Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Bridging Wikipedia Gender Gap Volunteerism in Northeastern Nigeria (ID: 22458659)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Ojewuyib
- 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)
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.
Bridging Wikipedia Gender Gap Volunteerism in Northeastern Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-04-20 - 2024-05-20
- 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)
WikiGap
- 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 Wikimedia Foundation project is a global project that promotes free knowledge and it is being carried out by volunteers around the globe irrespective of gender, tribe, religion, or any other factors. However, according to research carried out by the foundation here 87 percent of Wikipedians are male and 13 percent are female. Coming down to Northeaster Nigeria, there have been dearths of women Editors and most of the active editors are men . For instance, at the WUGN Train the Trainer Project of 2023, only three Women participated (I and other two)) as it can be seen here [1] Therefore, as an active woman and a certified Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Train the Trainer, I believe I can carry out a project that would address this pressing issue in Northeastern Nigeria.
Approaches
- 1. Recruiting and Training of Women Editors: twenty five women participants will be selected across different women writing groups. They will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia, Wikidata and uploading pictures on Wiki Common.
- 2. Adding and Improving Contents about Women: The project would be tailored toward given priority to notable women articles with aim towards balancing the contents on Wikipedia and it's sisters' projects.
- 3. Adding them to existing group: For sustainability, the trained editors would be added to Wikimedia User Group Nigeria where they will continue to receive constant support, training and motivation to continue their editing journey.
- 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.
Online and Physical Awareness: As a member of different women's intellectual forums, I will leverage on these groups to create massive awareness about Wikimedia Foundation projects and the need to close gender gaps. I have also informed the groups that are very close to my community and I will be working with them to create physical awareness too and be able to recruit twenty five participants that will be needed for the project.
Two Online Trainings: To make the training more effective, we would be having two online trainings that would be facilitated by women in order to serve as motivation for the new editors.
Two physical trainings: In order to have hands on experience training, we will be having two physical trainings in which all the participants would be introduced to Wikimedia foundation and properly guided on how to contribute to the projects.
Monitored Edit-a-thon: After the participants have been well trained and guided on how to contribute to Wikimedia Foundation projects, there will be two weeks closely monitored edit-a-thon where the participants would be able to contribute to the projects.
Certificate and prize presentation: The participants will be certified and top three editors would be awarded with prizes.
- 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.
Ojewuyib is the project. She is an experienced Wikimedia projects editor and a trainer. She has participated in many Wikimedia Projects such as Afro sport contest, Wikimedia Promotions in Akure, Wikimedia Promotions in Federal Polytechnic Kaltungo. She has also facilitated in different campaigns including the Afrodemics Project.
Roles Project organiser and manager
Barakat Adegboye (Username: Ridzaina) is a Wikimedia volunteer from Nigeria who has gained extensive experience as a facilitator and editor in various Wikimedia projects. Some of these projects include Wiki loves SDGs, WikiGLAM, 1lib1ref, Wikidata for Libraries and Librarians in Nigeria, Wikidata for Novels and Novelists in Nigeria, WikiLovesLibraries, Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors, Celtic Knot Kwara, and more. She has also served as a facilitator for Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom programs in Kwara, Nigeria, for teachers and secondary school students. She is the project lead of Let's Connect Peer Learning Program in Kwara and has also served as the General Secretary of the Wikimedia Fanclub, University of Ilorin for the academic session of 21/22.
Role Facilitator
Okay User:James Rhoda: She was the project lead for Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom for secondary school students in Kwara State. She is an experienced Wikimedian, who has participated in various Wikimedia projects (as a facilitator as well as an editor) namely; 1lib1ref, WikiGlam, Wikidata for Libraries and Librarians in Nigeria, Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Kwara and Lagos Nigeria, etc. She has led Wikidata for Novel and Novelist in Nigeria, Reading Wikipedia in the classroom for secondary school students, and Promoting Nigerian books and Authors.
Role
Facilitator
Two experienced women volunteers from Wikimedia User Group Nigeria will also assist in the implementation of the project. Their roles will be communication officer and moderators
- 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 participants would be selected across North Eastern Nigeria.
- 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 Wikimedia Youth Policy would be summarised and pin on the group and also read at the beginning of each programme.
- 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 the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria via the talk page here. They have also promised to assist with two highly experienced women that will help in the delivery of the project.
I have also informed the Hausa Wikimedia User Group Nigeria via the WhatsApp group.
- 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)
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)
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 recruit and train women Editors?
Did the project add contents about women to Wikimedia Foundation Projects?
Did the organisers added the participants to existing Wikimedia User Groups ?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | |
| Number of editors | 25 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 40 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 150 |
| 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 |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| 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)
Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard, Google Forms
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)
1535000 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.
1601 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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