Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/African Legislators in Red 2024 (Nigeria) (ID: 22791591)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Idoghor Melody
- Organization
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
African Legislators in Red 2024 (Nigeria)
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-12-01 - 2025-01-31
- 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)
Other (please specify) Wikimedia Training, Knowledge Gap
- 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)
Politicians are among the notable biographies recognized by Wikipedia, as outlined in the policy that states: *"Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (in countries with federal systems) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels."* However, there is a significant underrepresentation of African legislators and members of parliament on the platform. For example, Nigeria, with 360 legislators who may change every four years depending on elections, is represented by only 53 documented individuals under the [Legislators in Nigeria category](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legislators_in_Nigeria).
The "African Legislators in Red 2024 " initiative seeks to address this gap by ensuring that all Nigerian legislators are represented with well-researched, accurate, and comprehensive Wikipedia articles. This effort will improve the visibility and accessibility of information about Nigerian legislators, contributing to greater public knowledge and documentation.
Approaches
Training and Recruiting new editors: The program would train 50 volunteers on how to positively contribute to articles relating to Nigerian legislatures.
Closing Knowledge Gaps: The training would close the knowledge gaps by digging deep into some notable but forgotten Nigerian legislatures on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Closing Gender Gaps: The training would also equipped the participants with the necessary materials and guidelines to improve and create articles about female Nigerian legislatures.
Improving existing articles: Most of the articles about Nigerian legislatures are stubs. They lack appropriate categorization, no description and are without images. The participants would be trained on how to successfully contribute to them.
Creating articles: The project's team are volunteers who have displayed extraordinary mastery of creating notable and qualitative articles. You can check it here, here, https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Ibjaja055 here] and here. The participants would be highly trained to be able to identify and create notable and qualitative articles.
Edit-a-thon: After the editors have been trained on how to create and improve articles related to Nigerian legislators, there will be a closely monitored edit-a-thon that would be used to massively improve Wikipedia and it's sisters' project of Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Feedback: Google forms would be created to generate feedback from the participants and their perception towards the campaign.
Lastly, these are some of the links that would be used as resources during the event;
https://abiastate.gov.ng/legislature/ https://adamawastate.gov.ng/our-representatives/ https://hoa.akwaibomstate.gov.ng/principal-officers/ https://www.stears.co/elections/2023/house-of-representatives/AN/
- 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.Two days of an in-person (physical) workshop: Since the training involves creating articles on English Wikipedia which needed the right guidelines and trainings to avoid vandalism. There will be two-day in-person workshops aim to provide participants with a foundational understanding of Wikipedia and Wikidata. During the trainings, the participants would be exposed to both general and specific notability guidelines, sourcing for reliable references, writing from objective point of view and other policies needed to contribute positively to Wikipedia. This would be done by three facilitators.
2. Two (2) series of online reinforcement training: To adequately provide the participants with the necessary knowledge and abilities for editing on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Two online trainings would be established so as to pave way for other people who might want to join the training, campaign and edit-a-thon but limited because of distance.
3 Edit-a-thon: After the two days of in-person training and the two days of online instruction, there will be a one month edit-a-thon for the participants to edit and put their newly acquired knowledge into practice.
4. Office hour: There will be biweekly office hours for the participants. This is needed to address issues that the participants might be facing during the edit-a-thon.
4. Review and award presentation: After the edit-a-thon, two days would be used for review session. The Edit-a-thon winners would be awarded with certificates and gift cards.
- 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.Idoghor Melody: I am an experienced Wikimedian and one of the veteran Nigerian editors in the English Wikipedia. I am the Project lead of this campaign.
2. Reading Beans is an experienced Wikimedian and the Project Lead of Wikimedia Awareness in Calabar. They have created over three hundred articles on Wikipedia including 5 good articles. He would serve as the facilitator and communication officer of the campaign.
3. Ibjaja055 is an experienced Wikimedia projects editor. He is the founder of The Wiki Afrodemics Project and the 2023 Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Editor of the Year. He has participated in different Wikimedia projects. He has created hundreds of notable and quality articles on Wikipedia and Wikidata which can be seen [1]. He would serve as a facilitator and reviewer of the edit-a-thon
4. Vanderwaalforces: Vanderwaalforces is an experienced AfC reviewer, new page reviewer and content creator in the English Wikipedia. He currently has over 100 articles including 9 good articles and a featured list. He would serve as the facilitator and logistic officer.
- 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 from Nigeria and we would release Google forms of call for application before the activities. Fifty participants would be selected and trained for the program. After the activities, the WhatsApp group created would be maintained for continuous mentoring.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
The Youth Safety Policy here would be summarised and read at the beginning of each event
- 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 informed Wikimedia User Group Nigeria via their talk page here and I have also informed Wiki project Nigeria via their talk page here here
- 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)
Geography
- 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)
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)
Did the project train new and existing editors?
Did the project close knowledge gap by improving Nigerian legislatures?
Did the project close gender gaps relating to Nigerian legislatures?
Did the project create new articles related to Nigerian legislatures?
Did the project improves new articles related to Nigerian legislatures?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 55 | |
| Number of editors | 50 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 150 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 250 |
| 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)
Wikipedia Outreach Dashboard and Xtools
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)
3032897 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.
1817 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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