Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Africa Wiki Challenge in Burundi 2025 (ID: 23067941)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Ferdinand IF99
- Organization
Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi
- 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)
I'm a board member or president of a Wikimedia Affiliate or mission-allied organization.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
I'am a volunteer leader of the Burundian community and I am not paid for this role
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Africa Wiki Challenge in Burundi 2025
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-07-01 - 2025-07-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Burundi
- 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)
In Burundi, knowledge about local culture, history, geography, and notable figures is missing or underrepresented on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Many aspects of Burundi’s rich heritage, important personalities, historical events, natural sites, and cultural practices are not yet documented online or are poorly represented, leading to a major gap in the global knowledge ecosystem. The change I am trying to bring is to increase the visibility and representation of Burundian knowledge on Wikimedia projects through the Africa Wiki Challenge 2025. we will to contribute by creating and improving articles, and adding structured data about Burundi to Wikidata. This will help to ensure that Burundi’s stories, heritage, and realities are preserved and accessible to a global audience. The main challenges I am trying to solve are: 1.Lack of content about Burundi on Wikimedia projects. 2.Limited awareness and skills among the Burundian population on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects. 3.Language barriers, as much of the available content is not accessible in Kirundi, the main languages spoken in Burundi. 4.Limited access to technology and internet among potential contributors, which slows down participation.
- 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.
Africa Wiki challenge in Burundi 2025, we plan the following activities:
1.Preparation and Planning: Develop project communication materials (posters, flyers, social media posts). 2.Organize an official launch event (in-person or hybrid) to introduce the Africa Wiki Challenge, its goals, and participation instructions. 3.Training Workshops : Organize editathon sessions on how to contribute on Wikipedia articles, wikicommons and wikidata; 4.Organise Office Hours to help participants in the activities during the contest ; 5.Reporting of the activities.
- 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.
Irankunda Ferdinand (Ferdinand IF99): Project leader, will lead the overall project development and implementation activities, facilitate access to the areas targeted by this project, ensuring compliance to the grant commitments and reporting to the Project on progress and status of campaign.
Uwimana Steve (Steve Uwimana): Co-organizer, in charge of partnership. His role is to mobilize people around the project, co-train for yhe new commers interested in participating to the campaign.
Irivuzumukama Sun Best Ella (Sun Best Ella): She will be in charge of Womens contributions and our sociaux medias during the campaign
- 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 Africa Wiki Challenge in Burundi 2025 campaign will accept every interested to participate and contribute to the campaign. Every person, being Burundians or not, Wikimedian or not from Burundi will be welcome to participate. Before and during the activities, we will engage the participants through the communication, organization of meetings, In order to follow up the participants after the activities, encourage the participants to join our communication channels to still in contact with the 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.
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.
We discussed about the campaign during our consultation between members of the Wikimedia Community in Burundi. Discussions were done online and offline in physical meetings during the activities recently organized.
- 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)
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)
Geographic
- 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.What topics related to Burundi attract the most interest from contributors and audiences? 2.What are the main challenges that Burundian contributors face when contributing to Wikimedia projects? 3. How can we better support contributors beyond the campaign period to build a sustainable Wikimedia community in Burundi? 4.How does contributing to Wikimedia projects influence participants' perception of knowledge sharing and digital literacy?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 35 | The number of members who will participate in the Campaign. |
| Number of editors | 30 | Number of participants who will contribute to wikipedia, wikicommons and wikidata. |
| Number of organizers | 3 | Number of persons involved in the organization of the campaign. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 35 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 80 |
| 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
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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)
Outreach Dashboard and Event Registration Tool will be used to track the metrics
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)
5889980 BIF
- 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.
2000 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:
- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
- Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).