimedia affiliates to edit each other's languages in their respective Wiktionaries.
4. Investing in Skills and Leadership Development:
a. Leadership Retreat: Organizing a conversation between the volunteering hub and community leaders within the Tyap Wikimedians User Group leadership, to communicate and re-communicate the vision of the organization, and for all to make inputs to achieve a more meaningful future together.
b. Community Meetings: Organizing quarterly meetings between the leadership and the volunteering community to share our wins and losses, and get feedback from community members on ways to move the organization forward.
c. Mentor Me!: Again, this programme is aimed at investing in the skills of community members and others within the Movement who wish to participate.
NB: The program has been aligned with the Wikimedia Foundation 2030 Movement Strategies by focusing on community growth, content expansion, outreach, engagement, capacity building, and support. The specific focus on the Tyap language has been removed to align with the broader movement strategies by introducing other related languages into the Movement. As of the time of writing, the TWU has begun the Jju Wikipedia project, and is about to begin the Hyam Wikipedia project. In the coming year, the Adara Wikipedia project would begin, and every year, at least one language would be introduced into the Movement to fulfill the desire for Wikipedia to be read in every language, with special focus on the Central Plateau languages.
- 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 | No |
| Community support and engagement | Yes |
| Participation in campaigns and contests | Yes |
| Public policy advocacy | Yes |
| Other | No |
Education
- 9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)
- Wiki Camp, Editing Wikipedia Training, Translation, Wikidata programs, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other Wikimedia project programs, Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom or other Reading/Evaluating Wikipedia Training
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
- 9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)
- Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors, Senior citizens, Secondary school students
- 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, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues
- 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
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Participation in campaigns and contests
- 9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)
- Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Feminism and Folklore, Wiki Loves Earth
- Other programs and activities if any: N/A
Public policy advocacy
- 9.6.1. What specific laws, or legislative topics, are you targeting with your advocacy plans? Please be as specific as possible. (required)
1) We are aiming for the Language Policy in Nigeria to create an environment where every Nigerian language would be granted an official status in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We may not see seriousness on the part of the government in protecting the endangered human languages spoken within the bounds of Nigeria and beyond, except it is brought into law, the importance of every one of those languages through the promotion of literature in those languages. This, in turn, makes it easier for Wikimedians to find sources to use for the development of more Wikipedia projects in those languages in the long run.
2) We are also aiming to lend our voices to the Freedom of Panorama (FoP).
- 9.6.2. What are the main methods and tactics via which you plan to advocate for this public policy change? Please be as specific as possible. (required)
1) I. We intend to advocate for the elevation of all languages in Nigeria to the status of an official language within the country through:
- physical visits to three lawmakers
- publish open letters in the newspapers advocating the same
- open-street march around the National Assembly in Abuja, carrying placards and slogans.
II. We intend to create short videos and host them online, on social media, our organizational website, and on Wikimedia Commons.
III. We also plan to pay visits to three tertiary institutions to meet with the heads of these schools to speak on Wikimedia activities, as well as the rights of other languages in Nigeria to be developed, protected, and promoted.
2) We intend to do the same as above regarding the Freedom of Panorama (FoP) in Nigeria.
- 9.6.3. Approximately, how much of the requested budget will you dedicate to public policy advocacy (local currency)?
- 5310000 NGN
- 10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U_GNBylPuHuiaoJnluFZVVnbKnmfIsxt/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102744618042216854907&rtpof=true&sd=true
- 11. Describe your team. (required)
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF The Tyap Wikimedians User Group currently has a strength of the following staff members 1. Levi Kambai Timothy - User:Kambai Akau - (ROLE: Executive Director) - salaried staff 2. Friday Kuyet Musa - User:Friday musa (ROLE: Project manager) - salaried staff 3. Anthony Gwakhap Anthony - User:Danjuma Anthony - (ROLE: Communications and Advocacy Officer) - volunteer staff 4. Recruiting in progress - (ROLE: Graphics Designer and Video Editor) - salaried staff
GOVERNING BOARD The responsibility of ensuring that the implementation of the annual plan works lies with the entire members of the Board of the TWU, namely: 1. Levi Kambai Timothy - User:Kambai Akau - (ROLE: Chairman) 2. Zwandien Bobai - User:Zbobai - (ROLE: Assistant Chairman) 3. Friday Kuyet Musa - User:Friday musa - (ROLE: Financial Secretary) 4. Didam Valentine Michael - User:Valtino44 - (ROLE: Board Member)
- 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)
We will be working with both internal and external partners.
- We hope to continue with what we have started in terms of reaching out to different experienced Wikimedians to make presentations in our Mentor Me! programme, online. In this programme, we intend to forge partnerships with different Wikimedia project volunteers and staff to ensure that our community members benefit from the wealth of experience of these resourceful people for the growth of our community as a whole.
- In our Tyap Wiki Bootcamp program, we aim to work closely with the Tyap Language Development Board to provide us with useful guidance and literary materials on the Tyap language we may use to help participants get immersed in both the Tyap language and Wikimedia editing within the programme duration.
- We also hope to collaborate with another Wikimedia affiliate in our Wiktionary Collaborative project. This is to ensure the exchange of ideas and help us develop the Swánga̱lyiatwuki (Tyap Wiktionary) to a standard Wiktionary, while making our own contributions to their Wiktionary project for mutual benefits.
- 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, Improve User Experience, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
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.
| Metrics name | Target | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 743 | Participants from the:
|
| Number of all editors | 169 | Existing and new editors from the:
New editors from the:
Retained editors from the:
The number of retained editors may be irregular. It could be more than the above metrics, but the above is a minimal figure we expect to have based on previous trends we have noticed in the community. |
| Number of new editors | 140 | |
| Number of retained editors | 47 | |
| Number of all organizers | 25 | All organizers from the:
New organizers
|
| Number of new organizers | 21 |
- 14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
| Wikimedia project | Created | Edited or improved |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 | 800 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 5000 | 1000 |
| Wikidata | 1000 | 1500 |
| Wiktionary | 500 | 800 |
| Wikisource | ||
| Wikimedia Incubator | 700 | 700 |
| Translatewiki | 700 | 700 |
| MediaWiki | ||
| Wikiquote | ||
| Wikivoyage | ||
| Wikibooks | ||
| Wikiversity | ||
| Wikinews | ||
| Wikispecies | ||
| Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia | 100 | 100 |
- Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)
- Wiki Audio Walk = Commons: 700 audio files
- Tyap Wiki Bootcamp = Wp: 50, Wk: 50, Commons: 100 files, Wd: 50
- Wiki Loves X = Commons: 4,000 files
- Mentor Me! = Wp: 100
- Wikidata = Wd: 1,000 new items
- Collaborative Wiktionary Editing = Wk: 1,000 entries
- Incubator (Adara Wikipedia Outreach and continuous editing) = at least 200 new articles in the Adara Wikipedia, we hope to begin, Wp/Incubator: 700, Commons: 50 files, Wd: 50
- Educational Outreach to Secondary Schools = Commons: 60
- Educational Outreach to Tertiary Institutions = Commons: 60
- Advocacy Visits to Legislators and Street Demonstrations = Commons: 60
- Educational Videos = Commons: 24
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)
- Yes
- 16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)
- Membership contribution
- Free-will donations
- 16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)
- 200000
- 17. Your local currency. (required)
- NGN
- 18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required)
- 58177445 NGN
| Year | Amount (local currency) |
|---|---|
| Year 1 | N/A NGN |
| Year 2 | N/A NGN |
| Year 3 | N/A NGN |
- Requested amount in USD
- 37815.34 USD [note 1]
| Year | Amount USD [note 1] |
|---|---|
| Year 1 | N/A USD |
| Year 2 | N/A USD |
| Year 3 | N/A 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.
- We plan to have three paid staff members (an Executive Director, a Project Manager, and a Graphics Designer & Video Editor).
- 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.
- Annual Hours:
Full-time employees = 2,080 + 2,080 + 2,080 = 6,240 hours
Full-time FTE = 3.0 Total FTE = 3.0
Please find a link to this and information on the staffing here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KtWhfSBV71AMos_Xj2m6XqYGmvXQSI6HFbNBgbV1nyY/edit?usp=sharing
- 19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees)
- One more staff member is to be added to the current ongoing team. Salaries have also been increased for existing staff members.
- 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 contractor costs | 15360000 NGN |
| Operational costs | 3850000 NGN |
| Programmatic costs | 38967445 NGN |
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
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)
In this proposal, we are proposing three travel scholarships for our user group to provide us the opportunity to attend Wikimania and WikiIndaba for the first time in person since we got approved as an affiliate in 2022.
Also, we are moving into greater advocacy regarding the state of indigenous languages in Nigeria. Please see the document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14SYmmg5Nj97kq_TUNngdagMlxgG8Pc-78xKpPGNzfho/edit?tab=t.0
The salaries for the staff are being gradually upgraded, with an additional staff member being added to take charge of the video creation and graphics of the organization, towards greater advocacy and visibility.
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We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- Yes
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