Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Yoruba Wikimedians User Group 2025-2026 annual activities
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Applicant information
[edit]- Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)
- Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
- 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
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kekF6vP_Rny-EdYIg6A_9E6JP5NCX7FKpKWzBy52bPE/edit?usp=sharing
Main proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)
- Yoruba Wikimedians User Group 2025-2026 annual activities
- 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)
- 2025-07-01
- 4. Proposed end date. (required)
- 2026-06-01
- 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/spreadsheets/d/1kekF6vP_Rny-EdYIg6A_9E6JP5NCX7FKpKWzBy52bPE/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)
- No
- 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)
The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group is a group of Yoruba language Wikimedians committed to nurturing, developing, improving, and promoting Yoruba language Wikipedia and other related projects such as the Yoruba Wiktionary in the Wikimedia incubator, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects.
We aim to promote the use of Yoruba Wikipedia through various outreach efforts and to support people in Nigeria in contributing to knowledge in the Yoruba language. We have grown the Yoruba Wikipedia from a bot-created encyclopaedia into a human-created encyclopaedia via various outreach efforts, advocacy, partnership development, and capacity building for volunteers. It has become a viable community of active contributors and has grown to become the most visited Nigerian language Wikipedia, with more than 25 million unique visitors as of 2023 as reported by The Nation's newspaper in February 2024. We want to continue to grow and sustain the community. We want to continue to build capacity for our volunteers, increase the quality of contributions to Yoruba Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, create audiovisuals of rare knowledge such as audiovisuals of Yoruba oral traditions and to bridge the gap between the academic and Yoruba Wikimedia communities, an effort we started in 2022 through the donation of our audiovisuals of indigenous vocations to academic institutions. We want to sustain this effort and its long-term impact of recruiting academics, scholars, and subject-matter experts for Yoruba Wikipedia. We have built partnerships with strong organizations such as the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture, whose core objectives align neatly with our mission. Our partnership with the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture has resulted in the review of the Yoruba language orthography. The official inauguration of the committee took place on the 20th of February, 2024, at John Paul II Hall, University of Ibadan. The committee was inaugurated by the Executive Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Engr. Mrs. Naimot Salako-Oyedele. 92-year-old Emeritus Professor Ayo Bangbose, the first Nigerian Professor of linguistics and the sole surviving member of the 1966 and 1974 Yoruba orthography committee that established the current Yoruba orthography was present at the inaguartion ceremony. The committee's work is ongoing with significant progress. We want to sustain our partnership with this organization and continue to support the orthography committee. We have collaborated with Wikimedia affiliates such as the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, the Deoband Community Wikimedia, and others. We want to sustain these partnerships and collaborations through the implementation of pragmatic projects with long-term impact on the Yoruba Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.We want to continue to build capacity for our volunteers and staff members, and we hope to achieve this via the implementation of our structured training plans. Our target participants would include but not be limited to Yoruba academicians, scholars, students, teachers, authors, staff members of mission-aligned organizations, and Yoruba enthusiasts recruited via our Yoruba Wiki Radio Show and via other activities such as photography contests and article writing contests.
As part of growing our structured communities and increasing our volunteer pool, we want to provide adequate support for our existing fan clubs, such as the Yoruba Wikimedia Fan Club at the University of Lagos, Fountain University and establish new clubs. In this round, we want to estgablish more fan clubs while we continue to support the existing ones. We want to continue to engage these fan clubs. We are also in touch with the John Randle Centre for Yorùbá Culture & History for a potential partnerships. We want to support and encourage this institution to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research. We also want to partner with institutions, professional associations, and mission aligned organizations to raise awareness of Wikimedia projects, open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues. We believe that these efforts we help to sustain our growing community.
Our theory of changes for 2025 - 2026
| Challenges | Needs/Problems | Resources (inputs) | Activities (outputs) | Mechanisms of change | Outcomes |
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| Lack of capacity to competently contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects |
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| Barriers to internet access |
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| Lack of awareness |
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| Low contents |
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| Partnership building |
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Our main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes
The table below define our strategies for each of the outcomes that that we have stated above..
| Strategy | Activities | Outcomes | Impact assessment |
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| Capacity building for community members (new and existing members including staff members) |
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| Improve and create new contents on Yoruba Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects such as Wikimedia Commons |
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| Creation of awareness about Yoruba Wikipedia and other related Wikimedia projects |
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| Internet access support for volunteers |
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| Building partnerships to strengthen our programs and community |
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- 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 | Yes |
| Other | No |
Education
- 9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required)
- Wiki Club, 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)
- Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors, Senior citizens
- Other groups if any: N/A
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required)
- 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, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs, 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
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), Sensitize and educate for gender perspective among Wikimedia projects stewards and editors
- 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 micro-funding 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, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary
- 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)
We have started the review of the current Yoruba language orthography. This is aimed at standardizing Yoruba language orthography. A National Yoruba Language Orthography Committee comprising experts, authors, teachers, and academics has been set up. The committee's work is ongoing, and the report of the Yoruba Orthography Committee will be implemented within the framework of the new language policy in Nigeria. . See: https://guardian.ng/news/yoruba-centre-dawn-commission-host-language-conference/ and https://independent.ng/yoruba-world-center-dawn-commission-wikipedia-others-begin-work-on-standardisation-of-yoruba-orthography/
- 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)
Working with all relevant stakeholders and government representatives is our main strategy. As part of our ongoing advocacy efforts, a committee has been set up. This 32-member committee comprises the Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria (YSAN), whose members are predominantly university professors and lecturers of the Yoruba language; the Association of Yoruba Language Lecturers in Colleges of Education in Nigeria; the Ẹgbẹ Akọmọlẹdẹ àti Àṣà Yorùbá (Yoruba Teachers Association of Nigeria); the Nigerian Publishers Association; the Ministries of Education; and the Yoruba Writers Association.
We have organized a conference where the committee was inaugurated, and several meetings have taken place. The committee will continue to meet as they work toward our main objective of standardizing Yoruba language orthography.
- 9.6.3. Approximately, how much of the requested budget will you dedicate to public policy advocacy (local currency)?
- 7000 NGN
- 10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kekF6vP_Rny-EdYIg6A_9E6JP5NCX7FKpKWzBy52bPE/edit?usp=sharing
- 11. Describe your team. (required)
- Core team members
| SN | Name | Username | Roles | Responsibility |
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| 1 | Mikaeel Sodiq Adesina | Agbalagba | Programs coordinator | He is responsible for the overall project management and coordination of all activities, staff, and volunteers. He is responsible for report writing as well. |
| 2 | Dansu Peter Zuntepo | Macdanpets | Treasurer and logistics manager | He is responsible for overseeing the financial administration and all program logistics. |
| 3 | Ms. Docars Omolade | Ọmọladéabídèmí99 | program officer | She is responsible for the planning and implementation of our programs and also oversees our internet support programs. |
| 4 | Ms. Simbiat Ajao | Àìná - TheSymbyat | Training facilitator | She facilitate training for new editors. |
| 5 | Marvelous Tunji | Mavelousola01 | Training facilitator | He facilitate training for new editors. |
| 6 | Isaac Olatunde | T Cells | Advisory and technical support | he provide advice and other technical support for the team. |
| 7 | Blessing Ojo | DonBlesso | Graphics designer | Design graphics and other visual materials. |
| 8 | Tunde Oladimaji | Tunde Oladimeji | Producer and Director, Yoruba Oral Tradition Project | He is responsible for managing the audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous vocations. |
| 9 | Babatunde Emmanuel | Tunesh247 | Monitoring, learning and evaluation | He is responsible for monitoring, collecting and analyzing data |
| 10 | Toyosi praise | Toyosi praise | Fan club manager | She manages the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group fan club at the University of Lagos |
- 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)
Yes. We will be working with other Wikimedia communities on the following projects:
- Joint donation of audiovisual materials to academic institutions. We will do this with Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.#Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Projects (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deoband_Yoruba_Collaborative_Project)#Joint implementation of Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. We will collaborate with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Hausa Wikimedians User Group, Tyap Wikimedians User Group, and Wikimedia User Group Nigeria on this project.
- Externally, we will continue our partnership with the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture and the Yoruba Teachers Association of Nigeria (Egbe Akomolede), the Association of Teachers of Yoruba in Colleges of Education, the Ministry of Education, and cultural centers. We will start a new partnership with the John Randle Centre for Yorùbá Culture & History. Just to mention few.
- 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, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free 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.
| Metrics name | Target | Description |
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| Number of all participants | 3000 | Total number of people who will participate in our activities. |
| Number of all editors | 2000 | This is the total number of all editors that would participate in our activities. This would include new and existin editors involved in activities funded by the grant |
| Number of new editors | 1000 | |
| Number of retained editors | 500 | |
| Number of all organizers | 300 | This is the total number of all organizers: Wikimedia organizers involved in our activities |
| Number of new organizers | 200 |
- 14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
| Wikimedia project | Created | Edited or improved |
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| Wikipedia | 5000 | 6000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 10000 | 900 |
| Wikidata | 4000 | 5000 |
| Wiktionary | ||
| Wikisource | ||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||
| Translatewiki | ||
| MediaWiki | ||
| Wikiquote | ||
| Wikivoyage | ||
| Wikibooks | ||
| Wikiversity | ||
| Wikinews | ||
| Wikispecies | ||
| Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia |
- Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)
This includes the total number of new items created and existing items edited
Other Metrics
[edit]- 15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)
- No
| Other Metrics | Description | Target |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
- 120197533 NGN
| Year | Amount (local currency) |
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| Year 1 | N/A NGN |
| Year 2 | N/A NGN |
| Year 3 | N/A NGN |
- Requested amount in USD
- 74522.47 USD [note 1]
| Year | Amount USD [note 1] |
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| 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 will cover three paid staff and two contractors with this General Support Fund.
- 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.
- 1.25FTEs
- 19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees)
- There is no changes in any staff or contractors.
- 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 |
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| Staff and contractor costs | 30058635 NGN |
| Operational costs | 8563338 NGN |
| Programmatic costs | 81575560 NGN |
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XXAXc9_di_5ll7Ht7603affk32buHfF2aRtCNWh0uqY/edit?usp=sharing
Additional information
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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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