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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/1Lib 1Ref campaign for articles relating to women (ID: 22829949)

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statusNot funded
1Lib 1Ref campaign for articles relating to women
proposed start date2024-12-01
proposed end date2025-02-01
budget (local currency)2764489 NGN
budget (USD)1657 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2024-25
applicant• Sanusi Gado
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Sanusi Gado

Organization

N/A

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Main Proposal

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

1Lib 1Ref campaign for articles relating to women

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2024-12-01 - 2025-02-01

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)

Recently, there were a lot of efforts made to fill in gender gap on Wikipedia. Hausa community is one of them and can be difficult to achieve due to cultural barrier and technical know-how. There has been an improvement in women participation on Hausa Wikipedia, although up to now the male editors are still the dominant gender on Wikipedia. This project is aimed towards engaging women in the 1Lib 1ref campaign and teach them how to source citations from reliable independent sources.

The project will be carried out with the following strategies 1. Research: We will identify articles lacking references and citations on Hausa Wikipedia 2. Collaboration: we will collaborate with Libraries such as Arewa House Library, National Library, Kaduna Branch for book citations. We will also collaborate with women organisations for greater participation 3. Google/online sources: we will use Google as a major search engine in finding online references. 4. Content creation: we will create biographies with reliable sources from books and newspapers (making sure each articles meets Wikipedia notability guidelines 5. Improve reliability: we will improve reliability of Hausa Wikipedia articles with references from independent reliable sources. 6. Improve user experience and recruit new editors: via this project, we will recruit new users and train participants on Wikipedia notability guidelines and sources

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.

• Online training: This is more suitable for reaching out wider audience or participants who could not attend in-person trainings. Through online trainings on zoom, we will teach participants on how to source citations both online and from books, newspapers, magazines etc.

  • In-person training: face to face training with participants where they will learn more about sources and notability guidelines
  • Editathon: this best inspire large contribution from participants.
  • A total of 3 events will be carried out, that is 2 online trainings and one in person.


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. Sanusi Gado: Lead organiser 2. Uncle Bash007: Presenter and a translation expert 3. Gwanki: Experienced editor 3. Herpcertou: Logistics support

They are members of Hausa Wikimedia and they volunteers

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)

I am a member of Northern Nigeria Wikimedians user group and we recently train participants on how to contribute to Wikiquote with quotations from notable women. These female participants show a lot of enthusiam and this spur me to think further in carrying them along to teach them more about Wikipedia. Therefore, we will focus on engaging women organisations from Kaduna.

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.

N/A

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 have discussed this with members of the user group and on Hausa wikipedia talk page.

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)

Content Gender gap

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Gender and diversity

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Gender Identity

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Manage Internal Knowledge

Learning and metrics

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17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

• We expect to see more women contributing to Hausa Wikipedia

  • We expect to create and improve Hausa Wikipedia pages with citations from reliable sources
  • We expect to retain this participants
  • We expect to improve gender balanced community within Hausa editors
  • We expect to provide reliable sources to women (related) articles
18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics Target Optional description
Number of participants 30 This is the number of people to participate in terms of seeing the project went through
Number of editors 20 This is the number of people expected to carry out all the necessary contributions edit-wise
Number of organizers 5 The number of people to organise and see the project hits success
Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia 100
Wikimedia Commons 30
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia
Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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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)

We will use the hashtag tool for the sake of familiarity

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dpn0PlAhKZwf9Ww4-Gb3SMGn7FkguzhZ0gzfZkFe5D8/edit?usp=drivesdk


22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

2764489 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.

1657 USD

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

Yes

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