Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Central kanuri wikipedia awearness campaign on campuses (ID: 22985989)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Umargana1
- 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.
Central kanuri wikipedia awearness campaign on campuses
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-04-15 - 2025-05-15
- 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) Edit-atons
- 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)
As the Central Kanuri Wikipedia have gotten it's own domain on the Wikipedia platform a wider awareness is needed to boost the activities and introduce, train and motivate the Kanuri speakers most especially the high institution students and educators on how to contribute to Wikipedia in Kanuri Language. *%There is also a need to train existing Kanuri editors on how to navigate Wikipedia, and train them on some Wikipedia guidelines (as they are used to Incubator wiki before). The participants also need to better understand Wikipedia as a major tool in teaching and learning in high istitutions. This project will focus on creating Wikipedia awareness in high institutions in Borno State.
The high institutions are 1 Sir Kashim Ibrahim College of education Maiduguri. 2 University of Maiduguri 3 Borno State University Maiduguri We will organize a social media campaign where flyers and banner's would be shared on all social media channels showcasing the migration of the central Kanuri Wikipedia from the incubator to the main domain of the Wikipedia platform ne with one Click you can access the site without any hassle as before. We will organize 3 series of trainins and edit-a-thons in all The mentioned institution for the students where the participants will have full understanding and knowledge of how to create and edit the newly created domain of the Central Kanuri Wikipedia. Knc.wikipedia.org ; by teaching them how to create articles from scratch, how to improve existing articles, how to add reference and citations to the articles created .
Challenges
- There is need for more participants from Kanuri Language Speakers on Kanuri Wikipedia
- Both existing and new editors needs fresh training on how to navigate Wikipedia (since they only know Incubator before)
- Some Wikipedia Guidelines (such as vandalism, Block or ban from editing Wikipedia, Interactions on Wikipedia, What Wikipedia is and (not) etc.) needs to be properly thought to editors
- More students and educators from Kanuri Language speakers are needed since they are connected more with Wikipedia
Approach
- We will organise online and in-person awareness for students and educators in the selected higher institutions
- we will organise both online and in-person trainings for interested participants on how to edit Wikipedia, add references and how to navigate Wikipedia.
- Some major Wikimedia Guidelines such as Friendly Space Policies, Universal Codes of Conduct, Vandalism, and what nessicitate ban or block will be explained properly to participants. We will invite experienced editors to talk on this
- we will target Kanuri Speakers from the selected high institutions for the project
- 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.
Our plan activities would be 3 physical training/edit-aton and 1 online meet-up. 1. Online Meetup. Facilitate remote training session using Zoom meeting. This session can be structured as interactive webinar or virtual Workshop, covering fundamental topics such as navigating Wikipedia, comprehending its editing interface, citation protocols, and optimal approaches for contributing to Wikimedia projects. 2. Edit-a-thons. We will Organize 3 edit-a-thons and awearness campaign where the participants will have full understanding and knowledge of how Central Kanuri Wikipedia work s; like teaching them how to create articles from scratch, how to improve existing articles, how to add references and citations to the articles created/improved and how to translate articles from English to Kanuri using the content translation tool. how to cleanup the existing articles by improving them as well as creating new contents.
3. Social media.
We will use our social media channels to share fliers and to showcase the newly created domain of the central Kanuri Wikipedia to attract more contributors and Audiences .
- 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.
- Umargana1 an experience editor in central kanuri Wikipedia who has facilities and lead in many projects such as vitals articles creation in central kanuri incubator. Central kanuri awearness. Central kanuri Wikipedia outreach. Will lead project.
- MuhammedBama123 an experience editor and co-founder central kanuri Wikipedia community who has facilitate and lead in many campaigns in central kanuri Wikipedia since from day 1 while the language its in the incubator contribution and devotion has lead the wiki gets its own domian will facilitate the project.
- Banabulama and experience editor who has creat and edit many articles in central since from incubator will be the project logistics.
Ummusalmasuleiman2001 an experience female editor will be our female representative.
- 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)
Our target participate are soundly educated kanuri speaking students from the mentioned institution above.
- 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.
- 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 idea was discussed on our telegram channel while celebrating getting our own domain on Wikipedia platform. And All the community members are happy with the idea and willing to give there contribution. And we also announced the on our village pump.
- 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)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 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. We will learn how central kanuri gets its own site from the incubator. 2.we will learn how to navigate and edit the newly central kanuri Wikipedia site. 3.we will learn how to use information we found in Wikipedia for our own advantage.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 70 | 60 new participate and 10 existing editors |
| Number of editors | 70 | There will be 20 editors from ech institution and 10 existing editors |
| Number of organizers | 4 | There will be 4 organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
200 Articles would be created to Central kanuri Wikipedia
- 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 |
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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 hashtags tool to measure the activities of the program.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://eu.docs.wps.com/l/sIELepYWVAe_yuKcG?v=v2
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2703000 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.
1742 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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