Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Advancing Hausa Wikiquote with Aged Participants (ID: 22591608)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Abubakar Yusuf Gusau
- 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)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Advancing Hausa Wikiquote with Aged Participants
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-05-01 - 2024-05-30
- 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)
Most of the campaigns held in Hausa communities involved engaging young participants. There are little participation from aged which at times can have more time to contribute since some of them are already retired. Furthermore, Hausa Wikiquote is a project still under incubator, with articles fewer than 1000, with few number of editors making contribution to the project. This project will aim towards encouraging more edits on this wiki and thereby engaging aged participants in contributing to Hausa Wikiquote.
- 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.
We will organise both online and offline events, which include: 1. in person trainings: We will organise direct trainings for the local communities 2. Online trainings: We will organise series of online trainings 3. Inclusion: We will add them to our user group’s social media groups on Telegram and Whatsapp. 4. Contest: we will organise contest between participants to encourage contributions.
- 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.
I am an experienced editor from Hausa community. I have helped organise many workshops and trainings and I also successfully organise mini grants. I will lead the event with the help of (Alamin). User:Uncle Bash007 who has being a major contributor on Hausa Wikiquote will help us organise the event.
- 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)
The target participants are aged people from 40yrs and above from Hausa communities. We will invite them and train them on how to edit and use Wikiquote as a tool for quotations.
- 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.
We have announced it on Hausa community talkpage and groups on social media platforms.
- 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)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Age (diversity of age groups)
- 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)
We want to answer the following questions after this project i. is there need to add aged participants to edit Hausa Wikiquote? ii. will this project add more value to Hausa Wikiquote? iii. can we retain this aged participants to keep editing and using Wikimedia Projects?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 | |
| Number of editors | 10 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 150 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | 50 |
| Wikisource | 100 |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 150 |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 150 |
| 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
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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)
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
- 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.
USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
No
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