Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Arts and Feminism Wikimedia Commons Workshop for Creative Arts Professionals (ID: 22887787)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
CoachAni
- Organization
N/A
- 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 group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Women for Sustainability Africa Wikimedia community
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Arts and Feminism Wikimedia Commons Workshop for Creative Arts Professionals
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-01-29 - 2024-03-29
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Ghana
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Art+Feminism
- 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)
The Arts and Feminism Wikimedia Commons Workshop for Creative Arts Professionals aims to address the underrepresentation of women and feminist perspectives in arts-related content on Wikimedia projects, particularly Wikimedia Commons. This workshop seeks to equip creative arts professionals with the skills and knowledge to contribute high-quality, diverse, and inclusive visual content to Wikimedia Commons, thereby enhancing the visibility of women and feminist narratives in global arts and cultural documentation. Professionals will also be engaged in an online contest to donate high quality images about notable women and feminist art and culture on Wikimedia commons to commemorate the international women's day.
some of the challenges we have identified includes;
Women's contributions to arts and feminism are often overlooked or inadequately documented in public archives, including Wikimedia projects.
Existing visual content on Wikimedia Commons lacks diversity in terms of gender, geography, and thematic focus. According to Humaniki only 21.3% of images are related to females and 0.37% are about other genders.
Many creative arts professionals, particularly women, are unaware of Wikimedia Commons as a platform for showcasing their work, project women online or documenting feminist art and culture and any other way that project Africa content online A lack of technical knowledge about open licensing thus Creative commons license, copyright considerations, and content uploads limits participation of these professional in our movement
- 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.
Discussion and planing with the respective institution involved, attending partnership meeting and planning activities together
Create a suggested list of article where women images are missing we will also leverage the list from WikiWomen in red page on article list about Ghanafor the contest. Host two in-person workshops for 40 students from 2 institutions and 10 professionals in the media space. The training will focus on;
Training participants how to upload their visual content on Wikimedia Commons both images and videos. We will also how them how to use the video2commons tool for uploading videos directly on commons. We will also show participants how to add descriptions of images in other language.
Focus on empowering participants with knowledge of copyright and open licensing to enable them to contribute without legal or technical barriers.
Introduce and provide hands on training on Wikimedia Commons highlighting the gaps in relation to women and feminist content. We will also go on to show how participants can donate or migrate free images on commons relevant for wikipedia projects as well as teach them how to structure data on commons using tools.
Organize an online contest to commemorate the international women’s Day to encourage participants to upload images, videos, and illustrations related to women artists, feminist movements, and cultural expressions that highlight gender equality and inclusivity. This online contest will encourage participants to put their skills to practice.
We will host 2 virtual support and refresher training post in-person event
Create a network of creative arts professionals dedicated to contributing to Wikimedia Commons and advocating for feminist representation in art. This is because this will not be the only training we hope to continue to engage participants and institutions beyond.
Evaluate whole program for sustainability Enrole participants also on Let's Connect Telegram for further learning and engagement
- 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.
CoachAni - Lead Organizer and group leader Queen Murja 10- Administrative support
Vacant Communication volunteer coordinator Evaluation volunteer coordinator Volunteer guest trainers Kojo Owusu 2020 - Trainer, Designs and Communication manager Jwale - Volunteer Trainer /Advisor to the team Ruby D-Brown- Volunteer/ Advisor to the team
2 assigned coordinators from NAFTI and GH Media School
- 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)
Target participants will be students from National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) now UniMAC - Institute of Film and Television and GH Media School here in Ghana. Because participant will be on scholarship their participation will be invitation only to selected members from each institution. Slots will also be provided for both students and leaders of the institutions who will be carrying out the training to their students. We will also explore ways the wikimedia commons training will be incorporated in their curriculum.
We will ensure that half of the participants are women.
- 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 are in contact with the respective institutions and so far the engagement has been very positive as they are looking forward to the training in the following year.We will continue to engage them at each step of the grant process. As a partner of the Arts and Feminism Community we will be leveraging resources that have been made available on the community resources page to support our activities. We will also write to the Arts and Feminism team and regional coordinators about our activities in the coming year as this will be the 4th event we will be hosting with them.
- 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)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
How else can participants apply these skills in their profession to continue contributing independently after the workshop? How can we strengthen connections between creative arts professionals, feminist organizations, and Wikimedia communities to sustain contributions? How do they envision sustainability of the program? What opportunities and barriers do they envision being part of the Wikimedia community
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | 40 new participants |
| Number of editors | 40 | 40 new creative arts professionals editors |
| Number of organizers | 9 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 300 |
| 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)
We will use the Programs and Event Dashboard, Event registration tool and Google form to gather feedback
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)
55530 GHS
- 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.
3492.45 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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