Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Africa Wiki Challenge 2025 in Nigeria (ID: 23098369)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Aderiqueza
- 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.
Africa Wiki Challenge 2025 in Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-07-01 - 2025-07-30
- 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)
Other (please specify) Africa Wiki Challenge
- 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)
We are seeking to ensure the accurate representation of African history and experience. Ensuring a more inclusive and diverse knowledge by writing our history in local languages. Create awareness about the importance of reparations and justice for Africans. Bridging knowledge gaps.
We aim to solve the problem of limited content on African history and experiences on Wikipedia, especially content in local languages. We want to tell our stories as Africans because no one can tell our stories better than us.
- We want to create awareness because of the lack of understanding on how to address past wrongs such as slavery, as it has been in the past.
Our approaches are to:
- Create African history content which are of high quality in our local languages.
- Engage with volunteers, community leaders, and historical experts to ensure accurate representation.
- Organize workshops, where resources and training will be provided to promote awareness about reparations and justice.
- 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.
As part of the Africa Wik Challenge, we plan to participate in various capacity-building sessions to enhance wikimedians skills in creating and improving content related to African history, culture, development, struggles and experiences. Our focus will be on developing and localizing contents in local languages such as Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, and Tyap in order to ensure that the information is culturally relevant and easily understood by diverse audiences.
Local community leaders from different Wikimedia communities in Nigeria, including Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, and Tyap will organize editing, translating, and writing activities to engage participants. These activities will include in-person and online training sessions, tailored to the specific needs of each community, with the goal of creating high-quality content in Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, and Tyap Wikipedia .
The Africa Wiki Challenge provides an opportunity for us to showcase African narratives, promote justice and reparations, and amplify African voices. Through this initiative, we aim to significantly boost the representation of African content on Wikipedia and promote a more inclusive and diverse knowledge base. In the light of this, these communities representing the major tribes in Nigeria would be organising 1 in-person event each, and 2 online trainings each to build content and knowledge relating to colonialism, historical injustice, slavery, and systemic exploitation in Africa, and most importantly in Nigeria.
There will also be 3 general online training sessions for all participating communities in Nigeria, to enhance effective collaboration and partnership in the Africa Wiki Challenge events.
- 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.
User:Aderiqueza (Project-Lead): I am an experienced editor with over 20,000 contributions across diverse Wiki projects. I have participated in several projects from local, national to global campaigns in bridging content gaps. Over the years of diverse contributions to Wiki projects, I have created several quality articles making sure to bridge the content gap and making sure information is accessible to everyone no matter the background. My quality contributions have won me five awards from national to global level. Also, I served as the 2024 Wikipedia pages wanting photos(WPWP) ambassador for the Sub-saharan African Region. I will work alongside other team members to ensure all activities are well executed.
User:Inyor4mr: she is an experienced wikimedia editor and certified wikimedia event organizer, she was a local coordinator of WIki for Human Rights Nigeria 2024. She has contributed to Wikipedia, Wikicommons and wikidata and loves to promote digital literacy through wikimedia projects. She has organized several campaigns that promote wikimedia projects. She will be a communication officer and coordinator for the Hausa community for this project.
User:Oby Ezeilo: Experienced Wikimedian. A certified organizer and Lead trainer for Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. Co founder of Igbo Wikimedia. She is also the founder of Wiki for Senior Citizens Network and a project facilitator for WikiVibrance and EduWiki Nigeria, Kiwix ambassador in Nigeria. She has Facilitated and organized over 50 programs ranging from Igbo Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiki commons, Movement Strategy Saloon, Wiki Loves Africa, and Wikiquote. She is a mentor for Africa Wiki Women. She will play an advisory role for the project and coordinate for Igbo community.
User:Friday musa: Is an active Wikimedian and also the project manager, Tyap Wikimedians community. He has contributed to so many campaigns with both local and international collaboration experiences. He will coordinate the Tyap Wikimedians community and also serve as the national communication strategist for the Africa Wiki Challenge 2025 campaign in Nigeria.
User: RukayatAjeigbe: She is an experienced Wikimedian and a certified trainer. Founder of Osun Wikimedia Network, she has worked on multiple Wikimedia projects as a coordinator, facilitator and a contributor. This has allowed her to create instructional materials, organise content that encourages open access to free knowledge, and facilitate numerous Wikimedia awareness programs and training. She is also a certified trainer of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program, an international jury for Wiki Loves Earth, an ambassador for movement charters in the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), and a Kiwix ambassador, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN) Community Support Fund Committee 2022/2023 fiscal year, amongst others. She has also participated and co-facilitated various Wikimedia projects such as the Wikimedia Awareness Program in Osun State, Wiki4HumanRight Campaign in Osun State 2023, Wiki Loves Earth 2023, Wiki Loves Africa 2023, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP), Wikidata (media personalities in Nigeria), WikiGLAM Awareness for Libraries and Librarians in Kwara, Wikidata for Libraries and Librarians in Nigeria, and 1Lib1Ref in Kwara 2022. She will coordinate the volunteers from the Yoruba community and also a trainer for the translation of articles on Yoruba Wikipedia.
- 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)
This project aims to work with communities in Nigeria. These include Hausa Wikimedians User Group, Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, Igbo Wikimedians User Group, and Tyap community. The leads of these Wikimedia Communities would collaborate to create awareness about the project, engage their community members. They would also harness the project partnerships to recruit new participants that would join in the campaign activities. Beyond the communities, the campaign is also open to other wikimedia communities and wikimedians in Nigeria with interest to participate in the activities. Different communication channels such as Whatsapp group will be used by local community as a means to onboard and engage participants.
- 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.
The four communities members had a series of online meetings in preparation of the Campaign and offline meetings and discussion in our whatsapp group. https://chat.whatsapp.com/G6ZZnKNYSlo830BbA6aJEj
- 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)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 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)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. The effect of multiple collaboration on established AWC . 2. What becomes of a new community after hosting a successful first event 3. Impact of mentoring in project organizing and coordination. 4. Bridging the gap by creating more African articles 5. Improved skill in article creation and knowledge of Africa history
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | |
| Number of editors | 80 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 300 |
| 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
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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)
Outreach dashboard would be used to measure our metrics.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1auHUqh7ls_TnpK9i__A0i4Ei4WuL8qzL5F8Z-E_0ia0/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
6505000 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.
3946.46 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).