Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Central Kanuri Wikimedians Community (April to September) semi-annual Activities (ID: 23755372)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
MohammedBama123 (talk • accounts • contributions • edit count)
- 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., I'm a bank account signatory for the joint bank account of a Wikimedia affiliate, group, or organization.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Am the chairman and co-founder of Central Kanuri Wikimedians Community non recognized affiliate with wikimedia mission https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Central_Kanuri_Wikimedians_Community#Plan_Activities
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Central Kanuri Wikimedians Community (April to September) semi-annual Activities
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-04-05 - 2026-05-05
- 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)
Not applicable
- 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 primary goal is to recruite new editors and preserve the central kanuri language by creating and improving digital content in https://knc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shafi_kura Creating new articles and expanding "stub" articles (short, incomplete pages) with reliable references and citations. These are the links to our recent activities; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Wiki_Loves_Women_Shesaid_in_Central_Kanuri._(ID:_23477136) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Advancing_Central_Kanuri_Wikipedia_through_campaigns_on_campuses_(ID:_23469384) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Central_Kanuri_Wikipedia_outreach_and_articles_enrichment_(ID:_22830078)https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Kanuri_Wikipedia_Awareness_in_Borno_state,_Nigeria._(ID:_22192426)
Challenges and Problems: 1. Low Awareness and Participation: Many Central Kanuri speakers are unaware of Wikimedia projects or the opportunity to contribute to the development of Central Kanuri Wikipedia, due to lack of engagement, awareness and capacity building. 2. Participants find it difficult to navigate the Central Kanuri Wikipedia, as most of them are used to the incubator site. Although the Wikipedia was approved about a year ago. Approaches to Achieve the Change: 1. Community Training and Capacity Building: We will be organizing trainings, followed by edit-a-thons, to equipped participants with skills in Wikipedia editing, translation, and content creation in Central Kanuri Wikipedia. 2. Content Creation and Improvement: We will focus on developing high-quality, reliable, and culturally relevant articles in Central Kanuri Language. 3. Mentorship and Community Growth: We will create an online and offline sessions for mentorship where experienced contributors support new editors, ensuring sustainability and knowledge transfer.
- 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.
During this period we aim to host a total of 7 editathons/trainings: Three (3) would be aimed at recruiting new editors. We will give emphasis to involving a reasonable number of female partcipants. The other four (4) edit-a-thons would be centered toward capacity building and trainings to our participants. This will help in ensuring proper measure is taken in editors retention. Breakdown: 1. Intervals between each training and the next would be 3 weeks i.e, after every one training there would be three weeks of contributions and engagements from the facilitators before we would host another training, the same goes to the subsequent trainings up to the last one. 2. We will engaged in a capacity building to horn their skills and increase their knowledge and understanding of how Wikipedia works and how they can effectively contribute to it. This would also give us the opportunity to address any challenges or concerns they may have during this time. 3. Newly recruited members would have continous supports and engagement for six months nonstop from general community activiities and that would help them in skills development and in getting use to Wikipedia editing as well as having to meet with the existing editors and make friends for forming a harmonous environment. The overall activities would be 7 events with 4 aim at capacity building and engagement enrichment and 3 aim at recruiting new editors and addressing gender diversity and inclusion. Two (2) from the total events will be online and the remaining five (5) would be physical trainings.
- 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 Project lead; Mohammed Mustapha wikipedia username,( MohammedBama123 ) am the co-founder and chairman of the central kanuri wikimedians community non recognized affiliate, would be the lead of the project. 2 Facilitator; Umar mohammed wikipedia username (Umargana1) is also a co-founder and the vice chairman of the central kanuri wikimedians community non recognized affiliate, would facilitate the events. 3 Logistics and comunications; Mohammed musty wikipedia username (mustybdc) would be our logistics and communication officer. 4 Female represantative; Ummu salman sulaiman wikipedia username (Ummusalmasuleiman2001) would also be a facilitator and female represantative. 5 Support ; Aliyu Alhassan username (Aliyu cisse) would support in other activities.
- 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 all members of the central kanuri wikimedians community, interested organization and institutions, linguist, student, men and women of different backgrounds would be part of the participants in this project.
- 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.
The plan was discussed on the community whatsapp platform and all the members are aware and ready to contribute to the success of this project.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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)
Linguistic / Language
- 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. In what way did the activities help in bringing in new female editors and participants from central kanuri diverse backgrounds?
2. How does the activities help in the development of your community's growth and participants retention?
3. How will the planned activities keep the community members engagement?
4. What's next after this implemented activities?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 150 | |
| Number of editors | 70 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 | As mentioned above |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 500 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 200 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| 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)
Dashboard Tool, hashtag tool
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://eu.docworkspace.com/d/sbOakhaVphE7lUIN_clyfch27kler01u3kl?sa=601.1074
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
5354820 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.
3771 USD
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Yes
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