Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Celebrating Wiki Loves Africa 2026:Rites and Rituals in Nupe Wikimedians Community (ID: 23652161)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Umar Ahmad2345
- 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 a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee)., 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)
I am among the co-founders of the Nupe Wikimedians Community.
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Celebrating Wiki Loves Africa 2026: Rites and Rituals in Nupe Wikimedians Community
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-03-01 - 2026-04-01
- 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)
Wiki Loves Africa
- 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)
Been our first time the Nupe Wikimedians Community to organizes the Wiki Loves Africa campaign, focusing on one of Nigeria’s most underrepresented regions North Central Nigeria in terms of contents and volunteer representation on Wikimedia projects. The 2026 theme, Rites and Rituals, provides a unique opportunity for the Nupe Wikimedians Community to document and share the region’s rich cultural heritage through photographs, videos, and audio recordings. Our goal is to highlight our traditional practices, life-cycle events, and our festives act that are rarely represented online while empowering local creatives to preserve our heritage digitally. We plan to capture a wide range of Nupe rites and rituals, including ceremonies such as weddings, naming ceremonies, and the "Yawo Zhunyeli Ritual" a symbolic post-wedding tradition as well as spiritual and religious events like the "Boring Festival" honoring ancestors, "Dibo Saba" and "Sako rituals" and harvest festivals such as "Kiri Gani" , "Gani Gani" , and "Yam Festival". Despite their significance, these cultural elements are scarcely documented online. The main challenges we aim to address include: 1. Underrepresentation of North-Central Nigerian cultures on Wikimedia projects. 2. Limited awareness and participation in open knowledge activities. The change we want to bring is to make North Central Nigerian heritage visible, valued, and preserved through open knowledge sources which can be used by educators across the globe especially were such things are not available. Our approaches include: A. We will be Organizing a training workshops and photowalks on how to contribute to Wikimedia Commons, how to uploads wiki Commons. B. Conducts a coverage of our festive events during. C. Engaging returning and new participants to build a sustainable local Wikimedia community. This project will bridge the visual content gap, strengthen in long run help our community, to foster pride in our shared cultural identity which in return help us to preserved our community.
- 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.
A. Workshop: we will introduce our community members to the Wiki Loves Africa contest and train them on how to contribute and participate and also invite professional photographers in the region and introduce them to Wikimedia projects and give them room to participate in the contest. B. Photo hunts: we will embark on a photo walks taking and gathering random pictures different unrepeated during the festivals as highlighted in question (6) above, quality images related to the 2026 theme of WLA: Rites and Rituals. C. Training sessions: another training will be held before the participants start uploading the media files to ensure accuracy and meeting of the requirements and to avoid having many problems with the uploaded files. D. Upload sessions: most experience editors from the community will lead and guide the rest of the participants especially the newly recruited ones during the upload sessions. E. Tracking Tools: we will use outreach dashboard and hashtag tools to track participants contributions and also provide one on one support for them. F. Prizes: we will consider giving out prizes at the local level to the top 5 contributors as incentives to motivate them at the end of the contest.
- 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. (Username : Nupemiyo) will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project. He will is the co-founder of the Nupe Wikimedians Community and have been contributing to the Nupe community in ensuring the language is preserved. 2. (Username: Umar Ahmad2345) he will co-organizer and will help to mobilize young people around the project and in organizing the planned activities. 3. (Username:Jameel35) will serve the roles of communications/outreach and welfare activities in this project. 4. (Username:Fadindy and Haweey7575) They will serve the roles of logistics and dashboard management during the projects. 5. Two other experienced photographers will also be invited as facilitators to give their helping hands in this project especially during the selection of best images to be awarded the prizes.
- 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 contest is open to all Wikimedia Nupe Community members and everyone outside the community regardless of their status and background who wants to contribute to the preservation of Nupe Language through ensuring Rites and Rituals are captured. All photography lovers who have images to share related to the theme from north central region of Nigeria are welcome to join the contest.
- 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 this in the community's dedicated WhatsApp Group. We highlights the achievements if we participate, and discussed this year participation will be meaningful to the community.
- 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)
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)
Through this project, we hope to learn how to effectively engage and sustain participation within an emerging Nupe Wikimedia community in North Central Nigeria. By organizing the Wiki Loves Africa campaign for the first time, we aim to understand what strategies work best for recruiting, training, and motivating new contributors especially youth, women, and creative professionals to document their culture through open knowledge platforms via pictures, videos documentation.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | This total number we intend to train in various sections after the media hunts during the festive periods |
| Number of editors | 30 | This is the number of editors whom will be guided by the specialists (Photographers) in the team as highlighted in question (8) above. |
| Number of organizers | 7 | We have (5) Wikimedians whom are elites in the Wikimedia projects and (2) photographic specialists whom are in the team as aiders towards achieving quality images. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 200 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We intend to upload about 200 images and in addition some of the added images will be linked to appropriate pages for more visual illustrations.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
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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)
We will use the outreach dashboard for monitoring, jotform for information capturing during the training, GPS camera for accuracy in longitude and latitude capturing, events registration.
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)
3978298 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.
2738 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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