Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians/Women in Religion User Group Access Fund (ID: 22154770)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Figureskatingfan
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Dzingle1
- Organization
Women in Religion User Group
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
Women in Religion User Group, WikiProject Women in Religion
Grant Proposal
[edit]- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians/Women in Religion User Group Access Fund
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
International
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
Kenya, United States of America
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Religion_User_Group
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The Women in Religion User Group and WikiProject Women in Religion conducts monthly editathons over Zoom with members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, mostly based in Kenya. Our members in Kenya are forced to pay for internet connections, both to participate in our editathons and to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. We would like to fund those extra costs for them, to encourage their further participation and to encourage other editors in Africa to get involved.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
We would set up an account that pays for internet access, as needed, for our African members. It's well-known that editors from the global south have more challenges, so we believe that this would be way to mitigate them and to provide them with more access and opportunities to substantially contribute to Wikipedia. This project would also be a way to make the editing community more diverse, something that is sorely needed.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We would continue conducting monthly editathons, as well as promotional and educational events.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Members of the Women in Religion User Group and members of Women in Religion WikiProject. Editathon leader: User:RosPost Participants:User:Communista, User:AboveHeights2022, User:Mbatha, User:Riyeka, User:Figureskatingfan, User:Janicelp, User:Winifredwhelan, User:PMCH2
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Content Gender gap, Geography
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
This project would increase the number of female editors of color from the global south, who are interested in creating and improving articles and biographies about religion in Africa and about neglected female religious leaders, scholars, and academics.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Other, Open Technology, Diversity
- Religion, Women in Religion
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Digital Access
- 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?
Members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, other African scholars and academics. We anticipate that the funds will last a while, and are willing, if the project is successful, of reapplying for additional grants.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
It is a agreed among the participants that everyone has a voice and are free to ask any questions. We work hard to make everything equal, with little differences between experts and non-experts. We respect each other and honor our differences.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
Editathons will be promoted on the WikiProject Women in Religion and WikiProject Women in Red pages.
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is interested in promoting our events and editathons, including both virtually and on-site in Kenya.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
[edit]- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We hope to learn how to include and recruit potential editors from Africa and from other countries in the global south. The obstacles potential editors face have limited our ability to recruit more editors, so funding their internet access will help us grow in numbers.
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
For this first grant, we plan to measure metrics informally at first, since many of our participants are new editors.
Core metrics | Description | Target |
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Number of participants | 20-50 | |
Number of editors | 20-50 | |
Number of organizers | 2 |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
See above response.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
We are not sure and need support. We will also look at history pages and user contributions. We will also devote a section on our user group page for user self-reports.
Financial Proposal
[edit]- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
681,750.00 KES
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
5,000 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
We currently have no budget for this project and will need assistance with a budget.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
- Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
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