Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Douzième Anniversaire de Wikidata au Bénin (ID: 22765960)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Saliousoft
- Organization
Wikimedia Bénin
- 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)
Other
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
member of Wiki Wake Up Afrique ; member of wikimediens du Benin User Group
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Douzième Anniversaire de Wikidata au Bénin
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-10-01 - 2024-12-21
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Benin
- 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) Wikidata’s 12th birthday
- 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)
Wikidata is a Wikimedia project that has existed for over eleven years. This year, for the second time, Benin will join the global celebration of its 12th anniversary. The new features introduced this year include incorporating language into our activities. Additionally, we will conduct a training session in Parakou, a city where we have not yet established an active presence. The goal is to intensify Beninese contributions to Wikidata by adding local entities that are often absent or incomplete. For example, a SPARQL query on any kind item related to Benin shows some or missing entities, while the country has a lot elements to create additionnaly to some works like lexemes on local language. It is crucial to fill these gaps to improve the representation of local data. The celebration will include training workshops, editathons, and a competition to reward the best contributors. We will recruit and train new contributors while strengthening the skills of existing ones. These contributors have already participated in various campaigns such as Wiki Loves Folklore 2024, Wiki Loves Africa 2024, Mois de la contribution francophone 2024, Quinzaine des autrices francophones 2024, SheSaid 2023; Equité Genre au Benin. This approach leverages an existing base of contributors, which will increase participation and the effectiveness of contributions. Relying on this strategy based on this database to be exploited will undoubtedly increase the number of contributors around the Wikidata project given that they are already initiated to other sister projects such as Commons and Wikipedia.
- 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.
Celebration of the 12th anniversary of WikidataWorkshops for in-person training for the closest people. Online training workshops for those who couldn't attend in person. Conducting online workshops will allow us to engage other Wikidata trainner for capacity building and advanced training. Editathon: This will enable us to create entity mass in both quantitative and qualitative ways. Competition: To reward up to 4 top contributors to further motivate volunteer contributors.
- 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.
Saliousoft, trainer as volunter Aimeabibis, support as volunter Jadiddine, communication, volunter Adoscam, trainer as volunter
- 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)
All contributors, whether Beninese or not. We will use discussion pages and Telegram groups for each project, as well as the general Beninese Wikimedia group, for mobilization, coordination, and follow-up.
- 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.
Discussions have been conducted with the active members of the Wikimedians of Benin User Group. There is no interference with any other activity during the same period. In addition, all upcoming projects are announced on the user group talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikim%C3%A9diens_du_B%C3%A9nin_User_Group#Wikidata_12th_Birthday_in_Benin
- 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)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 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)
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)
Consolidation and maintenance of member cohesion within the community for its long-term development. How to encourage contributors to be active on Wikidata? Is it possible to train and retain wikidata contributors from others cities? How collaboration work with other language group into the movement?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | Number of participants in the celebration |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 60 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 1500 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | 10 |
| 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)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of cities for in person activities | Number of cities for in person activities | 3 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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)
Dashboard created: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimediens_du_Bénin_User_Group/Wikidata_12th_Birthday_in_Benin?enroll=
Events Tools: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_12th_Birthday_in_Benin
Formulaire d'inscription: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJzXuobUEtbVAo8q7bc3XnEwkBgNmrGhh6RoKsocTmGppV-w/closedform
Formulaire de fedback et evalaution: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftmKJ62WyA4aKAtTc7bqNvtFBlJdvDfpCblhlvN68OCJ_1IQ/closedform
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XbgOA82DvjKGB2lmYnzYPALdwd2bxXtwaHPrI6-CJQM/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2298000 XOF
- 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.
3541 USD
- 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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Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:
- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- 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.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).