Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/1Lib1Ref Campaign and Edit-a-thon in Fulfulde Community (ID: 22970914)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Apdoull
- Organization
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- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
1Lib1Ref Campaign and Edit-a-thon in Fulfulde Community
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-05-01 - 2025-05-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
1Lib1Ref
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
This project aims to promote awareness on the importance of including sources in the Fulfulde Wikipedia and train new editors on using the native online sources in adding more quality to contents created on Fulfulde Wikipedia. Many of the existing editors are not aware of the existing native language online reliable sources like the VOA Fulfulde, RFI Fulfulde e.t.c which can be used to immensely support in giving the Fulfulde Wikipedia articles the credibility they deserved expecially those many of the stubs articles having not a single reference.
We will use this opportunity to invite local Librarians from the State Library and around to join us. The Librarians would be introduced to the Fulfulde Community activities and added to the group for retention.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
1. Awareness - We would organized awareness campaign to State Library since we want to engage local librarians and bring them to the Wikimedia activities for continuous contributions. During the awareness we would brief them about the campaign and le them know why their involvements matters.
2. Editathon - training session would be organised and during the period we will improve over 300 articles. Every editor will add reference to at least 5 articles.
3. Facilitation - Since the editors would be taught about the basics of Wikipedia editing, the facilitators would be moving around during the training to guide them in creating new 50 articles in one of the most underrepresented topics in Fulfulde Wikipedia.
4. Contest - a contest would be organised for the participants to ensure that they used the skills and knowledge learned from the edit-a-thon in continuous contributions during the rest of the project period.
5. Mop-up activity - online training would be conducted amid the project time frame in case of encountering unwelcome activities by some of the partcipants to reshaping their skills
6. Retention - the editors would be introduced to Fulfulde Wikimedia Community group for engagement and retention.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
1. Apdoull: is a seasoned editor and successful organizer with several contributions in numerous Wikimedia projects. A two times winner of Fulfulde Wikipedia Editing Contest, two times winner of WLA contest, second runner-up of VisibleWikiWomen Contest, 1st runner-up winner of WLE and long time event facilitator of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community.
2. Ibrahim442: is a highly experienced editor who executed and co-facilitated a number of projects that cut across English Wikipedia, Fulfulde Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikitionary and Wikiquote. He will serve as a facilitator in the project and will help train the participant to Wiktionary and Wikidata.
3. Hajjare: is another experience editor who organized and facilitated several awareness, editathon and training projects in Fulfulde Wikipedia. She would be there to share her skills and knowledge in this project activities.
4. Zaynab05: is a female certified LIbrarian who has facilitated many similar projects within and oustside her community.
5. Awwerl: is another experienced editor with years of editing skills. He would be there to offer technical support during the implementation of the project.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Members of Fulfulde Wikimedia Community and Librarians from the State Library. Also anyone interested in sharing free knowledge can join us.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
I let them know through the community groups
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. Are you able to retain the trained Librarians and other participants to continue contributing to Wikimedia movements?
2. What effort did you put to ensure diversity and inclusion?
3. How did you experience organizing 1Lib1Ref for the first time?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 60 | Train at least 30 librarians and 30 editors from the community |
| Number of editors | 40 | Retain at least 40 participants as editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | Work with 5 experienced editors as Facilitators |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
During the training each participants is expected to at least improved 5 articles with reference.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Each editor will create 1 new article during the edit-a-thon | 50 |
| Wikipedia | Targeted number of articles to be improved during the contest | 300 |
| Wikipedia | Targeted number of new articles created during the contest | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Dashboard Tool, Hashtag Tool
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WvlleiQW2PFFy6jPM6G4MNMYisb3RQAC3l2sJZLt8dQ/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
1455000 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
970.05 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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