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#Promote and create awareness for Yoruba Wikipedia
  1. Recruit native speakers, teachers, and students of Yoruba languages in tertiary institutions for Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary
  2. Build capacity and improve skills for existing volunteers
  3. Promote the Yoruba heritage and culture
  4. Increasing content on Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary
  5. Improving the quality of Yoruba language Wikipedia
  6. Partner and collaborate with the mission-aligned organizations to promote Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary
budget (local currency)31983490 NGN
amount requested (USD)77000 USD
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding region$$po_region$$
decision fiscal year2021-22
applicant and people related to proposalUser:Agbalagba User:macdanpets
organization (if applicable)Yoruba Wikimedians User Group

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Applicant details[edit]

Wikimedia username(s):

User:Agbalagba

User:macdanpets

Organization:

Yoruba Wikimedians User Group

Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

Organization details[edit]

What is your organization or group's mission?

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 Wikimedia incubator, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects. We aim to promote the use of Yoruba Wikipedia, and Yoruba Wiktionary through various outreach efforts and to support people in western Nigeria to contribute to knowledge in the Yoruba language.

If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

N/A

Grant proposal[edit]

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

Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Yoruba Wikimedians User roup- Annual Activities 2022

Where will this proposal be implemented?

Nigeria

Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

What are the main challenges you are trying to solve and your proposed solution?

===Chalenges===
  1. Low volunteer native speakers for Yoruba Wikipedia and, Wiktionary.
  2. Low awareness about the Yoruba Wikipedia
  3. Lack of partnership#Inadequate community supports
  4. Lack of capacity building initiatives or programs

Proposed solutions[edit]

  1. We aim at recruiting more native speakers for Yoruba Wikipedia through various outreach efforts, awareness campaigns, contents drive, central notice banner campaign, partnership with the mission-aligned organizations, and, social media networks.
  2. We aim at using various strategies such as online promotion using a popular skit maker, Wiki Radio Show, Take Yoruba Wikipedia to Street campaign which involves community members’ street walk for Yoruba Wikipedia with drums sets, with banners and distributing fliers for people including passerby. 
  3. We aim to partner with a mission-aligned organization such as academic institutions, the National Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture (we already met with this institution), students associations such as the National Association of Yoruba Students.#We plan to organize several capacity-building programs such as training on Yoruba Wikipedia editing, Wikidata and data visualization, how to use various tools, grant-making, and reporting, program or project evaluation, Universal Code of Conduct, and community-building. 
  4. We aim to support community members, a mission-aligned group with small funds (not more than USD 500) that have good projects that could advance our objectives. We also plan to subsidize the internet data cost for active members of the community who could not afford to purchase internet data.

What is the main objective of your proposal?

  1. Promote and create awareness for Yoruba Wikipedia
  1. Recruit native speakers, teachers, and students of Yoruba languages in tertiary institutions for Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary
  2. Build capacity and improve skills for existing volunteers
  3. Promote the Yoruba heritage and culture
  4. Increasing content on Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary
  5. Improving the quality of Yoruba language Wikipedia
  6. Partner and collaborate with the mission-aligned organizations to promote Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary

Describe your main strategies to achieve this objective and the main activities you will be developing as part of these strategies.

We plan to achieve these goals through:

Contents generations

  1. Contents drives – We aim to organize and participate in content drives such as edit-a-thons, translation-a-thons, contests such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiGap, Wiki Campaign for Human Right, 1L1ref, WPWP, AfroCine, etc. We plan to collaborate with new and existing language-focused user groups in Nigeria.
  2. GLAM – Documentation of indigenous works unique to the Yoruba people and culture such as Adire, pottery, blacksmith, local oil making, drum-making, hair-making, mat-making, broom-making, wine-tapping, Garri-making, fufu-making, basket-weaving, local fishing, etc. We will document at least 20 audiovisuals of these works and upload at least and the Internet Archives will host our documented materials in perpetuity.
  3. Edit-a-thons' – We plan to organize monthly edit-a-thons to generate content on Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary, develop and grow the Wiktionary, contribute content to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

Capacity Building

  1. Training: We will train new volunteers on how to contribute to the Yoruba language Wikipedia, Yoruba Wiktionary, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Existing volunteers and new ones would be trained on program evaluation, partnership, community-building, grant-making and reporting, event planning, and conference management

Advocacy

community support

  1. We aim to support community members, a mission-aligned group with small funds (not more than USD 500) that have good projects that could advance our objectives. We also plan to subsidize the internet data cost for active members of the community who could not afford to purchase internet data.


Volunteers recruitment

  1. We aim at using various strategies such as online promotion using a popular skit maker, Wiki Radio Show, Take Yoruba Wikipedia to Street campaign which involves community members’ street walk for Yoruba Wikipedia with drums sets, with banners and distributing fliers for people including passerby. This would attract new volunteers for the Yoruba Wikipedia, and Wiktionary.

Please state if you will be carrying out any of these activities within your programs? Select all that apply.

Organizing Meet-up online, Organizing Meet-up offline, Workshops, Edit-A-Thons

Are you running any in-person events or activities?

Yes
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L4fmV-fP01Zj7GjSFzVre6tUpCoESJv_m8R6CO6DFvw/edit?usp=sharing

Please state if your proposal aims to work on any of the identified content knowledge gaps?

Geography, Language

Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or thematic focus.

Education, Advocacy, Human Rights

Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select all categories that apply.

Gender Identity

Please tell us more about your target participants.

Our participants, depending on the project are young adults and adults who speak and write the Yoruba language at any level.

We hope to retain them through mentorships programs to keep them engaged with the Yoruba Wikipedia and Wiktionary activities.

Other ways to retain volunteers include but not limited to the following:

  1. Yoruba Wiki Fan Clubs – The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has a Wiki Fan Club at the University of Lagos, and we are already working on a fan club at Lagos State University. We plan to increase the number of our fan clubs and these clubs will serve as focal points for Yoruba language and linguistics students in these academic institutions. They will organize periodic or monthly meetups to engage their members with technical supports and other forms of support from the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group.
  2. Engagement and building capacity for staff and networks of Yoruba-focused organizations: We plan to work with language-focused organizations, particularly Yoruba language-focused organizations or groups who will continue to engage the people within their network on how to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other related Wikimedia projects.
  3. Meetup – There would be a monthly meetup with a mix of new and established editors and each month will have its theme and activities tailored towards understanding the challenges of new editors and improving their works. Each month, the most positive and active editors will be appreciated with merchandise.
  4. Small funding support - We plan to award small funding support, not more than USD 500 for individuals, groups, and mission-aligned organizations with pragmatic and high-impact projects to advance our objectives. This would give the grantees a sense of belonging and encourage them to do more and stay in the community.

Do you have plans to work with other Wikimedia communities, groups or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

Please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

Yes, we plan to work with the existing Wikimedia User Group in Nigeria we are already consulting with the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria on our proposed Yoruba Indigenous Vocational Work documentation Projects.

Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

Yes

Please describe these partnerships.

We would be working together with the mission-aligned non-Wikimedian partners such as Yoruba Academy, Atelewo, Egbe Akomolede ati Asa Yoruba. They would partner with us on our contents drives, contests, and campaign and awareness programs. They would provide a training hall and help with promotion on their various social media networks.

The International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture for example will provide the venues and the materials such as books, newspaper archives written in the Yoruba language that volunteers needed to write the encyclopedia, and Wiktionary.

How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

Each of the works carried out in this proposal will be evaluated and the learning from the evaluation reports would be useful in shaping our directions on future sustainability and scalability.

Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

1.
  • Name: Mikaeel Sodiq Adesina
  • Username: User:Agbalagba
  • Role: Program Director (paid staff)
  • Responsibility: He is responsible for the overall project management, coordination of all activities, staff, and volunteers. He is responsible for report writing, learning, and evaluation.
2.
  • Name: Sowole Toyin
  • Username: User: Sowoletoyin
  • Role: Training lead and Logistics Manager (volunteer)
  • Responsibility: He is responsible for planning, coordinating, and monitoring logistics
3.
  • Name: Omolade Dorcas
  • Username: ‎Ọmọladéabídèmí99
  • Role: Communication manager (volunteer)
  • Responsibility: He is responsible for managing all communications
4.
  • Name: Dansu Peter Zuntepo
  • Username: User:Macdanpets
  • Role: Treasurer (volunteer)
  • Responsibility: He’s responsible for managing all financial transactions and preparing financial reports.
5.

Name: Tunde Oladimeji

  • Role: Producer and Director, Yoruba Indigenous Works Documentation Project (contractor)
  • Responsibility: He is responsible for implementing the programs; He would be responsible for managing the audiovisual production from the pre-production stage to the post-production stage.
6.

Name: Isaac Olatunde

  • Username: T Cells
  • Role: Advisor (volunteer)
  • Responsibility: He’s responsible for providing professional advice on the general implementation of the project.
  • Username: Demmy
  • Role: Advisor (volunteer)
  • Responsibility: He will provide technical advice on implementation

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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making

Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here. (optional)      

No

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

What challenges are volunteers facing in contributing to the Yoruba Wikipedia?

What training method yielded the best results? What type of content would volunteers find interesting to write about? What is the best way that volunteers could support Yoruba Wikipedia and other Yoruba-related Wikimedia projects? What training mode do participants prefer the most (offline or online)?

Core Metrics[edit]

Enter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants More than 300 native speakers of Yoruba language, scholars, teachers, students and academic staff will participate, and at least 20 from mission aligned organizations will participate 500
Number of editors At least 100 people will create accounts and at least 20 existing editors will participate in our edit-a-thons and various campaigns 200
Number of organizers At least 15 people will be involved in organizing various activities. There are 5 core team members, 4 people from mission aligned organizations, at least 5 community volunteers and 7 professional to implement the Yoruba Indigenous Vocational Works Documentation Project. 21
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikidata We will be contributing at least 1,000 new items to Wikidata 1500
Wikipedia 200 new articles to Yoruba Wikipedia 300
Wikimedia Commons We will be contributing at least 1,000 photos and 20 audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous vocational works to Wikimedia Commons 1530
Wiktionary We will be contributing at least 300 pages to Wiktionary 500
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If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

Additional Metrics[edit]

Enter a description of the metric and a number in the target field. If the metric does not apply to you, enter N/A for not applicable.

Additional Metrics Description Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities At least 80% of all participants are retained and continue to be engaged after our activities 300
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities At least 15 people will be involved in organizing various activities. 21
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability At least 3 strategic partnership that will contribute to longer-term growth, diversity, and sustainability will be secured 5
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors There would be at least 3 surveys to evaluates our strategies N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees We will use the result of our surveys to evaluate the diversity of participants 100
Number of people reached through social media publications At least 10,000 people 15000
Number of activities developed N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A
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What other information will you be collecting to learn about the impact of your work? (optional)

N/A

What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

  1. Wikimedia Outrach Dashboard will be used to track other contributions (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/)
  1. Hashtag tool (https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/)

How do you hope to share these results so that others can learn from them?

Create a video of our experience, Make a short presentation of the experience, Share results on social media

Financial Proposal[edit]

What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

31983490 NGN

What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

77000 USD

Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

No

If you have calculated it, please provide an estimate of the year 2 or year 3 request.

N/A

Please share your budget for this proposal.  

  • Content generations, 1 year = USD 11,856
  • Trainings & Edit-a-thons, 1 year = USD 16,152
  • Awareness, 1 year = USD 16,899
  • Audiovisual recordings, 1 year = USD 10,903
  • Volunteers support funds, 1 year = USD 5,307
  • Staff Compensation, 1 year = 23,075
  • Administrative cost, 1 year = USD 4,804

Total = USD 88,996

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OvafcRmJINWFeDByl44f3eB_QhdnuP84NzW3hfIcK0Y/edit?usp=sharing

What do you do to make sure there is a good management of funds?

We will continue to maintain and keeping good financial records, there would be monthly reports for all expenses and all our expenditure will be well documented by an experienced accountant. The expenditure reports would include but not limited to balance sheet and cash flow statements. The accounts will be responsible for managing all accounting transactions, financial records, handle monthly, quarterly and annual closings and timely publication of financial statements.

We will constitute an independent committee that would be responsible for administering the volunteer support funds. They would report back to the program director.

How will you contribute towards creating a supportive environment for participants using the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy?

We plan to train participants on the UCOC. This will enable them to understand the minimum expected behavior required by all participants. They would fully be aware that the UCOC and our long-term Friendly Space Policy are in place.

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Staffing plan or organogram:
Other public document(s):

Final Message[edit]

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.

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

Yes

Feedback[edit]

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