Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikisound Audio Speaks Campaign 2024 Fiscal Year

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Wikisound Audio Speaks Campaign 2024 Fiscal Year

start date2024-01-15

end date2024-12-31

budget (local currency)68695600 NGN

amount requested (USD)89520 USD

grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

funding regionSSA

decision fiscal year2023-24

funding program roundRound 1

organization (if applicable)Wikisound Audio Speaks Campaign

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Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)

Wikisound Audio Speaks Campaign

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?

Yes

Fiscal organization name.

Kiwix

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)

Wikisound Audio Speaks Campaign 2024 Fiscal Year

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year funding or renewal process? (required)

No but we would like to apply for multi-year funding next time

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

N/A

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)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required)

2024-01-15

4. Proposed end date. (required)

2024-12-31

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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSound_Audio_Speaks_Campaign

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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSound_Audio_Speaks_Campaign

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

Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region)

From the previous pilot project of the Wikisound Audio Speaks Campaign, we have limited our activities to Nigeria only, considering development growth and planning gradual growth. For this year’s program for WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign, We would shift and expand its scope and limitations beyond Nigeria to some African countries and largest communities like Arab, English, and French, in Africa including Ghana, Niger, Gambia, Chad, and the Benin Republic, making six countries in total including Nigeria. This will include different communities from each country, it will give us the opportunity and privilege to onboard 15 different language communities across the above-mentioned communities and countries.

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)

Looking at what we have achieved so far from the previous campaign of WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign 2023, we have achieved all our goals, having many users showing interest and zeal in participating. Looking at the past project work we have addressed some challenges like limitations of resources, limitations of trainings, limited campaign and awareness, limited meet up and a limited use of adequate time we have. Looking at one of the challenges of resources to help us implement our strategic plan and approaches in different communities, this challenge enhance in having limited workshops, trainings and meet-up among local communities to mentor participants to acquire skills in recording, conversation, uploading and linking, that’s to say resources refuse to allow us implement adequate trainings for local communities, the limited trainings, workshops and meet-ups was caused as a result of limited resources, still we have managed to onboard many participants in from four communities that contributed a lot in audio activities. Looking at the limited promotional campaign and awareness in different communities, it resulted in having less participation in Wikimedia Pages Wanting Audio, that’s to say we have less turn over in the contest participation. Some of these challenges are listed below;

• Limited resources
• Limited trainings and workshops
• Limited meet up
• Limited promotional campaign and awareness.
• Less participation in Wikimedia Pages Wanting Audios
• Devaluation in Nigerian currency.

• Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes?

To overcome the above mentioned challenges, we have planned to carry out the project in accordance to the initial plan stated in the WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign project page on meta, and is well explained under Strategic Plan in WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign Page which will be explored further below.

The first move is to start by making general promotional campaign and awareness across all Wikimedia Projects about WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign and the importance of audio files in Wikimedia Movement at large, it is through this campaign editors will show interest to participate, we would then start having meet up with local communities online to fish out the needs required in each communities, also to have local communities way of communication and a means of reaching out to them effectively by a means of an understandable language, also to have local ambassadors and mentors of WSASC. Furthering the progress work, we have acquired what was needed in all communities, because needs most varies among communities, we would then move to implementing workshops, training and peer to peer learning to input audio skills and techniques to participants base on our needs and theirs in having an impactful result. The training and workshops will be taking place consecutively time to time for like four times for different communities, some trainings will be local, while others will be international. Through this, the campaign will get to have mentors and local Language Organizers that will be part of the team of WikiSound audio Speaks Campaign, and that will surely be the foundation to move on with the activities progressively. It is also part of the plan to have two mentors/local Language Organizers from every Wikimedia Community that are native of that language, the Mentors/local Organizers will volunteer in couching editors, enrollments of audio editors and engaging existing editors from their Community to fully participate. Part of the plan is to be having WikiSound audio event (workshops and Edith-a-thon), as well as organizing International Contest and local contest on Audio files, just like how Wiki Loves Africa is contributing with huge number of photos and images, we do believe that audio files will over take the number of images before 2030. Furthermore, mentors and Organizers will be encourage to participate in organizing local events through WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign. Below are some of the plans in summary; Make international awareness across all Wikimedia Projects. Admit two mentors/organizers from each Wikimedia Community. Organizing local Meet-ups and international Meet-ups on Audio files. Mentoring Wikimedians and editors on the activities of audio files. Organizing contest (international and local) for encouragement. Creating tools and application that will help in doing the task of audio files. Collaboration with Individuals, Groups and User Groups to achieve oral language documentation base on each their mandates. Organizing workshops, edit-a-thon and seminar on audio files in Wikimedia Commons. Creating video tutorials on audio files for better experience and understanding.

• The following are the listed strategies and approaches we have in mind that help us achieve this mega project;

• Activities for strategy 1; We would start by creating promotional campaigns and awareness acrosss all Wikimedia projects both on on Wiki and offline, as well as through social media handles using fliers, links, video campaign and PDFs, the camping will draw the attention of the general public and Wikimedians that has the passion of contributing with audio files in Wikimedia projects at large.

• Activities for strategy 2: Audio content creation; Technical capacity building and volunteer recruitment of audio files volunteers/mentors and ambassadors, under this strategy We would be organizing two different events/training and two meet up in a month, the training is going to be one in-person and one online for other Wikimedians to attend online, as the project focus is scheduled to be International, activities like technical audio conversation skills and uploading editing skills, licensing and capacity building workshops in strategic, to improve audio skills among participants and create new audio content and also teach and onboard both new-bies. In addition to the meet ups, is to strengthen the skills of existing editors and to improve experienced editors to develop skills towards contributing in their community, become more productive and potential facilitators or contributors for our programs to be progressive in the overall development of the WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign. Activities for strategy 3; Create promotional videos that help in making both online and offline campaign. Also a event videos will be created to help in passing experience to the upcoming projects like this. Note: this time around other video tutorials will be created in different languages. Also other tools like Spell4Wiki and Lingua Libre video tutorials will be added, together with the previous video tutorial all will be used to help editors and participants.

• Activities for strategy 4; International contest will be organize to support and motivate editors in contributing with audio files alone, as well local contest will be held to motivate local language audio editors. Moreover, Wikimedia Pages Wanting Audio this time around will introduce Wiki Loves Music as part of the contest, the whole idea will be implemented in providing audio files into Wikimedia commons specifically for linking into various pages, that’s to have focus on music not limited to only words pronunciation and other form of audio that was mostly created and uploaded.
• Activities for strategy 4: We would also conduct another oral language research on some topics and other language areas help us find out how languages are, how communication is all about among languages, varieties, accent, evaluations, changes and changes in accent, this will help us determined how to provide audio files accordingly, what pages should we improve with audio files, how to do that and what kind of native people do we need, also audio files available in Wikimedia Commons, from the previous research of WSASC 2023, some of the research was areas was taken out due to limited resources.

• Activities for strategy 5: We would also work effectively to make sure we mentor participants and editors to know audio licenses, technical knowledge in audio adopting the research we have conducted in 2023 on audio and language. Furthermore, mentorship programs on using tools/equipment and application softwares adopting the research work of 2023, training and workshops on recording, conversion, uploading and linking of audio files, participants will also be mentored to knowing different areas and topics of audio files content, like words pronunciation, religious recitation, songs, music, cultural songs, traditional incantation, Animals vocalization, Birds tweets, Natural sounds of water, fire, winds, thunder, rainfall and waterfalls, man made sounds of cars, airplane, trains, e.t.c… To have impact in having the audio files uploaded and link to relevant Wikimedia pages as result of workshops, trainings, online events, meet-ups and conference.

• Introducing WIKI LOVE MUSIC as part of Wikimedia Pages Wanting audios*

We are thrilled to announce to you that, the Wiki Sound Audio Speaks Campaign will be bringing you this year It's Pilot Of Wiki Loves Music.

Wiki love Music is an annual campaign and contest whereby the Wikimedia community will be participating in documenting and uploading the music of all genres in the Wikimedia Commons.

This come onboard as a result of no any other campaign that covers this important area, and we all know there are old music that are already in the public domain, and some music have free license initially.

Music is a world language, and mostly people use music to tell stories, showcase and share their culture and also it serve as a means of preserving one's culture.

Having a campaign like this will help a lot of voices to be heard and a means of saving knowledge for the sum of all.

For this Year's Campaign There will be certain activities. Wiki Love Music Launch Awareness Research on Music Genre's Research on music Culture Research on Music Licensing and musics On Public domain. Trainings on licensing Workshops on how to upload the music files Local and international collaboration Merge music contest with the WSASC.

• Wikimania participation 2024*

Wikimania is an annual conference of the Wikimedia foundation, where by all the communities in the movement gathered to share experience, work with one another and socialized.

This is a given opportunity to meet ups and share experience, within all communities and users,

The Nigerian Commons Photographers group, happens to organized an in person Wikimania events last year 2022. where a lot of experience were shared and communities members have the advantage of sharing the same room for workshop, trainings and entertainment.

Thus, with these we as we planned to carry on our group activities, Wikimania is part of the most event missed at the group. With these we are hoping to organised an in person event come next year 2024 and also hoped to get a scholarship for some of our key leaders to attend the physical event where it's been carried out.

• Wikimania activities 2024 for WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign.

1. Refreshment
2. Childcare
3. Campaign
4. Hardware Support
5. Trainings and Workshops
6. Entertainment
7. Merchandise
8. Data Support
9. Access data
10. Transport
11. Scholarship

• WikiIndaba 2024 for WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign*

WikiIndaba is an annual conference for Africa to Africans in Diaspora. It's a means of connecting, sharing and learning from experience editors in the movement. Connecting the African matter with the Africans in the movement.

WikiIndaba have an annual scholarship, where editors are being supported to attend the event taking place anywhere in Africa.

Most of the time, the scholarship is very competitive, due to limited resources and also high number of applications from different participants that wanted to attend the event to learn and share important experience.

For the 2024 year we have plannned to add the scholarship support to our annual budget, this is for us to be able to have the chance of attending the event as it's important to us and to our community to meet different experienced users, mentors, co-founders and other prominent individuals.

Looking at the great benefit of the events that's what bring the idea, we really like to discuss some of our ideas with the like minds in the movement, sharing experience especially and making broader awareness of our Campaign the Wiki Sound Audio Speaks Campaign among African communities meeting one on one to discuss. It’s known that some ideas, collaborations and team works is more effective physically, and can only be achieved through in person meetings.

We urge to understand that, the best and better method of learning is pear to pear, and discussing with the like minds to improve, up skill, and share experience for better results and resources better management, we do hope this will be well understood towards our participation looking at contributions and dedication we are making so far in Wikimedia movement.

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	Yes

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)

Editing Wikipedia Training, Research, Wikimedia Commons programs, Other Wikimedia project programs, Translation, Wikidata programs

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required)

Senior citizens, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education

Other groups if any: All individuals that can contribute with audio from all of the above mentioned in 9.1.2 the ones ticked are the main priority.

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

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, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.), Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)

Wiki Loves Africa, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Other

Other programs and activities if any: Wikimedia Pages Wanting Audios and Wiki Loves Music

Public policy advocacy

9.6. Describe your Public policy advocacy work and actions in detail. (required)

In our strategic plan there exist no plan in changing any governmental law, policy, regulations or Wikimedia regulations at large, the project will work efficiently in working base on the laid down regulations of licensing of audio files around the world and working with the reaffirmation of Wikimedia regulations and UCOC.

Other categories

Content Creation

10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oXfcE3nISbYNDuHcD2t5OeR4Zl5q9Gq3/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111921726623013279852&rtpof=true&sd=true

11. Describe your team. (required)

• Program Director: Anas Adam (Anasakoko); Responsibilities include overall management of project implementation, strategic planning, and organization. Providing staff and volunteer support. Project progress, financial reporting, and evaluation.
• Outreach Coordinator and research manager: Umar Musa Ahmad (Musa Vacho77); Responsibilities will involve development and overseeing outreach activities and contests. Partnership development and general project implementation.
• Logistics and Communications Manager: Aliyu (Shaba50); In charge of communication unit and media engagement as well as training/event logistics.
• Photographs and Social media assistant: Abdulkarim, Responsible for photos and media coverage at events and assists in managing social media networks.
• Project Advisor: Abubakar Nasir (Sadauki111)
• Project Mentors, Their responsibilities include carrying out campaigns, local training and mentorship of local participants. Iwuala Lucy, Abubakar A Gwanki, Musaddam, Hussaini Muhammad, Abubakar Yahaya, AminaJiya.

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)

In the past we have successfully worked collaboratively with other Wikimedia communities in organizing various activities, hoping to expand the area of collaborations, scope of partnerships and mentorship in the year 2024 with User Groups, Hubs, Fan clubs and Wikimedia Campaigns, that which will increase developmental collaboration that will evolve Wikimedia movement. In the past before 2023,, we worked with Hausa Wikimedians User Group. In 2022 we collaborated with them in organizing the Wikimania 2022 watch parties and meetups. We also work with TheWikiVibrance communities in mentoring editors in specific topics of audio files activities, as well as working with different individuals across Nigeria in developing Wikimedia projects like Afrocine and WikiGap.

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, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

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	1000	These are the estimated number of all participants we expect from 15 communities and 6 countries.
Number of all editors	100	There will be 500 participants to participate in editing, upload, contest and linking of audio files.
Number of new editors	50
Number of retained editors	50
Number of all organizers	10	In the previous program we have arranged four organisers to carry out the event, when the program kickstarted we then realised that we need Mentors from local communities, 6 mentors were added. Even for this year’s event there would be more than 15 organisers depending on how we have mentors from different communities to participate in organising the event.
Number of new organizers	6

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

Contributions to Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	50	590
Wikimedia Commons	5000	1000
Wikidata	0	500
Wiktionary	5000	3000
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote	100	100
Wikivoyage	20	500
Wikibooks	0	500
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

In Wikipedia we would not be creating any article because the campaign is dealing with audio not articles, but still we include 50 articles to be created were audio is applicable for sound linking and impacts. but audio files will be created and to be link to various Wikipedia pages. For Wikitionary there would be need to create words for the audios as language Wikitionaries has less words pages, looking at that there would be need for words creation to have an impactful development of linking the audios created to the words in different languages.

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)

Yes

Other Metrics	Description	Target
Edits counts	We would like to collect information on the number of edits performed by editors during the project, especially to collects data on Wikipedia, Wikitionary and Wikimedia Commons for edits performed and files uploaded using outreach dashboards.	10000
Contest Users Edits counts	We also planned to collect data on the contest to be established that is Wikimedia Pages wanting Audios	10000
Language Wiki Contribution	This is metrics collection from each local language wikis during Wikimedia Contest using WMF Hashtag tools.	10000
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

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)

68695600 NGN

Multi-year funding request summary

Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A NGN
Year 2	N/A NGN
Year 3	N/A NGN

Requested amount in USD

89520 USD

Multi-year funding request summary in USD

Year	Amount USD
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

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

No

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.

N/A

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.

N/A

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	500 NGN
Operational costs	400 NGN
Programmatic costs	900 NGN

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k3QTPqFNqfPMBpVpWpeBktGf6c22VEbH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111921726623013279852&rtpof=true&sd=true

Additional information

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)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSound_Audio_Speaks_Campaign

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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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