Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Edit-a-thon on Biographies of African Innovators and changemakers (ID: 23095758)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hasslaebetch
- Organization
Moore Wikimedia Community
- 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)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Edit-a-thon on Biographies of African Innovators and changemakers
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-07-15 - 2025-08-15
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region) Ghana ,Burkina Faso and Togo.
The Mooré people are primarily found in Burkina Faso, but also in Ghana and Togo due to historical migration and regional dynamics. The campaign is geared towards connecting contributors across these divide to contribute to the project through online engagement and training. This will go a long way to ensure a wide scope engagement to document information about the African innovators and change makers especially information about female innovators in Africa
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Wikivibrance
- 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)
Africa has a population with 60% of its young people around the age of 25,. This demographic dividend presents a unique opportunity for the continent to tap into the energy, creativity and innovation of its youth to drive economic group and social progress and sustainable development. Based on this, some young African innovators are driving positive change across the continent, using technology, innovation, and activism to address challenges and shape the future. The change the community want to bring is to bridge the content gap between these young innovators especially information about young African Female change makers. 75% of the content to be increased and improved upon will be that of female that will also go a long way to bridge the gender gap between male and female information in mos.wikipedia.
The main challenges or problems we are trying to solve is to increase and shape the number of information about young African innovators more especially information about women in Africa by this campaign to build local knowledge related to the broader theme by shifting focus of action to wikimedia projects. In addition, we seek to improve the knowledge gap about women in general on Moore language wikipedia and in the region in a way the knowledge will be accessible to Moore speaking people at. Through this campaign, we hope to build the knowledge of participants and the public about female changemakers in Africa in Moore language that will serve as useful tools for local and indigenous communities to increase advocacy and to help bridge the information gap arising between male and female.
Document biographies of African innovators and changemakers more especially female innovators and works related to feminism in Africa. The main approaches to achieve this change is to advocate, recruit new editor, Increase skills of both new and existing editors and offer adequate guidance to increase or improve content about African innovators more especially female change makers in Africa.
- 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.
- 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.
Alhassan Alidu, User: Hasslaebetch: (Project lead) - He is a co-lead for Moore Wikimedia Community, an experience Master trainer and Event Organiser for Moore Wikimedia Community and has successfully organised most of the projects that led to the creation of the sub-domain (mos.wikipedia.org). Some of the projects he organised are : Rapid/Moore Wikimedia Community/TranslateWiki.net , Wikivibrance International Youth day (IYD) 2022 in Moore Wikimedia Community/Ghana, Moore Wikimedians Community/Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Ghana and many others. During the test wiki period, he volunteered as the administrator on the incubator ensuring quality edits.
Abdul Razak Issahaku, User: Raizkgh (Communications) - He is the communication and social media officer for Moore Wikimedia Communitty. As an experience communications and social media officer for Moore Wikimedia Community, His expertise is crucial in the organization, mobilization and dissemination of information to the target audience of the project. He has served as communication and social media experts for most of the projects ran by the community.
Abdul Fatawu Issaka, User: Abdul Fatawu352 (Trainer) - He is a co-lead of Moore Wikimedia Community and a master trainer for the community. His experience with be crucial to drive this campaign to a successful end. He will be the master trainer for this project.
Soumaya Issahaku , User: Nat1620. (Logistics) - Soumaya is the logistics officer for this project. She draws her experience from her current engagement in Moore Wikimedia Community as the logistics officer.
Yakubu Mohammed Awal, User: Siesy93 (Organiser) - He is an experience event organiser and would be the person incharge of event organisation on all physical engagement of this campaign, he will be responsible for all rentals of equipment and gadgets and also responsible for the acquisition of all materials needed for a successful program. Distribution of items to volunteers and all other engagement decided by the team.
- 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 will be the volunteers of Moore Wikimedia community members who are dotted across Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo. Organisers will rely more on social media platforms to engage with participants on awareness of wikimedia, recruitment, training and assisting them to add quality contribution on the newly create moore wikipedia before and during activities. Participants will be encouraged to join all the social media platforms of the group or the community social media pages.
https://t.me/MooreWikimediansGh https://chat.whatsapp.com/JkKMnhO8SsD9KBmHmBaAsd https://www.instagram.com/moorewikimediansgh/ https://www.facebook.com/MooreWikimediansGH?_rdc=1&_rdr https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-7bUD-E02R1YPRtOefNRrg
The social media platforms will be used to engage participants before and during the activities more because social media platforms are the fastest ways to reach participants quickly. People now adopt social media as their daily source of information. It will be good to harness that opportunity to follow up with participants through social media and phone calls to ascertain their progress.
- 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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Moore_Wikimedia_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)
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)
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)
Age (diversity of age groups)
- 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)
We hope to learn what passion inspire participants to this project. We hope to learn the challenges that hinders participants contributing to the free knowledge. We hope to learn how user friendly the moore wikipedia is since this is the first time we are embarking on a project since its creation in September 2024. How does the campaign helps in increasing the Biographies of Africa innovators information on wikipedia? What is the impact of the wikivibrance project to the moore wikimedia community?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | Total number of participants that will be attending the programme on the first physical engagement for awareness creation on the project |
| Number of editors | 30 | Total number of both already existing editors and new editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | Total number of organisers that will be coordinating the programme. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 200 |
| Wikidata | 200 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | 50 |
| 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)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata lexemes | The editors will create 50 detail lexemes | 50 |
| 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)
The outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org and https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec will be used to measure the metrics
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aORLQQ7ByLP2XfbAQSMETokcA7oT3lOu8Hz-ISwm154/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
26250 GHS
- 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.
1835.2 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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